And that is how I learned...

I am the healer! I am the only healer in a team full of blasters! Im special! Im taking Damage! I need everything I can get and more! I hit a magic Clicky!

Im not a healer! I am Rikti Monky! I am Monkey hopping in piles of dead blasters!

I used to die a lot on my FF def by double clicking my personal force field, thus turning it ON and then OFF --- long recharge .... AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, On all my chars with emergency powers, I create a macro for them.

Something like
/macro PFF "powexectoggleon personal force field"

I put that macro icon in my main trays ... and move the original PFF power icon up into a floating power tray elsewhere ... that way, I can frantically keystroke or mouse click my PFF macro icon as much as I like, and it will only turn it .... ON



only trouble I have now is noticing the danger and reacting fast enough

I joined an Incarnate Trial with my main character, a Grav/FF Controller. I hadn't run too many Trials as of yet, and when I did, I had frequent computer hiccups. A lot of DCing and such. I came to this particular trial after spending a good deal of time on a Tip Mission trying to speed through it finding glowies so that I had time to get to Pocket D before the Trial started.

Once inside the map for the BAF, I DCed pretty quickly. I tried my darnedest to get back as soon as I could. By the time I did, Nightstar was almost dead. I ran up to her anyway and attempted to buff my teammates and attack her. I was unable to. None of my powers were activitating. At first I assumed it was some kinda lag issue, or perhaps my Alt key was stuck again. Nothing. I just couldn't figure it out.

We got to the Prisoner stage, and I was at a door unable to help, and clueless as to the problem...

Finally, I glanced at the power tray I keep of some miscelaneous toggles and macro buttons... which is when I found something out.

I learned to ALWAYS check to see if Personal Force Field is on before using League chat to inform the team that none of your powers are functioning.

I just couldn't bring myself to tell them how I managed to fix the problem. (It also bears mentioning that after my DC all of my toggles remained on... which was something I hadn't thought of. It never dawned on to me that PFF coulda still been on AFTER a DC, but it was.)

/e epic_facepalm

Besides finding out the difference between the exit tram and the entrance tram...

I used to have two characters that looked the same. One was a level 50 Martial Arts/Regeneration scrapper that's used to charging in face first and not dying. The other was a level 22 Dual Pistols/Devices blaster.

So on this day, I decided to level up the Dual Pistols version. Joined a team, all good to go. We get our mission, we head in, and come up on the first mob.

Not thinking, I jumped in FIRST. Now, this is a nightmare situation for a blaster. I didn't have autorun on, I didn't get teleported in, I JUMPED in. On purpose, and then started frantically looking for Dragons Tail.

Aw crap, this is my blaster...

What was the lesson learned? Be creative with your concepts!

Doing the last mission of the Path of the Dark arc, I was fighting one of the archons (who, because of difficulty settings, was a lieutenant) and decided because I had him drained of endurance I could let up on the holds.

And that's how I learned that some Council vampyr archons can turn into war wolves. Boss war wolves, regardless of difficulty settings.

Incidentally, it's also how I learned that enemies don't play fair and so I shouldn't try to, either.

So I had been playing my Fire/Kin for a couple of years and pretty much knew the ins and outs of my powers. Or so I thought.

During a Hami raid, things weren't going as good as they should've and the raid leader recommended that some of the kins follow around the Spike team and Fulcrum Shift off of Yellow Mitos. Yellow Mitos are vulnerable to melee attacks and are pretty much immune to everything else (psi attacks are an exception).

So after like, what, 3 - 4 years of playing my Fire/Kin... I find out that Fulcrum Shift has an Auto-Hit component to it.

Lesson learned, even when you think you know all there is to know about your toon, you can still learn something new.

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"Wait, no no, STOP!"
"You have been defeated."

/bind R "nop"
/bind Ctrl+R "++autorun"

Had a very bad e,/facepalm experience back when the game 1st started. I got onto a team and mission was set for The Hollows, so from Atlas I went via Skyway to get to Hollows.

The mish itself was set just by Flux so I had a bit of track to get there die-ing on 2 occasions. Finally I get to mission, a few mobs in we get a Team-wipe, and all hosp it. Back in Skyway I make my way back to the Hollows and manage to weave my way through the mobs and get to mission.

The team has already taken mob down and a few others in the time it took me to get there?

Bang! another team wipe and again I make my way back from Skyway. After die-ing on the way back to mission , I get the Mission completed text? WTF, "how the hell you guys getting there so fast?" to which the reply was "we went through Atlas to Hollows", e,Facepalm " you can get to Hollows from Atlas?" mass lol'd from team.

Back in the early days, when the game was young and I was on my very first hero, an Ill/Rad controller, I took Superior Invisibility. Back then, Superior Inviz was the best stealth power going. (I think that only stalker stealth beats it today, but I could be out of date.)

I'm an explorer type, so when I figured out that I could stand next to a purple-con boss and /em dance in front of him, I set out exploring all of the higher-level zones just to see what they were like. My character's concept at the time was that he had no super travel powers, so I'd tell people that Sup Inviz was my "travel power". I didn't always get there fast, but I could go places that travel powers couldn't get you to all by themselves.

My explorations eventually took me Peregrine Island - a level 14 or so controller walking around in level 50 land. Sup Inviz had my back, though. As long as I steered clear of Rikti drones and didn't hang out too closely to bosses and such, I was fine. I'd even finally given in and taken hover because I was planning to get teleport. So, I'm put-putting around PI, serene in my "invulnerabilty".

*kzing* *BLAM*

I hit the go to hospital button thinking simultaneously - "What the heck was THAT?" and "How did it see me?"

So, I walk out of the hospital and walk around a little bit wondering what I did wrong when it happened again.

*kzing* *BLAM*

I clicked the hospital button again and went back through my combat log. That was when I learned that no matter how good your stealth is, it doesn't compare to the perception range of a Crey Sniper. Those guys are GOOD! I stopped hanging out in PI after that.

I eventually came up with a theory that Sup Inviz actually has a radius of effect and crey Snipers have a line of sight that puts them outside of it. I suspect now that the truth is simply that the snipers have a perception skill that puts any stealth power to shame.

In the interests of brevity, here's some lessons I learned long ago with the boring parts truncated.


... and that's when I learned critters can tell you've used an awaken even when their back is turned.

... and that's when I learned not to sit in a skirt.

... and that's when I learned the sky wasn't as safe as it looked in the Hive.

... and that's when I learned not to hit a hundred things at once with Nova.

... and that's when I learned you have to click on the train, and not just walk into it.

... and that's when I learned the special challenges of making a tech origin character, and just how incompetent the Crey really are.

... and that's when I learned to remove sprint from my main power tray on my Stone tanker.

... and that's when I learned how to see your own Nova go off from a hundred yards away.

I would assume in the first case it's an endurance issue and in the second case knowing how to move the camera farther away from the action.

Sprint detoggles Granite Form and Rooted. This is a Bad Thing.

When you are a low level character, and you are checking out a high level ambush of Rikti in Perez Park, don't click on them to use info if you are in melee range and have Brawl on Auto-toggle. It goes something like *whiff* *faceplant*, only much faster.