Blind_Minotaur

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Oh, definately, but I can't think of a suitable replacement analogy for the OP.

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It's like trying to get free honey from a bee hive and then complaining when you get stung.

Thanks.

But I think it is still fair to say that people cannot view a heavy as exclusivly theirs. A pvper will see someone with a heavy as a bigger threat and may target them because of that. Another farmer (of the opposing faction) will also want to farm the turrets as well and will see you as a threat also.

The best advise I can offer to the OP is to play in RV at off peak times to minimise the chance of meeting other players.

I can understand your frustration as RV is a very cool zone, it is unique to all other zones and is a lot of fun. It has pvp, great xp/prestige farming potential, badges and signature heroes/villains. However, all those cool things are their precisely because it is a PvP zone. The XP is great because you are constantly at risk of being attacked, IMO this is a fair trade off, in that you must momentarily stop farming that turret with your heavy and defend yourself.

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But if I loose my Heavy to another player as a result expect a frosty response. But better than that would be to go to Warburg or even better, Sirens Call, where all the real PvP is happening.

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I find this comment unreasonable. As far as I'm aware there are only two heavies available per side (please correct me if i'm wrong) and they are fair game. Just because you want to use the heavy to get easy xp doesn't mean that the heavy is exclusivly yours.

In short, by all means enjoy the zone, but be prepared to be attacked. If you ask someone to stop, they may be a kind soul and leave you alone. Others will just see you as an easy target. Such is life.

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Well, that sure shows me not to try and have any fun again.

I've been insulted far too much over this. It's ruined my enjoyment of the game.

I'll be back at some point.

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Now we've people demanding things, Insulting Stasis and other stuff.

Honestly, some of you make me sick.

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From what I can gather, the people who carried out the joke, which sprialed out of control, have been personally insulted. This is not on. Nobody was hurt, threatening and abusive behavour was not called for. I do not know all the parties involved, only what has been voiced on the boards, so I apologise if my comments seem out of line.

Weasal and Stasis, please consider that for an outrage to happen a person first has to be outraged. If you take the number of people outraged at this joke, they will only make up a small % of the player base. If you then take the numbers even further and consider the amount of people who actually sent you abuse the % will actually get even smaller.

It would be a great shame if you allow the actions of a few to spoil your enjoyment of the game. There are many, many nice people out there still to meet. You know the people who have insulted you, it is very easy to ignore people both in-game and on these boards. Please try not to let these people's actions spoil your enjoyment of the game. Even though your joke may have been out of line personal abuse should not happen. I'm not here to say whether or not the joke was right or wrong; but I can say that insults and abuse most certainly is!

It is a great shame that factions appear to be surfacing, and that there may be a percieved dislike between these factions. Speaking as someone who has never RP'd before and dabbles in PvP from time to time, I can honestly say that before last night I wasn't aware a rift even existed.

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Oh my god you guys are gullible. Did it not occur to you that this was completely ridiculous? Something like this will NEVER happen, but it goes to show how easy it is to convince so many people that it is! I haven't laughed harder at a videogame in months. It got even better when it spread to Defiant too! Evidently both servers are as gullible as each other!

I'd like to extend special thanks to Jumanji who played along to the end, and even started this thread for me. Special mention also goes to Siru Jim who played along fantastically as well.

We got you guys good.

Edit: Just to clarify, my character on Union was Sumiyaka, a soon to be PvP specced Illusion/Empathy controller.

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Now this is my kind of humour

I'd love to have a go at this but I'm sure I'd never be able to write 50,000 words in one month. It seems very tough. Having never written anything more than a few pages long someting of this size, in such a short space of time, is a bit daunting.

It is said to see you go BJB. You lead my one and only successful RSF and I have fond memories of that. I hope you find something else that makes you happy and that you're as good at it as you were at CoV.

Never say never, and I hope you might come back in the future.

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If you're tempted to go for something a lil harder than just hitting stuff...i give you the Fire/Fire Dominator.

Its an damage dealing nutter, managed to pretty much solo mine to lvl24 so far and always have to keep an eye on whats coming, plus Firey Embrace and Domination is one heck of a lethal cocktail...plus the pets look cool.

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I have two high level fire doms (one is /nrg other is /fire) and they are a strugle until you get your imps at lvl 32. Once you have those it is plain sailing. Can solo most missions on relentless with my fire/nrg.

