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Originally Posted by Musey

Speaking of which we have formed a arena sg (all of this is on live) and its taken off pretty well. Unsuppressed. Anyways anyone whose not a doosh and not a fite klubber is free to join. Contact me or any of the above in game for invites. For the past week we have got a ridiculous amount of arena pvp down and its been good fun

WTF....i did not get a invite. */unistall*

who's the best Pvper you know?

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Originally Posted by Roman_

Epsilon: Epsilon Assasin, Epic-Fail Epsilon.

This has to be a mistype. JK JK JK. I forgot about eppy, good overall player.

who's the best Pvper you know?

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Blood mark, musey, morti, barrier (i know right)mac, and con.

Best blaster overall

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Ice Blast for sure.

Defenses, Elusivity and actual damage mitigation comparison

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Originally Posted by Sunstorm

Interesting. A rather nice, very thorough, analysis.

Yes, the effects of Rage versus Defense builds have been known about for a while. By being able to stack significant amounts of To-hit, a character can largely ignore Defense. This is something which Resist and Regen builds are less susceptible to.

This has lead to issues getting reliable information on how Elusivity is working. It's difficult to track how Defense is balanced when there is a very big divide between normal damage powerset performance versus the very common Superstrength builds.

The problem with defense as a survivability increaser, is that it is extremely susceptible to bad luck. The probability that a character will be defeated "on Time" is actually rather small. It's more likely the player will be defeated early or late.

In PVP, Since many attacks can deal extremely high damage, a bad streak of hits can cause a player do be defeated long before they should be. On the flip side, a lucky streak of misses can make a Defense build seem nearly invincible.

wow..red names still read the pvp fourms...there is still hope...

Dark / Cold

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Originally Posted by black_barrier

dont do it.

i fully spec'd my dark/cold.

i get beaten by bad therms easily, definitely sub-par compared to my fire/elec :-(

you should fite club with it to beat those uber regens..... for those of you who don't know barrier is a closet fite clubber.

Dark / Cold

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Can beat elec/therms: Psi/em. sonic/em, and fire/em blasters. /elec on scrappers and tanks..but most therms wont even fight them, so you wont get a duel.

Can't beat elec/therms: everything else.

It's to the point where elec/therms are worse then what ice/em tanks (double phase) were back in the day. Very few toons can beat it. IMO they will lengthen HE recharge soon....very soon.

Shield Defense Tank for PvP

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Originally Posted by macskull

Eh, any tank except maybe loldarkarmor will work just fine, mostly due to being a huge bag-o-hitpoints.

Speaking of dark armor, when the hell they going to fix it for stalkers. Giving them two power's out of a set that breaks hide is really broken. I know the Devs are busy making the next uber badge, but they should at least look at it. lol I have one sitting at 45. BTW mac that 179% dmg buff (not including BU) was freaking awesome the other night on my stalker. I think i could have 1 shotted that defender if the procs would have went off at the right time.

Shield Defense Tank for PvP

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Originally Posted by SmegHead

lol...just giving blood a hard time. Me and blood go way back. Speaking of which what toon you going to make next blood??? I think you would make a good dark/cold corrupter.

Shield Defense Tank for PvP

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Originally Posted by SmegHead

You were getting smacked with a lot of -def last night and still seemed to hold up well. I was laying it on heavy with my earth dom and it still took a team effort to take you down. Not as effective as your inv brute but its still a pretty tough tank.

Invuln > Sheild

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Originally Posted by Warhamster

Fought quite a few mind doms over the weekend, no problems with any of them in zone. Best recorded to hit chance was a 58% on a Dominate from one player. Dominate and Mesmerize seemed to clock in the high 40% to low 50% most of the time. Secondary attacks (mostly fire it seems) ranged from the low 30% to mid 40%. My ranged 3 part attack chain feels a bit busted and OP to be honest. I was consistently doing more damage at range than they were, with a good 1,000-1200 more hit points, and the same resist #'s they had if they took the res shield instead of def. I'll be very surprised if Fossilize doesn't get beat by the nerf stick.

End was an issue for me. Running 6 togs, with active def taking 10% chunks of my end, while constantly spamming attacks with a very nasty double hit from rage and haste crash was brutal. I learned to manage it, but it took some doing. On the plus side I noticed that stacking rage eliminated the -def portion of the rage crash, stopping my vulnerability window completely. With aid self I could also easily take on 2 stalkers at once with no problems, often killing 1 with the other running for the hills. The most amusing part about all of this is I have yet to pick up my 15% more health from accolades, so it can only get better as I close on 3k hps. The toon is not as enjoyable as my tri/regen PBer simply due to his one dimensional approach, but its a fun change of pace.

Once i hit you with lolz water spout i had no problem ASing you.....i think i missed once out of 10 times. The problem with that toon is if you get it by ANY defense debuff your instantly vunearble. Thats why i shelfed my EM/EA Brute, any kind of -defense is gonna hurt. Im curious have you fought anybody with rad blast yet, im pretty sure thats going to hurt. If your having probems with end...stay far far away from elec blast lol. Honeslty blood i think your invul brute is better. You should have went Elec/SS Tank. You would have alot more surviability, and few things that would be able to wreck you. That toon is going to be beastly if they ever move elusitivity up from 10% to about 20%. But i would not hold my breath.

Stalker AS

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Originally Posted by Not_Epsilon

Divine.

I will beat you viciously with a newspaper.

o really.

Dead PvP

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Originally Posted by macskull

Well as far as I'm concerned, it can't really get much worse. Then again, I've been spending my time playing sets that are still useful in team matches (no Sonics or Kins, despite my desire to PvP spec the ones I have).

At this point sonic's and kins are so useless in the new system. I would not mind for them to put cage back to 30 Seconds just to shake things up. That and sonic would become popular overnight. lol

Accuracy %

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ACC = Elustivity and Tohit = Defense. SS will hit anything because of the crazy amount of tohit you can get on the toon. What toon are you trying to get alot of acc on??

Dead PvP

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Originally Posted by black_barrier

i'm refusing to spend time spec'ing anything for team pvp if team pvp is gonna get "looked at". ever. again.

This

Katana vs. Broad (vs. Claws).

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Originally Posted by conflict

its amazing how reginitis and fiteklubitis seem to go hand in hand. The sad thing is now a days its getting so widespread they should have their own telethon to help raise funds to fight it.

lmfao

Stalker AS

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Originally Posted by ConFlict

I slot mine the same way as barrier, but I am horrible so I have an excuse. My stalkers not having fitness plays a part in that as well.

Yea you and barrier both have regen without stamina, so i can see where that might be a problem. I have stamina...so i can get away with it lol. Might i add two of those procs are unresisted. =-)