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Not sure who W4r was, but I remember Aura. Ah well, I'm still sure I've had mine longer :P

Yeah blaze got extended to 40' and extra damage was added to all of fire. One of the greatest days in this game's history, cuz my fire/em has always been my main :P

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IIRC, ice and fire were a matter of personal preference until fire tic damage was buffed

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Nah. BiB had significantly more range than blaze. Blaze was only like 15 feet base, so you almost had to get into melee to use it, which made it unrealistic for spiking or any sort of serious PvP, really.

As far as I know, I had the only fire/em blaster out of the original PvP'ers. Everybody else had ice/em or ice/whatever.

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I'd assume the reason Ed brought up NDX is because we were handily beating JAL and losing substantially to LD almost all the time (barring the infamous semi-afk practice round), so to hear that a team that we were better than was equal to a team that we were worse than raises a few logic bells.


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Well I'm not making stuff up. For a while we had a bunch of practices with LD. Probably played every night or every other night for a while. And we never beat them a single time, except in a random pentad we did...and sometimes it wasn't close, but we had plenty of close games with them. Actually now that I think about it, we might have beaten them one time 8v8 on the caves map. Maybe hellter can remember....it might have been some other top team but I think it was LD.

And calm the hell down myk. I never said JAL was as good as LD. LD was at its peak at that time, so no team was as good. But we did have close PRACTICES with them. I was there....being permacaged :P

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LOLOLOLOLOL! Are you kidding? NDX formed around the time LD left. We dominated JAL even from almost the get go. Then Psypunk cried and said all we could do was stack veng and we did a match with no veng and we only won like 60-4 instead of 63-3.

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Am I kidding about what? Did I even mention NDX a single time in my post? Wtf does NDX have to do with anything?

I said we had close games with LD, the team that owned every other team at that time. I was there unlike you...so I know what happened. We'd lose by like 3-5 kills each time, but when the scores were like 25-21, 3 kills was a very close match. Yes, it was just practice. My point is that's when JAL started to get significantly better. Before that, it could hardly even be considered a true "PvP team".

Btw NDX lasted what...2 months?

Also, it's funny how you deny being elitist...and then like an hour later make the above post, making fun of another team and bragging about how awesome and how much better your team was. Hypocrisy ftw.

Ajax, the attitude change I described happened just before Alarys taking over. JAL started getting significantly better right around the time veng stacking reached its peak and LD was the undisputed best team around. We actually had some practices with LD that were really close...and actually beat them in a pentad practice. It was practice, but they had their top 5 players playing, so not much difference from a match. We couldn't beat LD or FoL or HVND, but we were very close to doing it.

Anyway, shortly after that, alarys and her friends joined...and I and a bunch of other people quit. And Alarys took the "win" attitude to a whole new level. Becoming #1 became the only thing that mattered. And it paid off only a couple months later.

I quit because I saw where the team was going, and I was over it. I think that competitively this game is a joke, so devoting my life to being #1 out of like 4 total teams was too much for me. And a few other JAL members felt the same way. So JAL basically became a brand new team. Totally new players, totally new strategy, and totally new results.

Well....not totally new players. There was, I believe, 2 players from the old JAL that still played when JAL became #1. Not sure if they played all matches, but they were at least still part of the team.

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I remember a Penance vs JAL match where I scored 61 kills on my ice/devices blaster.

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Like Lab said, JAL was a completely different team then.

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JAL wasn't a "PvP team" until like a year ago. Up until then, it was a normal SG that did PvP on the side. Naturally it couldn't compete with teams that were specifically created for PvP and did nothing but PvP (like every single other PvP team ever). They allowed absolutely anybody to join, as long as they were cool people. Skill didn't matter. If someone wanted to PvP, they could PvP with JAL (after getting turned down by everybody else). Essentially JAL was the only non-elitist team in the game....the only team that didn't look down on people if they lacked "mad pvp skillz".

