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Ok, I'll give you a serious reply about fiteklubbing and inspirations.

The problem people have with fiteklubbers, myself included, is that they expect others to follow their own simplistic, imaginary rules in zone PvP and then complain about it bitterly when others do not.

Like this guy, people in the zones use inspirations against my fortunata all the time, and I ignore it. It's part of this game, I'm used to it, I don't have a problem with it. I mentioned it here only to explain the action. As an irrelevant aside, I make an exception for arena matches and use inspirations when my opponent wants to use them.

Yes, I could use inspirations on my fortunata in zone PvP and be more effective. It's not exactly a profound insight. I could also retire my VEATs for better PvP archetypes; get another account for farming PvP IOs, power-leveling, and buffing myself; only come out to fight when my cooldowns are up; leave the zone to refill my tray after every fight; etc. The list of ways I could be more effective is a lot longer than the utterly obvious "use inspirations". I don't do any of the above merely out of personal preference.

As for the "you don't know what you are doing" observation(s), it's virtually the default comment in every PvP forum I've ever seen. The forum software ought to prepend every reply with it to save time.

This is from my log of Monday night. Everything that was said and emoted is included, minus other players' names (and the obscenities edited out by the forum software).

I log onto my fortunata (Dominique Moreau) in Warburg (Virtue) and see a team of two super strength/willpower brutes fighting arachnoids. I check their info to see which is the weaker and kill her first. The other is able to heal and consume enough green inspirations; eventually I run low on endurance (I don't use inspirations on this character) and withdraw for a rest. The brutes return; I kill the weaker one quickly, and the arachnoids get the kill on the other.

Expecting them to throw in the towel and leave Warburg, I return to chatting with a friend about another game. Once again they return.


11-01-2010 19:44:40 [Tell] --><my friend>: damn, these guys are persistent. one sec


Arachnoids again get the kill on the stronger, but the weaker is able to reach the hospital before I can finish her.


11-01-2010 19:48:20 [Broadcast] <weaker brute>: :P


This time I move to another part of the island to resume my conversation. Soon /whoall reveals that not only have they not left, the weaker brute has switched to a scrapper. I return to investigate and discover that she's martial arts/regen, but probably not much more threatening than her brute. I ignore her entirely and go for the stronger brute. Without the arachnoids, I still can't overcome the greens and heals, and so eventually must withdraw.

The brute speaks.


11-01-2010 20:06:25 [Broadcast] <tough guy brute>: thats right u better keep running


I rest up and return to find the brute glowing green, a sign hung on him by our thoughtful developers to let everyone know that he has a launch code and his five-minute launch timer is running. I resume the attack as he runs for the launch terminal pillbox and the regen scrapper tries to kill me. We reach the launcher and the brute speaks again.


11-01-2010 20:11:04 [Broadcast] <tough guy brute>: ******* ***** u better kill me


At this point I decide that he isn't going to be leaving with his rocket. I activate my jet pack and hover over the launch terminal, webbing them both to the ground and continuing the attack on the brute. Eventually the launch timer runs out before he can get enough of a break to enter the launch code. Low on health and probably low on greens, unable to get off the ground, the super strength/willpower brute seeks refuge inside the pillbox. I turn off the jet pack and land on the pillbox.


11-01-2010 20:15:14 Dominique Moreau yawns


Deep within his concrete redoubt, the brute vents his spleen.


11-01-2010 20:15:33 [Broadcast] <tough guy brute>: then go the **** away u piece of ****
11-01-2010 20:15:57 [Broadcast] Dominique Moreau: Not after the rudeness. Now you have my full attention.
11-01-2010 20:16:02 [Broadcast] <tough guy brute>: unless u wanna stand toe to toe sto p that ***** jumping
11-01-2010 20:16:34 [Broadcast] <tough guy brute>: and the rudeness because yer trash


Leaping from building to building to avoid the regen scrapper, I consider what to do about the brute hiding in the pillbox. Seeing him peek out of the doorway, I try something I've never used in PvP since I started in i6: I put a Shivan on the doorstep. Rather than avoid the Shivan, the brute and scrapper begin attacking it there at the pillbox door. I get behind the Shivan and resume my attack on the brute through the doorway. Before long the brute runs back inside the pillbox, chased by the Shivan, while the scrapper switches back to me. Eventually, in what I suppose was a final act of desperation, the regen scrapper presses the self-destruct button.


