Extremus

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Isnt Lotus aoe? :S

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PBAoE moves are classed as Melee as far as Defense is concerned.

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The Arena is for good pvp'ers - people that don't like even, organised fights battle it out in the zones

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Edited for truth.

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Fixed again. PS my Sonic/Sonic doesn't really exist!

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Fixed for mega truth.

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The Arena is for casual pvp'ers - people that don't like even, organised fights battle it out in the zones

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Edited for truth.

The slow is negligble, especially if you also spam Speed Boost. Which, to be honest, you should be doing in PvP.

I personally view Arena pvp as (depending on opponent) requiring a higher skill set than zones. Generally it's a fairer fight, even teams, one set of inspirations, you can tweak factors like the time limit, level, things like travel powers, invis, tactical start.

Arena PvP is highly customisable and therefore more suited to organised events, in my opinion.

The Arena also has the major advantage of being able to do small fights (1v1, 2v2 etc...) with relative ease, without anyone interupting it. People 1v1'ing in zones should go to the arena, when I hit a zone I don't want to see an argument over broadcast because some guy "just wanted to fight his friend". IT'S WHAT THE GOD DAMN ARENA IS FOR!

@Hammerfall: I wouldn't say that the US PvP zones handle 100+ players on a regular basis, at all.

A "pure" empath is a broken concept and is seemingly only restricted to Empathy, almost every single AT and Defender Powerset, as far as I've seen, have basically ignored all this "pure" rubbish.

A tank with no attacks? A blaster with no secondaries? A controller with no support powers? What it is, is ignorance, it's basically saying "Oh, well, I can throw a few heals around, so I don't need to do anything else".

I take offense to that because it leads to very, very lazy gameplay (and this is from experience, the amount of Emp Def's I've teamed with that say they're "pure empaths" and are actually good is an incredibly low percentage of the total) and it can get teams killed. It's almost as bad as this "Healer" [censored], Empath's have more buffs than heals, and the buffs are a hell of a lot more adept at keeping people alive. If you're constantly in teams that "require a hell of a lot of healing so you don' have time to do anything else" either you are doing something wrong or they are and you should maybe find another team. I quite happily went 1-47 with a build that A) had attacks, B) didn't have stamina C) ran toggles (SS, SJ/CJ, Acro, Assualt, Tactics) and D) also used Team Teleport to bounce around on occasion and the only reason I changed that build is because high skill arena pvp requires a build that's a bit more min/maxed for the task.

Rant over, for now.

Ugh, more Empathy defenders that think it's cool to hang back all the time "healing". Get stuck in people!

I think it's a case of

Arena PvP: Generally seen as high end, so may scare people off (also it's harder to be lame and run away when you're losing). Also, Arena Bugs don't help official events.
Zone: Well, lag. That and people being idiots in broadcast, which is unavoidable.

Test Server!

I think we can just email Bridger to be honest...

Wait, I totally did die! \o/

I was being ganked by three people.

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It was close for a while, Storm died horribly and I was all "OH JESUS, WE DROPPED A KILL, DAMN!" but then my brain went "But you've just picked up THREE kills, fool." and it was all better.

I figured I'd get in a comment like that before Xan comes back drunk and posts. =\

Seriously good match, some interesting team work there, hope to see more of the fair in the future.

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Close? lol. How many times did you actually die? I know I managed to kill healing touch only once.. You got like 21 kills and the other teams something like 7 a piece at best..

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I didn't die at all, Healing Touch dropped maybe two or thre kills, I think Mesmer died once, if that. But it was very hard to actually pin people down for the kill.

It was close for a while, Storm died horribly and I was all "OH JESUS, WE DROPPED A KILL, DAMN!" but then my brain went "But you've just picked up THREE kills, fool." and it was all better.

I figured I'd get in a comment like that before Xan comes back drunk and posts. =\

Seriously good match, some interesting team work there, hope to see more of the fair in the future.

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I can't make it. I have a pub quiz at 8pm, and we need to get there early or we won't get a seat.

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Ok mate, is there any other subs that can fill your slot in, or is that the PD's out of the final?

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PD's are in for the final.

But why are we changing the format from 3 people to 5? Some teams might not be able to grab two extra people out of thin air.

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ooh, only bad illusion controllers don't know how to manage knockback.

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So how'd you keep your mobs from being knocked back by your Phants Energy Torrent? :\

I think the original post was just 3. =\

Tiny change to my team.

Elerith - 50 [Defender]
Decibellion - 50 [Imaginary Defender]
Captain Napalm - 50 [Blaster]

HAMIDON, NOOOOOOO!

I think some of us Holiday Goers could take a quick trip home for this.

YAES!

Frozen Electrum: 48 [Blaster]
Arch Ned: 50 [Controller]
Decibellion: 50 [Imaginary Defender]

Yeah, do the Pocket D thing!

Mito's have too much HP and too high Res for the AoE pwnage thing methinks, besides, the GFX lag from a mass SD or Fulcrum would destroy many raiders.

We'll have decided pre-raid, I need to talk to Magus about it, it's his baby.

It's more a parody of THIS thread in response to THIS thread.

There'll also be a base raid soon, seeing as they said Arena fights aren't fair.

Oh, against your villains, sure, we'll do that.