Gilga

Congratulation all
I monitored Jiaozy Global friends to see when the number 49 changed to 50

Actual summary:

Gilgameesh
Twilight Archer
Sad Jones
Daedalis
Random M
Lady Prism
Cara Dio

Well done, heroes... but still need one more!

Actual summary:

Gilgameesh
Twilight Archer
Sad Jones
Daedalis

C'mon Heroes! We need you!

Count me in with Green katana lvl 21 scrap.

First of all, i apologize for what happened last night, Jia...
Crashed and spent a whole night till 8am to recover my Winsoz!
Hope that didn't wasted anything...

If there is room for a lvl 19 scrapper, i will be in. If u think the lvl can waste the tf, it's not a problem.

Sure, Nef. I think i wrote not in clear english... i'm speaking about fire tankers. The fact that you can't be killed by more than one stalkers is what i was saying.... tankers can't be killed in one shot by stalkers... When i told 'higher' stalkers i was speaking about the lvl 50 stalkers that now can't be in the game, but in the future....
The main problem of my tanker is not the lack of damage, cause energy melee do a decent damage, but the fact that my toggles are all detoggled in one shot too easy and i have 6 toggles after I6).... and without our toggles we are absolutely unuseful.
About my troller... well this at take a big advantage of invisibility, but i can't perma hold (and this is correct imo) and so i'm not overpowered. When i hit someone that just didn't see me he have time to do some strategy to avoid the kill. With stalkers this is not possible.
Do you think it's a good balance have the necessity to build a specific at for this? So, where is rp if all AT's have to do the same choices (at least the same kind of strategy to avoid stalkers)?

I have a stalker and i like it, it's not because my tanker was nerfed that i complain with the topic, just saying my opinion, that is: there is no good balance actually, there will be in the future when devs fine tunes powers.

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I've played stalker type classes through various games, and in comparison, this is how a stalker should be: kill the weak targets as swiftly as possible, while dying at the hands of the tanks. It's a balance. You're a weak target walking alone? Tough luck. Consider rerolling.


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How do you think a tanker can kill a stalker now?
We were too nerfed to do this. We can just survive, actually, and only if we are higher lvl than stalkers.
So: no balance at all, stalkers are overpowered. That's the fact.

About soloing in PvP zones, you are right. PvP was developed in a team basis concept, imo, so it's your own risk going solo in these zones.
Still stalkers are overpowered: they can solo easy and can increase easy, with a good target choice, their reputation in comparison with other AT.

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U telling me stayin up to 6 am isnt hard

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The plan is to stop after 2 or 3 hours and continue next day, same hour. I hope to end the tf rested and smiley

What i know is 200 'nice' pressies (but i didn't counted). Got it tonight and this is an accolade, not an achievement badge.

eheh, thx Phil, but as you can see in my post (min to end mish: 4), i know that...

My ego was really frustrated reading the big number in you sign... thinking a way to steal all the fuel around Paragon, so your cab will not work without me

Heya all.
I agree, generally, that stalkers are overpowered, but they can be killed.
First: until stalkers can't reach lvl 50, they cannot kill a lvl 50 tanker. Just tried that, and i never was killed, till now. Yes maybe if i got detoggled and stunned hard they could with more shots, but actually this never happened.
I was detoggled one time and still the stalker had no time to kill me. At even lvl, i think there is no chance for anyone to survive solo at this moment.
More: my troller was killed many times by some stalker but, and this is true, i killed some too.... if they have not higher perception i can see them (i have tactics and sup invis) and can hold them (not always but often).... do hold and pa drop fast and a troller can kill a stalker.
Anyway, it's obvious that if the real level of the stalker is higher than your, it's a pain.
No way for my fire/tanker to kill anyone after all the nerfs we had (where is the PvP balance so searched by devs??), except some low lvl crazy villain, but my troller can do

One thing: i have read everywhere that in PvP detoggling should not work for all instantly. I mean: my tanker can easy be detoggled of all 6 toggles in one shot (i never found a time with only some detoggle, or all or nothing).
I think this is not what devs intended to do, at least seems so, reading their posts.
Then: when devs decide to fix this?

Finally, i think devs have no idea of what is the balance, but they are learning from us...

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You loose. A tank has just about no chance against a stalker.

AS is a critical hit. Critical hits arent resisted which basicly means, you have no defence against his attacks.

Ways for a tank to kill a stalker.
Energy punch, Total Focus, bonesmasher and build up. That would kill a stalker, but thats limited to Warburg and energy melee.
In bloody bay... no chance. You dont have any high damage attacks.

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You loose, m8 not me. I didn't said that i can kill a stalker, i just said that a stalker can't kill me with AS. As i said, this is a direct experience, not a speculation.
If you don't believe me, it's your problem, not mine.

