IcyKiri

I agree, this is probably the last "Hoorah" for organized team PvP.

-Kiri

You know, I kinda agree that the D6 ladder was vastly more successful then the D8 Ladder.

We have come to find some really good players or "Diamonds in the Rough" from our D6 team. Venny and Nyx Nu come to mind. They are great players who are dedicated to getting better, and have week after week shown progress. I am very proud of our D6'rs.

Without D6 we never would have found these players nor would they have had the chance to improve.

That said, It is a bit much to have to prepare two seperate squads every week. I don't know how to improve it. The other issue with D6's is that it was meant to be fun, however it is tied to D8 and the points from D6 are crucial toward winning the entire league. In my opinion, D6 should not have had any point value associated with it.

-Kiri

First off, I added numbers to your post so I can organize my response.

Second I would like to define some terms that you seem to be confused as to their meaning:

Overpowered - Means that the power although working as designed, is much more powerful than the general population believes it should be. For instance, Stalker's Mako Epic "Spirit Shark" deals a massive amount of delayed damage out of Hide. We all agree that it is overpowered, however it has been nerfed once and Castle says it is working as intended. We have no choice but to live with his decisions, like it or not. We have however restricted the number of Stalkers allowed in a match as to not allow a team to instantly kill someone and drop back into a hidden state.

Bugged - The power bypasses some sort of set design mechanic and has been confirmed by a developer that it is not working as intended. For instance, Corruptor Lingering Radiation is using the wrong modifier and causes extreme movement degradation. It has been confirmed that it is using the wrong modifier, therefore it is banned from use.

1) I agree they are Overpowered, however they are working as intended.

2) I disagree, a scrapper would never be a suitable replacement for a Blaster. Nor do I agree this is overpowered.

3) The placate proc in the hands of an ill/* troller is much much much worse then in the hands of a psi blaster imo. I believe that this proc is bugged, but Dev's are unwilling to confirm, I think it is because the placate caused is working as the Dev's originally intended stalker placate to work.

4) Stalkers are limited based on "Fun Factor" not necessarily because of sharks. A team that knew it stood no chance could theoretically sit in hide the entire match to force a tie, or worse they could mass shark 1 target in the first few seconds and hide the rest of the match to force a 1-0 win. Granted this shouldnt really happen if you run a widow/fort/bane. However, with the lineup rules the way they are in the league you would almost be forced to run a fort every match to prevent getting surprised by another teams bringing an all stalker lineup.

5) No comment, don't care about regen scrappers, they are only good for zones and 1v1. Ask Maximum about his experience (experiment) running a scrapper in 8v8's, I don't think the result was positive at all. At least when we played his team his contribution on a scrapper was pretty laughable.

6) Again, not really a factor in 8v8's. With CM and acro combined with the nerf to hold duration holds in general are not that much of a threat unless the opposing team is running a 2 stalker line up, and in that case the mezzer would be a heavy farm target.

7) I am uncertain on this one, In 8v8's when we turn off TS this is a non issue, I assume you are talking in zone, and to that I don't really care as zones are for kids with downs. Buffers in general in zones are pretty easy targets especially kins because of their lack of a self heal.

Honestly I think your list is much more focused on 1v1's and Zone PvP than it is focused on 8v8 Team Style PvP where TS and HD are turned off. COH is not a game that is balanced around 1v1's. In fact, although it is pretty balanced in a large scale team environment, it really isnt that balanced as can be seen by the prevalence of the "Standard Jump Team" 5 Psi EM, 2 Emp, 1 Rad.

Anyways, just my .02 inf...

-Kiri

I predict that a surprisingly large amount of people quit after the league ends.

-Kiri

My bad...

Which team do you play for again?

I fully understand her intentions

Not only do they have a "decent" jump team, but also running these so called "fun" line ups do not make people better at PvP. When this league is over what are they going to take away from the experience? It sure as hell isnt going to be Team PvP Skill..

I keep going back to the fact that the taunt buff did nothing but mask bad players on a team. You can now put a bad player on a bag of HP with specific Psi resistance and if they dont have downs they can run around autofollowing someone while putting one power on autofire and never die.

It teaches bad habits just as regen teaches players bad habits in zone.

Anyways, I was bored at work today, thanks all for playing along with my troll posts.

Have a good night.

-Kiri

True

Hey! Isn't Kat the leader of said organization?

-Kiri

So let me try and translate your post..

So what you are saying is by bringing a line up with tanks and 3 emps you were playing to win and the goal of that line up wasn't to score a tie? I mean seriously, I don't mean to don the tin foil cap or anything, but you can't honestly tell me that playing to tie is a legitimate strategy, I know that Kat is a bad leader, but did she really con you into believing that??

Also, just to clarify, so I don't hurt anyone's feelings, I didn't say that dUmb was breaking any rules by bringing MM's (or the mass lag it creates), or Kat's line up is illegal (even if playing to tie is cheap). I just said that refusing to reschedule is just as much a dickmove as the said two examples.

