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Lastly keep in mind that the person requesting for a healer...

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... thinks healing is better than buffing, debuffing, and hard and soft control. Better enough to overtly discriminate in team building.

... is occasionally right. Though on such occasions, they tend to use the word "empath" instead of "healer," e.g. Hamidon raids.

... usually is a perma-newb who will stubbornly continue to believe their team wipes are caused by needing more healing. Plenty of people out there will never figure out that this game is different from whatever RPG they think they're playing.

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In fairness, I overtly discriminate in team building, too. I actively recruit debuffers over controllers, buffers, and healers. If you're Trick Arrow, Radiation Emission, Storm Summoning, or Dark Miasma, I want you on my team now. Empath? Meh. If I can't find anyone else, fine. Hope you can blast.

But at least I realize it's personal preference -- matching teammates up with my own playstyle, and rewarding players with less popular builds who might be having trouble finding other teams. It's not because I think debuffing is so much better than other forms of mitigation.

Well, maybe just a little better.

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Or maybe they already have plenty of buffs and debuffs, and are running invincible missions, which can make having a person with a heal power very welcome, and it may just darned well be transfusion that they are looking for. Quite likely they just want a defender/controller who can throw out some hp. It is a nice thing to have, and not unwelcome. When somebody asks for a healer they don't necessarily need an empath. I have given a shout looking for somebody with a heal power when the team had damage mitigation but no heal powers.

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Short of Hamidon and the high-end strikeforces, I have yet to see a situation in this game where more buffs/debuffs would not be preferable to heals.

If you've capped +DEF, +RES, and the equivalent debuffs on the enemy, and you still need heals, you're doing it wrong.

That would be telling.

I have discovered a conspiracy.

Tell me, what do these three things have in common:

Chewing gum. Used.

Toner Cartridges. Empty.

Space Hero. Future.

Why, of all the things one could find, did I find these three? Hmm? And do you know WHERE I found them?

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Lastly keep in mind that the person requesting for a healer is doing just that, asking for what some might consider a healer, he isn't labeling the entire defender populous Healers. "Sometimes the ego of a few need to be out weighed by the needs of many."

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I'm tired of being nice about it. No, it isn't "doing just that." Usually, it's some nimwit kicking my Dark Defender/Corr/MM off a team because they saw a "healor" in broadcast. After that happening a half-dozen times, I get sick of the idiocy.

When a low-level player on my team mentions healers, I give them a polite introduction into why buffs are more useful, and how healing is far more limited in CoX than in most games.

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Well! I've got my first naysayers on the Steampunk MMO idea. That's good news! Means my idea has enough merit that people are worried I won't be able to make it due to my lack of degrees and funds.

Anyone know anyone with talent or cash? =-3

-Rachel-

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*balances a pair of nickles on his nose*

I have both. How much cash and what kind of talent are we talking, though?

*appears in the Rookery, holding a carton of orange juice in one hand*

Coffee is for you people who want to stunt your growth. And miss out on a lot of Vitamin C. And who don't get their caffeine in healthier ways, like slamming 2-liter bottles of soda every few hours.

I'll be saying happy birthday from all the way over here, in the corner. With my pants on. And zipped.

Congratulations!

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Does anyone even like using Assault Rifle anymore? Because I want to start one because i like the whole Military Toons, My MM being Mercenaries, If you do still use and enjoy it What is a good secondary with it? ( just for an idea I play more for fun and content not to really be an elitist)

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I ran AR/Storm, and I honestly can't recommend it as a SUPAR ULTIMATE DOOM BUILD. Your single-target damage is weak, you have no immobilize to go with Ignite, and Storm's KB works against neat AoE groups almost as much as it helps make them. Freezing Rain barely offsets the ridiculous Lethal resists you encounter late-game, and the more I play, the less useful Gale becomes.

My advice would be to pick something less funky than Storm. Dark would be good, I think, as might Traps. Kinetics is always powerful by itself, but forces a lot of redraw.

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Daddiesprincess- sexyest rper

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Fixed

hay can we get a sticky

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You'd have to be sexier than Sidney for that to apply, and that contest has yet to be judged.

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*waves the magic wand at Emgro* There. You're level 50 nao.

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Yay! Wait, it didn't work.

Take a look at my Reged date. How I've managed to play that long without getting a lvl 50 hero is beyond me.

Congratulations. PL meh?

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you forgot about me pup =p

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Unless you were specifically left out.

