Neuronia

Actually the big problem was that you would have everything con grey to you since you were well above level 40 when you ran it with a bunch of 50s...since all you needed to do was kill 100+ RIkti and then go.

It was a Pool C (?) recipe in 10-15 minutes, much like the Eden trial.
Sadly, both of these are unplayed since the (justifiable) change.

Honey Badgers has bascially disbanded. We did have you on the team but there isn't much of a team left, if any. Put yourself back in the draft and we'll see where you can be placed.

"I see electric sheep!"

Phoenix, really sorry about that.

Our leadership has been super busy with stuff in their lives. We're mostly re-entering the draft at this point...

SPeaking of which:


What are your global handles/recognizable names?
@Neuronia, @Neuronium

What toons do you have to offer for 8v8 PvP?
Ill/Emp, Grav/TA, Thugs/Poison MM (Would need a build for this...but it is accod).

What do you consider your primary/optimal role in a team setting?
Support. Usually Emp but like being on Grav/TA.

Briefly describe your experience in PvP:
Bevy of teams including dUmb, Honey Badgers, AJ, Integrity, etc. etc. as well as helping out with the various boot camps.

Anecdotal:

One of my longtime CoH friends dropped about $100 on Paragon Points when they came out, once he understood the system. He wanted to be able to get any new powerset and costume piece that hit the market, instantly.

Paragon Studios has received about an extra $50-$75 in Paragon Point purchases since I wanted new powersets, costumes, an extra reward token to unlock all the Tier 9 VIP rewards and so on.

Conversely, I know a bunch of PvPers that went free to play and just don't put anything into the system outside of an invention licence.


I'd wager that NCSoft is going to make some money out of free to play. Those that stay subbed are a constant stream of income while completists and impulse buyers will funnel more money into their coffers. If they make an extra few hundred thousand, maybe a million off Paragon Point sales...that would be fantastic. I doubt we'll see that much of an increase, but people are spending money on the stuff.

Think it's a five minute timer between (hidden) rep-valid kills.
They do drop, but very, very seldom.

You're better off just farming them, honestly.

It's a little too easy now. You do get pulsed but it's not too much and six terminals seems a bit low. It's not BAF level yet, but it could well be within a few weeks. We ran a 24-person last night twice and finished in 25-30 minutes.

Certainly going to run it a lot more often though.

Makes sense; Pinnacle is always drunk so it takes a while to catch up.

Doubt it's Issue 21.5, would love it though.
There's just too much new content coming too quickly, how much more money do I have to spend to make it stop folks!

Zwill is too busy drinking Tahiti Treat and enjoying the pig on a spit cooked by Sexy Jay to worry about we peons...

Of course, the other question is why the remaining Vindicators are blissfully unaware of Malaise's teaming up with who knows, given his compunctions.

As also stated, Shalice tells us the world is like a bunch of static in her mind and she can't shut it off, so...

Except that there are millions upon millions of these inspirations *** Kora Fruit kicking around, for 50 influence (or is it 150) that will bring anyone back from the dead err defeat. There just isn't an excuse for ANYONE to die in this game. Death isn't permanent. You just get zapped to the nearest Medical Center and that's all she wrote.

Overall I enjoyed the heroside version, lots of fun.
The story overall is a bit stilted, but it's still nice to go through and harkens to those old serials...

It depends on your teammates I guess. When we were doing the Champ 3 v 3 league Peril funded a bunch of our builds, but he's a dance legend and that has its benefits. Generally a PvP team will have a few flush players that can help out or at least get market tips.

Time.

Imagine this scenario:

@Neuronia: "Hai guise let's go to test."

PvPer 1: "Shut fayse."
PvPer 2: "Baddo."
PvPers 3-5: "Sure, let's patch."
PvPers 6-7: "Lol Test, that's for people without inf or builds."

For this to work we would need at least 5-8 teams with 8-15 members...so 90 pvpers. We would also all need bases on both sides unless we flip our characters to middle alignments. THEN we would need about 10-15 Respecs each to fill our bins with IOs to distribute to everyone.

Now that that's done, we need to schedule matches...and anyone that was on Test in the day know it was like pulling teeth to get anything more than a few practices going and it's even worse if you're the top team, in which case you're basically just fighting the same teams...see Velocity vs. JAL/PWNY Xpress/etc. while you field challenges from a few other teams that want to see if they can unseat the big dogs.

So it comes down to:

1)Do we want to spend a few weeks transferring, building bases, respecing and transferring to bins, setting up test and letting everyone know about test or...

2)Just PL on Freedom, farm inf and get pvp IOs and purples via the market or RMT.

It would take a seismic shift of interest on the part of a dwindling community to make this happen and I honestly do not see it at this point. The last test ladder had So Much Dam, dUmb and mac's team (?) and it basically became dUmb vs. SMD (?) practicing 2-3 days a week until we got bored and moved to Freedom.

We're on Freedom. You get a free transfer per month so you can move your toon there if you're ViP. Moving on.

TLDR:

The test ship has sailed. We're on Freedom. Free server transfers with ViP. Moving on.

It's mostly:

1)Agree.
1A) Test is an unstable environment with patches and spite-takedowns.

The Arena PvPers have moved to Freedom. As for builds, people gladly help with accolades and IOS and inf, so that's not as much a problem anymore.

Yeah...thanks for letting know Silas.

I'd love a kind of pop-up menu with Temporary - Submenu - Toggles - Subemenu - Summons and so on to make things more streamlined.
An item similar to the Salvage submenus would be ideal, just open up your temporary powers folder and go from there.

I have a level 33 MM that is putting 5-10 level 33 crafteds per week on the Market. Not a lot, I know, but still looking to help out.

When we practiced agains the Psy/EMs you ran the damage seemed a lot less crisp and easier to evade than the damage from the Earth/Fire spikes. Why is that?

Our last match was forfeit.
We submitted a lineup of 5 Psy/EM Blasters and 2 Illusion/Emp Controllers and ran a Mind/Fire Dominator.

You won the match regardless but what we did was invalid.
GGs Philly.

Why run a regular season at all then? There is no incentive for winning if you are guaranteed a spot in the post-season. Just go as is and do 1-4 are in, move on.

Round robin would be fine though...as long as the qualified teams are involved.

3/5 wouldn't be bad, not so hot on double elim. Couldn't it end up in basically the same result? There should be a 2-0 team, a 0-2 team and two 1-1 teams...I'd rather allow WARE to pick their first round opponent for the initial round and go from there.

Still not getting why we need to reinvent the wheel. If Exile are confident they can beat WARE they will get out of round one and do so. If WARE picks Exile as their preferred opponent you get your potential round two lineup up front. Not to mention the longer this goes on the more apathy and boredom will set in...shorter leagues >> longer ones.