What awesome things have you done?
I once ended up in Fulmens signature for a bit for completing the RWZ challenge on my blaster, before I13 and the defense IO changes.
All I'm reading in this post is him saying he has experience playing many characters. How is that bragging?
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"I play every powerset ingame, some more than once, make no mistake"
which makes me very knowledgeable and experienced and I know more than others thus,
"I am very intolerant of someone not grasping the full scope of a powerset"
like I do.
The post was made to extol their own virtues (I leave the shamelessly for you to determine) in order to demonstrate why they were right and others were wrong. There was no other reason to boast about their breadth of experience. I have no problem with boasting, by the way. I like loud-mouthed braggarts, but they better be right more often than not and they should not be condescending (too much or too often, sometimes it's OK). And they should not be hypocritical, that really annoys me.
Why Blasters? Empathy Sucks.
So, you want to be Mental?
What the hell? Let's buff defenders.
Tactics are for those who do not have a big enough hammer. Wisdom is knowing how big your hammer is.
I left the game for a long, long time but I still think my "good old days" were when I ran around with a Perma-MOG Regen build. Tanking Hami solo, without healer assistance, ranked up there pretty high as well. I used to feel so sorry for all the tankers gathered around the rim of the Hive basin who would just watch their primary job being performed by a lone regen scrapper.
Sigh. Those were the days.
For me, my crowning moment of awesome was fighting off 2 Paladins and winnng, just before a third came walking over and I beat him too. I did have to use Lore pets and the odd dagger :P But it felt awesome. |
However, I think I prefer my Illusion/Trick Arrow because it's such a rare combination. I was quite proud of him when he solo'ed his first GM without temps before incarnates existed mostly because I was told it couldn't be done due to having no -regen.
However, the fun parts with him usually involve using the baseball bat on a mob off the top of a tall building while Phantasm uses the same target to skeet shoot.
Piss people off on the forums when I mention my Petless DS Trap MM. ... Always seems to stir up a fight. Reality every time play a toon I start to gravitate toward petless MM more and more for the challenge.. |
As for solo-ing TF's and the like. This I have yet to do. I think at least my Illusion and Demon characters are capable but just haven't really felt the need for it. I may try it this weekend.
on my ill cold i have solo almost every GM and AV
ive duo'd every lvl 50 tf/sf in the game
solo MoITF with my mind dom
prolly other stuff i cant remember atm cause i am still half asleep lol
Allow me to elucidate.
"I play every powerset ingame, some more than once, make no mistake" which makes me very knowledgeable and experienced and I know more than others thus, "I am very intolerant of someone not grasping the full scope of a powerset" like I do. |
There are tricks of the trade some people don't know about with some powersets but we should all have something to discover for ourselves rather than being told to get our own eureka moments which is why I don't come out with some stuff I do know and rather lose an argument and it's always been the case that I prefer guides not to tell people everything.
I consider it Gamer Etiquette to allow other people the joy of being challenged and the time and ability to work things out on their own.
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
I climbed to the top of the TV reactor with sprint and hurdle when I was around level 25.
Why Blasters? Empathy Sucks.
So, you want to be Mental?
What the hell? Let's buff defenders.
Tactics are for those who do not have a big enough hammer. Wisdom is knowing how big your hammer is.
That is what I said you said. So, what I determined from your post is exactly what you intended. |
I get tired off people who say don't have a powerset or much experience of it, trying to change it from what it was said on the box. Some people don't get Fiery Aura, they treat it as a simple Fire tanker powerset when really it is a Phoenix related powerset. You don't have to take Rise of the Phoenix but the set is a Phoenix related powerset none the less. Some people don't like the idea of a Tanker needing a self res, or appreciate any of the advantages and then on top of that some people don't seem to get the that this is a City of Heroes game and not a Marvel Game.
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
Pre-Incarnate and Pre-latest round of Kheld buffs, I was on my PB doing the last mish of the 'Save the World' arc where you're in the big Rikti Cave room underneath the Mothership and you have to take down the 4 towers.
With two towers to go, the whole 8-person team, save me, wiped. I shifted to Light Form, took out the tower we were on, then took out the last tower by myself, while all local Rikti were bombarding me.
Everyone was stunned in amazement - someone shouted in caps "YOU ARE A GOD!"
Still my greatest "Rocky" moment in the game. PB's are now strong enough that repeating the feat is probably fairly easy, but everybody was astounded then. Of course, I've always thought PBs were a bit more awesome than generally given credit for.
It probably doesn't qualify, but herding the entire floor surrounding the Crystal titan in the Eden Trial before taunt cap (or ED for that matter) was just a rush.
I have solo'd countless gms on scrappers, my ill/rad and my fire/mm blaster is nothing to sneeze at. I did start to solo a gm with it, but it appeared as if it was going to take more than 5 minutes, so I got bored with it. 20 minutes for like how much inf? Not worth the effort for me. Now if it paid like 10 million or something, then maybe.
"Most people that have no idea what they are doing have no idea that they don't know what they are doing." - John Cleese
@Ukase
Back in i8 before IOs and all that I was on a freaks respec team with my tank. We were in the reactor room and one by one my teammmates were dropping until I was the only one left. This was before we could combine inspirations. So it was just me vs. the freakshow. I basically kept them on me as best as I could seeing as I lacked taunt at that time all while all but one of my teammates went to the hospital. That one that stayed was cheering me on as I was dealing with the freaks and occasionally healing the reactor. This all went on for like 10 minutes and after those 10 minutes my teammates managed to come back and take out the freaks and after they were defeated the reward popup came. Nothing like saving the day.
"Most people that have no idea what they are doing have no idea that they don't know what they are doing." - John Cleese
@Ukase
Well, the most fun thing I have done on this game and still do, is with my MA/Fire tank Daddy Zoot, and waiting until a mob (normally a minion) gets low on health and ignoring my attack chain and just kicking said mob, so it flies across the screen and is dead hitting the ground. That and my wife trying to clay pigeon mobs with my tank and her energy/energy blaster.
Most awesome..before IOs my first level 50 blaster, a fire/energy named Arthur Brown (I am the god of hell fire!) Hitting fifty and then dying all in the same moment. Yes! No it isn't soloing a GM or AV, just some CoT Demons. Heh, but I thought it was awesome.
"...well I have wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, Doctor and I am happy to state I finally won out over it." Elwood P Dowd (from the movie Harvey)
The most awesome thing I've done, I think, is get a Brute to 50 a couple of days ago.
Now, why is that? Because he only used Brawl, in the streets, solo, to get there.
/Then he went and did the Alpha slot arc from Mender Ramiel solo too, so he's on his way to Incarnate.
August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
This is houtex, aka Mike, signing off the forums. G'night all. - 10/26/2012
Well... perhaps I was premature about that whole 'signing off' thing... - 11-9-2012
Back in the days of Hami Raids, I herded 27 GMs to the center of Hami before the raid started. I had an SG mate record the whole thing.
That was back when I could slot taunt in every power I had and there was no Agro limit.
RaikenX is currently seeking new quotes to add to his signature.
Someone say something funny.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
I use to talk about this kind of deal in the Kheld area years ago prior to the boosts and it did nothing but serve as a beacon for the jealous types to rear their ugly heads and start the hate fest...no thank you.
The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.