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personally i dont think there is a bad scrapper PvP build, it really depends completely on ur situation, if ur solo and want fast deaths it has to be BS, if ur in a team the -fly, slow, immob and rnage from spines is 2nd to none, the kb from martial arts is also very good. for secondary if ur fighting in zones SR is very good, in a team with a kin its regen all the way, BS/invul wud be very effective at taking out bubblers....in short, depending on ur situation they are all very good, just get the right secondary to go with ur primary choice (for example spines/invul wud be stupid but bs/invul has its uses)

17th August Shaman X will be lining up for an ink drawing [img]/uk/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

this was a gr8 idea but sadly i think it died the first night where we won [img]/uk/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] people just dont like to lose, we went thru months of losing to the french to get to where we are, losing to a better opponent is the only way to get better

any challengers tonight?

loving the new site, particularly the image of gill drawing himself in pencil/ink/color, truly amazing

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Ghosting, and PvP. If you team with people who treat all missions as defeat alls, and don't do team PvP, don't take it.

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ok so max's answer was a little better than mine [img]/uk/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] he is exactly 100% right

PvP

was really looking forward to this

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I'll post up some decent thoughts later, but for now I've one thing to say to Mr. Motivator.

Whilst I dont' agree with your slotting in a few powers, it's an OK build if you're duo'ing in the Arena or in the Zones. But in lager teams at the top end of the PvP ladder, you'll have issues.

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definately agree, i've done a stupid amount of pvp with shaman and have gone through many builds and my current build IMO is the best possible, the only possible change wud be fly for ss but im backed up by a kin so ss isnt needed for me and its only needed when web grenaded, anyway altho i say i think its perfect feel free to pick holes

Name: Shaman X
Level: 50
Archetype: Defender
Primary: Empathy
Secondary: Psychic Blast
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01) --> Heal Other==> Heal(1) Heal(5) Heal(5) Rechg(29) Rechg(31) Rechg(31)
01) --> Mental Blast==> Acc(1)
02) --> Absorb Pain==> Heal(2) Heal(3) Heal(3) Rechg(17) Rechg(17) Rechg(31)
04) --> Healing Aura==> Heal(4) Heal(7) Heal(7) Rechg(9) Rechg(9) Rechg(34)
06) --> Hurdle==> Jump(6) Jump(37)
08) --> Air Superiority==> Acc(8) Acc(39) Acc(46)
10) --> Clear Mind==> Range(10) Range(11) Range(11) Rechg(43) Rechg(43) Rechg(46)
12) --> Fortitude==> Rechg(12) Rechg(13) Rechg(13) DefBuf(40) DefBuf(42) DefBuf(42)
14) --> Fly==> Fly(14) Fly(15) Fly(15) EndRdx(37) EndRdx(39) EndRdx(39)
16) --> Health==> Heal(16)
18) --> Recovery Aura==> Rechg(18) Rechg(19) Rechg(19)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(21) EndMod(21)
22) --> Grant Invisibility==> DefBuf(22) DefBuf(23) Range(23) Range(25) Range(25) Rechg(29)
24) --> Invisibility==> Rechg(24)
26) --> Regeneration Aura==> Heal(26) Heal(27) Heal(27) Rechg(36) Rechg(36) Rechg(36)
28) --> Phase Shift==> Rechg(28) Rechg(40) Rechg(40)
30) --> Combat Jumping==> Jump(30)Jump(37)
32) --> Adrenalin Boost==> Heal(32) Heal(33) Heal(33) Rechg(33) Rechg(34) Rechg(34)
35) --> Super Jump==> EndRdx(35)
38) --> Acrobatics==> EndRdx(38)
41) --> Power Build Up==> Rechg(41) Rechg(42) Rechg(43)
44) --> Temp Invulnerability==> DmgRes(44) DmgRes(45) DmgRes(45) EndRdx(45) EndRdx(46)
47) --> Psionic Lance==> Dmg(47) Dmg(48) Dmg(48) Acc(48) Acc(50)
49) --> Conserve Power==> Rechg(49) Rechg(50) Rechg(50)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Vigilance==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Rechg(2)
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cant wait, gonna be awesome

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Ok, got confirmation from 2 people saying they'll be there at 6.30 PM, Talos shall we say?

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i'm in

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Sounds like fun ;D

Edit: Back on the 1st of August probably.

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does this mean we may have a fight this week? so far no1 has challenged us

any chance we can have the matches drawn up soonish mate so we can contact team mates to make sure they're gonna be there

its powerboost that needs looking at

lol u still dont get the point and while i cud reply i think syn summed it up perfectly

nope but i was under the impression any team can join in at any time

when are AoW gonna challenge us?