Then they finally got tired of PvE and went all into PvP...started practicing regularly, actually set guidelines on recruitment, and became another one of the "win at all costs" PvP teams. And a little while later got to be #1. Just shows what it takes to win.

I think it would be pretty easy to implement actually.

When someone has the flag, they would have to lose all travel powers, stealth, and external buffs. So they'd have to essentially walk the flag back to their base, while being covered by their team.

It would be very fun, I think, and it would definitely make some "useless" builds more popular.

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I'm trying to figure out what the point of playing any villain AT outside of a stalker is now in PvP.

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Silly stasis. You can have a pocket corr on 2nd account sit in hosp to buff your stalker!

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If your talking off of Blitzwulf's "AS" that's extremely gay.

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hahahaha...I thought the same thing.

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I don't see "freedom zone pvp" as a title, he just happens to enjoy it, as do I.

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cuz we're cool!

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lolerz.... hold on a second.

Your trying to make fun of Justice PvP yet you have the title "Freedom Zone PvP" in your sig?

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I'm not trying...I'm doing it. And freedom zone PvP is like the NBA, where justice is high school basketball. And yes, I have toons on justice, so I know from personal experience.

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This, my friends, is the average Justice player posting.

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The sad/funny thing is that he's actually probably well above average.....on Justice

Also, DB sucks in PvP. Thought I'd throw that out there. I've gotten attacked by DB a few times, and every time I go "oooh I have some cool picture in my status bar"...but that's about the extent of it.

Hey don't laugh at fight clubs. We had a good one in RV on freedom last night lol.

hehe, yeah you really never know when dealing with little children.

but if it does happen, what's the saying? fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me....fool me thrice.....

So....when next month sorrows asks to join JAL again, will you let him? Serious question.

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Roster Updated:

@Sorrows

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Ummmm.....I'm sorry but that's just absurd.


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LOL....

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Roster Updated:

@Sorrows

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Ummmm.....I'm sorry but that's just absurd.

And by absurd I mean awesome!

who was it anyway?

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I'm curious whether this is being done in season formats (there is a beginning date and end date for the ladder) or is this being done ad infinitum, until there isn't enough teams left anymore?

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Eh....if this much [censored] is done before the ladder even starts, I can't see it lasting too long anyway.

Wow, I can't believe I've missed this thread until now. Great stuff!

1. Really funny about how all the other groups are so mad about JAL being #1. Considering that being #1 at the start is COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS. It means NOTHING. Pretty obvious that most people in this game care more about "being #1" than actually playing the game.

2. Groebuck, do you even do arena PvP? I thought the "FoL nuthugger" thing was a joke.....but I guess it's the literal truth? You spend like 2 hours a day talking trash about JAL and praising FoL.....while having NOTHING to do with either group.....or arena PvP in general. What is wrong with you, seriously?

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Remove:
@Sorrows
@Anichi
@Cool Arc
@Arc Aly

Add:
@DF

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huh?

I think he means that it would be nice to have one place when you could look to find all the teams and all the players playing for the teams. Without having to read the entire thread and picking out the "signup" posts out of the 500 spam ones.

Eh....not like they're gonna spend the 5 minutes to fix it anyway. There are a lot of badges to be added to the game!

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the mobs would COMPLETELY IGNORE my invincibility aura

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I know about that. But...

1. I was also using taunt.

2. It's not like my teammate's aggro was overriding my taunts. My teammates HAD NO AGGRO. They would stand like 20 feet back. I would jump into a spawn. IMMEDIATELY half the spawn would ignore me and run to attack my teammates (WHO WERE OUT OF AGGRO RANGE!!!).

I know blaster aggro overrides tanker aggro. That's how it's been for a long time, and I'm fine with it. When a tank taunts a target and a blaster shoots it, the target will ignore the taunt and attack the blaster. That's fine. The problem is that the mobs are now attacking the blaster without him doing ANYTHING.