Coin

Nah nah nah, this is easily the best line!

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Man, are people rude or don't know the proper rules that I made up in my own head? People should play by my rules or they're griefing, "nuff said"

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Dunno, tbh, I suck at PvP as Spawnus will take great delight in pointing out, I just want a toon that is fun to play in PvP, really

Now I know that I'll get a million different answers to this, but I wanna roll a Troller for PvP and was wondering what's a good pair of sets?

Make some comments and suggestions and I can base my choice on what I fancy then

Are there any FOTM's atm?

Well, all being well with crappy net connections and screaming mini-Coins I'm hoping to be able to join this tonight, if there's room?

I posted this back on the old boards and then it got wiped, so for a laugh I re-wrote it

To the tune of Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) by Baz Luhrmann

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Heroes of Paragon City, Wear capes!

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, capes would be it. The long-term benefits of capes have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering exp. I will dispense this advice now...

Enjoy the power and beauty of your costume; Oh never mind, you will not understand the power and the beauty of your costume until you have changed it. But trust me, in twenty levels, you will look back at screenshots of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now, how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous your costume really looked.

You are not as n00bish as you imagine.

Don't worry about the PVP Zones, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to defeat Lord Recluse with just a level 1.

The real villains in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind: the kind that blindsides you at lvl 5 whilst fighting the Clockwork.

Fight one thing every day that scares you.

Held!

Don't be reckless with other people's teams; don't put up with n00bs who are reckless with yours.

Gratz!

Don't waste your time on levels. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember influence you receive; forget the debt. (if you succeed in doing this, tell me how).

Keep your old contacts; throw away your old mission statements.

LOL.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your toon. The most interesting people I know didn't know at level 22 what they wanted to do with their toons; some of the most interesting level 50's I know still don't.

Get plenty of Break Frees.

Be kind to your sidekicks -- you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll level, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have debt, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll give up at 40; maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 50th level ding.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your victories are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Enjoy your powers: use them every way you can. Don't be afraid of them or what other people think of them; they are the greatest attacks you'll ever own.

Dance...even if you have nowhere to do it but in Atlas Park.

Listen to Evolution radio (even if you don't like the music!).

Do not read build guides; they will only make you feel underpowered.

Blaster and Scraper together will make it through,
Some day a Troller will take you and guide you there,
I know you've been hurting, but I've been waiting to be there for you
And I'll be there just healing you, whenever I ca-a-an

Get to know your supergroup; you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your global list: they're your best link to your past and the people most likely to team with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but that a precious few should hold on. Work hard to use the levels and power sets and lifestyle, because the higher level you get, the more you need people you know to exemp to.

Live in the Rogue Islands once, but leave before it makes you hard.

Live in Paragon City once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Fly.

Accept certain inalienable truths: levels will rise, Statesman will nerf you, you too will hit 50; and when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were a newbie, levels were low, Statesman was noble, and level 1's respected the level 50's.

Respect the level 50's.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a higher alt, maybe you'll have a wealthy SG, but you never know when either one might run out of inf.

Don't mess too much with your costume or by the time you are level 40, it will look like a level 5.

Be careful which server you play on, but be patient with those who you team with. Experience is a form of nostalgia; dispensing it is a way of wishing the past from the disposal--wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me, I wear capes.

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Well, atm Sunday night is the only one of the ones mentioned I'm free, net willing that is. My isp is supposed to be upgrading my connection to 8meg and is makigna right hash of it, hence my net loss last night

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If your nets died how are you posting this?

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Osmosis. I'm connected directly into the forums via a neural link......

Either that or my net connection has come back on.

Smart [censored]

Oooh, excellent!

Well, Saturday night is no good for me, as I have the Rock Zone show at 10. Friday is a possibilty, although I need to chek my hours at work.

Sunday should be no problem at all for me though!

Let me know, but I'm definitely up for it again! I WILL get these badges

GAHHHHHHH!!!!

I swear, someone out there doesn't want me to get these badges!!

