Sbane12

I really laugh when I see posts like this.
KM/Regen Scrap #6588223

The best epic to choose would be GetOffTheBandwagon Mastery.
There are other choices out there, and playing something even remotely challenging helps you not only learn real tactics and strategies, but increase your skill as well.

1. lower npcs in RV by 75 percent

2. remove heavies from effecting players

3. cause an MMs pets to instantly tp with the MM

after being hit by tp foe, but only in off mode


4. reduce range on all psi blast powers to 40 feet
except mental blast and will dom, but make increase
will doms cd to 120 seconds base

5. change functionality of spirit shark in mako pool to
a sniper attack, with interuptable cast time etc, and bring
moonbeam up to equal base damage as shark

6. increase damage on dark blast powers

7. change kinetics tier 1 heal and drain power
(i forget name), to heal AOE around the caster and not
the target

8. increase cast time on fire blast powers, and lower damage accordingly, so the dpa will remain the sam1

9. increase damage on DP powers quite a bit, to make them on par
and viable with such ani times,

10. increase resist and def soft cap for defenders, and corrs, before being effected extreme DR

11. reduce damage on blaster villain mako KOB, and obviously
KMs CS

Well it does talk about becoming an "incarnate" and unlocking new "powers", so if these "powers" are viable and useable in PVP. I can guarentee you will find a few that further unbalance it...

Knowing their reputation, they will probably push out a couple powers that are extremely OP (Like a ranged CS with -Percep and a Mag 4 stun *lol* or something, just exaggerating or am I?) and the rest will be gimp..

Than a couple months later the powers that were OP will be nerfed into oblivion and the gimp powers will not be buffed in any way..

Another thing I would fear is that whole fact if they have any "powers" that are viable, that this looks like it requires "PVE" to achieve all of this, and maybe even "difficult". Mixing PVP and PVE ends up bad news 99.999% of the time (*cough* RV mobs), and maybe you will have the 5-20 out of 100 players that actually get these good powers and that may even cause a unsubscribe for quite a few.

I thought Freedom, had the highest Zone PVPer population out of all the servers?!?. I am not talking about just fightclub groups in the zones, or arena pvpers, but zone.

Thanks, I am aware of the recharge times, however just in PVP. With teamwork and most targets running, phasing, or hibering; you usually only get a full attack chain off before it is dead or gone, and Any gaps still leave D-Miasma powers to fill that void. I love the amount of holds even with the I13 junk.

My Dark/Dark Defender did not do much damage but without being double ASed, or having 3-5 stalkers noobshark spam, it has some sweet survivability. I have even dominated quite a few blasters with it, so I will notice a damage upgrade with the Ice Corr, and still keep the survivability hopefully, If not gain some since I am not going to be going entirely for Defense.

So, I have a Dark/Dark Defender, that I use in RV. I find it a lot of fun, great survivability compared to any of my other defs. Damage could be a little better, but what can you expect with a def, and good teamwork.

Now I have a couple Corrs as well I use in RV, like my Rad/Pain and my Elec/Kin. I find the Elec Kin to be pretty useless. Even with maxxed out for End drain and PB, The toon can usually be killed before I drain out someone, even with the hold.
I also find my Dark/Dark defender to be more survivable than my Rad/Pain Corr, even with my dark dark not being entirely built for PVP ( def based Defender LOL)...

I am at work right now, and just looking to see if anyone has any suggestions for a Ice/Dark Corr. Obviously gonna play different than my Dark/Dark Defender, but I think it will still keep key values.

Going to try and mainly go for
Max HP
Recharge
Heal

Going for high Acc set bonuses,
and Running with Assault.
Going to cap resists as much as possible too.

Stuck on wether or not going for Mako or Widow PPP..
I absolutely hate hiber and people who use it, but it may be required... at the same time there is PB....


Thanks for the suggestions ahead of time.

Let me start off by saying; Yes, I know the devs will probably not even glance at this, but it does not hurt.

Ever since the issue of damnation, which we all know is the root of almost all problems in PVP, we also have to look to more forward solutions that do not involve a complete revert which I'm pretty sure the devs will not do.
I believe if we start small and work forward, things will be at least be brighter and a more agreeable future on the horizon.

Here is a list of problems and complete imbalances I have with the current state of PVP, more specifically: Zone PVP. I will also include some explanations behind these observations, and follow up with suggestions. Please feel free to add in your own issues and possible solutions.

To get the full picture of my suggestions it will require you to read all of this massive (TLR)...haha
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Travel Suppression:
With all of the holds, slows, stuns and immobs. This is unnecessary, especially for powers that double dip currently (heals). This should also not effect regen. Regen is powerful, yes, however you don't see TS having a negative damage bonus either to balance it out...

Instead of completely removing this debuff all-together, just have the duration be tied to the cast time of whatever power was used to cause the TS. So someone who casts a heal that has a 1.3s cast time, will only be TSed for the 1.3s it takes to cast the ability. At the same time if someone is HIT by a sniper attack or AS that takes 3 seconds to cast, both the caster and receiver will be TSed for 3 seconds.

I would also say remove the regen penalty completely, and reduce the actual slow caused by TS by 20%.



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======================Problem #2=======================

Heal Decay:
Now, I can perfectly understand why this was required. Who wants to be on a side with less numbers, fighting a side that is got a bunch of healers. I'm sure a lot of us have been there back in the day.

I do however think they went completely overboard on the amount of resist gained per heal. I see TWO possible solutions to this problem, I will let you be the judge if any of them are good.

