Hammerfall

What the heck does invincibility have to do with this...You dont prolly even use it in a hami raid. Invul tanks can at least FLY or jump with their anti-mez power on..

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But you still make a good point, untyped damage => untyped defense type. I'll try to dig out more data.

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Erm there is no defense or resistance to Hamis attacks apart from the special insps...Hami always hits 100% iirc. What data are you digging..

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Wth are you babbling about. Im not commenting on the possible defiance change whatever that is, but I think the proposed 1st and 2nd blast animation change is GOOD.

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Read the whole thread next time cause i am speaking about the animation changes.


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I know you were. Thats what I commented on. I mentioned defiance because I wasnt sure whether these changes were done because of a defiance change.

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Personally, I think normalizing animation times is the lazy way to balance things, and makes the sets less unique.

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The ONLY real way to balance things is to make them equal on all accounts. Thats it. That said I dont want to live in a completely balanced world, it is boring. This equalization was needed though in my opinion. Since Ice and fire were ahead in ALL aspects (except flares).

ps. I have a fire/fire blaster. It wont feel this since its a AOE blaster anyway.

Date might suit me, I might give it a try, never seen the new Hami yet.

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Animations nerfed? Have I missed something?

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Yeah, Fire and Ice Tier 2 blasts will have their animation time increased to 1.67 secs, like Powerblast. That's a nerf for them.

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WAAAAAAMBULANCE


ps. TBH I dont care enough about this game anymore to care about this. I think its good that they normalize the animation times. Period. Maybe you guys shouldnt always roll FOTMs Since obviously people who did are the ones complaining..

Animations nerfed? Have I missed something?

ps. Im happy at least because the devs have realized the importance of animation times...hopefully...I they'd only fix war mace some day....

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Well sorry to say but imho this change is a load of [censored].If this change goes through from a pvp point of view i might as well take our fire blast and slot snipe for the manticore set and with epic sets try make blaze fireball chain. Flares i aint even considering that pile of [censored] for an attack within pvp.

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Wth are you babbling about. Im not commenting on the possible defiance change whatever that is, but I think the proposed 1st and 2nd blast animation change is GOOD. You may not take flares, but for me power bolt is an important ranged power since energy blast has like a total of 3 useful ranged attacks and bolt is one of them. This change would cut power bolt animation time to exactly half (only 0.17 sec less benefit than flares). Power blast time would remain what it is so I wouldnt lose anything.

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You dont need Endurance red on claws. Specially on stalkers many things are 2 hit job. In Scrap time you can use retsu.

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Yes you do. I have not yet met a character that doesnt. MAYBE my regen scrapper with both stamina and QR. And even in that case you'd need endred on the most costly attacks.

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I'd pick Placate up as soon as it's available and 3 slot it asap.

It, rather than AS, is your defining move.

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The definining moves of claws are AS AND focus (eviscerate and slash are good too). But placate is also to be taken soon as possible. A stalker build is pretty predetermined up to like lvl 35+, if you want it to be decent in pvp.. Claws/nin has a LOT of must-take moves, and stalker builds are tight. Blinding powder, smoke flash and caltrops are not among these, although caltrops is useful. The other two I havent even tried except a bit on test server.

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As for Tk i know it goes beyond the cast range, well either that or my eyes be playing tricks on me and range enhancements only increase the cast distance not the toggle off distance.

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You are correct. TK will only toggle off when they go beyond your perception range... It has no max range as such. One of the things that makes it bit borked..

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Why should a stalker without stealth and stealth io not be able to leave the villain base, when dominators can, trollers, blasters, corruptors.

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Cause theyd have no team meh heh heh j/k

ps. In a zone war, stalkers without enough stealth are utterly useless though.

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On the other hand, an ordinary PvE oriented stalker will still do fairly well in zone PvP.

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Against whom exactly? Unless they have taken care of the extra stealth they need(and generally NONE of PVE stalkers have cause they dont need it in pve), they wont even be able to leave their base without being turned into a greasy spot on the ground (assuming non-empty zone and people who know relatively well what they are doing). If they havent taken care of their heals, a pvp blaster who gets the chance will quickly decimate a stalker. Only regen can survive against a decent /EM pvp blaster who has no backup, and thats assuming only one attacker. On the other hand, the mere possibility of escape and rehide is what amounts to much of stalker survivability.

Personally I think blasters and stalkers are oughly equal in effectiveness, both having their pros and cons. Due to less stealth, blasters generally need more work (inasmuch as you need to move) to survive in a pvp zone, while stalkers with proper stealth can just move around freely and pick their targets.

