Supermax
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If you plan to team a lot, I would go with one of the /therm controllers. Probably earth, so you can have some -def to make sure HE lands.
If you plan to mostly solo, I'd probably go with the MA/regen. Its damage is pretty close to fire, but you do get the mezzes too. Then again, webnade is really the only mez you need, so fire would be fine too. -
Nothing annoys me like TA.
Well, purpled out toons kinda annoy me too, since like 80% of success is based on build now, with only 20% being skill (compared to pre-I13, when it was the exact opposite). Since I just play with SO's, when I run into someone that's spent 10 billion on his build, the fight isn't very fair.
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lol thanks mac.
TA does annoy me, I don't deny that. But like mentioned by others, it's nothing more than an annoyance. Don't think I've been killed by a TA a single time on any toon ever. That's why I don't like them. The whole set exists just to annoy people. Other than that, they can't really do ****. -
Tesla's only real use is the -recovery. Since you already have the best one in the game in heat ex, you can probably get by without tesla.
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Quote:Wow. I am also an addict, but even I have not stooped that low. Pretty soon you'll be standing in some dark alley in kings row, offering "special services" for the temp phase recipe.Originally Posted by Bug_You
I knew i should take the fitness pool, but before i knew it i had phase and no hurdle. -
Quote:Blasters.Originally Posted by Code_Ninja
What does the blue side dominate with?
Sounds like you're outnumbered when you fight. The game is designed to be impossible when you're severely outnumbered. The best player in the game is designed to get owned if he's going against 5 complete newbies, simply because it's 1v5. Get a good team, and you should do a lot better. -
I've been back for like 2 weeks, foo.
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I think either thugs, necro, or ninjas. Thugs probably the best overall.
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Quote:Haha! Great minds think alike. I was gonna suggest the same thing.Originally Posted by ConFlict
Go tech so you can by inspires right outside the door to rv.
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TA is just lame. Every TA I've seen does the following, in this order:
Use autohit glue on nearest target.
Phase.
Fly to the top of the map or run to drones.
Wait for glue and phase to recharge.
Repeat.
I've really not seen any good players play the set, but maybe because even good players look bad when playing a zero skill set. Using one autohit ranged AoE power is kinda lol. And that's essentially the whole set. Yeah, acid is ok, but pretty much just for keeping stalkers out of hide. -
Placate proc is not a powerset, and it doesn't need to be nerfed...it needs to be fixed. There's no doubt that it's OP, and I think most would agree with that.
As far as actual powersets, I guess I'd pick regen. Even after all the nerfs (like 50 total through the last 5 years), it's still at least twice as good as any other scrapper set.
Of course it would be better to improve the other sets to make them viable, but lol at that, since the devs have not done that a SINGLE time in the game's existence. So yeah, I pick regen. Basically because it's the only set I can think of where literally every knowledgeable PvP'er would say it's better than any other option. I guess super strength is kinda like that too now, but not to the same extent. -
Quote:Not really. People only use rest while in complete safety....like in their base. With the proposed hiber change, that's the only time it would be used as well, since it would be useless in actual combat. So it would be like a second rest. Which isn't 100% useless, since there are plenty of times people die after using rest and have no way of healing. But it sure would be pretty close to useless.Originally Posted by perilX
Yeah but you can die in rest.
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Quote:Ah, so your "weak coward" label applies directly to the toons, not to the players playing them? Well why didn't you say so? That's fine, I can admit that all my toons are cowards if you'd like. They don't actually exist, since they're part of a video game, so calling them cowards doesn't offend me. Glad we got that all cleared up.Originally Posted by Sentry4
But that's because he's a weak toon and a coward.
Just don't call my blaster a coward. He'll get mad and...oh wait no, he doesn't actually exist, so he won't care. -
Yes, Terp is one of the oldest PvP'ers in the game, like myself. I remember him on test like 2 months before arenas went live. But he does have some crazy ideas now, for some reason.
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Quote:We already have that. It's called Rest. We don't need a second Rest.Originally Posted by perilX
Interruptible Hib would be interesting and would in fact change the power entirely. It wouldn't be so much an overly accessible escape but a reg/rec power.
