theGatling

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Do you mean that pentad is more encouraging or what? Personally I'm least interested in pentad simply because I suck at it. And I only have one suitable AT basically for high-level pentad and building proper teams from available people and their characters feels more than impossible.. At least from defiant players.


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Pentad should be more encouraging because it is without doubt the fairest format you can play.

Teams of 6 with 2 of each AT just leads to people taking a sonic, rad, empath and kin, with 2 ice/ems which will trounce anything that comes their way. You get to choose only 2 of the support in pentad making things a lot more tactical.

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On union I have basically nothing, I dont count my 32 dominator as pvp character yet. So I cant participate on union fight nights.

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This is why with such a small PvP community all arena events should be held on test, and if there is a gathering tonight I hope it will be there and not on Union.

Imo, it will be less encouraging for people, especially if they dont have a set team levelled. A random team of 6 vs. 2 rad/psi (or 1 sonic), an illu/kin and empath and 2 ice/em vs. a randomly assembled team just isn't fair.

It's not as easy to outbuild your opponents in pentad, and requires more teamwork. That said, I'll happily try and get a team together for any format you wish to play.

I'm not sure if the arena night will be going ahead tonight, but I know of atleast 6 people who will be turning up. I think it's meant to be on Union but I'm sure it can be moved over to test if you can get some kind of team together and fancy a few matches tonight before/after/inbetween random fun.

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I'm here all alone

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I forgot about i8 and for some reason it's downloading at around 10k/sec.... gonna be 1 hour 20ish

Blunt_ wrote:

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If your main account login is the same as someones board display name, theres a bug that won't let you create a forum account. Even if the forum display name your trying to create is different than your account username and everyones board name. So basically someone is using your account login as their board display name.

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Thanks for the reply. Seeing as I can't change my login name (as far as I can tell), is there anything I can do except politely ask whoever has the board name Gatling to change it? Or more correctly, ask you to pm him asking him to change it on my behalf..? Thanks

Hello US PvPers. I would be posting on your boards, but your support team is ridiculously slow at replying to my e-mails (I haven't had a reply in 5 days now, and am getting rather [censored] off tbh), and apparently my login name is already in use on the boards (which doesn't make any sense).

Anyway, I look forward to whooping y'all EU style soon.

Invuln/SS if you like to PvP at Sirens level (or maybe /Stone if you dont want to do /SS again). Any combination of Ice/, Fire/ or Invuln/ and /Fire, /Stone or /SS for level 50. A Fire/Fire would be nice, and different.

If you still want to do /Energy be aware that you will lack damage in a big way at Siren's Call level. After that though nothing competes in the damage department (except maybe Fire/Fire (I'm not quite sure what percentage damage increase Fiery Embrace gives to Fire and other damage, anyone?)).

Ive never understood why there's level 29 Arachnos in Warburg... Makes the Spider Smasher badge nice and easy though.

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And no offence but the US pvpers dick all over the EU lot

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I think this would be what sparked the retaliation.

Although you have experience on both sides, you have never actually fought against us when playing as our proper team or much at all for that matter, so you shouldn't be so conclusive in your statements.

The other thing is that whenever we have fought, you have had a bit of a paddy about our use of teamspeak and IoPs, neither of which we have ever used.

I would personally love to have our team on the US servers and challenge anyone and everyone that wants a match, as it's so hard to come by decent team PvP over here. I'd actually be willing to transfer my main just to do this if it were possible. A few of us dont have much time for levelling anymore though, so we cant just start again over there im afraid

Again, no offence intended by any of that, lets keep things civil please

And sorry for the derailage.

I dont put much sway in 1v1s anyway, as most people know some builds just dont cut it against others, and some cut it against most. Chilli's fire/rad only managed to kill my elec/em after burning all my break frees with 3 minutes to go (at this point I was winning), and Im struggling to imagine a rad/psi being more effective. I still think I could beat Chilli with the right set of insps and a bit of luck concerning the map (and i do mean just regular insps).

About the EU vs US thing. I cant really comment too well because I havent played there, but our pentad team destroyed absolutely everything the French could throw at us for a few months in a row, and they took it very seriously, but probably not as seriously as the americans. They also pl'd several different teams specifically to beat us and didnt even come close. Also, we've never once even used teamspeak. I think we could give them a run for their money.

In honesty, I'm struggling to get my head around a rad/psi beating everything 1v1, and would very much need to see it in action...

I get hit through pff all the time by tanks and scrappers using FA, with build up they hit a lot more than they miss.

