MrLiberty

Supposedly F2P players won't but former subs are considered "Premium" or something like that and will have access to some of their existing characters.

I'd honestly just say wait the 2 or 3 months for the F2P stuff to kick in. Its not really worth it at the moment.

More is better, but just being realistic.

That's a sad attitude to have as a Vet player who I'm sure your team would look to for advice. If you look back to the dUmb team on the freedom league, we managed to squeak out a few wins and ties against Post Op and U2BG with the storm team despite being out matched in talent and experience.

I'd hope that rather than throwing in the towel and completely discounting your teammates for any hope of improvement, you'd take what you've learned as a player who has been around and help them step up and be better players.

EDIT I'VE BEEN ASKED TO CORRECT THIS POST THAT U2BG DID NOT IN FACT LOSE TO THE STORM TEAM, ONLY TIED IT. SORRY FOR THE VAGUENESS

EDIT AGAIN WE BEAT THEIR D6 TEAM ONCE I HEARD THEY R USE RINGERS THOUGH

lolz

EDIT ONE LAST TIME! I forgot what this post was about, but looking back at that thread we were really really bad and lost a lot.

The irony behind this post is sadly two fold. First with stacked teams, everyone but ours and Spynes team has 4-6 people I'd consider Veteran in the sense of experience. Spyne doesn't have them, and we have more. That being said Artic with his 5 ish vets played to an 8 - 8 draw against us last night and managed to win their other 3 matches.

The second part was, the way the draft went down, allowing the teams to be as they are today. There were people, who if picked for their ability and experience would have helped to balance things out even further, but instead they were passed over in the first two rounds for friends (which there is nothing wrong with, if you aren't looking to be competitive) and allowed to go to the teams looking to strengthen their roster even further in the 3rd and 4th round.

As a second separate point, I'm pretty sure you can ask anyone on our team which was the most fun match last night and they'd tell you it was against Artic's team because it was the closest match. Boot camp was great for holding hands and teaching everyone the basics, but now that you have teams out there who are throwing together legitimate spikes its time to take a few lumps (like every single one of us has done in the past) and try to learn and better yourselves. This is a learning experience in the sense if you want to competitively PvP you are going to need to play some semi competitive teams.

Rather than looking at how stacked teams might be, see it as an opportunity to challenge yourself to be better.

As a final point, and I'll post this up on CAPE, because this is a learning league if any team has any questions from key set ups, tactics, or just how to play a toon or would like help setting up some practices and drills for their team I'll gladly try to make some time in the evenings to hop over and see if I can't help out. Because like I said, things are fun when they are competitive, not when you are just rolling a team.

This is a point I've repeated about a dozen times in this forum.

If you look at the damage of a Psi/EM blaster it is comparable but slightly less than a Fire/EM blaster. Both blasters spend a similar amount of time animating their attack chain (psy around half a second less) though fire will deal slightly more damage.

The difference is, the fire damage comes in as the attacked are launched, where as for Psy, Will Dom + Psi Dart hit about the same time as you fire TK. In both cases attackers spend near the same time in animation firing these attacks, the only difference is when you see the damage come in.

Once you learn that, you'll understand that any situation where a Psy/EM breaks hiber, a Fire/EM could have done it too. Its just people still don't associate icons on their buff bar, with the damage they will be receiving, and are likely to react more proactively to the fire damage that is dropping their HP bar, than the Psi damage that is incoming, that will do the same.

Where you see the true advantage of Psy damage is in a team setting where you have multiple psi blasters firing off Will Dom/Dart/TK at the same time and having someone try to out heal that as it significantly cuts down on the margin of error one can have for getting a heal off. (Something that seldom if ever happens in RV)

Not really, you just bring something with more than mag 9 KB and have knockback spikes that damage spam people to death as they try to recover.

Which isn't much different from TK and Soulstorm I suppose.

If you used your brain power, you could probably also infer that the hollows was a level 6 zone that was connected to the most common starting zone in the game. That quote isn't a reflection of the PvP population, its a reflection of players migrating to the next nearest zone once they get their first few levels. Its been long known there are are a much much larger amount of low level toons than 50's floating around (Which is where most PVP occurs, and even if the zone wasn't for level 50, you would still want to be because of the way slots exemp)

For added humor, I can't think of a PvP toon I had pre i13 that didn't go through the hollows mission arcs on his way to 50.

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Again, use your brain . If it was never large enough to justify developer resources i13 would never have happened. Apparently at one point in time they believed it *was* worth it. There were some QoL fixes implemented that did help things out, long standing bugs that were fixed, etc etc. (Random crashes anyone?) But the quoted point simply doesn't hold any water because there was an issue that introduced major changes to the current system, to the point it implemented several new systems into the game. (Heal Decay, DR, travel suppression, elustivity, damage rebalancing across every AT/Powerset etc.)

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You really don't get it.

He doesn't really need to rally anyone. There is no significant new population to rally, and what little is left of the old population already know the devs stance on things.

It was a funny bit of Irony is all coming from Posi.

I know its the internet, but please, for the sake of the CoH Community, think a little before you post.

I like to think of myself as a tastey left over you can enjoy at like 3 AM after going out to eat. Pretty good, for whats left.

Wuz just messing, most of my active pve toons are on Virtue so I'd be the last person who could talk. RP or not, doesn't change the fact you're still probably the best rad/caller I ever teamed with, even if it was just mostly for KB.

Someone was surprised you were the first round pick! But nah we were surprised you and dawun both went first like that. Our plans were all sorts of foiled.

We did need an emp for our first round, since psoma is a pslacker, but after we saw the other first round picks we just started picking people at random.

I've been trying to find the hard drive where I had the spreadsheets stored (That computer fried, but I know I saved the HD), it wasn't much more than Minions/LT's and Bosses were defeated in between purple drops.

At some point I started to record all recipe drops, but I don't think that was until half way through it. I tried to find the thread before the one mentioned above, but haven't had the free time to track it down recently.