Quick fingers!

I just wanted to tell all the defenders that play this game that they deserve a pat on the back. I rolled my second toon, a emp/elec defender about 5 years ago. Leveled him to 50,(my first) and it was fun and frustrating and a host of other things.
I rolled another toon, another, etc.

I dusted my defender off, transferred him to the server that I call home. Then I teamed up in a pick up group, and was in for a lot of finger mashing! Managed to get a few shots in, in between buffs and heals.

But, folks, it was tough! No rest between battles, no chances for me to eat cookies, like when I'm playing my blaster or scrapper.

My hats off you you folks, for protecting and serving the other heroes.

Good work! Me? I need a break.

Unless the team is playing on the Nintendo Hard setting, in which case the fast XP rate compensates for your bloodshot eyes, clawed hands, and fried nerves. (Especially since there's no way they could have done it without you.)

It seems that the 25-40 range is the hardest for Empathy because not only is it's role changing, but everyone seems to flail about until they can figure out what they are doing once they reach PI. That's been my personal experience though.

Empathy. When your teammates die, and you rez them, they thank you.

This has always seemed to me to be the epitome of a broken relationship.
(I play Force Fields. Slow fingers, no problem. )

Think Empathy is bad for button mashing? You should try a Kin.

I agree. Kinetics is a much more hectic button-mashing experience than Dark Miasma.

Dark Miasma's probably more powerful overall, but Kinetics is a unique experience in terms of the attention required to play well.

If you were a Kin/ I'd say 'button mashing' is normal (we're all speed addicts..) but as an Emp, it shouldn't be that common. But play how ever you want.

3 Cheers for us Defenders.
Because we're better than you*.

*Tankers, Scrappers, Blasters, Controllers, Peacebringers, Warshades, Brutes, Stalkers, Corruptors, Masterminds, Widows, Spiders and Dominators.

The easiest way to lighten your burden as an emp, or any buffer for that manner, is to set up keybinds to more quickly target and buff. I would like to share my own personal binds, but this is just a template. Figure out what works best for you.

Go into the options menu and select keymapping.
Find the targeting section and set select next teammate and previous teammate to the home and end keys.
Next set select teammates 1-8 to the corresponding numbers on the numpad to the right of your keyboard.
Then set your buffs to the numpad enter, numpad +, and numpad - or 0 keys.
For example fortitude can be enter, cm can be plus and ab can be 0.
If you play the way I think most people do using wasd to walk and mainly use the mouse to look around then this shouldn't be a hard transition to make. Though you can always try other keys to see what works best for you. At one time I had my attacks set as the function keys.