Confessions

ROFL.

Some of it has to do with a particular catgirl who has been in one of the global channels I've lived in for ages now, but I always read the Incarnate Salvage "Arcane Cantrip" as "Arcane Catnip".

Not that I actually misread it. That's how I say it out loud on Skype, etc., when saying it to other people. I think the best part is that everyone has always known what I meant.

That reminds me...

Essence of the Furries

That is all.

Eh. My tanker didn't take taunt until level 49 and the STF came out; if it wasn't for that TF he wouldn't even have it.

Tough is good if you have the slots and endurance. Weave is skippable unless you have a LOT of powers and slots free. :0

The true irony of Statesman giving stats when he didn't ever want us to know the numbers behind the game (IT'S MORE FUN 4 REALSIES I PROMISE).

I do this too, although depending on the character I might swap Brawl out for Nemesis Staff, Blackwand or Sands of Mu (which inevitably causes problems when I get to an iTrial and they're disabled).

I'm with the Hamster. While I think most people do look askance at a Tanker without Taunt, mine didn't have it until Inherent Fitness, and for the same reason - I mostly played him solo.

IMO, with the advent of the Gauntlet mechanic, an attentive Tanker could be a pretty good meat shield even without it in standard content. You could certainly be a better meatshield with it, but this game is easy enough for the most part that "better" really doesn't mean that much.

So I would forgive you this confession.

If you wanted to be able to manage aggro in some of the game's more challenging content, such as Hamidon raids or iTrials, then yes, you probably needed a decently slotted Taunt.

Other than one particular crusader who claimed otherwise here on the forums, I never met anyone who thought Confront was important. Most people I talked to or read opinions of on it considered it a wasted power pick at worst and a set bonus mule at best. Most of those I met who had Confront took it for concept reasons. I'm being completely literal when I say I believe I saw a Scrapper with Taunt less than 10 times in my 8+ years here. It might have even been less than 5 times, but I am less confident that's true.

So for this confession I grin and tell you no one cared.

These words make me shudder.

You've clearly never had to put up with Shamster, regardless of AT. He plays them all the same way. He can get aggro with mindless button smashing after he's run off to large groups away from the team; if he isn't insta-gibbed (which he generally is), he'll limply bring them back to the group and either die anyway or suck down all inspirs he has to repeat the same mindlessness. But retaining aggro / taking aggro is not his forte (4Chan linking takes that spot). And he primarily teams.

Only tow of my tankers have taunt, the rest dont. Didnt bother with weave tried repseced out of it because it cost too much end and or used too many slots to lower that end usage for the little amount it adds.
On the tankers with taunt, I might have used it twice for one tank? And four times for another even though after a respec I never even put the taunt back into the tray then respec again and got rid of it and did the same for the other tank. Although I mostly soloed. Even on teams, the game wasnt that hard nor complicated and there were very few times that I needed to use it and teams for the most part didnt even realize when I had taunt or the difference after I got rid of taunt. It was a wasted power slot for what I was doing and playstyle for me.

Originally Posted by mauk2 Evil_Legacy became one of my favorite posters with two words. "Kick Rocks." I laffed so hard. Never change, E_L!

Actually, even more ironically if I was informed correctly he was responsible for most of the numbers (and some of the oddities therein) for the CoV Prima update.

Well Prima has to get their wildly inaccurate "information" from somewhere.

Since I don't really know either of your posting styles well enough, I can't tell if this is serious or not. But even if it is serious, I still agree with him, even if it's not for reasons of shared experience.

I only have one Tanker. He's been stuck at 43 for years now because I got into other characters more, but back when I still actively played him, I saw a team that was running the original Maria Jenkins arc advertising one open spot. I wanted to join them for the AV progress so that I could unlock Portal Jockey on my Tanker.

However, the team was advertising specifically for a Tanker. (This was long before Going Rogue, so a Brute wasn't an option.) I didn't want to sign up for that knowing I lacked Taunt, so I didn't reply. However, they kept advertising, apparently not getting any hits, so I finally responded to the person saying I was on a Tanker and would like to join, but I also warned him I had no Taunt, and would not be offended if he'd rather find someone who had it. The leader said he didn't mind and invited me.

Knowing they were hoping for a meatshield, I made a point of being as "tanky" as I could, running around and smacking stuff in an effort to keep them PO'd thanks to Gauntlet. That seemed to go well in terms of my soaking aggro, though I sometimes missed being able to actually Taunt when we were fighting fliers or really anything I couldn't readily reach in melee.

When the team finally disbanded after completing the arc, several players on the team made a point of complimenting my tanking given my communicated lack of Taunt.

Like I said up-thread, I have no illusions about whether a Tanker with Taunt paying at least as much attention to aggro control as I was doing would have done a better job. And, trust me, I almost never play the tank - I am sure others can do it better than I did, even without Taunt. With Taunt, they probably could have done at least as good as I did with less manic play needed to hold aggro. But based on that experience, which involved what used to be fairly top-end content outside of raids (and later, trials), I think it shows that Taunt is very nice to have, but not necessary. (Again, outside of Hamidon raids and maybe iTrials.)

Back when the Vanguard accolade boosted KB on the Nemesis Staff veteran power. (Which was back when it was a veteran power.)

I once did that to a Clockwork minion in Kings Row. Knocked him over a building.

Gears I believe were particularly effective projectiles.

Somebody posted a video where they were knocking low level mobs around with the twist that a friend with fireball launched it at max range just before he used the energy KB punch, so a fireball went most of the way across the map too.

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