Stupid things players have said to you.

[Gothenem]

TLDR- In short some people were plain pushy and rude with their powers and buff. I played buffers and it wasnt hard at all to skip a person who wished to not be speed boosted or whatever. How every "Stupid" their reason is, it's their character their choice and I dont think anyone else had any right to force a power especially one such as speed boost upon them. One of the things I noticed that was rampant in COH, people getting jollies on speed boosting people from the looks over it, becasue they simply enjoyed haveing power over how someone else character moved and the ability to do it and not much the player can do about it. Luckily null the gull came along and I noticed there were a lot less kins running around. I guess it was no fun in griefing people when they can simply cancel it. Those people gave kins a very bad name.

This is true, until they changed how the boosts worked. It was near impossible to not speed boost someone when it became an AoE effect. I was playing my Ice/Kin and dropped a speed boost on the tank who requested it. I got barraged by three people who said they didn't want the boost. I informed them it was an AoE effect, and I couldn't target it. Then, I told them to go see the pigeon in Pocket D.

I won't say here the responses I got, but I added three people to my ignore list that day.

[JaguarX]

This is true, until they changed how the boosts worked. It was near impossible to not speed boost someone when it became an AoE effect. I was playing my Ice/Kin and dropped a speed boost on the tank who requested it. I got barraged by three people who said they didn't want the boost. I informed them it was an AoE effect, and I couldn't target it. Then, I told them to go see the pigeon in Pocket D.

I won't say here the responses I got, but I added three people to my ignore list that day.

oh yeah, when it became AOE there was not much that could be done.
When they made the pigeon I think it then became up to the player to fix their settings to appropriate actions. Then when ya point it out how to fix it so that they dont have to worry about it, they got rude it seemed. WTH? It's not that type of attitude I noticed only on COX, that what seems to be over-inflated sense of entitlement but it seems rampant all over the net. It's just that it seems that COX was in no way immune, or else, null the gull wouldnt ever have even been needed. But hey, you know, the relative few always bork it up for the rest.

And I think it would be unfair to not mention, even though this is supposed to be suptid comments and actions, that not all kins were "touchy and pouty" when ya didnt want their powers (pre-null the gull). Many just simply said, "thanks for telling me." "Ok." "No problem less people I need to buff." "If you say so." "Gotcha." and left it alone and didnt buff them and when they accidentally did they usally immediately follow up with a tell "My bad." "Sorry, forgot. I'm used to my keybinds. I'll try to not do it again." And there were a lot of those. But at the same time there were a lot of the other variety that I was glad to see the joy of their day of annoying people that didnt want speed boost taken away when Null the Gull arrived and didnt shed one single tear when they realized the fun was over for them and hung up their kin to find something else to annoy players.

If anyone ever asked me what I think was the greatest addition to the game from I1-I24, I would with no hesitation say Null the Gull with AOE buffing. It's nullified alot of stupid. Now people couldnt complain about not wantign speed boost and still getting it because they could nullify it if they chose to now. And buffers dont have to worry about targeting and just let it go and it's done. And people that nulled it dont have to worry about drive by buffers of speed boost ever again. And those that got their jollies forcing others to play their toon the way the kin want them to play which is usually !fast movement because I said so and you cant do nothing about it hah ha! cant get their jollies anymore and had to move on. Good riddence I said.

[eabrace]

"Without a Radiation Defender/Troller, this is impossible!" (Right after the AV change way back when AVs were suddenly hard as heck to kill because of their regeneration rates. It wasn't just a matter of needing debuffs, it was a matter of needing to hit them harder too, which means not being stingy with inspirations and buffs to the team. Radiation helped, but wasn't always needed specifically. Sometimes more damage in general sufficed.)

Ah, yes.  I distinctly recall an encounter in Croatoa with a team wanting to take down Jack in Irons.

Team lead:  "I don't think we can do this.  We don't have a Rad or a Kin."

Me:  "So?  I'm Dark/Dark.  I'm all you need."

They really didn't believe me.  I did manage to finally convince them to give it a try, and we put Jack on his butt pretty quickly.  Then I told them there was a hidden regen debuff in Twilight Grasp.  Of course, since it wasn't listed in the power's description (prior to the addition of the real numbers in the details), they didn't actually believe me.  Oh well.

[Mister Bison]

They really didn't believe me.  I did manage to finally convince them to give it a try, and we put Jack on his butt pretty quickly.  Then I told them there was a hidden regen debuff in Twilight Grasp.  Of course, since it wasn't listed in the power's description (prior to the addition of the real numbers in the details), they didn't actually believe me.  Oh well.

Literal example of Knowledge is power.

Would have infuriated a number of PvP regen scrappers too, especially since it must have been autohit at the time. ("What the hell is he rezzing ? WHAT THE HECK, WHERE IS MY REGEN !?")

[eabrace]

Literal example of Knowledge is power.

