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I prefer the old style PvP, but the sheer numbers in zone (Freedom RV) at times make for interesting battles. Having 50's on either side I just switch back and forth to help whichever side needs it the most.

Make perma what? Coherency is go.

There is no perma elude...even at the recharge cap...not with 8 AB's on you can you get permaelude.

Farming 54 bosses on SO's in impossible so yea I have an emp for those farms. When I farm demons I can do it solo I don't need an emp.

If you can farm 54 bosses solo and efficiently on SO's I'll pay your sub.

But I'll look for that build, I wasn't sure stone mastery's AoE was on par with Fire/Psy mastery but apparently it is. And hitting soft cap (45%) isn't really the soft cap when the mobs are +4 to you which is what smoke is for...Thanks for the help so far though appreciate it all.

EDIT: didn't realize my op said 50 bosses, meant 54.

they fixed NPC's in PVP zones...Frost you may want to actually PvP a lil in the new system before doling out any sort of "Advice" on it.

I think you can go to the arena but you cant zone pvp seeing as how it begins at lvl 15

Farrah Faucet asked God on teh day she died to keep all the children of the world safe....

God's will be done the sumbitch took MJ.

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For SF's personally I like earth doms. Earth/Psi is a very potent combo good AoE and lots of debuffs. -speed -def -regen/recov -rech and once you get your PPP you can even get procc'd -res.

With Mind/Psi you'll have lots of control with three diff types of control in your secondary, KB, Stun, Immob. So I'd personally make sure to have your secondary slotted for dmg and perhaps one end redux in your Mental Blast and Subdue since you'll be using them so often they'll wreck your end quickly. Once you get a Performance Shifter Proc you should be able to remove your end reducs.

If you didn't build for +Recov you're gonna hate life on a stormy.

Ima plan to change my build to use smoke and work for the soft cap. Anybody have any experience with this?

I can't use mids, but the only stipulation is that I keep SB on my build cause SB'd imps = more dmg + SB"d teammates also = more dmg.

Fire or Psychic mastery prefferably but if it gets me soft cap on def to S/L dmg or something similar then I'll work with it.

The idea is to be able to farm 50 bosses without the need of an emp everytime. I want to hit the soft cap before I use smoke to debuff the ToHit as well.

Any help/feedback would be tremendously helpful as I've never IO'd for +Def before. Money is no object.

To the OP...it's damn near impossible to soft cap your defense in PvP thanks to DR. So with that being said, mac hit the nail on the head...also I'd build for -KB as well on a FA tank.

No prob son...I know the search fu is strong in you.

Rad/ and /Ice got wrecked for PvP especially since defenders lost the unresisted portion of their debuffs.

That being said it's not a horrid combo to have, there are just other sets that do it better.

Make sure you get leaping as well for acro.

Do not feed the trolls.

Not impossible, just hard in the way your thinking.

Not every toon is melee and has access to that much mez res so a 6 sec hold is still possible and since hold and confuse are different suppression timers it doesn't seem that hard to me at all.

Depending on what your gonna do with your dom will define the build IMO.

Guess reading is optional on these boards. I don't like fighting AV's when I PvP.

Since you didn't make it yet...I'd go rad/cold or sonic/cold or even dark/cold before going ice/cold.

They've reduced the effectness of -movement powers and since /cold does all the -rech you really need a better secondary effect that isn't redundant would be more efficient. -Def + Procs or -ToHit, Soft Control, and a self heal in dark, or rooting DoT goodness that is sonic.

Pick your poison. Hopefully ice isn't a must.

auto flares ftl.

Storm is actually better in arena than zones...the NPC's wreck most stormies in zone. Plus having a giant map to run away from all the debuffs is also bad...so yea. I think you got it backwards.

ill/storm/earth isn't bad imo. You don't have to build for +HP and can build for other things, +Acc mainly imo and perhaps +Dmg. Hurl Boulder is a nice ranged attack, hopefully you can get containment dmg on it, I also believe spectral wounds does decent dmg as well. Add to that phantom army plus all the other pets that will help keep your target suppressed and you could do alright.

Most folks will tell you power mastery for PB holds -Def -ToHit -End/Recov ect...ect...but those were for Paper cut deaths. It's about dmg now...and HP
YMMV

Hellora if you check out the thread that siph started there's a build or two there and some discussion...my mids is borked so yea.

let's add fuel...lolvori...loljal...lolFoL...anybody wanna add anything else?

Even if you allow temp powrers.

Unless you have power mastery it's gonna be hard to sap, unless you can get them with tesla cages + Short circuit. the -recov on tesla is very nice if you can keep it perma'd on them, but yea...you're better off with elec/therm for sapping.

True story.

Why would "More" support help when each layer of support renders the previous one more and more ineffective.