Doleful_Avenger

I would be interested in seeing side-by-side numbers for other powersets compared to Trick Arrow.

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...paradigm shift...

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Those of us who enjoy the game for what is IS... here bringing another alt up from 1-50.

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/signed

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So for the sake of argument consider if my computer's specs should be seen as a one-shot. My computer's specs make it so that I experience slowdown that makes it possible to overwhelm me before I can react. By the concensus's definition that makes it a one-shot, but it clearly isn't.

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So, What bearing does this have on the topic at hand?

Your really talking about how your PC is old and aniquated and shop be upgraded???

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I was pointing out the futility of saying that a person should always get a chance to react.

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Trick Question. The answer doesn't matter. It has the same psychological effect that a one-shot does.

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Bingo. This was exactly my point.

PvP is a very fine balance and there are a lot of ways to creatively combine powers for extreme effect. Assassin Attacks, while powerful, are only the most visable (irony?) example. There are others which are worse and whatever solution we come up with for 'The one shot problem' has to address as many variations as we can identify.

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(sorry this isn't more eloquently stated)

IMHO the most important issue is very much the nature of Teleport Foe. If someone takes a group of four damage-dealers who all have "their supreme nuke powers" and they all gang up on me it is very different from one person sitting on a building further away than my computer seems happy to render them and then making me suddenly appear somewhere I would be subject to a rapid demise (no matter what the source of that demise may be).

I don't have the fastest computer in the world, and I've been successful in PvP, but my screen hangs for sometimes several secconds before I even see that I've been teleported. Because of issues with my computer's performance I have "Promt Teleport" turned on in PvE, but that's not possible for PvP. Most of the time this gives them time to faceplant me even if they're doing a very bad job of it.

So for the sake of argument consider if my computer's specs should be seen as a one-shot. My computer's specs make it so that I experience slowdown that makes it possible to overwhelm me before I can react. By the concensus's definition that makes it a one-shot, but it clearly isn't. It's the "reasonableness" as the Supreme Court often says, that draws the line. So what's resonable?

In my opinion it is reasonable to take time planning an attack that has a good chance of defeating an opponent, but not reasonable to have a "one-shot button". Currently, Teleport Foe is not only the most glaring example of this, but also the most likley to be used somehow for greifing (also consider that TP Foe tactics are reacted to much in the same way that greifing is).

I realize you're accepting someone could PK you when you go into a PvP zone, but not being able to LEAVE ONE is another story... Today I tried to exit the hospital in Siren's Call and wanted to leave but before I could get out of the zone I was Teleport Foe'd to a Stalker who Assasin Strike'd me. I was one shotted... AND THIS AS A SCRAPPER. My computer meets the system requirments for the game but my screen hangs about a full seccond when I get TP'd... regardless, the PvP immunity timer counts down while you're trying to exit the hospital, so you can't really leave the zone in the time allotted. If you're going to try to say I'm just inexperienced or using the wrong tactics keep this in mind: I have met the reputation cap before. I would consider myself a solid PvP'er and I enjoy it when I'm not being greifed and unable to leave the zone.

This needs a solid fix. A fix that would let me talk to the NPC's before I get TP Foe'd would be nice too... All this would go away if they put up a tent that blocked line of sight over the area enclosed by the barbed wire... a simple wireframe ceiling and a single color skin for it would be plenty. People couldn't stand on the roof and TP Foe you away, and they'd have to go past the police drones to get in. This would at least curtail the greifing.