Necromatic

Originally Posted by Gearsinger

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Energy Aura have an in-set Repel that would serve the same purpose with a lower endurance cost and no need to pick two pool powers?

Is there a specific reason you chose Whirlwind instead?

Originally Posted by Zamuel

From what I've heard and what I saw with a teammate once is that it's only bad if you treat it like a toggle (though it is). It becomes a useful control tool when used as a sort of click power to get enemies off of you or a teammate and then turn it back off.

Originally Posted by black_barrier

Way too many things i disagree with.

- The rep system is dumb and therefore should not be cornerstone of a pvp merit system. It fosters dumb play and lowers the overall skill level expected of a player engaging in PVP. The goal should be having a system that teaching newbies how to play by rewarding intelligent gaming. The rep system gives you optimal results when you cycle through targets sequentially. No good pvp team does this; it's dumb. People don't learn to evade when they are never targeted. People don't learn to spike coherent if there are no good evaders. Either the system for PVP merits needs to be objective-based (ie, capture the flag, team wins, final match kill differentials, etc) or contribution based (ie, warhammer-style rep where healers get "rep" depending on how much they heal and who they keep alive).

- If you remove the critical effect from stalker patrons, AS needs to be buffed. Either through raising the base damage or lowering the DR curve on damage for stalkers. Back in the day, one hit after getting AS'd meant you were dead on a squishy. The interrupt time on AS should be used when calculating the base damage.

- Kheld damage is ok. As much hell as I give them kheld players, the problem at this point is that all the kheld data points are coming from really inexperienced players that have yet to learn how to build one adequately. It's essentially like saying that Regen is a bad secondary because Demon Slayer dies on it.

- Speaking of Regen; scrappers needs to be looked at after another zone pvp revamp. The current rule-set makes them far too easy to play in a zone environment. Regen needs to be looked at too, as it is currently the only viable scrapper secondary.

- Offensive toggles cause travel suppression. Either their recharge should be tripled while in a PVP zone, or suppression should last only during the first 4 seconds of being toggled (my preferred fix).

- Remove base resists from No DR matches. We've been asking for this for over a year. Curious Observer told us back in i13 that it was the most requested change back then; can we please get that done?

Originally Posted by Supermax

I'd be interested in other people's slotting too. With mine I use 3 acc SO's, 3 centriole. Because I like spamming it from decent range. But not having any procs definitely hurts.

Originally Posted by EmpireForgotten

If they'd stealth buff the activation time the damage would go down - do you guys think people would still be complaining?

Originally Posted by Psoma

Bingo. I'm built for for buffing, survivability, and evasion. i13 comes along...and DR hurts of course, but the HD and TS severely limit my potential to say the least. I started to type out a lot more here, but I'm going to refrain from e-raging regarding the dumbing down of PvP.

Originally Posted by Runchbox

I've noticed KB does /not/ share a timer with holds (this is obvious) where holds take a lot longer, (I've noticed it takes 8 to 10 counts using the 1 mississippi or 1 thousand method). KBs are on a completely different timer entirely, probably about 6 seconds, if that. I've been able to KB someone, hold them as they flip themselves back up, and then KB them again just as the hold ends. Not that any of the know-hows out there need to know, just for the nubs if they need it.


Also, this. lol

Originally Posted by Championess

I have been PVPing my Mind/Nrg for years now and the playstyle has much changed due to the mez system change but my love/hate relationship has not allowed me to drop TF. It's crazy that /fire's 3 ranged attacks take the same time to animate and do much more dmg combined but TF can be devastating if used right. TF should always be second in your attack chain *unless you have the mace* so as to not get caught animating.

On Mezmera I power push them to test their kb resistance. If they can be then it's easy times. Most times you will have to deal with blasters and the only real way to mez them is to kb and confuse them if they cant be kb'd you're in for a long day. Either switch targets or go after them harder OR just make a /fire dom. I start it off push/tk depending on their kb resist, TF for the hax stun if you can kb them, dig in with your best attacks, dont forget a confuse, and lastly push them again if they can be to get more attacks in.

Originally Posted by black_barrier

chaining a hold and a kb without anything between means you have no idea what you're doing.

Originally Posted by Necromatic

Another thing, what is the criterion for the ranking of the list? Zone or duels?

Zone, I would put blaster/stalker as tied at the top.