Hammerfall

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We're only doing one match a week from now on.


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One advice I have to give is to test things out a bit in Issue 7 world, before deciding on the final build

Thanks and good job!

As for team 8, it doesnt look that bad, I wouldnt mind going against them. They have Fury, after all .
I can confirm that I'll be there.

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anyway I don't think its a big problem..tho those SR scrappers do my head in since they 2 hit kill you sometimes:P (focussed sences) (you wannabe stalkers^^)

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in i7 scrappers and blasters won't be 2 hitting anyone and i'll give you several good reasons.
1) 56% res on nearly all PPP shields S/L/Toxic/nrg/cold/neg nrg
2) everybody gets a hold and ranged attack
3) stalker dark set is nearly brute strength S/L/toxic res
4) some nice accolades which are 100% res to all with no end crash.

when a stalkers got 50% S/L and 30% toxic what do you think those spine scrappers are gonna do ?

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what

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Ok, I got a heal/end redux I'd like to swap to resistance/end redux

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If you're still wanting to trade that heal/end redux, i've got a res/end that i'd willingly trade. Its in a power atm, but I'm planning on respecing soon, anyways...

Talking of respecing, when i do i will also free up 2 +ToHit, +Defence DeBuff, -End cost HOs, plus i have a damage/mez i haven't assigned yet. I'd love to swap for heal/recharge or heal/end reduc, if possible.

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Sorry, but its long gone, I traded the HO from last raid as well already. :/

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Well, I'm just nipping to B&Q (em groan), then I'll be back to do the defiant draw. So expect it up laterer on today.

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That was yesterday

Well, reckless play is unfortunately quite common, but its not the norm we should aspire to.

I always thought that good players are constantly aware of the situation and use powers only in a way that synches with teammates. Ie. A blaster might hold himself from using AoEs unless the tank has the mob aggroed, and certainly doesnt use AoEs when another mob is nearby and you don't want them aggroed.

Tank should try to fulfill his duty no matter how gimped his powers are, like me doing positron: a bad respec power order made me lose both taunt and invincibility in positrons lvl range, and war mace doesnt get its area attack until much later. So all I could do was run from creep to creep and try to keep them on me with punchvoke.. Remembering dull pains toxic resistance against vahzilok and so on. So many little things..

And so on. Defenders usually are more conscious of the situation unlike some other AT players..

All I can do is assure you that there are more skilled players out there that you can team with, and if you meet any, add them to your friends list..

And I hope that other players would think things a bit more ..Me, my friend and a blaster in hollows, I say to the blaster: can you pull? He pulls..using rain of fire! Yay!

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i can't agree with that. ok you can survive but you will never be as effective as a rava or a blaster.
less damage, less life, don't forget that without being hidden you can't crit, that mean that rava and blaster will be able to 2shot or 3 shot you when you you will need 2 or more full attack chain.

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You will crit if you have the "hidden" in up right corner. Whether players can actually see you at that point is irrelevant.

And what does 'rava' mean by the way?

I think most people arent that much interested in organising things instead of just fighting.. hmm. Maybe I should give it a shot sometimes.

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You should also recognise that HOs aren't an auto I win button. There is no I win button in this game.


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I thought Imaginary was one, heheh.

To be honest Ive gotten the impression of 'more regular' PvPers to be kind of grim and jaded, too serious people, and this has put me off from Arena a lot. Ive only been to test server night once, it was fun bit, but mostly I felt there was nothing especially organised going on.

Im not really interested in coming to test server this night for instance.

I like the current 3vP tourney a lot, because it mixes experienced and inexperienced people with the events organised by experienced people. This I think, is the best way to promote pvp. It should be made a leaque, I say.

Compared to that, the enter-your-team competitions will inevitably turn into clicquey (how do you say it) things.

I don't have anything bad to say really, but some comments on this thread are severely misplaced..

EDIT: oh, and I can say for my part that all my 5 HOs are on Hammerfall which is my PvE toon. My PvP is toon is still lvl 40 so I cant use the HOs even.

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I really wish I could think of a way to fix perception/stealth, as it's really not too balanced...Let me think for a sec...

