The Katalyst
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Quote:Thank you sir, you are a god among men, and there's not many of us left.Originally Posted by recalx
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Quote:Just so you know, you will probably eventually have to choose 1 3rd option, I don't know what Phoenix will say, but the rules he set up are only 3 characters per player. Just wanted to throw that out there.Originally Posted by OneAboveAll
-- What are your global handles/recognizable names? @iniquitos
-- What are the Names/Sets/ATs of the toons that you are going to use?
1) Hellsprung - Demon/Pain MM
2) Disastra - rad/dark Cor
3) Praetorus - Arch/Rad Cor or Oblivion Rad/EM Blaster -
I lost the Mumble info when my old computer died, it would be helpful if I could get it back. You can just PM me or something, or send me a message on Steam, doesn't matter.
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Quote:Don't bring me into this.Originally Posted by Rikti
God forbid you be like Katalyst or whoever else that is actually helpful with their posts without being an *******.
Oh, and FWIW, barrier brings up good points, he is just far more direct about it then I would be. -
Quote:lol.Originally Posted by Daknah
To those claiming that the other thread (something something i13) is a necro thread please learn what necro threads are first.
This is a necro thread. Also this has Frost Elf D in it so enjoy. -
Quote:Damn, I guess I missed my chance to prove I am the supreme master of Kheldians. My life is now empty.Originally Posted by MrLiberty
Sadly with the 90 confirmed globals from BattleWraithsLife and another 10 from interest found in Protector Arena chat, the sign ups for now are closed until next year.
Its busy this time of year, but I'll update the ladder with globals here within the next few days.
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Quote:I hope you realize this thread is a joke and you are just playing along.Originally Posted by Black_Assassin
I just checked thats 2am in the morning so that sucks
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Quote:Blaze Mastery can actually be fairly good if you take Reactive, which you should anyways. It doesn't have the burst of Sharks, but it will out DPS sharks in a fairly short window if you spam Char/Fire Blast/RoF. Fire Blast can crit from hide, also, but the crit is much smaller then Sharks.Originally Posted by recalx
if you aren't taking shraks, you're gimping yourself.
"thank you come again." -musey
Sharks is probably the overall better choice, but Blaze Mastery can be pretty fun on a Stalker. -
Quote:It's true the way scourge works can make Psy less predictable, but that goes both ways. If you activate your attack chain before scourge range, then it doesn't do much good, but if you activate it after, even if they heal above scourge range, they will still have the scourge range value of when the attacks were activated, which can screw people over pretty bad.Originally Posted by Sinistar6000
I think a discussion we should get into is the games way of calculating scourge and delayed damage.
Some argue that this makes psi a bad choice.
I am biased because I do have a psi/poison, and of course, after incarnating and accolades I want the choice to be good. However If it is a bad choice we can help someone not make that mistake.
My 2 cents, the whole not getting scourge argument is overstated because when psi does scourge it is crazy and hard to account for by opponents.
It's a good combo, we've seen it in practice and it's been effective, and this is coming from one of those people who originally thought it was going to be pretty mediocre. -
Quote:Possibly, but I've never played a Stormy very extensively, so any build I make for a Stormy should probably be taken with a grain of salt. I'll look into it later, just checking the boards before bed.Originally Posted by False_Fiction
That's awesome news actually. My fave toon happens to be Storm/Dark
You think you could put a build together for me? I'm funded, but I wouldn't want to spend 10bil on a build. Just something that would work fine.
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Signing up in case I decide I actually want to do this later.
@TheKatalyst
1) Storm/Fire Defender "Ms. Tropicano" (She's like 36, I can always PL her to 50 when I'm not being lazy)
2) Fire/Mental Blaster "Ms. Mentaliburn"
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Quote:Dark/Dark Scrapper, really? I will laugh if that guy is able to beat any of you.Originally Posted by lll Phoenix lll
Signing up a friend
-- What are your global handles/recognizable names? @sS REAPER Ss
-- What are the Names/Sets/ATs of the toons that you are going to use?