-Kiri

The point was this:

Divine contacted Dex 2 days before the official was supposed to occur. There was already several people on our team that had blocked time out of their schedule (holiday) to show up and play.

I do think it was unfair of Divine to give such short notice to Dex about rescheduling after several people already sacrificed their own RL plans to show up to a video game event.

Anyways, what's done is done. What we did cant be anymore of a "Dickmove" then what Kat's team tried to do to force us to not gain points running a line up that was clearly focusing on forcing a Tie, or the lagfest lineup that dUmb is running.

-Kiri

They banned Corruptor LR because it does not supress properly in PvP (its like having perma travel supression on).

Corruptor Rad is ghetto compaired to Defender Rad.

Basically there are two reasons to play a Def over a Corr right now:

1) Radiation/* - Defender EF is much much better then Corruptor EF.
2) Empathy/* - Pain is a great set dont get me wrong, however in teams Empathy is in a completely different league when compaired to Pain. This is mainly due to the fact that Empathy has its own self (Recovery Aura) end buff that is able to nullify Heat Exhaust. The core buff (Fortitude) is a targeted buff. The one great buff that Pain has is its +damage however, with diminishing returns DR cuts damage buffs extremely hardcore basically neutering what little the Pain corr has to offer to a team.

-Kiri

we will have to see... I definitely read from a red name that each side will be limited to Red or Blue side markets so you cant play the markets (buy up cheap lotg's and go red side to sell for a profit).. besides what is going to happen with influence/infamy when u change... it cant change from infamy to influence. I just dont see them doing the required programming to get this done.

Just my .02 inf,

Kiri

This was confirmed a long time ago by Castle. I don't have the links (tried to find it) but it was in one of the early Q&A's when they first announced going rogue.

Basically a "Rogue" will be able to buy insp only from the opposing faction.

You will not as a villain be able to buy/sell from wentworths or offer/accept trades from the opposing faction.

I am still amazed at how naive people are to think that they would allow this to happen. It would require the same programming they have been refusing to produce ever since the markets went live. They will never merge the Villain and Hero markets, its been said time and time again.

-Kiri

Do you have a name?

Did you check the Global?

Did you ask why they didn't play?

Apparently you care enough to make yourself look pathetic in attempts to bad mouth other teams, yet not enough to change the general perception that you are retarded.

-Kiri

Travel Supression was created for people who cant play melee's. Bad players who cant hit a moving target even while their target is supressed should consider teaming with a Trick Arrow or anything with webnades.

Stalkers have a lot of balance issues. There is a really thin line of balance between overpowered and underpowered when it comes to this AT. If you have a logical suggestion for balancing Assassin's Strike or Sharks or their bad melee modifiers please feel free to present it.

I've really got nothing here.. Its fairly obvious you are referring to a stalker here.. the comment stinks of "I am a bad stalker".

I can kinda see where you are coming from here... I do think its kinda silly that you can que up melee powers and try and run in range. However in the context of PvP there is so many other problems that this is not even worth causing an uproar over.


Probably a bad idea in general.. this would open up for people to be singularly camped once people figured out the spawn areas. At least in the base you can mount up an offensive/rebuff and try and push people from the base.

I dont understand this arguement. You have provided no logical arguement against Build Up. Now that DR maintains a fairly constant cap for tohit/damage, I have no idea what you are complaining about.

Defense is kinda weird in this game. High defense toons can get completely wrecked by an unlucky random number streak. However on a lucky day they are near unkillable, VEATS in particular come to mind. They have a really high cap that is fairly easy to obtain, but on a bad day they get destroyed by the Random Number Generator.

I will wrap up my opinion and make a rather bold statement that says you have not PvP'd as long as you would like us to believe. Some of your statements are based on a lot of "PvP Zone" myths that have been propagated by bad players. I13 PvP was introduced to satisfy the more casual players and really hurt PvP as a whole. A lot of the stuff you are complaining about were targets of these nerfs. PvP in COX is a balance of Build/Money(IOs)/Skill. It takes all three to become a great pvp'r.


-Kiri

I think of all the bogus accusations you have made, accusing POWT of not playing people is the most ridiculous I have seen thus far. We have openly stated how much confidence we have in our D6 players. Everyone (D6) gets to play at least one match on Thursdays.

-Kiri

This is a fair and accurate statement.

-Kiri

@Lady Inferno is Venatrix who has come on as a surprisingly good blaster. Very fast locks and solid evasion. Definitely a D8 caliber player who we lucked out and grabbed on our D6 roster.

That said, all of our D6 players have shown a lot of improvement over the past couple weeks. Even Elf Stalker who at the beginning of the league could hardly land Total Focus on people in a match is now landing mad TF's to the face. Seriously though, all of our players have improved significantly, I really see our D6 as a self sufficient team at the moment, its really cool.

-Kiri