Golden Girl

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Villains are acting like villains imo,

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Yeah - their dirty, sneaky, underhanded wickedness makes our cause all the more righteous

Trash-talking should be done in a funny and humorous way - telling people they suck or questioning their sexuality does not fall into this category (unless, of course, it's said in such a way as to be obviously not serious )

You wouldn't really want a PvP zone where no one was talking, would you?

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I spent quite some time in Siren's last night on Defiant, as a hero. In the beginning the sides were pretty much the same numbers, the hero side being slightly outnumbered and consisting of a couple of scrappers, a tanker and a couple of blasters. We held our own pretty well, but the sheer number of stalkers made it very hard. There were at least as many stalkers as there were heroes combined, plus a small asortment of other villain AT's (iirc there were one dominator, a corruptor and a brute).

It is very hard to get anything done when every time you attack you are standing still long enough to be AS'ed, and every time you get AS'ed there's AT LEAST two stalkers doing it, so there is NO WAY you can survive, even as a scrapper. I say this was pretty evenly matched, because it was the most matched fighting that happened all night.

After an hour or so, the heroes numbers hadn't changed, a couple people leaving due to the severe number of stalkers, and a few new faces coming in, but the number of villains had increased drastically. At this point there were 5/6 heroes, 6/7 stalkers, three MM's, a couple of dominators, corruptors and brutes. The hero side being horribly outnumbered we were pressed back into the base, with the entire cadre of villains hanging around within a couple hundred meters of the hero base. Every time we tried to break out of the base we got summarily ganked by every single villain in the zone, everyone of them wanting to throw a punch at the heroes. This is in my opinion bad enough conduct in it's own right, but then the gloating and the bragging started, the villains obviously thinking themselves teh ubar PvP'ers for bein able to keep us in the base. After a death there would be several villains gloating over the kill and standing around dancing on the corpses.

after a while, a couple of us heroes would try sneaking out and falling on the villains from behind with stealth and/or invis running, but as the stalkers get their +perception skills there were NO WAY we could have a hope in hell of surprising them. It was so bad after a while, when I stopped to attack a seemingly lonesome villain, I had FOUR [4] stalkers surrounding me in the AS position. Now it goes without saying that me being a blaster, only one or maybe if I got lucky, two of the stalkers actually got in their AS before I was dead.

And still the villains kept up the gloating, name-calling and "corpse-dancing". Is it really considered a good kill when 5 people manage to take down a single blaster? It sure seems like it, because the only villain in the whole zone that didn't participate in this was a corruptor called Dearch. Dearch, I salute you for your honor in PvP, cos there sure as [censored] isn't any other villains showing any.

And I am not exaggerating when I say there was between six and eight stalkers in the zone at the time. In the end, this was TWICE the number of heroes COMBINED. Now, the question I have is, if the stalkers are so lousy as all the people who play stalkers want us to believe, why the hell are there so many of them? The only answer I can come up with is that they ARE INFACT massively overpowered, and thus every NOOB villain is going to choose one, because they are so incredibly easy to get kills with.

Anyways, why is it generally accepted that people behave like spoiled children? Why is ganking accepted? What the hell has happened to common courtesy? Bad behaviour in PvP seems like the norm, and not the exception. Why isn't there moderators in the pvp zones when there OBVIOUSLY should be?

I used to pvp a lot, but when the new players found out how easy PvP becomes once they roll a stalker, the stalker population in the pvp zones exploded, and most of them being in my opinion BAD PEOPLE, I had no choice but to stop pvp'ing. I suffered severe withdrawals for a long long time, and finally this week I gave in and ventured into siren's again, only to discover that the problem isn't remedied, but has increased exponentially.

Ok. This probably doesn't happen every night, but it has happened three out of five nights I've been in there this week alone.

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I was there for hours last night - what name were you using?
(I'd guess Sgt. Winter or Bio )

There sure were a lot of Stalkers about, but only one that I would regard as even slightly annoying - and even then, it was more down to the fact that he was unable to spell his favorite insult - and it only had four letters too

I didn't see much corpse dancing - the Stalkers always went into hide mode the moment they made their kill
There was a lot of dancing outside the Heroes base, but that was just Max and Ob having a Nazi rave with their stormtrooper lackies

The Villian numbers dropped a lot later on, so we moved the action to their base instead, 'cos it's not really fair for the outnumbered side to have to travel a long way to and from the hospital.

