does your character move around when you fight?

I move as little as possible.

I'll move to avoid patches. I'll move to line up cones. (I dislike Cones as a whole, particularly melee ones because they're short range, in addition to being generally very narrow. The narrower a cone is, the more I hate it.) I'll move to position PBAoEs for maximum effectiveness.

I see no point in jumping around in combat if not absolutely required, that just means I'm wasting time that could have been spent activating another power.

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yep, try to keep an optimal amount of enemies in reange for the dragons tail sweep and get on the hard targets with eagle's claw and cobra strike. and now with vorpal being a cone, i have to move back from the good position for the sweep to maximize the cone, then back in(possibly with spring attack) to get back into position.

another guy i move a lot with is my ice/ice tank, space robot 5, i try to get as many guys around me and debuffed as possible with my damage/debuff auras before we settle into the ice slick /freezing aura stomp down.

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So, what I hear you saying, Sam, is that you don't like adapting to changing situations... Because while you say it isn't adapting, it looks like you just don't like moving and so can't seem to call it what it is.

I do have to agree though that the Durray battle in Sutter took this idea to an absurd extreme by combining ridiculous numbers of Air Strikes with obnoxious amounts of teleportations.

I move all the time, but as little as possible.

There's a thin line between getting more targets in a particular cone/aoe and losing damage over time due to too much time spent positioning (and sometimes, in certain situations, half a second can already be "too much time").

"Eye of the Storm to res debuff Protean!"
*Protean starts to use his aoe power*
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AN!"

Because even if you get out of the way before it animates, it will still heal him, because you have to get out of the way before a certain part of the animation.

Of course, in my head, fights are much more dynamic, epic and fun.

It's interesting that many of the "no" answers have come with relatively elaborate explanations of how CoH isn't an action game and shouldn't be played like one. Could have fooled me, that's pretty much why I've been playing it since launch.

Protean's wind-up is actually a good example of a situation where the game really isn't as mean as some people think it is. You get five seconds to dodge. I know because I've run that mission on teams and had ample time to realize someone isn't moving and shoot off a "GET OUT OF THE WAYYYYYY" before his siphon connects, making the futility of my concern all the more heartbreaking. The thing is, you not only get the big red warning that says "dodge, you crazy maniac!" but also the general awareness that he's going to be dropping that power on you at regular intervals.

I can't think of any combat powers that you'd want to be using in melee range of a quite dangerous AV that take more than 3.3 seconds to animate. "But that's bad enough," you say, "because if your 3.3 second attack is queued a split second after the warning comes up you're probably stuck!" Live and learn. So he hit you with the drain once. Next time wait until Protean himself has just cast a power and start your long animation attack then: he definitely won't be able to get the entirety of the drain off before you can move again and since you're stuck watching your own animation you'll easily notice the warning. With practice (and combat jumping) you can even fire a parting melee attack in the same motion with which you're leaping out of his reach.

Root periods in this game are super generous. The AI is beholden to them but realistically players are not if they know how not to be. I personally haven't played any other game that skews that balance so heavily toward the player.

I move around a lot. I think I have jousting-type activations down on my most favored characters, especially when it comes to breaking line of sight. When available, I also tend to move up and down a lot, going up out of range and dipping down to splat things.

The main exception to this has been my staff characters, I'm still learning the set, but there I times while the set is blurring through animations I'm pounding the keyboard and yelling at the computer, "Go go go go go go!" because I need to switch positions before releasing another cone attack.

I tend to move when necessary depending on the character. If I have cone or knockback attacks I move a fair bit to leverage them to their fullest. Not all of my characters need to move that much though. In fact too much movement can be detrimental. For example my invuln tanker wants to keep her Invincibility saturated. If I move around too much I might reduce the number of mobs within its influence.

Unless you're trying to line up a specific power to get the most out of it (and sometimes even then), running around mid-battle does more harm than good. When you're running, you're not using powers, and when you're not using powers, you're not winning the fight.

Run-and-gun play might make sense in a FPS where mobility equals survival. But in a game where every ability that contributes significantly to victory requires you to drop anchor, there's no reason, nor even an excuse, to move other than to keep a target in your effective range.

I only really move around a lot on my squishies.

I use the ninja run in battle all the time, even if I'm a blaster, I'll shoot, then do a forward flip, shoot again..

Works well with melee fighters, especially dual blades, because that set is very graceful with the combo chains.

The only time I don't move around so much is when I'm on a really large team, and I can barely see what direction I'm standing in.

My characters bounce around even when I'm not fighting. I'm usually on a Skype call with friends. The bounce is just OCD/ADD/ABC/123 energy.

Depends on the character. My merc/pain has to move around a lot to heal, but my bot/thermal doesn't have to move as much. My Soldier Of Arachnos will move occasionally to line up a cone ((If everything didn't die in the first blitz)), or my widow a PBAoE, but my plant/kin gets to stand still against everything short of demons. The melee'ers typically get to stand still and trade blows, only moving to chase down runners or to position the occasional attack.

It also depends a lot on the enemy. Certain bosses require me to make sure my minions aren't in the line of fire or in range of an AoE on my masterminds. Unfortunately, as my main and obsession are all masterminds ((I have higher levels of every mastermind powerset now, working on my BM)) my minions are prone to coming down with "Brain dead" syndrom and not moving out of the way of dangerous things fast enough as I scream at them to move.

Depends. If I'm on an energy blast or storm summoning character, I am the center of the universe, and it's all moving relative to me.

On a tank, I'm constantly shifting position a bit, which is how I can tell I definitely have aggro. If they don't pay attention to my every little movement, something's gone wrong. And I'm always trying to put myself on the other side of the group from the team, so the aoes hit them less.

My new dominator keeps darting in and out of melee range due to having pbaoe and cone attacks, and my scrappers go wherever they can do the most damage. Defenders go where they need to be to protect the team. Etc. Sometimes that means moving once per fight, sometimes it means moving a lot.