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I find it funny that we're scrapping the bottom of the barrel for issues and killing each other about KSing. I agree, stalkers solo ATM, kinda do act like jackels, and that true skill in the AT is hard to come by, but, not many of the good stalkers are quite the braggers in broadcast.

OH OH new KS omgrage

Emp Killz

KSer!!!

(Is galactor/bluesting, also tech-Noir, cuz i tink i killed him with a farming heavy AFK a few days ago)

Every1 here know the Twixt story amirite?

Well i just talked to their employer, and they said they'ld fire their Reverand griefer and replace him with me...

Obtw, he said that dawun and 'clipse came by to try for the job, but they griefed the manager so hard he cryed for weeks.

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Do Eeet, then blame it on dawun.

Btw, it might help if you peddle your "Goods" right next to the hosts, u'll make sales.

I can honestly say, that after 22 toons to 50, many others past 35, that no matter what kind of PvE they introduce, will be boring.

Once i got into PvP, once someone learns that, and truely enjoys it, PvE becomes a mindless grind. Obtw, its still quiet possible to get 50s in stupidly quick times, the thing is tho, as long as no one says anything, the devs wont find it.

[My new fastest time is 7 hours, 14 min.] Doubt the devs can figure it out anyways. :P

(lol altoholic is posting here, lol)

Im'ma miss him, he was a rep farm for stalkers when he sat down to tp ppl into groups of LB.

(I think my old claws/dark stalker got his 400th rep off him)

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Hi All

Sorry to say that I will not be able to be at the Training Day event. Work is sending me to Shanghai tomorrow and I will not be back stateside until Wednesday. I have given over 400mil influence to Wird to spread around during the event and also for anything else that might need to be done for the event. If you need anything please pm @.Wird.

Again I am very sorry for not being at this event but I need my job

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Az just hates the nubs.

(Az thinks noob is contagious)

This is the build i use currently, its min/maxed for a certain AE group, but i have run invincible 8 spawned farms on most of the "Real" maps.

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I'ld come grief, but work is griefing me so i haz to not be here.

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Ur so nice

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A toon i got from 1-50 in 6 hours got deleted and teh 3 day ban trown. so 6 hours is too fast. lol...devs...

I'ld come grief, but work is griefing me so i haz to not be here.

I would have said HBD to cath, but i don't know what a cath is.

Is it some type of rabies?

Dark brings up a good point. Every AT in CoV is independantly stronger or more well rounded then its opposing opposite, if you catch my drift, while hero ATs tend to excel in a single area.

That small effect has a huge impact on how the PvP turns out, where as heros are more dependant on teams to cover weakness's, a villain AT is quite litterally build for soloing and being independant, its why when saying one build is OP is completely inaccurate. You can argue each AT is OP in different ways, but they *aren't* OP becuase they simply excel in a certain area.

THe only way you can argue an OP point is saying Doms are OP. This is true, but this is also to be expected when the devs are trashing an entire form of mitigation. loldevs.

Not sure, but i beleive scare has a bigger base duriation then 2 sec, if i am understanding the numbers it lasts from 5-7 seconds slotted, as its original value for it is 4.7ish second base duriation, the fix puts it at 4 seconds, enhancements and DR put it closer to 5-7 seconds.

I could be wrong.

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I'm pretty busy here right now with Issue 16

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So, does this mean that there is no "Issue" 15.5? Or that it's already done, and waiting approval to go to Test?

Or for that matter, was there ever supposed to be an "Issue" 15.5? I don't recall any Dev saying that there would be, just players saying that the Devs said there would be...

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BABs is the head of animation, so it is quite likely he is needed more with that, while there may still be minor updates that others are working with.

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Not meant as an insult to BaBs, but its sad when the only dev that connects to the playerbase on any level is the animations guy. (Again, no insult BaBs, ur awesum i swearz )

It will wreck some1's end, but the recharge on it is pretty long. If this is an elec/therm build, its worth it, kinda, but if not, its just not worth the end crash (Speaking of PvP of course)

My elec/therm uses the nuke in his support build, kind of an OHSH** button, cuz PB+HE+TB is about 40-80 end drain and a nice recovery debuff length due to HE, thing is, you get wrecked if u hit more then 1 target.