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PvP is really about burst damage, and elec definitely has more of it than /psy. Over 20 secs the damage may be equal, but when your job is to kill the blaster or be killed, you don't have 20 seconds to pew pew. You have to take off like half their health with 1 attack, and then finish it off with a couple more. I guess /psy is more of a slow killer, which worked well before (like colds), but in today's world of "nothing matters except upfront damage", it's not so good.
As far as needing more HP, yeah..but that would require PvE'ing and getting IO's
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Well hey, I'm sure about 99.9% of the PvP community is praying that you're correct. Good luck
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They've already said they will not be adding -TS to kin powers. In fact, the FIVE YEARS during which kins were able to provide unsuppressed movement to others was confirmed as a mistake. They simply didn't know it was possible. Makes sense. Kinda like how it took them 2 years to "find out" that you could summon more than 1 pet as a controller. So 2 years after the game came out, they said that it was always a mistake that they just didn't know about, and nerfed it.
Of course it would be a great idea to give kins SOME role in PvP. But it won't happen. -
Well I never got mine past lvl 37, so I've only played in sirens. And there any blaster can kill me in like 5 seconds flat. Meanwhile...
/psy does like no damage. It takes me forever to kill anything. I mean come on, levitate is stronger than anything in /psy except 1 melee attack! That, combined with no +tohit and no +dmg, makes me hate it.
I can fight someone I can tell is bad, but they use 3 attacks on me, and I'm dead. While I have to use like 10 on them. If I was /fire or /elec, I'd be doing about the same damage to them that they were doing to me.
I know doms are a LOT better in RV....but mine sucks so horribly in sirens that I have zero desire to put any more levels on him. If I made a new one, I was thinking something along the lines of earth/elec. Never seen one, but it sounds like it would be good.
Oh hamster, I assume you have leadership on your /psy right? -
Quote:tellz me ur sekritsOriginally Posted by B_Witched
you know anyone with tk can counter hibernate >.>
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Quote:Haha yeah. It boggles the mind how long soul storm has been broken for no reason. It just shows where the devs' priorities are. A pretty animation is more important than the fact that the animation is game-breaking. LOL.Originally Posted by ConFlict
Yet soul storm can. Good stuff.
Also now we are back to kb being meaningless to a ton of toons. And the ones that are helped the most by it are the ones that need it the least. More balanced pvp ftw.
Oh, also...I realized that widow/fort mez protection no longer protects from kb at all. Epsilon was my witness. It has the same kb protection as melee toons....but it just doesn't seem to do anything lol. Looks like when they fixed kb in I16, they forgot that Forts existed, since nobody plays them anymore.
That has happened before. When they first made phase only last 30 secs (it used to be perma), they forgot that PB's existed in the game, so the PB phase could still be used much longer than 30 secs (as long as you had the end). Nobody played PB's, so this lasted for probably over a year until they caught on lol. After all, it's hard to remember what AT's are in CoH when you're playing so much WoW. -
With those limitations, I would do elec/WP probably. My friend jimmay has one and he likes it.
DM sucks in PvP for anything except fight clubzors. It's not as bad as it used to be, but you really want a set with buildup as a scrapper. Unless your plan really is to stand in one spot and mash buttons.
/elec got better with the new heal, but it's still far from good. Melee resistance without a fast heal is lol in PvP now.
Elec melee is definitely the best out of the leftover trash (oops, I mean non-FotM sets) that you're picking from. The attacks are fairly good, you get buildup, and you drain end.
/WP is no regen, but it's ok. You can probably get to the HP cap, and have decent res and regen. Having no heal sucks, but since you get quick recovery and don't need fitness, you could easily grab aid self.
That said, you would do a lot better on a fire/regen
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Well I can't speak for other servers...I was just talking about the server where 90% of the PvP takes place, Freedom. There is absolutely no question that phase/hibernate are literally about 10 times more popular now, than before I13. Maybe even more than 10 times.
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Quote:I want proof.Originally Posted by OneAboveAll
Nope. The one on the forums is an imposter.
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All I know is don't make /psy. A while ago I wanted to make a dom, and everybody on here told me to make a /psy. Well I absolutely hate it, and it made me totally hate my dom. It's just horrible compared to fire or elec. I so wish I made one of those instead