ED hurt. I was maining a fire/devices blaster with 6 slotted damage and an aim bot. Oh lord, I set the world on fire. There was a satisfaction in watching all those numbers roll off the herd and how fast they dropped. After the diversification hit, without anything to fill the vacuum, my poor blaster died so much. Things just didn't die fast enough for me to live. I spent a month diving into perma-debt trying to figure out a way to make him, well, feel like a hero again... and basically gave up on Blasters until IO's.
I try not to think much about that time in CoH. There's some scars there. But I like the game as it is more now than how it was then. It worked out eventually but damn was it ham-fisted.