Rooks

Cyberius has done it again, this time with an Ice/Cold Corruptor! Congratz man

I always thought it was to do with the number of Player Characters in the area (i.e. more Heroes in the area, more Arachnos turn up + more Villains in the area, more Longbow turn up), which would explain why villains won most of the hotspot bouts (Player Heroes outnumbered Player Villains drastically). I may be wrong but this is what it seems to be.

Caramoun has just started to come back, expect to see more of him in i9

Would just like to resurrect this thread in reference to today's Sirens on Defiant, its the most fun I've had in ages, good clean fun (and complements/insults pointed toward my good self and my colleage 81 (not forgetting Puros who joined us later on )). Thank you for a great day of good clean fun, the number of people who hate my damn spines is growing fast.

- Grey Devil/Wintergreen

Nerf Strykes! Not Kin/Elec, just Strykes

Any actual examples? . . .

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Right I see a lot of people saying that they rock at pvp.

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Might I just say one thing?

OH MY GOD WHERE?

Answer this before making another post please, enlighten me.

This post and all those within who disagree with some of the rules, are disagreeing because they will find it alot less fun. To be honest if I did enter a tournie like this, restricted or otherwise, the chances of me winning due to an abundance of excellent PvPers are extremely low, but I would still participate if I thought it would be fun.

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Well got to say I totally disagree with you there. If you cant fight with out travel powers then your not as good as what you think you are.

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Look at Valens' post to see why this is not true at all.Take away travel powers and you take away a blaster's ability to stay at range or anyone else for that matter, opening it up for tanks and scrappers to lay waste to everything with no resistance.

/em sign, with Wintergreen Ice/Thorn level 50.

To be honest I think that if people only want a max of two buffers in a team, they should just say so, rather than hide behind at/faction limitations, as villains always get the short end of the stick when this happens.

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I may not be good at it but I enjoy it. And whats not gimped about it? There are best power sets for it and I'm just kinda sick of Ice/Nrg all over the gaff.

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AT A with powersets X/Y beats AT B with powersets Q/R beats powersets AT C with powersets S/T. This is the premise of most PvP, some sets are better suited to different things, for example a toon with alot of slows rips apart a /regen scrapper, but the slower gets mullered by a good blaster, which gets mullered by a good /regen.

Looking into PvP in greater detail rather than just tracking fotms would grant you a better look at how it works (or doesn't work)

But you can have three, a Controller a Defender and a Corruptor, allowing for emp, kin and thermal or rad or anything really...

Phil got 50 number 11 in the form of Evo.II, an ice/ele blaster. I'm sure he got some better screenies than me so I'll let him post them up if he wants.

EDIT: Grammar :S

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I won't be entering. Gimped pvp ftl.

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I concur whole-heartedly, Valens turns what I was thinking into clear points, and I therefore don't need to repeat them. Only thing I care about is how this is delaying Omnipotent really . . .

But that's taking place Mon-Sat and this was meant to take place on Sunday, surely we can have two arena matches a week?

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Now... if we only could make it stack...

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With 2 Speed Boosts and Hasten running it stacks for like 3 seconds, and I think I felt the effects (even more damage, etc), though its hard to tell when there's only 3 seconds of it, and most of the time I have perma dom its in PvP so I have little time to mess around.

With more +recharge buffs it will stack for longer, but I am not sure the effects stack.

YAY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh I think I missed out on the whole Stalker Hunter aspect, my bad, but as Phil said there's other stuff for that. I must say OG is great PvP probably the main reason I took it; it's great for detoggling acrobatics. basically any non-mez shielded squishy is for the pickings.

That is true, even a well slotted SR is in trouble when you start the attack chain with Aim, + let the -defense do the rest, its like having Forge or Fortitude levels of hitting them, totally negates their defenses, and allows you to hit with those nasty nasty slows.

No Tough? I would DEFINATELY swap tough for leadership, and probably drop Jab too as Boxing pretty much fill's Jab's job on its own. I also don't think an SS/DA really has the end to run hasten (maybe unless each attack was slotted two end reductions but I'm a personal fan of 2acc 3 damage). Cloak of Fear is a big reason you go /DA and I got it at 28, it is a great power to use (all shields + Death Shroud running, then you herd, get to your spot, turn on CoF, then probably DR when you HP starts to floor, Stomp, then move on) at the start of a mission which can help you deal with the agro necessary to max out your Fury.

To cut it short, you can't get the most out of your brute without death shroud or taunt imo, and you certainly won't be able to run leadership, or be survivable enough to go without tough (few brutes are). Hasten is a no no if you want end, despite your slotting.

Also CoF needs 2 acc even with rage running or it never seems to hit when it needs too, I think it has an accuracy penalty, unlike Opressive Gloom which has a large accuracy bonus, and is also a good power to have, even unslotted, though I prefer fear to disorient as stunned opponents tend to waddle away, OG has barely and end cost as it takes away HP with use (which is nominal in most situations).

I think perhaps sticking to the 8pm schedule, then re-aranging matches for the week only if necessary would be a better way of doing it, maybe? Or perhaps finding a more convinient time. Or maybe having two meet times, but only one set of matches, i.e. 8pm Sunday, then maybe 8pm Thursday or Friday or something.

Nah, that was a lie, Mind/FF is too fotm even for me!

Yeah, holds mush people good!

Me pwnz j00 with my mind/FF - FEAR HIS DPS.

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psi doesnt have fast attack chains :/

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Oh, but it does, ever seen an ice blaster? /Psi Blast is the defender version of this, only without aim and with highly unresisted damage and a toggle-dropping sleep in the middle.

Can't hit with holds when you can't hit them at all, and trollers put up little fight against Psi's long ranged, fast activated attack chains.