Nefarious_EU

hm, duke only has 4 toggles (frozen armor, chilling embrace, wet ice and glacial armor) and they dont get dropped too often, and the one that DOES get dropped tends to be CE. However if they manage to drop wet ice and I cant re-activate it in time i'm pretty fked.

Also tanking-wise, fire tanks have always been the worst, theyre mainly offensive rather than defensive like the other 3 sets.

Indeed you cant permahold with controllers, however 1 hold is enough to finish someone off in pvp before he can avoid the kill. In pvp with stage, I cast blind (or blind+flash if i need to overcome mez protection) from sup invis, and he is held. The combo PA+phantasm+spec wounds (and when lvl 50 pvp zone goes live psi blast and psi tornado) is enough to deal nice damage before he breaks free. Also casting spec terror (which isnt a hold and thus isnt affected by perma hold nerf) keeps him in place if you cant finish him before your hold wears off.

Basically I dont leave them with much hope to fight/run once they get held. Of course if they are stacked with break frees i might have to make a run for it

it means you can transfer some of your spare inf for prestige, like you change currency when you travel abroad. IIRC the transfer rate was 1 mil = 2k pres, but I might be off, they were [censored] at least

i normally keep sup invis + group invis running while safely in my bubble.. this to prevent me from losing all my stealth powers when somebody manages to detoggle sup invis.
Also it seems that with sup invis + PFF, you are invisible even to ppl with perception buffs (or they just dont bother attacking lol)

got a few..
first of all having a whole team of villains gunning for you in BB while you just dance on your ice patch in that corridor between all those turrets leading to vill base and hear the shouts of the villains "ffs get that tank.. hes makin a fool outta us!"

second of all after the big pvp event in sirens, heroes outnumbered vills and started ganking them so they had no choice to hole up in their base.. now i dont like ganking and i just kept divebombing into their hospital to annoy them (course drones wont let you live long there)

and of course, go into sup invis with stage just outside the villains helicopter in BB and pelt new villains in the zone with snowballs right in the face when they enter

like: playing duke or stage in pvp especially when duke is teamed with his personal empath for fortitude lovin'
hate: anything rad with duke, or scrappers with stage

Ice Duke... alive n kickin.. though i mostly use him for pvp (the sad existence of a tank in an altoholics life )

controller, corrupter... looks the same
anyway im afraid i cant help you much with this seein i aint too good at blaster/corrupter builds

wouldnt get repulsion field, the time between the repulsion ticks is enough to land some melee hits on you, and it can severely drain your end.
With stamina 3slotted I found you dont need an end reducer on the 2 bubbles, if I cast a full 8man team (even though i got rid of insulation shield) I still have half a bar end left. I do recommend slotting force bubble with end reducers and 1 in disp bubble seeing you would like to keep disp bubble up perma while casting powers, and force bubble when things go pearshaped.
Dont use forcebubble perma cause you will get quite some aggro from enemies who try to enter it.

merry Xmas to all.. even the mentally impaired that get flamed all the other days of the year

lemme guess... EM stalkers?

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I know what you mean about cockyness, its the number one thing that either puts me off PvP, or enrages me so much I work harder at it and smash the guys chops in. ahem..

Slightly OT, i remember an old PK game where some guy basically bullied me all the time (he was about twice my size and kept kicking me out the areas I was bashing in). Anywho, he stopped playing for about 6 months, gave me time to get bigger than him
Next time i saw him he was like "erm...you got big. Your probably going to kill me now arent you?" haha.

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this PK game.. it wasnt high school was it?

hehe.. terrible... utterly terrible..



love it!

dunno... insulting the whole community wont gain votes in your favor i reckon.. *counts the minutes till the thread gets locked*

PS. you said our way didnt work, and in another (now locked) thread you said you got 2 hamis on this server, while the same tactics were employed.. so whats the point you're trying to prove? at least we USED tactics, not your genious "send in people and hope we can hold/kill him"

iirc, they are 6 indoor mishes all sky raiders vs other enemy type with the last one being a sky raider base with sky raider AV. Rewards are a badge (air pirate) and a SO. Lvl range is 20-25.
As for tips.. on the last mish, move carefully cause those turrets can really hurt and if the AV spawns before you cleared all the turrets, just all jump down in the water so you fight him isolated

guess Mr REAL Raid has to come in and say something as well..

first of all, you act like its easy to get that amount of people on an EU server, you see that with all that organizing and notice up front we still didnt have that 40+ controllers that are so easy to get (according to you, of course). Dont forget you need REAL people for this raid, who also got a social life. You might lack this, but some people actually need to plan when they go commit such a long time to do a raid.

Also from all the responses you get from bout everybody that replied after your post I doubt you would have gotten those numbers.

However, seeing you always know it better, I challenge you to organize the next raid.. as long as you havent organized a succesful raid, you arent likely to be taken serious.

