macskull

Boost Range.

Justice PvP hasn't been "active" since before I13. Siren's Call was quite popular (relatively speaking) a loooooong time ago, and RV usually had enough people to keep fighting going for a while. When I13 came out, Justice lost a few players to the changes, but most of them simply transferred to Freedom, because that was the only server which still had a semblance of a PvP population.

I'd wager there are probably around a dozen good PvPers on Justice (just look at the signups for arena events on this server, you'll see the same names most of the time), and all but one or two have made the move to Freedom. In short, if you're looking for good PvP here, you won't find it 90% of the time.

Good luck on Freedom then - get used to people kiting you and engaging/disengaging at will or you'll have a very short PvP run. I'm not sure if you're getting at "I hate when ranged characters kite me" or "I hate when anyone kites me," but if it's the former, no one around here is going to have any sympathy for you, and it won't be much different if it's the latter. As much as the devs (and the fiteklubbers) don't want to admit it, movement is a staple of this game's PvP, and the travel suppression changes did little except make it easier for large teams to get kills against single targets.

The only way it's improved from a melee standpoint is taunt getting a 75% range debuff. I suppose you could consider the I13 ruleset as an "improvement" for melee as they don't have such strict DR curves, usually have a ton of HP, and often multiple good self-heals. Still, with the exception of a few builds you're not going to get kills in zone against someone with full HP unless that person is a tard or AFK.

Knockdown is not, and has never been, a viable tool for melee. You can use a mez to stop someone for a second or two, and taunt to reduce their range, but other than that you'll still be chasing people around. In other words, if you don't like movement in PvP, you're going to find your melee character experience post-I13 to be almost exactly like it was before.

Actually, duels are pretty stupid under the current rules. People that insist they're good because they can win duels under a system that favors damage spam (I'm looking at you, Poned) really don't have much to brag about.

That hurt my brain to watch.

Y'know, they tried that once. It resulted in a general shitstorm and the PvP population is even smaller than it was before (not to mention the system went from being unbalanced in a few areas to being generally unbalanced across the board).

Not really, as anyone who still plays that was decent under the old system knows that the reason they're dying (especially in zone) is because the mechanics gave the other player the kill, not because the other player earned it (if you think that mashing buttons until your target is dead because they can't evade or be healed is skillful, then I'm not sure what to say).

This isn't a hypothesis, this is a fact. Unless the Corruptor has some way to either completely drain the Blaster's endurance or floor their recharge before the Blaster gets through their attack chain a few times (all that's needed to get a kill, really) the Blaster will win. Way too much time in zone since I13 has shown me that unless you've got teammates near you, Hibernate/phase is up, or you're by a lot of buildings, you're gonna be screwed if a halfway intelligent Blaster gets the jump on you. It's even worse in the lower level zones where no one has their epic shields and the damage figuring is a bit different.

An emphasis on damage spam over support, a seeming dislike of teaming, and huge misconceptions about the PvP system are the reasons we are where we are today. It's not the players' fault.

Under the current PvP ruleset the Blaster would win that fight just about every time regardless of whether or not either character has damage procs slotted, because all the Blaster would have to do is spam attacks at the Corruptor, who wouldn't be able to heal or get away.

1. You want the highest damage proc (or the one with the highest chance to fire, or both as the case is with the purple proc) in the power where it will get the most use over time. In a Fire/Pain, that's Flares. Blazing Bolt will rarely if ever be used in 1v1 situations - a case could be made for zones but that just makes you spike bait. Only procs worth slotting in Blazing Bolt are the stun proc and maybe the toxic proc.

2. You can't. School of Sharks is a bad power. Crappy damage, short range, doesn't drop toggles, you get the picture. Meanwhile, Spirit Shark Jaws does pretty good damage, has the standard 80 foot range, drops toggles, and can bring down fliers.

Nitpick, but you can skip CO's tutorial if you've already done it, meaning you start your character at level 5 (access to the energy builder and charge power as well as a travel power right out of the gate is nice).

In this game, you can hit 14 in a few hours of play, probably less if you're on a fast team (PLing, I usually get there in 15 or so minutes but that's a different story ).

Didn't read the rest of the OP (lol @ rants about gear) but I just wanted to say that my Bane is going to have sooooooooo much fun with people who think like this.

In a game with gear (any game with gear, not just this one), if you invest more time and resources in your character (whether that be leveling it higher or slotting it better) you'll perform better than someone who doesn't. Really, really simple.

Your hero doesn't know these things are happening, and he thinks he's just passing goods off to other heroes. There we go, RP problem solved.

Seriously, people. RP reasons for anything in this game are ridiculous.