Hammerfall

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I'll stand with you, Ducky! We can fall together, and take some of them with us!

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I can team with you

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Standard CoX play pattern

1. Rush your first toon to level 50 using every trick you can in the book, powerlevelling ,leeching, going afk, dodging debt at the expense of fun. Missing lots of content and fun on the way.

2. Roll a Kheldian

3. Get completely fed up with how awful they are by level 10-20.

4. Roll another "Standard" toon. Have much more fun, dont worry about debt, see more content, relax.


Enjoy!

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This might be surprisingly true. Although I took my sweet time getting my first toon to 50..

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Now you know what Mael goes through when he's up against Freakshow tanks or mech enemies...

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Why's that?

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Seriously, bosses that die in 2-3 hits from a Katana?
Always wondered why people found them difficult...


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Because they played with war mace? :/

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I'm pancking now

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Whatever you do, don't duel Xan's defender

Better try some teammatches, maybe on test server or something so we can all participate cause I really dont have suitable union toons save my wimpy dominator at 30-ish.

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I was talking Deviant anyway.

Theres a Deviant lowbie event on in the arena this evening actually, I'm going to try to attend and either fight or cheer on (girlfriend allowing of course)

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Um, didnt cap alpha move it to next week recently?

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Its not even the XP per hour. Its the fact that Lusca is really, really boring to fight and theres almost nothing to show for it. Just saying why she's left sit in the middle of IP unharressed.


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In addition Lusca has always been one of the more common monsters, even when people were still killing GMs for rewards there were often multiple Luscas around.

I never drop below 2 accuracy SOs in my powers so Im kinda biased..

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Only problems I forsee are carnies and sappers.
But carnies don't all do psi damage and sappers are squishy!!


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Carnies are pretty easy and I got a hold from my epic pool for sappers myself (the only epic power i got). If you end up in trouble with sappers, simply go unstoppable.

Ps. if you worry about psi damage, Rularuu wisps are 100x worse than carnies. Damn things are mez-resistant too.

Sure.. if only I could figure out how is that different from my normal PvP

Erm, according to nofuture it has slightly better accuracy than other attacks save inferno,blazing bolt and rain of fire..

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Actually, I'd be interested in fighting some Forumites. Any takers?

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I'm a forumite, be my guest

ps. AR doesnt have aim.

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Raids are still horribly bugged (external buffers come to mind as well as near indestructible anchors, pylons penalizing bigger bases, fixed spawnpoints and so on) but at least for us they are a way to let even those players not entirely focused on pvp engage in it.

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Yeah I hear you, which is why I have been a proponent of massed battles like pvp zones as well and not just minutely planned arena battles. If player numbers matter, then everybody regardless of skill can help. This is why I have still been going on to the zones in hopes of igniting the pvp sparkle on people. Arena is much more cold and cruel enviroment to get started on PvP.

However personally I dont enjoy chaotic conditions that much. Nothing irks me more than losing and not being able to do anything about it. Even though I propably had less lag than most in that base raid (ran it on pretty much max settings .. ) , it could have been worse. I enjoyed this one cause we had a good plan, managed to stick to it, knew where to go and what to do. That sort of battle I can appreciate personally

ps. I cant think of much that could have been done to stop us really.. so thumbs up for good fight . Debuff nukes seemed really good in taking down those generators.. I was really surprised how fast they went down.

If I'd play my brutes more, Id propably do /elec or /invul. Stone has never got me excited.

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i concur with SW here - i'd go for active attacking as defence over additional toggles anyday. having 2 inv tanks at 50 (one taunt and one tauntless) neither have needed tough or weave to be effective, whereas they could always do with more endurance

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And me who consider myself less of a scranker, have made it this far using primary only. No need for tough weave either. I might have considered them if I continually tanked at the max aggro limit which I dont, because Im afraid of going over it and some mob attacking my teammates..

invoke panic is funny, and can be somewhat useful but needs to be heavily slotted to be effective.

Yeah, well I was mainly referring to the "it was a hard fight, but after 9 minutes.."

PvP temp powers ftw.

Anyway good show guys, Im looking forward for more of the same. Lets all use this as a learning experience. If possible could we make it bit earlier next time, cause I have a timezone problem..

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Oh and congrats on Excellent strategy, Xanthus, now im personally much wiser regarding base raids.

Well off the top of my head I can't really think of any multiple target knockback powers (especially cones) that would be good, singletarget ones are passable but multitarget KB is just more grief than its worth. (KB, not Knockdown/up like ice slick, note) Energy torrent, phaugh!

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Shockwave is is a great escape button, and usefull for minion herding or tanker support. While the tank is keeping them all aggroed on him you can happily let rip with it knowing they will all just keep trying to hit the tanker, and all the time they are flying backwards is less damage the tank is getting hit by.

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As a rule of thumb, tanks dont tend to like about enemies they have herded getting knockbacked out of their taunt aura..

Mmm I may have to reassess my opinion about attackers being gimped

ps. kudos for good shot at sarcasm, xan

Welcome back . Serophina said you might join our team in the upcoming lvl 21 3v3 tourney?

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It seems rather ineffective as nothing is really done about the monsters, though.

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I've never seen a better response than from broadcasts on [DefiantBadgers] or [Defiant Events]. Life before joining these channels was pure misery. I remember one time I spotted Kraken in Perez... it was the first GM I'd ever seen and as I had no friends online, I had no real way to generate interest from other heroes. I found myself travelling to adjacent zones and sending broadcasts on the global channels for each but had zero luck. Then came along the badgers or events channel and everything changes. Somebody spots a GM? Somebody gets a special badge mish? Somebody is doing a TF? Somebody is farming badges? You can bet your cape it will be advertised there and there are ALWAYS takers.

Perhaps the interest is a little less in GMs these days because most people on the channels may already have the badges, but that's still a good enough reason to reinforce it with newer heroes, right?

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Pity, Kraken is still a rare occurrence until I8 hits and they up his spawn rate.

Anyway the reason people arent interested in GMs is that they offer too little for the risk of debt involved. Namely, only badges. Xp rewards are a joke. Plus of course you basically need a -regen character so that the GM becomes actually killable.

Lack of decent rewards for GMs was discussed ages ago. They used to be ok but then US people apparently 'farmed them' (no idea how because the spawn rate isnt exactly phenomenal) so the rewards were nerfed. I mentioned this just in case it wasnt common knowledge..

Yes, the drones are there to make a line not to be crossed. If youre heavily outnumbered its only normal they get droned. Most decent people Ive met in sirens back off and let the opposition to move out from base.

Remember if someone goes over the border in verbal abuse, petition.

Thats one valid method of playing. If you are losing, run..

Arena is for duels, btw.

War mace was bearable when you could 5 slot the attacks for damage.. Now it isnt. Thats my main grife really.

Serophina may have RL issues as well, I think the time is bit badly chosen, could we move it? (its not like its a good idea but..)