I suggest a well min/maxed fire/kin/earth can stand toe to toe with 54's, i a *certain* boss (Don't wanna get it omgnerfed) that mainly does ranged S/L damage, my troller has about 40% defense to S/l and 30% to ranged aswell as 25% to melee, which is where i usually am.

Thing about //Earth is that when u use your main stun like flash fire, you can follow up with Fissue, which is a mag 2 stun by itself, which allows you to stun bosses. You also get Earths Embrace, which is nice and easy to perma, and HP caps u aswell as being a heal you can use without a target.

Whats with the recent rise in clueless complaints about stalkers, i mean of all things you would think clueless people would post about doms. lol.

Don't go tactics, staminia will save you in the long haul, the slots wasted on slotting for recovery ect are too much of a waste in most cases.

I slotted my regen for +Dam +Acc +Recharge

I am at around 33% damage
Around 1.4 global acc (Can't remember exact number)
and 60ish % recharge.

Stalkers are more about skill then they are IOs, i prefer learning my new stalkers with SOs to make builds designed around how i found my stalker lacking. Just a suggestion, but, if all else fails, ask Ravens, he posts here sometimes, has a real nice EM/Regen.

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I fixt it for joo

I gotta comment on the topic, as a player thats been running stalkers since I9, i gotta say solo stalking has simply gotten *Easier* but solo stalking and getting kills has gotten *harder*. Now in i13, i can log into my stalker, my last trip to RV, this thread in mind, i got roughly 11 kills in 15 min, without dieing. I then spent 15 MORE min in RV, simply going for the kill even if the risk was great, i ended up with 16 and 1 death. Now its arguable, am a better stalker cuz i lived longer or killed more?

Arguably this is on freedom, but i had to avoid the big brawls to maximize survivability. I as a stalker kept myself to around the train and caught several squishies leaving at a little over half health. Now arguably thats not my fault but the kills were most definitly *artificial* and technically not of my own doing, but as solo kills, stalkers hide is meant for it.

I must agree, with the new tools stalkers have, its infinitly easy to survive when no VEAT is around, it takes more then 3 to take me down almost everytime. Placate is awesome, but most don't use it to full effectiveness (You still hide if u placate the blaster and not your target emp), defenses are still good if you feel out who has trouble hitting you.

Wasn't there a time where solo, you had to toggle stealth and invis back and forth to get a kill? Kan it come back?

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I'm totally confused now.

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Don't feel bad, the devs intended this to happen

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How does the exemplar from 50 to 30 affect my stats, enhancements and IO set bonuses?

Would it be different if I was actually level 30 using level 30 enhancements?

Does it help to slot level 30 (or lower) IO sets for set bonuses?

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-All Enhancements exemp down to their lvl 30 selves EX. lvl 50 damage IO enhances damage by 42%, a entering sirens would exemp it down to 35%ish

- Set bonus's are only active if they are from purples, pvp ios, or the set ios placed are 33 and below. EX to 3 slot decimation for the HP bonus, all 3 of the set ios would have to be 33 or lower.


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How do you explain this extract from the Attribute Monitor:

Ranged Defense: 30.78%
Combat Jumping: +1.88%
Focused Senses: +20.52% from Self
Agile: +8.31% from Self
Moderate Increased Ranged Def Bonus" +10% from Self

Ranged Defense: 17.65%
Combat Jumping: +1.88%
Agile: +8.31% from Self
Moderate Increased Ranged Def Bonus: +10% from Self

So Focused Senses operates at only 65% efficiency?

In Steel Canyon my ranged defense is 41.79%

What is the optimal way to build for Siren's Call?

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DR makes all combat attriubutes look like a 3rd grade failed math homework

Most pvpers build for +HP +DAM +ACC and +RCHRG

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Do I have even a remote chance to soft-cap defenses in Siren's Call?

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It is nearly impossible to soft cap defenses without using outside powers like demonic, shadow meld, tier 9, im willing to bet it can be done, but it would be difficult.

