Supermax

They both suck pretty equally now. The damage is laughable, and the defense is basically nonexistent, unless you invest like 10 billion. They do have ONE good power, the melee epic attack that does a lot of damage and -20% res. So with that and web, they could soften up and slow targets for their teammates. But as soon as someone decides to attack you, you will either die or have to run away. Blasters will hit you with pretty much every single attack they want to hit you with.

Why are you guys never there when I log in?

I couldn't imagine retoggling those all the time, since each one takes like 5 seconds. Must have been just for veng. Then again, back in the day, all PB damage sucked, so doing pure human form wasn't that much different from using nova.

Definitely no human shields imo. You will spend way too much time out of human form. Plus you WILL constantly be switching forms, which drops all the shields. Trust me, you don't want to spend 15 seconds toggling up every 30 seconds when you switch forms.

The only reason some people take shining shield is because at level 4 you HAVE to take either the shield, or one of the useless blasts. So some go with the shield, but it's essentially a wasted pick either way.

Only PB's I've seen that actually benefit from shields are human-only ones, but they don't tend to be very good anyway, because human form damage is lol.

I'm with Roman on this...I don't think PA damage heals back. At least I never noticed it doing it. Spectral wounds damage does heal back from what I remember, but that power is such a joke to begin with, it doesn't even matter. You hit someone for a whopping 30 damage, and like 10 of it heals back...but it's totally irrelevant.

I remember when the anti spike code was around, you could have some friends join the other side and simply target you (without attacking), which made you basically invincible to anybody that would actually try to kill you.

That's what made most people completely lol at the idea. Ahhh, good times.

I'm with you con. I slot stealth into travel powers, and I always fully slot my travels. Fully meaning getting the maximum effect, not necessarily 6 slots.

Playing with SO's, I have basically just the basic +recovery, so running sprint isn't really an option. It actually has pretty high end usage, so I'd need to slot it for -end. And slotting sprint would defeat the whole purpose of using it.

I had a stealth IO in sprint on a lowbie I used to play, just because he was so short on slots, but it was really annoying having to turn sprint on and off every 2 mins.

fire - aura is useless. Burn is pretty good. Almost a guaranteed AS repellant. RotP is useless.

EM - Probably don't need bonesmasher, if you're just gonna play in RV. You also want taunt for the -75% range.

4th pool should be phase shift. Either that or tactics, but I have phase on mine.

Epic = definitely earth. Fossilize is basically an ET with 80 foot range, and -defense on top of it. Clearly broken, but whatever. You also probably want the immobilize, which also does good damage, although it's DoT. And the patch power is good too, for getting stalkers out of stealth and some other things.

Yes but HE doesn't know it yet. That's the whole point.

Ah well, I guess we're just destined to forever have to listen to ignorant and misleading "facts" by sentry

hey flea, how you been?

You've got arguably the best primary, and the second best secondary. So it should work fine. fire/regen would be better, but you don't need the absolute best build to have potential.

Basically you won't be nearly as survivable as regen scrappers, but you'll do noticeably more damage.

Dude, mac...can you PLEASE just duel this guy already? Don't you have toons on justice? Please just show him what will happen any time he plays any real PvP'er. Use his rules. Just use a toon that's you've spent more money on than him, and the win is 100% guaranteed.

He must have been in granite? That cuts damage and recharge in half, so it would make a bad set terribad.

Yeah it sucks. There's absolutely nothing stone can do that SS or EM can't do better.

I was going to comment by saying there's no PvP on pinnacle....but then I realized this isn't even related to PvP. It's about doing PvE in a PvP zone. The question is why.