Apparently though, Power Boost affects defense buffs of toggles you're running, which I always assumed it wouldn't, but this makes both Ice armor and PFF much more attractive to a /energy blaster. Power Boost is only down for 7 seconds at a time whilst running hasten.

You can only have FoN for a maximum of 3 minutes in a duel, not 4, unless you use geas accolade too, but that doesnt bring it down much. And this is ofcourse assuming that you're not going to die and ruin your buff cycle, which you probably will.

Overall, I think the ice epic has more to offer generally in duels. If you have a decent kin or empath backing you up though, FoN all the way.

Im fan of the all-human (+ light form, ofcourse) for PvP. I will one day get mine his last 2 levels so that I can duel with him properly, and show the doubters that they shouldnt be laughing every time I suggest PBs for PvP!

You will lack damage, but played properly should be near unkillable. Sorry I dont have a build to post.

Any blaster can hit through PFF with very little difficulty, especially a /energy one. It can be very good against other ATs though, especially non-rad controllers.

-fly, -spd and -recharge works very well against anyone

Hibernate for duels, FoN for team matches, imo.

My current build has fly, medicine and ice epic. The problem at the moment is that every blaster and his dog is picking up the ice epic, which totally eliminates, fly, ss and aid self.
Against any other blaster (and we all know blaster vs. blaster is where it's at ) with ice epic and sj you are a sitting duck. It has left me wanting to respec invis back in instead of medicine to be able to drop snowstorm in battle. SJ also has the obvious advantage of unlocking acro too which most people would also consider essential. (Tbh I'm pretty [censored] off with it atm because the current snowstorm mania makes the leaping pool even more advantageous, and damnit I like flying!)

Looks pretty good all-in-all but you probably want to lose a recharge from boost range and stick an extra slow in snowstorm.

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thats hilarious, u've gotta be joking right?

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I just spent 10 minutes writing out a nice long reply, but I think this sums it up perfectly.

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i thought power boost boosted regenration aura i guess i was wrong according to okton..

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I'm not aware that it boosts that... as it doesn't have a secondary affect.. just a primary "+regeneration"

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I think it was fully established earlier in the thread that it does not matter what the power is or what affects it has, only if the specific effect is listed as primary or secondary in the game engine.

I can assure you that was simply because I hadn't even seen you get into melee range with me, and was with regards to Energy primary. I'm quite aware of how kiting and energy secondary work

The reason is that most people like to get hasten and acrobatics, and they dont want to use more than 2 pools on travel powers.

I always take fly and ss personally.

Elec/Elec PvE talk

The traditional way to solve the problem is to give everyone a random seeding. Seeing as there are 17 teams the 2 lowest seeded teams would be the only 2 to play in the first round and everyone else gets a bye to the second round.

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Pending me getting a team >.>

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Why not get yourself a Force of Immunity team together? Im sure Neo among others will be interested..

To be honest, I've never had a self heal on a blaster PvE build, but with Power Boost and 3 slotted with heal SO's you will be healing yourself for ~500hp (at level 25-30) so it's very much worth getting.

Easy to use when you get the hang of the interupt. Just jump behind a corner, heal and you're away again

You seem to be a little anti-melee, but I would get Bonesmasher. I would also lose Power Bolt for Energy Punch, but that would obviously require another respec.. (and probably a whole change of playstayle, so ignore that if you like...)

From those that you propose I would get the snipe.

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It also boosts range too...

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I think I can without any doubt say that Power Boost does not affect range..

That's what Boost Range is for

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Most be how the game is programmed certain effect then must be pigeon holed as secondary effect.

I mean surely the primary function of aid self is heal and the secondary is the toxic restance.

Any one know what its duration is? Im persuming somthing akin to build up about 10 seconds ish??

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Yes it is how the game engine works. It doesn't matter what the primary and secondary affect of a certain power are, just whether they are labelled as primary and secondary etc. Damage and damage resistance are the only primary that I can think of.

Aid self doesnt give toxic resistance, it gives stun resistance.

Power boost duration is 15 seconds. 3 slotted recharge and with hasten on it is up for 15 seconds, down for 7.

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Stupid lazy arsed programming that what it is!!

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It's working as intended as far as I know, not a side-effect of lazy programming.

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It doubles the amount healed.

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It only doubles the base heal, not the enhanced part (as with everything it boosts)

Healing is a secondary affect. It doesn't boost resistance as someone said, as that is a primary affect (the opposite of damage).