Xanthus_EU

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why not, incidently im gonna open a book on what % of hamis health the server crashes. I'm going for 10%...

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Just a thought, but would it be worth looking at the non-holders clearing some of the Monster spawns around the Jelly whilst the controllers and people with Holds try to lay the holds onto Hami ????????? maybe this would lighten the load on the server as there would be less creatures for the server to keep track of less processes required.. seems to me that the problem is just sheer overload of stuff for the server to keep track of??

Anyhow... whatever happens I'll be there.. Digi still needs her first Hami-O.. damn pesky critters have escaped me as of yet

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At the same time, fighting the monsters near the jelly causes terrible lag. It's a no-win situation, I'm afraid. We'll just have to hope.

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yer what r the little purple trinagles that come up around an AV?


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Without the purple triangles up AVs have a hold resistance of about Mag6 or so. With the purple triangles up, it goes up to about mag20 or so. You won't be able to perma-hold any AVs, Lui.

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Please, Lui, fix your signature so that it appears the same as everyone elses. It's incredibly annoying having to remove it every time I want to quote you.

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RV is capture the flag.

Brilliant. Totally, undeniably brilliant.

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The flagbearer better have some severe restrictions applied - in terms of movement and concealment/tangibility.

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I would expect a -stealth -teleport debuff to be put on the flag carrier, or something similar. Otherwise someone could grab the flag and then be recall-friended back to their own base by a teammate, or just go invisible and leg it back to their own base. I wouldn't have a problem with someone with SS, SJ or Fly moving at their top speed with the flag, but TP would be a bit too much as people are basically untouchable whilst teleporting.

Also, I forgot to say that the debuffs from rad make no difference to the length of time a hold lasts.

Sure, I'll try and be there. I have a question, however.

I have a fair few characters which I PvP on, but some are stronger at lower levels than others (for example, Xanthus is pretty good at level 50 but absolutely sucks at anything lower than about 41). Would it be possible to enter as a global handle rather than as a character?

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well i have had a team with 2 ice controllers that held an AV for quite a long time, i surely think that 3 controllers with 5 holds and over 9 debuffs wil be able to hold an arch-villain easyly.


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Yes, but not perma-holding. There's a difference.

Without the purple triangles up AVs have a hold resistance of about Mag6 or so. With the purple triangles up, it goes up to about mag20 or so. You won't be able to perma-hold any AVs, Lui.

Smacks hard. If you're going en/en you really have to try silly things like perma-knockbacking people in PvP. They don't have the mezzes that ice has or the damage that fire has to keep their opponent under control.

I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but Power Push might be a nice power to take if you're going to keep someone lying down for the whole fight.

Yeah, I guess you could do that but then where would the point in actually playing the game be!? I enjoy the content in the game, and even though I do a lot of number-based stuff at the end of the day I play it to have fun. Going out and killing high prestige monsters all day for several hours is not my idea of fun. This needs to be fixed. Now.

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do u need to respec someone? i would be happy to take my granite/fire herding machien for a respec if u want. he can solo it.


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I'd certainly like to see that.

Hero Builder is perfectly safe, and it has all the stats for speed, defence, hp etc etc in it as well. On top of that, you can use it for other ATs than just fire/rad controllers.

Granted, not all of the numbers are 100% correct but they're usually pretty good to go on for an estimate.

He was! It's all true!

Well deserved 50, and a ding that I was ACTUALLY there for this time! Gratz!

ConGRATulations!

Do Tina McIntyre's (sp?) arc all the way through, and Maria Jenkins arc all the way through and you'll have the badge.

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Great i got a PM about my interrest in PVP!
only thing is...
its for the PRO's it says...
i probably wont be picked,cause my toon is not good enough... thats what the PM says.
also i read here that u want experienced players [its hard to get them u say]
so i guess its not for newb's.
how can sumone get the skills and experience wen they dont want u on a team because of the lack of it...
[im not angry,just disappointed.]
maybe ill better put coh/v away for sum time, i just bought DTM racer 3 annywayz...

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Send me a tell (@Xanthus) and I'll gladly take you to the arena and show you some PvP stuff.

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If you have to take fly, by all means do so, but I'd reccomend swapping Hover for Regeneration Aura and taking something else at level 49. With 3 heals in it, it's actually better than Instant Healing from the /regeneration scrapper set, and with powerboost it's like having two IHs stacked on you. You're essentially invincible. Coupled with RA, you never run out of end either!

