PSA: Your Team's Fixer Is Your IGL!

If there are no fixers, enforcers take charge. If there are no enforcers, shooters take charge. If there are no shooters, speeders. Never let a defender take charge, because I have never seen a defender user who isn't a noob

 

You just unlucky bro

 

Enforcers should always be the leader As Enforcer I pick on weak targets, low health targets, fixers and before they broke the in-game chat call targets. Anyone scanning the map can and should do the same.

It's easy to say someone specific should lead but, eh, I'm not going down torpedo alley on Destruct 9 if everyone else is doing it. It's just going to make the battle that much shorter.
Pay attention to commands and use discretion. If that defender is low, regenerating and someone calls to attack hit it. If that fixer is healing the team as fast as you deal damage and someone calls it hit it. You should probably be hitting the fixer anyway though.

What you can do is protect your fixer because unless it's selfish it's helping you win. I can't count the times I raise shield to go through the unfriends after their fixer and they don't even pay attention to me.

 

I not agree, when enforser or speder is liader al team must move very fast, they don't wait for all, they can't wait, for them SLOW = DEAD

 

Thanks for the shout out.

You just motivated me to finish my Noob to Noob on team formations where I talk about different boats and where they will probably be on the map and why.

As a speeder nowadays I am always deeply grateful (and frankly stunned) when some fixer lands a bolt on me when I'm in the middle of a furball half way across the map. But as I watch the 30 other healing bolts miss me as they zing by I think, "Man, I would've come back when I wanted help and the rest of the team sure could've used all that fixing." What I ask of fixers is simply to be paying attention when I "SOS" on my way back in. Ideally they will be someplace reasonably safe to top me up before I go back to combat. I can tell the really hot fixers because I SOS and start making my way back. When I turn that last corner there they are, pointed at me already, and the bolt is on the way (assuming other duties don't interfere of course).

Just last night I put my speeder in between an enemy shooter and my team's 200hp fixer. I absorbed 3 bullets before I died. The fixer got away, repaired himself and the team won. I was thrilled that he didn't linger around trying to save me. In that moment either myself or the fixer was going down and the fixer made the right choice... as did I.

 

One thing, dont mistake aelfish fixer for unselfish fixer

 

thanks for your advice, many are very useful!
getting a repair bolt in a distant speeder is very difficult, especially if the speeder in combat and uses nitro often.
Scatter boxes are a good alternative if he can return.
Sometimes you have to really shut yourself off if you do not succeed in raising their health. Sometimes even with a fatal outcome, give your life to restore the last shooter for a 1-to-1 duel.

I tried a selfish regime - this is not my style, I can not.

 

getting a repair bolt in a distant speeder is very difficult, especially if the speeder in combat and uses nitro often.
Oh trust me. I completely sympathize. After all, if you're able to hit me then the enemy team which is A LOT closer will certainly be able to. That would be a BadThing(tm).

Scatter boxes are a good alternative if he can return.
Excellent point. I "learned" to ignore these on my shooter. It was only recently that I realized that on a speeder those boxes are a totally different proposition since I can get to them so easily. So yes please, leave a little happy patch of boxes somewhere obvious

Sometimes you have to really shut yourself off if you do not succeed in raising their health. Sometimes even with a fatal outcome, give your life to restore the last shooter for a 1-to-1 duel.
As you say, it all depends on the situation. In most situations the fixer is the priority. In the end I'm relying on the fixer to size up the remaining team composition and decide if we need more fixing or more something else.

 

Or in some situatttions, try duel urself, or be the distraction so that the enemy follows u wile ur friend shooter kills them.