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i know of a couple of people that could take it down on justice. and there are some on test at the right times.

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Cool, i'm always down for a good duel. What are their globals, or in game name for their toon they use to duel. I was told their was a really good robot/traps MM that could beat me, that I had no problem defeating. I've fought various cold, therm corr, ill/storm troller, ice dom, fire/ss brutes, dm/sr, BR/sr scrappers.

Not sure how you KNOW they could take it down. I don't think its quite as simple as 1+1=2. I'm not your typical bodyguard 24/7 MM.

in arena 1v1. Running a ninja/dark MM and after my last respec the only problems I have had in arena are Phaseshifter/Hibernators. Hell, even in zones I can stand my own 1v2. 3v1 usually takes me down though. I would like to expand my 1v1 skills past Justice though. Does anyone duel on Test anymore? Or should I just transfer him to Freedom? I need some new comp.

lol farming in zone....nooooobs.

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Welcome back, Shade!

Who was DonkeyBot?

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I believe that was MWghost. He was from another server. Freedom i believe.

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What's the theme for this weekend?

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You can only use a Bot to fight with.

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MM
ninja/dark -hellYES



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excellent.

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Oh and is phase shift becoming a must have for pvp? I always thought it was a bit cheap to PS to save your hide.

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I13 took most skill out of the game. Those of us who could evade with skill can't do it anymore. Gotta phase or die.

In regards to your toons, none really fit the current teams. There is currently 1 viable lineup that's been proven to work. Sure, there's talk about other lineups, but that's all it is...talk. Until it actually is proven to be viable, it's not.

And the lineup is emps, stalkers, and 1 person for KB or a mind troller/dom. So perhaps your mind/rad could make it...or your emp/psi.

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lol

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whats funny?

these are my 50s for possible pvp
been back for about 2 months, but I was away for awhile, so I have no idea what could be good vs what I thought use to be really good. Opinions/Insights?

trollers
fire/rad
mind/rad
earth/sonic
grav/rad

blasters
ice/elec blaster
elec/elec

tanks
ice/nrg
fire/fire
stone/stone

scrappers
spine/regen
ma/sr
br/inv

def
emp/psi

MM
ninja/dark (currently spec'd for pvp including pvp enhancements, miracles/numinas, purples, etc, also my favorite dueler)

dom
fire/thorn

Oh and is phase shift becoming a must have for pvp? I always thought it was a bit cheap to PS to save your hide.

dang, i have to work.

Im back, as with Shade. We are starting a MM team on virtue. You should GomakeaMMBot.

Edit...also anyone that knows me please feel free to add me on global. I think most of my globals are old and expired names. I never know who's on nowadays.

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If I get 3 points of KB protection from 2 different IO bonuses, do I then get 6 total?

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HOLY CRAP! PositronBot!

Don't know if you remember that I started off as a Dark Mystic, a DM/Regen scrapper on Justice. You were the man to fight in a duel. I think the closest I ever got was like 8-5 once in a match.

Actually, a little history no one cares about. I was originally going to join the Bots as my PvP SG, but I didn't want to reroll a new character since you had to have ____Bot as your name.

It was then that I went to test server to find a new SG and Joined LD a few days later. I ended up rerolling a Sonic/EM blaster (Triox) since they just came out with sonic and I thought the -res from sonic teamed with Energy would be so strong in PvP. Too bad Sonic Blast sucked and I never really got to play him in a real match (Rerolled again to ill/emp and finally saw some game time).

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hell ya I remember you! We tied a few times DM! Good to see ya!


Few more screenies I found while digging, not sure which servers these are from though

http://img86.imageshack.us/my.php?image=statsck6.jpg
http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stats2lm1.jpg
http://img365.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stats3dh8.jpg
http://img375.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stats4vs9.jpg

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Then Impy and I fought the Bots. Christ, what a match. This was before any of you even thought of builds beyond 1v1. There were still people practicing against AVs (KillerShadow, I'm looking at you). My Energy/Ice/Fly [censored] flew as fast as I knew how to, yet I couldn't make up for the disparity between SS and Fly. The Bots won the 2v2 Blaster match and, honestly, I've never been so proud to have lost a match since. We were damn well out-played.


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Steel Canyon map?

2 Energy/? Blasters against Positronbot (Elec/Elec) and Polarbot (Ice/Em)?

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Office map.

PosiBot - Elec/Energy (right? Had SS and mostly duked it out with Impadivus)
PolarBot - Ice/Energy (for sure had SS but was dying far more than Posi)

Impadivus - Energy/Energy (Fly and SS but still, EM)
Alloric - Energy/ICE (somehow I almost kept up because of multiple holds shutting down the double-team on Impy, I got some kills but lacked the heavy-hitters)

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elec/elec

Some fun matches I had...

