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Well, the animation times are listed up there, so you'd need to get the recharges down to:

Midnight's Grasp: 2.112 (SL) + 2.376 (1.188 - for Smite - x2) = 4.488 seconds
Siphon Life: 2.244 (MG) + 2.376 (1.188 - for Smite - x2) = 4.620 seconds
Smite: 2.112 seconds (shortest of the other animations)

The recharge formula is:
Final Recharge = Base Recharge / (1 + Recharge Buffs).

Rearranging it a bit, you get:
Recharge Buffs = (Base Recharge / Final Recharge) - 1

That means that you end up with the following:

MG: (15 / 4.488) - 1 = 2.342 (or +234.2% recharge)
Sm: (6 / 2.112) - 1 = 1.841 (or +184.1% recharge)
SL: (10 / 4.620) - 1 = 1.165 (or +116.5% recharge)

So counting enhancements and global recharge bonuses, 235% in the power itself. Figure 70% for Hasten, another 65% (being conservative) for slotting, so ~100% global - note that 109% is perma-Hasten.

I'm assuming that you didn't mean to type defense. Especially since they share the base defense numbers with 2 other ATs and have higher hit points than either of those, and everything you mentioned talks about offense.

But they do have the lowest damage scale of any melee AT - although one attack pushes them past Tankers due to Fury, and if you can maintain the damage cap (find a nice kinetic or two) you'll end up having the highest sustained damage over time of any melee AT despite the lowest scale...

You'd still have more hp than SR and regen than Shields (or any other Brute secondary for that matter), even without set bonuses. If all of those are softcapped against the damage type(s) you're going to run into...

It doesn't explicitly state anything about parody... however, what it does say is (Note that the criteria used in each section talking about it uses the term "violation of trademark right, copyright, or other proprietary rights" - parody is acceptable use and thus not a violation - or vulgar/offensive names/biographies.):

Oh! Well, if they don't exist, then there's absolutely no reason why they should be genericed, right?

More to the point, the likelihood of confusion is what creates an infringement. Since it's explicitly stated in the bio that it's not the character but someone dressing up like them (insert comment about parody and/or nominative use here), and I'm not using it to make money for myself or cause liability for the owner of the intellectual property, it's only actionable if you're really frivolous and don't mind wasting a lot of money on lawyer fees over a case you'd also have to very heavily bribe the judge to win. The likelihood of confusion only exists if you're illiterate.

This. Especially that last part about snarkiness.

As for teams, it really depends on how active you are on global channels - and your willingness to create a team instead of waiting for someone else to show the initiative. People are usually willing to join one but most won't take the time to invite the several people looking; your experience in finding teams may vary based on that.

But really, without the drama what would this thread (or for that matter, server) be?! Boring and lifeless, that's what!

Viva la drama queens!

No, I really don't know what you mean. Electric Melee doesn't have any good single target attacks. If you mean Thunder Strike, and you're going to use it frequently, then just go with Stone Melee and use Tremor a lot - because Seismic Smash makes for a much better single target attack than Havoc Punch.

Footstomp puts out more AoE damage than all of Electric Melee over time, not just Lightning Rod.

Just sortof as an FYI, Thunder Strike isn't a cone, it's a smallish AoE around the target mob.


The answer for which is best is dependant on how you plan on farming. Damage type is negligible in most cases for farming since you can pick and choose which mobs you want to farm (and you'd be really silly to pick one that's highly resistant to your chosen damage type). If you're going to have bosses, I'd recommend Stone Melee over Electric Melee, though.

My reasons:

• You have Shield Charge for a high burst AoE;
• Your patron pool will have at least 2 more attacks with faster animations and better AoE size/coverage;
• Tremor vs Thunder Strike:
  • Tremor uses the same animation as Thunder Strike to do slightly more (1.0 scale vs 0.96 scale) AoE damage, but to a much larger radius (15' vs 7');
  • Both have a very long animation and eat up a lot of time in your attack chain for "meh" damage. At least with Tremor you don't have to herd to get the most from it;
• Seismic Smash and Heavy Mallet tear through bosses faster than anything Electric Melee has, and can be thrown in the attack chains between AoEs;

Now, if it's just going to be minions and lieutenants, then Electric Melee will probably be the better choice since everything will die in just a few AoEs without having to finish off the bosses (who have roughly triple the hit points of a lieutenant), so having Lightning Rod available to alternate with Shield Charge for every other spawn will help you out...

...of course, with Lightning Rod, since the devs never got around to changing the radius that it does full damage to (unlike Shield Charge which was changed while in beta to do full damage across the entire AoE - logic? consistency? what's that?), you'll have to herd things into tight groups to get the most use of it. That takes up a bit of time while the mobs are moving so isn't as fast as it could be (with, for instance, Foot Stomp).

Also, if you don't plan on using a lot of Patron AoEs, War Mace may give you what you're looking for. You have the "one-handed mallet" look from the mace, with better AoE and still good single target damage from the primary. The drawback is that you have weapon redraw, which the two sets you brought up initially don't have to worry about. That can - and often does - add enough to your attack chain that other sets start looking better in AoE damage.