First, I would say have it work both ways. What I mean by this is; by example, have the Heal resist on heal decay start at negative. So the first heal case on you is 50% greater than normal. Than the second would be for your normal enhanced amount. Than have the third be 20% less, the fourth be 50% less. So even further heals used would do a minimum of 50% of their normal healing. I would than go even further to add a heal resist debuff (and/or buff) to some non healing powers that could off set the heal resist a bit in a fight, requiring more teamwork. EX: Dark Blast does -to hit and adds +5% to heal resist, or Painbringer adds -10% to heal resist. etc etc


OR....Second, I would have the first heal on you be at normal, 100%. and it takes 10 heals instead to reach full resist. This is the simplest solution, but may not be the correct one.


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Psi power sets, Psionic damage:

The main problem with these, are that the damage calculations seem to be very off. Against a target with 40% resist to psionic, and 40% resist to something else, using an unenhanced power from the (EX: Psi blaster) set, and one from the another blaster set with the same unehanced damage value. Considering the target has 40% resist to both, the Psi will do more damage, and noticeable.
This is a problem, and is one reason why it is overpowered.

First I would fix the d-calcs, than I would lower the damage value on the attacks slightly as they already have the best secondary effects and possible slotting (like plac). Clearly not working as intended currently (if balance was intended).

inc psi blaster flames


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Stalker, the beaten, and dead horse;

Stalkers is where it gets very complicated. Whenever any mmo introduces an assassin type class, it throws all balance off, and can ruin the game in multiple aspects. Heres is the validity of an argument: You have 2 stalkers on a team, they just run up, and AS, the target dies. They did not have to spec anything special to do that. They would than argue in return 2 blasters could do something very similar to the stalkers. HOWEVER, this would require the blasters to be specced for mass perception, and even still the stalkers would only be visible to them, not guarenteeing the rest of their team. While when the stalker team is double ASing, one of those blasters, the blasters will pretty much always be visible to the stalkers team, without any spec requirement.

What I think should happen is, with a calculation, that when someone is hit by an AS they should gain an immunity to the critical damage bonus of a stalker for a few seconds (like 4s?). So if 2 stalkers were to try and double AS the target, whichever stalker activated first, even if by a millisecond, would do their normal AS critical, whilst the second stalker would do AS damage as if they were not in hide.
If possible you could go even further and have the stalker that did not get to critical their AS, not lose their hide.


I would go even further, to say that Hide and stealth should not stack.
One of the main reasons stalkers (or any stealth class for MMOs) Creates a mass problem, is because you could go into say RV at a certain part of the day when you have free time, on your stalker, and run around the zone and not see anyone to fight so you log, wondering to yourself why you pay for a game that is boring.

When in fact there were 6 stalkers on the opposing team, and maybe a few on yours and all the non stalkers are hiding in base because all they do is get double ASed, or the stalkers just jump around and fling 6 sharks at one person guarenteeing their death, with no consequence.


Personally I believe if this AT was removed from the game, and everyone who had one was given a free AT of equal level, the Zone PVP would be exponentially more popular, populated, and fun. However I doubt this is a reasonable request.

inc stalker players flame

(btw I have a stalker)
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Leviathan, cold PPP/EPP;

I put this as the next problem because part of it is related, to stalkers, but can be fixed very simply.

First off, Leviathan master, and Spirit Shark. This is a dreaded thing that is clearly not working as intended. It has full range, and has a crit multiplier that the class was never designed to have. I do not know if this is a mistake in the code or an error in the calculations but needs to be fixed. This is explained because you see more and more stalkers in zone every day, who do not even need to AS, they have a ranged AS, and they can just jump, fling one, and they are back in hide before it hits the target.

I would say reduce the range to 30, and unenhancable (for range). Simple, solved.



Now you have hibernate. The power that everyone seems to use (1 toon out of the couple dozen 50's I have, actually has hiber on it)

At least, with phase, you can phase after the target an still kill them. I believe the simple solution is to make the cooldown 1000 seconds. Keep the cooldown enhanceable, but this still will reduce the constant use when near death, and now more recently observed, even at full health...

I also believe the No-phase debuff should be reduced in duration by 25%, but have the debuff also reduce damage caused by 10%.


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CC in general, CC against meat ATs, and other small issues:


First off, I would like to see CC do slightly more against meat ATs (Scraps and Tanks). I honestly do not know how to solve this, but feel free to add in.


Secondly, I would like to see a TP foe change. Drone TPing, TP ganking is way to rampant. I believe TP foe should have it's cast time increased BY 2seconds, and have it do a range check calcuation at the end of the cast as well (which is something this game lacks in all powers). So if you try and TP them, they are in range but move out of range before it is finished casting, it fails.

I would also require that, for an MM specifically. If the MM is targeted by a TP, at least half of his pets should go with him. It is WAY to easy to kill an MM, which is already one of the most PVP skill required ATs to play, by TP foeing them out of their pets and ganking.




Lastly, and finally. I would like to see an increase in the -end on elec powers. A greater -to hit on dark powers. I would also like to see -fly removed from all powers that cause it. There are very easy ways to combat a flyer. Even temp powers, and slows,etc. It is already counterbalaned by slower speed, and greater end cost.



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Anyways, thanks for reading. I know it was long.

Please keep the comments to a mature level.

Tech? Did you mean Recharge?

Looking for some suggestions on building a mind/energy dom.

Like to see suggestions on all, power choices (other than obvious), set/stats to primarily shoot for, etc.

Thinkin of either going --->> fitness, leaping, speed, leadership, ice master route for pools

or >>> Fitness, leaping, speed, concealment, mace mastery route for pools

Main difference being either hiber or phase

Obviously want power boost recharge way down.
With the resist bonuses in zone, im guessing set and toggle for defense otherwise.


Damage is nice, but unlike what I am used to building, I am looking to get more maximum CC, and survivability I can out of this dom.