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I don't know smeg my fire/ss is borderline increadible in rv, i think it depends on slotting/money, double rage FE puts you around 260+ damage buff and launching fozzlize from range is devastating to most vills and the rock and my fire is hard as hell to kill. The only weakness the build has imo is end drain moves destroy me, but other than that it's great. Also every dom is mind/fire, and their is alot of fire base corrs so your other shield rarely come into play. But even still properly slotted it's still good.

Also like you say invul is super tight, and no one really wants to run around and skip things like travel powers, and basically run around rv like chido hiding until unstoppable is up. And forced to take aidself, the only thing about fire is it WILL cost you. Most notably KB io's and you still will need acro because levetate is crazy strong in rv, my first build had like 35kb protection and some doms still threw me down. The new build i have that includes the new pvp resist set has about 47kb protection. But it's extremely expensive to say the least, also those 3 hp accolades are a must.

But anyway, that's just my two cents every invul i see is waiting on unstop, and out of action alot.

lol it's funny you said that, this tank in rv the other day was somehow hitting hard like infernal, i don't know was it the drink i had or was he really knocking vills across the screen dead like that. He was ??/axe and during spikes he would always get the kill shot and blast them across the screen.

But city of nerfs is how it is now, i was devastated when em lost it's flow, than i lost all my defense toons. So nothing really phases me anymore, maybe he will make us all use brawl and be done with it, he'd probably nerf brawl before to long.

Can't cut mez resist off either, just those two last things and arena will be lovely again.

You don't run phase or hiber? Or did i miss read? if not that's what's up, what is your corrs name? maybe we can duel one day so i can see you in action. I don't think i have fought a cor or dom that didn't have phase or hiber or both. So your style must be different indeed and no holds? that's definately out of the box.

But as far as that combo imo, elec/ dark i havent seen a viable one in action, and i can't really picture it working in this new pvp. DR and the other things makes it so nothing works like it should, elec/ had it's problems before i13, and that was before every soft target could pump up to 48% resist to all or better. I still don't see why castle did that but meh, elec has like one or two damaging attacks the first two iirc, so that means you have to try and fight using attrittion. With elec only id only bring 5 or so blues to that fight, SC is a pbaoe so merely staying mobile makes that hard to pull off i just don't see it. Maybe i'm missing something though? meh.

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It's no box to think outside of, that's what the crying to castle for the past three issues have been about. PvP is quite clear, you build for damage and hp, and different ways to sustain more damage and rebuild hp. It's now a button mash fest, with alot of AE builds in the fold. That's what you have being fighting, by reading that other post you wrote, think outside the box? According to your other post some noobs did just that, came to fight your team with ice/tankers and was wrecked, so you got to make your mind up. No one uses that set anymore anyway, defense is so bad right now it's a shame, even stalkers solo icer's these days. So what eles? Tankers have EM--Which was slowed to the point it won't be effective until scrapper get it. Ax/Mace? Come on, Stone melee? Not enough sustained damage to kill anyone, DM? Sigh the list goes on.

I'm adament about this topic, because castle herded us into this, i hope by mistake but it is what it is. a well built squishie even under DR still has upward or 48% or better resist to all, so basically deflect half of all incoming damage. So the only way your going to kill one is to hit them with the most absurd thing you can, fully knowing you have to work twice as hard to kill him/her. Also most run pff/aid or hiber so you have to work even harder to down one, and heaven forbid they just phase and run off than you wont kill them at all. Alot of them i fight will literally kite all the way back to their base and run inside the tunnel for cool downs. So CHAMONE!!! CHAMONE!!


Also it's not the car it's the driver so..

Only problem their mac is like i posted a while back, it's just to many fire/ss brutes running around in sirens. I remember one night it was 10 brutes on and 9 was ss/fire, so if he is dueling he won't win that fight unless he has a crit hax. So for sirens id go BB/reg or lol fire/ss tank can't beat them join them lol.

I feel your pain on the spines though, my first 50 was a spine/reg accoladed, fully loaded and i remember when i13 beta dropped. That first day spines was godly hitting like a the old fire/em's actually waaaay better. Iirc impale was like 2k damage at range, so i knew when they fixed that bug, spines would be truely gimp. I went squishie for a while after i13 i went to rupters only for a long time.

He just loves his new i13-15 dumbed down pvp is all, can't blame him you can now just mash buttons, don't need any strategy, monkey pvp at it's finest. True story, i found this program that lets you play cox with a xbox360 or ps3 controller called switch blade. You map the buttons with in the program so like you can make the space bar the X button or tab square so on and so forth. And i now pvp laying down in bed with the lights off, and i made a toon on a sat, and by sun night i had 400 pvp rep, 100% ps3 controller, 100% on my bed while also watching tv and other things. True story, i pvp now while watching espn or nfl network, to watch my fantasy team :P.

I share this just to show how dumbed down things are now, where i used to very much be sitting up concentrating, and did a lot more cursing at the screen (which ironicaly is good) he is the devs champion for i13-15 and on another thread where he defends this mess, he and silit are at war about the old arena days verry funny stuff. But he's intitled to his oppinion, albeit minority oppinion, but he's free to try.

