Hammerfall

I thought they fixed this in times of issue 4 or something..

Good job Proc, Grats!!!

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No matter how good or usefull bio or chem is the nuke wins through sheer awesomeness.
KABOOOOOOOOOM!
*Everyone dies*

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Its more like KABOOOOOOOOOM!
the people's computers crash :P

Im happy you did what you did I dont like complainers myself.

Good job everyone, I see this becoming only easier in the future Well organised!

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Never seen anyone with a temp power bow, maybe someone else can shed a light on that.

Welcome to pvp.

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There is bow and arrow temp power available from some Croatoa mission arc, I have it on my blaster but I dont know the particulars..

DUH! second place

Oh and welcome to PVP

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All the ganking,

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Dont.. I expect to be ganked myself. There is nothing wrong in being tp foed, feared and then being piled upon by 4 brutes when playing a squishy blaster without defenses.. Thats what happened to me yesterday. Did I complain? No. I rezzed at hospital, put on SS and CJ while in rez animation and hurried back fast as I could

Actually I think there was at least full team + some villains , corruptor, 2 stalkers and 4-5 brutes thoroughly owning the area around hero base, and there seemed to be mostly just my team of 3 blasters to oppose them.. I didnt complain

Eventually I got some my SG pals to help, we got team to about 6 persons and the fighting moved to the center statue and was quite even for a while, although I believe we were still fewer in number. Later on we got to full team and more heroes showed up and heroes gained control of the zone , totally outnumbering the villains. At the end only a bubble mastermind and some stalkers seemed to be left.. And for some reason MM was talking about how buffed we were... as if he had a right to be untouchable heheh.. and stalker talked (complained) about insps.. oh well.
They didnt hear me complaining when I was outnumbered. And I put "hehe" or "" at the end if I do to signify im joking..

And if I had left back then I'd have missed our moment of triumph..

I still think that people dont see the zones from the right point of view, especially if they mention "ganking". Arena is for 'fights'. Zones are essentially WAR zones. Its not a pleasant place. Youre not supposed to really look at the numbers just like a soldier of war isnt gonna shout "unfair" if theres more than one person against him..

Zones are about masses of players, not individuals. Right now the problem is lack of players, and thus the balance of power may shift quite dramatically back and forth. Sometimes the other side has total control, sometimes they are complete underdogs. This is inevitable and only solution is more players.. So that sides AS A WHOLE are more balanced against each other..

I think that some people got lulled to false sense of security now when the zones are mostly empty.

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backstabbing, whining, childish acts, lame excuses, ranting and stupid remarks over broadcast/local, etc really puts me off.


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Well this may be different but these propably are related to the issue above.. I wonder what sort of backstabbing are we talking about? Warburg type? or if its just stalkers stabbing me from behind when im fighting someone else, well thats normal.
We will never get rid of whiners, best thing is to just filter them out somehow.

Maybe, maybe not, my blaster is now 39, has conserve energy and hasnt got stamina Ive been using him mostly for pvp last weeks.. Make of that what you will.

Yes, this should be bug reported imo, if you can test it with someone in pvp and figure out what situation causes it then definitely..

Actually this may be a bug. I just had a fight in warburg, where I and the stalker did some tests after the placate had failed 2 times. I checked my combat log, and it read: "You have been placated. You cannot target Captain Skyfire" (that is, myself!).

When we tried to reproduce it we couldnt do it, but when we were fighting and jumping around it happened at least twice. Maybe its a distance issue or something..

Yeah, Ive never actually seen assaults placate resistance make an effect, either..

Um, is invincibility's tick rate really 2 seconds? Because as far as I can remember its 1 second, used to be 0.5 seconds but was changed to 1 sec iirc.. Along with the invinciblitys 'too good taunt' bug since they borked the change at first.. I may remember wrong of course..

I havent done any testing or anything, Im just genuinely curious..

I didnt say Masterminds are underpowered in PVP, I said that in my eyes they arent that FAR above dominators.. I didnt say whether dominators sucked nor that mms sucked..

I don't have that much pvp experience but I base my thoughts on the amount of dominators and masterminds I have taken down in sirens..Dominators arent that common but a largish amount of MMs and since most MMs I've come across have been essentially 3-shotted I'm not one to promote MM survivability that much in pvp.. Point with MMs is that the pets dont protect them cause everybody can go straight for the MM. This bodyguard buff (link please) may change everything, or not.

But.. all of these are just my thoughts, dont take them too seriously.

PS. I only just took my lvl 24 dominator to sirens call for the first time and I was completely devastated by his damage output Sure hes not properly slotted cause lack of inf but still....

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Well Fury can build in seconds, MM inherent works fine. Kind of makes me laugh that MMs are getting a substantial boost when they already are way above Doms as far being able to survive but presumably Bodyguard has been implemented to placate the hordes of insane MM players; all the more reason to suspect the mystery Dom buff is going to be rubbish.