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Actually, Regeneration Aura with 3 Heal SOs in it give a regen increase of 975%, compared with slotted IH which gives a boost of 990%. That's using defender numbers, so it'll be 780% for controllers. It's good, but not that good

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Hero Builder is wrong then. Powerboost still makes it better

Hmm, you seem to have the gist of it but some powers I'd reccomend taking in a different order or slotting differently. Going by the power pools/power choices you have, I'd have my build like this:

01) --> Mesmerize==> Acc(1) Acc(3) Rechg(3) Rechg(5) Dmg(5) Dmg(7)
01) --> Healing Aura==> Rechg(1) Rechg(7) Rechg(9) Heal(9) Heal(11) Heal(11)
02) --> Dominate==> Acc(2) Acc(13) Rechg(13) Rechg(15) Rechg(15) Hold(17)
04) --> Heal Other==> Rechg(4) Rechg(17) Rechg(19) Heal(19) Heal(21) Heal(21)
06) --> Levitate==> Acc(6) Acc(23) Dmg(23) Dmg(25) Dmg(25)
08) --> Mass Hypnosis==> Acc(8) Acc(27) Rechg(27) Rechg(29)
10) --> Resurrect==> Rechg(10)
12) --> Recall Friend==> IntRdx(12)
14) --> Teleport==> EndRdx(14) EndRdx(29) Range(31) Range(31)
16) --> Swift==> Run(16)
18) --> Hurdle==> Jump(18)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(31) EndMod(33)
22) --> Clear Mind==> Rechg(22)
24) --> Total Domination==> Acc(24) Acc(33) Rechg(33) Rechg(34) Hold(34) Hold(34)
26) --> Terrify==> Acc(26) Acc(36) Fear(36) Fear(36) Rechg(37) Rechg(37)
28) --> Recovery Aura==> Rechg(28) Rechg(37) Rechg(39) EndMod(39) EndMod(39) EndMod(40)
30) --> Telekinesis==> EndRdx(30) EndRdx(40) EndRdx(40)
32) --> Mass Confusion==> Acc(32) Acc(42) ConfDur(42) Rechg(42) Rechg(43) Rechg(43)
35) --> Hover==> Fly(35) Fly(50)
38) --> Adrenalin Boost==> Rechg(38) Rechg(43) Heal(45) Heal(45)
41) --> Power Blast==> Acc(41) Acc(45) Dmg(46) Dmg(46) Dmg(46)
44) --> Temp Invulnerability==> DmgRes(44) DmgRes(48) DmgRes(48)
47) --> Power Boost==> Rechg(47) Rechg(48) Rechg(50)
49) --> Fly==> Fly(49) Fly(50)

Clear Mind is easily one of the best powers in the empathy set, and needs to be taken as early as possible. Your team will love you for it.

You don't need endurance reductions in everything, since you're a /empathy who has RA. Just slap 3 endurance modifications in that and then drop it when your endurance gets low.

Swapped Psychic for Primal Forces. Psychic epic is very good for other controllers, but as a /emp Power Boost is just killer. Doubling the power of your heals/buffs? Yes please.

Don't slot hover for Defence Buffs. It's just not worth it.

If you have to take fly, by all means do so, but I'd reccomend swapping Hover for Regeneration Aura and taking something else at level 49. With 3 heals in it, it's actually better than Instant Healing from the /regeneration scrapper set, and with powerboost it's like having two IHs stacked on you. You're essentially invincible. Coupled with RA, you never run out of end either!

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1. ninja/ff - dispersion bubble + force bubble + repulsion bomb
2. ninja/dark
3. ninja/trick arrow
4. ninja/poison
5. ninja/ff - same as first ( dispersion bubble stacks so increased mez prot )

what i want to see is how anyone is gonna get past 30 ninja pets that can stun,slow,immob,placate ( with criticals ), hold and kb ( at lvl 32 ) while they are being debuffed by poison, repeled by force bubble, slowed and debuffed by trick arrow and debuffed - slowed - held by dark just to get to a team that's protected by 2 sets of shields and are in stealth ( from dark )

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Except the point of a pentad team is to have one of each AT.

Actually, Empathy is a great controller secondary. What people say about being "too busy with healing to drop holds" is a load of [censored].

