Rikti

I don't like all these ideas of buffing a snipe like crazy with the only "nerf" being a recharge increase. If an AT had a power that could one-shot an AV, but only every two hours, it still would be overpowered.

"Also use invisibility like a boss and you won't die anyways."

Can you elaborate on this? I've never PvP'd with a stalker but am thinking about slotting up one next.

If you're all going to be +3, with a high chance of t4 lore, I'm not going to be impressed or anything.

Yes

I think this one can go either way, like Soto said. Maybe it's because I'm not a very good Dark/Poison, but there are some Mind/Fires I can beat and others I can't beat.

There's a ton of builds that can be good and a ton more builds that can always tie if they can't win, so it's hardly "FotM" as much as not choosing the most absolutely dreadful combinations known to the game. Look at blasters, for example - Heater is doing well on both a Rad/Fire blaster and a Dark/Elec blaster (neither of which are FotM). Or corrupters - OneAboveAll, or whatever his ingame name is, does well enough on a Rad/Dark and an Arch/Rad. Maybe you need to be FotM to reach your absolute full potential, but a lot of builds can do well enough that they don't want to quit playing.

I hate these kinds of threads tbh. I *like* powersets that perform their best without 9 power choices.

The only good dom is /fire or /dark

Sorry, buddy, that's not even accurate

The point is that if they're going to exchange a heal over time for a regeneration boost to prevent the thing from being messed up by heal decay, the regeneration boost should be high enough to be comparable to the heal over time. The current regeneration boost is too weak. My Temporal Mending essentially heals less than Radiant Aura/Healing Aura for double the recharge (though occasionally the slow res is nice, but hardly worth double the recharge).

I've been playing with a Time/Dark Dueling build for a couple of months now, and it's good, but I'm just wondering - why are some of the powers gutted so much from their PvE numbers? Rad/Poison/Etc. doesn't suffer from this.

Temporal Mending - Does not have a heal over time effect in PvP, with no larger initial heal to compensate. The "compensation" is a slight regeneration boost, but I have crunched the numbers, and the regeneration boost is nowhere near powerful enough to rival the heal over time.

Chrono Shift - Not only does this not have a heal over time effect in PvP, it has no initial heal. Now I understand that the devs must've tried to compensate for the heal over time with a weak regeneration boost (that needs to be buffed if not changed back to heal over time), but no feasible regeneration boost can make up for the power being gutted of a 300+ pt heal (that's without my Incandescence on, which is on all the time).

Time Stop - I only just noticed that this power doesn't have the -heal component in PvP? In PvP, a -heal component would actually make this power worthwhile, but now I see it's been gutted of this, I'll just stick Glad. Nets in it and remove it from my tray.

Again, these changes don't necessarily make my Time duelist bad, but I don't understand why the nerfs to PvP numbers when Rad, Dark, Poison, etc. remain as is.

Considering every AT can have soft-capped defense that used to be unique to melee toons, I don't have a huge problem with every AT coming a little closer to blaster damage.

I wouldn't recommend BS/Regen in general (or melee ATs in general), but that build just makes it 10x worse.

Melee is a joke in PvP, reroll.

Sorry, the only patron option that is better than the free epic sets is the one that gives power boost to Corrupters and Defenders (soul)

I like efficacies because they're one of the few (maybe the only, I can't remember) IO sets that give an hp bonus with 2 slots...

When did purples come out? Before those.

So I hope you only took Burst and Full Auto?