Extremus

Ring of Fire is now -Fly, so yeah, it's pretty handy.

Fire Melee Brutes seem to be more or less single target if i remember right, at least, compared to Tank and Blaster versions.

Yeah, we also had villains planned. Bit of a bugger, but there you go. =\

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You can get kills with just the ice primary though

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/Fire isn't that gimped, Fire Sword Circle hits hardish and hasn't got too bad of an animation and Fire Sword is pretty damn sexy.

Then it sucks.

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Now THAT's harsh, no matter how many smilies (s)he's thrown at you over the years....

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Last time I was in the Arena with GG, despite my team absolutely destroying theirs, GG simply forgot to run Integration for the majority of the match.


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Your expert team beat our scratch team 40 somthing to 1 - and I'd blame that more on you being expert at PvP than on me forgetting Integration - or even on the fact that I was being killed so fast I simply didn't have time to turn it on before being ganked again
I also don't think you can say that even if I had Integration as an auto power it really would have made a difference

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Actually, it would have. You see, we got bored and turtled up on an Ice Slick. And you just kept running on to it without Integration up.

Someone do the math for GG.

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Now THAT's harsh, no matter how many smilies (s)he's thrown at you over the years....

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Last time I was in the Arena with GG, despite my team absolutely destroying theirs, GG simply forgot to run Integration for the majority of the match.

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I've got one toon on defiant solarious at level 1 fire/energy blaster :P. Hey I'm good at pvp.

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No u.

In all seriousness, I'd take Psydock over Golden Girl. Hell, I'd take Lui over Golden Girl.

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Can I try out for the defiant team too then lol. Want as much as pvp as possible

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No.

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Getting 16 pvpers to one place at the same time is pretty incredible, so definitely show up for the event even if you hadn't made the cut. Theres bound to be subs required.

To reiterate, its on september 19th.

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Good point hammer, those that make the final cut have to be dedicated enough to show up to all forms of practice or the majority otherwise its not fair to those who don't get a spot on the team.

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Poor Xanthus...

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Well, for a start, be carefull when Rage drops. /SS take everything but Hurl.

None of my toons have Aid Self. Well, that's a lie, my Grav/Psi Dominator at 25 (woefull damage) has it, simply to stop her faceplanting every other mob.

I have an Emp/Dark. She works just fine, thank you. Infact, if you go over to the PvP section and read the top few threads, you'll see her mentioned by some of the community as one of the best Empath's in PvP. I guess that's because I've got a cookie cutter build?

I have none of those Power combinations listed, I've PvP'd with my Ice/Ice/Ice Tank, my Fire/Rad Controller (with fly, OH NOES). I've used my Kat/DA. I guess I can use those because they're cookie cutter builds?

The closest thing I have to a "FoTM" combination, is probably my EM/EA Stalker (without a self heal). With Soul Mastery. Even ignoring the PPP, the combination isn't hugely common, and while it's highly effective, it was made the first day I6/CoV went live on the pre-order weekend, infact, she was originally Spines/EA during Beta but I was dissapointed by the animations, so I went EM because I'd always wanted to try it and the hilarious pompoms of doom.

Hell, I've even PvP'd on my Sonic/Fire Blaster and that's a pretty lousy combination in 1v1's because of the rooting time on Sonic combined with the PBAoE focus of the secondary.

You're saying that people gravitate towards good power combinations, no-one's arguing that people don't do that, but then, they do it for PvE as well.

AoE Attacks aren't generally used for the same reason AoE Mez Effects aren't generally used.

High end cost, recharge, lower acc.

I've not been on much myself lately, so I'm honestly not sure how many of them still play.

Funny and flamboyant.

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this has slowly shifted the other way and Union now roughly have 50-75% more players online at peaktimes.

Union villains now has the same player population as Defiant heroes.

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Is this true??? Cause that's almost scary.

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Yes its true unfortunately.

Has to be said though as others have pointed out that getting a team on Defiant is far from hard....just don't expect people to randomly invite you all the time.

