MaxPowerz_EU

Don't listen to what everyone says. PvP is not dead, its not what it was but still going on, well at least on Union .

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Buddy disc from a work colleague that bought the Deluxe edition. Having not previously been a big fan of RPGs in general, I'd certainly never tried an MMO, because as a genre it didn't really appeal. I still remember running around the tutorial with my character "Powerbolt Man" (*ahem*) thinking "Hmm.. not sure if I like this", but something must have clicked; I got my 33 Month Vet badge on Saturday

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Hehe buddy code for the win!

Had seen the game in the shops and was tempted but mate got it and I used his buddy code. He didn't last long but I somehow bumped into a great lot of players/friends and the rest they say is history.

I like to know roughly how much accuracy you would need to overcome certain percentages e.g. if someone had 30% defence what kind of accuracy would you be needing to hit regularly. I know increasing to hit is the way to go but fairly limited in that department.

Been flying through various TF's of late with a mixture of luck on random TF rolls. Last one worth around 55 mil so can't complain too much.

We also been implementing a voluntary forfeit scheme/system so if you see anyone in EVIL with some bright colours such as pink and yellow its because they died first on one of our forfeit SF/TF's

If anyone else can think of a good forfeit for first death let me know. We have already come up with some good ones and I suppose the postive effect is it takes atleast the 2nd mission of a SF for someone to die lol.

Its been nice seeing some old players returning as well as some new blood .

This Saturday 21/02/09 at around 16:00 we will be doing the Virgil Tarikoss Strike Force. The level requirement for this SF is 15-20 and gives the badge "binder of the beasts". I imagine it shouldn't take long, maybe around an hour and a half.

If you interested just sign up to it on our forum (click me). Its better than letting me know in game as I will probably forget .

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Max, does it work to use 20 insights? I haven't tried it myself: my impression was that due to Diminishing Returns that is not a viable tactic anymore after the first four or so (depending on the amount of ToHit you already have).

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Yeah you are right. I haven't done a base raid with diminishing returns but if base raids have the same rules (its possible that it might not as they are looking into everything) then after 4 insights it's not really worth it. I'm not sure how much it would improve your chance to hit (prob 1 in 4) but I imagine can still take someone down if everyone trying to gank them.

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Whilst it is handy to know a base lay out that alone won't give you victory. You can't interact with anything so all you have achieved is to know where items are. That is not game breaking at all! It might be annoying you can't hit the person but get a couple of debuffs on and you soon be able to hit them much more.

Remember you can just as easily pop loads of defense inspirations and attack items/players. There are lots of little tricks you can do to limit and disadvantage your opponents, not that it matters now as base raiding has been disabled until further notice.

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True but in a base raid you cant buy new insp all the time.
What bothers me is that you can just ingnore all defenses of a base and run into the rooms with the objectives, and those rooms normally cant hold much defense items.
Well all phase powers can do that tbh.

I hope we get base raids back in I14 ^^

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It takes less than 30 seconds to top up with inspirations again. The defenders also have access to unlimited amount of inspirations and can just pop 20 insights to rip apart that PFF .

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Imo PFF needs changes in PvP.

How come phase has 180 sec recharge and a max duration and Pff has 30 secs recharge and can be run all time ?

Its pathetic that you can attack pop PFF, attack pop PFF.
Imo either the recharge needs to be increased by a huge amount or the def needs to be lowered by a huge amount.

If you think of base raids this power is gamebreaking.

Pop PFF, scout the whole base and just run to the objectives without anyone able to stop you.

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Whilst it is handy to know a base lay out that alone won't give you victory. You can't interact with anything so all you have achieved is to know where items are. That is not game breaking at all! It might be annoying you can't hit the person but get a couple of debuffs on and you soon be able to hit them much more.

Remember you can just as easily pop loads of defense inspirations and attack items/players. There are lots of little tricks you can do to limit and disadvantage your opponents, not that it matters now as base raiding has been disabled until further notice.

First question is easy enough and I can answer that. Yes your proc will scale to your level so will do lower damage at lv 20 than at lv 50.

Easy win for the thermal, it wouldn't even have to be elec.

Not much will beat a decent thermal especially as you don't have to worry about being mez'd .

Not too sure, will test tonight.

I know it was late last night the pvp fight we were having but I was holding them longbow mobs with no issues unlike in the past (admittedly most of the time I had domination up but was still the case when I didn't) ...

Unless I imagined it I thought they had been nerfed back to what they should be e.g. only takes one hold application to mez a Minion/Lieutenant.

I did have a look for some patch notes but can't find any but I am sure that I am right.

Im sure they have recently changed the mobs so they are no longer godlike in pvp.

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Movement supresion isnt really that bad you make it out to be, bunnyhopping as ranged char is still a solid way to avoid attacks from meele toons.
How is movement frustrating now ?
You can still move as before if you dont attack something or are attacked.

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Re-read what you have just said because I think you have just answered it for yourself.

So you can't attack, be attacked or buff/heal without movement suppression coming into affect.

What most of the old pvp'ers (well whats left of them), I believe they miss is the fluidity and fast paced nature/action of the old pvp. This is what makes the movement suppression frustrating. Any attempt to do anything results in you moving like a snail. Something is/was needed to enable melee classes to be more effective but the changes made have made pvp less fun. Its not people throwing there dummies out of the pram that they characters have been nerfed (well maybe a few). Its the pvp is no longer fun for the vast majority in its current inclination.

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I see much more players in PvP zones now than before I13 so at least some seem to like the changes

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A lot being said but surely this is the biggest give-away and most incorrect statement. I must be on the wrong server as no way is there more pvp than before.

Oh and my two pence worth, NW/Forts were over powered preI13 and not much has really changed. They still pwn but have less things to worry about .

Not noticed any difference with my 2 x Nvidea 7900's in SLI although looking to perhaps get a nVidia GeForce 9800GTX+ 512MB PCI-E. That would be better right?

Glad I caught this, been trying to download since 18:00!!! At least now changing the port only have 30 mins to go now.

I wonder how many other people are encountering same problem.

Will do.

I just logged onto one of my hero's (rare for me to do these days) and noticed Gribster had logged on just over a month ago. I assumed they popped on due to the free activation weekend.

There is only a bit of inactivity in Guardians of Paragon with Finster leading the way at 1280 days inactive .

Afew of us still exist although not many.

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You will notice many pvp´rs have left EU servers, and some off uss have moved to US servers where PvP still excists(myself included) and are unleashing pwnage there
And ice/ss tanks are silly OP atm, i got 1 purpled out and they are very lol to play, not much can stop those things.

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So tempting to show you how its done but my home is here .

Hmmmmm try this link then (click me).

Welcome back to the game. I have tried to catch you on but keep missing you. I should be about tonight and will invite if you are about .

Just taking this moment to wish everyone a great Christmas and a happy New Year! I hope you all get everything you wanted (except Mad Darkness who wants to borrow 10 mil off me lol).

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Not manages to cap the HP out with rest, AB, RA and Drain Psyche before so I dont think its that's acheivable.

Recovery you can hit solo with certain ATs though

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Drain psyche can cap it (worked out over 100 hp a second ).

I see a familiar pattern here of names. I guess that is slightly explained by the villain community being quite tight with everyone knowing each other.

I guess take for granted that I have got to team and chat with the majority of people mentioned here. All I know is it has been a pleasure teaming/knowing such great people and its villain side where its at .

No one that came back received email from them (I guess at the time they hadn't signed up for there email). It would still be nice to have some notice as most people spent ages having download all the latest patches.