Phil_

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Use acc mez's in cage, it enhances duration

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Oh noes . . .

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I disagree, you will not want to take the snipe against a good team and definitely not if you're not taking fly . . . I would never take short circuit or tesla cage on an Elec/Energy for PvP.

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I've always thought the 3 reason why Elec was a viable alternative to ice was the snipe, the nuke, and short circuit. I can see why you wouldnt have SC in a team pvp build but I've found it very useful, when combined with PB, especially in warburg the amount of regens and tanks I've had running into the safe zone screaming like little girls

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Don't take this the wrong way, but I would consider that a bad dueling build.


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I just posted it as an example but it has served me well I'd be interested to here what you think is wrong with it.

I have a lvl 50 Ele/Energy and a lvl 29 Ice/Elec.

If you take energy you get power boost which is an awesome PvP power - it boost end drain of your elec blast powers (particularly good when used with short circuit in both pve and pvp), hold durations, stun duration, the heal if you take aid self (which is really useful but blaster builds are tight so you may not have room), slows (if you want cold epic) and the tohit buffs from Aim and Build up (allowing you to hit things with very high defence such as mogging or eluding scrappers and people using PFF). Probably more using for an Elec but i cant think of any atm Also energy gets Total Focus which does more damage than the Elec Manipulation equivalent. Boost range is also great with the ranged Nuke and the Snipe

Elec Manipulation's saving grace is power sync allowing you to drain and recover full endurance every 30 seconds or so, meaning if you're careful so go with a staminaless build unfortunately its at 35. The melee moves also do a mixture of sleeps and stuns good for dropping acro and dispersion bubble in pvp If you want to pvp more in sirens Elec Manipulation is well worth considering as you get Thunder strike at 28.

For lvl 50 PvP Elec.Energy is much better in most situations but if you plan on Sirens Elec/Elec would probably be a better bet.

Below is my current PvP build more for duels and warburg then team pvp. I'm not saying this is the way to do it as there about a 100 different ways to build a blaster

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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder - (http://sherksilver.coldfront.net/index.php)
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Name: Evo.
Level: 50
Archetype: Blaster
Primary: Electrical Blast
Secondary: Energy Manipulation
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01) --> Charged Bolts==> Acc(1) Acc(3) Dmg(3) Dmg(5) Dmg(5) Rechg(7)
01) --> Power Thrust==> Acc(1) Acc(7) Dmg(13) Dmg(15) Dmg(15) Rechg(17)
02) --> Lightning Bolt==> Acc(2) Acc(9) Dmg(9) Dmg(11) Dmg(11) Rechg(13)
04) --> Build Up==> Rechg(4) Rechg(17) Rechg(19)
06) --> Short Circuit==> Acc(6) Acc(19) EndMod(21) EndMod(21) EndMod(27) EndRdx(27)
08) --> Aim==> Rechg(8) Rechg(36) Rechg(36) TH_Buf(46) TH_Buf(48)
10) --> Bone Smasher==> Acc(10) Acc(37) Dmg(37) Dmg(37) Dmg(40) EndRdx(43)
12) --> Combat Jumping==> DefBuf(12)
14) --> Super Jump==> EndRdx(14) EndRdx(43)
16) --> Swift==> Run(16) Run(46)
18) --> Health==> Heal(18)
20) --> Acrobatics==> EndRdx(20) EndRdx(43)
22) --> Stamina==> EndMod(22) EndMod(23) EndMod(23)
24) --> Hasten==> Rechg(24) Rechg(25) Rechg(25)
26) --> Stimulant==> IntRdx(26)
28) --> Power Boost==> Rechg(28) Rechg(29) Rechg(29)
30) --> Aid Self==> Heal(30) Heal(31) Heal(31) IntRdx(31) IntRdx(34) Rechg(36)
32) --> Thunderous Blast==> Acc(32) Acc(33) Dmg(33) Dmg(33) Dmg(34) Rechg(34)
35) --> Super Speed==> EndRdx(35)
38) --> Total Focus==> Acc(38) Acc(39) Dmg(39) Dmg(39) Dmg(40) EndRdx(40)
41) --> Snow Storm==> EndRdx(41) EndRdx(42) EndRdx(42) Rechg(42)
44) --> Frozen Armor==> DefBuf(44) DefBuf(45) DefBuf(45) EndRdx(45) EndRdx(46)
47) --> Hibernate==> Rechg(47) Rechg(48) Rechg(48) Heal(50)
49) --> Conserve Power==> Rechg(49) Rechg(50) Rechg(50)
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For team PvP in the arena you will want to take the snipe and boost range as will as Force mastery instead of cold but its up to you.

