Who Are Your Favorite Teammates?

My Dark Servant.



But honestly, it depends on what toon I'm on, and what we're doing. Something that can complement me and the others, usually. Cold or FF for defense buffs, Kins for damage/recharge, anything that makes things more fun.

I'm more than happy to play with 'bad' players, too. Quite often it'll make me work harder and make things a bit more challenging.

SoA as long as they take Maneuver. I like SoA because you just need to stick together and fight and you don't really need to ask for healing or buffs.

Purely going by AT/sets? A well played Kinetic Corruptor, shortly followed by a well played Brute with some kind of damage aura so they hold all the aggro. As a Blaster player, I tend to enjoy those who I can blast with but will also support or can keep the aggro AND keep up with me for damage, I've just found I mesh best with Kinetic Corruptors or a Brute I can hide behind.

In terms of players? Someone that'll actually talk, to have a good natter with. I don't care if we've faceplanted 5 times in a row against an angry Rikti Monkey (Note: never happened, honest), we've got a good conversation going and that's entertaining enough.

Besides the usual cliche of "anyone who plays their toon well"...

I appreciate a good AE-damage toon more than anything else. Between the various melee, support and control toons, the defense is usually covered. What my pickup groups are usually lacking in is killing speed; everyone who goes DPS seems to be going with single-target sets these days. A good fire blaster makes missions go by twice as fast.

I like seeing stalkers on the team (runs away and hides in an RWZ bunker)

Anyone that makes me laugh my *** off. Good or bad, doesn't matter. Check the ego at the door.

On topic and misty-eyed idealism aside... a Kinetic corr or defender. Well-played of course. While it is always great to have good teammates of any kind, I have to be honest here. No one else I've seen can take a team and "turn them up to eleven" like a good Kin. Speed Boost and Fulcrum Shift are just *that* overp.... er... good. Particularly since I like playing lethal damage toons (guns and blades, what can I say?), Fulcrum Shift takes that annoyingly bad bit of game design known as lethal damage resistance and makes it largely irrelevant.

SoA's. i use my Bane a lot and run double Assault and Maneuvers. it's cool to have the added def. plus VG stacks well.

Next would be a Kin Corr. it's amazing when i have my damage capped and hit the mob with a crit from crowd control or shatter.

in terms of players, i like playing with mature players. nothing ticks me off more than someone cursing up a storm or speaking on rated X content. i hate to listen to 2 players constantly bicker back in forth.

Hmmm, As I primarily play with my TA/A, I generally enjoy teaming with other competent Trick Arrow users. I'm also a fan of teaming with any brute, who can put a hurting on the baddies as well as keep me protected a bit even though it really isn't in his job description.

All in all though, any player that knows how to use their toon properly in a team setting is good to play with.

Yeah, I play on Virtue, and I've simply never seen that. I see stalkers on teams sometime. I've never seen anyone suggest or hint that stalkers are a problem, or that there is a downside to having a stalker on a team. Typically, stalkers eliminate nuisance enemies (PPD Equalizers, for instance) early in every spawn, and that makes life good.

... too... many... defenders?

... Huh?

I am not sure whether it is "too many defenders" or "too many controllers" that I find harder to comprehend. That's like "too much garlic".

Any Defender, Controller, Corruptor or Dominator.

I build for self-sufficiency (thought I rarely solo). So, whenever one of those toons are on the team, my characters become even more fun/powerful.

Holds, debuffs, buffs, AoE goodness......Mmmmmmm

As far as Stalkers go, I follow the age-old philosophy: The AT is secondary to how well it is played.

Good Kins and good Colds.

I learned a lesson from our SG member Khai and Tavy...

Defenders, Controller and Corruptors well played of ANY type will make a team steamroll.

I like teaming with people who don't whine. If they stink as a player, I don't really care. If they just wander around with the team healing people who still have their full hp, I honestly would probably never even notice. But if they start talking about how other people stink, or the team stinks... that annoys me.