Dispari

Does your ice tank have big hair and shoulderpads?

If you want to offer a build, I can work with it. I tend to make builds without purples or PvP IOs. That may be kind of limiting for a high-end build. I have enough to grab most regular stuff (I outfitted my Brute with a bunch of Kinetic Combat sets), but most purples aren't worth the investment to me, and PvP IOs are right-out. My widow does have two purple pieces (a proc and another piece to capitalize on the recov). But in general, I'd like to avoid.

This is going to be more for fun than anything, so I don't want to make it a bunch of work by filling to the brim on crazy-expensive stuff. However, if that's an unreasonable expectation, let me know now.

There's a blueside mission with a 10 minute timer that I've never come close to completing without stealth of some sort.

The problem with missions where damage and regular interactions are minimalized is that people complain that the whole point of their character is eliminated. If the missions are too reliant on NPCs, objects, or cutscenes people start to complain that they're too gimmicky. Even the Reichsman fight redside has been complained about due to the temp powers. If there are missions where people can do the whole thing without needing to attack or use their powers, they'll say "Well what do I have all these powers for then?"

GW has some nice gimmick missions though. Would be a good place to start.

Sounds like you're proposing a new game entirely, as this game several pure fighter classes, and people like them. I know I like mine. Maybe I don't want to do anything besides beat people's skulls in.

Where's my animated tail and tail+belt then?

*spins the Wheel of Wiki*

Super Boosters

• Super Booster I: Cyborg - released September, 2008.
• Super Booster II: Magic - released April, 2009.
• Super Booster III: Superscience - released July, 2009
• Super Booster IV: Martial Arts - released November, 2009

Item Packs

• Good Versus Evil Edition's in-game bonuses are available as an item pack. September, 2006.
• The Wedding Pack, also called the Valentine Pack. No associated game edition. February, 2008.
• Mac Special Edition's in-game bonuses are available as an item pack. March, 2009.

The trick is to tie the other guy's laces together.

But Brawl's DPE is INFINITY! It deals an infinite amount of damage!

This is almost impossible though. Someone will ALWAYS feel that they need to laugh at or talk down to the person and tell them how pathetic they are. Unfortunately, that's exactly what they want you to do, and ensures they won't leave you alone. As soon as someone feels they need to "put them in their place" by telling them how sad they are, the griefer gets the okay to proceed.

Considering this relies heavily on killing yourself to achieve, is that such a bad thing? I don't think it makes sense for EM to not be the best, or only be slightly better than the others, if you have to repeatedly damage yourself to attain it.

Actually, there's everything wrong with having overpowered sets. People flock to those sets and don't play anything else. Then people complain that no other power combinations are valid and they can't just play for concept and get good results because if they aren't playing Set X, they're gimp. Imagine all the people coming in who want to play Broadsword, Storm, Pain Domination, or whatever, when really everyone they talk to is telling them how incredibly powerful WM/EA is (lulz) and they shouldn't play anything else.

This becomes a big problem if you just handwave it as being okay since it's only "one or two" overpowered sets. Eventually overpowered sets have to be looked at and toned down. And the longer they're allowed to sit, and the more people flock to them, the more people you risk annoying, especially if you aren't careful and overnerf it.

Of course, underpowered sets are just as bad. So it's a bad idea to keep those around without looking into them too.

Right now I'd call EM underpowered. It's not tops on ST damage. Which in and of itself doesn't make the bad set. But that also comes in conjunction with extremely poor AoE. And its mitigation is pretty low as well. Essentially the set doesn't excel at anything, and isn't even a "jack of all trades" set where it does everything decent. It does nothing.

Or GM-smacked.

If you're standing in the ski lodge, you're no less than 50 feet from the NPC that gives out snowballs as a reward for candy canes. I can't think of any place in the game where people are more likely to be hit by random snowballs that people are playing with. In your analogy, it's not just a pub/bar where people are for some unfathomable reason throwing snowballs at eachother. It's a pub/bar where there's literally a guy in the middle of the room, handing out snowballs from a cooler.

