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Originally Posted by Silit

A well played regen scrapper will NEVER lose a 1v1, to anything. You may experience a good deal of ties, given the regen's inconsistent damage output.

Originally Posted by Codoc

i would think damage output would factor in as well. /poison could bring down those numbers a bit, but that mm's endo would drop faster then that regens health. then its just a matter of time. and really? phase? lol

Originally Posted by Solun_the_Hunter

How is your MM going to do anything to a melee that phases, MoG's and runs a lot?

My /poison can absolutely wreck things that try to fight it but most melee just run away a lot or phase.

Originally Posted by Silit

A well played regen scrapper will NEVER lose a 1v1, to anything. You may experience a good deal of ties, given the regen's inconsistent damage output.

Originally Posted by SonicBang

Looking for a new hero 1v1 toon that I can pull out when some ***hat calls me out...already made a merc/dark villside and I'm looking for a hero now. Are regen scrappers any good at duels? I know colds supposedly wreck regens...MAYBE poison and thermal. Are they viable for 1v1 arena and fiteklubbin? Or should I just roll some sort of troller or defender that saps? (no thermals)

Originally Posted by Southern_Comfort

I have been here since release for both COH and COV. Your sunnyside view of " we need to see the big picture and have faith" is lost on me . I've had faith for 5 ******* years only to see everything I enjoy playing systematically torn down and homogenized.I have stuck around for five ******* years having "faith". At the same time watching the forum loudmouths get their way.. AGAIN, AGAIN, and AGAIN.

The thing the devs don't realize is the selfsame players they penalize with EVERY nerf ( whether it be to an AT or an ACTIVITY) are the players that keep this game going by promoting community functions that a "casual" couldn't even begin to fathom organizing.

I am aveteran player and clearly not "casual". I am also a player in the minority because I min/max ANY build I create( not just dominators).I am in the minority as well because my voice of dissention and protest to the decisions on game mechanic are overridden by the "casual".My play style is considered" elitist" therefore my opinion or game play experience does not matter. The opinions and play experience of people with half the playtime logged as myself or my gaming friends is not relevant because we at one point enjoyed pvp, we DID BASE RAIDS, WE RAN EVERY TF//SF/TRIAL in this game so fast the casual player didn't know how the hell we did it or what the hell we did. What happened? Massive cries for " the game needs balance!!" from players that didnt have the cognitive ability to figure out a game or the time to invest in resaearching builds or encounters. What else happenned? ANyone with a brain gets nerfed and the encounters beyond the comprehension of the "casual" player get removed. Why do you all think the blatant activities in AE are allowed? Because the majority of players with a brain that gave a ratsass about fast lvls or gear quit doing the activities to acquire altogether. The devs had to throw all the newies something or suffer a loss.There arent alot of people around anymore that run game content for gain much less take the time to teach new players the score and whats needed for 200 merits in under 2.5 hours. So the devs threw the newies and "casuals" a bone with AE.

Sorry but I am not waiting around for the big picture AGAIN.I know many others that arent either. Nothing short of THE BIG RED BALL and server wide instanced pvp like they have in CO would keep me around. I am a small loss. Every person has a network. Every person in the network has a network. Eventually the new subs won't be able to keep up with the friends of the friend that unsubbed.Especially with new games on thehorizon.
You all can sit here and suggest about dom's til your blue in the face.One reason the revamp didn't work out as planned is because the earlier dominator buffs were completely overlooked in the initial buff formula.I mean c'mon people dom damage buffs on a team was already scaled to increase based on team number. OOOps they forgot about that and didnt factor it in at the initial buff release and subsequently took it out in a patch a few weeks later but labeled the change as a pvp change in patch notes. Another thing I find funny is not one person following the Castle fanclub that published damage tables even factored that modifier in.Why? Because most likely noone making tables was even aware that particular little mechanic existed.THEY are all new dom players or people that wanted to play a dom"maybe" and saw an opportunity to chime in and feel important in a game.

