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PvP is a waste of time. When tanks have less resistance then doms or fenders, their is a problem. The whole resistance buff from pvp is retarded. I think if the devs just took away that resistance buff/nerf whatever u want to call it...pvp would be alot more enjoyable.

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I feel ya man, my blaster has more resistance than my tanks. I sport almost 60% on my blaster and my tanks have about 55%.

Crying shame, I tell ya. But hey, since my blaster has that kind of resistance, the only thing I have to worry about killing me is another blaster

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Here is what I did and it worked.

1. Hero vs Hero Pentad
2. Rated
3. 30 minute timer
4. Super Heavyweight

After we won the match, we received the badge.

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As Draggynn said setting Pentad matches as "rated" does not seem to be required for them to award the badge. Since that kind of thing matters to some people that's worth pointing out. I've yet to need any of these arena matches be set to "rated" in order for the badges to drop.

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anyone else having problems not advancing even though you win the first rounds of a swiss tourney?

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Yes we were having trouble with Swiss matches until we figured it out.

Apparently if you actually try to "play" a match for real (as in if you actually fight each other as you are technically supposed to) then the game seems to randomly decide which player will advance in the Swiss regardless of the outcome of the fight.

But if you decide amongst the 8 players who will be the designated "winner" and make sure the other 7 players just quit their matches without combat then you can reliably get the "winner" to win and get the badge.

We sent bug reports in on this assuming anyone would ever want to play these kinds of matches "for real" sometime.

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I don't recall me saying it was required, I stated what I did to get the badge and what I did that didn't award the badge. So, no rated isn't worth anything to me, but thanks for assuming

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Actually I wasn't thinking about you in particular when it comes to rated matches at all. Get over yourself.
I was adding to the information you provided for those people who worry about those kinds of things.
Your list implied the exact settings needed regardless if that was your intention or not.

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Since when did Badge Collectors care about ratings? Show me a post in the past 5 years where a badger complained about ratings when it comes to earning a badge.

And my list does not state exact, it states what I did, and I shared my information with others to show how I obtained the badge. Sorry for trying to [censored] help. I guess you can't make a single [censored] post on these forums without having someone dissect it like a science project. Don't worry, it won't happen again.

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But for the record, as stated in the patch notes...

In addition to the above new badges the following ‘Weightclass’ badges will now correctly be granted to players who win a rated scheduled match!

So if this is true, then the weightclass badges are bugged in 2 aspects.

1. The match doesn't need to be rated.
2. The match doesn't need to be scheduled.

But for the other badges, I did both rated and not rated, and the outcome was the same as my previous post. Villains can not earn this badge for some reason.

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You of all people should know just how vague and unreliable 99.9% of documentation the Devs provide for this game is. That's why us badgers have to share our own real information just like this...

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And the documentation isn't as bad as you make it out to be. Things get missed, its called being human, and no human is perfect.

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Here is what I did and it worked.

1. Hero vs Hero Pentad
2. Rated
3. 30 minute timer
4. Super Heavyweight

After we won the match, we received the badge.

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As Draggynn said setting Pentad matches as "rated" does not seem to be required for them to award the badge. Since that kind of thing matters to some people that's worth pointing out. I've yet to need any of these arena matches be set to "rated" in order for the badges to drop.

Wen_Ho mentioned:
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anyone else having problems not advancing even though you win the first rounds of a swiss tourney?

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Yes we were having trouble with Swiss matches until we figured it out.

Apparently if you actually try to "play" a match for real (as in if you actually fight each other as you are technically supposed to) then the game seems to randomly decide which player will advance in the Swiss regardless of the outcome of the fight.

But if you decide amongst the 8 players who will be the designated "winner" and make sure the other 7 players just quit their matches without combat then you can reliably get the "winner" to win and get the badge.

We sent bug reports in on this assuming anyone would ever want to play these kinds of matches "for real" sometime.

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I don't recall me saying it was required, I stated what I did to get the badge and what I did that didn't award the badge. So, no rated isn't worth anything to me, but thanks for assuming

But for the record, as stated in the patch notes...

In addition to the above new badges the following ‘Weightclass’ badges will now correctly be granted to players who win a rated scheduled match!

So if this is true, then the weightclass badges are bugged in 2 aspects.

1. The match doesn't need to be rated.
2. The match doesn't need to be scheduled.

But for the other badges, I did both rated and not rated, and the outcome was the same as my previous post. Villains can not earn this badge for some reason.

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Here is what I did and it worked.

1. Hero vs Hero Pentad
2. Rated
3. 30 minute timer
4. Super Heavyweight

After we won the match, we received the badge.

Now here is what didn't work, we could not get the badge on our villains by using the same settings on a Hero vs Villain Pentad, or a Villain vs Villain Pentad.

