what mistake do you keep making?
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Brennivin,
Posted on: 2012-01-04 16:17 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I always hit autorun at the most inopportune times.
Me: *accidentally presses autorun key, charges straight into a x8 spawn, and immediately dies*
Teammate #1: wtf..
Teammate #2: ur a blaster, not a tank lulz
I try to play it off, cool-like, as if I meant to do it.
Me: veng bait 
Teammate #3: no1 here has veng
Me: oops
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To be fair- the Defense Debuff Resistance is tempting against the Broadsword users.
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Keeping toggles on against enemies that is useless on the current mission im on. For example having my energy def toggle on while facing something like the warriors . . . . .
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Originally Posted by Shubbie
Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.
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I usually neglect to slot my characters until they're level 50.
I tend to level in large teams, so my characters' weaknesses from under(read:no)slotting are covered up by buffs.
This is a horrible habit, but I just hate going through the tedium of creating and slotting IOs, so I avoid doing it until I'm at maximum level.
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I've been guilty of this without even thinking about it. After you posted this I started paying more attention to what toggles I had running. I'm not use to playing a character with any toggles at all so I'd never really thought about it before. Tonight I played my Fire/Fire brute in a mission full of Praetorian Clockwork and remembered to turn off my defense against Smashing, Lethal and Fire. Saved endurance and only took slightly more damage than I would have anyway. It's time for me to pay more attention to what each toggle does instead of running all of them because more defense is better, right?
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Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Keeping toggles on against enemies that is useless on the current mission im on. For example having my energy def toggle on while facing something like the warriors . . . . .
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I always forget about this temp, and wish I remembered it existed more.
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Originally Posted by Hopeling
"This is a tough fight, it's worth using 30 seconds of Wedding Band for this."
45 minutes later: "Hey, why am I covered in blue flames? ...Aw, man..." Yeah... Wedding Band could, in principle, last beyond my natural lifetime given how often I use it, but only if I ever remembered to turn it off when the fight was over. |
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That's not the best idea for /fire, because your S/L/F shield is also your stun protection. You could probably turn off Tough and do fine, though.
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Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme
I've been guilty of this without even thinking about it. After you posted this I started paying more attention to what toggles I had running. I'm not use to playing a character with any toggles at all so I'd never really thought about it before. Tonight I played my Fire/Fire brute in a mission full of Praetorian Clockwork and remembered to turn off my defense against Smashing, Lethal and Fire.
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The Freakshow - Draining your endurance, or what?|
Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
although last night I discovered that was because Freakshow now drain END. But still it was painful.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
I'm pretty sure Freakshow have always drained endurance, at least the one with electric attacks.
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I keep forgetting to use my Stalker's [Kuji-In Rin] mezz-protection before going into a fight or I forget to refresh it mid-mission. By the time I'm held I'm rapidly pressing the power to get something to work. Only works when immobilised though :/
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Many of my high-level characters have a ton of toggles, and I tend to turn them on as fast as possible so sometimes one gets accidentally skipped. So I get things like "why are they hitting me so much??? D'oh, Focused Senses isn't on." I also often forget to retoggle auras if I am mezzed.
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Don't have Tough yet. I'll bear that in mind when I get to it. Now that you mention it I guess I did have more trouble with stuns than previously. But I hadn't faced much Praetorian Clockwork before that mission (last mission in Twinshot's arc) so I didn't think much of it.
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Originally Posted by Hopeling
That's not the best idea for /fire, because your S/L/F shield is also your stun protection. You could probably turn off Tough and do fine, though.
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Sometimes I still forget to make sure my minions are actually functioning when running into battle. Meaning I'll often give the "KILL!" order, only to find myself attacking a spawn alone...with my minions still waiting patiently by the door.
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Try as I might, I still am a hoarder of both inspirations and temporary powers. I keep thinking I should save them for a tough situation, but when I'm in a tough situation, I still think I should save them for an even tougher situation. And before I know it, I've forgotten I even have them.
I'm also the same way with Accolade powers, which I have even less of an excuse for not using since they don't have a finite amount of uses like temporary powers do. I can't count how many times I've faceplanted while Eye of the Magus is still sitting unused on my 5th tray.
That's also because I have my main three power trays filled with Primary/Secondary/Epic Powers and Inherents. Incarnate powers are in tray 4, and I keep my various veteran/purchased/accolade/day job/temp powers in trays 5 through 9, which don't have a convenient built-in keyboard shortcut.
I created keybinds to have the numpad 7 and 8 buttons fire off my Judgement and Destiny powers on my two Incarnates, but other than that, one incarnate is a Mastermind and has the numpad otherwise occupied by pet control keybinds. My main, a Scrapper, doesn't have that excuse, and does have his Accolade powers keybinded to the numpad, and I still forget to use them.
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45 minutes later: "Hey, why am I covered in blue flames? ...Aw, man..."
Yeah... Wedding Band could, in principle, last beyond my natural lifetime given how often I use it, but only if I ever remembered to turn it off when the fight was over.
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