1) sS REAPER Ss - dark/dark scrapper
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Quote:Well, unfortunately we are kind of forced to use KM as a benchmark in terms of non fiteklub style PvP (zone, team arena). It's not that KM is OP so much as it is that the rest of the melee sets just don't compare. Closest you would get is MA if you get lucky crit streaks, which does happen pretty frequently, and can outdamage KM if you're lucky.Originally Posted by Kioshi
I'm guessing it's because it's a stupid heavy AoE set, that's why it's getting a lot of love on PvE. It has 3 ST attacks and 4 AoEs, people are saying they're soloing at x6 at DO level (the first AoE does +def and the 3 others do KD so you have plenty of mitigation quite early since at level 18 you have all but Arc of Destruction). And if you look at CoD, the longest casting attack at 2.7 secs, AoE, is a huge cone so it doesn't do as much damage as the 2.3 second one (Rend Armor which is very close to GFS in damage and cast time in PvE) - on CoD you have to look at the 'pet' values since the momentum version is considered a different power but the fast cast versions are always lower damage in PvP. So anyway the hard hitter from the set is no CS.
The fact that two of the attacks (one of the STs and the Footstomp clone) are usable only in momentum might hurt it too, and also that in beta the BU power was replaced by Build Momentum which grants less +damage than plain old BU.
Basically, I'm saying KM is good, and the rest of the melee sets are bad, so if a melee set can't outperform KM, then it's basically just bad, in PvP terms. I think KM only seems OP because the rest of the Melee primaries are so underpowered, outside of fiteklub and SS. Kind of a different issue, but I saw you compared it to CS and just wanted to point out that it's very fair to do so for melee sets.
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Quote:Ah, well, I guess I stand corrected then. Regardless, I've heard nothing good about TW in PvP as of yet, although I don't know many people who built any PvP toons using TW.Originally Posted by Kioshi
Yup, I did, but honestly it isn't slower than starting with KO Blow (my usual opener Defensive Sweep is 2.2 secs, there's also a 2sec attack, crushing blow).
And if there was a delay to make it 'slower than any other melee attack' the math gurus in the scrapper boards would be all over it (as in the beta feedback which I participated - arc of destruction originally was 2.50 secs and was changed to 2.70). The one that had a slight delay on beta was Crushing Blow and because of the complaints Synapse reduced it to the intended number (2 secs).
Anyway according to City of Data the fast versions of the attacks (Momentum) shows less damage in PvP than the non-Momentum ones.
Like Rend Armor:
2.3 sec cast time: 178.62 Smashing damage [PvE] - 169.12 Smashing damage [PvP]
1.3 sec (Momentum): 178.62 Smashing damage [PvE] - 124.44 Smashing damage [PvP] -
Quote:With the added heal and what not, EA isn't COMPLETELY useless outside of OL -- but you're right about EA being all about the T9. If you're taking a defense set that has a godmode T9 and you don't build around it, you may as well not take that set. Those are the main advantages of those types of sets that say, something like Regen doesn't have.Originally Posted by Mortilance
The only reason to go EA is Overload because of the elusivity stack. With Overload up you have elusivity numbers like before it was nerfed, you are pretty much un-killable in Overload. Outside of Overload EA sucks quite bad, so imo, you may want to fit Overload and burnout in your build.
Also, if you use burnout when Overload is blinking and then repop it, your end will crash but not your recovery so you can soon toggle back up the 1 or 2 toggles that drop from the end crash. 6 minutes of Overload and an extra minute from Archmage/Demonic puts you in godmode for 7 minutes.
If you REALLY don't want to rely on a t9 then roll a shield tank because they can get pretty solid defense numbers.
As for your epic, if you plan to use this in RV then I would go weapons mastery for web grenade and targetting drone, web grenades screw over every squishy toon seeing as their only means of kiting your melee is jumping; or go the leadership/hibernate route.
Goodluck.
Morti.
So, things like SR, EA, Ninjitsu for Stalkers, etc... All of those should have some amount of focus on the T9, imo. Also, not taking burnout on a T9 reliant set would probably be a mistake.
Also, I will second Weapons Mastery. Web Nades made playing my KM/Invuln in RV actually bearable, as did spamming Shuriken but that was mostly for lulz. -
Quote:Have you actually used the set? With no momentum, there is an added delay outside of their regular animation times. It would be fairly hard to keep momentum up in a PvP zone.Originally Posted by Kioshi
Lol no, the longest ST attack is 2.3 seconds (Rend Armor) and the longest AoE is Arc of Destruction (2.7). So... longest ST is basically KO Blow in cast time and the longest AoE is still faster than CS, Total Focus, 1kCuts and whatev.
