Xanthus_EU

As the topic suggests, decent team arena has been lacking as of late. My supergroup, The Paragon Defenders, would like to fight a whole lot more in the arena particularly against teams of heroes, villains or both. We can pull teams of anywhere between two and eight people, plus we can borrow a few members from other SGs and do base raids with 16. We are primarily based on Defiant, although we have the test server installed as well. We also have a few 30-40 characters on Union, although they are not our strongest PvP team.

If you fancy some more team arena fights, drop me a line on @Xanthus or post in this thread and we'll get something sorted!

In other words: Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!

Depends on the powersets and the player.

Want a space in the PDs when you come to Defiant, KS?

What level? I can come along on my level 37 ill/emp if people are happy to have the fights at lower levels.

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I've got a Membrane (ToHit/DefBuff/Rchg)
would like one of the following
damage/acc
damage/mez
acc/mez
or pretty much any of the dual HO's

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Ask for two of the HOs you want for your tohit/defence/recharge since Empaths will KILL for this HO. It basically gives them three extra slots when you have three of them in Fort.

I don't think anyone knows the answers to these questions because the auto-tournaments haven't worked from day one.

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mine can do things without anyone rather well actually

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yes, but I bet I could solo my rad/psi/power faster than you could solo your emp/psi/psi.

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why is everything a competition with u? >.>


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Why do you have to type like a twelve year old girl?

There are some questions that I suppose we'll never know the answer to.

Bumpin' dis to say that I have about a million acc/mez's and (if pushed) a couple of dam/mez's which I'd like to trade for any damres/endrdx anyone has.

And this here, kids, is one of the reasons why the toggledrop nerf should have never happened.

((Paragraphs are your friend. So are fullstops

Edit: Sorry, forgot I was in the RP forum. I'm not used to being here))

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Acrobatics. Pick up SS (since hasten is useful anyway) and stack it with Cloaking Device for psuedo-invis.

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Got to agree this is the way to go.Listen to the wise man

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That'd be Devices.
I'm energy secondary. :/

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Oh christ, so you are. Even so, just SS is enough +stealth to ghost missions with ease. Acrobatics is just so much more useful.

Acrobatics. Pick up SS (since hasten is useful anyway) and stack it with Cloaking Device for psuedo-invis.

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This makes less sense without swearing.

Also, Oscar Wilde did not say you are "the bomb yo".

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Flicked on elude and went and sped under Hami, found nowt except some very nasty Mito's and some debt!

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It's there, but it'll take you more than one go to get in there.

Also, FYI, Elude and your other +def toggles won't help you vs Hamidon or the Mitos. No armour will.

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I want the Hami badges on my scrapper Cidri (Claws/SR 48). I f you are desperate, I could turn up with a Lvl 50 controller Jetstream (Ice/Kin 50) instead, but she only has one single hold.

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Bring your ice/kin, since it's not the amount of holds but the duration that matters and controlleres have the longest duration hold. Also, you'll get a level 48 Hami-O if you bring your level 48, which is useless once you get to 50. You could just park your scrapper in the hive and then switch for the badge after the raid is complete).

Tsumi, Heart Of The Hamidon is (as the name suggests) directly underneath Hamidon. As long as you have pretty good aim you can get it with fly by dropping yourself into Hamidon and landing on it, or you can just run through the jelly with superspeed or superjump to pick it up.

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One quick side-note, I'm pretty sure Crey Pistol is not an Immobolise, it's a Hold. A crappy hold, but a hold none the less. That, or they've changed it in the past few months, as it's held things in place when I've used it in the past.

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Where you say "held things in place", do you mean like "not running around but still shooting at me"? Because that's what the crey pistol does. It's basically a pathetic version of Chillblain with a 30 minute recharge.

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My point is that Dominators aren't nullfied simply by the presence of one (or even multiple) Empaths - by the same token, neither are Stalkers, nor any other villain AT.

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Well if it isnt breaking the game for doms lets just make ALL buffs self stack.

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Hay guyz lets overreact!

I'd like to Nominate _Max_ for his Dark Heart novel. I rarely read the Creative section of the forums, but this novel has had me hooked despite the fact that I have an impending essay deadline over my head.

Link is here

Just a few notes:

1) Don't use dark servant for holds - He also spams Twilight Grasp, the AoE heal. This just causes too much lag to be useful, and the duration on his hold isn't actually that great.

2) YOU DON'T NEED AN ATTACK PHASE - Attack phases just cause more lag than neccessary, and controllers can do the damage fine with just their holds. We kill Hamidon in about 15 minutes with just damage from holds, since rad debuffs give us more than enough damage to kill him and cause less lag. Just call for them instead of an attack phase, it actually turns out way faster.

3) You don't need to use Tankers or Scrappers for the hold phase. They have the lowest hold duration of all, so having them in the group just spreads out the people who are firing AM. Because of this, the controllers (who have the longest duration of holds) get fewer AMs which means fewer holds actually stack on Hamidon in total. Have them hit Hamidon once between the mito clearing and hold phase, and then wait on Cowards Hill while the squishies do the work. They'll get a Hamio, hamidon dies fast, everyone is happy.

Hope your raid takes off

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The Duration in PVP is much shorter on controllers.

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Wrong.

Defenders have it 1 second short of perma in PVP, with 3 recharge enhancements. Duration is 30 seconds for them. With hasten it's recharged way before the effect wears off.

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This. Basically, you're only out of the cage for the amount of time it takes for the animation to fire.

Yeah we did!

Union, this is a formal challenge on behalf of Defiant! We're both using the same guide, so lets see who is the more co-ordinated server! While we have experience doing more raids, Union have some damn good PvE'ers so it should be a pretty even race. That is, if the zones don't both crash under the stress of two hami raids at once!

I'd definitely be interested in this too. I have a defender sitting at level 27 who's itching for some duelin'

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Oh? How not?

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No temp powers work in the arena apart from the ones you can buy at the arena store.

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and i accept sarcasm when it comes from good players

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Well, for the most part it wasn't sarcasm. The last few times we've arena'd against you guys you've been a lot tougher than the first times. It's just that for some reason it didn't show last night.

Tonight the Italian Posse faced up to The Paragon Defenders (and friends) in a baseraid. It was a hard fight, but after nine minutes the Paragon Defenders came out on top after dropping six pylons in the Posse base.

Here are a couple of screenshots of the scores:

Attackers

Defenders

Kudos to the Italian Posse though, you played really well and you're definitely getting better. You guys just need to practice against us more

I guess that this is proof that spawn camping doesn't work. Hyperphase FTW!