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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday would be good for me

Final nail in the coffin of melee toons but yeah ET was ridiculusly overpowered

Cheers guys for some great PvP tonight

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it hasn't neeeded 3 end reds in it since I5 (if it ever did)

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the toggle version did now its all about recharges

but yeah everything cynic said is true

There is a large difference between PvP and PvE but there is also a difference between solo/small team PvE and large team PvE - in terms of damage dealers. There isnt a lot of difference between solo and small team PvE builds and PvP builds and its only natural some sets suit one and not the other. For example is it an issue Martial Arts, Broadsword performs better in smaller teams? Why should PvP viability be different?

The way I see it is that most people have a mixture of toons for different situations and if people want to PvP you could easily make one thats more suited to smaller teams/pvp as opposed to trying to make a larger teams/pvp hybrid.

This is all from a damage dealing point of view, as far as buffers go they perferm well in all PvE and without comprimising much PvE performance can be very good in PvP.

One of the most enjoyable things I find in CoX is PvP emping. Its so much more fun and exciting than PvE emping, if you dont like the way the PvP game works from a damage dealing point of view buffers might be a better bet - like hard PvE but with you running like a madman.

I do think its ashame that not many people have tried proper team PvP and there only experience is the often frustrating zonal experience with lots of trashtalkers.

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Nerf Burst damage.

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How are you meant to kill something with stacked thermal/sonic shields and an empath with no burst damage?

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Buff Sustained damage

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What does that even mean? Ranged DPS is pretty effective and the reason sets like claws arent is because they're melee.

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AoE attacks buffed vs Players

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Because Fire Blasters really need a buff. . .

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Phase Shift/Hibernate being incomplete protection vs players.

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Considering phase requires 3 power choices I dont think its really an issue considering you can also get temp phase powers and now double phase has been fixed I dont see hibernate being a problem at all.

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DoT effects auto-interrupting Interruptable powers

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Is this to make DoT a useful secondary effects? When you land a few DoT attacks its very hard to aid self anyway

Maybe if in PvP an AoE power (except nukes) is used against a single target it would cost less endurance - say half or a third.

Wish i was that cool

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and animation times!

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All about animation times

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PvP isn’t balanced,

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As i said earlier what kind of changes do people want? From my point of view team mechanics remove a lot of issues - there is a counter to pretty much everything its a RPS style thing. eg. Slows countered by speed boost, repel countered by ID. In a team environment theres less of a gap between IOed builds especially toons which are accoladed. As far as blasters and stalkers there probably are issues but blasters can be countered by a few debuffers again its the team mechanic. I would like to stress again +hp accolades make a huge difference.

What kind of balance changes to people want?

You cant have 3 full sets as the chance for build up is a unique

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If you want to draw new players in, you need to make PvP easily accessible, fun from the start and keep requirements to be effective to a minimum.

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And more experienced PvPers also have a responsibility to treat new players gently, and not act in a way which might put them off from exploring PvP further.

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We're not all like psydock

Congrats

Personally I enjoy PvP and the only serious issue I have is the lack of high level team pvp - I dont particularly mind the way the zones work buts thats probably because I see them as a very casual environment. So mainly I would like changes to encourage more PvP so better rewards (I definately think the surgestion of IO rewards for certain milestones would be very beneficial as it makes little sense how much PvE time you need to put in to get a great PvP build), an offical competition in the mould of S4, and some Arena QoL improvements such as selectable maps, and more game modes such as attack/defence, CTF, & objective style ones similar to Assault in UT (I think more diverse game modes would be a much better use of dev time than base raids although I do like the Cathedral of Pain trial).

Sorry if I'm typing nonsense im kinda drunk and still thought coming on forums was good idea . . .

Congrats mate Really sorry couldnt attend was my mates last night at uni so we kinda got drunk . . .

Yeah its working as intended - the defender version actually does pretty much the same damage as the blaster version this is more due to the fact of the awesomeness of the fender version. If you want a pure damage attack probably better off with the snipe or psionic dart, the strength of will dom is in the activation time/sleep effect its recharge doesnt make it a particularly good attack for your chain, although when TK Blast is chained afterwards you deal a lot of damage in a very short space of time. Saying that, for a pure PvE blaster its probably skippable.

MA has always been good on the damage department just the way the set flowed prevented high dps

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Emp/Energy
Rad/Sonic
Dark/Dark
Force Field/Sonic
Cold/Sonic

Elec/Energy
Ice/Elec
Psy/Energy
Energy/Fire (Deleted at 33)

MA/Regen
Katana/SR
Spines/DA

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....=0#Post10991769

Buff to Martial Arts on US Test

New animation times are as follows:
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Thunder Kick 0.83
Storm Kick 0.83
Cobra Strike 1.67
Crane Kick 1.67
Crippling Axe Kick 1.60
Dragons Tail 1.50
Eagles Claw 2.53

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Compared with:
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Thunder Kick - 1.07
Storm Kick - 1
Cobra Strike - 1.93
Crane Kick - 2
Crippling Axe Kick - 2.17
Dragon's Tail - 1.67
Eagle's Claw - 3

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Significant changes which should make the set flow a lot better

Fire/Kin