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6...sjaggedyw1.jpg
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/2...jaggedlek0.jpg
http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?i...enateamux8.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9...nateam1wb7.jpg
http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?i...nateam2uq8.jpg
http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?i...grumblemi8.jpg
http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?i...lawsftwrs5.jpg
http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?i...snipefuoh0.jpg
http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?i...evirtuetq3.jpg
http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?i...ammatchyd9.jpg
http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vsjpbc3.jpg

And I've got about 30 more screenies of random people that wanted to go up against PositronBot

I still remember 6 slotting swift and sprint with travel HOs, everyone thought I was crazy until I was running around faster than SS and unsupressed

If you need any advice on running a ladder, this site is a great place to start. http://www.teamwarfare.com/ They've been around for years and are very organized.

I like the laser beam eyes. :S I think they put that in a lot of videos to attract players to the game, since I don't see many people using laser beam eyes as their attack of choice when fighting rikti.

Supergroup: Bots
Faction: Heroes
Server: Justice
Size: Very small..about 5-8 serious players right now.
Recruiting: Meh...sure.
Description: We are the Bots...We were a very well known tribe for the game Tribes2 and migrated over to CoH when it came out. We've been around since day 1 of CoH and have been actively pvp'n since the arena first hit test.
Contacts: @PositronBot or @ShadeBot

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I'm all for it, it would'nt really diminish an Ice/EM's ability, just make it harder to play. People seem to forget the reason that /EM is so good is conserver power and boost range, not bone smasher and total focus.

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People forget? No, it's just not true. Bonesmasher is the premier power from the Energy Manipulation set for PvP. Boost range is completely optional. A strong PvP build doesn't rely on range, because blasters don't do enough damage at range to kill anyone before they die. They survive on burst damage, so in PvP, they have to make heavy use of their secondary sets to be very strong. I'm sure that ranged blasters *can* be effective against certain enemies, but the universally dangerous blaster relies on high burst damage and toggle dropping.

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lol, good one. But ice blasts have higher DPS than energy melee. Fighting a decent team with good support, you won't kill someone in two shots like you will in pvp zones. The DPS is what matters. Now I'll grant you that the melee attacks are good at taking down tanks, but anything else can be taken down quicker with Ice Blasts because you can just sit in one spot and spam attacks.

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cept the regin

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Scrappers out damage blasters in melee. Blasters AT mod is 1, while scrappers is 1.125. Scrappers also get unresistable criticals of 2x damage 5% of the time, which can be compared to Blasters 33% unresistable damage.

Energy Melee's Stuns coupled with toggle dropping pretty much make the damage a secondary effect. While the blasters (who have little or no mez protections) are used to functioning with break frees active, most scrappers are not, as they rely on their inherent protection powers to keep them safe.

In other words, despite your toggle powers protections, pretend you don't have them and prepare based on that -- because those protections will be knocked down at some point.

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Straight damage numbers mean absolutely nothing in pvp. You have to take into account burst damage, activation time, end cost, resistances, recharge time, etc.

Let's put it this way. Put a scrapper with no toggles against an /em blaster with no toggles. Have them fight each other with only melee attacks. Who do you think will win?

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What about put a scrapper against an /em blaster without inspirations and who do you think will win? Let's say I pick a MA/Regen scrapper with resilience.

Your situation is just as invalid as mine because it depends on too many variables and unrealistic preconditions. ::shrugs::

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Assuming neither get's mez'd. Just straight up damage.

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If you use the most powerful single target melee'ers of each class, /em and BS, and neither scrapper or blaster has any toggles the BS would win. The only way most blasters can stand toe to toe with scrappers is because of temp inv and FoN and acro and other shields...

i'll give you a Bot to sacrifice.

sweetness!!! glad i used my free respec already based on how i herd. Thanks for the heads up states... YOU ROCK!!!!..

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Surprise! Badges and Accolades aren't mandatory.

[/ QUOTE ]Buying enchantments, training, doing missions is not mandatory either by that logic...

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Or it's completely different. It is mandatory to train and buy in order to lvl through this game, which I believe is the point of the game. To become the most powerful superhero you can be. It is NOT mandatory to have some extra exploration badges, badges showing that you killed a certain number of bad guys, or any of the helpful (but not necessary) accolades.

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I wonder if ol' Emmert will actually be in front of the computer or if Statesman will just be an NPC. WOW that would be cool to open unlimited bottles of kick butt on the lead designer of CoH.


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You'll have your chance - I'll be playing the one and only Statesman!

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OMG!! PL Me!!!!1!11

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I never, never, never said that there would be "no PvP." Never

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Yea sure states - you seem to say a lot of things you "never" said.

After recent BS we know where you really stand in your dealings with you customers/players. No need to try and save face anymore.

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You know, i don't like jack just as the next guy doesn't But please, make reference to where he said "no pvp". As far as I can remember (open beta) CoV has always been scheduled for release. I believe it was suppose to be around july initially but it has obviously been pushed back to oct. The point is, CoV has always meant PvP. So why on earth would jack or any dev for that matter say "no pvp" when CoV (Hero fighting Villain, ) was always on the drawing table?? I mean, if we wanna play this "game", jack also promised me statues among statues of PositronBot and also promised he would come over and wash my car every weekend. I have yet to see him ONCE!!! Gosh, what BS, i think i'm going to cancel my account.

sounds like defiance. which still doesn't do anything for blasters.