Evil Twin

Another few insane 8-man +4 to +5 missions and I'm now level 26. A friend I met invited me into their supergroup. Well, it's generally okay. But today, I met my EVIL TWIN. The other tank of the SG.

An Invul/SS who took jab, punch and taunt, and every single primary he could think of. Okay, that's cool, but his 'tude drove me up the wall. He was the classical egoistic, ME ME YOU GUYS WAIT HERE tanker.

He needed to herd. So what did we do? Sit and twiddle our thumbs. I got bored shitless and suggested I go pick up the other side of the mission, so I did, and the stupid git got in too deep, picked up 3-4 groups, I saw his HP plunge, then he lost control of his horde, and it massacred the PB with 2 quantums in there, one controller and about two blasters. Sighs. Go figure, and I was busy amusing myself with two groups who had boxed me in, so I couldn't rescue - and frankly, didn't feel like rescuing either.

And he took sooooo long before charging into things. My god, he had more defence and resist than me, and he took 15 minutes to decide that he could aggro level 29s (+3s).

I'm thinking maybe this theory of States is not gonna work, because two tankers can't ever be on the same team. We all need to do things our way. :) We all need to be the "I'm right" guy. I do try not to be so offensively arrogant, I always try and share credit with the team, and I never never backseat drive blasters or healers, I just do my tanky thing through sunshine, fireball or rain (evil evil rain, cackles).

But if there's one thing I do need, it's a fast pace. I can't stand creeping around corners in a group, I can go play a stealth blaster for that, or a stealth game. That's why I love being tank, I can set the pace, I can charge into things and just crank things up to WHOOOO, and kinetics are my favorite bros, because it ramps from WHOOOO into WHOOOOOOOOAAAA.

The straw that broke the camel's back was my evil twin saying, "wait here, ill scout." 3 minutes later, he hadn't moved. Then he walked forward. To the junction where all of us could see him. Where we had previously cleared a group of 29s. And swiveled. 360 degrees or so. And then didn't move from there. Er....

Nevermind, I'm faster solo'ing. Hilariously, I managed to quit team, "wife aggro" is so convenient, fly over to the other zone where my mission was, herd up my mission and aoe them to death and finish the mission - and the rest of the SG was still in the same mission. I'm now in a second timed mission, I wonder if I can finish it before them? Even while blogging? :)

It seriously boggles me. Why do people like to do the same thing over and over? I herd in my solo missions, because I'm not waiting anyone wait, it challenges me to stack 'em, and it's convenient because my def goes up when I'm surrounded by a clump. But there's no real NEED to herd an 8-man mission because the spawns are already very nice sizes. Unless you know there's 2-3 groups all facing towards one room - and you want to save your team from being ambushed from 3 directions at once, THAT's when you herd.

Oh well, someone will probably be real miserable in I5. And while I won't be a super-duper happy camper either, I do think that the invul/fire with aura, aoe, and multiple attacks will have a much better time in I5 than the one trick-herd'em up pony with only taunt and shabby attacks. And people better learn how to read aggro, rather than wait for a tank to say "Ready!" all the time before attacking. Only time will tell, I suppose.