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And the 30% unresistable damage blasters get only works in PvP. Never in PvE, which is most of the game for most people who aren't stalkers.


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This statement isnt true, afaik. Would be same as saying scourge doesnt work in pve which it does.

You know, Im only posting out of habit. I stopped playing my tanker ages ago, pretty much since Devs ravaged the fun I got from playing it, indirectly though, by ED. ED was not wrong decision, but it made mace just plain ugly. Without few exceptions like when my friends need a tank or something I havent played Hammer for fun for.. I dont know how long.

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1 nice way to test, katana/regen.
Do in followed order:
Brawl, Slice, Sand of Mu, Buildup, heal, golden dragonfly.

Now again:
brawl, Sand of Mu, Heal, Buildup, Slice, Dragonfly.
I know, not the most efficient chains, but you get the point

Its amazing how much time between these 2 chains are, only due redraw. Redraw does indeed reduce casting time on long casting, but most powers with 1sec casting still last 2 sec (you cant slice if you dont have your weapon ready).

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Redrawing your weapon does NOT increase cast time more than when if it had been drawn.

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Mace animation times are still horrible compared to their effect.

Also, I could swear that statement does NOT hold true for mace. I just tested with Shatter.. Animation appears EXACTLY the same with or without redraw.

Youre kinda slow building up domination but nice vid for a few laughs and hopefully something to learn from.

Aim and build up over health and stamina. But thats just me. You definitely need stamina.

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One think about keldian dwarf form: all dwarfs have taunt, which is more than you can say for tankers.

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Kerensky should add this to the "tips" section of the website.

edit: Although the dwarves have to slot it for it to be useful in any way.

Stalkers can be very useful in a team. It is just that because the stalkers very nature is centered around avoiding aggro, people get peeved when stalkers arent 'carrying their share of the combined team tanking'. As damagedealers stalkers are useful. They just dont draw and carry aggro the way scrappers do.

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The only 2 things a troller should be scared of in a duel is a rad/spi and an em/ stalker

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I'd also add a decent ice/nrg/cold blaster, those things in duels are pretty awesome.

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I think cold mastery has lost some of its allure now that you can aid self thru snow storm.. Damn, I have even aidselfed through rad debuffs on occasion.

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Yeh its not really helpfull to put khelds in terms of blapper etc. I have seen khelds with full slotted dwarf forms who can tank REALLY well.
But then again its hard to describe them to the unitiated :/

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Dwarfs do not have taunt aura nor gauntlet. their taunt has toHit check in PVE. Theres more to tanking than just taking damage.

PS. I have a PB almost at lvl 30 and it sucks .

never say never

Ps. You dont have to successfully complete a mayhem to get introduced to new contact.

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So i was in rv a few days ago doing evil things on mm and along comes a scrapper , scrapper wallops me a little realises im not a complete noob and am in bg mode , by which time i have applyed all my debuffs and about ready to start wailing myself and his heavy gets into fight abd takes my hp down to nothing , so i pop a couple of greens , at which point scrapper starts calling me all sorts noob this noob that and said i am rubbish pvp because i used inspers
imo inspers are in the game for all to use, there fore its fair if you wanna have a go at me im fine with you using inspers when yer hp is low same as i can do same till im dead
my question is am i a player wuth lower pvp skill lvl becuase i used inspers i dont believe so , i would say i was better player for being prepared, oh btw i killed the scrapper once more after aswell using no inspers

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Like others said, you did the right thing coming prepared to a fight with insps. Im just mentioning that this "no insps" thing is getting so old you may find regular pvpers post sarcastic and joke responses about it. Like in this thread lol.

Easily.

Cough

First, destroy some stuff to get more clock. And be prepared for the first ambush which is inevitably coming. Waiting for the first ambush first before going to bank is recommendable imo so you dont get caught between 2+ mob spawns. After you dispatched the first batch of longbow, stealth to the bank. This is very straightforward imo. After grabbing the money, wait at the vault to avoid any extra aggro. If you have trouble with the hero, use insps (4x defense insps is a generic solution to most tough opponents. mini-elude without crash for 1 minute). The second ambush should come after you have defeated the hero with good timing. Personally I never had trouble with mayhems, as long as you pay attention to the ambushes and avoid aggroing more when the ambush is coming. You can see when the ambush is coming from the NPC chat.

ps. Imo mayhems are ALWAYS easier solo than in group, because the spawn sizes stay small. Also the extra time from destroying stuff seems to bug out or something in a group. when I solo I usually end the mayhem with more clock than I started with. The key is to take your time, and destroy stuff for extra clock when you have the time. (and make sure you destroy different kinds of items)

me thoughts too....


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