DR_Death_EU

just making a new reminder of this great channel being open for heroes. we want even more medium-sized SG as well... dont hesitate to join up, since it wont cost u anything more than 1 global-channel slot =) send a tell to:
@.Dr Death
@max powerz
@Kinslayer

well, i have 70ish arcane Mystic Elements and 99 Arcane Mystic Foci, that i'd like to trade for Tech Power/Tech Material. im trading 1 for 1 of either component. just drop me a global tell, or contact me through Union Leaders Global Chat, and we can do a fast trade =)

well, i can actually see the BG work good in PvP. remeber that u dont have to set ALL ur pets to BG's.

in areas of random aggro from multiple sides (rare in PvE, common in PvP) i use a (well 2 really) macro where i only use the my assault bot and protector bots as attackers, but always leaving the drones back on Def-mode. this would mean less dmg-share, but will serve a good purpouse as still keeping u off 1 or 2 hit-kills, and still have massive offense eligible for ur control. let the dmg-dealers attack and the drones take ur dmg in PvP.

now if we could get a click-power, similar to elude, mog, etc, that granted team-Bodyguards......... but i suspect that would be insane lol.. try attacvking a fortress of +Def AoE buffs and a force bubble.. and they all share the dmg.. with a AoE healer... now that could kill hami solo

yea, prolly the case.. decorations usually mess up room placement/movement. and in some cases the default doorway cant be done, and the editor refuses to choose an alternative. this will become even more complex when moving rooms.

i usually (if i can) remove all rooms not containing slavage-build equipment, and re build the base from that stage.. a pain when it comes to constant redecorate, but will also remove alot of the hassle with room-placements.

if ur located on Union:
May i suggest in the future to send me or @ max powerz an in-game tell, and we will invite u to 'Union Leaders'. a global channel for basebuilders and SG-leaders. This will enable u to get instant advice and solutions live in-game from some of the most experienced base-builders on Union

zak, im sorry, but u should read the post again, since u clearly missunderstood its purpouse and content. contact me later in-gaem and we can sort out any differenses u clearly feel we have.

This post was mainly post for villains, to kill the myth about unblanace, and im moaning?? im trying to tell villains why it feels like there is a major balance diff, and im making excuses?

Zak clearly states that skill is the reason, and so does this post... so why even post, zak?

i withdrawn the statements regardin kins post, and i appologize deeply. i was pretty tired making this post, and even if thats no excuse, uve been corrected to missunderstanding that post. please accept this appology, and thx for pointing this out to me.

after the pentad match i have tested alot of things to have confirmed, actual facts, and no specualtions regarding the so called unbalance between heroes and villains, which have been a very hot debate lately... and the final conclusions is, that no matter what, there was no way any of the villain-teams could have beaten the heroes in the recent Pentad event. coz even tho there was some slight differense, it wouldnt have compensated the lack of skill that villains have regarding their powersets (not overall PvP-skill).

1) Slots make slight differense (not the full boost, but still a boost) and wont make much differense unless u plan poorly, such as granite armor 3 slots of dmg-res, while a lvl 50 might have 3 dmg res+3def.. makes differense in comparison, and would truely be make a diff on the brute. however theese kinds of cruscial slot-mistakes can be adjusted without the last 10 lvls, so in general the lack of slots, can be ignored, as long as u plan ur build correct for a lvl 40 build.the same can be said about accolades, tho ie 'Eye of the Magus' combined with 'Elude' would be nice, but wouldnt win the battle.

2) 1 huge misstake was made in the pentad tourny, due to no/bad info... no need to blame the events hosts for this, just a unhappy flaw (and wouldnt have changed the outcome anyway) SK/LK do NOT work in arena.. a lvl 35 is still a lvl 35, regarding def (and other effects) relations between lvl 38 and lvl 40 is none. (both will be treated as same lvl regarding acc/def/dmg/etc)

3) as said before, MMs has not yet found their place in PvP, and still needs alot of testing. in the meantime, MMs will be easy kills and that tips the scale of the 'even' fight situation, but not the basic balance. as soon as some1 can find a good arena-build for an MM, they will be as good as defenders or controllers in PvP. (imo MMs have found their use in base-raids with great results, but in Arena, things are alot diff and still needs to be tested for final use. my guess is buffer/debuffer only with random spawn of pets, just to confuse)

why most villains play PvP as a rigid team, prefered to be rooted down, is prolly because of MMs and their team-buffs.. i myself try to use theese buffs as much as possible (its still my PvE build, and since im not 50 yet, i have no intention of making a true PvP-build, and im sure this is the case for many other villains. and since we are PvE-built, atleast i am implementing the PvE-tactics to PvP, to use as much of my MM in PvP. this works rather well in bases, not in arena or zones, where the close quarters helps containing the good movement of PvP-heroes)

one thing i havent figured out yet, is why corruptors cant touche me, when blasters can. in PvE corrs are (imo) alot better than blasters, and feels as one of the games, most complete ATs. i guess ppl just have to learn and realize this, and we are sure to see this in the future.