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Quote:Oh dayum. I feel all warm and fuzzy.Originally Posted by lll Phoenix lll
No problem bro. tbh its fun :P. Actually I want to thank you because I borrowed some of the rules you had in the league to make it look more decent.
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Quote:I think if you are going to make a storm, you would definitely want a fender. Beyond that, you would probably want to either go storm/dark for kind of added survivability, or storm/fire if you want a damage focused secondary. I don't think storm trollers are nearly as good as they were pre-i13, while Storm fenders can still dish out some pretty good debuffs and damage, especially if you are able to land freezing rain reliably, and keep them hurricane'd and stuff.Originally Posted by False_Fiction
Just out of curiosity, which Storm combos (both troller and defender) would you consider to do well/fine in RV?
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Quote:That's actually something I didn't realize. That would definitely be a problem, I really hope that they are made aware of that, would hate to see Stalkers become even more lulzy as a result of a "buff".Originally Posted by MrLiberty
Something worth noting with this change, as of right now, I can be out of hide for 6 seconds, drop into AS animation and get the full Crit as you go back into hide while it animates. With this change, you wil need to wait the full 8 seconds before you even think about using AS otherwise you'll end up with some worthless out of hide stalker attack.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Rikti
They're the best. Clearly.
The league is over, most people don't care about it at this point. Bringing up WARE like this just makes you look butthurt. It is entertaining to me that somebody who wasn't even in the league seems so intent on commentating about it, though.
Look at that as advice as opposed to an insult.
EDIT: Sorry for clogging up your event thread with garbage, Phoenix. -
Quote:God damnit, I was getting so excited about this event until I saw this. It sounded so legit!Originally Posted by MrLiberty
This will be held on protector.
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"The one who maintained their health and damage throughout the fight will be declared the victor." How exactly do you plan to police this? With such a possibly subjective rule, you will get lots and lots of QQ from angry people who lost when they thought they should have won due to this rule.
Also, if you're going to have no inspiration semi-finals, you may as well remove the ranged portion of the tourny. No ranged duelists fight without small inspirations.
Figured I would have a stab at a semi-constructive response since everybody else already said what I would have said in a trollish response.
Oh also, that initial 2v2 round thing... That's a terrible idea, I would get rid of that completely. I don't think you can salvage this tourny without completely re-creating the rules from the ground-up, good luck. -
Quote:I agree.Originally Posted by Elite_Jupiterian
Show us your appreciation by removing HD TS. You know you want to.
Oh yeah and you guys still owe me a T shirt
The ocho left/went a wall and forgot to send out the prizes to some of the people in u2bg. I think a little compensation is in order
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Quote:CN getting to place 4th made Exile disbanding worth it, to me, although I do wish we were able to play our final matches against Shenanigans and possibly WARE since those were the most fun matchups for us. **** happens, I suppose.Originally Posted by The_Masque
This actually would have been funny if it hadn't already been done (tried) in the champion league.
Thanks for all the fun matches everyone. I was really glad that those nuggets made it through the whole season, I'm sure they would have shown up for the semi and finals if they had known they had more matches.
Hemm really tried to step up and keep Honeybadgers together when the leadership on that team got busy with RL and that was really great to see as well.
I'm glad Philly finally got on a team that appreciated her.
It sucks we didn't get to play Exile again, I think out of all the teams we were the closest matched and those matches were always a lot of fun.
Ware kept things funny and like exile we had a good time playing against them.
Also I was pretty impressed that Zwillinger actually came to almost all (didn't he miss only one?) of CN's matches that was really cool.
And yeah, I know I am pretty happy with Zwillinger in his dealings with the league and PvP community so far, and I told him so.
As for the DQ thing, the FAPpers and I certainly found it funny, sure WARE did also. -
Quote:He needs to know their forum names, also. He is PMing the codes to forum accounts.Originally Posted by Phillygirl
Here are ones you missed from FAP i'll PM Z with this as well, thanks Kat.
@Starr Struck
@Kurgain, @Kurgain-
@Wahoo , @Wahoo1
@Ghetto Bug
@Kalibash & @Kalibash2
@Detroit Hustle
@Van Wilder
@iMidget
@H E A T E R, @Scarlet's Kiss
@-Mini