Empath_EU

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I'm not trying to pick on you personally but this is a false idea of PVP. Devs have repeatedly since Issue 4 (um what, 1,5 years ago?) said that PVP in this game is balanced for TEAM pvp.

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but didn't States also mention that players shouldn't be forced to team up to enjoy features such as PvP and other recent additions. Imagine how many people would be up in arms if Inventions only dropped when teamed...

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Originally I also wanted more balance in 1v1 combat. I got over it by banging my head to the wall long enough.

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Well at least one person understands the frustration, I think I'll just avoid PvP in future where possible rather than have to suffer gimping my PvE style with a PvP respec, or having to roll a new Char altogether.

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You don't have to team in PvP to enjoy PvP or do well in PvP. However, if you want to fight a team all by your lonesome and expect to have a fair chance you are dumb. Especially against a team that's heavy in the support side of things.

Also PvE Builds do fine at PvP, they're not as optimal as a PvP build, but you don't need to be a min/max'er to PvP. Thinking that is dumb.

What you did is walk in to a zone, come up against superior numbers that had good teamwork and superior [u]skill[u] at PvP'ing than you and you died. How is that bad? If anything it shows that PvP is balanced, a lone player shouldn't be able to kill a team.

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That is a very PRETTY POST with all that underlining and [u]italitcs and[u] bold

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Did you mean to underline the bit that says 'italics' and put the bit that says 'underlining' in italics?

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The nerf balanced things a bit. But I think it would be better if they have boosted imp's HP a bit or give them some resistance (specially against fire powers).

Anyway, Fire/Rad, Fire/Kin, Fire/Storm and Fire/TA are still very good combos IMHO.

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Oh yes. Fire/Kin especially. So overpowered compared with other controllers.

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Naaah, surely you've got it all wrong?

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Not that that's a bad thing mind you.

Personally I'd make sure you take Heal Other, Fort, CM and Recovery Aura. Preferably Regen Aura as well.

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The nerf balanced things a bit. But I think it would be better if they have boosted imp's HP a bit or give them some resistance (specially against fire powers).

Anyway, Fire/Rad, Fire/Kin, Fire/Storm and Fire/TA are still very good combos IMHO.

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Oh yes. Fire/Kin especially. So overpowered compared with other controllers.

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As I see, petitioning won't stop the abuser do their thing.

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sure it does, if the GMs receive 100s of petitions from lots of people then they wont be able to ignore them. They do work albeit a lot slower than we would like, mainly as they have to go through the chat logs.

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Actually even a single case thats bad enough will propably yield 48-hour ban off the bat. (example: Xanthus and his notorious dutch chat binds in a base raid I was part in.. Yes this also means that you arent safe by insults or bad language in other languages either..)

Because petitioners wont be told of the bans being handed out makes people think that GMs arent doing anything. Thats not the case.

(or were they danish I dont remember..)

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But in that case he'd already had a warning, although not for something that warranted it.

Board tile: Empath
Global chat handle: @Empath
Preliminary toons entered: ( ie)
1) Empath Prime: 50 : Ill/Emp
2) Ms. Freedom: 50 : Katana/Regen
3) Ice Krystal: 49 (at the moment) : Ice/EM (Blaster)


Server: Defiant

The problem with that is, you'd get people making up stories - or even just misunderstanding the situation, but the person they accuse would have a black mark over their heads anyway. Even worse if the accused player doesn't read the boards - nobody will hear his side of the story.

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Ok, basically I'm in RV. I lnow it's a pvp zone etc, but i'm getting griefed by a one particular hero. And tonight that player even switched alts just to kill me. This character keeps going JUST for me, and he says it's just because i'm a stalker... ¬_¬ even with 5 other villians in the zone. They even attack him and he runs away!!!


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A question here. Were these 5 other villains all solo or in teams? If you were the only solo villain he could find, it makes sense that he'd keep going for you.

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Only downside is, being a team teleporter (and I assume Howling rezzer or Oil Slick TA) kinda sucks. Hopefully there are alternatives to these roles.

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Hopefully we can get more people to do that next time around, and then take it in turns.

Awesome job everyone who took part.

So much more fun than I8 Hami!

WOOOOOO!

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If you have HOs and you exempt they still buff two things . . . dont they?



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Yup, so the rule doesn't actually make any difference.

And also, by then people will probably have IO builds as well.

But sounds pretty good to me, although alot of people won't like the 3 44+'s rule.

Would PFF actually activate in time to protect you from the alpha?

I used to do something similar with my blaster who had PFF, just jump in first without taunt and take the first hits.

Ill/Emp is a bugger to build really. Too many powers that are actually useful.

I agree with Carni on the illusion side of things Spec Terror is perma out the box.

I'd say take one of the invis powers at 30 (both have their good and bad sides) and grab Regen Aura at 35.

Anyone that says using insps is cheating should be pwned hard. In the FACE!

I'll try and make it for PA dropping duties. But I'm going to be moving to London soon, so I may not be available.

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One other thing, as a defender you will probably find yourself being attacked first more often than not. It certainly keeps things interesting

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Yup. You should be the first target of anyone trying to take out your team.

Oh, good point on health there. Not much use on any squishy really, and even less useful for empaths. We have Healing Aura and Regen Aura for that.

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The reason for the respec is that I'm finding myself being held alot in PvP areas, and it's making general PvP (mostly been playing in RV lately) pretty frustrating.


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Sadly, acrobatics won't be a huge help there. You'll still get held easily. That's really more useful for the knockback protection. Only advice I can give you there is to either a) pack a full tray of break frees whenever you go, or b) team with another empath (or sonic, or anything else with a mez protection power).

When you say PvP badge hunting, do you mean the rep badges or just things like the exploration badges? Assuming you're talking about actually PvPing, here are my thoughts.

Fortitude - Drop the ToHitBuffs and slot three recharges. The base ToHitBuff is good enough already, and it's much better to be able to fort more people on the team.

Adrenaline Boost - Personally I'd go 3 Recharge/2 Heal/1 End

I'd also try and fit acrobatics and super speed in earlier, preferably before 30 so you can use them in Sirens. And add more slots to Clear Mind (more recharge and some range) and Absorb Pain (another recharge or two) but that depends on if you want to drop any slots from your attacks.

Nice one Femmes! One of my favourite SG's still around.

Congrats man! Also, screw you for getting there before me!

That doesn't sound like great empathing to me...

Oh I agree, while an empath is never going to do great damage, the secondaries can be pretty useful.

Also Emp/Elec, I had a build with quite a few slotted attacks, and teaming was much more fun. These days though, I mostly use him in PvP, where no empath should be using attacks. Unless your team is doing so well that you can just mess around without fear of losing.

Yeah, but the key thing is, if you really wanted it on your badge character, you could have got it. US players had no way of getting it.

Yes, but if it's unfair to anyone, it's the US players. There is no way they could have got it. Yet, anyway.

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they still not fixed that. wow its been bugged for months now, they must be busy doing important things like errrrrrr

(adding the passport badge(So unfair to EU players))

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You do realise that only people playing in the EU get it right?