Ultraamann

Meh. Don't care. I've got 2 EM tankers. Enjoy playing both of them. If my survivability is down to whether or not an attack takes me 1 second or 2.65 seconds, I've got bigger problems.

Heya Bert! Good to see some quality Viking influence!

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Tried that and looked like an [censored].... and guys dont really take a liking to girls doing the picking up as a general rule ive found!

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And every single time a guy gets shot down, he feels the exact same way.

You want the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Then try, try, try, try, try again. If you want to be a brain surgeon, truly want it more than anything, you have to put in 13 years of dedicated work of 12-16 hours a day flat broke before you'll even get the opportunity to start practicing for the big dance. Along the way, you'll spend hours reading, writing, and hearing some of the most boring stuff imaginable. If you truly want to find that person, think of it like a job. It takes a little bit of effort every single day.

BA mentioned not being able to find how to segue into a date from a new conversation. Practice. Strike up a new conversation every single day with a pretty girl. Hell, do it with girls that are completely out of your league. The more you get in the situation, the more comfortable you'll feel. Once you reach that comfort level, the segue will become natural. Seriously.

Girls, ask guys out. So what if you feel like an [censored] because some dude said no? You obviously didn't know him very well before hand, so who cares what he thinks of you now? Imagine if you were traveling in Europe when you happened to meet Random Dude in a grocery store/book store/coffee shop/estate sale/whatever. Would you care what he thought of you if you were leaving town the very next day and were sure to never see him again?

If you're a person who freezes when that hottie looks at you, try coping mechanisms to relax. Nervous to talk to this person who obviously is better than you in every way, shape, or form (in your opinion)? They do stupid stuff too. The gorgeous girl who should be in movies has spilled a cup of juice down her shirt, walked into a wall, and clogged up a toilet before. The buff piece of manmeat in front of you in line works out 4 hours a day because he's as insecure about his body as you are and could identify just as many things wrong about himself as you can about yourself. In all honesty, he probably actually thinks he's fat and looks at his butt in the mirror every day and thinks it looks big in certain pairs of jeans. Think about your most mortifying moment, and realize that this person that is currently causing you to sweat in inappropriate places has a memory just as bad. Just before you walk up to talk to them, think about how mortified they must have been and how you would have laughed at the dumb thing just like all the other witnesses did.

Then, just say hi, and ask them a question. Ask them where they got their glasses, shoes, broccoli, Dostoyevsky. When they name a place or point at the bin next to them that you just retardedly didn't notice before you asked (read the signs, people), ask a follow up question of whether they liked the doctor, selection, how to tell which head of broccoli will taste best (even if you know, duh), or how to pronounce Dostoyevsky. If they're answering questions, they'll engage in the conversation, and that can lead to the swapping of stories. If you reach that point, you're golden. Simply say you've got to run, give them your number, and say you enjoyed talking with them and would like to continue this conversation sometime later. Thank them and move on with your day. Now, it doesn't matter if they call or not. Do the same thing the next day. With time, someone will call. You'll also get better at handling the situation because your stories will become practiced. You'll know that talking about broccoli inevitably leads to a comparison to hemorrhoids and should be avoided in the future. Dostoyevsky can be great if you actually can hold your own when it turns out the person specializes in classical Russian literature. The more practiced you become, the better your response rate will become. From there, dates will bloom and you'll get practice at first/second/third dates.

The myth, the real conspiracy theory, is that people find their special someone by being suave and smooth. That's not the real you, and the person you're with will see through that quite quickly. James Bond does not actually exist. Instead, realize that everyone is a dork. Everyone. Whether they're obsessed with guns, comic books, fish, motorcycles, high fashion, purple, or broccoli that looks like hemorrhoids, they're a total dork about something. Find it and let them talk about it for hours. They'll love that you listen so well, you'll really learn something about them, and your nerd obsession will now be comparable to some embarrassing obsession of theirs.

Also, I do not play WoW. My Little Pony all the way.

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This.

And, at least for me, it helped once I learned that you can get absolutely torched, shot down in horrid slow motion "oh the humanity!" burning flames like the Hindenburg disaster or a train wreck that you can't turn away from, and it won't kill you. Granted, it sucks, but you get over that. Hell, once I got past that part, dating was easy. I got shot down and nuked many many many times in epic fashion. Its all part of the game. To play, you've got to be willing to get on the field and take the hits. And like Ping said, try to remember that pretty much everyone else is just as uncomfortable about it as you are. Persistence pays off (provided you don't go all stalker-y of course) Ask my wife sometime... she had scorched earth policy on me when we first met... lol

One of the most fun things to do with KOB (which I do on occasion when I'm bored and passing through low level zones) is to click on the Vanguard accolade power (if you have it) which amplifies all secondary effects (such as knock-up in this particular instance) and go hit some little lvl 5 guy with a KOB. The hang time is just spectacular.

