MarquandDance

Dev blasters can make a pretty good job of forcing there way through a PFF too. Also, debuffs like snow storm seem to get through it regardless. Could find someone to take your place in the duel and shut the cocky MM up.

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From Filth's post on page 1.

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lol. I used to know a guy like that, was always funny watching him get his [censored] tanned on the zx spectrum

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Damn that kid in the video was scary but anyhooo...

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What video?

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My view of this is that deliberately taking out spectators when they are trying to watch a fight is a very bad thing and the people who find this amusing do have something wrong with them. Really, they are the sort of people I would avoid teaming with as it shows they have no consideration for others.

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*sigh*
Have you thought that maybe you just dont like open PVP?

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SUPER SLAMDOWN 2006

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What server?

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I'm guessing union seeing as thats what it says on the poster
Gotta say i'm tempted.

Seen that drive by strategy used a lot before and no one complained. Sounds like they were jerks, put em on ignore then kill them some more.

I think the issue is more about base security than with TP (I wouldnt agree its a useless travel power, or the ultimate break free btw). A few nights back some villains tryed to throw enough bodies at the drones so someone could land an AS. Changing TP wouldnt have really done anything in that instance. Base security prolly needs looked at but I wouldnt want people to idle in the zone and be my bounty, seen that happen before

You can also get the atlas medallion. +5% end or something, not much, but it all helps.

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Also if you dont one hit an SR stalker would he not just hit elude heal and kill you quicly as your on low health? Only guessing, and with untraceable attacks I guess it could take em a while to work out where you are.

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Just to let you on a small secret here.AR snipe has knockdown.Pretty much covers the gap for the follow up shot and the animation .This means that while the stalker for 2 seconds is being knocked i am loading second follow up snipe .By time he is going to hit heal i am firing.

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Dont regens get defence against knockback?

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Could you post your build? I've tried a few on a planner but I don't think I focus enough - there are too many nice looking toys in the secondary for me to make a nice streamlined build. Have you ignored the tp foe onto tripmines idea?

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Yeah tp foe on tripmines is not my focus.Too much stationary time for a pvp zone which i dont really like.

Here is a view of my build although its not the final build just an indication of the slotting and powers i pick.If you want i can make out an exact build when i hit 50.Notice that this build is focused on low firing downtimes and maximum movement speed after firing initial shot giving minimum time to target to evade.I also use a variety of macros that toggle fly to SS and set auto follow on target so that stalkers trying to evade follow up hit with defiance dont stand much like with 3 slotted SS


AR Build

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Is that LRM any good? Thinking of getting it on frosty when i get the chance, might make up for the lack of a snipe attack in ice.

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Also, there was an interesting bug (the last time I checked), where if you started the game through City of Villains, then picked a hero, or if you opened the game through City of Heroes, and picked a villain... when you complete a buffing mission for your own team, it says you buffed the enemy. Uhm.. lemme explain that a bit better :

Opened game with : City of Villains updater
Played PVP mission with : Hero
Mission complete message : Captain Hero buffed the villains!

Opened game with : City of Heroes updater
Played PVP mission with : Villain
Mission complete message : Sgt Nasty buffed the Heroes!

It gets confusing, eh? It seems which updater you open sets who to call your allies. Because I dont have the foggiest clue on how to actually check, could this actually be buffing your enemy/debuffing your allies? Or is this just a hiccup in the naming?
(answer carefully, devs )

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I think it depends on the current buffs. If the heroes are buffed by 10% and Sgt nasty does a mission. It will say something like "Sgt nasty completed a mission. the heroes now have a 9% buff to dwarf tossing abilities". So even though Sgt nasty is a baddie, it says uses the word "buff".
Least, thats the way I read it. Confused me for a while too.

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Actually, I really like that idea. Rather than giving out debt when you get KO'ed in PVP (well, SC at least)... make the hero/villain KO count against their team. This might actually make it a lot easier to regain/keep control over the zone, and you wouldnt feel any guilt in using the NPC's to your advantage (its war!). Personally I think relying on hotspot battles to regain control is FAR too tedious, and there is the massive risk of debt when two player-characters end up in one.

At the very least, the debt for being KO'ed by an NPC, if not completely removed, should be reduced to that of an indoor mission. If they were worried about removing debt completely and having no punishment for reckless fighting in PVP, they could give people KO'ed by NPCs a temp debuff that lasts for a few minutes. Or even lower their level by 2 for a few minutes (preventing them from using another one of their powers in PVP until it wears off.)

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Not sure if I misread the start of your post or something. earlier I meant, if you are fighting at a hotspot and die, it gets factored into the calculation to figure out who wins that hotspot. If you are saying a PC death could be factored in regardless of where they are in the zone, I think that would work even better. Hmm, maybe this deserves a new thread.

Less NPC's at the hotspots, better and cheaper rewards, make the bar move a bit quicker, maybe even increasing exponentialy with increasing victorys, might all help. Not sure about the debt, no one wants to get debt, but there should be some sort of punishment for being defeated. Maybe remove debt and make a hero's defeat push up the chances of it being a villain victory (dont know how they currently work it out).

