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So I guess you don't take Hasten or Combat Jumping to make your builds better, but rather you just screw around with those other slots and load up on Presence pool powers? "External" powers are kind of important for one thing, and, for another, having extra power slots to throw set bonuses at can be pretty damn powerful for most characters. Two of the characters I'm using a lot these days are a Cold/Dark and a Dark/Poison - I've probably spent more on the Cold/Dark so far, and yet the Dark/Poison probably has better health and recharge thus far.

Ok bro sorry I haven't kept up with this game like you have. I was under the impression that storms weren't nearly as effective as they once were and so were kins. Sorry if I was wrong, I haven't exactly played a million hours since i13. I would experiment with **** myself and form my own opinions, but it's kinda hard to win with anything when you're broke and have no means of farming PvP IOs (which seems to be the standard for anyone who has money - again, tell me in a non-dickish way if I'm wrong).

Edit: I guess I should stop posting here, since apparently anyone who quit the game for a lengthy period of time isn't allowed to talk lest they be wrong. God forbid you be like Katalyst or whoever else that is actually helpful with their posts without being an *******. I quit this game over 3 years ago and came back and moved a couple of characters to Freedom about a month ago. I feel I've been pretty humble whenever I lose a duel (which happens most of the time these days), yet whenever I ask a dumb question or make an incorrect comment you and the gang try to drive me away from this game again because people that don't know every detail of i13, i14, i15, etc. etc. are a waste of space or something. ****.

Well I was unaware that we were discussing PvE only, but Poison has plenty of advantages in PvE as well; only, it won't excel in what you call PvE, because apparently PvE is all about +4x8 mobs or w/e. Archvillains and such are not PvE, and apparently its not an advantage that you only really need 3 powers in Poison (2 if it ever comes out for defenders), making much more room for other useful powers.

Except, unlike the intelligent posts in this thread, you suggested we pretty much make the set twice as powerful rather than add slight tweaks.

Alright bro, meet my dark/poison in the arena with any dark miasma toon you have; I expect to lose pretty badly after all the wisdom you've just shared.

Poison has a lot of advantages Dark doesn't have, just like Dark has a lot of advantages Poison doesn't have. When you lrn2ply you might see what I mean.

Seriously, help me understand this because I'm fairly noobish at PvP these days; what are the advantages of being a tank with Elude when you can be a scrapper with Elude? Aren't both equally hard to hit?

PS: BattleWraith ur pretty obsessed with me bro, what gives? <3

I'm playing on a macbook, genius. Regardless of how powerful it is, it simply doesn't load 2 instances of CoH; you click the CoH app again and it just returns you to your first instance. And I've tried alternatives to AFK farming, thank you; they would maybe fund one or two characters a year if I wanted to fully PvP IO them.

And what about us PvP'rs who can't AFK farm? Because of AFK farming, those that do it having a huge advantage over those that don't from the start; whether it helps the market or not, it still doesn't change the fact that AFK farming is the only viable way to afford all this crap anyway. I would rather AFK farming be nerfed and no one be able to afford this stuff than have the imbalance right now that gimps me from the start. I'm dueling regularly on Freedom without PvP IOs right now, and let me tell you, it's a pain in the ***.