If someone wants to farm, I really don't give a crap. They pay their monthly fee so they can play how they want. All I ask is that they leave me the [censored] alone about it. Anytime I log on a 50, I get endless tells out of the blue "AE farm team, come join" and random invites which make me just want to punch someone through the brain.

Farm if you want, just leave me the [censored] alone, or at least have the [censored] sense and common courtesy to read my message in the search window beforehand, which also essentially tells all farmers and PLers to leave me the [censored] alone. Farmers tend to be rude, which I find inexcusable. I don't interfere in their game-time, so all I ask is that they don't interfere in mine.

Paranoia is not a disease, its a lifestyle.

What do I like to do with my Tanker?

Anything I damn well please. I'm a Tank after all.

*yawn*

I think I broke it.

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Naked time for Little Guy went Chernobyl on me. I left him for two minuntes to pack away the power drill. I came back and his [censored] had exploded. He was covered from head to toe.. and had left a crawling trail of the sticky smelly mess on the carpet. I wrapped him in a towel and bathed him immediately.. got him dressed and into his exersaucer while I scraped up and scoured out the carpet with soap and water.. I've sprayed prosolve onto it and will go back over it again in a moment. I LOL'd.. glad that's over.

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Sooooooo glad my youngest is finally toilet trained (for the most part... fingers crossed) Once he'd figured out how to walk, and even worse how to RUN, it was naked time all the time. He'd ditch his clothes and just take off running all over the damn place. And man, let me tell you, that just ain't sanitary. BUT, at least you had your Mt. Vesuvius moment at home, as opposed to... oh I don't know... say for instance, the checkout line at Best Buy. Because let me tell you, that sucks.

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Bacon is the Magic Johnson of meat; it makes everything around it better.

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Fixed that for you.

TFs never go out of style. And if anyone is looking to do a Citadel, Moonfire, Hess, Katie, Cavern trial, or 1st or 2nd Respec run, or man up for a 3-4 man Posi... give me a holler... ive got that coming down the pipe.

Because I am Ultraamann and you... are not.

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Honestly, U, I'm surprised you could even translate any of ELF's rambling.

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I have kids. I'm used to deciphering incomprehensible gobbledygook.

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LOL Whitehotflesh over paid! Dude you wouldn't know what over paid feel like in game. Your crappy toon say it all. If some invested on there Dom for example DS which made over 2o something billion since AE drop. Thats a different when you show love on a toon and when you don't. I have made plently money my self not going states my numbers... but surely able em to IO's some my toons to the teeth. Well built and money spent toon with some skillz would be able to do a task villain respec task force in 12min. I wanna see you try that in 12min. My blaster would kick your blaster any time! if don't think so lets do a arena match. My second question again would be put up or shut up.

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Dude, again, NO ONE CARES.
No one cares how much you spent on your build.
No one cares how much you've farmed on your build.
No one cares how many IOs you have.
No one cares that you think your build is uber.
No one cares how fast you can do [insert mission here].
No one cares about whether your toon is "better" than his toon.
No one cares about listening to you brag about your accomplishments in a video game. You may as well boast about how good you are at jacking off. (but please don't).

In short, so I don't have to repeat it yet again: NO ONE [censored] CARES

Go play in traffic.

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anyone have any suggestions?

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Build it yourself and don't listen overly much to other people's opinions on the subject.

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Run to the drones.. if I last remember you was the one on the floor while I did the rain dance and Fang I only attack squishy? better ask someone cause i kill tanker and scrapper as well. If you don't think you should show up in RV or ask for arena match? At least do kick ball or PVPEC PVP events.

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Dude, no one cares. Really. PvP bragging is like people who show off pictures of their kids all the time, or try to tell "cute" stories about what their cat did that was so funny. The ONLY person in all the universe who gives even two tugs of a dog's [censored] about it is the person telling it. We get it. You get off on PvP. Let it go. No one cares.


Oh, and go see a doctor, because I honestly believe there is something wrong with the language processing centers in your brain. Either that, or you're just a retard.

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I played my first 3-4 months of this game without joining an SG. I only played one character, I teamed whenever possible and made a few friends along the way.

