End of an Era

"People who take offense to IC actions OOCly need to learn to differentiate between the two... Or change their damn meds."

Meh, my stamina-less db/da scrapper was doing fine, sure, only level 30 or so...

*headdesks* My Stamina-free /DA must remain Stamina-free if only so I can continue to say that it works just fine. Maybe not min-maxed perfectly, but yeesh.

More on topic, it is odd not needing to decide if I'll take Stamina or not anymore. I like getting it, sure, and I'm not complaining that I do, but it does feel strange still.

Stone Melee/Dark Armor Brute. It's like driving a bulldozer that's coated in evil.

((It's simple. It's like the player who made it to 50 without a travel power, back before any temp powers or jump-jet or whatever. You do it to see if you can do it. It's a matter of personal accomplishment. I don't think Pez expected anyone who hasn't done something similar to understand it. Personally, I think it's way cooler than getting all the TF badges.))

Naw, this is an internet forum, I fully expected a lot of the "Why would you do that" / "Why post this idea".

As to why? Well, I started out with an emp/rad, and since I don't alt that much I still play an emp/rad. Never had much need for stamina on that build. When I did build alts, at first it was because I didn't need it originally and thus it never registered.

Then, once it became a 'must have', I refused to take it BECAUSE it was the 'must have'. In any game that has something you 'must take' I often don't take it and try to see what/how I can build. I play a lot of 4e DnD (And let's not start that holy war here...), and on the forums there are a lot of SKY BLUE MUST TAKE AT THIS LEVEL powers.

I ignore them, and force myself to build around that.

Same with stamina. CoH is built on fast, non-stop battles, so damage rises up to be king, with preventing damage (buffs/debuffs/control) the matching queen.

To be honest, a lot of my stamina-less builds I couldn't group with, I'll be honest. But it was fun. Slotting cone range enhancments and other odd slotting strats, taking odd powers, coming up with mentalities other then zerg mob, kill mob on missions, for me, that's the fun of the game. Some people like to explore, others like to min/max. I like to see how many different ways you can do the same thing.

The keystone to that was "Not stamina", since it's the keystone in run in kill stuff system.

Am I saying I want inherent fitness removed? No, that'd be stupid, I know how many people have asked for that, and that I'm in a very tiny minority, if not alone, in not wanting it.

Am I saying I'm a better person then you for not ever having taken stamina? Nope. I have an odd approach to life, and this game. I'm well aware of this, of my manias.

Is it game over for me? Nope. At the very least, the baseline is now unslotted stamina, so now I shift into "never having slotted stamina" instead of "never having taken stamina". And I still have a few challenges, like a dry Sister Psyche run, or a dry any mission involving lots of sewer mission. (Dry x run - do not step in the water of any mission you're in or going to, automated movement movement from 'entering door after clicking door' animation excluded. If you make the splash sound fx, that counts as getting wet)

Why did I post this. There's been people throughout the years who've always thought my odd little quirk was interesting, and I don't know if they've passed or are still around or whatnot, so the general announcement.

I took Stamina on every character I ever made. Even my Regen. That's how much I loved it.

The swap to Inherent Fitness came as a bit of a shock. "Oh god, I just realized I have three free power choices! I can actually get a travel power!"

And lo, did I squee like a hundred fangirls at that moment.

Had to? I respeced the ones I was working on, the others already worked so I didn't bother. At some point I may respec them, but no rush. I never understood the rush.

omg polaron