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Troller: Illusion / Empathy, with focus on healing/buffing with light control on the side.
Defender: FF / PSY Forcebubble, Dispertion Bubble and Detention Field, I dont really care that much about the rest.
Tanker: Ice / Nrg
Scrapper: Spines / SR
Blaster: Ice / Nrg



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The team is heavy on DEF, and altho DEF is better in PvP, isnt there still an abundance of +ToHit/+Acc powers? wouldnt putting in a sonics defender make it much more effective?

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Aye, I was about to say that I was thinking of a similar team but with a sonic instead. After some thought, though, I can see where Imaginary is coming from. With Force Bubble, it's not neccesary to protect the squishies with other powers as they're protected already. Detention Field basically reduces their 5 man team to a 4 man team and Dispertion Bubble gives the whole team mez protection (to a degree).

This is the build of my sonic defender:

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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder - (http://sherksilver.coldfront.net/index.php)
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Name: Name ?Decibellion
Level: 50
Archetype: Defender
Primary: Sonic Resonance
Secondary: Sonic Blast
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01) --> Sonic Barrier==> DmgRes(1) DmgRes(3) DmgRes(3)
01) --> Shriek==> Acc(1) Acc(23) Dmg(25) Dmg(27) Dmg(27)
02) --> Sonic Haven==> DmgRes(2) DmgRes(5) DmgRes(5)
04) --> Scream==> Acc(4) Acc(29) Dmg(29) Dmg(31) Dmg(31)
06) --> Sonic Cage==> Rechg(6) Rechg(7) Rechg(7) Acc(9) Acc(9)
08) --> Hasten==> Rechg(8) Rechg(11) Rechg(11)
10) --> Disruption Field==> EndRdx(10) EndRdx(46) EndRdx(48)
12) --> Sonic Dispersion==> DmgRes(12) DmgRes(13) DmgRes(13) EndRdx(15) EndRdx(15) EndRdx(17)
14) --> Super Speed==> Run(14) EndRdx(17) EndRdx(46)
16) --> Swift==> Run(16)
18) --> Hurdle==> Jump(18) Jump(19) Jump(19)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(21) EndMod(21)
22) --> Sonic Repulsion==> EndRdx(22) EndRdx(23) EndRdx(50)
24) --> Combat Jumping==> Jump(24) Jump(25) EndRdx(50)
26) --> Clarity==> Rechg(26)
28) --> Siren's Song==> Acc(28) Acc(31) Dmg(34) Dmg(36) Sleep(36) Sleep(36)
30) --> Super Jump==> EndRdx(30)
32) --> Liquefy==> Rechg(32) Rechg(33) Rechg(33) Acc(33) Acc(34) TH_DeBuf(34)
35) --> Screech==> Acc(35) Acc(37) Dmg(37) Dmg(37) DisDur(39) DisDur(39)
38) --> Dreadful Wail==> Acc(38) Acc(39) Dmg(40) Dmg(40) Dmg(40) Rechg(43)
41) --> Dominate==> Acc(41) Acc(42) Hold(42) Hold(42) Rechg(43) Rechg(43)
44) --> Mind Over Body==> DmgRes(44) DmgRes(45) DmgRes(45) EndRdx(45) EndRdx(46) EndRdx(50)
47) --> Telekinesis==> EndRdx(47) EndRdx(48) EndRdx(48)
49) --> Acrobatics==> EndRdx(49)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
01) --> Vigilance==> Empty(1)
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Though I can see why you'd want the leadership pool. I might even swap it for the 3 extra attacks I took.

You can't really be offendy with the sonic set as all your debuffs require someone else to latch them on to. The best way to play a sonic, as NB says, is as a buff-bot.

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There is taunt suppression (only works 50% of the time), but with 3 recharge 3 duration you can taunt enough to ensure that you keep them taunted even if it's not doing anything 50% of the time.

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Now you got me confused, you mean it taunt will miss 50% of the time or what?

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It doesn't "miss", it just doesn't work. Since it's an AoE, there's a 50% chance that each person you hit won't be taunted.

There is taunt suppression (only works 50% of the time), but with 3 recharge 3 duration you can taunt enough to ensure that you keep them taunted even if it's not doing anything 50% of the time.

6 slot Taunt with 3 recharge and 3 duration and you can pretty much perma-taunt someone, even with the suppression. Provoke would probably need 2 recharge 2 accuracy 2 duration.

ZOMG GRATZ QUILTY!!

Now vote for me in the DJ battle! I don't see spawnus posting in here......