Sentry4

Depends on your definition of PvP. I don't think whatever freedom has is...well atleast good pvp.

I only know i like Justice PvP, and i remembering loving champions PvP back in i7 or around there. Virtue was kinda fun too.

I'm gonna switch some toons to another server and try to become their god later

I'll get u back on that question later.

Siphon life was some potential, i've seen some stalkers live because of it. And midnight grasp immob, which can be very annoying when ut trying to run away.

Should work fine, although it will have a bit of a different style.

Nobody going to include TS or heal decay?

A healer can't spam heals on you, as every heal after the first gets divided by 25%, until it gives about 40 each time or something.


Travel surpression is self-explainitory. You forget how to run when your hit by anything or attack. Which made running at phased or nin stalkers a bit more difficult, they dodge the attack and keep running.

doesn't that only have 5 uses or something? Then you have to run to WW and go through all the loading to buy another one? Don't base your build off a temp power, just find another way around it.

Rad/Pain or Sonic/pain are really fun (i've heard) and i know they take the longest to kill when kiting.

Ele/therm isn't as good when there's a bunch of people, it's like you can only debuff and drain one. It takes time to drain them and while your doing that you have blasters and scrappers picking away at your health. Thermal is good for healing and 4x forge on a team is really fun too.

best scrapper i've ever seen was claws.

He had 4-5 procs in every attack and just ripped apart everything.

Big end problem, but conserve power, PP and a few other things solved that for the most part.

Claws/ele or Claw/regen...something that could deal with the massive end drain of super fast attacks without end reductions in them.

I'd rather die then look like a coward infront of people, or look weak enough to need inspirations. The rare occasions i use inspirations is if my opponent uses their complete tray.

If you see "Win" as simply killing your opponent by any means, fine. But i don't win unless it's fair and i kill them.

Of course i agree with the fact that stalkers shouldn't talk smack. I threw mine away (put him in cap knowing i'm too lazy to get to RV) because no matter what i did he couldn't be as strong as my other toons.....he had to be a coward to get kills and i hate that.

I've yet to see a stalker who can stand their own. Actually i saw Deadly retribution did once, and some other /regen stalker, but that's about it.

If i need to use phase to survive in a duel there's no chance of me winning, that's why instead of picking it up i got some offensive powers....the ones that will help me win.

You earn accolades with hard work. Using them is fine. It's like saying to someone you won't duel them because they have a lot of experience using their toon and have spent a great deal perfecting them. Personally my regen chain wouldn't be complete without demonic (whatever the hero version is). The minute gives enough time for recon, MoG and DP, which stalls until IH for the second time. It's basically an extra life to me, and that's why i milked those illusionists in PI for a good 10 hours.

Now you could argue, but phase would give you more time to heal etc. Yes, well it gives them time too. If with demonic i couldn't attack back, i wouldn't use it.....i get an extra minute but so do they, and unless they used unstoppable or IH, all it does is prolong the loss...or tie.

Con don't u have that taunting ss/fire brute with phase? I never understood that. Basically, if your using phase your almost 100% of the time running with it on....meaning you don't have a chance of killing anyone.

Are people so inherently afraid of death that they will do anything to survive, even though dieing has no downside except for losing all your end and most of your hp, as well as being teleported near the entrance. I dont know about you guys but it only takes me about 15 seconds to get back into battle from the hosp.

i'd rather give the person killing me a chance for a recipe then look like a coward, afraid of something that doesn't matter.



Overall i don't mind phase as long as it's not just preventing me from getting a recipe/rep, but being used in some offensive way that may end up being the death of me. It would be hard to not hit phase if your about to die, but if it's just going to prolong the losing fight, might as well be friendly and give the person a chance at a recipe instead of making them frustrated. I'm usually nice to people.

Of course if you dislike the person for a good reason, or if they had a large ego and said they could kill you. By all means frustrate them and don't let them get what they want.

proc in EC?

You want a proc in something you use often, like thunder kick or storm kick. So it will go off more.

I can't count the number of times someone was stuck in an animation, and i got a thunder kick and storm kick off with 4-5 procs going off for double EC's damage.


Ma/regen isn't easy button. Well i can't speak for warzone, since regen can take a lot of numbers with MoG and MA has some good burst. But in a duel you need to time the heals perfectly or else in the long run u'll lose. MA is a weaker version of Katana and Broad sword. It's basically the same except it's missing the 45% perma melee defense. It has a stun, but from what i've seen it doesn't help a lot unless slotted.

yea best to fight ranged with ranged when it's waiting game, like a thermal waiting for your end to disappear or a cold waiting to use all your heals so you can't use them again.

I actually saw a blaster kill an ele/therm by using the /psi drain with the fake unstoppable to get enough +recovery to go threw HE. And the little end he gained back was actually enough to attack with conserve power on. WoC would help a lot too, making their drains miss if not perfectly timed.

Burst kills the other too. Maybe even using PFF at the right time so the dark misses their heal.

sucking end can be somewhat useless without a good -recovery power, but when im fighting someone and a ele/kin gets rid of all my end and my toggles drop, the time it takes to put them all back on is too great and i would usually die.

well, the kills are actually the hardest when it's something like 1v6 for the 1, but the overall kill count for players and the % chance of a recipe dropping to either side is the lowest in a 1v1.

Do they have a reason for this? Is it farming? They could make it so you can only get a rep worthy kill once in an arena and i'd be fine with that.

For those who don't want to pull up the calculator, unless i'm mistaken i got 1179.68 damage.

Wow nice, highest i've even seen was a BU EC crit, that only hit 1150, now im thinking of putting some procs in it....

Either way that's really nice.

You need to use hurricane more then anything. slotted it has -30 to -40 tohit, which although is resisted by focused acc and targeting drone, makes SS tanks with only rage miss a ton.

Personally i slot my pets with 3 acc/dmg HO's and 3 procs. That way every attack they use has a chance for something/damage, and with 6 pets going that adds up quickly.

thugs/pain is an easy button. I've seen total noobs make them and kill everyone. They do not require skill and it proves nothing when you kill someone.

Bots/pain takes a bit more skill, it's not as easy as thugs/pains, and i've seen bots/pain die if they didn't know what they were doing.

It all depends if you want respect and a challenge, or possibly a few more recipes and some more rep.

A /dev blaster with targeting drone, tactics and a precep IO in either of those will see a stalker within 10 feet, and if your sound is on you will hear a somewhat loud sound, which is the what you hear when stalkers activate hide.

If your a scrapper using targeting drone, no luck, you won't hit cap without something in your secondary granting +precep.

10 feet is a lot closer then most think.....it's actually basically melee only. get a stalker to stand beside you with all that and you should see him.

If after all those boosts (drone/tactics/IO) and your precep isn't blue (meaning capped) then....there's something wrong and they changed something, i'll check mine and send a bug report because i havn't heard anything.

well if you can't afford a lot, don't want to spend a lot of time on them because they are a starter, an easy button is always fun.

Psi/em blaster
Thug/pain Mastermind
Ele/therm cor (pure end drainer)
Mind/energy dom
EM/nin stalker

The last isn't really an easy button but you dont need to spend much.

SO only builds would be awesome.

I remember the years before IOs, everything was so balanced just using SOs.....less then 10 million and u were completly set. I wouldn't put as much time into it as i would normal pvp, but i would definitely invest some time into some characters so i could play it for fun.