one problem here is that the fact that ppl feel overrun and totally helpless needs to be fixed. perhaps its because casual PvP-ers arent fully aware of the fact that players that take part in ie Three Lions pentad teams, do nothing else (figure of speach, dont take it litterary). i remember the 1st time i entered arena when it was on test, and ppl where fighting 24/7 even as it was swamped with bugs and bad even-adjusts. (such as perma-elude, 6 HOs in attacks, etc).

I am more of a PvE-Expert, than PvP. I do things in PvE that ppl wouldnt dream of testing, and would die if they tried, while in PvP ppl luagh at me. i think we need to enlighten the players of the huge amount of hours some ppl sspend in this game, doing what they do best, and that there is no way in hell u can compete with their skills (and i guess even talent) unlss u do the same.. casual PvPers shouldnt fight PvP-experts, unless its for educational purpouses only perhaps then ppl wont complain as much..

remember that guy outside the every PvP-zone warning u for hostile players? take that warning for what it is. if u gt killed in a PvP-zone, it is the nature of the Zone. complaining about the cercumstances (bad spelling) they got killed, would be the same as complaining to the longbow warden that he should have waited while u rested

i dont ever get upset when i get killed in a PvP-zone, and i never will.. same thing goes in the arena. gloating/boastin and snotty remarks kinda go with the territory... it cant be excluded, but i really dont find it to be as abusive as it could be.

making an exception just this once and submitting interest, just so u know this is worth putting effort into.

Im sure Violators can contribute with atleast 1 or even 2 teams for such event. 1 interesting suggestion (not sure its possible) would be to mix a team of both villains and heroes.

thx for the positive comment, lady. I know its alot of hard work to organize and structurize (is that even a word? ) this kind of event. I know many ppl get frustrated with the waiting, and then getting defeated on top of that, can sometimes be too much. imo i think ronin and kinslayer (thoose 2 that actual ran the event) did a good job. No info was lost in the comm. and i think that thoose of us that patiently awaited info, got good, clear info. nicely done, chaps.

my arena experience is only small battles like this, so some1 might be able to let us know, if a tournament like this, couldnt be totally automatic run by the arena itself? i know we have a few optoins of format, but i never done them myself, so im not familiar on how they work. Perhaps some1 know, coz it would help alot if we didnt have to manually control the tournaments results and matching.

cool, ill add ur SG as well, next member-update. keep up the good work with ur SG/VG. atm im planning an event for smaller VGs (might include SG, not sure yet.. we dont have many SGs on UL (Union Leaders) and im pretty sure its the larger SGs we have. (perhaps if my Hero-representants could invite some more SGs of all sizes -hint-)) the event itself will if all works well, and we get much support from the main VGs, have some nice inf-rewards (damn shame it couldnt be pres-reward) for the winners.. im expecting to be done with the plans and organisation sometime in the next week, and will by then have posted it on the forums.

btw, if any VG/SG leaders have time/intrest to help making this event fun, send me a tell.

Have a nice day

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not to burst your bubble or ego but as there ahve been a number of posts not knowing who your VG is, many people not bothering with pvp or its machinations and I personally couldnt care less whichever way it goes. With these facts established its safe to say that "the entire European community wants to see us dead" is by far and away an immense exaggeration.

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ok, i will never again exaggerate, roleplay or in any way be melodramatic, to alternate the other boring text info... i will resign from using this forums (exceptions from my 'Union Leaders' post in the future, so that non of u ppl ever get reminded of high-scool bullys again.. i appologize to all the ppl that been crying all night long coz of my 'evil' posts, and offended ppl that felt infirior to me. having 10 lvl 50s dont mean im beter at PvP, but it do mean i have alot more experience, since i played this game several more hours than XX% of the ppl here (since i dont wanna make another loose statement i XX the numbers). It suprises me that ppl that get so aggitated coz i use the statement uber-VG and we are #1 active SG (its a fact that we are #1 active SG on union, check the top 100 ranking) has the balls to say that we arent that good??? like tainted greek has ever met us in the base-raids??? do i dare to assume u just made an assumption, based on ur own high thought of urself?? how is that any better than me? in your oppinion we arent that good.. unless u can back that up with any sort of facts, u should appologize.. since thats the same crime i did, to become a target in this forum!!!!!!

