Xanthus_EU

And Force Of Nature from the blaster ancilliary iirc.

Rules update: You may NOT switch alts at any point during the tournament. The character you enter the first match with is the character you MUST play throughout the entire tournament.

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I have 2 HO's that are perfect for rads radiation infection

To hit debuff/Def debuff/ End reduct

Will trade for -

Acc/End reduct
Acc/Rech
Dmg/rech
Dmg/end reduct

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quotin' because none of these are actually real HOs.

Just tested the arenas on test with Imaginary and they worked like normal so we are GO for wednesday!

If you're in a team that hasn't posted in the sign-up thread PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do it ASAP!

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Can people just show up and hope to get into the matches?
(because some of the Astrum Rangers wanna take part, but we don't have enough people as some have disappeared)

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There's other people on Defiant who also want to form a team, why don't you talk to them? Off the top of my head I can think of Captain Skyfire and Omega MCX, both of whom are pretty good players.

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Ill try get on this week and dust of the cob webs before the tournament/gank bitter/cage bitter thing

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i bet u i spend more time in the cage than u im thinking of bringing my own armchair for the tournament so i can get comfy in there

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It's TRADITION okay

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Hello, I'm back, I copy your message on vigilance board

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Oh god awesome. I can't wait to fight you guys again.

As for the whole 16vs16 thing, it'd be easier if Union could just enter two teams. Basically what I want to do with this tournament is bring the top-level PvPers from each of the servers up to the level where they can compete in teams with the top-of-the-top teams like Retribution so that we get more competitive arena all round.

Why don't FU/LoUD merge with some other union players to form an 8 man team?

Use this thread to sign up your teams like I have done below:

Team Name: Paragon Defenders Presents: LESS TALK MORE VIOLENCE

Representing Server/Country: Defiant/England, Denmark, Netherlands

go here for international PvP

Lets organize this one properly, shall we? I'm pretty well versed in who the good PvPers are on Defiant, but not so much on the other servers.

VIGILANCE I have had some fights with a long LONG time ago, and they were top players. In fact, I would go so far as to say that they taught us a lot of what we know today, from using Acrobatics on squishies to avoid knockback to co-ordinating on the same target for easier kills. HOWEVER times have changed. Lets see if they can keep up!

UNION. Old old rivals, you guys. I've faced off against you many times, and the matches have always been fast paced and fun. Now I hear that there new players, and even players with villains ready to step into the fray? Bring it on I say. Bring it on.

ZUKUNFT are the dark horse of this tournament, since they are the only server I know very little about. They beat us in the final of the S4 bantamweight division, but that was then and this is now. Can the Germans hold their own in the highest of the high level PvP? I want to find out.

SO I propose an 8vs8 tournament of EPIC proportion on Wednesday 21st of March at 8pm in Pocket D on the Test Server. The rules will be as follows:

All fights are at level 50. If you wish to bring lower level characters, you can, but there will be no weight limit set so those with 50s will have the advantage.

No more than two of the same archetype per team. This means teams CANNOT take a team with four controllers, or defenders in it. This is to at least try and stop our teams becoming like the teams in the US, which consist of little more than blasters and defenders.

Each team may consist of both Heroes AND Villains. If you want a team with two stalkers and two scrappers in it, you're welcome to do so.

Inspirations and Temp Powers are allowed. Anything that you can use in the arena is fair game to be used.

Matches will be 10 minutes long. Anything over that gets a bit tedious, in my opinion.

Since these matches are going to be Eight players a side, I don't think we'll get more than one or two teams per server. As such, I'll hopefully be able to run this as a round-robin style tournament where all the teams get to play each other.

I can't wait for this. I hope to see as many of you there as possible, spectating even if you're not playing. This will probably be the highest level of PvP the EU servers has ever seen so lets make these fights ones worth watching!