Sorry to be so longwinded. Sorry I don't agree with much posted on the boards anymore. Frosticus? Jade Dragon is never going to shaddup no matter how succintly you counter him//her. Why? Because every time you type he//she gets the wrong point because he//she hasn't played doms or any AT like you have. Therefore you need to REALLY back up when explaining so you two are both on the same page. No offense, Jade. In addition , if you type something not fathomable by experience then you'll get others like WeatherbyGood etc. etc. etc. showing up just to muddie the waters with nonensicle vituperative language for ***** and grins because EVERYONE has an opinion.Good luck. Have fun!

/rant over

P.S. That whole idea of have faith for a later explaination from the devs really chapped my ***.

I apologize. Carry on Dom forums and keep on doing whatever the hell it is you do in game now

Originally Posted by DarkCurrent

I wouldn't take that bet.

Originally Posted by Neuronia

Yeah Castle doesn't hate us. He's just in the unenviable position of making changes that will make an aspect of the game palatable for more people while not cheezing off a bunch of malcontents and ne'er-do-wells that have grown use to the 'old way'.

Let's face it, the 'old way' was very much blistering speed, quick reactions and absurdly overpowered builds. We still have the overpowered builds, but now they don't need Sonics for buffs, Emps for mez protection/+ToHit etc. Inventions have filled gaps and the global resists have stripped another layer of strategy as well.

The fact we had to gather in the Training Room for tournaments and tilts meant we worked at cross-purposes a lot of the time. Obviously the TR is meant for builds and testing first. We had to go there because server transfers didn't exist and it was the only level playing field. We all had our HOs/IOs/whatever there and practice/skill was the determining factor.

It did become clear, though, that advanced groups were just going to roll over new players (they still do by the way) but if they wanted PvP IOs and other rewards...they had to change stuff. Stripping away movement, buffer roles and a lot of the 'twitchy' nature of the combat may have been a large hammer to wield.

There are positives though. They include map selection, the PvP IOs, DR (yeah...it kinda stinks but things were silly before), caging suppression (still laugh at being Sonic Caged for 7-8 minutes, the good old days ), less unresisteds and so on. It's a balancing act I guess. They need to bear in mind vets, newbies, base raiders (if those come online at all)...some of the radial settings for Arena help. A global "I12" setting would be super awesome, or at least one that grants Mez Protection/No Resists.

Wow, this got /PsyPunk in a hurry lol.

Anyway, we have what we have and at least we can remove Travel Suppression and Heal Decay in the Arena.

Originally Posted by Southern_Comfort

This is what Castle thinks of all of you and all of your ideas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NkoBsMTmkQ

Give up already......

Originally Posted by ZeroMorph

Mez Res? When I was in arena with my 2 accounts I looked and saw all 0's for Mez Res and Protection. Check it again, maybe something changed from last time you were on, or maybe I'm misunderstanding you.

But you are absolutely right, if they would implement a way to shut off the rest of their silly rules Arena would be a beatiful thing, and alot of PVPers would probably come back myself included.


Below is a collection of Questions written to Floyd "Castle" Grubb back in October of last year asking him about the new i13 PVP rules. I found this very interesting, check it out.

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Concerned Fan: "Why should you be rewarded when you have put no effort into something?
That's a Rule of Life, work for what you want, it's not just going to be handed to you."

Castle: "Any competent PVPer should be able to beat any "casual" player using identical characters more often than not. Your "work" results in better skills and situational knowledge in terms of PVP encounters. The fact that you also know how to build a character so that it performs better in PVP is another aspect of your "work" paying off.

These changes should mean that the disparity between an average player and a PVP spec'd hardcore Player is lower.

Exactly how easy do you want your kills to be, anyway?"
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Concerned Fan: "Because in high level PvP, where you have a ladder and rankings....no one's gonna bring an AR/Ice blaster.

Those kind of matches at the "high" end are "for real" as one would say. So you bring your A game, not your 'lol' build, your best."

Castle: "See this right here? THAT is what I am trying to fix. "For Real?" "LOLBuild?" Totally should not be the way things work. And, right now, that *is* how it works.

