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Minors aren't allowed in Fort Trident. Longbow's last Take Your Child To Work Day... didn't end well.

Spinning Strike has a base 16 second recharge time. Cryonic Rounds, the attack in question, has a 15% Slow. 16 * 1.15 = 18.4 In order for a power with a base 16 second recharge time to be require 44 seconds to recharge, the character would have to be hit with ~275% -Recharge. This would require more than a dozen +4 Council Marksmen hitting. (15 * 1.44 (purple patch)) * 13 = 280.8

A level 39 character fighting enemies which cap at level 20 would experience 0.01% of the effects of the enemy debuffs. Consequently, it would require several hundred NPCs attacking simultaneously to reduce a level 39 character's recharge times on the order of magnitude described. So this player is saying that he somehow found a way to bypass the aggro mechanics and herd every Outcast in the entire zone, multiply them by about 10 in order to assemble a sufficient number of the described foes to cause the claimed effect, and negate the purple patch which reduced their hit chance to 5%. I say ban him for using exploits.

Just having a little fun with the misquote.

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That's exactly how it should work. Healthy social interaction is NOT drawing invisible lines around ourselves and exerting Herculean effort to stay inside those lines. That's not socialization, it's voluntary imprisonment. It's living in fear and lying about who you are, and that's not good for you or the people with whom you're engaging. Someone else drawing the lines and telling us when we're crossing them is what gives us license to be honest, to be who we are and say what we really need to say. It's more disappointing to see people apologize for having an opinion, beg forgiveness for disagreeing, dissemble and prevaricate about how they feel and what they mean, bend over backwards to avoid crossing the imaginary boundaries they've constructed for themselves. I'd rather be surrounded by honest assholes, and be an honest asshole, than cowards and liars whos personalities are entirely dependent on the prevailing winds. My warnings were for being myself, and you're goddamn right that I'm proud of them. They say that I have the courage to expose my true personality instead of hiding behind a façade, and explore the boundaries of what's acceptable rather than constraining myself to the limits I would otherwise impose on myself. This is me, in all of my magnificence and my flaws, naked before you and with my head held high, unashamed.

I've had numerous warnings, with and without warning points, for being aggressive, insulting and rude. I'm still here. And you're folding because you got a slap on the wrist?

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There are scripted flight responses to certain events or combinations of events. Taking more than X damage in Y time, being debuffed and taking damage, X% of spawn is defeated, inability to affect PC, et cetera. If a set amount of Threat is generated before the script reaches a flight response trigger, they won't run. That's the only exception, and the Threat has to be pre-existing. Taunting a runner doesn't work. NPCs also look for a way to reach the PC, if the PC is out of range of their attacks and they're not set to Prefer_Ranged, which can emulate a flight response if the pathing on that map is particularly poor.

You can't even properly truncate "because", and you expect anyone to believe you wouldn't have problems using powers properly if you were allowed to swap your primary/secondary on the fly? Pppppppfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffttttttttttttttttttttt.

He has at least a few level 50 characters. If he didn't, he wouldn't have logged into a level 50 character which hadn't been Incarnated yet and complained about his Incarnate progress being reset. More than once. Pretty sure he's using his unique and special math when he states that he stops at a certain level.

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Sequestering a bunch of people on one shard with me would be like herding them into the mountain lion enclosure at the zoo.

Let's see... 4, and 104, and 17, and... ah, fuck it, it's, like, 5 total! #Diantanemath

Other MMORPGs weren't shut down for 8 years. That had a slight impact on the game's population. Diantane math: 1000 = 450, 600 = 125... You divide by 0 a lot, don't you.

No.

No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dís

Yeah... that wouldn't actually make any difference. See, Captain D here has very specific expectations and notions. For example, defenders who use anything other than heals or buffs are "wrong". Tankers who press any key that isn't Taunt don't know how to play. Controllers = nope. Dominators are worse controllers. Et cetera. Consequently, his recruitment qualifications tend to dissuade some players, disallow others, and extend the process unnecessarily. When he finally gets rolling, his requirements have historically driven players to depart ASAP, thus a delay as he stops to recruit replacements, who will be, as noted above, have to meet certain qualifications, or are booted shortly after joining if they're not played the way he wants them to be played, or they hightail it when they realize what they've gotten themselves into, creating further delays. He's also restricts himself to lower level play, for various (and hilarious) reasons, so he has a limited target set, and he only runs certain arcs at those levels, so he's competing against the DFB/TF-to-20 crowd. And the AE crowd. He's basically dredging the bottom of the barrel at that point, only getting people who want a badge for something he's running or who have just started playing and are only joining his team because his announcement was the first they saw. In a nutshell, he's spent five years training people to avoid him and is reliant on newbs for teams. And we ain't exactly overflowing with those on any shard.