Nerf Rock

I come to you all today with a story about my friend. They play a dark melee/invuln brute, and have spent billions of influence IOing themselves out to the nines. Hours of work and effort put into this character that's capable of soloing the labs side of the Lambda Trial, multiple AV's at once, and who decided today that he wanted to solo the Sutter TF.

I play a Peacebringer.



I was brought along to witness this event and pad the team so he could start. It was slow going in the beginning, that first mission taking a long time as he slowly whittled his way through the Warwalkers. Nothing he couldn't handle though, he's built for this after all: resistant to damage, defensive, plenty of self healing to keep himself going. He didn't have much problem with the first mission, just took him awhile as soloing TF's tend to do.

I was getting bored, my goldfish-like attention span being what it is and all; and so in the next mission I decided to entertain myself in the tried and true fashion that me and my friend have become accustomed to. I decided to annoy him...So I declared that the second mission was now an escort mission, turned on Walk and proceeded to follow at a close distance for the entire mission, cowering from enemies who noticed me and crying out when I was in danger. My friend, being the patient and understanding soul he is rescued me every time. We hit Harbinger and Riptide, and after taking down the first, I decided to assist with the latter in the only "non-assisting" way I could...



...He was soloing this after all.

The final mission began as you'd expect, Fusion being dealt with in short order, and Jane falling next. He had some trouble with Primal Duray, as that air support can be surprisingly powerful if you aren't careful. I watched and cheered my friend on, he was about to solo an entire TF by himself, just shy of his incarnate abilities, without his level shifts, just his brute at 40 on its own power.

That is when I ruined my friends day.

You see, I had come into possession of a power that is far more broken than Ion Judgement. It can be used from levels 1 to 50, and is just as effective through all of them. It's effected by damage buffs, ranged, and so common you probably don't even realize that you likely have it too. I could have used a couple, but only one charge was needed.



So after four hours and seven minutes of blood, sweat, and tears I single handedly stopped the Praetorian invasion of Skyway City with nothing but a very upset brute, and the most overpowered rock in all of City of Heroes.

Nerf Rock.

I lol'd

You've wanted more control and now you have it.

Haha! Wow that gave me a good chuckle. Thanks for that

Ha! I was expecting yet another "witty" topic making a statement about nerf calling, and this was so much better and unexpected. Well played sir!

So, there was this fella name of David...

Ride with the devil, hide with the lord
I got no pistol, ain't got no sword
I got no army, ain't got no land,
Ain't got nothing but the stone that's in my hand

R.O.F.L

And the best thread of 2011.....this one.

Oh WOW.

Someone get this thread stickied. This one belongs in the thread hall of fame.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

It's kind of a slippery slope though.

If they nerf Rock today, the next thing you know they'll be nerfing Paper and Scissors.

The idea of ending a TF with the rock attack is funny, but it seems rather mean to ruin all your friend's effort like that.

You, sir, win 145 internets!

If I was your friend, I'd want to kick your butt, but I wouldn't be able to, because I'd be laughing too hard...

Adding my yes vote for getting this thread stickied.

I was there too, padding the team so that brute could try doing something nobody in their right mind would ever do(that would be to deal with Primal Duray for longer than absolutely necessary). To be serious for a split second, it's not like the last hit matters. One person did what has to be hundreds of thousands of damage...and one guy did 54. Hell, it's probably more significant that I flubbed while dodging air strikes and pulled some of the adds. Still didn't matter that much, though. Anyway, it was four hours and seven minutes of sitting around alt-tabbed and listening to Henry Rollins while I should be working on my build. He totally owed us.

PS. Rock is fine, nerf paper.

I just recently respec'ed my namesake stalker and found out he still had a Rock from who knows when. I carefully made sure it had a place in his trays for an occasion much like mentioned above, or maybe for a chance to show some chutzpa, such as at the beginning of an AV fight.

Hopefully I can come away with a story that great.

Actually, this was the first thing that came to mind, but I had to look to find the clip:

http://www.splicd.com/LZ7HgkRpsT8/390/397



Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite