Reign Omega wrote:Leadfoot10 wrote:Please stop insulting people.
The reason people "swing hard until they fall" is because skirm/dom are games where you have to do that to win.
If I wanted to sit back and pick people off -- and lose -- I'd be a sniper.
You are no more intelligent or a thinking man's player than me, so please stop with the banter suggesting otherwise.
This game is about taking and holding points. Sitting back and picking people off at distance, but jumping behind cover everytime you take enemy fire, is a marginal role at best -- and that's precisely how you see them used.
Shield tanks simply don't have enough HP to do take/hold points effectively. Damage mods in highs also add to this challenge.
It's just that simple, IMO.
I was no more suggesting that I am better than anyone, nor was I labeling you or anyone else as unintelligent. Please try not to misread. What I was suggesting however, was that players tend to group towards playstyles that are more general purpose and forgiving rather than ones that take time to understand and that aren't necessarily more rewarding upon understanding. Armor tanked suits are brawlers suits, and Dust tends to favor brawlers over thinkers in most cases. It's in no way meant as an insult, it's a simple truth gained from 3 years of observation.
You should consider substituting "attacks at distance" for "thinkers", lest others get the same idea.
It takes no more thinking to run or fit one suit than it does the other.
I get it, you run shields. You think it takes more intelligence/skill/dedication, and with your last post you've also added that the returns are minimal. But there's no reason to look down your nose at other play styles with pejoratives such as you have used -- it weakens your message and leads towards non-productive conversations like this.
Listen, if you think shield tanking is fine, awesome. However, given you just said it is not "necessarily more rewarding upon understanding" it does suggest there's something amiss that could be addressed as the OP suggested with this thread. And, FWIW, I agree with him....and I suspect you do to.
Regardless, I appreciate your response & thank you for it.