Snarky

Thank you. i am not "horrible" but will gladly admit to being somewhere mediocre to "not really great" lol. I have seen great. i have played (mostly chased) behind great. they can do a full ITF in the time it takes me to zone into each mission. They know every trick, every powers details, how to get under maps, teleport through walls (legally!) and a hundred other tricks. They know the fights, the best strategies. it is insane to watch. i ain't that.

I have regular teams Fri, Sat, and Sun. I do not lead them, and do whatever they are running. I enjoy it greatly. Fri and Sun are Justice Superteamers. They have Discord and are great for anybody of any level. Ukase and the shadow of Cosmic Council is Saturdays. Also open to new peoples. Wait... are you inviting me to your team?

ah, yes...

they were literally gone by the time i noticed their post. i did start this screed off with "just do it, leave me the F alone" but yeah, i could have added a lot more Snark. damn tired from eating floor dust i think lol.

I was using it as a rez quite often. Like when i went away from the rom platform, off the bridge and down to the river gully to rez a teammate. In fact during the hard fights it was doing double duty, everytime it was up it rezzed and debuffed lol

Spoilers, we finished it. And as you might have guessed, I kind of wished I never joined it. Evidently, the leader was not happy with my performance either, they picked me and another soul out of the team lineup after completion to inform us we have been "Blacklisted" They did not say why. Not sure why they mentioned it. Just do it, leave me the F alone. So, on to the story. A 2 star ITF was in LFG, with the standard rigamarole about knowing what you are doing, toon with barrier yada yada. "1 hour earn a hundred million" was the pitch. I joined. Recruiting took a while. The team level looked good. The "lowest" were 50s with vet levels in the mid teens. The team composition was not great, in my humble opinion. Two stalkers, a Brute, a Stone/FireTank, a Fender, 2 Corr, and a MM. Maybe one of the Corr was actually a Blaster. But that was just about the team. I was on my main, a Dark Dark Corr with just over a hundred vet levels, running a T4 Barrier for this. I have done 1 and 2 star ITFs before, a handful of times total. We load in. Okay, the team leader said an hour. It was obvious from the first hallway that was just a lie. This team was determined to kill anyone that looked at them sideways, no matter how far away that glance came from. Sigh, okay. Kill Most 2 star ITF. I buckled in and we ground on. Now during the first mission I did ask 2-3 times "are we killing those too?" "Is this a kill most?" then i dropped it. It was grindy, but we were getting through. We did tend to stay together. First bit of trouble was the giant robot twins. We dropped the first like we had a plan. Then had a ten minute death fest completing the rest of that mission. We get to the Rom fight. I have no idea. Two teammates split off, jumped down the bridge, and were fighting in the river a few hundred feet below. I went and rezzed one of them and came back. the remaining team had split in two. Someone asked the plan. Now, i should point out, the team leader had made a very few comments. The whole TF. Not many at all. What they said was not wrong, but it was not detailed. They had said nothing about this fight. I say 1) team comes together 2) clean around platform 3) kill beamy nictus 4) kill rom This is not what happened. So after a team wipe or two we sort of mostly did the above steps, sort of in order. And after many many deaths we killed Rom the required number of times. And he went to his room. again, we completed this. The room fight was a shitshow. There were at least two times i thought we would not. Both with me coming back from hospital. Then the message "Snarky and teammate Z you are blacklisted." And gone. It took well over an hour. Not sure how long, I would guess 2 or more. 168 deaths I think. Fair share of those mine. A good handful were me swooping in to rez someone only to get curb stomped. I still have no idea why the person did not like my play. Not that I am good. I am not. So maybe that was it, just not a great player. I do not play "as a healer" even though dark has a great heal. I will sometimes, in a static formation, try to stay tight and spam PBAOE heal. But to me the heal is a debuff regen, and I try to stay in DPS and to hit debuff mode. same with Rez, it is a Regen debuff for AVs, not a "Snarkys your medic" power. Although i will try to help if it makes sense. I play far range, with a heavy +range build and a lot of cones. I swoop in to Nuke and then I am gone, hit and run. I keep debuffs on the main target or main mass. I am not fast, not particularly attentive, and not exceptionally responsive. I mostly know the fights, my strategies, and the way I think it will work out and i grind through that. Maybe the team leader wanted me to stand next to Tank and spam heal. They never told me to. So I will never know. I did learn a bit from this. I will, in the future, only join starred content from Task Force Junkies, or people who are known to me. I will not do starred content on a team that has mediocre composition. No matter how many people say "any AT can do any job" I was actually okay, if a bit tired with the entire thing. It was grindy, but we succeeded. But to have some rando call me out at the end? Just done with the entire "New Freedumb" culture on Excelsior. Gonna limit my PUGs to stuff I can laugh about after. This was way too much like work. With a silent yet petulant boss handing out final reviews lol. Yep, just done.

wouldnt matter, you can rename 50s

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.

Okay. Well first i rarely run a posi 1/2 in someone elses team unless i have not had enough coffee or i like the very specific advertisement. Because posi needs to be at +0 and a lot of idiots do not get that. In fact i run everything below 50 at +0. Badges, merits, and the easy cheesy experience. No need to move a mountain because someone told you there is an extra $10 under it somewhere. ITF at +4. Maybe some LGTF at +4 if i know the peeps. But Posi at +anything? Noooooo. Then when you see the stupid happen a few inspirations and some temp hand grenades make a big difference

Honestly the Posi 1 usually goes well. When we have “problem teammates” i can almost always tell. I save inspiration and have temps that solve all but the most ridiculous situations. Posting on these crazy times is just locker room banter to blow off steam.

here is a hint. don't say new.

what the hell,,,,? i googled trying to find vampire bucket challenge. no luck, obvs. then ice bucket challenge. most are just dumping a bucket on themselves, yawn. this captured how i feel when another posi goes sideways and nothing i can do. kind of like this thread lol.

I have been on many a DFB. Almost always 4 on any alt for the buffs. They tend to go smooth. Then the bucket of ice water to the face that is Positron One…

Sometimes you just want to run an energy blaster and have glorious knockback. No matter what the team or league thinks. As i was told recently in a nemesis invasion by someone incan w/ KB as often as they could “it is part of the game”. so make those KB characters. Go big! Be wild! Be free!

i actually have a few themes i run, vampires, demons, and brains on top of robots. this ended up as a brain

Just chill...

I suspect it is both more simple and more complicated. Objects in CoH are odd things. Especially irregular objects like “cave wall”. They are probably “parts” linked together. At the juncture and seams there is a small perfect possibility to slip through. Then be “behind” the thing and not easily targetable. I have solved this at least once by “flying” on the ground with an attack queued up and hitting the mob. This gives a different angle than standing on the ground. That works 1% time. Most AoE can get them, because it affects without regard to “cover” in its area.

here is a more aggressive build. Snarky 5.1 Brute (Dark Melee).mxd

I have fly on 99% time. The build also has +65% range. This gives Freeze Ray and Chilblain 99ft range, and Bitter Freeze Ray and Soul Storm 132 ft range. It is a very relaxed playstyle lol.

In. Souul Mastery Soul Storm I have Lockdown, chance for +2 hold proc. I also have Devastation, chance of hold (mag 2) in Ice Manipulation Chilblain. When I switch into the 3 holds and immob attack chain I am finding even a lot of AVs get held.

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