DarkSideLeague

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

Having just recently finishing up my Arena PvP Accolade, let me just give a few pointers:


Pentad

Set team size for 5 for Pentad and 6 for Septad. Otherwise it will screw up the placement of players on teams. (You think it would do this automatically... but no.)

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

Well, I hope it gets corrected (the 2 agent badges), and that everyone gets a chance at avid reader.

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

However the untergetable support pets are prue supprot and have no attack powers.

Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade

Which Carnies do we get? Please don't say the strongmen. Please please not the strongmen.

Originally Posted by HelinCarnate

Also should be noted that for god knows what reason fury notifies mobs w/in 5' so if you are a brute, no matter how much stealth you have, mobs will still react to you once you get close.

Originally Posted by teflonshugenja

Cloak of Darkness definitely does suppress when clicking a glowie.

Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus

I throw in my opinion with the rest of the masses.

Hurdle + CJ = one of the best movement combos in the game for the price of 1 power choice, no extra slots needed, the barest minimum of endurance usage and a place to tuck 1 LoTG 7.5 recharge.

Hurdle + CJ, will you marry me?

Originally Posted by TopDoc

I used to do a little PvP a while ago. A long while ago actually, I think before the Update 13 changes. Someone (PERC?) made up a multi-server competition for lowbies. The event was a free for all, max level 5 I think. Being a number cruncher, I looked across all the ATs and power sets to figure out the most effective character possible at that level. I did a little brainstorming to figure out how the free for all would go, how long people would live, whether or not AoEs would be worthwhile, how fast people would be moving, etc. There were a lot of things to take into account, but I eventually ended up with an Arch/MM Blaster named Wabbit Season. Arch has a bonus to Accuracy which is great for low level PvP. My attack chain was Snap Shot, Aimed Shot, Snap Shot, Subdual, repeat. They all have an 80 foot range, so I could attack anyone getting near me. No one had status protection, so the Immob in Subdual prevented melee types from attacking me at all. Blasters can use their low level attacks while mezzed, and that's all I used. In any mob I targeted people low in HP, and I usually finished them off. I went after squishies rather than melee types who may have had minor Resistance or Defense.

The thing that put me over the top was loading up with +3 SOs. I got them by farming an AV. I think it was a level 47 AV farmed by a level 50 char with level 10 sidekicks to get the level 8 SOs, or something like that. I only had a total of 7 slots to play with, one in each of the 3 powers plus 4 for leveling up, but you can do a lot with that. I think the Arch attacks both had a Recharge SO, so my attack chain was constant. Most Blasters that level are lucky to attack 50% of the time. All attacks had an Accuracy SO, so I was far more accurate than most of the other people involved. Your average person with a single Accuracy TO had a 54% chance to hit, while my Archery attacks were 80%. And I think I had a couple Damage SOs as well in Snap Shot because I used it most often. I was doing around 3 times as much damage as a TO slotted Energy/Energy Blaster. Death is Nature's way of refilling your END bar, so no need for END reduction. I didn't avoid death because I needed the END. I ate dirt just like any other Blaster when people teamed up on me. But I gave far, far more than I received. I played the same build on serveral servers, using a Respec to remove the SOs when done and the Market to transfer them.

The end result was that I came out on top, often by a whole lot. Enough that people accused me of bringing in friends to be my targets, or using Inspirations (which were against the rules). But the truth is that the right powers, Enhancements, and tactics can make a HUGE difference at low levels.

So yes, low level SOs can be VERY effective. But as others have said, they are usually outleveled and discarded very fast.

Originally Posted by KayJMM

Am I the only one that loves the Diamagnetic Interface?

Originally Posted by Ukaserex

Not sure about that link,(didn't click it) but I am certain it's NPCs whose names begin with the letter M. As for the accuracy, I can't be certain. I find it hard to believe that I've played my ice blaster over 4000 hours.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

Actually you can earn 504/504 hours, but will not be directly awarded the badge until you switch. Same thing happens with the Vanguard Recruit dayjob and level 35. Otherwise you are correct.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Isn't that what I said?

Well, in different words maybe, but that's pretty much what I said.

Originally Posted by Timeshadow

Super Speed with a +Stealth IO will give full invis. There's no need for Sprint.