I would suggest going PS/SM for almost every1, Invisibility when used right can be a life saver Hide+Invis can't be suppressed by anything besides damage and its only like 40 lower then Hide+stealth+IO. Just another tid bit to throw out there.

Soul storm is awesome 2 btw :P

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And you also forget that a psi em has massive range. You should have them half dead before they get into attacking range.

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Boost range Psi/EM max attack chain =

Assuming BU/Aim is already going
Psi dart+mental blast+will dom+tk thrust

1794 BASE(Before Resistances)
1076 After 40% resistance
897 after 75% resistance

Now the total activation time for this attack chain is about 6 seconds, now assuming that the blaster is running away, he might get away with a few more attacks, but if he is, like dark suggests, running toward the dom, he gets locked down prolly before this entire chain is done.

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Dominator Damage: 1179 damage

Blaster Damage: 1711

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You call that a small difference? A 532 pt damage difference is a small difference to you? That's over half a GRAND worth of damage difference man, that's not a small difference. So it's not an "Although it [u]'appears'[u] as though the Blaster does more damage" case. It's not "appears as though" it's DEFINATELY does lmao! The Blaster (in your example) DEFINATELY does more damage! LOL! Seriously man.

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Never said doms did MORE damage, just pointing out that while the dom IS attacking the Opposing side CAN NOT ATTACK.

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1. the blaster is prolly not in melee range

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Why is the Blaster probably "not" in melee range? Just because? Just because he, eh, doesn't feel like it? Or is there a real reason other than the fact that your trying to make your stance seem valid? He'll be in melee range if he's smart.

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If he’s in melee range with a dom, its over, dom hits confuse, blaster sits there FOR 7-8 SECONDS unable to use their main mitigation: Damage

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The enemy hasnt thrown anything, which can be a damage debuff ect

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Dom's don't have Damage Debuffs, that's Corruptors and MM's. Try again.

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This is again illustrating how the dom has an advantage, he can put out all that damage BEFORE being hit by the debuff

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WHile your taking the damage from the dom YOU *CAN'T* fight back,

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Uhm...Blasters CAN still use their first tier damage attacks....which can be/are ranged....so yea...they can fight back, and they have a bit better survivability as well (more HP, better Epics).

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All blasters have on a dom in survivability IS hoarfrost, BUT the dom also has a resist shield instead of the defense the blasters are forced to take.

A BLASTER CANNOT ATTACK WHILE CONFUSED, end of story, also they can’t attack while in KB/KD, end of story

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Oh really? And why is that? Just because the Dom decides to attack? Don't forget, Blasters DO have access to KB's and Holds as well....very good KB's and Holds at that. I've discussed this earlier as well. Blasters can achieve some pretty darn impressive mezzing power when they pair /Energy's Power Boost with any Hold, especially Ancillary Pool holds...or even simply a well slotted Total Focus: insta-stun+Massive Damage. Even Psi Assault, which was your VERY example has some VERY good "mezzing" ability packed within it, and heck, you even paired it with /Energy.

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Look at it, both sides have access to PB, and a blaster usually will not get into melee BECAUSE the dom doesn’t want it to happen, and the dom has the controls to make that happen. BOTH OF THE BLASTERS POTENT MEZS ARE IN MELEE, which is in range of EVERY SINGLE MEZ/MITIGATION the dom has.

aswell as its in range of the DOMS heavy hitters.

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Also, last I checked there is such thing as mez suppression, which means there's no such thing as chain holding anymore. Furthermore, if the Blaster is worth his salt in pvp (and we must assume that he is if we are assuming the dominator is as well), he has Acro+Mez reduction IO's, which will help to severely drop the duration for which a hold will last on you, even when Power Boosted. There is also KB supression, which will keep KB's from being chained as well.

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KB and KD are different suppressions, also I didn’t count the hold duriation as a time where the blaster is unable to attack, he’s held and slept with dominate and mesmerize WHILE CONFUSED, confuse resistance from TACTICS(90%) drops a PBed Confuse from 10-11 secs to 8-9, i dropped another second to factor in mez resist IOs


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Basically, had you actually put some thought into your response and not tried to simply be blatantly biased, you would have never made the response in the first place.

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I’m above this

lol.....