I made a misstake thinking that my obnoxious and tough attitude actually would create a more melodramatic figure and add some flavour into the posts i make, trying to be more than just an info-mercial. as of now, tough-guy will be the Violator representant on theese forums. Thoose that still uses 'Union Leaders' can even be man enough to confront me there if they have any complaints, or just quit incase they feel that they no longer need mine (or the community that nests there) advices.

Since im starting to feel persecuted in this post, i will no longer be interested in facing up in the discussed challange. and calling me a chicken and try to call out Violators to be all talk, and no action, will not work.. if u feel u want a good, honest fight, ur free to claim our IoPs in i7, and if u just feel u wanna humiliate me (or my VG) u can come and devestate our base.. but i will start taking notes in Bloody bay/Sirens Call/Warburg/Arena chat on who claims what, and i will seek out theese SGs/VGs in i7 and focus on the destruction of ur bases if u even breathe that u are 'uber'/good/or the dreaded: better than u comment..

thx and GL

if u go for RP, there should be a massive war and arch-nemesis that keeps pounding eachother (classic comic-style) but as a player, i know several ppl will get scared of joining the fun...

making things cost less is deff. not the solution tho.. i think that the prices are good balanced and function well... but perhaps increase repair-chance alot (something like 50% default and 90% with auto-repair unit) this would result in minor dmg to base, even tho some equipment are a bit expensive.. it would still be accepted as a risk and gamble ppl would be willing to take... and its not only the prices.. if our base would get totally destroyed, the amount of salvage needed to be re-gathered would take several months...

but as i previously said.. i doubt that the total base-devestation will be very rare, since usually u go for raid-victory in 1st hand, and doing so, u wont have time or oppurtunity to level bawse to the ground..

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this is a fact ive actually been thinking of.. and since the entire European community wants to see us dead, humiliated and escorted off test in a bodybag, lets make sure there can be no excuses what so ever.. we will accept this challange, but we will wait for lvl 50 to establish in our VG (i reccon 1 month after i7 goes live).. the 8 vs 16 thing seems to me that numbers might overcompensate (guessing, dont know) the diff between heroes/villains and if u just have patience to wait 1-2 months, no1 can ever use any excuses about the outcome (even tho we all know what it will be ) and if its not a close fight, then the only excuse would be that devs have done a poor balancing (tho i doubt it) between good/evil

well, i think the main reason is that WB is lvl 30+ and the XP rate has slowed down a bit.. if u pick a fight, u have to be prepared for getting ganked as well.. in WB many ppl are there for the missions/rocket and u really dont want to get killed in the process.

and as u say, we are alot nicer in WB.. if im doing the rocket mish and run into another player.. 90% of the time we stop, look at eachother, and run pass eachother... the only ppl that kill on sight are thoose that has come to WB to PvP. it is a bit odd, i belive one factor could be the low numbers of players int PvP in WB makes us forget that its a PvP-zone?

yea.. looks like a battle no1 can win.. there will always be some1 that enjoy ruining thing for others.. the worst part is, that the most obvious targets are teh most expensive (in our case: turbine generator, 1 mill pres+loads of salvage - and Supercomputer, 1.5 mill prestige) if an SG determines to destroy ie the raid-TP it only costs 75k, and that wouldnt set back the SG for too much...

but i dont think it will be that common tho.. in all the base-raids we have done, only once has an SG choosen to destroy misc equipments... imho i belive it was our own fault for not being aggressive enough in defense, opening up for frustrated attackers (important note in this case is, that raid lasted for the entire 60 min and we (defenders) still managed to win, with the entire base smashed)

I noticed several times when raiing, that u are so focused on ur objective, and wasting time on destroying equipment that wont make any real diff for the battle, seems odd.. and as fast as u win, u get thrown out.. so i think only 2 rare scenarios would result in a smashed base:
1) the battle comes to a stand-still. defenders lock down a part of the base, and sit tight to defend their objective (most likely a anchor) the attackers arent under attack, but cant progress, and therefore in frustration starts to destroy the base
2) The SG has a pre-set tactic, where they intend to destroy the base. this might be the case most of the times, where smaller SGs wants revenge for constant loosing the IoP.