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People need to look for a team or start a new one, don't just stand around waiting for one to find you.

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My veiw is that PvP is completely borked. If you want to seriously PvP, then AoE attacks / debuffs / whatever are seriously gimped compared to ST equivilants. And dont even get me started on solo duels. No PvP'er of a serious nature does so without a cookie cutter build - Ice/Energy blaster for instance. And then invariably chooses Medicine pool, Hasten, and Jump/Acrobatics.

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My Fire/Ice/Fire Blaster, Kat/DA/Body and, hell, my Fire/Kin/Fire can all do just fine in PvP thank you.

The reason AoE attacks don't don't work as well as ST is because, invariably, you are going for single target damage. AoE generally have higher end cost and recharge times for equivelant damage to an ST attack, so I'd say that point of yours was mute. Some AoE attacks are great in PvP, imagine a Fire/ Blaster taking Flares over Fireball because Flares is ST? Laughable. As for Debuffs? Debuffs are insane for PvP, debuffs are the main reason a Rad/Psi is sought after for team PvP. Debuffs negate Buffs, which is where a lot of the strength of a PvP team comes from. So no, debuffs aren't useless.

As for travel powers, y'know what, I love SS/SJ. I find the combination of high speed and high maneuverability absolutely fantastic for PvP and PvE. 90% of my toons have it, only half of those are in PvP builds and Acro is just sexy, KB sucks.

Team PvE is balanced because everything is usefull to a degree, there's always going to be a more efficient choice, sure, but that's not imbalance IMO.

Also Arch is dumb.

Yeah sure I'll be incharge but still make Xan do the work.

I'll try and be on a defiant team but I can't make any promises.

Failing that maybe I'll try to be on a Union team without any promises.

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Also This screenshot is great, I remember how [censored] off Nightbringer got on Columna because he couldn't kill me.

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I remember that in the first match I couldn't kill you, labeled your empath as the most difficult toon to kill in your team and proceeded to beat the scrapper down instead. Shadow Fury is my SG mate, pity that he was playing a DA scrapper, of all things.

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Yeah, well, I'm very hard to kill on my Empath.

Team PvP and Team PvE are pretty God damn balanced.

It's the solo side of the game where there's problems.

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arent hami raids 50 people max nowadays?

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Yes, but you need 50 people who will farm EoE's, stay though multiple mito respawns of death and do exactly as they are told/should do.

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Elerith was Extremus' empath if im not mistaken.

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Yep, I was teamed with him against 3 Blasters for one match.

I thought my Illusion/Storm was gonna get sniped to pieces. I didn't die once thanks to the empaths back-up, it was frightening how effective it made me.

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That was the match against Plight, right?

Also This screenshot is great, I remember how [censored] off Nightbringer got on Columna because he couldn't kill me.

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must have been imags fault

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Imag may have gotten drunk and tried to chat up Anath, this is true.

Point is though, Empath's make such a massive difference in smaller teams (3vP) because they have Heals, ToHit and Defense buffs. In larger teams (Pentad or above) while still highly valuable, there's a bit more flexibility, especially if you're fighting without AT limits.

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I beat darkblapshey with my katana/regen/body/ss/tp/invis scrapper :P

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wanna fight X3 tonight then with that scrapper?

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He can try my Fire/Kin as well if he wants. I even have a PvE build.

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Elerith was Extremus' empath if im not mistaken.

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Yep, I was teamed with him against 3 Blasters for one match.

I thought my Illusion/Storm was gonna get sniped to pieces. I didn't die once thanks to the empaths back-up, it was frightening how effective it made me.

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That was the match against Plight, right?

Also This screenshot is great, I remember how [censored] off Nightbringer got on Columna because he couldn't kill me.

If we're seriously talking about specific servers for specific communities or aspects of communities, then yes, I can imagine a Role Play server would be somewhat requested.

Maybe add some new features with NPC's or at least have somewhat enforced roleplay code a bit like WoW's roleplay server where you'll get in trouble if you try and grief a roleplay session or spam /ooc etc...