The potential of whether or not person A is a non-combatant has already been mentioned, so I won't go into it beyond saying that unless some form of communication has been established as such, person B can safely assume that they haven't been attacked only because person A has not found a good chance to do so. That could be because they haven't seen you, a power is recharging, or even just a cautious approach where they're checking your reactions to determine your intent.

As for the mindset of attacking a noncombatant who only tries to run away - why do people who have plenty of food go out and kill deer during hunting season? I'm sure you'll find many of the same reasons - including some that feel they're doing it for population control (yes there are people who have posted that they feel if you're not a PvPer you have no right to the badges in those zones - personally I don't care who gets them as long as they understand that they have no right to complain that they got attacked while trying to get a PvP badge). I'm not a hunter but a friend of my dad's was a bowhunter, along with others in his family. For them, it's a test of skill - to see if they can get the target before it gets away.

The PvP badge that annoyed people the most that was stricken from the list was Raider - 5 hours in Siren's Call. It was frequently acquired by people entering the zone and going afk while sitting at the hospital, often on an Ouro flashback so they didn't time out, and was replaced with Hammer Down (defeat Ghost of Scrapyard).

The plaques for Swashbuckler (one in BB, one in SC) and Arachnos Rising (one in WB), and exploration badges (one in BB - Crooked Politician, 2 in WB - Triumphant and Weapon of Mass Destruction, and one in RV - Last Stand) are still required.

Triumphant is used by 2 different accolades, but unless you're using flight is child's play to get before the 30 second timer goes off - with superjump and the VIP jump pack you can get it and Weapon of Mass Destruction in the 30 second timer. Last Stand is in a fairly unassuming spot in RV that I've never had trouble getting to, and Crooked Politician is used for the Immobilizer Ray that I only ever bothered getting on two characters but usually has a Freakshow spawn right at its location in BB. At the right level to get into the zones, assuming you actually have a travel power, you can get all of them in under 5 minutes.

Since attacking another player in a PvP zone isn't a crime, your counterpoint serves no function.

It would be more equivalent to going to a war zone and telling the members of the opposing army that "I really don't want to fight you, I just want to go kill these guys over here" while wearing the outfit of the army that they're fighting against.

Try that and see how well it goes over.

If you have trouble getting exploration badges in a PvP zone, you're either lying, going in at the wrong time, or otherwise doing something completely stupid.

I've gotten Raider on my first entry to Siren's Call - when it was needed for Born in Battle prior to the changes - on at least 3 characters (I don't remember the exact count) without a single bounty being presented. That's 5 hours with absolutely 0 enemies in the zone: the bounty for them would have shown up if there had been anyone.

Even when a lot of people are in the zone you can still get them, you just have to actually think a little bit about how you're going to get there. Think of it like trying to get Unabashed during a Rikti raid: would you expect the Rikti to stop attacking you so that you can get your badge, or do you just drop in on the badge and get out if you're not going to participate in the raid?

Which is a hazard of a PvP zone, and not someone "being a jerk". If you want to blame anyone on this, blame the devs for travel suppression working while being attacked - otherwise you'd be out of range after their first attack, which probably wouldn't kill you unless you hung around way too long where the NPCs were.

*shrug* Then don't complain about being hit while resting if you won't do it someplace that you know it's safe. The trash talk coming from someone that just hit a resting target is jerkish, but I personally think you're overexaggerating your difficulties because they simply don't mesh with anything I've seen.

Unprovoked the attacks may be, unwarranted they are not. You chose to enter a PvP zone to acquire something. It is your decision to allow them to target you. There are big warning signs and a 30 second countdown timer that you can't help but see saying that you're now a target for other players. If you don't like it, simply don't get those badges. If you need the badges that much, then deal with it. Reward, meet risk.

Also, your suggestion earlier in the thread about "hardcore" mode and how it would reduce ganking was rather ignorant as well - if anything it would create more, since after investing effort into the character people would be less willing to risk it unless they were assured of overwhelming support. Would you attempt to solo a TF that deleted your character if you didn't succeed, or would you load your team up six ways to Sunday so that you were assured of success?

As for the premise of the thread as a whole - I felt that pre-i13 PvP was more enjoyable and even then was a casual PvPer at best. I never participated in the "trash talk", and if it got out of hand - on either side - I'd simply leave. For the most part, the PvPers that I ran into were polite, helpful, and fun; most of the trash talking I saw was personal teasing back and forth between them, with little harshness behind it. Yes, there were jerks, but for the most part I was more apt to turn off broadcast in Atlas Park than Siren's Call or Recluse's Victory. The PvP community as a whole isn't the problem as much as the non-PvPers perception of the community and exaggeration of instances by people seeking sympathy for having to deal with "those ebil pvpers"... after entering a PvP zone.

And for those who say that they can ruin the fun even while on ignore... that's true. But you can also do something about it. As much as I despise tele-droning (speaking of no skill needed and one-shotting people), it works rather well for getting someone that refuses to leave you alone to do so. You could also attack them back, or if those aren't viable options for you then just leave the zone and do something else for a while. After all, if you didn't want to PvP then you were definately in the wrong zone, and if you want to PvP without dealing with the jerks you can head to the arena.