Neuronia

This bug has also been happening in the Corporate Culture arc, flashbacked. A friend, @Doomguide, ran it and encountered a 40 PPE in the last mission (the arc caps at 34...).

Very glad to see this fixed in the TF though.

Stalker:
Martial Arts, Spines, Dark Melee, Energy Melee
Regen, Ninjutsu, Willpower

Scrapper:
Martial Arts, Spines, Dark Melee, Fire Melee
Regen (pretty much) Fire Aura gives that almost permanent click heal as well.

Tanker
Fiery Aura, Willpower (RTTC will get detoggled a lot), Invln isn't bad these days
Superstrength, EM pretty much

Controller
Illusion or Mind
Most secondaries are fine except I'd avoid bubbles as defense bites.
Therm, Cold, Empathy, Rad is ok except for detoggling constantly, Trick Arrow is ok for a few laughs.

Defender:
Empathy, Cold, Rad is ok..., in truth just roll a Corruptor. Since Defenders lost their unresisted debuffs and Vigilance is lol, Corrs have Scourge which is <3.
Blasts I like Psy with Placate Proc or Sonic personally

Corruptors:
Pretty much Thermal with Sonic Blast. Pain Dom and Colds can do ok (the latter with Dark Blast)

Blasters:
Fire Blast, Psy Blast with the Placate Proc, Ice is meh now and Energy is pretty lol. Arrows can do ok.
Energy Manipulation, Elec isn't bad either

Masterminds:
Thugs is the really popular one though you see the Odds Bots or Ninja out there.
Secondaries: Thermal, Poison, Pain Dom, Storm
Provoke and Aid Self to season.

Brutes:
Superstrength or EM paired with Fiery Aura, Electric Aura (no rly), Invuln is seen around too.

Dominators:
Mind, Earth, Psy (I guess...), Fire
Fire, Energy got a boost, Electric come to mind as popular

Hero VEAT PBs haev a great bag of tricks with click heals, Phase, range damage etc...
lol Warshades

That's what I've seen off the top of my head.
Use Super Leap and Superspeed and Phase.
Use Hibernate.

Also

"Sorry you never learn, your event still pits 5 yr vets purpled out against 3 month vets with no bonuses. Your still convinced someone with set bonuses giving them 100-500% damage bonus, 90% defence, and 20-30% more health and stamina is on equal ground with a new person? The only way to make it fair for new people is to have 2 seperate classes."

You might want to check what [Diminishing Returns] does to Defense....and it would be quite the trick maintaining that 500% damage bonus (which not all ATs can reach...) for a whole 20 (?) minutes...

Pretty much this. The TPvPLs I have been involved with had fun all around. Even the new players that had never Arenad before had a blast and were laughing and having a great time, even if they got farmed horribly.

Of course captains will pick people they are familiar with and that's a smart way to go. I think the last TPvPL had a limit on the number of people from the same PvP SG you could have on one team...with the collapse of the PvP ladder that isn't feasible (or perhaps necessary).

The critical thing here is getting more people interested in Arena. Bear in mind though, in an extended season people lose interest/find other stuff to do so you need to know your 'core' is capable of being in a match and contributing.

No.

The new Hami is a tedious pain in the posterior.
On Champion we used to raid 2-3 times a day at times on Sundays (depended on respawn timer) and at least several times a week.

It was actually pretty sweet. You had your flying Phantom army droppers to hold Hami's aggro. Then you had the Forcefielder walking around with a healing blanket while someone called the Mitos to be defeated. It's been a while, but I think we used to get Greens first, then yellows or whatever. In truth though we mostly moved in a circular pattern and shot stuff.

Then came the fun at times hilarious part, the attack on Hami. We'd all SWARM Hami (and log in our second accounts) and just get hits. At this point, massive griefing happened...people would pull in Monsters, spawn Kronos, hit Hami with Immobs and try to break the hold chain on Hamidon. Once holds were set, -Regen was applied and attackers were called in.

At the end, everyone got their Hamis in 30-35 minutes, sometimes less. It was actually a ton of fun. I'm having fun with the new ones as well, but there's less drama (a positive thing, but doesn't do much to my Monday forum reading...).

Of course, when the griefers prevailed, you had a YELLOW DAWN! A Yellow Mito would spawn for everyone in the bowl and wipe EVERYONE. These would either be hilarious or frustrating, depending on your mindset, and would cause an aborted raid.



P.S. Agree to disagree with Castle on this. The new ones are less fun and more work. The old ones were a massive gunslinging shootfest where you could do all sorts of stuff (unless you were a Scrapper, heh) and the threat of Yellow Dawn made it all the more fun.

This.

Also, it seems the Reichsmann temp thing works in Arena...it doesn't do anything but it will make a nice swirly vortex above your head.
Just duelled someone that used it heh.

"Vigilance:

You are vigilant! Not necessarily to your teammate's health, though that does matter. You are especially vigilant to your enemy's status. Once that enemy reaches half health, your attacks gain an endurance drain component, increasing gradually until their endurance or health reaches zero.
Defenders are so vigilant they tire out their opponents!"


+1 on Defender TK being sweet sweet pvp chocolate.

Arena locations are important for tournaments and events.
You generally want everyone gathered in one location (Pocket D is the place of choice with mixed fighting) for a headcount, etc.

Some tournament formats used to have a specific amount of time in which to start matches and everyone had to be in the same Arena salon (PI Ruby was popular on Test). If there are player-related issues such as inspiration swaps with a judge present, location could matter as well.

As pointed out by Catwhoorg, you can get inspirations and temp powers there as well.

Cole's Notes Summary:

NotPutzing:

There are map holes in some maps (Perez, Eden)
Melee classes are disadvanatged over range (including Boost Range)
Selectable Arena maps would be great
Unresisted damage/debuffs may be an issue
(Etc, long list of VALID issues)

Result:

Selectable Arena maps (yay)
Buff period (yay)
Sudden Death (This is aaaaaaaaaargh beyond words, please give us a toggle to get rid of this crap, ties are more than fine)
I13 mess

I like mac as well and see he means well, but the PvP community is asking for a few renovations to the basketball court and we're probably going to end up with a water polo arena.



I'm here because I have a bunch of friends still ingame and the PvP is passable with some of the Arena settings. IOs are kinda cool as well.

ELF STALKER (former Mayor of Champions) is correct.

Now, there are TONS of people on Freedom so you'll always find someone to fight. There are times though when you'll join a team and it will be 6 Fire/Regen Scrappers and something...it is nonstop pvp button mashing though.

THere is a small core over there that takes their arena seriously and you'll get along great with them, I have no doubt.

Sup Psyrene.

PCJL were such ***** with that storm team. That is all.

QFT.

I've been doing a lot of 2 v 2 and 3 v 3 events on Infinity, and it usually end up my Ill/Emp with a fellow dUmbie undefeated, we beat other dUmbies and another player etc.

It's still like PvPing in molasses though, even with the Travel Suppression off, just horrible stuff. Champion, Infinity and Freedom are the only servers where good spikes and real spikes still happen on a regular basis, and even then you have a 4-5 second window to react, which is abso-freaking-lutely reedeeculously long.

Not anymore, but Unholy Weapon and vince sure had that right when they were around.

Also, lol @ the pantiesname characters. I remember everyone on Paragon Elite changed their named to somethingpanties before some match, good times.

Also +1 on memorable matches against Storms. My favorite is still the one we won against PCJL in Atlas, where Proj had to physically threaten Syph on Vent from rushing and sonic nuking them on the globe.