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Willpower has complete mez protection, +perception, perma +hp, uninteruptable self heal which for me anyway is all I really want on a stalker . . maybe "by a long way" wasnt a smart thing to say

Willpower is best by a long way

For team and arena team a cominbation of the following would be my pick:
<ul type="square">[*]Thermal Corruptors - Bread and butter villain support great shields, devastating debuffs, some slow resistance, grantable mez protection, heals, forge. Best with sonic/* for epic res debuffs, ice/*, fire/* and rad/* can be quiety effective.[*]Kinetic Corruptors - Speed boost and IR for nice unsuppressed movement, slows, end drain, siphon power and fulcrum shift for great damage. With acrobatic changes even more important with ID. Best with Ice primary as with stacked siphon speed you can get amazing DPS, fire/* can also work but needs second kin otherwise you will never have any of the blue stuff. Sonic/* can also be very nice but one of the great things about /kin corruptors is the way you can really chain together short activating attacks and sonic unfortunately has long animation.[*]Sonic Corruptors - Cage and grantable perception and fast recharging res debuff, as well as shields and mez protection. Pair with sonic/*, ice/*, fire/*, or rad/* (-def is nice when trying to cage forted blasters. Also cage is probably the best counter for psy blasters for corruptor heavy teams.[*]Cold Corruptors - Frostwork, amazing for toons without IOs/Accolades, some nice defence shields but kinda need to be stacked to do much good, amazing slows, resistance debuffs and with webnade a great target caller. Personally I think cold is a nice toon to have but rather have thermals and kins first. Sonic/* and Ice.* the best for obvious synergy (more -res and slows respectively).[*]Dominators - when perma-doms are buffed they become the villain equivalent of blasters but without support they only really shine in duels. Ice/*, Mind/*, */Fire, */Ice are probably the pick with */Elec being a nice melee dom for i12.[*]Brutes - EM/* brutes are a decent all round pvp toon 32+ with taunt can be a very nice foil for a corruptor heavy team. Especially when a target has heavy -resistance a buffed em/fire uses ET with BU and FE they certainly feel it. With psy blasters and fury buff they become more important - ss/wp for example would be a very nice taunt bot.[/list]Those are my personal feeling with regards to higher level villain team mechanics, Storm Corruptors may be added to the list too with i12.

For duels cold corruptors, and perma doms are probably the pick, not that a lot of dueling happens.

If all grouped together for an AoE confuse . . then they are close enough to buff each other and given most decent teams will have 2 of sonic/emp/thermal wouldnt make a lot of difference . . .

Single target confuse I guess would be very annoying but mass confusion wont be of any use against a decent team

So much love &lt;3

What kind of mag/duration can confuse get?

Looks pretty nice although I would personally take subdue ahead of psi tornado, as on anything other than kin/ the damage is kinda lacking. Also it gives you another ST attack which chains well with the other attacks. The immob is also useful especially for things like Katie. The third slot in stamina for 1.5% rec is less than you would get from another standard end mod IO so save yourself some inf. Finally I wouldnt bother with dervishes in wail as the bonus' arent great and are very expensive.

For PvE im assuming?

I should be there hopefully be able to try out my respeced empath

I've been leveling a Psy/Energy blaster. Got it to SO levels and the combination of single target damage and mezzes has made it a very safe blaster to level. I found psy tornado very underwhelming but apart from that the rest of the set is very nice. Even the long rooting mental blast works quite well as the damage is good and comes at the start of the animation. Definately gonna level one for pvp

welcome back man

Yeah I moved my villains from Defiant to Union which is a shame but I get a lot more use out of them this way

Ice/Kinetics ftw

Yeah was amazing fun Never had 8 man villain team on Union before was mental

Well it is the scrapper forum . . .

but I always had more fun with katana than broadsword

Although a fire/fire would be very nice with support I dont think you could solo farm unless you did the perma veng - veng bot method. I think the best bet is probably a /mental with perma drain psyche, I dont see how else you could be survivable enough to solo farm.

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Any info if this is just for the blasters or also defenders as well?(would be nice to have aim for the defenders version :/)

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Just blasters, defender version being kept the same

Assault is pretty much a waste of a power on a kin, combined with tactics however it is very nice especially with all the nemesis you will fight, and i think tactics will saved you more times than a third hold. I'm surprised you havent got the epic shield and thats of more use you you as a kinetic than soul drain. Havent had any experience of the epic pets but I would be tempted to spec it for aim. I'm not sure how much I can say though if you've pretty much finished IOing it anyway.

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04-22-2008 14:59:00 theRegulator has defeated Death Reborn

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Power bolt ftw

Cheers everyone for a great night of PvP havent had that much fun in ages Maybe theres life in evo yet . .

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I wish it wasnt up to us to save PvP if only the dev's/support staff did something

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You not realise this is what i have been doing since PvP began....

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By we I meant us players, your counted in that lol. I know knowone else has done more than you

I wish it wasnt up to us to save PvP if only the dev's/support staff did something

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The rules are there.1 of each AT,no epic AT's (as if..),and i am guessing mixed pentad is ok since will give more variation to tactical choices.

Tbh the point of a 5vs5 or 4vs4 league is SG teaming.So i aint participating in such a thing if Vindicate has to split up.Whoever wants to pvp will put some effort in this just like we will,i dont see the slightest reason to split up Vindicate.

And tbh if this is 4vs4 we might field 2 teams.

PS: LINK FRIGGIN PVP ZONES BETWEEN EU AND US

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Much as I would love to have Vindicate teams I would much rather have some structured fights. ie some pre planning of the team make up &amp; a chance to go through strategies beforehand, rather than just random fights with what ever toons people bring where its hard to get tactics going.

I would personally, I know its not my decision but just thinking out loud, like to see the attendance on monday nights into 2-4 teams depending on turnout (maybe have people wanting to play thermals, emps could be captains and chosing that way). Then people can sort out their own team make up. This would be more benefical than the occasionally random and chaotic Monday night experience. Players would benefit from learning about spiking, target calling, attacking debuffed targets, buffing cycles as well as other PvP skills and generally being more tactically aware. By keeping the teams the same people there will be more supportive &amp; more willing to offer advise as it will benefit them next match, and hopefully raising the overall standard of PvP.

But this is just my opinion I just want some high quality team pvp

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That's wrong. Psionic Lance is swaped with TK Thrust, and Psychic Scream is replaced with Aim.

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Yeah its this:
Psionic Dart
Mental Blast
Telekinetic Blast
Aim
Will Domination
Psionic Lance
Psychic Tornado
Scramble Thoughts
Psychic Wail