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i dont see any time when running back to the ship is acceptable, running is fine but running back to the ship at the first sign of trouble is pretty much cheating IMO.

that said last night in warburg was great fun, havent had that much fun in pvp for a while and it was great to see a lot of very good new ppl that i hadnt really seen before. havent been in the zones for ages but was well impressed with ppl last night, particularly cosmic avenger, theregulator (spent 20minutes trying to kill u, got u eventually ), destructor? (globes tank) damn u were annoying, stopped me getting so many kills, u reminded me of max powerz u were that good. there was a very good /kin corruptor as well which was very hard to kill. evo was also very good and annoying with the end drain good to see AoWs other players are getting as good as zak, stryker and sgt. shud b good to have a mass sg arena fight soon.

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Bah, If it does not entail breaking the Eula then its not cheating..This sounds like a lot of the comlpaints 'porters get for using their powers..Or any character/player who chooses to use hit'n'run tactics.

Withdrawing to safety can make the difference between just getting killed all the time or managing to get a few kills each night.

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IMO means in my opinion, it has nothing to do with the holy Eula, u clearly are another one who cant READ, i never said anything is wrong with runnin or hit andd running, hit and running is good tactics, jumping in and out of a safe zone to gank targets is cheap and u obviously aint got the slightest bit of skill

the interuption time is bugged i believe and if its not it defo needs looking at, other than that i wudnt change it, IMO there are some very very good power pools for PVP and u need to give up one of them to take aid self so u lose out somewhere

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I'm always running, specially around Blasters so that I can outdamage them and they can't smash my bones or focus totally on me. :>

I call it kiting, helps my Regen cope with damage too when the damage isn't coming in as thick and at once. Sometimes I take kiting to the extremes and run around entire buildings - but that's really to split opponents up so they can die one at a time.

If I run into the safe zone I consider myself beaten, but I never run into the safe zone! *flex*

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exactly, the good PVP'rs run all the time, but running to the boat is just cheap and pointless

arena all the way, the zones are gr8 for practising and learning but the arena is where the real PVP is at

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i dont see any time when running back to the ship is acceptable, running is fine but running back to the ship at the first sign of trouble is pretty much cheating IMO.

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TO me that reads as a variation of "Stand still, turn your toggles off and don't attack so I can kill you".

If you can't prevent your opponent from running away then you do not deserve the kill.

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to me that sounds like u cant read and have no idea about PVP

i dont see any time when running back to the ship is acceptable, running is fine but running back to the ship at the first sign of trouble is pretty much cheating IMO.

that said last night in warburg was great fun, havent had that much fun in pvp for a while and it was great to see a lot of very good new ppl that i hadnt really seen before. havent been in the zones for ages but was well impressed with ppl last night, particularly cosmic avenger, theregulator (spent 20minutes trying to kill u, got u eventually ), destructor? (globes tank) damn u were annoying, stopped me getting so many kills, u reminded me of max powerz u were that good. there was a very good /kin corruptor as well which was very hard to kill. evo was also very good and annoying with the end drain good to see AoWs other players are getting as good as zak, stryker and sgt. shud b good to have a mass sg arena fight soon.

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And if you want 'burst' damage, unslotted damage at lvl 50 for blaze and blazing bolt are 139.30 and 175.45 repectively. You can do blaze, fire ball and fire blast in the time it takes to do blazing bolt.(total of 3.2 vs bb's 4.67) Which gives a total unslotted burst damage of 275.54.

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I don't think you understand the concept of burst damage.


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Please, enlighten me on the meaning of burst then.

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Doing burst damage should mean doing as much damage as quickly as possible. The animation time of the opening attack is irrelevant, as the important thing is to quickly apply more damage after the initial attack. So saying that a snipe is no good for burst damage is false, seeing that you can easily start of a long range attack chain with a snipe, which applies extreme instant damage, rush in, then follow up with any other attack for the kill.

I've seen Gatling do this plenty of times to great succes. So with your numbers, you could do snipe, rush in, Blaze for over 300+ damage. That's a lot quicker than dropping the 3 power attack chain you mention, especially considering that Blazing Bolt is a bit buggy with applying damage a bit late after being hit. If you're lucky, you can almost instantly hit someone with both Blazing Bolt damage and Blaze damage at the same time.

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exactly, if u were fire/energy u wud prob use snipe, blaze, energy melee attacks as an attack chain, the other attacks dont really matter, its all about blaze and blazing bolt for team pvp

and fireball if u take it is very nice for taking out the illusion troller who is using sup invis but chooses to have phanto follow him around