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castle hates this power, and power boost, because of the +/- special effect. im not entirely sure why (probably has something to do with how its coded)

who cares?

is there any new 50 content? No? well how about pvp changes? no? any end game at all? really? well what about that incarnate shiz? o they took that out huh. ah just more low level stuff to grind and side switching to grind stuff most people have already done?


looks awesome. glad I pre purchased for that.

it wasn't so much an insult as much stating a fact. (i can't insult since everytime i do, mod12 is all over that ****)


you created a thread asking for advice on a stalker. listened to everyone's advice, from people who know wtf they're talking about. decided to do the exact opposite of the advice given just to be different (which doesn't work in pvp by the way, i liked the analogy someone used in another thread, slax i think, that its like bringing a moped to the indy 500) and then denounced us by calling us number crunchers, which didn't even happen in this thread, and bringing up your girlfriend. short of tap out shirt and a flat bill hat with the sticker still on it, thats about a 9.0 on the tool-o-meter. You're being called a troll because this is at least your 6th time to do the exact same thing that you've done in this thread.

but to be back on topic, make your stalker (or as i recommended WS if you really just wanna do **** to be different) hit up freedumb RV or test ladder and enjoy being gimp.

glhf

apparently he's not a legit player of triumph since he didn't get it?

wut?

k. ad hominem doesn't disprove my point though.

Since I obviously don't know what i'm talking about, help me out then. You've already said that since they'll hit through retsu/elude anyway they're pointless. which by this logic any defense is pointless (this of course isn't true but by your logic, it is). so if im playing a defense based AT that is in fact going to get hit, even for the small period of time when im running away trying to rehide, why would i play the defense based toon that is going to get hit(or, hell, even has a high chance to get hit, exluding t9s) when all it offers is a good self heal when i can play a set like WP that offers a similar self heal, psi res along with good res to everything else, a contant HP buff, i.e. more thing that would help me if im "going to get hit anyway". the same goes for regen with its 2 heals, instant healing, and super diet phase in mog.

imagine that, the afk farmers are trying to hide(and are apparently successful) from ******** like yourself trying to kill them.

look, i wasn't saying nin was crap and none should ever be made, I was simply stating that for a person making a new toon(which in this case completely ignored all advice given but that aside) WP and/or regen was probably a better. I concede on the the "living in retsu" comment.

pvp isn't like pve


they're lesser used for a reason.


I honestly don't know why i keep giving advice on this **** if your entire motive is to know what the people who know what the hell they're talking about would do so you can do the entirely opposite.

At first I thought troll but this comment pretty much solidifies that you're just a major tool.


ya know what, don't roll a stalk, roll a WS

glhf

obvios troll is obvious.


positive rep him as punishment.

so.....you don't need elude because heroes will hit through it anyway...so your normal defenses (which are obviously much lower without retsu/eldue) are fine? is that why nin is your #1 choice? a nin out of hide should be living in retsu since the only thing that will be able to hit it(atleast hard enough to take it down before it gets away to rehide) will be aim + BU.


as of right now, its not like villz need +percep since the hero stealth cap is so low. double stacked mez prot doesn't do anything (thanks i13) and your normal defenses alone will not save you from 2+ heroes.

can nin be good? sure there are some very good nin stalks but for the most part retsu is a big part of them and it would cost easily double the inf it would take to make a decent nin as it would a regen or WP for the same level of survivability.

WP is first because it has the heal as well as decent resistances and +percep. regens heal's + mog is more useful than nin's defenses.

chain induction doing 1000 damage is nothing to lol at.

look at his past posts.

^^^^

niether? regen or WP

DR will hit both nin and SR and you'll end up living in elude/retsu

yea flea beat me to it. here's the rest of the link

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/new..._issue_13.html

blaster would only have to go through the attack chain once (especially a sonic or psi) and the defender would be down.

This is exactly right. However there wouldn't be anything wrong with offering something that is semi decent to introduce/encourage pvp within the pve community. pvp should have a reward for competitive pvp, but giving newbies something to get their foot in the door wouldn't alienate Pvers

No, the mindset behind i13 was to make pvp easily accessible and easier for the common player. not to introduce a tangible incentive to introduce pvp.

strait from the website: We are trying to make PvP more accessible to new players, while giving experienced PvP'ers the advantage that comes with formulating tactics around the new systems we're putting in place. PvP from now on will be on our priority list.

I really don't think this is true at all. Mainly becuase if this was the case you'd have more people pvping for the pvp io drops, which we clearly don't. But to compare to pve, do you really think people would play PvE (or rather would pve have the same population) if no rewards were given? if there were no IOs, merits, inf, markets anything? of course not. Will giving pvp an incentive likely draw people that just do it for the rewards? probably, but it would also bring in some of the pve carebears that would have never thought of even trying pvp. you aren't going to create a community if there is no end to a mean (aside from *just* fun). having a fun gameplay is a very large aspect of that (i12) but even in games with thriving pvp communities, FPSers, even RTS pvp games, there is a point to the pvp other than just for the sake of pvping.

and to reiterate using your analogy, no meat would be forced, it would simply be introduced as an alternative option, which in the current game, it isn't. at all. ever.

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they're merging the markets?

not really, with all the crap that they added with i13, pvp is all about the build which you can get from the forums. the only real skill pvp takes anymore is knowing how to kite which really isn't a skill as much as it is common sense.


cage powers don't really work at all in pvp anymore

blaster would win simply because the defenders already low damage is generally just as low if not lower in pvp and they get the shaft on epic powers (although this probably will change in GR). But short of a really really really tricked out sapp build (kin/elec would be the first thought, until defenders get therm, but even then i'd still probably pick the blaster) the blaster would win because of the better range, better chance to spike, and has much more survival from ice mastery than defenders get with just phase.

most defender builds are basically all disruption low damage where as blasters are all about spike and since blasters get the better survivability from the epic and the blaster's ability to spike squishies, blaster wins everytime.

you still haven't given a definite answer on why it would be the wrong way to go to *encourage* pvp (other than i don't like pvp). taking on the past (and quite frankly poor) example of PvP IOs, with the exception of glad jav's and panacea's, pvpers don't use them because they're generally worthless for pvp and offer much much more to the pve'r with ex'ing and all that. poorly executed? yes, definitely but if they changed how they acquired these I don't think they'd be considered the failure that you make pve benefits from pvp out to be.

Even still, since they are very hard to acquire, most players disregard them anyway as there are plenty of other ways to power up your character and are more of a luxury than a necessity. For the most part, purples are the same way but yet no one really complains about those either. My point being that, knowing the devs, any pve benefits added would be completely optional and not necessary (since that has been their selling point on basically everything added so far)