in conclusion, i still think it might be worth it... baseraids are extremly fun and it is a good injection into the SG as event and activity... at this point all raids are done in good sports, for fun and testing.. and this will change, where ppl will be really upset and heartbroken.

maybe devs could consider making it more worth doing real raids in the end? i doubt IoPs alone can motivate the smaller SGs (even tho i doubt a small SG stand a chance of getting one through CoP) and perhaps a bounty of prestige is given to the winning SG, this way u can always pick on the smaller SGs to boost ur pres and easier re-build the base.. (the true villain way)

lol, samehere.. soz.. havent noticed this thread

ok, here goes

as said in this thread, im sure the test-server download might create problems with attendance.. ill talk to my guys and see if we can make it work tho =)

and regarding my statements as uber-VG, yes.. we are uber-VG.. but facing heroes is still a pain.. im sure a combined defiant team would pwn us back to the 11th century.. our main strength lies in Base-PvP, since many of our toons (remember that CoV is still young) are Base-built since thats where our concentration is coz of IoPs in i7.

even this said.. ill do my best to meet this challange and ill talk to my members and try to convince them to get the test-server downloaded.

Note: btw, shouldnt it be more fun if we made a union VG team, SG team, and defiant VG/SG team and the 4 SGs could meet up either good vs evil or all vs all?? that would be great fun..

ill come back in a day or 2 afer a talked to my guys and give u an answer to this challange =)

looking forward to it.. and if any stalker or dominator out there wanna join, Violators are very short of theese ATs and will gladly pick u up in one of our teams... and as kinslayer says.. since its Pentad, it will be the purest form of PvP, where no team has better config than the other.. (cept for lvls and experience tho lol) so it should be very interesting to see which villains will be strong enough to die against heroes

well, actually i dont care if my bots melee.. they make more dmg that way though sometimes the melee can get a bit dangerous for them, its good to choose /FF since at lvl 38 u get force bubble, which can 'move' and keep out melee attackers out of range from ur pets

And i agree.. if more MMs where to manage the pets more, they had less problems.. the most frequent i use that can be applied in alot of situations (frantic runs, sitting in burn-patch, making aggro, leaving MM to solo mobs) is goto.. heres my macro for it (i prefer macros to binds, u do as u plz):
/macro "GoTo" "petcom_all goto"

this will make the pets move to a specific location that u target. they also keep their current mode (ie if aggressive, they maintain aggressive, so u never have to use 'heel' to control them and loose the firepower) its good for forcing them to stay by ur side, or make them walk 1st into the room, before u do... or just recall them when they go on their famous runs during combat

Hi, just making me a little presentation. There are tons of experts in this game, so i let my record speak for it self, and let you descide on your own how valid my reflections and oppinions are

I joined CoH in Oktober 2004 on the US-server Champion. After playing a energy/energy blaster (mostly with constant debt lol) for 21 lvls i realized that debt is evil. Making a few more characters, i finally found my calling in a Emp/Dark defender. Due to the time-shift i spent most game-time during the low-time on the server, forcing me to learn how to play solo, even with squishies. (note: US-servers has alot more players, so their low-time is like our prime-time lol)

In December 2004 I was recruited into 1 of the major SGs on Champion Server, Heroes of Tomorrow. (this SG was one of the 1st larger SGs and is even mentioned by name in the CoH-Comic.) After a few months of playing, i was promoted up to boss, and helped lead the SG. As all SGs, its hard work to keep them alive during longer periods of time, and after about 10 months most of the original members has dissappeared, leaving me, and 1 more old member as leader. By the 1 year annaversery of US-CoH, a massive contest was made, where players voted for best SG on each server. Heroes of Tomorrow was nominated as one of the 5 finalists (ended up in 4th place if i remember correct.) In may 2005, i ran out of char-slots and moved to Freedom-server, where i started up a sister-SG to Heroes of Tomorrow, to expand our network.

As CoV went live in Nov. 2005, I switched from good to Evil (and also had to move to EU-servers in this process) The 2nd of November i started the Violators VG. The goal was to become 1 of the greatest VGs on the server, making this VG an Elite-VG (which basically means, no holliday-players, but mainly freaks that cant stay offline without getting itchy and frantic lol )

As Global Chat (we had global chat on US-servers for several months, so i knew the percs of it) went live, i started the Union Leaders global chat to help, connect and strengthen the Union SGs community.

