SkeetSkeet

Yes.

I have the same issue as you do and can consistently reproduce that effect running the game in windowed mode.

Click away and take the focus off the CoH window, netgraph goes steady green. Click on the CoH window and netgraph starts pulsing red every few seconds again.

In the picture below, you can see the change in netgraph, after the last big red block is where I took focus off the game.

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/2582/netgraph.jpg

I don't think the premise that you can balance around expense holds true at all. If a given strategy is better and it is possible then that is where most builds will cluster no matter what the "cost" because in the end the cost is only time and play money--and we know well that the time factor can be gamed down to a minimal level.

Unfortunately that reasoning is all too common in dev circles... "well, we know this is potentially OP'd but we thought the price tag would balance it." That never works.

The disconnect is this: If elusivity is properly implemented, building +acc into your toon will shift your net hit rolls a few % one way or the other but there's no amount of +acc you could IO with that would make elusivity not matter.

What is true for +tohit vs defense is not true for +acc vs elusivity.

I'm not surprised at all when I see those builds doing laps to the hospital.

The problem and the needed fix are both in the poorly designed bounty system.

Attacking from the safety of a base or being attacked while in it are just busted game mechanics. This change is a good thing... though it still falls a couple steps short of ideal.

I get a lot of mileage out of shield charge in pvp, more than I would from a fourth single target kick. It hits hard and is especially useful after a placate or against mm's. Obviously you can't really land it vs a moving target but I get a lot of opportunities to use it. Obliteration set bonuses aren't too shabby either.

There are a couple powers I'd very much like to be able to fit in. Targeting drone is one of the, also grant cover for the added def debuff resist. Not sure what I'd give up t though. The only power that is kind of in the margins and not carrying significant set bonuses is 1wts, which itself is pretty useful for stretching out the hp when I start taking hits. Of course I may have to consider giving up some stuff I'm attached to anyway to restore some of the defense the i17 zephyr nerf is going to shave off.

On the knockback thing, does kb resist a factor in pvp at all? As I understand it, the only thing that matters is the magnitude of your kb protection vs the mag of the incoming kb. Active defense provides mag 10 protection. Most of the time I can count on having two of them stacked for 20. A few kb protection IOs boost that up to 36.

Is this confirmed?

The easiest time to summon the patience to maximize your sale profits is when you don't need the inf for anything specific. I would craft and list them all at the high end of their price range and then forget about them. Down the road when you decide to kit out a new bulid that pile of cash will seem almost like found money.

I'm sure the proud owner of 3 brain cells would read the entire statement and understand the context in which it was made. The question at hand was a secondary to go with dual pistols and the point being made about end drain is that it doesn't do much without some strong -recovery to go with it... which dual pistols doesn't give you.

Against a target with superspeed, -speed won't do anything worth mentioning post-i13.

-damage was never a high-impact effect in pvp.

-regen from kin is too small and the effect too short lived to make a noticeable effect on a regen based build. Builds that aren't regen based won't care.

- end... in certain situations, if you're very lucky, you'll take the last bit of someone's end and crash their toggles. Most of the time it'll have no impact on the fight because -end without -recovery just gets shrugged off. Thermal is a far better choice for going to war on someone's blue bar.

Sapping endurance in record time -- Priceless.

Shaving off thin slices of hp with /elec until at long last they finally die -- Not so much.

Nothing that can be avoided so easily can really be called griefing.

I know where the range for a tp drone attack ends for both bases and by simple choice, I avoid it when I know someone's droning. Or I pop an orange or just decide to take my chances. In any event, I have a great deal of control over the situation and whether someone has a chance to drone me. I can't be "griefed" by a droner.