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Isn't it? Why not. Seems fine to me. Some people can see stalkers, other can't. I get the impression people are of the opinion that stalker should always be invisible, or in the case of this post, only visible at close range despite your perception bonus.

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No, it isn't. What's the point in having an AT that's primary function is stealth and the ability to remain unseen, if they can be seen by most everyone in the zone? Perception powers are common, meaning perc can be capped easily, as opposed to stealth powers, where's the balance there?

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Most everyone is a big exaggeration. Most everyone CAN'T see them if they run stealth+hide.

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doesnt gimme the salvage to make items to read their detailed descrips, this stuff should be available in the recipe view imho

Plight

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I think you're where I was couple months ago, trying to figure out what to build and so.

I made a partial guide for my own use:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~jplaukka/guides/itemguide.xhtml
That may help somewhat, I know its not complete which is why I havent published it on guides forum, Im too lazy to get all the info..

I should never have voiced my idea in the beginning.. So far I have played with perfect normal copies or their respecced versions myself.

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Curiously, conserve energy seemed to make little to no difference on the recovery rate when in nova or dwarf....

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Well conserve just halves the endurance cost of any powers you use, and if the Form EndMod negates the toggle cost maybe they didnt even write a cost into the formula.

Hmmmmmm, iv always wondered whether it affected toggles or not..........

Shnyet AWAY

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Conserve energy DOES affect toggles. While it doesnt change your recovery speed when youre doing nothing, it should allow for good end recovery while running shields, fighting or doing something like that etc. AT least it does with my blaster.

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I'm actually pretty glad that people haven't griefed my raids. It seems more like a lack of ability to understand what I say, though I do try to make stuff as obvious as possible I suppose you could mistake "GET OUT OF THE BUBBLE NOW!" for "STAND AROUND IN THE BUBBLE FOR A WHILE!"


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In all honesty I suspect several Hami raid first-timers hadnt read hte guide, hadnt anticipated the amount of lag and graphical requirements, werent listening to request channel necessarily or the spam in broadcast, or in general had trouble figuring outwhat was going on.. But I try to think positive first..

When do we get this weeks fixtures?

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For PB.
1. Get light form at 38.
2. Until then take plenty of blues around with you.
3. Hasten is a must and also means you can get SS
4. Find a pet kineticist and ignore 2 and 3.
5. There is no 5.

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Im fairly certain 5 should read: get stamina.

But Im still futilely trying to make my PB appealing to me, so my words don't weigh much.

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2) Defense against smash or energy will defend against energy+smash, where as smash defense is useless against a pure energy attack.


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The percentages of damage types in a power that causes mixed damage varies greatly, though. But as a rule of thumb a pure energy attack is better than energy/smash. The Kheldians damage output is simply weaker than blasters.. and rightly so I might add.

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one way to get all out of the bubble is for the hami-tank to stop taunting for a minute works a treat


lol what a fantastic idea haha

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Hey not a bad idea ,hehe

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Yup nicely done peeps, and i think xanthus's caps lock key is now worn out and broken...

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Im fairly certain he had "PLEASE LEAVE THE BUBBLE NOW" as a bind..

Robo/poison for damage

I agree with Mesmer, while power thrust is very handy attack for its knockback, you have more attacks to slot than you can fit into your character, and power thrust remains as the weakest (apart from stun). Energy punch >> power thrust for damage.

Well thankfully you wont lose any prestige by tinkering with the base, because you can always sell everything back for its original value. Its just difficult for others to use base while you are tinkering with it.. Just test everything out

I did get one idea, what about possibility to save layouts so we could change between them quickly and designe them separately? We'd only need to pay(or gain) the difference in prestige between them while swapping?

This is because at least the Goonies would like to have both raid layout and normal layout separately..

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nice build ever...tho skip the SJ set and get some breakfrees...IR is way better then SJ and you got some room for more optional powers

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breakfrees don't give KB protection.

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Yes they do. Problem is that normal ones wear out in 30 seconds which is too little to completely replace kb protection powers.

Btw, Im not sure if the icon tooltip text is out of date (Ive noticed several icon tooltip texts to be recently). At least the cov ones seem to show correctly..