It wasn't until my first SG, BOSS, that I REALLY started learning the game. I apparently was a decent player because people told me so(I had quite a few actually make the comment "I wanna go make a grav/FF now), but there were some things about the game that I only learned through playing with a diverse SG such as BOSS. Shortly around that time I had also met Marut and Genna, started bubbling for hami raids, and even led one(it failed, lol). My new groups of friends were teaching me a lot about the numbers, the powersets and how they sometimes meshed better in certain combinations than others, and of course the art of fighting AV's and GM's.

I didn't really feel like I was any different of a player, though, just because people were there to spout information at me. I still played the same, I just had more information about how to build my character.

This was a totally natural learning process, though. I learned more about the game by playing the game. I don't think that anything past the tutorial would be something I would personally be interested in when it comes to learning the game, though helpful hints when teaming were/are always appreciated.

Long story short, I think teaming is the best tool. I don't think any sort of training program or advanced tutorial is going to be something that anyone would be interested in because it takes away from what they pay their $15 a month for: Playing the game, having fun, etc.

I think a form of this could work, so long as it isn't set in a "learning or training environment". Just team with people and kindly let them know that they should not have six-slotted flurry or that it's not very beneficial to their character to have 3 travel powers and stealth when they could have picked up something from their primary/secondary that would far more enhance the character's survivability/usefulness. If they don't want to listen, then they must be having fun with what they have and that's what they wanna do.

Jester said it right: There's going to be people that suck. If they don't want help, [censored] 'em. If they do...tell 'em what's up.

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I would take an alcohol smashed, drunken Mephisto Controller over 99% of the server anytime.

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There's a NON-alcohol smashed drunken Mephisto controller?? Hmmm.. nope.. don't believe it till I see it...

Stone is quite a fun set to play out of Granite. I have Granite Armor on my Stoner, but I also have all 4 of the other armors. I use Granite primarily in large team situations, AVs, GMs, etc, when straight uber-ness is called for. When I solo, or run in smaller groups, I rarely ever even turn Granite on. Its fun to mix and match the various armors depending on what I'm fighting, and the eclectic mix of resist and def make it a very entertaining set to play.

I think the idea has a lot of merit, as I take every chance I get to pass on knowledge and experience to new players when I meet them. The trouble here arises in that people begin making assumptions about who's going to teach someone how to play, what are they really passing on? is it a recruitment scam? this group doesn't like that group and etc. and so on and so on and so on...

The best course of action would be to simply ask for volunteers from any SG, who are willing to take the time to do a little teaching. I'm sure there are a great many people on Champion who would be happy to do so.

The biggest difficulty I can foresee is: How do you reach the very new players who are the ones who would most benefit from some mentoring? Most new players dont spend much time in the forums, and may not even know that they're there. So how do you reach them? (Other than hanging out in AP or GC and spamming like crazy, which would be both boring as hell for said person, and annoying as hell for everyone else)

Solve that... find an effective way to reach noobs and let them know there is mentoring out there, and you'll be well on your way to something good.

Hard to say... I enjoy soloing with all my blasters.

Elec/Elec/Elec- Can hold damn near anything, and good AoE coverage on attack let you clear groups quickly.

Archery/Ice/Cold- Holds and slows... and of course dropping an Ice Patch and then Rain of Arrows/Fistful of Arrows/Exploding Arrow while they're all flopping around.

Sonic/Energy- Good -res from the sonic attacks soften baddies up for the monster hits from EM... great fun to play

Psy/Mental- Still just a wee one, but has been fun so far. Nice to have an attack that most things have no resistance against.

I'll be there with someone.... hell.. too hard to decide between tanks....

Being limited in funds really doesn't affect much. I have 2 50 Inv/ tanks. One has IO sets and bonuses coming out of his ears. One is slotted with just common IOs, because I wanted to see if there was really a huge noticeable difference. My common IO tank has done pretty much every bit of content in the game with very little difficulty. The IO sets are fun little bonuses, but by no means necessary to having lots of fun and being very effective.

War Mace is worth it just for Crowd Control alone. One big swing that sends crowds of baddies flying is just awesome. My second fave power behind Foot Stomp.

Okay, I'll throw some in for fun

Hell-Knight
Lost Trickster (as Crazy Clown)
Powerfrost
True Son of Liberty (rocking his Uncle Sam look)
Ultraamann

and just because you can never have too much white leather belts or dark socks with sneakers...
Middle Age Man