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speakin from the brute's side (stone/stone here, teamed with a fire/kin corr), deffo put more endmods in speedboost! stone/stone as i found out is pretty heavy on the blue stuff, so every bit of extra recovery is appreciated. My partner has it 3slotted with endmods and I still manage to run low on end if im not careful and run both rooted and mudpots + armors. Also as said before, if you always team with said brute, ditch ID as rooted/granite offers more than enough mez resist. Take hasten instead, especially for when you get transference/fulcrum.

aye, pure controller (or at least major controlling) teams dont really work in arena if you dont have any form of damage. Seeing 1 bf will keep you protected for a fair share of the match, unlike damage where you need to keep poppin respites like crazy.

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can't hold a force field, he has dispersion bubble so you need to spam a few holds.

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Uhm, blind has a sleep component.

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which imo is barely noticable (as I said before)

also @psydock plays as psydock

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!111!!!!1 !!1!!!11!elevity-one!1!

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The problem with the PvP in CoH/CoV is so big that it is already killing the game. Ofcourse you have people on these forums that loves to PvE only but they obviously have misunderstood the concept of MMORPG's.


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personally I think YOU misunderstand the concept of MMORPGs.. you know there are way more MMORPGs in existance than the high rollers like WoW, EQ, CoX etc etc?

Let's dissect MMORPG a bit shall we? Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.. you see: "Role Playing" so basically its an online environment where people can act like a certain character, or in other words, play a role in that environment. This DOESNT mean that a RPG should have PvP.

When CoH was new, there was no PvP, AT ALL. It only got added in issue 4 with the arenas, and in issue 6 + CoV with the PvP zones. Personally I like it this way, as it seperates the PvE game from the PvP game, and people can choose whether or not to PvP rather than being forced to PvP.

Sure, new "balances" in CoX are alot of times geared towards PvP. Some PvE players dont like this, personally I dont mind that much as I have yet to see the "nerf" that totally gimps PvE play. For those who now bring up ED, regen nerfs, etc. I say even with ED and those nerfs you STILL can play cant you? If you cant, adapt your style, try again.

Right, getting bit OT there..

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There is no villains charging Atlas Park or harassing new players.

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So... lemme get this straight? You think the game would improve if new players will get ganked on sight as soon as they enter what is generally the "new players, easy goin" zone? Great idea.. how bout we add some lvl 50 malta and carnies to the zones as well to provide that little extra challenge? I'm sorry, but your post makes no sense at all. If you want a MMORPG all bout PvP, go guild wars, WoW etc. Most players here like the way how CoX is different from all those other games.

To the OP: as others have said before me, PvP has its good days and its bad days. On its bad days even I as a regular PvPer sometimes leave the zone as its just no fun to fight people with a brain size even smaller than a peanut. Try to find some regulars, and when somebody tries harassing you, /ignore em or just gank em even harder next time .

sheesh jum...

as i said yesterday in BB..

you're a noob!

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Welcome Big None, oooooo a Tanker, rare first choice of toon, but i like it. must be ur father side coming out. I find the Dads ingame i know make the best Tanks Give me a Tell at @Amazing Shnyet if u need a hand with anything.

Shnyet AWAY

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hm now that you mention it... surprisingly the best tankers in my SG (not counting me, of course ) are dads...

....hmmmmmmm.....

course not just givin a lil warning

first of all, in pvp its all about knowing your own strength and then how to utilize it against your foes. Being an ice/kin your case, that strength is slows. You can easily bring your foe's attacks and recharge speed to an abrupt halt while you proceed to lay down the pain. Siphon power and siphon speed (in sirens, add transference and fulcrum in higher lvl zones/arena) combined with your attacks will be your key powers. Siphon speed + the slow aspect from ice blasts can keep your foe out of melee range, so that renders the whole brawl discussion kinda pointless .

Siphon power, even though it aint the best for buffing your own damage, sure is damn handy for debuffing your opponent's damage. On my defender I can easily stack 3 siphon powers on a foe, which means a -60% dmg (if I got my numbers right, feel free to correct me if I dont). Combine these two things, and you'll have this scenario: your target is slowed like hell and can barely attack you, then when he attacks you his damage is greatly reduced. So a win-win situation.

Of course, like all squishies, controllers will kick your [censored] if you aint careful. If you want at least the littlest protection from those, you HAVE to pick acro, it stalls em long enough to make an escape if you're fast enough (most of times). Basically the trick of corrupters as a whole is get them, debuff them, before they get you!

