macskull

lol, get out of here. Actually play the game and then tell us what you think will work and what won't.

You would have zero dimes, because there's no way a TP/Fly team will get kills in an arena match. (Well, they might be able to pull off a random kill or two, so if your definition of "winning" is "getting a kill" then you'd've won, but if your definition of "winning" is "getting more kills than the other team" you'd lose pretty badly.) They might get kills in zone thanks to heal decay and travel suppression (assuming they're basically all Blasters), but by that same token they'll get farmed pretty brutally if the other team has half a brain. Again, you're talking about strategies working in a zone, where the environment is anything but competitive and most of the players are mediocre at best and downright terrible at worst. If you think getting kills against bad players by using some oddball strategy that wouldn't work against an intelligent team is skillful or makes you an out-of-the-box thinker, I'm sorry but you're no better than they are. If you think a fly/TP team would work in an arena match... like Con said. Get 7 other players, get into a match. Watch what happens.

This is true, but you'd need a very large sample to a good idea of what the weightings are.

As I said ingame, it's not nearly as exciting as it used to be, but the power is still fairly good. I'm still sad that I finished IOing my Fire/Psi about two weeks before the Dom changes went to test ;_;

6/10

Good effort, execution falls flat on its face.

It'd actually have a chance to proc on you when you summoned the pet (same as the BU proc) but after that it would apply only to the pet it's slotted in. Since with few exceptions pets were changed to ignore recharge buffs/debuffs, it's generally a wasted slot and it makes my Thugs/Dark MM mad because I haven't wanted to use a respec just to pull it out of my Bruiser.

On a side note, some pets that got decent mileage out of the Force Feedback proc (Bruiser and Phantasm being the two biggest ones) can still use the Explosive Strike proc to their advantage. It's a damage proc, but on pets like Phantasm and Bruiser where almost all their attacks do KB/KD, it adds to their damage output quite a bit.

Sorry, but your rather cynical and misguided point of view will only work on the most gullible forum-goers. Those of us who have been around long enough have refuted every piece of "logic" you've thrown at us yet you still come back for more, and those new players who come in hoping for advice see all of ours versus the few "NO YOU GUYS ARE WRONG" posts you like to make. Guess which people they'll listen to?

...which would accomplish exactly nothing no matter how many times you did it, as odds are fairly good that the rolls you end up getting on live will not be close to what you get on test. Might you get some IOs common between your rolls? Sure. Is it a good indicator of what you'll likely get? Not even close.

That's like saying "go online and play craps there, so you know what you'll get when you go to the casino and do it for real." Sorry, doesn't work that way.

I'm not going to debate that you can't do decently on a Fort provided it's built right, but the abundance of SS/ characters and people who still build with +acc in mind can give defense-based builds (everything, not just Forts) a hard time. If I'd spent the time and inf on it before I13, and it were a character I were somewhat attached to, I'd probably respec it and continue to play it, but in the case of many of my characters they were fast 50s that I can replace without much fuss.

Movement slows got hit hard, recharge slows are pretty much the same. Biggest thing is some powerset combinations can stack insane amounts of movement slow (Ice/Cold is one of those builds), enough to the point where you can get to pre-I13 levels.

Ludicrous analogies aside, let's compare that to something in the game. I know a few people who had well-IO'd and accoladed Forts before I13, and they're now wishing they'd invested that time and inf in something else. It's like deciding who to put Forge on - you can put Forge on that Tanker and boost his relatively low damage modifier to more respectable levels, or you can put Forge on that Blaster and boost his insanely high damage modifier to even higher levels. Given the choice between the two, I know very few people who would give Forge to the Tanker, because most people want the best results in a given situation. Basically what I'm saying is, if you want to spend a lot of inf and time on a sub-standard build, I won't stop you. I've tossed around builds for oddball set combinations, and it's made me do a lot of number-crunching to see what works best for those particular builds. However, you'd be foolish to suggest that you would not get a far better return on your investment by working on a build that is more suited to the task at hand (sure a Rad/Elec Defender can farm, but why do that when you can use a Fire/Kin, which would be cheaper and much more efficient?).

AR has three single-target attacks. The AoEs are largely worthless because they have hella long animation times and AoEs in general are bad in PvP these days. None of AR's three attacks (including the snipe here, which is debatable) are particularly good. If someone wants to play an AR/Ice in zone, I won't say much, and if they asked for a build I'd try, but I'd tell them "don't expect much from it, neither of your powersets are particularly suited for PvP." It may not be what they want to hear, but it's me being honest and me saving them from a lot of frustration down the road. Flying Blasters are only slightly more annoying than regular Blasters because you're not always looking upwards in zone, but on the flip side they're trivially easy to bring down and once they're out of the air they're often a quick and easy kill. I did run into a flying AR Blaster in RV the other day, actually, and I kind of chuckled to myself as I webnaded him and then killed while he was plinking away at me.

Generally what I do in a situation like that (if I'm not using voice chat) is spam the name of the most dangerous target that's currently attacking me (I play support a lot, so I'm often a target in zones). Given that an organized PvP team will have roles (damage, buff/heal, disruption whether via taunt or other powers, debuff, etc), it's not a real issue to have the damage deals and disruptors switch to priority targets.

That's a tremendous oversimplification of the current state of PvP. Yes, the role of support and disruption has been greatly diminished. No, it's not "damage only." The focus has been generally changed to damage, yes, but the role of disruption and debuffs is still important (less important in zone given heal decay and travel suppression). There are some characters you want to be damage dealers, and there are some you want to be disruption builds. There are, believe it or not, some that can do both.

It's not an "I don't know." It's "that won't work well, at all, so save yourself the headaches and make something that will." Again, just because someone doesn't get the answer they want to hear doesn't mean they aren't getting an answer. Yes, I PvPd a bit on a flying AR/Dev before I13. No, I wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole in this current version of PvP. Same with my flying Kat/Regen. The problem with attempting to make everything exactly the same is that the small differences stand out even more than before, so there's less stuff that works well. Prior to I13, a smart player could make a PvE build work in many situations, but that's unfortunately not the case anymore.

Yep they'd have to hit on the same server tick (every 0.25 seconds, I believe). Hard to coordinate even before you figure in client/server lag and any voice communication the two might be using. I wouldn't count on it ever happening, and if it does, it's basically a freak coincidence.

Grav/Kin:

Yeah, I never resized it from the original image... if the source image for your avatar doesn't fit into the 80x80 area they give you it just scales it down.

Remember, this is the person who told me they would never team in PvP with someone like me, yet they've teamed with me for the better part of an afternoon several times since coming over to Freedom and never knew it.

Seriously, let us know when you find good team and solo PvP strategies comparable to the ones we've established and have been using, and maybe we'll actually take your opinion into account.