Hammerfall

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Is it possible to do a 16 vs 16 with heroes and villains on the same team? I just had a little play with the arena and unless you do an SG rumble the max you can have is 8 per team, and in sg rumbles you cant have mixed teams

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This is a major letdown.

Thanks all and we can update this in that Mrs Sparrow also hit 50 on her kinetic defender "Hyper Sparrow". That makes it numba seven for Mrs Sparrow

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The trick is not to placate when the dominator is in the red

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Dont need to placate much cause you get criticals on held opponents..

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Well it's only a small chance for a critical, so I would still use Placate, especially when I use a big-hitting attack. But there are methods to placate without endangering your duo partner much.
With my dark/dark it's like: Touch of Fear -> Placate -> Attack
For other sets you could replace ToF with a stun or knockdown or only placate mobs that are under dominator control. Just make it so that Placate is a purely offensive tool and not an easy way to shift aggro to the dom.

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For me its Placate - BU - AS
and other times just attack. Im not wasting placate for anything less really outside pvp.

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I see your point with "Pure defenders" but sometimes (especially in PUG's) the defender is so busy defending the team they have not time to cause any meaningful damage.


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Defenders for whom a 'pure' build is practical, are usually such that the damage they could inflict is inconsequential anyway. It is different for corrupters who are pretty balanced and can build for either damage or buffing ability. (not both, without sacrifices usually).

I like the idea of 'pure' builds cause it means variety in ways you can build your character.

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People need to look for a team or start a new one, don't just stand around waiting for one to find you.

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Maybe 2% of the people actually are willing to start a team of their own. Its something to improve on.

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As far as I know you can't any more, same with the acid mortar in traps

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What part of no guessing didn't you get?
Sorry if it sounds a little harsh, but I'm about to use my only respec (when I get it that is), and I would really like to make a good build in Hero Designer, long before I do it, so I have time to "play" around with the powers...

Can anyone say FOR SURE that you can't us Recall Friend on your Auto Turret?

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You can't, and you should check on test server the powers that you are doubtful about.

oooooh

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The trick is not to placate when the dominator is in the red

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Dont need to placate much cause you get criticals on held opponents..

Personally I think dark defenders are pretty decent, with the biggest problem coming from tar patch being locational. Having TK to jam your enemy to a corner and then dropping tar patch sounds good to me. Other option is to drop patch and tp foe your opponent into it.

Thats the scrappers lot tbh, they are relatively average when it comes to killing power. If you are a scrapper get used to draws or enemy escaping to heal somewhere. Its not really martial arts' fault, scrappers jsut are like that. Ps. your best defense is movement and heals in that order.

Getting 16 pvpers to one place at the same time is pretty incredible, so definitely show up for the event even if you hadn't made the cut. Theres bound to be subs required.

To reiterate, its on september 19th.

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quite clearly u've forgotten those italian guys

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In fact I have mentioned them in the PD forums where I started discussion about possible team. Its going to be crowded queue to the 16, which is a happy thing after all

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Yes but because you don't pvp alot of us do, and the reason the pvp community seems so small is because we're always grinding to 50 so we can pvp better, but we can't pvp straight away because we need to earn loads and loads of inf to make our builds good, and by the time you've done that your sick to death of the toon and you want to make a new one to pvp with thats even more 'ubarr' ^^

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Just pvp with any toon then.

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Agreed, I PVP with the toons that I have, I hate grinding.

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I'm available for either Union or Defiant team, but I'm lazy and haven't been all zomg IOs ftw, so you may want to bear that in mind.

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Don't worry, me neither. And we got a list of more than enough people already, but I doubt xanthus has actually asked anyone yet.

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edit: as for noobs im sure xanthus will make it into a team

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Got me there..

ps. I thought you can only have 8-member teams..

As if any noob would fit into these teams.. It just comes across a bit stupid, and for some reason we can't have serious answers to this.

Edene, can you comment on the "No kheldians" rule?

Remember to state your server, lol. Im up for defiant team of course.

Yes, I have no objections against how good kin is in team pvp. I was mainly wondering what would make it good in solo situations. Ps. I have an ice/rad corr myself but I can't overcome the feeling that it is inferior to a defender..

Superspeed caps with less I believe so you might as well move the stealth io there.. Also, that build doesnt have vertical travel power either..

Can defiant field 16 pvpers? o.O

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IF you want trap like powers make a ice/dev blasters they're much stronger then what you chose.

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Traps masterminds are even stronger.

SR will always need aid self in pvp, so you'd have to give up tp foe (which I still dont understand why people go for. At least you have the fear attack I admit). Agile and dodge are worth nothing in pvp as are the def slots in stealth o.O. Thats more like PvE, but its your decision. Maybe youd want to slot up rest instead.

Add an additional slot to superspeed or similar to accommodate a stealth IO (in a power within 30 levels so it would work in sirens), cause hide+stealth only will have you seen by stalkerhunters.

Not touching the pve side.

EDIT: looking back, superspeed+hurdle only in sirens call levels? Oh no. You realize that you need combat jumping to be able to change direction midjump. Not to mention you are nearly completely lacking a vertical travel power.. If you are going after tp foe you might as well get teleport too.

The defense powers help you less than you think. But focused senses is still nice to have because of the +perception.

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There arent that many, tbh.

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Elistan, Elerith, Psydock, Shaman X, theRegulator

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Five isnt many ;D I agree with that list although I'm not sure Ive seen Elistan in action (EDIT: regulator either). I propably just don't remember. Shaman, Elerith, and Psydock would propably have consisted of my own list.

Um can you give some reasons why kin would be best? I have never understood why. Also I dont think I have ever lost a duel to a kin on my blaster. Its got unpredictable heal thats easily counteracted, siphon speed counteracted by jumping(only useful if you got stackable immob or -jump), mediocre end drain, and those were the strengths as far as I can see..

ps. to OT: what happened to cold?