BrokenPrey

Originally Posted by Sailboat

Maybe so, but in the playstyle described, the Scrapper left the whole team to do the mopping up, not just the Blasters. And many of those teammates (Controllers, Tankers, possibly Defenders) are more useful in setting up a new spawn for the team to pound on than a Scrapper is. If we're talking efficiency, which is the usual claimed reason for "pressing ahead of the team while they mop up," we should definitely get the resistance debuffs from Defenders and Controllers in place -- ideally before any Scrapper has launched an attack at the pre-debuffed enemy values, right, if we're being efficient?

My point is that the Scrapper running ahead and leaving others to mop up isn't about efficiency nor about better teamwork or speed -- it's about something else. Excitement? Ego? Showing off?

Originally Posted by Golden_Beacon

Reason # 457 not to try those other games:

No Steelclaw. 'Nuff said.

Originally Posted by Eislor

Zombie Man did a little work around for us until the actual Dev Digest is working again.

(Hope the link works, the links to posts are a little . . . odd.)

Originally Posted by Werner

It's very sweet. Some of them just need to realize that even squishies can handle some aggro bleed. You don't need to drop everything to save my Blaster from that minion. It's going to be annihilated in just a second anyway. Keep things moving.

Originally Posted by Sailboat

You know, sometimes the rest of the team doesn't really find mopping up the dregs exciting either. Scrappers are damage-dealers -- why can't the Controllers run off to control the new spawn, supported of course by the Defenders, and leave the Scrapper(s) to finish off the minions with superior Scrapper Damage™? After all, there's no point in Controlling or Tanking a few minions if there's no point in Scrapping them, is there?

I'm just illustrating that leaving the other players to take care of business (from which you will receive exp and drops) because you can't be bothered or you are "too good for it" or you are bored comes across as just a little childish and egotistical. Meanwhile, sure, your Scrapper can engage three bosses in the next spawn, but so can a Controller that's built right, or some Defenders, or ANY Tanker.

And there's a point to controlling or tanking a new spawn, unlike the leftover minions of the old spawn, which the team really only needs to...well, to damage. And damage is a Scrapper thing. So maybe you should be the one to stay behind and mop up, if we're assigning roles to the other players.

Originally Posted by Smite_King

and still needing roughly 3.85 bill to slot out my DM/sheild for AV soloing reason.

Originally Posted by Shred_Monkey

I like it. Electric lacked some kind of regen or heal, which the other resistance sets had.

Originally Posted by BillZBubba

Now that's a great post.

Here's how I team:

Team goes from spawn to spawn. Everyone sticks pretty tightly together. Spawns are wiped out in seconds. Team moves on. I'll usually stay with this team.

Team has a tank. Tank wants to herd. I'll be on the next floor or at the other end of the map.

Team has an excess of control and debuffs. Team is completely safe at all times and destroying spawns at what they consider to be a comfortable clip. I'll be on to the next spawn as soon as the bosses are dealt with.

Team has a bunch of new players, or poor builds or on a difficulty too high for the team's ability to handle it. I'm with the team doing everything I can to keep them alive.

Yes, there is a time to stay with the team. There is a time to run off and have fun. More often than not, because this is not a difficult game with properly slotted characters of some skill level, the scrapper should be off killing whatever but close enough to get back to the team should the need arise.

Because of the people *I* generally run with (that being badgers who tend to know the game well and they know I'm a chaos bringer) I no longer have to think about it. Team's good? I'm free to kill. Things getting rough? I'm back with the team to pull them out of it or fall with them.

The scrapper that completely ignores his team is a bad scrapper. The player that constantly gripes at scrappers for doing what scrappers do best is a bad player.

Originally Posted by RosaQuartz

RT @CoHBaB: Issue 16 closed beta today. I believe that anyone can access the character creator/power customization without actually logging into game