On a side note, @weasel: Increase Density is used on allies, not on foes to keep em at bay

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Can we bet on the results? I bet a couple of mill inf on team6 first round, and team 13 second round.

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13 seems to be a lucky number for both rounds, looking at the round two team and recognising them all as good players in the PvP zones.

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^.^

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apart from you, you're a n00b

though it has only sleep against foes quite close to the one you blind? In my whole career on stage, I think the times I've put a foe to sleep with blind is smaller than 10 times

and you could try to use the arena channel... however it seems people chattin there dont seem that much intersted in arena. That is, if you dont count senseless spam bout random topics to arena

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Can we bet on the results? I bet a couple of mill inf on team6 first round, and team 13 second round.

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13 seems to be a lucky number for both rounds, looking at the round two team and recognising them all as good players in the PvP zones.

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duh, thats course im in both of em

nobody can beat my 1337 pwning skillz! ....kinda...

yup

hi, and welcome to the game.

As said before, CoH is pretty easy to get into, and seeing you chose union as it is the unofficial RP server, I presume you are into RP? If not, im sorry . If you want to roleplay, there is a meeting in Galaxy City under Galaxy Girl (big statue near the trainer Back Alley Brawler) at 9pm GMT, where roleplayers meet.

As for help, well the only tip I can give you, enjoy the game to its fullest, and dont take [censored] from anyone as long as YOU enjoy the game . If you get stuck, send a message to the help channel, to do this just precede your message with /h. For instance "/h hi, im stuck in XXX, can somebody help?". If im on, feel free to send a tell to my global @stagefright (to do so, type /t @stagefright, <msg>. the , is very important, dont forget it ) and I'll see if I can be of any assistance .

Anyway, im ramblin now, so enjoy the game to its fullest, and maybe we'll see you around as one of those many illustrous characters out there )

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7pm BST will be what in GMT central?
and what server is this on..

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oh and I fear I might not be able to make it after all, might be goin out that sat alas

meh, my fav tactic still is alternate forcebolt with blind, which will either hold my target by overcoming mezresist or by dropping his mezresist toggle

yeah i hate the fact that even being offered the mish counts as opening an arc.. if I got some arcs I want to do (be it cool mishes, cool AVs etc) I'm always afraid to click on "ask for available missions" from other contacts cause i dont wanna be offered an arc by accident

well, for PvP its a musthave power on troller, people who fought stage will know why

It has a very high base acc bonus (+40% iirc) so it only *NEEDS* 1 acc, if you put 2 in you rarely miss, even against people with defense based sets. I slotted mine with 2 accs and no recharge, I rely on hasten for that, plus the base recharge is v. fast.

For PvP, if you use this on someone without KB protection.. well theyre pretty much fked. You can keep em on their backs for a great while, while you spam holds/attacks on em or just wait for your friends to arrive and finish him off.

Another handy aspect is the toggledrop aspect of FB. Now it has a 33% (iirc) chance of doing a toggledrop, not sure how big this number will be in issue 7. This means that seeing you can spam FB pretty fast, you can easily knock off one of those annoying toggles. Especially handy to knock off acro so you can hold em easier

For PvE I never really saw the use on my ill/ff troller though.

I had that prob for a while on nef, and it seemed I had arcs open. Now you say you dont have any open, but are you sure? You DO know that even if you didnt pick the first mish of an arc, it counts as opening right?

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dammit, i dont wanna team with that noobie phil

oh, and first you want me to beat up gatling, then kiss and make up to team together?!
.....cool

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Force fields + SR ftw

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apart from the fact that pvp stage doesnt have the 2 bubbles anymore

dammit, i dont wanna team with that noobie phil

oh, and first you want me to beat up gatling, then kiss and make up to team together?!
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got siphon life now and gettin health at 16, and its cool for survivability in the lower lvls, however I'm still in doubt what powers to lose to have a nice sirens' build as well as a nice RV build

most points have been considered here, so I'll just point at something in your general build.. dont slot more than 3 of the same enhancement in one power, I see you got 5 endmods and 5 recharges in hasten, though the boost they give isnt much more than 3 endmods and 3 recharges (~105% vs ~95%). If you take out 4 slots in those, you can put em at better use. If you heavily slotted stamina because you keep runnin out of end, put those 4 extra slots as endreducs in your powers, has much more effect than 5 endmods in stamina

just a lil pointer of course