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Yes, this echoes my experiences: I didnt use acrobatics on my blaster as long as I only did Zone PvP. Once I started to do Arena more I couldnt live without acrobatics.

Its been pointed out dozens of times, and base rent is not supposed to emulate life. It is supposed to be a 'soft' cap into how big bases you can have and force basebuilding into being a team(supergroup) effort. With rent, one person can't pile up enough prestige to make a big base. So big bases would equal big and active SGs. Base rent is purely a game mechanic, and we've been arguing that it isnt a good one.

ps. Damn, nice to see more Finns in game

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Not everyone exists to try to make everyone else feel good about themselves. Sorry, Sammy, that's not my bag.

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Trying to pick a fight for no apparent reason is not my particular cup of tea either.

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Put your EU account on hiatus, grab a code from plaync.com and log in, it really doesnt take long to get to 50


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Just on comparison, It took 5 months from me the first time and 11 months the second time. I can't stand the tedious leveling process for long plus I hope I still have a life. I know it can be done fast. Mostly the delay is due to my altitis though.

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especially with people you know and depend on.


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Which are all here.

Enough with the advertising. Talk about rad/rads for a change. I dueled a Rad/rad last night, name was familiar but I can't quite place it. Anyway I won, but just barely 3-2. Apparently he hadnt been playing for a while so maybe made couple mistakes because of that. The thought that he might be having telekinesis from epic pool had not occurred in my sleepdeprived head and so I didnt bring quite enough break frees. I wonder does it always boil down to telekinesis with PVPing defenders? Anyways, a rad defender seems a very feasible choice for PVP, at least on high level.

To discuss the basics of rad/rad I guess the important powers are radiation infection, lingering radiation, enervating field, accelerated metabolism and possibly radiant aura for self heal. I don't know how good EMP pulse is but I think its decent. Choking cloud is iffy, better not take it. Mutation possibly for combat rezzes.

Someone who knows more of the sets can advice slotting. I know that enervating field is an endhog and will need end reduxes.

And psychic mastery as an epic pool seems to fit a lot of defenders perfectly. Telekinesis can be awesome in PVP fights. Dominate, mind over body, telekinesis.

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And when we fought and when I have lost im not in the best of moods due to the competitive nature of the game and seek rationale from logical sources, IOPs should ahve been installed, TS should ahve been used. Personally I prefer zonal or random team arena events as the tribal mentality doesnt come to the surface so much.


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Stalk, in all honesty I have no qualms with you but next time you might want to seek the logical explanation that opponent was better than you Its what I consider first myself, and then search ways to improve.

Happy to help

Imo theres a worse one in Bloody bay villain base. Heroes can camp inside a crate (safe from turrets I think) and tp villains exiting hospital inside to waiting caltrops etc. Moreover, this spot has line of sight to the arachnos flyer that is the exit from the zone, imo it could be possible to prevent villains from exiting the zone and instead continuously camp-kill them.

Noticed this recently, and Im not sure whether to contact Bridger directly or put this recipe here, but B can delete my post if necessary thougb..

Heres some pics:
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pic2 can see the crate in relation to the exit of zone here. THe crate also has direct line of sight to the doors on one side of villain hospital.Not sure about the other side, but possibly someone could get a target lock to there too.
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Mind being a bit more specific?

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Oh, and there are ways of dropping the rad toggles without actually hitting your opponent.

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Unfortunately not on all arena maps..

No acrobatics?

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As long as you guys do it everyday at 8pm ill show up every now and then to lend my support Just wont be on much lately for the rest of the week due to RL, been rather too busy to even get near CoX lately

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Unfortunately the difficult part is "every day", as you yourself said you could come "every now and then". Its the same for everyone so I'm hoping to see a bit coordinated effort in this.

If you show up at time and theres nobody around, stick around for 20 minutes just in case someone would show up. It's not gonna work if it turns to "duel captain alpha at 8pm everyday". Wish people would be more understanding. Besides, Jakku wanted this to be a bit of discussing builds and that socializing jazz too.

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What? We're a tad ahead of the curve, but covertly.

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Hehe, you're sneaky. I like it.

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Rad/Psi/body is THE pvp monster in the US, I cant think of much that will take it down

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Why don't we have any here that I could duel? Seeing defenders winning duels always brings a smile to my face, we havent had many of those. There was Powernova, and.. thats about it?

I always like it when I discover a new good pvp char concept..

I have often noticed this with my blapper, (stun or KB from his attacks I think) even if I get 'placated' message and stalker goes translucent, I can attack them.

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After numerous PMs, I figure I should address this.

First, we know about this. It was noted as happening during Beta. At that time, we decided to watch the PvP data and see if it proved a problem. Stalkers are not doing poorly in PvP at any level range.

Second, I discussed this with our QA and programmer and have filed it as a bug. It is low priority, however, since Stalkers are still the best in PvP according to our data. As such, there is no ETA for a fix.

Third, there is a workaround for this issue. I'm certain you all can figure out what it is, if you don't already know.

Just to reiterate on Placates mechanics:
Placate, the power has two portions: Placate (the effect) and a Hide equivalent.
Any attack or effect on the original target will break the Placate, but not the hide -- only a new attack on any target breaks that.
In PvE, we've made the AI ignore Effects when placated, so the AI still ignores you (most of the time.)