And back to the Stalkers - just think of it as a final, pre-I7 fling

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Of course, the original had clips of me doing backflips, fighting crime, sliding over the hood of a car with a gun out, practicing martial arts, and combing my massive 'fro...

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It'd be a shame to let that go to waste!
Maybe it's an idea for a celebration 'intemesso eppisode' after the 10th?


BTW, how are you stacked up on questions?

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I'm more stacked than someone with a tray full of purples.

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You're... stacked ? That's..quite the image you've brought up there...

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In the meantime, here's Episode Nine , with Jummy asking the question. Enjoy.

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Awwww, I thought our chubby-cheeked guru was going to enlighten us

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he did!
BEER!

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That ain't the meaning of life

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In the meantime, here's Episode Nine , with Jummy asking the question. Enjoy.

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Awwww, I thought our chubby-cheeked guru was going to enlighten us

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We're all going to DIE!!!!!!!!!!

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Only two things in life are certain; Death and taxes.

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And nerfing.

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Won't somebody think of the children!

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And the kittens!

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See - crime doesn't pay - really, it doesn't

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In comparison to heroics, yes it does. I keep saying, but we heroes dont even get a sodding meal-ticket when we arrest an arch-villain for christs sake.

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But about satisfaction in knowing you've helped keep the City safe?

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Uh oh, looks like I may have been off in my harsh judgement of stalkers..

Recently in SC (defiant), numbers swang from mass-villains to mass-heroes suddenly, and trying hard to fool people into thinking im a gentleman, I switched over to my corruptor to help out. Ouch. Harsh awakening, much? Okay, so my corruptor is only level 22, and as per usual, the average hero level was 40+, im sure that cant have helped, but being more focused on the villain side, watching what a single good scrapper or blaster can do was bordering on the scary. This has pretty much thrown me back into the darkness in regards of PVP balance, and im sure its not just the fact that I was getting smothered every few seconds. I still say stalkers are overpowered and still a little too nullifying for my tastes, but having witnessed the ability of scrappers and blasters in a more direct way, its starting to seem necessary. Perhaps I just feel disillusioned or just purely disorientated, I dont know, I just thought i'd post this up here and give the stalkers a chance outside of my PFF to laugh at me. S'only fair

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See - crime doesn't pay - really, it doesn't

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The short, backpain-inspired hiatus is over, and I'm happy to bring you all

Episode Eight

(The website will be updated shortly)

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Shouldn't they be looking more carefully in case they damage the much sought after eggs? Or are they so inflamed with chocolate lust that they just want to try and find them as fast as possible?

So the Monday timescale was correct - well done

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I'm not from Sweden...but I can speak it.If that helps.

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Same here

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Bursting out of prison after issue 7; a thugs mastermind annihilation squad known only as "The Gang"

Everyone interested please post your global address. Test.

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Damn, an army of thugs is going to look awesome - post screenshots once you're up and running

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*Hides Kraken badge* If you're on Defiant, then I'll help you bust his butt

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Seeing as this was posted on Union - Heroes, I find that highly unlikely.

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I'll be on Union soon

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Real soon or Dev soon?

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Soon soon - that's somewhere in between

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And we made bad jokes while doing it.

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The very essence of good teaming

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*Hides Kraken badge* If you're on Defiant, then I'll help you bust his butt

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Seeing as this was posted on Union - Heroes, I find that highly unlikely.

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I'll be on Union soon

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But think of it this way - if they're not making us laugh, then what is the point of a Blaster?

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Are you saying that Blasters are comedians first and hunter killers second?

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Yes - and that's a very, very distant second too

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Team vs team PvP is like sex - when it's good, it rocks your world, and leaves you gasping for more

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And when it's bad you end up in the hospital; then once discharged, you retreat to your friends house and moan about how he finished you off before you'd had a chance to build up a sweat. Then, a couple of days later, you jump back in the sack and try it out again, only to be disappointed once more?