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Erm, what is the substantial buff youre talking about? I know of some buff coming..to PVP.

Are we talking PVE or PVP here?

In PVE sure, dominators give a whole new meaning to the term "squishy".. Aggroing everything and being unable to withstand anything.. And having naff attacks on top of that.

In PVP I havent noticed MMS to be far above doms in survivability.. Sure it doesnt take much to be above doms, but personally I see only FF MMs have some chance... EDIT: But I may have a bit biased point of view from behind these built-up, aimed power fists

Besides, afaik the devs make the decisions based on the statistics they can access, like different ATs kills/own defeats ratio.

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I don't know what a "tick rate" is , but I'm inclined to believe that the Devourers are bugged.


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Tick rate in this case means: that invincibility will fire an autohit PBAoE taunt every 1 seconds. The tick rate thus is 1/sec. (well at least with tanks its 1 sec, dunno about scrappers but Id imagine it being the same).

EDIT: and btw, I agree with Shannon, you cant really pull a taunted enemy off a tanker unless with another tanker taunt. Except if the taunt duration in question wears off (enemies may have high taunt resistance) or the tanker exceeds aggro cap. The duration of scrapper taunt may be short enough for something weird to happen..

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I can't really disagree with wanting better attacks at lower-to-mid level, the problem would be we would be out-damaging Corruptors if our damage was upped.


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That tells something of corruptors if you ask me, I'm not excited about my corruptor if I compare it to my blaster..

Btw too many villain inherents dont cut it in pvp, Mastermind inherent, domination, fury..
(edit: of course, no need to mention the TANK inherent...)

My personal opinion is that double magnitude, increased hold duration and full endurance bar are good enough, sure damage boost is great but it makes dominators TOO dependent on domination..

This is the first time i hear of this ~_^

Um yeah, didnt notice the word "energy" before.. All blaster secondaries have two toggle-dropping attacks in them. Filth is correct.

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Only blaster energy melee has automatic toggle droppers. Tank and brute have to do it the old fashioned way, by stacking enough disorients to break past the mez defence. This is pretty unlikely to happen.

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Most energy melee sets I've fought dropped my mez protect so fast I just assumed it was auto And with Stun/TF/ET/Bone Smasher they don't have to worry about getting past mez protect Still nice to know I have a chance

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They do have to worry like everyone else, but I agree there's plenty of stun in those attacks.. Remember to make a point between blasters and other ATs though. Blasters(Blappers) dont care about mez protect

My point was not that there is something wrong in domination but personally I'd prefer more damaging attacks, that was just one idea of balancing it..

My personal opinion is that devs should remove the damage boost from domination and instead make dominator attacks more powerful as a whole...

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Ninjitsu - click mezz, self heal, blinding powder. Less defence than SR with some utility powers.

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Ninjitsu lacks knockback resistance though, just realized that today.

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PvP don't mean to be stupid.
ifyou say clearly that you duel. comming in theduel is not PvP. it's being annoying or stupd or whatever;


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Yet its perfectly OK to call people names for playing the game the way its meant to be played. Look, it doesnt matter if your duelling, helping out with meteors, dancing, doing missions, picking your nose or admiring the scenery. Its an open pvp zone, if you want to duel go to the arena.


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Reminder.. behaving maliciously is not accepted in pvp zones or anywhere else, be careful with your "calling names"..


To Ken-Titus:

Point is that interrupting a duel is NOT considered 'behaving maliciously', griefing or anything. The PvP zones ARE open PVP zones like marquandDance said. The devs have made this clear numerous times.

I always try to urge people not to duel or 'expect manners' from people in PVP zones while myself I wont interrupt duels if I know there is one going on. Simply because I dont want to [censored] off people.. I will however attack people travelling to missions, patrolling or killing pve mobs because Im expected to. The threat of getting attacked by player is the justification for better rewards in pvp zones after all. Theres no logical reason to leave player enemies alone in the zones..

I guess what Im trying to say is.. even if I may help people in pvp zones or leave duelers alone or whatever, don't expect or demand that others do the same..

I do get annoyed everytime someone claims something like "Dont attack me, I'm/we are just doing *insert_random_activity_here*".

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I believe that they (Cryptic) are looking again at toggle dropping because of the gimping effect it has on certain ATs and powersets. Hopefully the chance of it occuring will be lowered considerably. 33% is just too high.

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Yeah well, toggledropping was introduced in the first place because some ATs were seriously underpowered against toggles.. It can easily swing that way again if they nerf toggledropping TOO much..

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With fire sword circle, it is one GREAT PvE power, but I wasn't sure wether to take this or sniper blast. I think fire sword circle has a toggle drop capability?????


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Yes, Iirc your toggledroppers are fire sword circle and fire sword(in addition to brawl of course ), with circle being tad better. You can find a link to the toggledropper list somewhere in these forums but I cant be bothered to find it right now.