Stalk_obot_EU

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MY GOD! HOW MANY TIMES!

In a PvP zone anything goes, anything. Being attacked by other players is to be expected, use of all powers are the friggin' law! Insps/temps/jumping like a monkey! ANYTHING!

If you want a proper duel, I suggest you take it to the arena.

There are numerous threads/discussions in this section about PvP zones/duels within.

(Sorry to seem a lil harsh, but if anyone else brings this up again i'll personally duel them in the arena!)

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*Brings it up again*

fire/ta at the ready for you Jum

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whichever drain it was it brought my End to a zero and stopped me regainning it

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short curcuit drains and prevents it from recovering afterwards, with that, power sink and most attacks doing some drain once its at 0 you are not getting it back unless dead of carrying blues

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took a friends ice/ss tank out for a spin recently and with maximum herds of purple minions, lts and bosses I can safely say that aid self has never been needed nor can I envisage a situation where EA/hoarfrost and hibernate cant take care of the situation. (unless of course you try to relive the i4 glory days and take on mobs of +8s)

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I'd rather use aid self than hibernate, quicker to use, quicker to replenish health and taunt aura is still working whilst using it.

I have hibernate as a panic button, and have rarely needed it so far.

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you should use it more its a great power, just because you go into hibernate it doesnt deactivate any taunts, just the aura is no longer being applied. Its got perfect synergy for SS as when rage crashes and the -def is applied you just hibernate and come out fighting.

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Some unpleasantness in Sirens yesterday, trash talking going too far and personal insults flying over broadcast with threatens to petition responded with "lol i get petitioned all teh time and nuffink eva happens"

Annoyed a few people with my ice tank again, but realised that I don't like PvP if I can't attack attack anything!

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highlight that point in the petition and say goodbye to that person for a few days

as stated pay NO heed to the ingame 'superior' descriptions as they are farcical to say the least, why they dont give us figures is anyones guess but fortunately the herobuilders are pretty good.

took a friends ice/ss tank out for a spin recently and with maximum herds of purple minions, lts and bosses I can safely say that aid self has never been needed nor can I envisage a situation where EA/hoarfrost and hibernate cant take care of the situation. (unless of course you try to relive the i4 glory days and take on mobs of +8s)

It should be a controller primary IMO, its just got that much control in it, I have a level 50 fire/TA and I love it, various autohits, massive slows, a single person heal and an awesome top tier aoe hold and and drain that has no -acc in it like controller aoes holds (-20%) and it lasts for a base of 30 seconds and 60 second hold when slotted. TA is a much overlooked set in all aspects though I personally prefer it as a controller primary

I feel its only fair to stand still and turn off any toggles you may have on, if you have inadvertanly got any autopowers that may assist your longevity please respec them out

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Now have you already tested out that it works?

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not yet hence my (theoretically)

Just go into rest when you go afk, you CANNOT be TPd then from the safezone (still get sniped though)

Long overdue and why they didnt introduce this before is anyones guess but for those who PVP an ddont read patch notes

XP debt in PvP has been adjusted. If a player is defeated by another player, no debt is given. If a player is damaged by another player and then defeated by NPCs, debt is given proportional to the amount of damage inflicted by NPCs.

so if a npc beats u up for 99% of your health and a pc gets the last 1% you get no debt, if a pc hits you for 99% of health and a npc hits you for 1% you get 1% debt now (theoretically)

rated duels vs a mm is not acceptable imo as they will not have the end to produce their pets/defence before they have died at least once Vs a competant blaster, will also take several blues to get even the basic pets into play. JIMHO of course

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the trouble is no1 no's whether they've been taunted from an attack or taunt so unless u specifically do a test no1 really has much of an idea how good/bad gauntlet is

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I'm pretty sure they do, says Taunted in the corner like any other status effect (like Hold, Stun etc etc)

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some tank attacks have built in taunt, as stated he means you dont know if the effect is from a taunt move, an actual taunt or crappy gauntlet which I dont think I have ever been effected by in pvp

res is better for leveling as its a permanant factor, defence can be circumvented too easily and only really comes into its own in the higher levels

IMHO of course

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aaah, its so hard to get a definitive answer

if ice is better for pvp, how does it do in pve? I do like to solo quite alot, coming from other games where grinding has been paramount leveling the pvp missions solo is where I got most of my levels.. but I fear as a blaster I may end up with more debt than levels

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Ice is great pve, it slows them down so incoming attacks are much less than they would normally be, frost breath which isnt great pvp is great pve.

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single target stun is awesome on sonic set as acro doesnt protect from disorient, but the set suffers from rooting and range of its heavy attack (20ft) To illustrate the point, sonics best single target attack (shout) has an animation time of 2.7 seconds, a range of 20ft and a BI of 5.89, compared with ices bitter ice blast of 1.07 seconds, 50ft and 6.339 it comes off a poor second.

Get around the rooting and its a serious AT to play but quite simply you cant beat ice/em for speed of damage

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But the -Res increases that damage, so by the time you get around to letting off shout, it'll do close to, if not more than BIB - with boost range you're not far off doing it from the same distance too! :P

Alternatively, take things nice and slow and steady with an electric/ice - slowly but surely wins the race! : )

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not really much of an argument when you can unleash the 3 ice single target attacks in essentially the same time at a further distance without boost range. Nothing wrong with sonic but takes more from a player to play it well than ice/em which numerically superior and easier to get into.

its funny the way it swings, onion is pretty poor for zonal pvp atm while defiant has been good fun recently, it really does swing back and forward.

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One thing that might be worht mentioning to get around Mexz protection is that 'Stun' from EM will stack. TOtal focus also has a high chance to stun. It should certainly go along way to breakin mez protection, if you can get pass the animation times, but luckily the EM attacks allow you to fly/SS past and launch the attack from a short distance if you have it queued.