From what you describe I would say pick a brute. Some people might suggest a Master Mind but you will have to spend a lot of time at the start of a mission setting up your pets (gets worse the higher the lvl you are).

With a Brute you can do great damage and also take more damage than any other AT in CoV. To get the most out of your brute you will want to keep that fury bar high, you do this by trying to fight continuously. Brutes really are the best solo toon IMO and you will fly through the lvls solo. Not too shabby in PvP as well

I really like Brutes and have played a few different combos (got my SS/EA to 50). Really enjoying my Fire/Fire at the moment, got him to lvl 30 in under 3 weeks and I don't get to play as much as I'd like.

Try out a few brutes and see what you like best.

No love for Dimension Shift? I've been finding it very useful in the all dom team, it has saved our backsides many times. It does need to be used responsibly but now that I've used it for a bit I would never consider leaving it out.

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as I duo with a /kin so very little survives Fire Sword Circle and a couple of pulses of Blazing Aura. Your mileage may vary with it.

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Is Blazing Aura effected by Fury?

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I'm very happy with this domination buff, beans I can fire it off a lot more in regular missions and not worry too much.

ESPECIALLY good for big teams! Just need some kinetics friendlies and I'm rocking!

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Exactly! Dominators and /kin /rad corruptors should be best friends going forwards!

In about a years time the dom team will be able to test out the changes in the RSF

The simple fact about this change is that domination will be up a lot more often in teams. This must be good, no matter how you look at it?

Its looking like hasten is going to be a must for doms. Unless they increase the recharge of the domination power, you will be sitting there with a full domination bar and not being able to use it. With hasten it will be better, get a kin on the team and we should be able to stack domination

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Dominators will now build Domination faster depending on the size of the Team they are grouped with. Each member of the team (aside from the Dominator himself) increases the speed of Domination gain by approximately 16%. Note that this bonus does NOT apply to the existing bonus Assault powers gain in PvP. The maximum bonus to Domination will happen in a full 8 person group.

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I'm sure you probably know by now that the above is the actual buff for doms. Should be great news for the all-dom team

I thought that your pets take a proportion of the damage, so effectively increasing your hp.

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So its:

Tanks
Brutes
Scrappers
Blasters, Stalkers
Doms, Corrupters, Controllers, Defenders
MMs

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Where would MMs fit in that list if you factored in body guard mode?

One more question if anyone knows the answer. How long does the invulnerablity last after using Rise of the Phoenix?

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They don't. They are equal to corruptors and contollers. MMs have lowest.

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I only go on what people have said, I haven't ever compared ATs HP. So do blasters have more or less HP than Doms, Trollers and Corruptors?

Not sure what you mean here. All dominators have access to holds and melee attacks, but a player could build his dominator to take no holds/melee attacks. It would be like a troller not taking any holds and then moaning that containment doesn't work properly.

IMO domination is working nicely, it builds up nice and fast when using your assault set, and once activated gives you great control.

It is outside of domination that doms need some work.

I am really against one power that doms can get, and that is the snipe. What is the point of a snipe for doms? I feel that this should be replaced with something more useful, like build up.

An increase in HP would be nice too. I can't believe they thought it would be a good idea to give them the lowest HP of any AT, even blasters. And it's not like Doms do loads of damage.

Thanks for your pointers everyone. Did anyone pick up tough? And is it worth it?

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you can't run cj and hover at the same time .. both cancel each other out.

And i shall quote you a sentance a guy told me who only had fire shield,healing flames and aidself told me.
"i don't need shields because i'm a regen tanker"
He told me that when i rezed him for the 8th time.

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I have plasma shield already. Do you think I need the passive shields?

Is there immob protection in Burn? How does it work? Should I just not worry about immob and see it as an achilles heel?

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I think you can run both that and hover to give you pseudo kb protection but it might be tough and slow at times

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Can someone confirm if it is possible to run hover and CJ simultaneously? I have been getting on ok with Hover so far. With the recent change to swift I can get a decent speed out of Hover.

Also, is it worth trying to fit Aid Self into my build? I have healing flames, which are great, do I really need two heals?

Blind Minotaur signing up. I always relish the chance to stamp on puny heroes with my hooves of doom.