How to Prepare for Future Content
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Arilou,
Posted on: 2011-02-12 20:58 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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I suppose 'mythical' was the wrong word to use. It's the go-to joke among my friends whenever the topic of horrible builds comes up.|
Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Not so mythical, I've seen it numerous times. It's not as common as the Emp with all 4 powers from the Medicine pool though.
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"Oh man, I should make an Empathy/Storm Defender and take all 4 travel powers. Whirlwind too!"
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You're missing the point (from the context in which I made that post). Maybe it wasn't clear. It does matter what a well-balanced team can do when you're talking about cranking up the content they're facing to 11. The higher you crank the content difficulty, the more important it is that they have all the bases covered. Getting good representation from all the strong tools in player toolboxes helps ensure that if any one tool fails, the others are there to take the slack. I focused on "well balanced" because I wanted specifically to differentiate that from teams that supercharge on one or two aspects alone. Some popular examples are capping defense, +damage (Kinetics), and/or -DR and -regen (Rad, Dark).|
Originally Posted by Atomic_Woman
I don't really think it's about the team composition, but about the individual characters/players themselves. I've done TFs on very lopsided teams and as long as the individual characters weren't built horribly (the mythical Emp Defender with all 4 travel powers, etc) they've always worked out in the end.
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If you take the content that's passable for teams with that 1-2 horribly built characters and give it to people who know how to build characters to a "T" and the ins and outs of the game, the latter group could basically succeed at the content while facerolling on their keyboard. On the flip side, if you want to challenge those folks, you're going to make it hard on the folks who build weird, probably-not-so-effective characters.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Again, I'm in favour of content scaling in these instances, or perhaps some sort of voluntary difficulty adjustment. If you think you can take the higher risks, such as running a "Master of" attempt, then you get more swag and more booty, but content is still attemptable at a lower difficulty level for lower gains.
WoW does this, to the best of my knowledge, via instituting "Heroic" instances, which are significantly harder, require significantly more people, but also drop more of significantly better things. We got their raid queue. Might as well get their raid scaling 
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I've also seen an Emp with the Presence pool, that one confused me a little. I could maybe see it on all Defender TFs where the Empath tanks....but it was level 17 at the time and didn't have the badges from Posi or Synapse.
Still, I do bother. It's fun actually more damage to stuff with res against all except Psi