Originally Posted by EmperorSteele

Yeah, the problem with random rolls, as always, is that there's only a small handfull of recipes that are worth anything significant, and everything else is junk with very little "in the middle" (IE, worth more than their vendor price but not a big seller). Now, I still do random rolls because I like the thrill of the gamble and hoping i get something big... and also my characters are currently outfited the way I want them so neither enhancements or their value mean much to me. I just like getting "the big prize".

However, if you're trying to make money, it's not the best way to go. Yeah, you can always roll a miracle, a numina, and 2 LotG procs... but you can also end up with 4 Crap of the Hunters. I kid you not that happened to me once. ;_;

Originally Posted by Pampl

I think enhancements dropped by enemies are at their level, and the type (training/DO/SO) given as a reward is determined by player level, so you'd just get high level SOs and maybe a level 1 training enhancement

Originally Posted by EmperorSteele

Mesmerize can be used to sleep AVs in a clutch.

Confuse has to be stacked 20 times.

Just sayin'.

Like for me, I make sure my enemies are held first, so the DoT wouldn't matter in most situations. However, there are some circumstances where an AV is coming at ya and the team isn't ready for it. With a click of one button, they're harmless.

But what's this, oh no, the damage proc goes off and now i can't sleep them for like 10 seconds!

This is the entire reason I took the debuff-side and why I refuse to go Very Rare. I don't want to give up my AV-sleeping ability, the ability which makes Mesmerize itself one of the most powerful abilities in the game, IMO.

Originally Posted by DoctorWhat

Mind my DP/Dev Blaster is going to use Cloaking Device + Stealth Proc + Smoke Grenade to nab glowies without being seen.

Originally Posted by StrykerX

Simple solution for getting all the SOs and DOs you need:

• Once you start getting salvage drops, put it all up on the market for 1 inf each
• Once you get recipes, put them up at 1 inf if there are any bids outstanding. If not, vendor them.
• (Optional) If you get one of the few rare low level recipes that are worth something (KB protection, Kismet 6% Accuracy, etc...) craft it and sell it
• If you get a respec recipe, congratulations... you won the lottery. Sell it for a ton of inf and start planning an IO build early.

You can make more inf if you know what to craft vs what to sell as a recipe or vendor and what the minimum you can reasonably expect to make off of things is, but since you get the highest outstanding bid when you sell (even at 1 inf) you can make a fair amount just lowballing everything. Salvage alone tends to make me enough inf that I can afford DOs at 12 and certainly by the mid teens... as for SOs I generally have a few million inf by 22, and that's assuming I don't just buy level 25 generic IOs instead since those never need replacing (though I usually buy SOs and then slot cheap sets rather than fooling with generics in most powers).

Inf used to be a struggle into the 30s, but with the amount of salvage you generate it's no longer a big deal. However, that assumes you solo a decent amount... if you mostly fight in large teams you get a lot fewer drops and level faster so you may have trouble affording all your enhancements unless you do some basic marketeering. Still, you can always buy dirt cheap level 50 recipes and vendor them for several thousand inf profit apiece if you have to, or just email yourself a couple million from a high level alt and forget about it.

Originally Posted by Nightchill_EU

My problem with Cold is that, besides amazing debuffs, it only brings defense buffs.
My scrapper is caped def for all positions and nearly caped DDR with membranes in Active Def. My severe weaknesses are:
- Dev Earth Quartz
- Nemesis Vengeance (if we play bad)
- AV with strong innate accuracy
- The non reductible 5% hit foes have that can eventually one-shot me.
Cold with make me go over def cap by about 30 or 40%, even it it helps against hardcore defence debuff stacks (or mutiple Longbow Rad bosses) because you cannot really "cap" DDR; it doesnt fix the death problem I have because they come from lack for pure damage resistance.

Thats why I was thinking Sonic Resonance or Thermal but we realised non brings resist to Psy, and Psy AVs are numerous (and kick my butt so hard I dont know how they do in the hospital to put the parts back together). Which leads me to Rad... or Cold

Originally Posted by Leo_G

Well, one advantage of Invisibility is it doesn't suppress unless you click on a glowie..

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

After 22? SOs come into play - but you should also have a fair bit of change, even without sending INF to yourself from richer alts, playing the market, etc.

Originally Posted by konrad knox

Well the whole point is IO are harder to find, and take time to assemble, so this is something that would figurate on the lower levels.