P.S. It would be really handy if people who spoke both fluent French/German AND English got into contact with me to help me organize the tournament on the night as I can appreciate that not everyone will be able to speak English there. If you think you can help me, either PM me on here or add me to MSN as pirate_vision@hotmail.com

Hell, lets do this properly. I'll post on the Vigilance and Zukunft boards and sort out some kind of international tournament or something.

Teams of 8, heroes OR villains
All fights at level 50
No more than two of the same AT
Inspirations and temp powers are allowed

Anyone have any suggested dates for this?

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name the time and the place. We still need to get the therms to 50, but you're on.

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/em prays that 7 other union ppl rise to the occasion and join me or i look like a pratt

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If talking villains I know afew .

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Go for it. As always, no more than 2 of the same AT. Fights at level 50. No holds barred.

I bet I could probably get some guys from the french server in on this as well.

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Paragon defenders

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union will challenge that team anytime anywhere

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name the time and the place. We still need to get the therms to 50, but you're on.

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Paragon defenders

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/e smack xanthus for not realizing this.

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Hey! The team I wrote basically is our 8 man team, except we have an FF/psi instead of a rad/psi!

Ill/Emp Controller
Ill/Emp Controller
Sonic/Sonic Defender
Rad/Psi Defender
Ice/Thermal Corruptor
Ice/Thermal/Cold/Kin Corruptor (depending on the other team)
Ice/EM Blaster
Ice/EM Blaster

Rad/Psi sets up and calls targets, and then the corruptors and blasters spike Bitter Ice Blast together for basically a guarantee'd kill. Empaths keep everyone upright while the res buffs from the corruptor and the sonic mean that their job is even easier. The thermal puts Melt Armour on the target the Rad/Psi calls, and then Heat Exhaustion on their empath or other support. Sonic keeps his cage on either their empath or their damage, depending on the team. As long as everyone is co-ordinated, this team is damn-near unstoppable.

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Without asking i know Retribution can definately field 4, im sure we can find a 5th easy enough

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We're a little out of practice...

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cant get practise without fighting nimmer btw this a hero pentad or can we use villains as well?

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This is a good question. Is it just "No more than one of the same AT" or is it heroes only?

I'll bring my claws/DA tanker okay

Sure, we'll give you a shot. Would probably prefer 6vs6 no more than 2 of the same AT, though, if you can manage that.

The debuffs sort of make up for the difference in damage, though. A rad/sonic defender does a fair bit more damage than a sonic/rad corruptor. Of course, this is leaving inherent powers out of the question since the defender inherent is so laughably bad it's not worth even thinking about.

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h4xx WB code into Sirens :P

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LOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

I was going to suggest a joint union-defiant Hami raid, with the best raiders from both servers. See if we can beat him faster than the US.

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If you was solo the word Team wouldn't be in red.

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Err, yes it would. In fact, the word Team being in red proves he was solo since it only turns red when you have "Do not accept invites" set at the top of your search comment box. If you're in a team, it turns green and if you have anything other than "Do not accept invites" set, it's the same colour as the other words at the top of the chatbox.

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The constant moving thing. Yeah, in an ideal world that would be great, but I'm trying to be a tiny bit practical.

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If I can do it on a low-spec PC and a broken keyboard with a dodgy spacebar that sometimes doesn't work, you can almost certainly do it on yours. It's not actually that hard, and once you start doing it it just becomes second nature. It's gotten to the point where I'll do it in PvE now as well.

If you want to kill stalkers, wait for them to hit someone else who's dumber than you and has let themselves be hit. Once they do that, Hide is down and you can go in for the kill.

Seriously though, you shouldn't be standing still long enough to have to use Lotus Drops to interrupt AS. As long as you keep moving, it's really REALLY unlikely that you'll get AS'd, as anyone who plays a stalker will tell you. As I said earlier, practice kiting until you do it without even thinking.

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Question: Build Up, worth taking for a PvP Scrapper? I never normally do.

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Oh god yes. Seriously yes. You know what I said about burst damage earlier? To do that you NEED build up. Three recharges and three tohitbuffs standard.