Emberly

Glad to have you! Please consider joining Virtue's global channels; they are listed in a sticky up top of this forum. A quick rundown:

• Virtue LFG Alpha - for teaming
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• VirtueUnited - for whatever.

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Glad you seem to be enjoying your time on Virtue!

I leave shadowfall/steamy mist on at the market because frankly most of your costumes are terrible and making them transparent is an improvement

No, I actually don't leave them running. I both do and do not understand the whole "powers off at the market" thing. Yeah, it's pointless to be running it, but if your computer can't handle someone running a stealth toggle at the market, how can you possibly handle, y'know, a fight in an actual mission? I turn them off just because of the possibility that it might actually cause a problem for some folks, but I suspect the main concern is that people really like to get angry about any damn fool thing they can.

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You've just not noticed SM criticals. It hasn't been not critting just for you for five years.

My scrapper is a one-person wrecking crew with no regard for spawn sizes or hurt feelings. How should I change my playstyle to accommodate a team, knowing that sticking with the team is a waste of my abilities, the team's abilities, or both? I'd far rather see self-sufficient characters acting as such.

I agree that it's no fun when someone rushes off to solo the end boss while everyone else is still en route to the mission door, but I don't see a problem with someone trying to take on something the group hasn't gotten around to yet. The worst thing that happens is the would-be lone wolf dies, and even then it's only a problem if they whine about it or it ruins a master's run. Regarding teamies chasing lone wolves: If you follow someone obviously hellbent on taking on an eight-man spawn alone, you deserve what you get, be it glorious victory or shameful and embarrassing defeat.

Virtue's great. It's the best server ever! Its residents often suffer from what appears to be a ((speech impediment)) but after awhile you won't even notice. For maximum Virtue enjoyment, I recommend joining the following channels. . .

• Virtue LFG Alpha - for anything involving a team
• Virtuebadges09 - for anything involving a badge
• Virtue TFs 2010 - for anything involving a task or strike force
• VirtueUnited - for anything involving anything (PM a mod to be unsilenced in here)

Enjoy quality teaming and good times: Enjoy Virtue!

The one thing that changed the game for me was joining some global channels on my server. I met tons of people, found that a lot was going on that never hits broadcast or local, and found myself a LOT more active than I ever was. I can't recommend joining your server's active global channels enough for keeping the game fun and exciting.

I love the Shard and its task forces, but I wish they would get revamped too, maybe make them cross-faction, and less like a series of radio missions. I try to run the Shard TFs on all my characters but it can be a struggle to fill teams.

Only problem I've ever had with Stalkers on my teams have nothing to do with the AT and everything to do with the person playing the character. Much like every other AT.

I play my emp as a buffer who can heal (but probably has better things to do with her animation time). I mean, really, the auras, the fort, the AB, plenty of stuff there. I'd rather be blasting than acting like everyone's green bar is my responsibility. That said, my empath does have the Empath badge, so it's not like I ignore green bars.

I just assume that everyone on the team is a grownup who can take care of him or herself, including using insps and whatever. So you got hit a little, thanks for the endurance reduction, man, now eat a purple or something, I'm not gonna drop my bow and run across the room to bring you from 85% to 100% health. If you start getting hit a lot, cool, that means you are kicking *** and taking names, so I will start giving you Fort instead of the worthless regen scrapper who keeps on AFKing midfight, or maybe I will AB you. What I won't do is follow the tank around, give him all the buffs ever, and mindlessly stare at the team window hoping someone gets hurt so I can validate my AT choice by overhealing you so you never have to touch your precious green candies.

edit: Empathy played badly is my personal pet peeve, and teams that think they know better than me how to play my Empath are right up there too. Sorry 'bout the rant, I realize nobody was advocating bad empin' up in here.

I try not to let my Mids' playing interfere with my CoX playing Figuring out builds on Mids is far more fun than forcing myself to actually follow said builds, so I do whatever looks fun in game and respec out the mistaken choices later if necessary.