Yeah, but they're lazy and never use their powers in a logical way! They're always using AoE mezzes on single enemies, as they die. Or run up out of my buff radius to use Brawl when they have three ranged attacks!

They're slow on leveling up and fall behind more and more as I level up. They never use inspirations unless I make them. They barely take any good powers, and in fact by level 50 they probably only have like five powers they even use. And even though they never quit even if they die, they get me killed plenty!

They're very inconsiderate and bad players! I don't think they even speak English, because they never respond when I complain. But even with all their failings, they're better players than my regular friends.

One time isn't harassment, no. Continuing to do so after being asked not to is, yes.

But my point is that if they're standing in a zone where that sort of thing is commonplace, stopping every person who happens to run by and hits them with a snowball, that's stupid and unreasonable.

I could understand if you were somewhere like Cap au Diable trying to RP with a friend, and a single person runs by and lobs a snowball. But to honestly stand in the very-busy snow zone and tell people not to throw snowballs at you? You're essentially standing in the middle of a crossfire with a sign that says "Don't shoot me." Maybe the people doing it ARE jerks, but you're asking for it.

I don't condone lobbing snowballs at people when they ask you not to. But I also don't think that someone should stand on the globe in Warburg and broadcast "Excuse me, but I'm going to be RPing here in Warburg. Nobody PvP with me or I'll petition you, because I politely asked you not to."

If anything, it seems more like the person is looking for a fight. If you want to RP and not get hit with snowballs, the last place you should be is next to the NPC that gives out snowballs.

I agree with all of this. If someone asks you not to throw snowballs at them, and you keep doing it on purpose, you're a jerk and deserve to be petitioned.

But I also think standing in the number one most likely place to be hit with a snowball, telling people not to throw snowballs at you, is just provoking people. Or you're otherwise ignorant to the fact that you're being unreasonable.

Yes, if you tell everyone in the zone not to throw snowballs at anyone in the zone, that would be unreasonable. But so is telling everyone in the zone not to throw snowballs at you. Because not only are you going to get people who do it by accident, but also newcomers who weren't there for your announcements. There are hundreds of people passing through the ski lodge, and you can't honestly expect everyone coming through to not throw snowballs at you, or to know that it bothers you.

To be clear, I don't have a problem with someone asking somebody not to hit them with snowballs. Or not to play loud emotes repeatedly, or spam their loud and visual powers, or anything that someone could find annoying. What I do have a problem with is standing in a place where those things are commonplace or even expected, and thinking that you should get to alter the actions of everyone in the zone, or else petition them.

If I stood on the dance floor of Pocket D telling people not to dance because it's distracting, I'd get just the sort of feedback as standing in the ski lodge telling people not to throw snowballs at me. If it really bothers you that much, you need to relocate. Not stick around and try to bully people into doing what you think they should be up to with the threat of petition. That's being a jerk.

I agree that the person the OP dealt with needed to be petitioned for intentionally griefing. But I don't agree that the OP should be standing at snowball ground zero, telling every person who throws a snowball at them to knock it off.

What about my poor Mastermind who does less damage than a Defender? I'm giving up everything!

Fixed for accuracy.

Let's not talk realism with redraw when what actually happens is far less realistic than what should be occurring. Even if if were realistic, there's a need to draw a line between "realistic" and "fun," and redraw really isn't that fun.

If you want to use a narrow definition of roleplay that would mean playing Pong means you're roleplaying as a paddle, okay.

But I still disagree, as there's a vast difference between me holding an in-character conversation with someone in Pocket D, and me standing around giving someone advice on how to respec their toon through tells.

I'm not roleplaying or pretending to be anyone but me when I'm talking through tells. My avatar is just my vessel, which I am driving. Like a car. I'm not roleplaying a car when I go to the store. Unless I go "vroom vroom!"