macskull

Procs and resistance debuffs from teammates. Sorry, that's how it is now.

While that's technically "working as intended," I'd be inclined to agree with you simply on the grounds that being able to jump into phase right after exiting Hibernate effectively negates the "immobilized" aspect of Hibernate. There's also Ethereal Shift, which is a static 30-second phase which can override the 30-second phase period if used near the end of it (i.e. Hibernate for 25 seconds and then activate Ethereal Shift, and you'll be phased well after that 30-second phase window has expired).

Here's an equation for you: let's just pretend PvP is yet another one of those min-max scenarios you come across from players (and, this is probably one of the widespread examples of one in reality). When you're building a character for farming, or AV soloing, or the RWZ challenge, or pylon soloing, or even GM soloing, you usually tweak and refine your build so it performs as well as possible given the parameters of what you're trying to do.

For example, Fly is an acceptable travel power in PvP, especially for the longer-ranged Blaster AT, with the caveats that it doesn't offer fast horizontal movement to keep with other players with SS or SJ, and that there are tons of -fly powers going around. A partial solution to this is to have Hover in case you get hit with a light application of -fly (Snow Storm, Spirit Shark Jaws, Hurl, etc), and a full solution is to have both Fly and another travel power such as Teleport or especially Super Speed. Essentially what I'm getting at is that you should treat PvP just like you might treat farming or AV soloing: in order for the best performance at a particular task, you need to be willing to forego concept and roleplay and just build your character for the task at hand. Some people don't want to do that, and that's perfectly fine: PvP's just not for them.

What upsets PvPers about PvEers is when they 1) lump everyone into one giant group because of actions of a few (for example, "All PvPers are trash-talking babies" is a stereotype perpetrated by a very few players); 2) claim a power being changed in PvE is due to PvP reasons (travel suppression and the Energy Transfer animation change were just as much due to PvE usage as they were PvP, I believe the only legitimate power that this argument applies to is Hurricane); and 3) go into a PvP zone once or twice, get killed several times, and get discouraged and give up and/or go post some rant on the forums instead of taking the time to figure out why things happened how they did and how they can learn to avoid them. You're fighting other players, not the predictable, boring, and limited AI, and they're using the same kinds of powers you have, against you. It's a shock to some players, and it's been made even worse because of the I13 changes.

tl;dr version: If you wander into a PvP zone once or twice and don't like it, that's fine. If you do that and come to the forums and rant about PvP, or develop a negative view of PvPers because of one or two experiences, you should expect very little sympathy from the people who were in your situation at one time but instead of giving up decided to make an effort to figure out why and get better.

Thing about that is, Hurricane's not a toggle in how it affects enemies. In a zone situation, offensive toggles should be useful in and of themselves, not because they put the target into perma-travel suppression.

What DR and base resistance essentially does is eliminate the need for teammates by giving you some of the buffs teammates would've provided under the old system (particularly +res and +dam) and then lopping those values off in the name of balance. I don't have a problem with diminishing returns in and of itself, other than it invalidated many build goals PvPers under the old system would build for (permadom - which isn't really necessary with the I15 Dom changes, permahasten, perma-AM, etc.). The concept of DR's fine, but in practice it messes with things in a bad way.

Where I do have a problem with DR is that it makes defense on squishies essentially worthless unless that defense also has some elusivity (such as Frozen Armor). Squishy +def caps at around 20% thanks to DR, which means even a Force Field bubble is largely wasted. For example, my MM has about 35% smash/lethal defense in PvE between Scorp Shield, Shadow Fall, Maneuvers, and various set bonuses, but that number gets reduced to around 15% in PvP. When I hit Power Boosted Vengeance, that number jumps to about 19% in PvP, even though PB'd Veng should be giving me about 45% defense on its own. My biggest beef about DR though is how it makes +res buffs like the Therm or Sonic shields completely useless on any squishy running a resist-based epic/patron shield (that's most of them, by the way). By essentially providing the buffs teammates would be granting you as part of the system, not only have you changed the dynamic of teaming and support powersets in general, but you've changed the entire focus of PvP to a simple damage spam.

AR/Elec

...What?

Believe it was Castle during the event testing for the zombie invasion last Halloween. I'm not sure that it would interfere with the Halloween GM spawns since they're not technically a zone event.

Caltrops assumes:

1. All the Stalkers are idiots
2. You're standing in the same spot all the time

Neither of the above will be true in good zone PvP. Why? A Stalker will be able to AS you as you're jumping around (or grounded by something, or mezzed) and since Caltrops covers a very tiny area, that leaves them with a lot of room to move around. If you're standing in the same spot all the time, a nice little spike from some ranged toons should get you moving pretty quick. If not, you're either a complete tard, mezzed, or AFK.

Every duel should be a tie, given equally skilled players playing equally-matched characters (not necessarily similar builds, mind you). Playing the "stand in melee range and diddle each other until someone dies" game kills brain cells and is only serving to restrict your own ability to get better at the game. I don't think it's coincidence that some of the worst PvPers I know on every server I play on are fiteklubbers.

They need to add an option to disable that and then work with the players to come up with a means of sudden death that doesn't suck (like, maybe clearing all buffs).

Unfortunately, it seems as though this is yet another attempt to foster a "can't we all just get along?" attitude rather than an "I disagree with you, and here's why" attitude. I can understand taking action against hateful rep comments, but I'm guessing the majority of the "You're an idiot" comments are completely sincere and the poster probably deserved them.

Just turn rep off already, if it's that much of a problem.

Set bonuses aren't affected by ED.