11-01-2010 20:18:30 <regen scrapper> MISSES! Self Destruction power had a 13.61% chance to hit, but rolled a 52.47.
11-01-2010 20:18:30 Shivan Decimator: <regen scrapper> MISSES! Self Destruction power had a 37.42% chance to hit, but rolled a 59.88.


Concluding that he's not better off alone inside the pillbox with the Shivan, the brute emerges. Time to put an end to this.


11-01-2010 20:19:08 Chemical Warfare: HIT <tough guy brute>! Your Warburg Chemical Weapon power had a 54.31% chance to hit, you rolled a 46.55.


What the hell, I already had two lab tech codes dropped by the weaker brute. Have another nuke.


11-01-2010 20:19:23 Nuclear Blast: HIT <tough guy brute>! Your Warburg Nuclear Weapon power had a 62.06% chance to hit, you rolled a 60.94.

11-01-2010 20:19:30 You gain 487 infamy.
11-01-2010 20:19:30 Fatalists gains 7 prestige.
11-01-2010 20:19:30 You receive a bounty of 5.00 reputation!
11-01-2010 20:19:30 You gain 1.00 reputation.
11-01-2010 20:19:30 You have defeated <tough guy brute>

11-01-2010 20:19:36 [Broadcast] Dominique Moreau: You lose.
11-01-2010 20:20:45 [Broadcast] <tough guy brute>: yer an ******* u killed me but i can respawn u can't change being an ******* :P


The regen scrapper revives, probably hoping to finish me off. Not feeling particularly merciful at the moment, I kill her. They return immediately; again I can't overcome the greens and heals and have to withdraw. They leave Warburg, and to my surprise, the tells begin.


11-01-2010 20:33:07 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: and u seen i was doing scientists thats why i was rude you were rude first
11-01-2010 20:33:47 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: Go read the warning about PvP zones. I could care less why you are here.
11-01-2010 20:34:17 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: ok w/e hope i see u out again why dont u try rv
11-01-2010 20:34:43 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: Name's Elmer Gorbulorp. I'm sure you will.
11-01-2010 20:35:13 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: cool i'll look for ya everytime i go to rv which now will be everyday'


I didn't reply, as I didn't expect this to alter my RV experience significantly.


11-01-2010 20:36:37 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: and hope ya got alot of pvp sets because everyone i know will be ****** elmer in rv





11-01-2010 20:37:52 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: hehe sure
11-01-2010 20:39:00 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: why dont ya hop on elmer now, oh wait let me guess a flying blaster?
11-01-2010 20:39:26 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: You ask around about Elmer and get back to me.
11-01-2010 20:39:54 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: yer not worth me asking around lol


Ok, have a nice day. But he's not done yet.


11-01-2010 20:41:33 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: but if it makes ya feel special i'll ask my bud <friend #1> or <friend #2> about u
11-01-2010 20:41:52 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: <friend #1> knows who I am. Ask him.
11-01-2010 20:42:22 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: he's not on
11-01-2010 20:42:39 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: let me guess u beat <friend #1> up too right?
11-01-2010 20:43:09 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: Maybe, I dunno. I've killed everyone at least once.
11-01-2010 20:45:44 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: what kinda alt?
11-01-2010 20:46:15 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: What alt?
11-01-2010 20:46:22 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: what is elmer?
11-01-2010 20:46:30 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: A Huntsman.
11-01-2010 20:47:06 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: a soldier?
11-01-2010 20:47:34 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: well hope ya run and fly fast
11-01-2010 20:47:51 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: because thats the ONLY way you'd beat me in rv
11-01-2010 20:48:02 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: Bane with gun attacks instead of mace. Probably the only one in PvP. That's why everyone knows me. Except you.


On Virtue, that is. Don't know about other servers.


11-01-2010 20:49:14 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: well i have been in rv alot lately, like last 3 weeks, because that is when i started pvping and i haven't seen u
11-01-2010 20:49:39 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: True, I haven't been there much lately. Been leveling a PvE brute.
11-01-2010 20:52:00 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: well u beat me in rv in a fair toe to toe fight and i'll call u the man
11-01-2010 20:53:40 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: You can call me anything you want. I don't fight "toe to toe" on either of these characters. I just make sure the orange names die.
11-01-2010 20:54:32 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: lol thats what i figured, what kinda talent or skill is it to fly and run around? none so i'll call you what i want lol
11-01-2010 20:55:16 [Tell] --><tough guy brute>: I don't think your 3 weeks of experience, such as they are -- fiteklubbing -- qualifies you to judge my level of competence.
11-01-2010 20:56:01 [Tell] <tough guy brute>: yer right about me being a pvp noob, but i seen enough to know, if u can't toe to toe u ain't ****


I elected not to reply. Hey, who can argue with reasoning like that? Not me.

