Eiko-chan

Since I'm the one that mentioned SB crashes:

I play on a two-year old computer that was state-of-the-art when purchased. 3 Gig dual-core processor, 2.75GB RAM, nVidia 9300 GE video card.

My computer is not old, it is not slow, it is not broken. It is only City of Heroes that gives me any issues.

This is probably the most annoying mission in the game. Not sure there's much to do if you want to run solo other than outlevelling it.

Traps has a heal. It's called Triage Beacon.

Regen we might be able to help with, but set bonus damage boosts don't apply to pets.

Honestly, drive-by buffing is largely a blue-side issue. It's one of the many reasons I primarily play villains.

This thread made me think of the possibility of having a Tanker - and honest-to-god Tanker, not some beefed-up wanna-be Brute - on the LRSF. It could change everything.

Brutes are nice, but they are not now nor never will be Tankers.

I was arguing that he respec to take Fast Healing, not that he make it his next power choice.

I'd say Hasten. If you're not taking the Thugs attacks, I'm not really sure why you need Hasten - your buffs and heals will be up often enough.

Level 10 IOs offer enhancement values roughly equivalent to TOs. Low-level SOs would provide superior enhancement.

See, the entire point of this is that, yes, most of the time, you are at worst neutral and oft-times actively helpful. But assuming that you are always helpful, and that your aid will thus always be appreciated and sought is a poor assumption, because there does exist another line of thought.

For those that wish to merely solo and be left alone, or whom are testing new builds, new tactics, or other such things, you are actively not helping, and telling us we're wrong for not liking your interference because you are "being helpful" is, frankly, rude.

There do exist people in the real world that object to random kindness - try helping an able-bodied old lady across the street, or paying for a blue-collar worker's groceries. Try forcing a proud conservative to accept government aid - after all, they're "just helping".

You may act with the best of intentions, but that does not mean you are always "helping".

The worst is random Speed Buffs. There's a reason I don't play anyone with Super Speed.

I hardly think NRG/Invuln would be significantly more powerful than <any given melee set>/Invuln already is.

Not to necro the thread (so please don't post in it, this is just so you can see it), but some of the initial reaction was less than enthusiastic.

I'm so glad to see the Defender community so embracing the glory of Traps after the rocky start it had.

Yes, Time Bomb is trash and there's never any reason to ever use it. Trip Mine can be far more useful - my MM can run petless on +0x1 primarily because of Trip Mine's damage and the other defensive tools of Traps. The real key is to make sure you've got the defense to be able to toe-bomb with it. Or you can lay down a whole bunch before you pull - with even moderate slotting for recharge, you can get 13-14 mines down before they start self-destructing, which is enough to take off about half an EB's health (though if Defenders got a weaker version, maybe not so much for you guys.)