Supermax

Those bars represent server load, not server population. Weaker servers have a higher load because they're weaker. Freedom was upgraded, like already mentioned above.

nope! Never liked any of that stuff.

Yep, they completely redesigned the game to the point where it's practically a totally separate game, but gave ZERO explanation of anything to the players.

We had to figure everything out ourselves, which was ok because we were already experts on the game. But new players are completely lost in PvP.

The problem is that the devs simply don't know anything about PvP. Definitely not enough to write ANY kind of tutorial. Their advice would very likely be even worse than Dahjee's. And they would rather see the company go out of business than listen to actual PvP'ers to get advice on writing such a tutorial. Hence, it will never happen.

fixed.

No, mind/ice is not really viable. Mind is great, but ice is a total joke now.

Fool! You don't get the logic behind that move? It gives your teammates more time to spike!

lol wow.

I did make that analogy, so I will expand it to make things clearer. Zone is not like a highway. The goal of zone PvP is still to kill other players, while trying to survive yourself. Hopefully you at least can't deny that. So moving on, arena is like NASCAR, the official racing sport that gets shown on ESPN and talked about. Zone is still racing, but just not totally official...basically some amateurs racing on the streets. It does require slightly different skills, and the amateurs definitely aren't all bad, but there's no doubt that racing a car in nascar takes more skill.

The point is, it's still a race. Your analogy doesn't take that into account. People don't just come to a PvP zone to walk around and get from point A to point B. They go there to PvP, which means killing others while not being killed yourself.

With the amateur race, sure, there is no official score, but when one person keeps losing to everybody, people will start thinking he's bad. Even if he keeps saying that he's really really good. It's still a competition. Just like zone PvP.

Do you take classes to be this stupid? Because I don't see how it's possible by nature.

When someone asks for the "best blaster", the question is pretty simple. There is a clear decision on which one is currently best, and that is what is answered.

Yes, obviously any blaster can hop around and get kills. But what does have to do with the question?

If someone posts a question asking which number on a scale of 1 to 10 is the biggest number, the answer is 10. It's not up for debate, it's common sense. But with your logic, you would proceed to explain that no, it's not, because number 8 is also a perfectly good number, which can also be used!

No ****, sherlock. Number 10 is still a bigger number than it though. And that's what was asked. Not "can anything be used except psy/em", but "what is the best blaster".

Please take a couple lessons in basic logic.

Actually you can use that one power that cancels out travel suppression and then just TP away. Could even snipe someone on the way. It's very easy. See Dahjee's older posts for details.

I'm not an avid arena PvP'er either. Haven't done it since the days of Lion's Den and HVND, meaning like 2-3 years ago.

But that doesn't mean I don't know anything about it. I still know what's good and what's not, what does work and what doesn't.

Your idea simply won't work. Your team of "thinking outside the box" players will get beaten like 60 to 1 every single time. Not because you suck as players, but because you're playing horrible toons instead of ones PROVEN to be good.

You're right, it wouldn't really eliminate competiveness. It would just make the teams weaker than they could be otherwise.

Instead of, for example a team like...3 psy/em, 2 emp, 2 elec stalkers, 1 fort

...it would be 1 psy, 1 sonic, 1 fire blaster, 1 emp, 1 therm, 1 elec stalker, 1 spines stalker, and 1 fort.

Whootpydoo....the variety is just mind boggling huh. And for what? Just to make the team weaker? It's still the same AT's, just less effective powersets.

And I am certain that I could play violin like a virtuoso too, if only I actually tried it. After all, I play guitar, and they both have strings, amirite?

If you're so positive you'd do well, try it. Hell, if you're so amazing and useful to teams on all your toons, you don't even need a psy/em. Just bring your flying dom and own everybody. After all, arena is no different from zones. The goal is to get kills and not die, while helping your team do the same. You claim you're really good at this in zones, so I don't see why you wouldn't be in the arena. Yet for some reason you have this mentality that you will NEED to a psy/em to do arena.

Come on Dahjee, think outside the box for a second. You can show all the "arean boys" how effective a flying dom can be.