I'm generally pretty good about keeping track of when my billing's due. I just let it auto-me to December, is what I was saying. Mn. Anyway.
There's a certain difference of opinion in the playerbase on the utility of rez powers...and what dying means. There is a fairly large section of players who think that if you die, you must be a n00b. Therefore self-rez powers are useless, and a def/troller/corr/mm shouldn't bother taking an ally rez. You shouldn't die, like, ever.
This has always existed since CoH was launched, it's a train of thought that turns up a lot in old guides on how to build your character and so on. To some degree, I believe this thinking has been renforced by the whole 'Master' TF run thing we now have, where you're expected to complete a hard TF without anyone dying even once.
Contrast this to a couple of ITFs I've run... I'll note these were HIGHLY successful and reasonably quick teams. But the strategies used would probably shock the heck out of our efficiency experts here. Because they were rolling death-fests for a quarter of the team. Two tankless ITFs I've been on, the front line Brutes/Scrappers were getting KO'd every couple minutes. It's just that the rest of the team was very quick on the rez, or they had their own, and so on. But it worked because they were willing to flip out and go crazy like that. Kamikaze tanking. You CAN play like that, and it need not be a disaster.
In fact, it can be pretty hardcore.
-- Acyl
There's a certain difference of opinion in the playerbase on the utility of rez powers...and what dying means. There is a fairly large section of players who think that if you die, you must be a n00b. Therefore self-rez powers are useless, and a def/troller/corr/mm shouldn't bother taking an ally rez. You shouldn't die, like, ever.
This has always existed since CoH was launched, it's a train of thought that turns up a lot in old guides on how to build your character and so on. To some degree, I believe this thinking has been renforced by the whole 'Master' TF run thing we now have, where you're expected to complete a hard TF without anyone dying even once.
Contrast this to a couple of ITFs I've run... I'll note these were HIGHLY successful and reasonably quick teams. But the strategies used would probably shock the heck out of our efficiency experts here. Because they were rolling death-fests for a quarter of the team. Two tankless ITFs I've been on, the front line Brutes/Scrappers were getting KO'd every couple minutes. It's just that the rest of the team was very quick on the rez, or they had their own, and so on. But it worked because they were willing to flip out and go crazy like that. Kamikaze tanking. You CAN play like that, and it need not be a disaster.
In fact, it can be pretty hardcore.
-- Acyl