Luminara

Oh. Expletives.

Water/Marine corruptor named Urine Geller.

I'm so peeing on your statue.

Going down the list, in no specific order: AoEs (everything dies too fast) Single-target attacks (everything dies too slow) Immobilizations (messes up herding) Holds (messes up herding) Stuns (messes up AoEs) Confuses (STOP STEALING MUH EX PEAS!) Buffs (take your stinking graphics off of me, you damned dirty ape) Debuffs (i can't see anything and it's your fault) Travel powers (you need to slow down and play at my pace) Pets (can't you keep them from hitting my targets?) Not having Stealth (you expect me to fight all the way to the end?) Stealth (you're supposed to fight all the way to the end) Not having Hasten (you suck) Having Hasten (you suck) Not having Taunt (it's your job to make sure my HP bar never moves, not mine) Having Taunt (stop wasting time on a power that doesn't do anything) Defenders/corruptors/controllers without heals (shut up and heal, bitch) Defenders/corruptors/controllers focused on healing (ugh, you're so useless) Armor T9 powers (you're not supposed to not need me to heal you constantly) Damage in general (you're not supposed to not need me to carry you) Incarnates (everything's too easy and unslotting my Incarnates puts the burden of fixing that on me) IO sets (your good build is making my incomplete build look bad) Procs (not fair) Inspirations (you're a cheating cheater who cheats) Powers that teleport teammates (how dare you) Powers that teleport enemies (that's not where I wanted them) Powers with loud effects (my sound was turned up to 11 and now i can't hear. your fault) Powers with bright graphics (i'm going to have to play in Braille now, thanks) And any power or play style that they personally dislike (why are you doing that? it's wrong. WRONG) Fun Police out here eyeing the game like it's George Floyd and they got itchy knees.

Top Dog.

Hi, @Luminara here. You may remember me from such posts as "How to get around with nothing but Hurdle", "There's only one badge in the game you can't reach without a travel power", and "Eating your teammates for fun and profit". Oh. Strike that last one. Just ignore it. Anyway, yes, you can play the entire game without any travel powers, and that includes temp travel powers. Back on the original servers, almost all of my characters had only Hurdle for movement. Prior to HC's addition of Infiltration to the Concealment pool, I was still building characters without travel powers. My Staff/Willpower brute's movement speed was almost 65 mph. No Athletic Run, no fly packs, nothing but Hurdle and +Movement Speed bonuses from IO sets. Several of my current characters use Athletic Run/Hurdle/Combat Jumping simply because they felt fast enough. I do recommend taking Combat Jumping, +Movement Speed bonuses from IO sets, and the +Jump and +Run base buffs. None of them are necessary, but they're very appreciable additions to movement speed. With all of the bells and whistles, and proper slotting, you can usually get up to ~72-75 mph Run and Jump Speeds. That's easily fast enough for solo play, and usually fast enough for team play (there's always someone who needs to go AFK, or level up, or go shopping, or stop to have an argument in chat, or finish clearing the mission that no-one else wanted to stay in to clear, or whatever). Know your way around zones. Know your zone connections. Know when to use an Ouroboros portal or LRTP. And practice thing like wall sliding (Combat Jumping reduces friction, so just pressing against a slightly angled wall, like a War Wall, will rocket you up), window ledge hopping, things like that. Run/Jump smart, not hard.

In a communist society, a vampire could go anywhere without restriction, because all property is collectively owned. Would work in some hippie communes, too.

Enough to sit around naked all day, and when someone complains, buy the grocery store and tell them to leave.

Kudos to all of the 0 people who've provided screenshots and combat logs showing the near universal hatred for KB. Seeing the hard evidence of 0 instances of people being kicked from teams, ostracized for using specific power sets, and disparaged in chat channels has really driven home the attitudes formed by the majority of players over the 14 years the game's been active and the hundreds of millions of teams formed.

Back in... I don't know, 2008(?), 2009(?), the script which tells enemies what to do in combat was modified, to add certain circumstances dictating when to flee. Debuffs, extremely rapid HP loss, X number of the spawn being defeated, failure to hit X number of times, combat has continued for X number of seconds, things like that. The more triggers, the greater the likelihood of running away.

As suggestions revolving around restricting KB go, this one isn't bad. But HC is already invested in KB Resistance for most AoE Immobilizations, so it's unlikely they'll change direction.

It also screws up the streak breaker. The Sleep being auto-hit causes the streak breaker to reset its check. You can miss on the previous attack, use Chilling Ray, and only the auto-hit will be checked, so the damage portion can miss... And then the next attack can miss, too, because the streak breaker sees the previous auto-hit and doesn't kick in. My Ice/Willpower sentinel was my favorite character prior to the auto-hit Sleep bullshit that fucked up Chilling Ray. Now it's just a frustration.