NB. how many posts does it take before this thread is locked just as all the others where mr-I-can-do-it-better posted

warshades more holds? there only is 1 hold

personally I like the combo me n Manf have.. he the rad/kin corrupter, me the stone/stone brute.. 1shot galore

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Facts bout CE:
DOES interrupt AS
DOES gimp enemy's movement/recharge
DOESNT drop hide
DOESNT have -stealth

at least those are the facts for my ice tank.. CE is great to keep on all the time when you are in a PvP zone so sneaky stalkers wont sneak up on you for that AS. Seeing they wont be able to get away fast (unless they got tp) you can do some nice damage with FF and Ice Sword as well.

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I disagree, CE sucks

We resort to getting a few stalkers together and brawling off the toggles for you pesky Ice tanks

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I'll be waiting
(glacial armor is your friend )

gotta disagree with ya there gilg.. a lvl 40 stalker couldnt bring down duke who is only lvl 30. Even a team of that same 40 stalker, 32 stalker and 29 stalker couldnt bring him down.. So there I prove that at least 1 AT is able to solo and stalkers arent THAT overpowered.

Also tanks CAN bring em down, at least ice melee can and if you know what you are doing. The big mistake people make is that they fight enemies in pvp the same way they fight enemies in pve. Problem is, in pvp the opportunity exists enemies actually have a brain.

If I solo with duke ice patch + CE is enough to keep em at bay while I dish out the pain with freezing touch, frozen fists, brawl and ice sword. The key in defeating most stalkers is toggledrops, as is the same for defeating tankers.

if you got 2shotted it means you were standing still in a pvp zone.. if you stand still just firing attacks you deserve to die. I have to defend the stalkers in this issue, even while im not a stalker myself. I do it because I'm a bane to most stalkers ive pvped against, and if they were overpowered they could down me easily, but thusfar no single stalker has dropped me.

If I wanna complain about getting killed fast by a certain AT I would spam this forum with NERF RAD CORRUPTERS/DEFENDERS!!!11!!oneoneelevityone threads. Bout nother AT you need extra insps to spot, I think you are forgetting illusion controllers? Superior invis works bout as good as hide.

Yes, if you dont have a good team or special anti-stalker build, you need to do a little more to be able to kill them before they kill you.

However dont forget, that if you take their ability away to AS you or sneak up on you, you take away the whole AT. Stalkers dont last that long in a 'fair' 1 v 1 fight. Seeing I got AS protection with CE running, stalkers dont pose that big a threat anymore cause they cant AS.

Its all a one sided discussion.. people never complain they get easy kills in pvp, they only complain when they get beaten themselves. Its a pity, but that kind of behavior makes me frequent the pvp zones less and less often. Even though I enjoy fighting some of the villains there (especially stalkers).

Facts bout CE:
DOES interrupt AS
DOES gimp enemy's movement/recharge
DOESNT drop hide
DOESNT have -stealth

at least those are the facts for my ice tank.. CE is great to keep on all the time when you are in a PvP zone so sneaky stalkers wont sneak up on you for that AS. Seeing they wont be able to get away fast (unless they got tp) you can do some nice damage with FF and Ice Sword as well.

well I always try to be courteous when duke is on a villain-bashing spree. I dont like ganking, and will never take part in it (especially since I can hold multiple villains at once, outnumbering them just isnt fun ).

In a fight, dont expect me to hold back and I will chase you straight back into your base if you decide to run there.
Trashtalk however is another thing, I like to taunt enemies while fighting (who doesnt?) but after fights or after Im defeated I also give credit to the enemy for a good kill (unless it was a lame kill, e.g. drawing you into a mob to get you debt).

If both sides after a while decide to give the fightin a rest (it happens) I can always have a good chat with the opposing side and even learn from it. Those little "evalutation" talks really improve your build. Questions like "so that power you use to block my holds, it aint a toggle?".

Basically, fight with everything you got, but try not to be a total a-hole and at least show some dignity.

Oh, and resting outside a safe zone.. thats just asking for a kill.

they indeed tend not to keep up with you, to solve this just keep sending them a few feet ahead of you with the goto command, they will then speed up and you can keep up with them instead of vice versa

second of all, just put 1 or 2 end reducers in it and your end drain wont be so bad

yeah we couldnt hold him longer than 11 secs (which was better than previous 2 raids anyway) so we decided to go for the old rush in.. mitos spawn, server crashes (related to mito spawn?) we log back in, were all alive n kickin in the hive and hami is gone.. so we kinda beat him

PS. thanks rooks for providin me with a nice quote

hm, maybe bit late notice for me to reply, but i think you'd have to do numina (35-38) or eden (39-40) for those tfs.. if you decide to do eden, gimme a shout at @stagefright and ill join with my WS (i just love eden trials )