Would have infuriated a number of PvP regen scrappers too, especially since it must have been autohit at the time. ("What the hell is he rezzing ? WHAT THE HECK, WHERE IS MY REGEN !?")

Just to clarify, I was talking about Twilight Grasp (PBAoE heal, hitting a target required).  But you are correct that Howling Twilight (PBAoE rez w/ targeted AoE disorient effect) was auto hit and also applied a -Regen component.  Pretty sure the help text didn't mention that one either.

[Dollhouse]

Me:  "So?  I'm Dark/Dark.  I'm all you need."

They really didn't believe me.  I did manage to finally convince them to give it a try, and we put Jack on his butt pretty quickly.  Then I told them there was a hidden regen debuff in Twilight Grasp.  Of course, since it wasn't listed in the power's description (prior to the addition of the real numbers in the details), they didn't actually believe me.  Oh well.

Oh my, what a big smile this put un my face! I was something of a D3 specialist, a combo I discovered shortly after I started playing (two or three weeks after launch). In the early days, no one wanted us...despite D3s being able to (patiently) solo AVs back then.  No direct heals and/or direct buffs? Rejected...except by the rare gem of a PUG that had a clue.

One of those in-the-know players provided what I still consider one of the best things I ever heard in the game (the direct opposite of the stupidity avalanches the thread's about). Got a /tell asking if I wanted to join a team and what kind of Defender I was. I first answered "Sure, and I'm a Dark/Dark." I  immediately started typing my usual kinda pathetic follow up along the lines of "I have a powerful area heal, multiple debuffs including a LOT of  ToHitDeBuff, an unresistable AoE stun, an area slow, and..." when I get the invite. I click "Yes" and the first thing I hear in team chat was "We got this now: I found us a Dark Defender..."

Practically cried I was so happy...and played my ass off to make sure the guy's confidence was justified!   

[Shenku]

Literal example of Knowledge is power.

Would have infuriated a number of PvP regen scrappers too, especially since it must have been autohit at the time. ("What the hell is he rezzing ? WHAT THE HECK, WHERE IS MY REGEN !?")

Yeah, pretty much accurate... Very rarely on teams did I actually see people give Dark/Dark defenders the respect they deserved. I had one for a bit, and it was a ton of fun, though I never finished leveling it up high enough to see it truly shine.

Side note, there was an instance where I was told to sit back and wait outside of combat because I was on a SR scrapper during a Master of run for the Statesman TF, and the team didn't want me to die causing them to not get the badge... Yeah... Kinda hurt my pride a bit as a scrapper... He always seemed to be underestimated on teams, even though I could easily step in and tank if our actual tank died while taking on an AV(Actually ended up tanking the ITF a few times on that same scrapper. Wasn't easy, but it was doable with the proper buffs and praying Elude wouldn't drop when I wasn't paying attention enough to pop some blues/purples to keep from dieing...)...

That was the good thing and bad thing about CoH. There were so many powers to choose from, the options were virtually limitless, but too few people actually educated themselves on what every set could do, so a lot of sets got outright ignored, or simply didn't get much respect from people who never really saw what those sets could do. I rarely saw Ice tanks, for example, even though I actually enjoyed mine, and knew quite a few people who had higher level ones who could tank like beasts.

[eabrace]

"We got this now: I found us a Dark Defender..."

I'm sure that wasn't me, but I know I said that a couple of times myself on PUGs.  And I know our whole team was happy the couple of times you ran with us (mostly because everyone in my SG was very familiar with what a D3 could do in the right hands.)

[DarkCurrent]

This is true, until they changed how the boosts worked. It was near impossible to not speed boost someone when it became an AoE effect. I was playing my Ice/Kin and dropped a speed boost on the tank who requested it. I got barraged by three people who said they didn't want the boost. I informed them it was an AoE effect, and I couldn't target it. Then, I told them to go see the pigeon in Pocket D.

I won't say here the responses I got, but I added three people to my ignore list that day.

That's when you give them 2x ID instead.

[SerialBeggar]

I think Darks got more recognition after COV launched because it was one of the better secondaries for Masterminds, so a lot more people got to experience it.

[JWBullfrog]

The infamous line given to me comes to mind:

"You're a defender, so you're the team's healer."

*Has completely ignored the fact that my powersets are debuff powers.*

"I'm not a healer."

"Well you're a useless defender."

*Kick*

Heh. this reminds me of my worst PUG/Tell situation.
 
Working with two friends and two strangers on a bank mission. One of the strangers was an overly agressive tank who kept berating me for not healing him fast enough.
 
I was playing a Storm Defender.
 
That's right. I had one heal, possibly the weakest in the game, the ever popular 02 boost; and this winner full of tiger blood (thanks Charlie) was giving me grief because I could not keep him healed.
 
He also failed to realize that I was the team leader.
 
/Kick.