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all attacks (appart from interuptables) can be used in 'kiting' but a ranged (60ft) mag 3 stun is awesome and doesnt need stacking.

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Even to get through non-squishie mez protecton?

If so, that's my poor knowledge shining through! And apologies for the appauling typing in the above post...

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sonics ranged stun will not break non-squishy mez protection, same as no single player attack can even with domination up.

TFs stun is a lower mag than EMs actual stun power (also mag 3) and it takes 3 mag 3 stuns to pull down a primary/secondary mez protection power so stunning all but squishies solo is not really an option, I personally havent seen it done to any of my scrappers/tank/brute or stalker but the em tsoo can stack 3 'stuns' from the em set and knock off my mez protect.

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One thing that might be worht mentioning to get around Mexz protection is that 'Stun' from EM will stack. TOtal focus also has a high chance to stun. It should certainly go along way to breakin mez protection, if you can get pass the animation times, but luckily the EM attacks allow you to fly/SS past and launch the attack from a short distance if you have it queued.

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all attacks (appart from interuptables) can be used in 'kiting' but a ranged (60ft) mag 3 stun is awesome and doesnt need stacking.

Rediculous, Im glad to hear that you petitioned him for that as was clearly not a pvp manuever and is abusing teaming mechanics, total greifing.

combustion and blazing aura = lots of trips to the hospital, if you are going to be mainly blaster teams with your friends then they should get resusitaion to bring you back to life after each mob

Aim and BU are both vital, nothing worse than when you miss a vital attack, these are both serious gems in the blaster sets.

I would make one something like this, the aid self is a godsend as is hibernate and consume gives you endurance return.

PVE I would do something like this

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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder - (http://sherksilver.coldfront.net/index.php)
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Name:
Level: 50
Archetype: Blaster
Primary: Fire Blast
Secondary: Fire Manipulation
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01) --> Fire Blast==> Acc(1) Dmg(3) Dmg(3) Dmg(5)
01) --> Ring of Fire==> Acc(1)
02) --> Fire Sword==> Acc(2) Dmg(5) Dmg(7) Dmg(7) Rechg(9) EndRdx(9)
04) --> Fire Ball==> Acc(4) Dmg(11) Dmg(11) Dmg(13) EndRdx(42) EndRdx(43)
06) --> Swift==> Run(6)
08) --> Fire Breath==> Acc(8) Dmg(13) Dmg(15) EndRdx(15)
10) --> Combat Jumping==> Jump(10)
12) --> Aim==> Rechg(12) Rechg(17) Rechg(17)
14) --> Super Jump==> EndRdx(14)
16) --> Build Up==> Rechg(16) Rechg(19) Rechg(19)
18) --> Health==> Heal(18) Heal(34) Heal(36)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(21) EndMod(21)
22) --> Blaze==> Acc(22) Dmg(23) Dmg(23) Dmg(27) EndRdx(43) Rechg(50)
24) --> Fire Sword Circle==> Acc(24) Dmg(25) Dmg(25) Dmg(27) EndRdx(46) EndRdx(48)
26) --> Aid Other==> Heal(26)
28) --> Consume==> Acc(28) Acc(29) EndMod(29) EndMod(33) Rechg(34) Rechg(34)
30) --> Aid Self==> Rechg(30) Rechg(31) Heal(31) Heal(31) IntRdx(33) IntRdx(33)
32) --> Inferno==> Dmg(32) Dmg(37) Dmg(37) Rechg(39) Rechg(39)
35) --> Blazing Bolt==> Acc(35) Dmg(36) Dmg(36) Dmg(37) EndRdx(39)
38) --> Air Superiority==> Acc(38) Dmg(40) Dmg(40) Dmg(40)
41) --> Snow Storm==> EndRdx(41) EndRdx(42) EndRdx(42) Rechg(43)
44) --> Frozen Armor==> DefBuf(44) DefBuf(45) DefBuf(45) EndRdx(45) EndRdx(46) EndRdx(46)
47) --> Hibernate==> Rechg(47) Rechg(48) Rechg(48)
49) --> Fly==> EndRdx(49) Fly(50) Fly(50)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
01) --> Defiance==> Empty(1)
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anything you dont understand just ask

single target stun is awesome on sonic set as acro doesnt protect from disorient, but the set suffers from rooting and range of its heavy attack (20ft) To illustrate the point, sonics best single target attack (shout) has an animation time of 2.7 seconds, a range of 20ft and a BI of 5.89, compared with ices bitter ice blast of 1.07 seconds, 50ft and 6.339 it comes off a poor second.

Get around the rooting and its a serious AT to play but quite simply you cant beat ice/em for speed of damage

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yeah that worked just fine seeing as globey got a monster crit on him when he tanuted me off whoever i was fighting, and it was remarkable the fact that no one from retribution was fighting each other in either match

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since when could tankers get criticals?

And yes jummy i have a screeny some where.

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globey got a monster crit on him

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LMS still going... lol only two stalkers going at it now after they teamed to take out a Scrapper.

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I would have left sooner but teaming in a last 3 of a LMS is seriously **** imho, last time i do one of those without a time limit

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nothing like AoW teaming an ganking targets over broadcasting and taunting ppl off each other is it


grats to irritation, knock 2 victories up for retribution bring on the sg rumble

to the organiser, thx for a good event

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yeah that worked just fine seeing as globey got a monster crit on him when he tanuted me off whoever i was fighting, and it was remarkable the fact that no one from retribution was fighting each other in either match

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LMS still going... lol only two stalkers going at it now after they teamed to take out a Scrapper.

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I would have left sooner but teaming in a last 3 of a LMS is seriously **** imho, last time i do one of those without a time limit