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CM is awesome V newbie stalkers but experienced ones can ruin your day, as I always say just because you ahve the ability to see them doesnt mean you will

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Now I'm really interested whats behind this statement..

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As dumbeldore said "I dont need a cloak to become invisible"

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I love stalkers, they rock and tbh unless you've played one you really don't know how good it feels to stalk and AS someone. Its a fitting revenge for the hell we have to go through in early level bank raids

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I am sorry but you are saying that stalkers should one shot squishies because they have a hard time in bank raids??

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TG, stop taking everything so seriously..

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I think he's just confused cos English isnt his 1st language. But seeing as heroes have to traverse the hollows, maybe we can get permanukes or something

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Ooohh. very classy .

Although isnt it all about monks and nuns getting frisky? .

ATM for me its Break on Through and Take is as it Comes by the Doors.

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hehe, listened to that album a few days back for the 1st time in ages. Good album when youre having a few beers.

Hmm I thought your logic was AR causes knockdown to stop them legging it. Guess I'm wrong.

Among other things. Seek & destroy by metallica and hero by ministry. Pretty much anything with guitars and lyrics about war and killing stuff.

I wouldnt worry about it at all, there black list is prolly them and about 5 other ppl trying to force there own rules down other peoples throats. It doesnt seem you done anything wrong for a duel, and although these are made up rules I cant imagine anyone having an objection to you moving around while staying insdie the designated "arena". If they start giving you grief, petition them.

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i got one of those stalker hunters on defiant. With almost 400 pvp rep although i am AR/Dev which imho is the best stalker hunter. Regarding your build i wontcomment epics since they are personal choice.But let me say the following.

You ned cloak device pre level 32 so u can have it insirens.
Fly is a must power for stalker hunters and imho so is SS.Your tp foe needs range slotting or is gonna be pretty useless against all those fast moving stalkers.And caltrops 3 slots recharge? not necessary

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Hmm! maybe I should change the travel power on my stalker-hunter.

Havent done much pvp on defiant. So far I'm a bit disspointed, once I level my villains a little more I'l get stuck in again and maybe change my mind. Until then my pvp will mostly be on union.

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When one side predominately outnumbers the other, which happens often in Sirens, that's when I leave the zone. It's no fun when it's an almost guaranteed victory.

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A guaranteed loss isnt fun either, this is why I dont charge out my base with my lvl 20ish MM or Stalker yelling "Leroy Jenkins!!"

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Droning isn't fun, and it isn't clever. Stop hiding behind them

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Its far more fun AND clever then leaping into a group of heroes outnumbering you 2 to 1. Sounds like you just want people to get out there hospital so you can gank them.

Anywho, I think there has to be some sort of defences, safe zone or combination of both. Otherwise your opponents outnumbering you 2 to 1 would simply stand at the sharkhead/steel canyon exit and murder you as you respawn. I'd just have people appear blue until the exit they hospital and leave everything else the same.

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Given that AS is becoming so ineffective as you level, can people see the Devs making them a bit hardier and more scrapper like in normal combat to allow them to actually follow up AS and attempt kills as it becomes less useful?

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I'd rather see AS take off a % of HP depending on things like AT's, powersets, levels, and slotting.

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Oh well, at least people arent complaining about stalkers for once. I dont see why people get there knickers in a twist over tp foe. Its a perfectly valid strategy for thinning out a large group of opponents bunched together and for grabbing an elusive player. There are also effective counter strategies and the accuracy seems pretty low anyway (actually, its probably about right). TPing in and out of bases depends on whether the devs want bases to be 100% safe zones, sticking an inpenitrable pff on someone when they are near the drones so they cant attack or be attacked would give us a safe zone. I like things the way they are just now, you can be port in/out, get attacked in your base, get sniped porting someone in, whats not fun with that? Possibly the only thing i'd change is make the hospital a 100% safe zone and remove players in base from the bounty system ie. they wont appear as anyone's bounty till they leave there base. The idea of making purple inspirations defend from tp foe is a good one as well, although i think he was maybe taking the mikey with it :P

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so tp'ing out of a base which is stated as a safe zone is, in your opinion, perfectly valid?!?!.................WTH >.>

its about as valid as making a perma nuke that removes 100% hp all the time >.<

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I dont think you really read my post properly. If you look again you will notice:

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TPing in and out of bases depends on whether the devs want bases to be 100% safe zones....


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As far as I know these arent meant to be 100% safe zones (where is it stated?), if they are then something would have to be changed as you can still attack and be attacked in these areas. What I'd like to see is players being removed from pvp status once they enter the hospital (keeping all bounty but removed from the bounty system).

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May as well make an "I win!" inspitation to achieve and counter everything, seems the only way to keep some folks happy. If you pop "I wins" faster than your opponent you get to beat him.

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They would make you glow like Super Mario after he pops one of his stars.

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Maybe we can get the music that goes with it