Ironblade

As long as they watch out for the level 40 ambushes spawning for a full team.

Anyway, sign me up for team one. I guess I'll bring Endothermy, dark/dark tank. He's 5 bars from 50 so this may do it.

Yep. I reached this conclusion a couple pages ago (after writing my other posts). Although it might be more accurate to say "it can be either", rather than "it's both". The circumstances at the time determine whether it will be PvE or PvP content.

Okay, so that's where your understanding fails. Fun is entirely a matter of personal perception. Aside from the fact that no one has to explain why something isn't fun for them, they might not be able to.
"I don't enjoy it."
"Why not?"
"I dunno. It just isn't fun."
"But what makes it not fun."
"I dunno. It just isn't."

Doesn't an exchange like that sound entirely likely?
It's like asking someone why they don't like the taste of peanut butter. They just don't.

You're the one who doesn't seem to get it. Since the objective can be completed while I am the only person in the zone, it is OBVIOUSLY not PvP content.

Not to me. Not at all.

In order to experience content in a task force, you must run the TF.
Same with AE.
Same with event content.

However, putting PvE content in a PvP zone does NOT make it PvP content because you can still experience it WITHOUT ENGAGING IN PVP. Putting it in a PvP zone doesn't automatically force PvP to occur. It just means that it MIGHT. So it remains accurate to call it "PvE content in a PvP zone".

It does.

Firstly, you didn't have 401. You can't get above 400.

There is not a 'scale' for rep award. You either get 1 or 6. In your case, the killer had zero. If they killed someone with a rep of 20 - 400, they would get the 6 pts.

None.


It depends. Assuming they are SOLO, if the person doing the killing has 80 or less rep, they get SIX. Any time you defeat a target with a rep 20 or more points above yours, you get five bonus rep in addition to the one standard rep. If the targets rep is lower, it doesn't matter. Even if they have zero and you have 390, you still get one. If the killer is on a team, the rep is divided equally.


um, neither, sort of. Rep 'deteriorates'. You lose 1/10 point per hour, maximum of 2 points per day. So while the total is cumulative, the total is constantly declining.

To be fair, that one is still completely accurate since it relates historical events. He just doesn't have to stay sealed in his armor NOW.

ALL of them? Wow, that's harsh. If you're defeated in Warburg, you only lose one piece of the launch code.

I disagree. In my experience MOST PvP'ers are good players and friendly people. We need to narrow the parameters here - most of the PvP'ers who go to a PvP zone to attack random people without warning, yeah, most of THEM are jerks. Most of them are incompetent players who run stalkers to get easy kills.

I got 1,000 pillboxes in RV the hard way. I defeated 85 Contaminated in RV for the badge. I was in there A LOT over the course of MONTHS. Most of the people who attacked me were incompetent and I would not even label them as "PvP'ers" except in the most technical sense. I killed them EASILY. When I ran into a 'real' PvP'er, they would usually win (although I would put up a good fight). And then they would engage in conversation, ask what I was doing, discuss tactics, ask about my build, etc. They weren't looking for cheap kills. They wanted to improve their skills and assumed that if I could last more than a few seconds, I could offer useful advice.

The jerks, on the other hand, would immediately try to run if their target offered any resistance. After I killed them, I would generally never see them again because they knew I wasn't an easy target. A REAL PvP'er doesn't want easy targets. They want a good fight. They want a challenge.

How about entertaining the notion that the game is DESIGNED to accommodate a wide variety of activities and playstyles. You don't get to say which ones are "intended" unless someone is actually breaking rules.


I think I missed something. If you are collecting meteor fragments and a player kills you, don't you LOSE a fragment? So, am I mistaken in my understanding of the game mechanics, or are you simply lying when you repeatedly state that fighting and losing costs you nothing?

The SSK system has no direct effect on your set bonuses, whether in a PvP zone or not. SSK'ed, in a PvP zone, flashback, whatever - you end up with a specific combat level indicated next to your health bar. THAT is the number the set bonuses will be looking at. How you ended up at the level doesn't matter to the IO's.

This is correct.

No. On the list of missions in Ouroboros, the last two in most level ranges are the standalone badge missions in that range.
"Vahzilokh Wasting Disease" or "Destroy The Plague Containers" awards the Plaguestopper badge. The missions in Ouro don't always have the name you expect.

In that level range, what are the names of the last two items?

P.S. Red Tomax's site specifically says Plaguestopper can be obtained via Flashback.

Okay, so there's another activity that doesn't fit YOUR NOTION of how to play the game. So? Some people find farming fun and do it for hours at a time. I tried it and found it boring.


Wow, talk about anthropomorphism (attributing human motivations or characteristics to something non-human). I assure you, that bear 'thought' nothing of the sort. *YOU* think that way. Animals don't.

But you still completely miss the point. "if you see someone, attack them." WHY? If someone doesn't like PvP, what possible motivation would they have to attack someone? It's not about fear. It's not about consequences. It's about NOT ENJOYING IT. 'Not fun' = 'time to go do something else that IS fun'.

The ITF isn't sufficient?

They signed up to have FUN. If they fall into the group that does not find PvP to be fun, why would they have even the SLIGHTEST motivation to stay around and fight?

Sure, but no tank is completely indestructible. I've seen plenty of situations where the tank dies and the entire team quickly follows unless they're paying attention and run fast enough. If the tank can immediately get up, under his own power, and maybe do some bonus effects to the enemy, it reduces team fatalities.

And sometimes the self-rez is a sound tactic and not just something to be used after 'failing'.
1) Bigger/tougher group than the team can handle.
2) Rush in and toss out as much damage as I can.
3) Hit Self Destruct before they kill me.
4) Boom - lots of damage on the enemy.
5) Rise of the Phoenix - more suffering for the enemy.

Instead of multiple deaths, only one person dies and doesn't even get any debt from it.

I've never heard this either, even as a rumor, and believe it to be incorrect.

Firstly, that sounds more like an issue with poor cooling in your system or on the card itself.

More importantly, for power conservation reasons, you should have your system set to blank the screen after a period of inactivity. After 20 minutes of no keyboard or mouse activity, my computer stops sending a video signal. The video card stops doing anything. When the monitor stops receiving a video signal, it goes to stand-by mode. (Assuming it was still on - I actually turn it off.)

The green numbers displayed overhead do NOT indicate the healing progress. If you take a character with a heal power and heal someone who is not injured, you'll get a green number over their head and ZERO healing badge progress.

Worth mentioning, to further people's understanding of the system, since you are issuing a command string with no spaces in it, the quotation marks are not required.