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Defenders are supporters, they have the lowest base damage and can never ditch out nonstop insane damage.

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Not quite true, defender damage is very underrated but the characters have to be built for damage. My future pvp duel toon rad/sonic can dish out jawdropping damage once at high level while at the same time debuffing the enemy so bad their tender parts fall off. For comparison, as I tested out with Stalk-obots lvl 50 rad/sonic, his defenders epic total focus at the end of the attack chain, with all the debuffs will deal about 200 pts more damage than my lvl 50 blasters aim+BU total focus.

Majority or defenders cant dish out damage to rival blasters or scrappers though.

Looks like you have experiences only from relatively low level. Especially low lvl people seem to think that defenders are only about healing which is wrong. Im sure your view on ATs will change once you get higher level. Anyway, blapping is very valid tactic, although I think blappers as supbspecies of blasters were born mainly from PVP. They play nicely in PVE as well, of course.

Fire/EM is one of the best blapper combos Im sure you will enjoy playing it further

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True...right after Spectral Wounds, Blind, Superior Invisibility, Group Invisibility, Phantom Army and Spectral Terror

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well, not for effectiveness, but there's nothing like watching a bunch of fire imps attack their own teams, especially if they can't see you.

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Or a traps mastermind vomiting from his own poison trap..

Or a device blaster getting blown up by his own mines..

Or..

Why do nameless teams always fare well

Grats guys!

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Or does containment work only if you apply a DIFFERENT power than the one creating the status?


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No. All subsequent attacks after containment is triggered have the containment bonus, except special ones like sands of mu that cannot have their damage buffed.

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Second: in pvp containment works the same? This means a Clear Mind or other mez protection or even a Combat Jumping against Immobilize will make useless the containment until these buffs are removed?

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Containment is triggered in PVP only after the opponent is mezzed. Anti-mezzes like CM obviously foil this. Basically containment works the same in PVP. Iirc it gave even bigger damage bonus in PVP though, at least used to. Im not sure if it was changed recently.

I did say 'a little'
I just dont have highlvl trollers myself so I had to give a cautious statement.

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Is Proverbial actualy still active? Last post i've seen was from 28th feb..

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Proverbial is definitely active within the game, but I dont think shes keeping the list updated anymore.

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Blasters are by far the most common opponent you will be facing in the zone pvp.

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Hmm.

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I think the reason rep and xp is less in teams is because you earn it faster. Certainly against lots of teams your rep in PvP will go up fast but there is rarely more than one team on in most zones. Meaning you'll be defeating the same players repeatably so it won't count unless you leave enough time between getting a member of that team. With less people, soloing is faster depending on your AT and powers.

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Yes, you will gain more rep in teams only in theory. In practise the rep gains are really low in teams because there arent enough opponents.

Hmm well it slightly depends on what lvl PVP zone you are in. as /forcefield, you will bloom only after you get force bubble which can be so-good-its-nearly-broken against those who dont know how to counter it. But you can't get forcebubble before warburg iirc. Good news is also that you are one of the few trollers to get mez protection from your sets (dispersion bubble).

Bad news is that your damage sucks. So solo PvP will be a pain, unless at very high lvl when you have epic attacks which help a little. As your primary attacks, spamming dominate on an opponent that is pinned to a corner with force bubble/telekinesis will propably break his mez resistance eventually, but you will propably need to team with someone to get the kills. Keeping all those toggles up will also eat a lot of endurance.

mind/ff is pretty good team pvp toon.

Like one of my mates so aptly summed up, mind/ff trollers warcry should be "Be prepared to move in the wrong direction!"

EDIT: to explain slightly, both telekinesis and force bubble do extremely useful repel against which very few people have repel resistance. Using repel to protect you while spamming single target mezzes should be your plan.

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Does teaming have a negative effect on rep? Even if it did it would have to be pretty severe since you get more kills teamed than solo.
Some joker in SC who seemed to think he would be far better off without a team. Then again, the same guy seemed to think xp was spread out in pve as well.

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Its definitely better to get rep when solo, as long as your character is suitable for the task. More often than not my rep is going down instead of rising if I do only couple sessions per week and always in team.

Dont forget that the rep suppression also functions if someone else in your team gets a kill, your rep is also suppressed for that target..

For instance youre teamed with one person, you defeat one player, both of you get 0.5 rep but the rep is now suppressed for that player for both of you.. If you had been soloing both of you could have gotten 1 point of rep if you both defeated the target player in turns..

Think it took me maybe couple weeks solo pvping in sirens to get Captain skyfire the 400 rep badge. I of course dont take freebie kills even if offered.

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Use this thread to sign up your teams like I have done below:

Team Name: Paragon Defenders Presents: LESS TALK MORE VIOLENCE

Representing Server/Country: Defiant/England, Denmark, Netherlands

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What happened to "maximal retardation"?

I forgot to add that snow storm is also autohit -fly and does some -speed and -recharge.
It is pretty good if you plan to stay at range only.

Hibernate is relatively useful as a panic button.

Power boosting the slotted frozen armor is pretty good defense, but remember that power boost has slightly longer recharge than build up and aim. (ps I think I just noticed a typo in nofuture tables, power boost recharge btw..)

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No naming and shaming

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Thats the part that still annoys me. Be quiet for someone who basicly makes it a worse evening, for some even the reason (now) to not going to a raid anymore? (Capt did a great job!)


