Phil_

Sweet

a Rad/Psi

Great debuffs, sleep for bubbler, psi damage bypass' defence, self heal, job done

I'll be there trying out my corruptors new build

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FIGHT

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ZOMG HAPPY BIRTHDAY X!

Sorry to burst your bubble but you cant take any epic unfortunately you need to take scrapper ones which for pvp you're looking at body or weapons. Body is generally chosen for PvP Focused Accuracy a very nice power some more decent ranged attacks and conserve power can be useful. Weapons is a -jump webnade, caltrops and 2 ranged attacks.

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oh god not another spines/regen.....

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Somehow I find this wail rather reassuring...


So judging by that I believe spines/regen is at least viable in PvP?

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Its so common you wont gain any respect from doing well with it. Spines/Regen is/was the ultimate pvp fotm (flavour of the month) which is a tried and tested build proven in pvp. Its good to have variety in pvp (although not every build is viable there are plenty of builds that work and you shouldnt have to rely on fotms). Not that fotm automatically equals bad just spines/regen has been done to death.

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What would McGyver do?

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Pwn Psydock

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so you was gonna leave without saying good bye

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of course not you donut

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Bah why you still here!

Great tournament btw well planned and well organised hope you will be back soon

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....e=0&fpart=1

Amazing thread, great to see such an underated and underused AT doing well against so many 'overpowered' builds.

Wish I could afford a perma-dom dominator

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Stalk knows more about builds, powers, slotting, IOs than anyone else on EU servers he knows what hes talking about.

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he just doesnt no how to execute that knowledge

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Indeed

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I can hit through Elude with no real trouble, Power Boost is not really needed. The problem I see with with SR is, on my blaster I will BU, Aim, TF which as an SR has no real mez protection, they are left stunned and at about half health. Then its BS and another stun, to keep the toggles from coming back up. Then just kite until dead. Or another TF if it has come back quick enough. I know people are going to say that SR as practiced brawler, but Im sorry thats not real mez protection, a clicky that cant be used to BF is just silly in my opinion.

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oh please, you have already stated that you are not good at PvP and your total lack of knowledge on SR clearly illustrates this.

Heres practiced brawler - you get held over your mez protection your mez protection is STILL ON and you will break free FAR faster than with a toggle as once held your mez protection is OFF. Practiced Brawler is the BEST mez protection type in the game for PvP. You really dont have a clue about the game dynamics.

I have a BS/SR and it will devour your blaster, its not remotely difficult to avoid a blaster for the 10 seconds when aim and BU is popped, neither is it hard to see or to fire off aid self when you see the TF icon land in your buff bar and heal back all the damage that TF is going to do before it even lands.

I could write plenty more but I will become far less diplomatic than I am now, it kinda annoys me when people state something as fact when they are not in command of the facts.

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I am a competent PvPer, I dont pretend to be able to fight along side the best, but I can hold my own. And when did a knowledge of SR make a good PvPer?

Given a regen or an SR to fight, I would take the SR every time. I apologise if I have upset you by my comments on SR and your right I don't have a full knowledge of it. I was only saying how I see it.

Saying I don't have s clue about game mechanics is total [censored]. In fact the only thing you have to disagree with is over this issue of PB. which your getting just a little bit over excited about. Come on my comments didn't warrant such an annoyed response from you. Oh and you saying PB is the best mez protection for PvP, was that an opinion stated as fact? Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?

Ill happily meet you in the arena any time you want?

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your mindset is totally vanila PvP and your comments contradictory, first you say you are not a good pvper and then you claim to be competant. Not having knowledge of powersets means you are what I would term a less than competant pvper, simply because you dont know how to deal with a changing environment, you dont approach A in the same way as you approach B.

My comment on practiced brawler is fact backed up by facts as illustrated by my earlier example, letme try again for you.

Toggle mez protection, holds stack over the mez protection level the toggle falls, user has no mez protection fighting the hold effects and has only suppression to look forward too.

Clicky mez protection (ala PB), always on, 100% of the time, often overlapping giving further protection, the past drawback of this form of mez protection was rooting but that has now been removed. Holds stack over click mez protection the protection is still on even when held allowing the player to break free much more effectively than a toggle mez player.

The best way to think of PB is as an auto mez protection, tell me a pvper who doesnt want that.

It greatly annoys me when a person is asking about powersets and people who dont know anything about them make all sorts of erroneous comments as the OP wont know that its total bullcrap. Talk about what you know.

And yeah, I will happily fight you in arena

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I see your point about PB and thinking about it, its does seem like a very good form of mez protection. But your still in no position to state that it is the best. Its all a matter of opinion. So I am right, it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

As far as your comments on my PvPing mindset, I feel its a little unfair to say over one comment I made about PB. But you are correct, I really shouldn't have put it that way.

As far as my own PvP ability does, I said it before, I don't pretend I'm on the same level as the better players but I can PvP to a reasonable level. When I said I wasn't good I was just trying to modest. When I PvP in zones there are people I know I just cant beat, but others I have no difficulty with. The first group are good. The rest of us are just competent or rubbish.

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Stalk knows more about builds, powers, slotting, IOs than anyone else on EU servers he knows what hes talking about.

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i vote vigilance

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sacré bleu!

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Thing is why keep pvp spread out when it's spread out its pretty dead. all i have to say

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Huh

In English ?

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To have the small number of pvpers spread across multiple servers means there isnt much action anywhere. I believe is the gist lol

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If im gonna vote, it goes to Union, since we obviously have the most pvp'ers ---> less moving.

All this is IMO.

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You have the most vocal PvPers.

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lol @ that coming from xanthus

I'm not much of an expert on MMOs in general but isnt it common that people that play more have better weapons, armour, magic etc. IOed builds arent much different.

In an ideal world it would be cool if people had PvP toons on each server and there be a PvP channel which says which server/zone there is action. This guards against the huge problem of new players unable to pvp because they chose the wrong server.

Saying that an ideal world would be a common arena & zones in EU servers and a common US/EU test server

Rad/Sonic destroys elec armour or ice/nrg, fire/nrg, ice/elec, & fire/elec are good too. Just make sure you bring bfs and they arent cheating no matter what people say, rule of thumb is the more abuse you get the better you are

Congrats dude

& happy birthday Shades

As a new player you are much better off playing a bs/regen to get a feel of the game. Its a good starting toon and in team matches you can see what is going on and learn without getting ganked every 20 seconds. If after you finished the Bs/Regen you like the pvp then move onto a squishy (such as an ice/cold) which is probably more effective but much harder to play.

From reading your posts though you seem to have a good understanding and will probably be able to move onto the ice/cold pretty quickly.

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Pwnage

[GG MODE] well you cant take a power at 40 so before 40 is 38 or lower

Inventions are great and finally give some variety in the way people build pvp toons & allows more end heavy toons to be viable

<3

Pwned.

Unfortunately the only place to do team matches is test server but I found it a great place to learn arena. Being able to respec toons into PvP builds is good for casual PvPers as you dont ruin your toon on live & can play around with builds until you find a successful build or one you are confortable playing. Saying that its best if you play a non squishy to start with until you get the feel of arena matches when you can move onto others.