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I have the same trouble with my Tank in Bloody Bay too. I think Aggravator may be right about the Stalkers levels as well. The ones i have encountered have been a lot tougher than i was expecting.

If i understand it right, lower levels are brought up to a temporary level 25, and higher levels are brought down to 25. However, i'm guessing that they still have the advantage of the additional powers/ slots they have gained from reaching their higher levels...!

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Yes, higher lvls auto-exemped down to 25 continue to benefits for the fully functional enhancements slots...
My lvl 50 tanker with all SO lvl 52-53 cannot be killed by stalkers (last time in Siren's a lvl 39, exemped at 30, stalker tried many times to surprise me, but his assassin strike gave me less that 50% damage).
At least, until there will be lvl 40-50 in cov... and i hope at that time stalkers will be nerfed

So the only tip is: go levelling fast!

heya,
i have a lvl 50 fire/energy tanker.
As said by others, major benefits of energy is the additional energy damage less resistable in the game than smash/lethal. Energy transfer is the best (yes: the best, brawl index 12.9) single attack power of the game (only criticals can do more damage), even post ED, and is enough fast. The hp loss is not important (and you surely will take health and stamina pools). Total focus is another good power, but with slow animation. Yes, what said by Jiaozy is correct: there is only one (good) aoe attack, so if your kind of play goes for aoe's don't take energy...

Imo, with energy, at high lvl, you'll be a good dmg dealer, not only a tanker

Heya all,
this is the first attempt to form a team for this insane tf.
Need really 7 crazy (at least the same or more than me ) heroes.
What i know is that any post i've read about this tf speak about a 10-12 hours to do.
Of course, it's impossible to do in one way.
So, the plan (almost easy to do ):
starting at 8pm GMT next Monday 9/1 (yes, next year)
do as much as possible, till 10.30/11 pm then, say goodbye all and continue next day, and so on, till the end.
Of course, any tip, suggestion, change of hours, and whatever you wanna say, will be greatly appreciated.

Any of you that wanna join have to know that this means, probably, that you can't play alts for some days (unless we decide a different plan) and should be prepared in your rl issues (this is the reason why i choosen a late starting date).

That's the summary of the tf:

Explorers and Exploiters
contact: dr. Quaterfield - Firebase Zulu
level range: 40-44
min start team: 8
min to end the tf: 4 (this is important to know)
min level requirement to join: 40
badge: Portal smasher
souvenir: Nemesis Portal Wreckage

25 missions, didn't counted but no delivery, no patrols and a bunch of defeat all...

Here, some details: Explorers and Exploiters

That's all, heroes!

Heya,
if there is room, i will be in with:

Green Katana, lvl 18 katana/regen scrapper

Great team, great tf. Thx, Jiaozy, for this fun.

I will be glad to team with you, Jia.
Count me in.

i'm only 30, just the minimum, but i'll be in, if there is room, with magic sun.

Thank you all for this great TF...

So, we r up and ready.

there still room for 2 heroe cause j. brute didnt lvled enough, (but i know the hard work u have don, Jia )
and Senzafine is busy too....

Noir: i never was in the hami tank team before, but if u are searching a tanker that:

1) will be bored only if raid fails
2) absolutely don't care of dying

then you can count on me, if you want.

I will be in, hoping my tanker can be useful, at least to protect mito phase from monsters and, hopefully, in the final stage.
About Jetpacks, I think they have too many graphical effects and can increase too much the lag to use them during mito phase, anyway the mito phase went very well last time, so i think it's not necessary to change something that works well.

Thank you all heroes.
Seems we have more than 8 ppl now. The only thing i can do is a list using topic answers orders....

Here is the list:

Gilgameesh
thePhilosopher
Stagefright
J. Brute or Jiaozy
DiscoKing (from 8pm)
Senzafine
Standoff (with a break)
kronosy46 (if not doing 'togheter' things )
Atreides (from 8pm)
Twilight Archer
Scarletta
D-Zol

it's fair for me that ppl joined with no problems have the precedence. If u feel i'm wrong tell me, pls.

So the list will be:

Gilgameesh
thePhilosopher
Stagefright
J. Brute or Jiaozy
Senzafine
Twilight Archer
Scarletta
D-Zol

sorted. Monday 12/12 7pm gmt. Contact Justine Augustine, The Chantry.

Anyway, other 3 peeps, and we could form 2 teams....
the other could start at 8pm as requested by many.

I am sorry for the excluded, i hope we will team togheter in another tf.

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make that 3 mate you forgot to add senzafine to the list

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You are right!

Actual members:

Gilgameesh
thePhilosopher
Stagefright
J. Brute or Jiaozy
Senzafine

last 3 heroes waiting...