Placate is a tool. It is a powerful tool, but it has limitations. Learning those limitations and how to work around them is a large part of gameplay for Stalkers.


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Btw I havent had problems with my own stalker yet. I think I got a hunch what Castle is after.

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You will lack damage, but played properly should be near unkillable. Sorry I dont have a build to post.

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o.O Looking forward to this..

Im willing to sub if necessary on most evenings. Just give me a shout at @hammerfall or @hammerfall2 or arena channel.

I think discussing about kheldians in PVP is something that needs to be done, and hope that devs might do something about it. Sorry if I go offtopic abit

The biggest problem I see is lack of mez resistance. The fancy shields help little if you are one-shot held/slept/stunned/whatever by first troller/blaster/dominator/mastermind/whatever that you come across. This in addition to having about blaster HP and mostly melee powers. You got dwarf form you can escape to with its mez resistance, but its damage output is pretty limited. Also you cant use pool powers while in it, and Kheldians get no epic pools like other characters either, with stuff like blasters force of nature, snow storm, etc missing.

Thankfully theres no recharge in forms so you can change between them quite swiftly. Also if the dwarf gets mezzed, it changes back to human form to die because dwarf is basically just another toggle.

Quite frankly, while I want to encourage PVP in all forms, I wish someone would show me that Kheldian can do ok in pvp. Also latest PVP tournaments have banned Kheldians for reasons I cant fathom, I'd like an event with Kheldians allowed to see if someone could come up with a decent PVP Kheldian.

Yes, I see kheldians in PVP zones, but Im not impressed by them. Squid form is pointless in combat imo, because human form gets more damage out in my opinion(especially in team as squid form is unaffected by the boosts of Cosmic balance, Khelds inherent. Same applies to dwarf of course)

If Id PVP with my PB, Id propably stick to dwarf until I saw an opportunity and then switch to human form to BU, incandescent strike, radiant strike, and whatever else is there.

Ps. of course, everybody can be useful in PVP zones regardless of builds, imo. Just less so than good players with good builds.

TF Babbage does give the badge, but you don't have to kill him to finish TF.

2 acc, 2 recharge and 2 end mod I'd say.

Wish I could, but I don't know an even decent build. I tried a human-only PB in test server event (my own PB is lvl 22) and hated it after about 10 seconds. Only hint that I can give is that I wouldnt dream of PVPing without dwarf form..

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well i was fortunate to be able to do everything, pa dropping, tank healing, killing mitos, rezzing blasters... etc etc :P It was fun and i want more... more i say!

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Aye, and you did good job! Thanks for coming to aid the tank team

EDIT: Arch, sometimes the friendslist will say "out of range or offline" if the targeter is far enough, and thats closer than you think for people with lag. Less than half Hami-width Id say from my past experience. I had honsou (when he was targeter) vanish lots of times in the earlier raids. A big flying tank wearing white wouldnt actually be a bad idea

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uhm.. i suppose hibernate works at the same way of phase shift? except for + reg you get from hibernate..

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When hibernate activates, you can't move, but can't be affected by anything either (same as phased). You can't activate or disactivate powers apart from hibernate, but toggles will stay on. Its like an invulnerable rest, really.

It switches itself off after 30 seconds iirc, but you can disactivate it at any time.

Note: if you are under -regen from some power, hibernate will not gain hp but will not be interrupted either. Hib lasts 30 seconds though so it is possible for -regen to wear off in that time.

Lol, I used to have ice epic(cold mastery) and went to change it into force and medicine pool. I always knew that snow storm was the best power in ice epic, hibernate is ok and frozen armor.. well imo sucked.

Key point is indeed that snow storm is an autohit power (targeted toggle) that nullifies aid self (and has decent -recharge). It wasnt all THAT great against other opponents that I plyed, though. Useful, but nothing earth-shattering. Blaster vs blaster though, its propably best epic that you can have.

My force mastery however has totally changed the tables I had with melee characters, making me pretty unkillable. Mainly due to PFF which I can always activate and PB+aid self me back to shape. FON the enemy can nullify with their own 9th tier power usually(or more precisely, DP+instant healing). With ice epic and no aid self I used to lose 0-10 or so, with force mastery and aid self I have beaten last regens I fought 1-0 or 2-0. PFF is very dirty trick imo, but undeniably useful. Takes little endurance, is up practically when I need it and makes me pretty untouchable except for blasters and certain targeted toggles .

I would never say that blaster has no difficulties hitting thru PFF (try it without buffs ), but I know I can hit thru it with PB+BU+aim applied (I have 6-slotted BU and Aim thou). Same applies to MoG and elude. Those buffs however arent up all the time.

PS. And boost range was indeed perma with less than 3 recharges, iirc 2 is enough like Valens said.

PPS. two accuracy in power thrust.

PPPS. The build doesnt look that unorthodox to me

Dunno about great defenses and effects, but plenty of the endurance drain is from cloak of fear I believe. You might want to test fighting without it on and see if it helps. Putting one endurance redux into your big attacks should also help. And of coursetrying to get stamina from fitness pool.

Enter the PvP zone and check your buff icons?