If you try replecating a Thuron generator, i believe the additional gravametric pressure created by initializing the feild, should provide a stable gravaton pulse. Thus creating any additional energy the GEPP might need to offset, any previous miscalibration. Also the couplings themselves, might need to be replaced, because if one fails, the GEPP itself might destabilize and lose it's containment feild. Lastly scan for E-Band emmissions, that may not have been isolated during the last residual scan.

As i stated, Built Right.. Last fire/fire brute i fought on my wp/ss tank i literaly stood flat footed in his wake while he spammed the floor on fire, and at that time i didn't even have aidself yet because i didn't want to give up both travel powers. First and formost your going to be held after every KO blow just about save a few times , and possibly knocked up depending on investment. So all the tank had to do is step back and use aidself after ko blow. Also on a brute, unless you gimp yourself you can't even cut rttc off. And you just said you have a pve tank, so that says the level of warrrior you killed in itself, i'd delete a toon for less, losing to a pve built toon in a fight like that lol. But anyway i digress, after reading this thread, i turned right around and let it happen to me in the arena, i fought this dom and we we're a draw, the timer ran out and poof got me. And i read this way before we fought i'm so mad i forgot lol.

Edit: i wasn't talking a fight club style fight sorry, i don't know who would win that, i just know you won't get past aidself and SOW with a tanker fire melee, unless the combatant falls asleep at the wheel.

First thing comes to mind for me is the average IQ level was alot higher, meaning you really had to use some type of strategy to beat most peeps. Now.. i'll use just now for instance as an example of what i mean, i was in rv on my tanker calling targets out. We were accosting this dom, when he hibernated, so i sometimes like puting quiksand and burn down, right about the time their are about to bust out to hinder an escape. So this stalker, who was obviously a AE stalker(judging by his noobish play all night) ran over and tried to AS me because i was standing still. But the logic in that escaped me, i was a full hp tank, with burn, and quick sand down and a crowd of my teammates around me, all huddling the dom.

Why AS me? why not AS the defenders? Or the blasters? or the trollers, or at the very least test your might on the scraps, or how about realizing youve been discovered and also realize burn, and quick sand is down so AS won't work, i just kept seeing him stoop over trying. But a solo stalker is of no concern to most anyway, let alone a tank. So next i noticed he fell into the same pattern i noticed all night, all the stalkers i encountered had brain lock when AS failed for what ever reason. I'd see them,.. put burn, or quick sand down and they would just stand their looking dumb, or just run away all together. No plan B, no tactics, and most of all not knowing their enemy. Incase you we're wondering about the stalker i mentioned, i just turned and killed him while he sat their frozen. Almost like it is mandatory to use AS to get kills.

But regarding the old pvp, it wasn't perfect but it made sence, like take holds for instance, you had an amount of protection, and the amount was linear depending on your class, your buffs, Breakfree usage, and if someone achieved higher than your protection you were held. Made sense, now it could have used a bit of tweaking for pvp, maybe give Breakfree's a longer duration, and cut down on how many applications of hold protection a single buffer could apply to one target. Now a stalker can hold a WP tank while he's running SoW, and keep dropping his rttc, effectively keeping his regen limited at best, that's silly, and takes away the roles of doms and trollers.

Speaking of roles, most buffer classes on teams these days, are the main attackers, that's nonsense imo, the hardest kill i had all day was this pain corr, between the heals, and the passive, and active resist that squishies get they are by far Tank Mages now.

Pvp had it's flaws, but i think with the help of that pvp wish list, everyone helped build, we would have been in a far better place than we are now. I13 was a bust and we said this would happen in beta, but we didn't get any responses to our imput, and now the devs are seeing we we're all right.

I just hope, they use GR to fix this, and at the very least give us a pre i13 zone, or i fear ppl will run to CO just to prove a point. In my three years of play, this was the first 2x xp weekend freedom wasn't locked. I remeber in the old days leaving my toon on and fearing logging off, because i knew i wouldnt get back in. But not this weakend, so i'm like is it the server stability? or did our number dwindle extreemly?

Actually, it's all on the user this guy from triumph Dawun used to run a pb in i12 and he was unkillible solo. Also he had enough offense to kill most, he stayed chasing vills, he took a underpowered toon and made it viable. This was always the case, most noobs couldn't grasp, you could really take anything save WS's (i have never seen one viable) and guess what? They still aren't, but buffers buffed and were useful, debuffs actually counted, take today for instance.

I got on my tank, and kited around picking of soft targets, all the while i had slows and other debuffs on me, ran through caltrops, np and in this new pvp the only debuff that matters is end drain. And since the other debuffs are such a joke, it makes end drain seem op'd in comparison. Another instance i got tp'd, into a group of 3 MM's, one traps, one poison, and a storm and i made it out alive np, all the while poison debuffed, caltroped and what ever eles have you including slows. That is plain stupid, and broken, it went from one extreem to the next. I remember slows being feared and very effective, every toon shouldnt be effective against every toon, it was better as a rock paper sissors type of fight.

My tank probably would do bad versus a dom, but that blaster on my team could fight a dom well, but that fort could fight a blaster well, a scrapper could fight that fort and so on and so forth. It wasnt perfect, but it made sense, buffers played a large role in any teams success, now i can't remember the last time i had a support toon on my pvp team. And if you see them, their built for damage and solo play. Pvp is not in a better place than before, it is only different, and worst off in alot of aspects.