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In this case he didnt do intentional griefing that I could see, apart from going against raid leaders orders and the raid guide, but his actions could have been hazardous. Such as drawing mito aggro to my empaths who were already getting enough. Attacking Hami core just for the fun of it during clearing phase etc. Tank team wiped numerous times anyway due to patchy PA coverage (and Mitos still mysteriously pick on certain people. dead-rez-dead-rez-dead-rez same people over and over, the rest are ok.. go figure. ) I personally want to thank Gen 2 and Archy and all the other PA droppers, because without PA we could not have done it.

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Or use DP if ur regen

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on archery/dev? /e thumbsup

I just personally dislike the way the domination build up in PVP is handled, because it seems impossible to keep my dominator enjoyable to play in PvE while at the same time improve its capabilities in PVP. The annoying secondary blasts just highlight this. I wouldnt take them for PvE at all. The only reason for the existence of power blast and power bolt is domination build up in PvP. Otherwise they are useless. Now I must ditch primary power that I like in PvE in favor of power blast. Blargh. Not to mention that a power like levitate has a useful secondary effect but devs want me to get power blast.. :/

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Think I may put the culprit on global ignore, I have resisted as I don't like the thought of stuff being said that I cannot see, but to be honest, I can't see what I have to gain from seeing what is said.

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Like others said, this will only silence him on global channels, not even arena. Just have to use the normal ignore.

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No naming and shaming

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True, it is still forbidden, even in this case.

I talked with him a bit on tells and hopefully managed to explain why we do things a certain way in the raid..

As for the raid, thank you for your work, it was harder than most this time but we made it.

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1. Is there any changes i could make to the order of powers in the pre-lev 41 choices?


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You didnt specify what kind of PVP did you primarily have in mind? Arena? Zones? solo? team? Your power choices look nice to me. Im not familiar with much of the sonic primary but looks good. Superspeed would help an awful lot if you do pvp blapping, but I cant see anything to remove.. Personally Id take superspeed as the last power with 3 epics.. Inasmuch useful as sirens song is. One other thing against which the sleep is useful is bubblers, because dispersion bubble offers no sleep protection. But good movement is paramount against ANY opponent.

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2. if there anything tin the pre-lev 41 choices that i dont really need?


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Nope. Can't see any. Its a question of what to squeeze in. You might wanna put some extra jump slots to hurdle and combat jumping though from somewhere.

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3.does power boost really increase you defense by 100% of its value when power boost is activated?


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Yes. It increases your other defbuffs value 100%, not your total defense though. So PFF will have double defense while power boost is active. On the other hand if you have no extra defbuff powers or effects active then power boost doesnt increase your defense.

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4. will power boost increase the effect of range boost?


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No.

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5.what epics pools do you think would be better out of force mastery and ice mastery? and can anyone alter my build so that i can fit in super speed and 3 epic power choices? (lord knows iv tried)


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Personally I like force mastery. Its especially good vs melee toons and overall I recommend it. Cold mastery is useful in certain pvp duels, and will give an edge in Blaster vs blaster duels specifically because snow storm prevents aid self use.
I dont like the other two epic pools much.

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6.probably a noob question but power boost doesnt increase the recharge effect of hasten does it? (a correct anwser will end 2 weeks of debate between me and a friend)


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It does not.

ps. I suspect the range in amplify is herobuilder bugging out again

Volturne, contact me at @hammerfall, I can join your team.

The Goonies current base

The topography doesnt look very nice atm, because I had to squeeze things somewhat to fit everything to a 12x12 map. With current base I went for functionality instead of looks.

There are 3 teleport rooms in total to house all 21 beacons to all COH zones(that have a beacon). Big room has lower level pads, red room has high lvl pads between Founders and Peregrine isle, and the little green room houses the Eden telepad.

Bottom right is the big workshop room, with 3 tech worktables, 6 salvage storage, 3 insp storage, and tech and arcane 3rd tier empowerment stations. Right side top and center are turbine generator and supercomputer rooms (with advanced database to cater for all needed control).

Bottom center has another workshop, with 5 enhancement storages and Bog Monsters mud pool. Bottom left is the combat hospital with 8 rez rings, 1 insp storage and battery backup.

Top left is our the conference room which I like very much.

edit: forgot to add that everything is fully functional if it wasnt already obvious.

ps. We don't really grind for prestige much, most of our prestige comes from playing alts in sg mode and rotating active alts to the main sg from our alt sg.

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since domination builds very fast in PVP anwyay.

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Only if you spam the blasts from secondary.. Which I normally didn't plan on using.. Atm I only got power bolt unslotted and thats because its obligatory.. I will respec to more pvp-friendly build propably later. Currently I just want to have the aoe stuff in order to enjoy the travel to 50.

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I wouldn't be surprised if we got ner...erm, balanced downwards in a future update, but for now I'm enjoying this character more than ever, so Thank You .

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I don't think you need to worry about 'downwards balancing' yet, doms arent too strong.

Personally I don't like the domination build up changes in PVP, ie. that the build up bonus only applies to powers in secondary, now forcing me to take powers I don't want. :/

On topic: I dont think this 'feature' is fixed any time soon, precisely because the form powers are inherents. I think fix would require some extra work. And its not like it makes Kheldians overpowered..

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Hmm - I don't think this is right. You can only slot powers in a respec after you reach the level you bought the power at. As the nova/dwarf attacks are tied in with the shapeshifts, you would not be able to slot them until you had got that power.

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Its a known bug. You can slot them beforehand..