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Originally Posted by CriticalKat

Auto heal I can agree with 100%. However call me insensitive but I don't have lag issues at all, so why should or would I think to turn off my other toggles while shopping? SJ, SS, stealth and acro are always on. If I am playing something with shields, they will be on.

I do turn off things like hotfeet, not because of lag but because running through a zone with an aoe or pbaoe power on is just retarded.

A few weeks ago someone rudely messaged me and "told" me to turn off my frackin super speed that I was lagging them out. I kindly turned on every toggle I had and told them to rudely go /wrists for not having a decent computer and connection. Normally my reaction if asked nicely would have been much more helpful.

TLDR version....realize that a HUGE percentage of people that play this game are playing on highend pc's with awesome connections and are not intentionally trying to lag anyone out.

Originally Posted by Myrmydon

People that feel the need to run every toggle they have while spamming heals and such at an auctionhouse.

Originally Posted by The_Bronx

What did you score?

Originally Posted by Rabid_Metroid

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The powers Pocket D teleport, Base teleport, and Mission teleport are all getting interrupted somehow. In both animation and power execution. I will not be using anything, not even touching my mouse and the power will fail sometimes. Sometimes I can see the animations getting briefly interrupted and then quickly going back to continue the "casting teleport" animation.

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I believe that having someone summon or despawn an Oro portal nearby causes this.

Bug: Incorrect animation for Enervating Field.
Model: Male
AT: Defender. Rad/Rad
To create: Call up the Nemesis Staff Vet power, and target an opponent. While the staff is out, activate Enervating Field. The character will take the staff in both hands and use it to "fling" the energy at the target. The staff stays in the hands after the animation is finished.
Notes: This is a very cool animation. I wouldn't mind seeing this turn up somewhere else for us to use. Cool or not though, I think this is a bug.

Originally Posted by Horusaurus

First and foremost my advice, learn the ATs, what do they do, what is their basic premise, then go into the snazzier things where you can make an AT do silly things that make people double take when you succeed. Every AT has a very basic premise of what they do.

Tanks- Your main job is to keep everyone alive via aggro management and herding critters for the "squishies" to lay into. All about keeping yourself alive with your shield powers to keep the others alive, attacks are a secondary for a reason.

Scrappers- ...don't know if I should advice on these guys cuz of how biased I am towards them...but...scrappers are awesome! I mean...scrappers are the safe DPS machines who can take a hit and stay alive. All about finding a balances with your attacks and defense powers.

Blasters- You're a DPS machine with a jaw of glass, you really want someone in front of you to keep your rear alive. Ranged attacks are a primary for a reason, you have some melee attacks but those should be a last resort at first.

Defenders- Support, support, support. That's your job. You keep every one alive by buffing and debuffing and healing. You have some of the bests buffs and debuffs in the game, use them.

Controllers- One of the broadest character choices in the game, they have a lot they can do. Initial concept is riddle the enemy with status effects while buffing and debuffing.

Peacebringers and Warshades- These guys are advanced and I really don't advise even bothering to roll one up until you've learned the game mechanics well because it's very easy to get confused on what you want to do with them.

As I said these are the original and generic uses for these ATs. Later when you've learned more about the game and can tweak stats it's quite possible to have ATs evolve way beyond their original intentional usage. That's it for the hero types. I'll let someone else talk about the ebil guys.