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Originally Posted by Borderline Boss

No, thanks for your suggestions.

Have a nice day.

Originally Posted by CriticalKat

Offering to be nice to the under dog doesn't change the fact that most teams and most matches are 6 psi/em's and 2 emps.

I don't think the size of the teams is going to necessarily change that fact. The only thing that would change it is limiting to 2 each AT. Limitations are dumb.

Originally Posted by XxSlashxX

Are you guys in need of the badges as well? Sounds as if you're just lending a helping hand (Which is in fact greatly appreciated), but I don't want to waste your time if you don't?

If we're gonna shoot for after 10PM EST, I might need to push it back one day till Friday, since on Thursday that'll be past my bedtime (Gotta Work in the wee hours of the AM)

If Friday at 10PM EST is fine, let me know! I'm sitting at 118 rep right now, and am in dire need of 400 to get all my healing badges (Before something bad happens to the way I'm looking to obtain them, knock on wood).

Originally Posted by Mercury_Down

Limiting ATs or powersets is a step in the wrong direction. Some powers (ala sharks) have forced it but Taunt is not one of those powers. If we start this, we might as well limit the number of Psi/Ems on a team because that's why we have taunters in the first place.

Limiting the numbers of taunters is a bad idea. If you go down that route you'll be catering to the teams that want nothing but Emps and Psi/Ems which is boring as hell. Can we please keep a little variety?

Originally Posted by Xanatos

Why?
I think it was a noble idea to try to provide a zone for each level range to PvP in without anybody being much more powerful. But aside from that not really being the case right now anyway, the leveling pace has changed a lot, level 50 is a matter of weeks instead of months, so do we really still need 3 zones dedicated to the PvP between levels 15 and 40 ? Wouldnt it be better if level 50s could PvP in more than one zone without being exemplared down so that they work totally different?

I agree with that. Oh so much.

Originally Posted by Ima_Mankiller

everybody shhhh!
watch what you say, Cobalt is on.
Oh wait nevermind this ain't BMT! lol

Originally Posted by SmegHead

NPC's are annoying, but I doubt they will ever get removed from PvP zones. Personally, I think 3 things will help the NPC issues most of us have.

1. Make the NPC's thin out as you move closer to the middle of the zone. Have a heavy concentration around the base, slightly more than they currently have, and a smaller number within a given distance from it. Around the mid point of the zone have none or close to no npcs (consisting of nothing more than minions). This would help the base camping issue and give us a NPC free area to engage in.

2. Fix the NPC mez. Bug or no bug it should be thought of as one. I know the last things on the devs "to do" list is PvP, but if they can take time to make a walk power I think they can squeeze some time in to make PvP zones more friendly to the PvE badgers (see what I did there).

3. Nerf heavies. There is no reason they should be so powerful. Does anyone remember when they nerfed the heavies awhile back and it turned out to be a bug? That was great. They should revert it back to that IMO.

Originally Posted by Xanatos

PVP Drop rates should be kept as is. Ultra Rare loot is supposed to be ultra rare. If everyone had the shines then there would be nothing for the fabled "casual" gamer to aspire towards getting.

...and that would kinda kill the game completely.

I like that, even at the top end of gameplay, PVPIOs are still rare and hard to come by.

Originally Posted by macskull

One of the goals of the changes was to reduce the performance gap between the experienced and well-built PvP build and the "so-so" build piloted by someone who hadn't really PvPd much before. While I think that it wasn't a bad goal to shoot for, it made several broad (and incorrect) assumptions about PvP in general:

* Necessity of certain builds to be competitive (ironically, with the removal of most skill required to PvP, this is actually more true than it was before I13)
* Necessity of an expensive build to compete (I PvP'd quite a bit before I13 on SOd or cheaply-IOd characters... of course I'd lose to those with better builds and more skill but that's part of the learning curve and the way MMOs with "gear" work)
* Imbalance in 1v1 situations (PvP followed, and still follows, a rock/paper/scissors balance for 1v1 situations... every build's not on equal footing relative to other builds but teaming helped or eliminated that gap entirely)
* Fights must be resolved (if a fight wasn't resolved under the old rules it meant both players were either really bad or really good, and the two builds in question were on roughly equal footing in a 1v1 situation)

Basically, it seems like the R/P/S balance that was present in 1v1 situations was considered unbalanced, so an attempt was made to put every build on equal footing (yeah, look how well that turned out). In an effort to "normalize" 1v1 PvP, they basically threw team balance and synergy out the window. I don't think many people would have a problem with the changes as implemented if they only applied to zone PvP, and options were available to restore all of the old-style mechanics. Basically... a way to keep high-end PvPers competing against each other without having to play with a dumbed-down system while doing so.

Personal opinion on the I13 changes - some were good, most weren't.

* Mez changes: good for casual zone play, bad for semi-organized (or uneven-sided) zone play and team/solo arena play
* DR: see above
* Heal decay: bad for everyone
* Travel suppression: bad for everyone (esp. teleporters)
* Base resistances: bad for everyone in its current form
* Global resists/defense in patron/epic armors: good for everyone
* DPA balancing: good idea, poor implementation - bad for everyone in its current form
* Removal of unresisted debuffs and damage - see mez changes

Originally Posted by je_saist

The server merge idea comes up quite often... and since I haven't seen anybody post this in...

From Memphis Bill

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

That's because $name puts in your name. You want $target.

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

the order of those commands should not matter, but you have an extra undercore in there. The command should be: powexec_name "Web Envelope", and it's recommended to quote your chat text as well, which would make the new command line:
/bind LSHIFT "powexec_name "Web Envelope"$$team "$name is Grounded!!""

Yes, the nested quotes work when used correctly, but I do admit they are not actually necessary. It's just an old programming habit of mine. lol

A "cleaner" command that still works is:
/bind LSHIFT "powexec_name Web Envelope$$team $name is Grounded!!"

Originally Posted by BlueRaptor

I utterly agree to this point.
How are people, and especially people that only PvE'ed so far, supposed to PvP when it does all those weird things that noone really understands and works totally different than PvE?.

Originally Posted by Catharctic

I know it was just explained, but just in case you don't know where the Combat Attributes window is, click "Powers". The top left of the Powers border has "Combat Attributes". Click that, then right-click anything you want to monitor specifically.

Originally Posted by Sunstorm

Interesting. A rather nice, very thorough, analysis.

Yes, the effects of Rage versus Defense builds have been known about for a while. By being able to stack significant amounts of To-hit, a character can largely ignore Defense. This is something which Resist and Regen builds are less susceptible to.

This has lead to issues getting reliable information on how Elusivity is working. It's difficult to track how Defense is balanced when there is a very big divide between normal damage powerset performance versus the very common Superstrength builds.

The problem with defense as a survivability increaser, is that it is extremely susceptible to bad luck. The probability that a character will be defeated "on Time" is actually rather small. It's more likely the player will be defeated early or late.

In PVP, Since many attacks can deal extremely high damage, a bad streak of hits can cause a player do be defeated long before they should be. On the flip side, a lucky streak of misses can make a Defense build seem nearly invincible.