Our heroes were able to get the badge, our Villains could not, no matter how we tried it. I'm leaning towards the Villain badge is bugged when it comes to the Pentad match.

Swiss match worked fine for both hero and villains.

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ROFL...that hits the nail on the head Omega! 8To quote a friend of mine.."All the power in world don't mean squat, if ya don't have the knowledge and EXPERIENCE to use it"

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May be, but you see, power without perception is spiritually useless and therefore of no true value!

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"What a foolish old man you are. Any tool is useful if you know how to use it, and I have become an expert. Watch!... Admit it. At this moment, I'm more powerful than you ever were. I am fist of the north star"

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No matter what you do, the sound loop will remain, its something in the game that causes it and it will crash your client.

I just spent 400 on a new sound card, almost 350 for more ram, I run minimal settings for faster performance and no matter what, I still get the sound loop and crash.

If I turn off the sound within the game,I never crash.

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Hey, I got a better idea, how about giving us a damn option to turn off all incoming emails for each of our characters. Or better yet, eliminate the use of the email system on trial accounts!

I never use the email system, but yet I'm bothered by it each and every time I log into the game. Whats really funny is there is no limit to emails that I know of when it comes to receiving them, one of my characters has 537 emails currently in his inbox in the game.

But yet, there are limits to everything elsewe do in the game ... go figure

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There are people who like DR???

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Even though this sounds like a fantastic idea, it'll never happen. If they won't revert the current zones to this, I doubt they will make a new zone to do it.

Welcome to PVP-ED 2.0

In other words, you have diminishing returns on your PvP builds to make it fair to the people who can't afford slotting their character up like you have. So they put diminishing returns on set bonuses to bring you down to the level of everyone else.

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well with the current version of mids (i13) it shows i can get my

Defense without overload

smashing/lethal to 43.1%
energy 53.3%
neg 50.4%
psionic 37.2%
fire/cold 37.9%

melee 30.5%
ranged 29.6%
AOE to 14.9%

Resistance

S/L 39.6%
energy 42.6%
Negative 39.6%
Fire/Cold 32.9%
tox 42.6%
psi 27.8%

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You're right, but what Mid's doesn't factor in is the [censored] [censored] diminishing returns on your set bonuses and your defenses.

For example:

My fortunata has the following in PvE
Melee Defense - 65.2
Ranged Defense - 53.4
AOE Defense - 53.4

Now in PvP I have:
Melee Defense - 40.7
Ranged Defense - 36.15
AOE Defense - 36.15

See, a 1.5 billion dollar build reduced to [censored]!

Good luck with any defense AT in pvp, BTW that 10% elusivity, is crap and doesn't help a damn bit considering the loss of the defense percentages in my above comparison.

Defense has no business in PvP anymore.

Defense sucks, sorry to be blunt but it does.

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Epic problems:

* Just what is the dev definition of "epic"? Two specific details that would help: What percent of characters/players do you feel should reach an Epic level of any achievement? For a single achiever, what time frame do you expect them to be working on that badge? If we know the dev goals, we can offer better feedback on how the badges meet those goals.

* Epic Heal, Damage, and Mezzed badges are considered by many people to be so high they can only be achieved through AFK farming, not through regular play. Is this really the intended design?

* Epic Inf badges are considered by many people to be so high they can only be achieved through farming or grinding, not through regular play. Is this really the intended design?

* Empath cannot be achieved through regular play at all given the potential lifespan of the game. It needs 1,000 hours at 100,000 hp healed/hour (roughly 1,700 hp/minute), and that rate is very difficult to achieve even as the only healer on a full team of 50s. (Note: this calculation is based on the I13 fix to its originally intended value.)

* Immortal cannot be achieved through regular play at all given the potential lifespan of the game. (See also: issue with +HP and damage, under Achievements.)

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I guess Synapse gave us an answer to the above:
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So, going forward—beginning with the Mission Architect badges—we’ve decided to move away from “count” badges that might encourage farming and/or aberrant game play.

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Synapse also stated the following...

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Q: What about non-Mission Architect badges?

A: We have no current plans to revisit old badges at this time, and I don’t foresee us doing this really. All badges unrelated to the Mission Architect will remain unaffected by the changes outlined above.


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So it could go either way. One statement says they will start with MA badges, i9mplying that they will explore other badges as well in the future.

And the other statement says they won't be messing with the previous badges we have earned for the past 5 years.

I'll help out as well.

I'm surprised you all didn't get these badges when the Anniversay event was going on

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- Do I have to deal a minimum level of damage to earn a chance ?

- Do I have to be the one to cause the actual defeat to get a chance ?

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Nope, just be on team and be in range of the team mate who defeated the other player.

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I am opt'ed in to receive emails, and I haven't recveived anything since issue 11.

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Long-time player here, who has NEVER engaged in any type of PvP activity.