We won't get this perfect. But we definitely want to make it so that there are far fewer "lolbuilds" and a far greater variety of things that work in PVP"
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Concerned Fan: "The general reaction I'm seeing is that there are varying degrees of dislike for these changes except for travel suppression. This is uniformly being singled out as a terrible change that will make this part of the game unappealing to both the current crowd and those that currently don't enter into PvP for whatever reasons they may have."

Castle: "You are correct. It is nearly unanimously hated.

It was NEVER our intention for bunny hopping to bypass the old suppression, nor is it our intention to let it bypass the new suppression, although this may be unpreventable at the moment. It was NEVER our intention that Speed Boost/Siphon Speed/etc. could move about unsuppressed; we just didn't have a method of preventing it prior to issue 6, and never wanted to revisit the issue without other changes after that.

Some form of movement suppression will be instigated into PVP. The points of discussion are how slow/fast it should allow movement to be and how it should affect Teleportation (I'm not happy with shutting it off completely, but have not found a better solution yet.)"
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OMG can you believe this guy? Floyd "Castle" Grubb knows that everyone hates the new PVP system and clearly doesn't care?!?!? In fact he doesn't even address the fan's concerns about how everyone hates the new rules, he simply agrees with the fan then starts talking about travel supression. His liberal nonsense of "Everyone should have an equal chance at kills regardless of dedication and hard work of the hardcore pvper" floors me.

He obviously doesn't understand that alot of fans take PVP VERY seriously and doesn't understand the concept of an "LOLBuild" or "ForReal" because he is so out of touch with City of Heroes PVP culture.

I hate to say this about a developer but this idiot clearly has no business developing MMOs and should be fired!!!

Originally Posted by _Blu_

Don't want to thread-jack here but seems my question sorta links into perma dom.

I'm assuming Earth Assault's Tremor and Fissure both do knockdown. Therefore you can slot them with the Force Feedback: Chance for +Recharge. I have this in my Fire/Kin's Fissure and it works wonderfully, however, if I put it in Tremor and Fissure in an Earth dom and they both fire, would they stack?

And if that IO reliably Procs off every-other time it goes off (it has been for me) how much recharge would you need then? (Assume for every 2 Fissures / 2 Tremors or a cycle of Tremor->Fissure it goes off.) If it doesn't stack it would just reset the timer yes?

Boy do I want Fire/Earth right now!

Originally Posted by AnimeWarrior252

Why are you acting as though the Devs don't have tons of stuff already in the works? Be careful what you say, or you may just annoy the Devs!

Originally Posted by redbear42

okay so i just got my second lvl50... both of which are for pvp
1. lvl50 BS/Regen Scrapper
2. lvl50 DM/Enrgy Stalker

and I've been looking into new builds to do:
Mind/Thorn Dominator
Trick Arrow/Archer Defender(working on a team with at least one mate)
FM/Regen Scrapper
SS/Electric Brute

im happy for suggestions to my builds, especially my brute =P. ive already started on my trick arrow its lvl30(having second thoughts about this one =/) now and my dominator is lvl16.

also should i switch to Champions online?

ty for all the help

all my toons are on Freedom so come see me sometime

Originally Posted by AquaJAWS

QFT

I think its safe to say this one will make the game much more enjoyable for almost everyone. My first toon, who I still play regularly is a spines scrapper. Always envisioned him with with sharper, meaner looking spines instead of him being the banana-scrapper he is now. That was the first thing I looked for to change with power customization and had to stop myself from jumping around the office in joy once I saw the video of from comic-con. I can't wait to play the real version of my character once this feature is live!*

*Well...almost. Still need to change the color of his eye lasers, energy torrent, and pool power auras...but its a LOT closer than he was.

Originally Posted by PeerlessGirl

CoH does that, and I might as well just go play CO who is already using a stupid "mega-server" environment. It destroys the RP communites of Virtue and pennicle by doing that. If they do, I might as well go play another game that destroyed its RP community before launch, heck at least it looks better.

That would be the dumbest thing NC wound ever have done.

Full stop.

Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler

No. Granite Armor will not be customizable. It currently exists outside of what we can access via the power system as it is an NPC with a pre-defined costume that your player is turned into.

Originally Posted by Bad Bad Girlfriend

I hear The Sim's 3 may be right up your alley..