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At that point it seemed like there were an awful lot of heroes and hardly any villains, so I switched to April Fool (50 thug/TA MM) and went back into RV. I promptly lost a 1-vs-4 fight, then joined up with the corruptor pair. A few more villains showed up before long: another MM, a brute and a dominator. Things got pretty hectic after that and I lost track of who killed who, though I'm pretty sure I got a scrapper a couple times and the rad/psy a couple times; there was an ill/emp controller giving us a ton of trouble who I targeted a few times, but she was very slippery and had Phase Shift so I don't think we ever got her. I kept going after her anyway since her healing was wrecking us. The hero side got a lot of various kills, but one that stood out to me was when a fire/nrg blaster dropped in the middle of our huddled-up team and let loose a killer Inferno that dropped practically everybody. The villain team turned the tables and did well for a bit, then the tide shifted as more heroes showed up and they got the upper hand again. At that point the ice/rad corruptor switched from PvPing to complaining on broadcast about the heroes' powersets; I twice tried to say, let's not trash talk, let's just kill them. But he pretty much insisted on throwing a temper tantrum at the ill/emp controller and sonic defender, then logged out. The other villains hadn't participated in this rant, but seemed to be demoralized by this, and so the villains gradually trickled out of RV. I continued the fight for awhile, but after getting Inferno'd once (I still have no idea how to not die to that) and losing a 1-vs-4 fight, I threw in the towel too.
After that, some people conceived the idea to have a melee-only FFA in the arena. This sounded pretty silly, but I decided, what the heck. I started off playing Olivia Q (50 MA/SR scrapper); her melee DEF is at the soft cap from IOs, but I didn't expect to do real well since focused accuracy hurts SR really badly. Also MA isn't so hot at spike damage; I loaded my inspiration tray with reds hoping that would help. No one brought a stalker thankfully (I guess they weren't considered melee) but there were some spines scrappers (who I suppose technically qualify as melee).
The first two matches were on Siege's factory which additionally was bad for Olivia since she doesn't have vertical movement (well, aside from Combat Jumping). Nevertheless it was pretty fun; since everyone was melee, people usually hung out at the ground level exchanging wild swings at each other. The first game I got killed once and didn't kill anyone; the two "winners" each had 1 kill each and everyone else had 0. The second game I got one kill and didn't die, but the winner had 3 kills. I don't think anyone ever truly got a "clean" kill where they clearly did all the damage; it was more like a piranha swarm where once someone got slightly wounded, everyone would turn on them and pound away hoping to steal the kill.
The third game, I switched to Thunder Girl (42 will/nrg tanker) hoping that energy melee's spike damage would give me a better chance. I was worried that willpower might be a weak defense here, but it was actually plenty good since the other players had to stand in melee range to hit me, activating my regen powers; Rise to the Challenge was especially good in the tight furballs of melee people swinging at each other. I think eventually people stopped attacking me, since the squishier scrappers were more attractive targets. My energy attacks did pretty good damage but unfortunately I was never able to land two attacks in a row; Thunder Girl's travel power is hover/fly, which is simply awful in arena. So plenty of times I'd see Energy Transfer take a big chunk out of someone's life, then I'd crawl after them at suppressed fly speed while some scrapper jumped up and scored the kill shot. Ended up with 0 deaths and 0 kills; the winner had 3 kills. It was all very silly, but pretty fun anyhow.
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first off, the ill/emp was a he
second, damn you trick arrow.
also, the melee fights were tons of fun. almost as fun as laughing at the ice/rad corr who thinks emping in pvp isn't playing.
thanks for joining us PW.