But I'm curious, and was hoping you could suggest the best way to start, where to go from there, and explain (in brief) some of the MOST BASIC ideas behind PvPing (e.g. how does xp/debt work in PvP, what ATs are best for a beginner PvPer (I have a number of 50s to choose from), and like that).

The guides I've looked at here seem to start with the assumption that you know at least a little about PvP, which I don't. Unless I didn't see the Guide I should be looking at...

I have 50s (heroes only) on Freedom and Liberty, and if anyone would be so generous as to offer to meet me in-game and hold my hand through my first PvP experience, I'd be up for that.

I'll be playing tonight (Thursday) and tomorrow night, for an unknown period of time between 7p - 12m Eastern U.S. time.

I'll check back for replies after I get off work around 6p ET.

Thanks!

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Buy one of these it will be a great start to the new PvP system. Master this and you will master PvP!

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where getting ganked 10v1 is pretty routine.


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You actually have 10 people in a zone? If so, consider your server fortunate. You're lucky if you find 3 people in a pvp zone at one time on Pinnacle...lol

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Well my MA/SR Scrapper was doing well enough under I12, and was quite good under I13, but now under I14 the bloom is definitely off the rose. Currently, you can't stack up Defense like you could under I12, and you effectively have no Elusivity at all (10 points may as well be 0), so SR is worse off then it has ever been. Not that it was at any point overpowered or uber, but under I12 and I13 it was at least playable.

Under Issue 14, forget about it.

Back to the drawing board.

P.S. My Bane was surprisingly good under I12, but ever since I13 he's been kind of a joke in PvP. Back to the drawing board with him, too. IIRC, Banes don't get squishy-Resistance or Elusivity, what little Defense they have Diminishes so they are essentially defenseless under new PvP. In I12, so long as you kited, you could do quite well.

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Defense based characters have no business in pvp anymore. So QFT.

My Widow use to be very good in PvP with soft cap defense + some, but now, I don't even try to pvp with her. Almost 1.5 billion infamy build is gone down the drain and now respresent 5 million SO build that can't perform for crap.

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What's really ad about the whole PvP change its, it was directed to the Non-PvPer. They did this in hopes to get more PvErs involved into PvP and failed big time.

But yet, the PvPers are the ones left to deal with the changes, as it didn't effect the PvErs at all.

Mainly to quote you on this part of your comment...

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PvP in I-12 was more balanced then it is now, maybe it did have issues, nothing like it was before.


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That's all

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To The Reactor:
Multi-posting DOESNT make u look smart:

PvP in I-12 was more balanced then it is now, maybe it did have issues, nothing like it was before.

FotM < Skill: esspecially in I12.

Rest of ur post/s are utter garbage

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I'll be honest, I wasn't what you considered a hardcore PvPer, as most would call it. I never PvPed on test nor did I have any interest in the arena. I was a zone PvPer. I loved scouting all the zones looking for fun. I did this everyday I logged in and played in the PvP zones for hours on end.

With the new changes to PvP, I lost total interest in PvP all together.I hate the slow feeling of it. Don't get me wrong, before the changes PvP was great, it had a few things that needed attention, but not to the extent it was taken. A lot of people I know who were zone PvPers no longer are playing the game or no longer interested in PvP due to the changes.

I've tried to adapt to the changes, but for the most part, I still hate it now and find myself in PvP zones maybe a hour a week, until I get frustrated at how borked it is. I do love the no-toggle dropping when it comes to mezzes, this is awesome. But this one great thing doesn't account for all the bad things I don't like.

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NO ... they think pvp is great cause the numbers from arena say we have an increase. Lawl....

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Yeah, the numbers would increase a lot, because this is how the PvErs are getting the PvP recipes...lol

So of course the arena numbers will increase

You may have seen my post in this section already but I've been doing some testing with the recipes and I found quite a few things that are borked. My results are in this thread

PvP Recipes

This may answer some of your questions as to why your not getting a recipe.

Ok another 2 days have pasted and my testing results are the same. I can not get a recipe of my level which is 33.

In Bloody Bay, still getting level 41 recipes
In Siren's Call, still getting level 41 recipes
Warburg, I get nothing at all. Warburg is my main testing grounds and after 5 days now, give or take a few hours, Ive gotten ziltch.

It seems to me that being sk'ed to the zones level grants you no recipes at all. Being exemped grants you recipes of higher level than you can possibly use.

sigh...

this sucks

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From what i can remember of the praetorian arc

it might be Emperor Cole to the people but the 'heroes' of the setting call him Tyrant

would be interesting to see the rogue isles done up as a bastion of heroes vs paragon city being completely evil (somewhat done in RV)

Only question would be what tf's Ghost widow / such give out

and well badges and more badges to say the least... not looking forward to potentially farming more badges that i've already farmed

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Well providing we can keep already earned badges. There really won't be much to farm, just Mission/TF/SF badges and kill badges.