I usually do without, and only take travel powers for the other abilities in the pool. Hasten, Hover (for defense and ghetto -kb), Combat Jumping, and Acrobatics are all handy powers, and if I've got an extra power pick, may as well grab the travel power as well.

That being said, I'm power stingy. With stamina being a requirement for all my characters unless they have something a lot better, I need every power I can squeeze out after 3 are eaten just for functionality. Swift + Hurdle + Spring makes a decent way to get around, especially with the plethora of temp powers out there.

Also, memorizing every way to get from A to B on every redside map helps.

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Personnally i am not a native english speaker/writer and i take no offense when people comment on my writing. They just do not know and i just do not care that much about it. I am not even trying anymore to improve my english. It is what it is and i am what i am. I know i can write great stories in french and that's all that matters to me.

I actually translate my arcs in english just to make them accessible to the biggest playerbase but i never expected to deliver grammar/typo-proof content.

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If you want, just PM the entire text of your arc to me and I'll edit it for you.

Question: Does your arc include a link to a youtube video of you performing all these songs, or do we have to guess at the music?

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Calling everybody who looks for a "healer" as ignorant, incompetent or lazy is indeed a generalization on a grand scale, and a blatant attempt to insult in this case. It is lame and shameful.

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Looking for a healer in this game is ignorant by definition. It's like going into a hardware store and asking for a tool. Or a bag of potato chips.

It is insulting.
It is shortsighted.
It shows a lack of knowledge in the game, and a lack of interest in gaining that knowledge. (If that's not ignorant, I don't know what it.)
It demonstrates a person has an inflexible mindset.

In short, a person wanting a "healer" is a poor player.

Not a whole lot of humping going on, despite the name of the day. Only three more days at this job, and this is one of them.

The obvious answer to everything is that it was a Nemesis plot for Sister Psyche to possess Nemesis and have him make a plot wherein he was possessed. Oh, in an alternate reality. Not just any reality, but a BIZARRO alternate reality.

I never liked Malta. I never found any arcs for them that really explained what they are and why I'm fighting them, which doesn't help. (Is there such an arc? I'm mostly redside, so probably missed it.)

The thing is, their setup is so random. Superbullets, giant robots, endurance-eating machines. Everybody and their brother has giant robots now (Longbow, Arachnos, Council, Nemesis, and obviously Clockwork), so it boils down to Sappers and Gunslingers. Who stylistically have NOTHING in common with each other. Cowboys and Ghostbusters? John Woo meets Luigi's Mansion?

Malta just comes across as random crap designed for three different groups that ended up lumped together.

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Indeed.

And as for SStingrays comment:
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Healing is an important part of what defenders can do.

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Umm... No. I see the one, single power in my kit bag that heals, as being the least important ability that my Kin has.

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Holy misquote Batman! It doesn't sound like you really read what I said at all. If healing wasn't important, there wouldn't be teams asking for healers to begin with.

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It's not the importance of heals that drive players to seek out "healers". Ignorance, laziness and sometimes sheer incompetence are why some players want "healers".

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This really is the most stupid generalization I have ever seen anbody on these boards use. Try to keep your arguments to rational thought in the future.

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Mad sarcasm for the win, unless that other massive generalization you made was serious. Anyway, it isn't actually a generalization. There is (shock!) a best way to build a team. There is a best way to build the characters on that team. And those of us who number-grind towards that goal, rather than airily speculate towards it based on "experience," realize that heals are the least effective damage mitigation in the game.

Can't argue with numbers.

Wouldn't Rad/Sonic defender be on the upper end of the list?

MMs are contenders, if memory serves. Blasters, Controllers, MMs, and Defenders are the ATs I hear about doing it most.

Basically, the ATs with -regen abilities. You can slot IOs for defense and resistance bonuses, but there's no easy way to get similar levels of debuff potential onto a scrapper.

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To make this fair Neko should drive the squeaky semi truck. Then we can have a real road adventure movie!

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DUEL!

Best Spielburg movie ever.

Two hours driving and hanging around for a meeting, and the other guy didn't even show up. 'Bout as enjoyable as sitting around waiting for a newbie leader to find a "healor" for Positron's TF. Only that doesn't cost you money for gas and parking.

Least no accidents, though. Hope you repair nicely, Viv, and don't forget Ibu is your best friend sometimes. Just don't mix it with tequila.

Dunno, Ryu and Cloud are pretty much even when it comes to being off the far end of the charts. They both kill tanks with medieval weaponry on a regular basis.

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I wanna twitter you, PB

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Hubba hubba. I like this channel...

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Wakka wakka indeed. Now I'd buy THAT for a dollar.