[LaughingAlex]

I remember a very funny(or infuriating) example when I was playing my storm/electrical defender in my earlier days.  The team was engaging a mob above and was taking them out nicely, but I fell down and a mob was about to attack me since I fell way to close.  I rushed them with my hurricane, since they were in a very well enclosed room and locked them down, but the teams scrapper decided to rush to a mob by himself and started getting his butt kicked.  He invariably ran for it and pulled the mob directly into my location, just open enough that I couldn't keep them closed together.

A few of the team got killed and the controller turned to me and said "Stop herding defender!  Herding is for tankers!" and quit the team, blaming me for the mess even after I managed to fend off the extra mob that idiot scrapper pulled.  In fact I think I had more moments of anti-knockback phobia on my storm defender and later my more successful storm corruptor that it got very annoying.  I had another case where, in my days where I was really enjoying the debuffs, I had a dominator who hated me cause I called everyone in the team "guys"(it quickly turned out she was a sexist) when I asked how I was doing with my storm powers.  I asked later and she said "right here" and quit.

I had another stupid moment here and there on my kin/energy defender.  Ahem, "Stop knocking them around!".  "Don't listen to Energetic, she's to addled with knockback!" Course it leaves me with the thought "Um, oook so your completely ignoring my multi-stacking fulcrum shift because of my knockback?"  I even left a team once on a force field/energy defender because they were seriously knockback phobic, though they were also mad at the scrapper using shockwave.

I think the most annoying teams though were those that said they needed a healer when I was playing a defender or corruptor WITH that capability.  I even told them I was on a kin and they were all "Its not enough!". I'm thinking  "Um, excuse me?  You guys suck so bad as to need someone else when I already got one of the most powerful heals out there?"  They weren't good players anyways, one of them was an ice tanker who died constantly and the other was a fire tanker...ironicly the fire tanker was able to take care of himself, it still irked me he asked for that.

Lastly I can remember many trials where people DEMANDED everyone already be +3 before they entered, that included sadly even the earlier incarnate trials.  I remember in guild wars with the HA rank "requirements", of which the only way to get those heroes ascent ranks was playing heroes ascent.  Glad I only met a few teams going to the extreme of every trial demanding +3 on virtue, but it left me extremely insecure feeling that I'd have a very hard time getting later characters incarnate powers just because of the elitism of some people.

[Mazz vs The World]

The dumbest comment/question/remark I got quite often on COX is this one right here:

"Are you black?"

Not sure why this mattered on an MMO but this was asked constantly, I guess it had to do with the words I chose to type in the chat box!

[JaguarX]

The dumbest comment/question/remark I got quite often on COX is this one right here:

"Are you black?"

Not sure why this mattered on an MMO but this was asked constantly, I guess it had to do with the words I chose to type in the chat box!

 

[damienray]

Chrome.  My favorite color...

[Taceus Jiwede]

The dumbest comment/question/remark I got quite often on COX is this one right here:

"Are you black?"

Not sure why this mattered on an MMO but this was asked constantly, I guess it had to do with the words I chose to type in the chat box!

Lol, can't say I ever had anything like that happen.  That is quite the strange question, it makes me curious as to what would make people ask that.  Unless the words you choice to type in the chat box were "I'm black" I am not sure how people would come to that conclusion.  Even then I would take that the same way I take everything on the internet, with a grain of salt.  Cause people be lying about crazy things!

[Mazz vs The World]

@Taceus they were very slick with this question and often sent it via "tells".

[Mister Bison]

Just to clarify, I was talking about Twilight Grasp (PBAoE heal, hitting a target required).  But you are correct that Howling Twilight (PBAoE rez w/ targeted AoE disorient effect) was auto hit and also applied a -Regen component.  Pretty sure the help text didn't mention that one either.

Sorry, I keep mixing those two. That was before the triangle of doom then, because this buff also brought the A/V resistance that gave a 80%+ resistance to regen debuff, which meant that twillight grasp's regen debuff of -25% was peanuts (howling twilight was -500, like lingering radiation)

[Botzo]

Heh I still remember the day my brain kinda went " Oh Duh! Dark Miasma is better than just Tar Pit"  Though Tar pit is awesome itself.

I still remember being yelled at by someone while on my Super Reflexes Scrapper since the team I was on kept wiping down to a Tank and I. They didn't understand that  not all Scrappershave the same taunt aura that Brutes and Tanks commonly get with their Defense power sets.

And for the speed from speed boost complainers I would commonly tell the people to go visit Null in pocket D. It's kinda funny the amount of people who have been in Pocket D but never knew Null was just sitting on top of a taxi. Let alone something you could talk to.

[MisterMagpie]

The dumbest comment/question/remark I got quite often on COX is this one right here:

"Are you black?"

Not sure why this mattered on an MMO but this was asked constantly, I guess it had to do with the words I chose to type in the chat box!

I got asked if I was Greek a lot, but that was because my main character had a Greek name. Surprising the first time someone sent me a tell all in Greek, tho'.