Phil_

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tro stix

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*points to sig*

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lol archery

For the very highest level of PvP you definately need the right build - however this is pretty much non-existence on EU servers. Hero side these builds are Fire/Energy Blasters, Empaths, Kinetics, Sonic defenders, and Rad/Psi defenders - pretty much every US pvp team is made up of combination of these.

For zonal PvP you have a much wider scope. Its much easier to play things with mes protection i.e. resistance to holds, stuns, sleeps etc. So tanks, scrappers, brutes and stalkers. The FOTMs (flavour of the month, common builds) are Ice/Energy tanks, Energy/Electric Brutes, Spines/Regen scrappers, and Energy/* Stalkers. The reasons they are so common is that they are tough and pretty straight forward to play and is a good starting point, but dont feel you need to play these specific builds to do well. Once you gain more knowledge of the game blasters are a nice choice for pvp in general but you will be reliant on external buffs or break frees (which arent cheating no matter how much people spam broadcast to say otherwise). I love my Ice/Elec blaster but any combination of ice/* fire/* with */energy or */elec will do very well. Sonic is a different choice with some nice tools - ranged stun, -res but longer activation time of the strongest attack mean it isnt in the same league as ice or fire, but that may change eventually. Thing is zonal pvp isnt as elitist as the high level team arena so most builds become viable. It will help if you post what kind of toons you want to play for more specific advice.

High level dueling is pretty rare on EU but worth mentioning the top tier dueling builds are Ice/* Fire/* */Energy tanks, Ice/* Fire/* */Energy */Elec blasters, Rad/* Storm/* */Psi blast */Sonic blast defenders, Ice/* Fire/* */Rad Controllers.

Was good fun until i lost connection and couldnt get back on

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I thought several thousand PvPers had moved to Union?

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Was actually measured in the millions

Just roll a fire/nrg blaster if you want the best combination of pve and pvp

If im around ill join in

Can never have too much range & boost range is at 49

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Also bear in mind several of the AR powers take that tasty Force Feedback Chance for +Recharge IO for some more tasty recharge

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Yeah and with fulcrum, flamethrower and with the epic immob & ignite combo you will have a very nice toon

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Ooo Phil you like me build?

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Looks pretty solid, personally I prefer Force mastery but thats because i cant play cold I would try and put some damage/ranges in your attacks though

Elec sounds and looks much cooler though

2 run speed is nice, its like unsuppressed superspeed

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Cold mastery is there just for snow storm and hibernate :P

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Pretty much. And snow storm is really only awesome on /Energy blasters.

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So true

I might be around ice/kin corruptor send a tell to @Phil.

How ironic you come back and im just set to leave

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Force Mastery has too many weaknesses to be useful in PvP, definitely in arena

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How you work that one out?

I may have to tro' ice at people to make up for lack of christmas snow

Do0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0oM!!!

Ice/Elec has awful end til SOs, slotting end reduction TOs then DOs at 12 help, no point slotting damage slots and take aim & build up asap, or find a kin defender from lvl 12.

Ice patch pwns faces

sonic doesnt spike its about stacking the -res and the awesome ranged stun

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I'm in, and if its held over the weekend or later, the mighty, elusive Philosopher might also take part

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Well... Rooks' Claws/SR DOES pwn

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doesnt wp have quick recovery? or do stalkers swap that for hide?

word on the street is psy is smart

A nice proposal that would give the stalker a more defined role in higher level pve.