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Quote:lol maybe 10 people get that reference PsomaOriginally Posted by Psoma
Are you looking to get into competitive or casual team arena?
If you're looking for someone to organize an instructional-type kickball event, then I'd say we have a few people around here that would be good at that kind of thing. Anyone participating, though, would need to be patient and listen to the logic behind effective builds and possible strategies in order to understand what goes into being competitive in the team arena setting.
If you're looking for an experienced PvP'r to spend time doing consistent, non-competitive KB's, however, it goes against the nature of most PvP'rs, and most would likely consider that sort of thing to be non-productive (since competitive PvP'rs are generally focused on getting more competitive PvP'rs involved). Casual PvP can certainly be fun; dUmb does L4 PvP stuff from time to time and it's a hoot...but I personally think you're going to have a hard time getting people to do consistent, casual team arena PvP.
As for hearing "I don't know who these people are" so much during kickballs...that's because captains are trying to pick the best line-up out of the pick pool and are looking to get build/experience info from people on Vent or in-game chat. I captained the other night and initially picked a couple of people that I knew because I was aware of what they had and needed it...but since I'm still learning about a number of PvP'rs on Freedom, I had to rely on those picks to help me make a few of my remaining picks.
At that point I said "I don't know who the rest of these people are" because I was essentially asking everyone on Vent to clue me in so I could make informed picks. If I'm on an emp (which is always) and, for example, need to know what kind of corruptors are left in the pool, asking those on Vent is more informative than asking for build info in the terminal set-up or arena chat, etc.
That beind said, I'm sure teams ended up consisting primarily of "cool kids" because that's the nature of kickball, assuming you're trying to pick the best team you see. When we ran kickball on Infinity, though, we'd take turns sitting out in order for late-comers (both vets and new PvP'rs) to participate. That's pretty easy to do if you have just a handful more than 16. If you have more than that, and you end up not getting picked, I'd suggest starting up a 2nd KB match with the "fat kids." I can see that it might be frustrating to break into the "cool kid club" or whatever, but I'd imagine you'd get a chance if you kept showing up for KB and proving yourself in matches, show up with a good PvP build, and doing stuff like posting on the boards here about trying to better yourself/trying to get into PvP more, etc.
Sorry I went all psypunk there...what max said there is good advice.
to OP what are you bringing to kick ball? If it is a scrapper, then yeah you probably are not getting picked...if you bring something everyone needs or uses then your going to get on a team
emps
blasters
doms (mind something)
pain doms
some kind of disruption.......
Kickball a loooong time back I remember being picked last because I had a grav storm..Ownage was the captain on the other team and all I did the whole match was stay on him and he got zero kills lol...he called me all sorts of names in BC then picked me everytime after that and said "do what you did to me to the other team" lol. -
Quote:I mentally count to 6 lol since I am slow that might be 8 - you really need to coordinate too in zones if there is another buffer.Originally Posted by Supermax
I was sure it was 8, which is why I didn't get the "count to 5" comment either.
you can manage a stam less build easy with geas and build for +recov +end (plus the ras). I have had HE on me on my mind emp with no stam and not run out of end. (knowing there is a thermal on the other team and blues help).
Defenders are harder to hp cap and get a decent mix shoot for 1500 ish you can do that with few if any purples - you will need the kb ios though so it can get expensive. -
elec/mm blaster...all I can do is end drain and ks...but it is oh so lulzy
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The downside to therms are the sheilds are not as great as they used to be (but allow for easy kb res slotting and +hp) - thaw roots..and I hate that..
Pluses are (as said) HE and Melt Armor - allows you to play a more aggressive toon than just a buffer or debuffer -
if you are looking hero side i would say mind/thermal - as stated sonic thermal or I would even put in rad therm corr for all that proc slotting and a great stun. -
Quote:that is just meanOriginally Posted by Jaso
I hope you all drive toyotas.
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Quote:QFT - unfortunatly they like to delete pl'ed toons without such a trade off >.>Originally Posted by vindizzLe
I'll gladly trade any PLed toon that is considered top tier in this current system to have PvP back to what it was pre-i13, including the enhancements and influence. Such a rollback could restart competitive Test PvP, where it didn't matter how much of a life you didn't have on live.
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Quote:that might be sig worthyOriginally Posted by Jaso
..it's a video game the only thing to get upset about is they still charge 15 a month for it. Skinamax is less per month and has more boobs and less a-holes!
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according to howard stern show, the one dude ****** has had zero clients...turns out it is not to hard for women to get laid for free...go figure.
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also i think with dr anything over 70% recharge bonus is not worth it - you maybe could drop veng, add assault with two end rdx and change the end rdx io in accro to a kb..still gets you 45+ kb resist, better dmg..again all personal choices
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wb proj! u might want to put a micro if you can find one in ss or at least a quickfoot run/end over just a straight run, you don't need to triple slot boost range with recharge..one will make it perma. That way you can move one to hasten for three recharge and move one to manuvers for one more lotg for +9% acc...just suggestions
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Quote:missed that - meh not unworkable though - change epic choices to shark skin/hiber/ssj and pet, drop snipe add in soothing aura move the extra slots to tactics and put the apocs in flares and ssj - either way you really have to want to 1v1 on that toon - the io cost is insane.Originally Posted by Rent_
So a PD shouldn't take Soothing Aura? The build is bad if you look closer. :P
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Quote:does not seem bad if you switch the epic from immob to hold and move around the apocs..Originally Posted by Rent_
Wow. That build is bad Jaso.
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u gonna get GA? Manhiem seems to like it says it has a very tribes feel.
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Quote:still a classic....Originally Posted by vindizzLe
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Hai Vince..u still play Tf2 with Buda? -
psy em. fire em maybe if your dead set against psy em....
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it was good back when containment worked and rad was viable
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holy crap Dawun are you back?
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not to much to figure out - an ice cold, your a pain n the butt...you floor recharge slow the crap out of foes, destealth stalker while havnig good stealth and res your self. Almost every attack and debuff you have will be a -recharge -for team arena most likely you will be on the other teams buffers - and that will make you a perma target so get good at evading.
short story - see messiah mage....he r uber ice cold. -
res sheilds 3 pvp res ios for the +kb 1 steadfast proc for the + kb - so you dun get knocked back.
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for a team? def the troller - Marne used to play an earth emp troller in OS (well technically he still has it) the Poo man is another target to mess up targeting, you get a faster recharging powerboost (and the earth stun is looooong when powerboosted)..
if your playing a team emp then you def won't have time to be trowing elec attacks. -
Quote:cuz keeping track of sign ups is harrrrrrd....when we did test league..someone in pvpec volunteered to keep track of the lists and get them to captains.Originally Posted by perilX
It actually would be nice if non-sign up posts stopped. It helps to see how many signups we have just by looking at post counts.
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Hi max!
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Quote:doesn't it supress when attacking?Originally Posted by Supermax
Why? The stealth IO lasts for 2 mins, so to save on endurance, you really only need to click sprint on every 2 mins, and then can turn it back off.
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Is this where I sign up for the league?