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"pure" healers + going rogue

Amy_Amp

By Amy_Amp,
Posted on: 2010-08-11 24:51 in Defenders

 

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Originally Posted by Transhade View Post
It really is quite simple. There is a vocal group that likes to bash empathy set with - he4l0r references, rocking the auras, pure heal spec and no secondary comments.

From the begining there were countless posts about not being able to get groups because everyone wanted an empathy defender because they could heal. Who did the defendes blame? They blamed the empathy defender not those that were asking.

That perception was the begining and lingers in the corners of the Defender forums.
To continue raving about this post, I joined much later in the game. I bash those type of empathy builds for one reason. Since I've joined, pure healing empathy builds are not anywhere as useful as an empathy actually using their secondary. This goes with all builds though. If your a kin with only kins and pools, then I'd heckle you about being a bad kin.

I hate all poorly built/played characters equally.

50s: Bla- Arch/Mental Cont- Mind/FF, Earth/Cold, Ill/Therm, Earth/Rad Dominator- Plant/Psi, Elec/Earth Corr- Fire/Storm, Arch/Sonic, Rad/Kin, Beam/Sonic, Psi/Time Stalker- Elec/SR Def- Storm/Dark, Emp/Psi, Dark/Elec, FF/Arch, TA/Ice, TA/Elec, Kin/AR, Cold/DP, Traps/Psi Scrap- Fire/Shield Tanker- Dark/Mace, Ice/Kin Brute- Claws/WP, SS/Energy, BS/Elec

 

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Originally Posted by LadyMage View Post
Actually, you're way off. We're tired of groups stopping dead unless someone is sitting in the back with heal aura on auto. We're tired of being, as defenders with all manner of shiney buttons and neat tricks to help our teams, told just "just sit back and heal". We're tired of being told that defender x is a proper defender because he/she has a heal and does nothing but spam it. It's not uncommon for these "healers" to not even BE empathy defenders - I've seen rad defenders billing themselves as healers, skipping entire swaths of awesome rad powers to take medicine and rock Radiant aura. It's enough to make you cry.

There is little if any Empathy defender hate on this forum, and there never has been. How do I know? I've been playing one since the game launched and have been posting on this forum just as long. It's the bad players, the ones that insist on having a healer and those bad players who play this amazing buff set as a portable green number generator that gets most of us. Empath != healer. They are SO incredibly much more than that.
I think your memory is blurry then if you say there never has been any Empathy defender hate on this forum. I have been here since the begining as well and there were significant posts of frustration, hate and anger geared at the empathy set.