Hope this helped

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I think you should take out sonic cage

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I think there is a hidden agenda behind this statement

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hehe you think

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Regen is better, cause SR needs support.

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exactly. a solo regen is very hard to kill, a solo SR is easy to kill. a SR with support becomes good. a regen with support becomes immortal

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Without Rads this is the case but with a good rad/psy or rad/sonic everything is going down

As far as SRs in arena go I've never had much of a problem and in team pvp I've only ever died once while using elude (Gatling's full defiance Nuke ) but I think if the other team actively attacked me I would be in trouble.

SR is also very good against kin trollers which hasnt been mentioned.

I think you should take out sonic cage

Was good fun tonight nice to try out my PvP fire/kin

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And yes, no travel power. (hurdle + CJ + sprint does me fine and is faster than fly!)

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Recently respeced my PvP empath into 3 slotted swift for flight speed and with 3 slotted Fly with flight speed its awesomely quick Granted most toons wouldnt have the slots but thought it was worth mentioning

As far as divine avalanche for PvE I went 2 acc 2 dam 2 def but each to their own

Congrats

Feels so good when you get it

Grats

Hopefully I'll be around for some arena fun

Critical Flame Fire/Kin signing up for some general Hami pwnage once more

I'll be up for pretty much all the farms mentioned just name a time and place

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For PvP /sr is the best secondary for Broadsword imo. Bear in mind that it's a late bloomer primary, but when you get disembowel and, mainly, headsplitter, you'll forget about how crappy if felt in the beginning.
About the end usage, well you'll manage better in pvp than in pve. Don't bother slotting your toggles with defbuffs until you've got 1 (or 2) endrdx on them, and well I'd advice to slot your powers 2 acc 3dmg 1 endrdx (unless you go for FA, then 1 acc 3 dmg 1 endrdx 1 rchred would be better).

Oh and get parry the sooner and slot it nicely, gotta love that power for real

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I agree 100% with everything said here . . . I need to lie down

Parry ftw its your best friend until SOs and means you can out tank tanks from lvl 8

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1 - Phil, In your first post, in the first build, you've slotted attacks with only one accuracy and you've chosen Weapons Mastery so there’s no Focused Acc. Where are you getting you Acc from? Tactics is only another 7% and no where near enough for PvP.

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That was me being lazy and not changing the slots after I changed the power hehe, surprised no one else noticed

Believe the Fire/Kin was 7 Sins' and you died right at the end to make it 1-0

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Time to crack out the old toons?

I'll be there

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Cant wait to see that Fire/Ice in action again

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ice/rad
fire/rad
grav/rad
illusion/rad
mind/rad

:P

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I'm sure there's a pattern . . just can't put my finger on it

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Was a fun night tonight plenty of action that was fun to watch, and dont tell anyone but after you all left, I had a few fights

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NO WAI!!111!!

Happy Cakeday KS

Sounds good to me.

Was some awesome action tonight even with trying to remembering how to play my toons again

Might be around and if I am and theres any room I'd play as my lvl 21 dark/dark defender

Mondays work for me

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Did nobody tell you phil, ive already got an /en blaster hehe

And shouldnt that be cheeryleading

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hehe

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I will of course be along to watch

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Make a /nrg and bring pompoms for cheerleading

Any hunts going down tonight?

I'd be interested if we can get some people for it