Bye Toe.

PvP "nerds" don't farm gold/infamy/influence, they buy it from the Chinese.

Ok, here are the two reasons why I have "No AE" in all of my characters' search comments. One is IC, one is OOC.

The IC one is suspicion. Call it paranoia if you will; paranoids live longer in the Rogue Isles. Where is Architect Entertainment getting its funding and why?

You have big, shiny, new buildings full of the latest technology, staffed by technicians 24/7, giving away piles of reward loot...and no apparent means of generating the income to pay for it. That means someone is spending a lot of money in exchange for...what?

I'll tell you what: a "scan" of every big-time villain who comes in to use their facilities. Thanks, but I think I'll keep my "scan" to myself. Let whoever is paying AE's bills be surprised if and when they come looking for me.

The OOC reason is merely that I don't want a bunch of AE badges that might cause me to be mistaken for some power-leveled incompetent who received all his "training" -- doing who knows what -- inside a nice, safe computer. (I guess that's sort of an IC reason, too.)

Some folks moved to new day jobs.

My level 17 stalker sat on a roof in Mercy, drank a beer, and watched some Skuls on the next roof over.

Rod Steele slipped out of the US and returned to the Etoile Islands after almost three weeks of filthy, disgusting debauchery at Leather Week and the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco.

Elmer Gorbulorp got his Halloween costume from the St. Martial facemaker, although he likes it so much he may start wearing it all the time.

Good choice. RWZ is fun for Trick-or-Treating. Lots of ruins, abandoned buildings, and real monsters (Rikti) lurking around for good measure. Spooky!

Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds of Secret Arctic Lairs

I always assumed Hot has a buffbot or two somewhere. All of the "Korea" or "RoK Heroes" appear to use every conceivable advantage regardless of what anybody thinks about it.

There are a couple of regen scrappers like Hot on Virtue. I don't know jack about fiteklubbing, but I would guess some kind of MM could beat him. Maybe the right kind of Corruptor or Dominator as well. Don't even try it with a Brute, Stalker, or VEAT.

Anyway, this is not the right forum to ask this question. Go to the PvP forums and ask (or look up) how to beat regen scrappers in duels. I'm sure it's a common question.

My WoW main is on Moon Guard, which was the largest RP server when I quit a year ago. Being on "the" RP server is a mixed bag, but mostly positive. I only recall two real rules concerning WoW RP servers.

One, you can't have a name like "l33th4x0r" or "50Cent". "L33t-speak" and real-world references in names are prohibited. You had to change such a name, and only if you persisted in breaking the rules would you get banned. Few Virtue character names would get zapped on Moon Guard. WoW also has a random name generator you can use if thinking up a permissible name taxes you too much. Guild names are mostly exempt.

Two, if you are going on about real-world events -- e.g. the Super Bowl -- in local or a public channel and someone asks you to stop, you are obligated to do so. Only if you ignore such a request can you be petitioned. This was very rarely requested or enforced, and you were better off just avoiding the channels in which the idiots told hilarious Chuck Norris jokes.

These aren't exactly onerous rules, and most people on Moon Guard were not active roleplayers. The primary effect of the "RP server" tag was to funnel the "l33t50centh4x0r" crowd mostly away from the "carebear" RP servers. My opinion was that it was a more mature, more casual, and good-natured population. If someone did try to give a role-player grief, he was usually given more grief in return by the locals, who liked their server whether they roleplayed or not.

On the downside, your more serious (and better) raiders tended to avoid RP servers (and probably PvPers as well). This is probably what caused me to quit, since there just weren't any slots available in the very few good Moon Guard raiding guilds, and I refused to transfer to a more-populated l33t raiding server.

Finally, being almost exclusively a PvPer, I did try Freedom first. Now I do NOT roleplay in PvP. I could not possibly do both at once and do not try. But in one of my first groups on Freedom, I mentioned something in team chat about...Lord Recluse, maybe. It wasn't anything anyone on Virtue would recognize as "role-playing". Right away I got some grief from a teammate about Freedom NOT being the roleplay server, and how I should GTFO if I was a roleplayer. Apparently mentioning anything about NPCs is Freedom-style role-playing.

So I guess I don't belong on Freedom, but Virtue PvP has curled up and died. Probably time to look for another game.

It's a better zone.