Sory all, my net connection died on me again, for the second night in a row! I have a very crappy ISP

Hope my dissapearance didn't mess things up too much? If it's happening again another night, let me know, I'm still determined to get these!!

I believe it is, although I'm going partially off info from a friend as I can't find any hard numbers on this forum or the US ones.

I have tried using it in PvP matches though and with anyone who has any defence against it at all, I've NEVER managed to get knockback against them, unless I've been lucky enough to drop the relevant toggle.

Bearing in mind as well, out of all the Energy attacks, most of the ones designed for knockback do very little damage. the only one I can think of that does a decent amount is Power Burst, things like Power Push do very little damage, whihc makes most of my attacks somewhat useless for knockback.

....can I get an AMEN!!

Thing is, Energy was sold to me in the instructions as being all about Knockback, how useful it was and that's what I loved in for in PvE (once I realised the best way to use it by flying/hovering above, so as not to annoy the hell out of the tanks and scrappers.....thanks Extragonk )

But in PvP, it's completely useless against anyone other than the most casual of PvPers who don't have some sort of protection.

The thing that gets me is that no other secendary effect has 100% defence built in, there's no 100% defence against holds or slow or anything like that, at least that I know of (Im sure the pros out there will now prove me wrong ) yet knockback gets 100%?

Some of the ideas in this thread are great, I love the idea of it stacking, that way I might actually have a chance in some fights

Dude......it sucks!!

.......only cos I'm not in it though .......sob.....sob

PM Sent, count me in!!

I was talking more in the Arena, I avoid the PvP zones cos poor Coin is just [censored] for PvP, but I do enjoy the odd Arena match with friends.

It's just frustrating that my one advantage, knockback, seems completely resisted in just about every defence!

Would adding more Accuracy enhancements help at all? At the moment I have the relevant powers two slotted, would moving it up to 3 help at all?

And maybe I need to change the order of my attack chain. I think Energy Punch seems to be the best one for dropping toggles. I know I fought a Regen Scrapper last night and dropped his toggles four times! but I wasn't sure what with

I just want a chance.....that's all....just one little chance.....sob

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It could be classed as a problem as it does limit your effectiveness. Cant say its very great as almost every other blast set has something to offer.


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See, that's the part that ges me. The other blaster sets have something good about, Elec has the awesome drain, Ice has the holds and slow.....but the only thing Energy has gets stopped completely?

Hardly seems fair to us poor Energy blasters. Surely making it somthing like 75% protection instead of 100% is better?

I have had a look through past threads for something about this, but I can't see anything....

So why is my knockback so rubbish in PvP? Seriously, I cn barely remember anyone getting knocked back, or over, or anything?

I know someone mentioned something to me about it being supressed in PvP, byt why? Surely it's the key think for Energy blasters, that's what we have going for us?

I kow there's plenty of defences out there, but are they ALL 100% against Knockback, cos I seem to be able to do stuf all in PvP.

Of course, it could just be that I suck

But it's damn annoying, I know that much, I think I've managed to defeat 1 Troller in the past few months

The weird thing is, after about 2000 words, I just couldn't get the plt right in my head! I knew rouighly what I wanted but couldn't get that important twist to come through at all.......then RL kicked in, work got mentally busy, the wife struggled with pregnancy a lot more and I ran out of time.

And annoyingly, this afternoon, whilst fetching the kids from school.....the twist clicked in my head and the entire started to unfold!!

Gahhhhhh!

Ah well, I might just have to try and finish this novel anyway

I failed......miserably.....I suck

Looks like her's back for this Xmas, judging by what I hear about the test server. Wether he gives the same badge though, I dunno

HAXX!!!!

Grats dude

I hear he haXX, you know....

Gratz to the Housewives Choice

Well, I'm up to 1189 words so far....which is rubbish

Ah well, tis just meant to be a fun exercise anyway.

New exceprt is up at least, following on directly from the last one.

I'm hoping to get a more substantial amount done shortly as well.

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What Coiny said!

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......you're hugging Maz as well?

Massive gratz all, well deserved for all of you!

And a special hugz to my mate Maz