During all this time i've done more or less most u can think of (except eden trial, dunno why i never done it lol). Here are the main Chars i have developed through my time as a very intensive player. (more than 5000 hours in CoX)

Champion
Saint Vitus lvl 50 Empath/Dark Defender
Belsebubb lvl 50 Fire/Fire Tank
Fenris Ulven lvl 50 Claws/SR Scrapper
0den lvl 50 Illusionist/ForceField Controller
Mistress Urd lvl 50 Peacebringer
Painkiller lvl 50 Stone/EM Tank
.Dark Avenger lvl 50 Dark/Dark Defender
.Iron Maiden lvl 50 AR/Energy Blaster

Freedom
Belsebubb lvl 50 Fire/EM Tank
Violator lvl 50 Invul/Axe Tank

Union
.Dr Death lvl 40 Robot/ForceField MasterMind
.Violator lvl 40 Fire/Fire Brute
Villain lvl 40 EM/DakArmor Brute
.Megatron lvl 40 Energy/Kinetics Coruptor
Lord Violator lvl 40 Gravity/Fire Dominator

new updates on the Channel-member list has been done, check it out on link in he starting post in this thread.

Updated member-list:

Violators - @.Dr Death (VG)
The Machines - @Notorious Pinky (VG)
Pirates of the Apocalypse - @Man of Shadows (VG)
Hellraiders - @Hellraider (VG)
BloodLine - @Kinslayer (VG)
Legue of extrodinary mentalmen - @Novabrand (VG)
E.V.I.L. - @Max Powerz (VG)
Amazing Maniacs - @Glenny Starfighter (VG)
Knights of Injustice - @Malediction (VG)
Order of Reckoning - @Zanku (VG)
Super Villains Inc. - @Lost Samurai (VG)
Dark Lords of the Underworld - @Dark Bru (VG)
The Horde - @Ronin (VG)
Spirits of Vengefull Demons - @Cold Spark (VG)
Corrosion Rangers - @X Feather (VG)
Rogue Syndicate - @Moon (VG)
Knight walkers of the Apocalypse - @Seriphimus (VG)
Syndicate - @Salacious (VG)
Fiend Re-United - @Lord Blade (VG)
Blood - @Bloodshift (VG)
Shadow Society - @Evil Jared (VG)
League of Villains - @Foxy (VG)
Darkness of Lucifer's Reaper's - @Hardrider (VG)
Collage of War (SG)/Evil University (VG) - @Alvan
Children of Temenos - @Colette (SG)
Phalanx - @Spine (SG)
Ascended Marras - @Tech Tower (SG)
Last line of Defense - @Kryo (SG)
-Art of War- - @Zak (SG)
Super Union - @Farseer (SG)

since the approval of Heroes in 'Union Leaders' we hope to grow alot, and benefit from eachothers experience and help with events/raids =)

lol, yea.. being a MM is very hard in solo-PvP.. u need alot of tricks to stay alive, since every death will cost u alot of time setting up pets.. and when u get cought, not many will walk away as looser against a MM lol... tho my 4th place with 14 kills was satisfying.. still need a bit more practice before i can win a solo-PvP event.

Since alot of requests has been made about including Heroes to Union Leaders global channel, i've taken the step to open this channel up. From now on even Heroes will be able to use this channel to get instant advice on base-building, raids, PvP-events and how to run an SG... this is a perfect way to arrange an instant raid find other SG/VG for contacts... If You feel that your SG wants to take part in this helpfull tool, send a tell to: @.Dr Death or: @Max Powerz

note: only 1 member per SG is allowed in the channel to prevent spams, so it sould be the person who is the base-builder or most active member. (up to the SG to descide on who will make most use of this channel)

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My G-O-D! did u just eliminate any possibility to success with this comment??? expect tons of PL-beggers and n00bs to join u, and demoralizing the PvP-VG.. i seen it before.. ppl that join for the PL, looks good and friendly all the way, Ding lvl cap, and quits SG as soon as he has enhanced.. sure i would love to join ur project with a secondary toon and check it out.. but again.. my own VG is the strongest PvP-VG on union, so it would be only for the reason to try and fight from the weaker team =P and have a fun thing to do, when my own VG dont need my attention.
(if that comment bugged u, feel free to raid us: sundays 8pm GMT, contact: @.Dr Death)

bring this topic up on 'Union Leaders' some evening, and we can all discuss it together =)

not sure about the rest of u, but im keeping my PvP-toon in my VG.. why? baseraids duh..

seriusly.. its alot better using 'Union Leaders' for organizing events, such as raiding sirens.. and thoose bigger SGs thats not listed for Union Leaders, do so.. http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/sh...;Number=389191

or even better.... self-customized minions...