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I think it's alright. The effects from the animation are different than anything else in the game and the hold animation is actually slightly different from the traditional tesla cage. Sure it's kind of long but it's really not bad.

Anyone else have any experience with electric control and pvp? I'm slowly leveling one.. one day I will get around to figuring out its strengths and weaknesses in pvp but until then anyone else tried it out? The end drain seems very situational.

Energy Assaut rocks! Sure it lacks some AoE but I like that. The knockback is great for single targets when you need and the stuns in Bone Smasher and Total Focus are nice as extra control. The damage isn't as good as say /fire but it's still pretty good. I like putting damage procs from a knockback IO set in all of my attacks. Power boost makes just about any control primary better... and I bet Energy Transfer will be fun in conjunction with Total Focus

I have an elec/elec dom I like a lot so I want to take a look at what you've got. I will look at this when I get home. (They block Mid's download!!)

RV is where it's usually at, although I've seen quite a few people in Siren's Call now that you can use up to lvl 35 powers...

It used to be worse.

Oh and if I TP foe you out of your comfort zone in RV on Freedom, fight back! It's more fun that way.

There are some reaaaal winners that zone PvP on Freedom. Some people take it too srs

Everyone kind of has thier own methods I suppose I will share mine for what it's worth.


Movement, targeting, and timing are key to pvp in my opinion. WASD for basic movement, space for jump, and set up some strafe keys. Having a good mouse with easy to see and use extra buttons helps a lot. I have two side buttons on my mouse which I use for targeting. One button is for target NEXT enemy, and one is for target NEAREST enemy. I can't tell you how awesome the target NEAREST enemy button is. If you get good it makes those hoards of enemy hero/villains much easier to deal with I find.

As far as powers go... Considering I believe movement is a big success factor I have my 1-6 keys all mapped to travel powers. I have sprint, ninja run, tp foe, teleport, temp jet pack on my main. SS, SJ, combat jumping, etc on some others. I personally still click all my basic powerset powers with the mouse just because it is what I am accustomed to. More defensive powers like phase shift, hybernate, etc I usually have hotkeyed as well. I like to literally have an "oh crap" button.

Overall PvP suggestions (mostly from my experiences on a dom in zone)... learn the system and powersets and don't run in head first to an unfavorable situation. You aren't invincible and dying is a part of pvp. I just try to minimize deaths by playing smarter and avoiding unfavorable situations. As an example, if I am solo and I see a swarm of heroes... what are they doing? What powers are they using? Do you see heals flying off? Any debuffs? If they are focused on attacking targets or NPCs they are distracted and I might try to pick one off that I know for sure I can kill. If they are jumping around slaying down vills left and right.. I generally avoid battle and wait for one of them to stray from the swarm or wait until more villains arrive to help take them down. Teaming is huge! Having a healer rocks, and teammates make it a lot easier to get kills.

Arena is kind of different and really people could talk about PvP strat and mechanics all day... but this is about keymapping so I'll stop here. Hope it helps!

I too love to play casual builds that take time to perfect and make fun in PvP zones, so congrats man!

So I just came back to the game from a long break, and I forgot exactly how mez works in PvP. Doms get 4 sec mez durations base and magnitute doesnt matter I get that part. It's the timers from mez suppression that im curious about. What is the base time before one can be held again? Are all forms of mez on the same counter? I'm wondering if its taking terrify for a mind dom or not. Say I hold someone, can I fear them right after the hold duration ends? Confuse seems to work like this. Does sleep?


Also, how exactly does TK work in PvP? Does the target repel anymore or is it merely a hold? Mids says the hold duration is 0.75 seconds. I'm assuming that TK works like most other offensive toggles here and ticks in intervals of holds?

This thread is so SO full of messy fail.....

I like the way PvP is now and the direction its heading. Sure there are still things that need to be tweaked and fixed, but for the most part I fail to see PvP as entirely broken. PvP will keep evolving and eventually reach a level where the majority is satisfied.

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smashing damage and that is the most resisted damage type on the game so your damage would be terrible.


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just like archery with all its lethal damage. that set sucks

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False.

Id like to see how that is accomplished on a squishy. Acro can be slotted up to mag 12 + 5 KB IOs to make a total of 32. Thats a lot of kinetic crashes to put in. Unless you can slot more than 5 KB IOs thats new to me. I was under the impression you could only have 5.

You cant get enough KB IOs to protect against a mag 45 knockback...

For your team rating of the assault sets... Energy should be closer to number one. Power push goes a LONG way when coming to lining up that dual assassins strike on teams. The inherent boost on power push's accuracy helps big time too.

God there are a lot of whiny heroes posting lately... are all the new veats kicking THAT much [censored]?

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i'd like to see either the ice/fire dom or cold/sonic in action just for a change of the usual suspect FoTm's in duels

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*cough* ice/fire for the non fotm win

Don't hit your head on the doorframe on the way out M3z!

Welcome! Hope to get some matches in with you down the road

Thanks ex!


<3 Ex Libris


and shini

<3 shini



I agree with broken.. less QQ more pew pew!

Cut out the crap guys.


Thanks to all that were welcoming to us. I look forward to matches with you all.

Nice dominator ownage guide


I agree with everything said. I still prefer ice control over mind just because I like ice. Mind is better because of TK, but I still like ice. The -recharge is very nice. Id like to take a shot at a duel with you m3z.