New Dawn

People are entitled to a pacifistic toon come hero in my eyes and it's upto the people around them (that they come in play with) to be satisifed or unsatisfied with them as a team mate. Some players need their own personal healbot so you'll never be short of some mates no matter what route you take.

I find teams where you can't squeeze a shot off, albeit AoEs, Debuffs or Controls alarming. I have characters that do have to react fast, that fast that, should I be locked into the cast time a clearmind buff I'd be too late. The damage I'd deal would not be worth the loss of someones character and I proactively buff, other players liking fun and go extra nuts. My vigilance (could be choosing not to blast incase) is to support their fun. Some people are happy doing that all the time. I am not.

To me not having time to squeeze attacks out is often down to being in a team that is a mess. Team dynamically clueless. Given the strength of your buffs and the flexibility of support people may feel that they can go nuts. You may get a sense that they're enjoying themselves and so enjoy your character for it. That maybe where your enthusiasm comes from.

Teams could be good enough to cope with the support of any single defender balanced by their primary and secondary but we know that's not always true. Whether or not you enjoy the fact that other players can be manic with you is down to you and in those teams you can well be offering a lot cos as eggs is eggs the moment you went to blast something someone gets mullered.

Other people can afford to attack with their defenders because the other players either have solid builds or a more solid team dynamic that doesn't compromise eachother badly. Some people will attack expecting other players to not need them that badly.

I am a big believer in concepts and no cookie cutting. I like to see certain powers on defenders. When I don't see them it's not always the end of the world. It is when a defender has powers and I don't see them in use then the end of the world is nigh! (actually rockin the aura does my head in).

You weren't chucking a blast in within the first few secs of the teams fight duration was you? Because that's when it is most likely that not everything would be controlled.

You've been a bit OTT. Calm down. Walk away.

It's not fair to assume that new players are complete idiots and that one persons ideas work for all. This is simply not true. It's from failing to answer those questions that we can see that you need to have everything handed to you on a plate and are a complete idiot.

With accolades you have 2.21 recovery and a end drain of 0.71 which is imo not good. But you can RA with approx 70sec down time. 2.21-0.71 = 1.5

For 70secs you may not want to have a buff/attack chain that averages more than 1.5eps over that time. Taking into account RA is 26 end I am thinking ouch.

Also in melee you can be subject to AoE controls as well as AoE damage. In fact you could be the only one in need of healing as a result in some teams or even incapacitated from being held without a BF.

I am not saying it won't work out but I would be wary.

Your end rec - end drain of attack chain + toggles = scare me

I like the passives, it's extra def, that's cheap, no end cost there, some def debuff resistance and resistance to all typed damage.

I'd have one build with fight pool and one build with med pool (they do different things these builds) but always with passives.

For everyone that hates Castle there is probably someone who thinks he rocks. This is called "Balance" and so his work is done.

Or their builds being cookie cuttered. I think it is better if people attempt something then recieve pointers. Sometimes you can gain a certain way to start thinking that you may otherwise wouldn't off which will help you to do other builds. My Elec/Elec suffers in the early levels to come home later. That could not be other peoples cup of tea. Simply best to choose the powers yourself and when, then get ideas on slotting from other people with maybe a couple of power suggestions.

A Scrapper can be used in place of a Tanker. In fact if a Tanker is "needed" then I don't think there is anyone who knows what they're talking about. If a Kin is "needed" then whoever "needs" a Kin don't know any alternative methods and Rads should never be a necessity.

On topic, you really have to pick a primary and secondary that you are most likely to be rubbish at and then build poorly.

That's not quite the same as the first post. /SS will give you something favoured in PvP but in PvE the Smash damage type could be the most commonly resisted. So Shield/SS/Pyre then.

Almost impossible = Almost possible.

That's good enough for me.

I never like to be responsible for someones power choices.