Mercury_Down

In Soviet Russia: Money Keeps You!

Players busting farms is one thing, it's something entirely different if a GM is doing it. I am surprised you still play this game. How about some arena?

I moved off Justice back with free transfers. Keep looking though

I have never had my farm disrupted except by this method and then only twice.

If not a GM then you explain what can teleport a player halfway across a zone instantly without showing up in the combat log?

As far as the rest of your post goes, I have no issue with any Mod or GM. I'd simply like to know if AFK IO farming is against the rules, and if is not I am curious to know what can teleport a player without showing up in the combat log.

Botting (using an outside program to run your characters) is against the EULA. AFK farming is another story and to my knowledge not been declared as against the EULA.

Who cares about overall subscriptions? We are talking PVP here. And as a community it was hit VERY hard by i13. In a game where tens of thousands play, a dip of 350 to 400 subscriptions will be hardly noticeable as a whole, but from a PVP community standpoint it's devastating.

Perhaps this post will not be deleted by our new Mod overlord. My other one was a little more snarky.

Maybe because he has a dom and checked it out there? If a dom looks at his own power he's going to get dom numbers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THquq...x=1&playnext=2

Yikes, so DR hits really REALLY hard 50+. My SR scrap has 55% melee and that's reduced to 37%. So for adding another 20% Donna's only getting 3% more. I think I'd go for some other bonuses...

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Dahjee again.

Warshades don't get access to fly, so no floating for him!

Freedom costs a buck-o-five.

Yeah I was working on a build last night for you and the best I could get melee defense to was 48%. That's not so hot, on an SR I can get it to 58% which is right around where it should be to be effective.

The difference is Shield's get some resistance off the bat whereas SR only gets scaling resistance. So it's kind of a tradeoff. Still it's probably the main reason I went with DM/SR over shields on a brute.

Looking at your build I'd use that more for a zone build because of the shadow maul and midnight grasp. For fightclub I can't emphasize enough how awesome shadow punch, smite, and boxing are with two procs each.

If you still want the build I can post it after work tonight. I didn't post it last night because I was concerned about the relatively low defense (48%) going to put you around 33% in PVP, which isn't too bad. I could only get to 50% recharge too which I wasn't a fan of either. Meh! Are you set on using shield defense?

@PositronBot? I know he was involved with PVP at least some. I don't know if he was a rep though.

I would only take shield charge IF you have a spare power choice and only IF you need it for bonuses (ie: obliterations.)


For strictly fightclubbing as a DM/SD I'd take shadow punch, smite, boxing (2 procs each) and siphon life for your attacks. And only use siphon to heal or as a finisher, not as part of the attack chain.

Other powers from dark I'd take:

Touch of fear (slot for -tohit, clouded senses is great here)

Dark consumption (you will need a +end power for fightclub, plenty of sappers out there and slot with acc rech and end)

I'd take soul drain over shield charge if there is a choice between the two, but soul drain isn't as needed thanks to your fast attack chain building up fury. SD is more needed on a scrapper or tank for fightclub.

From Shield Defense I'd take:

Deflection (great for the res/def IO and the glad armor +def)
Battle agility
True grit (slot full panacea if you can afford it)
Active defense
Phalanx fighting (good spot for a LOTg +rech)
Maybe one with the shield. It's just an end crash so it's manageable.

Power pools:

Speed: hasten, ss
Leaping: cj, sj (slightly optional for fightclub, especially if you have web envelope.)
Fitness: hurdle, health, stamina
Fighting: boxing, tough, weave

PPP:

Mace mastery: web envelope, focused accuracy.

I'm at work so don't have access to Mids, maybe I'll throw together a build when get home to show what I would do. There is a bit of leeway for power choices but building strictly for fightclub is pretty easy. Hitpoints, a heal, at least 70% recharge bonus, and maybe an ohsh*t power. Some people take phase, on my SR it's elude, and SD gets One with the Shield. High resists plus high defense works out great.

Your toughest opponents will be toons with high defense (negating your heal to an extent.) So Kat or BS/regens or other toons like your own.

The key to this build is the fast animating attacks (punch, smite, and boxing) so long as you put at least two procs in each attack you'll be golden (preferably PVP procs and the purple and Mako's.)

I'll see about a build later at home.

Cheers!

Unless you have plenty of cash (billions and bilions) I'd stay away from ice/dev. It requires a big investment to stay competitive. Lots of recharge and procs. As stated above a VEAT would be best for anti-stalking come GR.

A */dev blaster would need targeting drone, tactics, and the +per IO to see a stalker and even then it would only work 10ft away. VEATS are going to be the stalker hunters of choice in a month or two.