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You could have waited til I was there

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Bad sex = a trip to the hospital? That sounds very...vigorous

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I have my moments

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I don't know where you get your delusions, laser-brains

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Team vs team PvP is like sex - when it's good, it rocks your world, and leaves you gasping for more

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And when it's bad you end up in the hospital; then once discharged, you retreat to your friends house and moan about how he finished you off before you'd had a chance to build up a sweat. Then, a couple of days later, you jump back in the sack and try it out again, only to be disappointed once more?

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You could have waited til I was there

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Bad sex = a trip to the hospital? That sounds very...vigorous

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So what can villains do against them them?

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Give up and stop resisting arrest

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We might want to leave it until saturday, for Advent Star to get to 30. And Super Heroine, do you not play until 00:00 on weekends as well?

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I work late every day - Frdiays I finish at midnight, Satudays at 23:00.

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Seeing as most is moaning i thought i would post a good time , let people know how fun it is hehe

i was in sirens call on my scrappr just running around generally, got invited to a team of 8

so we decided to start hunting etc

we kept on getting ganked so

u know the oil rig thing by the villain base

we went ontop of there all of us to try hold out, the villains saw us and planend against us

all was silent until....POW! 3 stalkers 3 AS strikes wiping out 2 people

masterminds and pets dropped own from the sky onto us

we were, AMBUSED!

intense action, trying to take out the head of the masterminds while other people tackle the stalkers

people were dying everywhere and then teleported back

wave after wave of mastermind pets carryed on to drop down

everntually we were outnumbered and had to run

it was just so cool! be in teams vs teams in pvp its intense

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Team vs team PvP is like sex - when it's good, it rocks your world, and leaves you gasping for more

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So thats what sex is like.

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Good sex, yes.

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Being a Blaster, you must have been told that by someone else

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I'm sure most people who read this will have had the experience of teaming with a blaster who loves to lie down, face first after a battle.

But the other day I was doing an SG TF and a random blaster sees us gathering at the contact, and asks if he can join us.

In all my time here I've never seen a blaster who loved to die so much!
He'd happily agro'd mobs, die, get rezzed and run off to the next mob, usually dying before the defender's Rez had recharged. He didn't seem to mind this. I think he felt guilty rather than resentful. Coz when a highly strung tanker quit the team in disgust (coz he'd died), the blaster asked "Was that my fault? Do you want me to leave?"
Naturally I said no, unless he was the one who killed the tank. As it was a PvE mission he stayed.

So by the end of the TF, the defender had spotted this pattern and would wait till someone else had died and use their AoE rez to catch the blaster and the other person at the same time. So he spent a lot of time lying around. Probably saved him from a lot of extra debt.

My question is, is it wrong that I found this sooo funny?
I mean a bad Tank, say not taunting, or a bad empath who won't heal, is costing the team dearly.
But a blaster who just gets themselves killed is no skin off my nose. Luckily the team was good quality, in the main, so we could handle playing with one man dead. The mobs were no trouble.

I was putting a team together to fight Adamastor last night when I saw this blaster's name on my search list. I invited him simply because I knew he'd run off and do something daft and get himself killed. Great value entertainment.

He arrived in DA, the defender TP'd him to us, and the first thing he did was fire a sniper attack at the GM!
A tank in the group pulled the GM off him, so he ran back in and punched Adamastor!
Poor, poor man.

I'm slightly ashamed to say that I'd team with him any time just to laugh at this strange player. We did try explaining to him what he's doing wrong, but he got quite upset and thought we were being overly critical, so we left him alone...

Oh well. We get all sorts.

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He sounds crazy, even for a Blaster.
But think of it this way - if they're not making us laugh, then what is the point of a Blaster?

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Episode Seven is now up. Thanks to ShadowGhost to asking ir. Next episode will be an answer to Aeronaut's question.

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So when I've been in a fight, and we're getting split up or overwhelmed, and I've called out to a Tank or fellow Scrapper to protect the squishies, might my instructions have been taken the wrong way?