TheRing

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non-combat

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what is this "non-combat" you speak of?

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Wonder why he uses _Castle_ instead of just Castle?

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Castle is some other guy on some other job.

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If the things Blasters and Stalkers can do with EM haven't made us Nerf EM yet, absolutely nothing said here will. Carry on.

EDIT: Said Scrappers, meant Stalkers.

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Quoted for Truth

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Since when? Unless I'm mistaken, AS is like any other attack - once the attack is begun, the target could be superspeeding away and will still get hit...

...as long as the target is in LOS. I have to be honest and add the conditional modifier.

There is enough total BS on the topic of stalkers - let's not add any, folks. A more accurate version of your statement would be that never staying in an area long enough for anyone to queue an attack on you is a good defense against AS. This is true.

It is also not particularly useful advice.

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Whenever I hear "Build Up" go off, I immediately start running BACKWARDS. It's pavlovian, at this point. It's been a long time since anyone AS'd me successfully.

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note to self, hire build-up bait and attack castle from behind.

I got pictures of you, and your little dog too!!!!!

Yes PDS9, that was a fun little team. It was fun watching the swarm of orange on any one of us that ventured to far alone.

I'm still cracking up about that.

Windy was a stniking stalkermagnet as everyone was testing themselves against a stormie. She had some falls, but did pretty well I thought. I wouldn't have the cajones to step into a PvP zone with less thant DP'd Tanker hitpoints.

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Lady Lullabye... you have to admire her spirit!

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One of these days, tanker, ONE OF THESE DAYS!!!

i'll catch you afk

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Happy Birthday Sheema! Maybe today is your day!?!?!

Either way, it's good to see you around the boards!

hmm, I guess I killed someone in PvP.

I've put down Quason a few times, and vice versa. Always a close match.

Me and Cajun had a great fight, too close for me to be comfortable with a rematch. I prefer to be remembered as the victor thank you very much.

Lady Lullabye... you have to admire her spirit!

There has been others, I swear, just as a loss for some names right now.

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Ok, I'm hurt. I have annoyed almost EVRY hero in Sirens's Call, taken multiple butt whippings in FC (when I'm not being a blatant [censored] TK-ing for ring outs), and contributed mightily to all of your bounty goodies. Not even a honorable mention? I should be listed in every post here, because I'm pretty sure I have been killed at least once by everyone now. GIVE CRAPPY HIS LOVE!!

Mr. Craptastic- Lvl 36 Dominator, specializing in post-motem holds since 11/05!

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now THAT's funny.

5 stars fo....oh crap... nm.

you named 3 tough customers in the FC.
I've had a lot of fun and some luck in on that rooftop as of late. Looking forward to getting my brute and my corruptor up to level for that.

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There is a reason I bring prince instead of my blasters to fight club: it's designed to have my blaster always lose. Such is not balance.

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My 24 Inv/SS Brute was thoroughly smoked by the following BLASTERS.


2x */Energy Melee
1x Ar/Dev
1x Ice/Ice

Now if you are talking corruptors versus melee, I dunno. It does seem like corruptors are poor versus tanks, but in a Brute/Corruptor Duo we went 1-1 with a Tank/Blaster Duo. That with us being anemic on the enhancements.

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There are tons of powers that counter fly in this game. Hurl Boulder just happens to be one.


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Check the Range on it, it's pretty much the same as SS\Hurl and both require you to be on the ground.

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When did I use the word inferior? Hmmm


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it eminates from your tone. When you tell peoiple they are ruinging the game and such, what do you really expect? I've known you for a while mage, don't pretend people can't read you.

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Its my opinion shared by others, I can say it if I want. Thats why i come to the boards to post my opinions. If you don't like my opinion tough. Noone forced you to respond to any of my posts on this subject. Im not sure why you have to have my approval here.

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I didn't say you couldn't say what you want, but if you are going to go around telling people they are essentially wrong, using the game inappropriately (against the dev's vision) or ruining YOUR game, then you had better expect some opposition. The last thing I want is your approval, nor do I want endorsement, possibly not even closure.

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Hehehe The 5th rule of Fight Club.....Noone can have a negative opinion of Fight Club!

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Actually, I think the rule you are referring to is "don't disagree with Mage Storm".

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I guess I wouldn't know what I am talking about Ive only done countless arena matches and spent hours In PvP zones.


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Thanks for the resume, it's isn't relevant, but I'll print it up in-case I see an opening for a PvP ME-vangelist.

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I said its safe because you don't have to worry about thinking of how to counter multiple foes. I said it was easy because you don't have to think about using the Z Axis very much nor how to counter someones movements.

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Saying something is safe because you don't have multiple bogeys is rediculous because they don't have multiple bogey's either. That means you both have the total attention of the other player.

In case you aren't familiar with how that works, if you give a sniper 1 bullet against 100 enemies, unless they all line up real pretty like, only 1 person isn't safe. That means 99 people are completely safe.

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Staying only on a roof makes certain that a ranged AT's range isnt an advantage it should be. Sounds great for the melee.


Staying only on a roof makes sure that a Rad, or Dark can keep a debuff on you well when in a real open PvP situation its logical and almost expected to move far enough for the Debuff to fall off. Same with Storm and Hurricane.
The ability to keep moving is a a chief defense of stalkers. The limited area that is greatly shortened.

I could go on and on.


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Well, being able to fly away and engage from range totally nullifying a melee players effectiveness doesn't sound very great for melee does it? Are you trying to say that the only way you enjoy playing is with the advantage?

Not that it matters, plenty of ranged characters did pretty well in the Fight Club I attended, and if some build you don't want to fight challenges you, you don't have to accept.

But it really boils down to a couple simple facts.

1.) For every reason you can come up with why fight club is an inferior mechanic for PvP, fans of it can come up with a counter-point.

You can make PvP sound all sexy top-gun with the rocket science and all that, but it isn't. It's rock-paper-scissors with a lot of button mashing and some pretty graphics. For the majority of encounters that aren't build-decided (I.E. You can hit me but I can't hit you) theres a bit of luck that can decide it. No where in there does it require an amazing math co-processor in the cranium.

Now don't get me wrong, It's a hoot as far as I'm concerned, but don't go telling me that only your way is a hoot, and everybody elses way is ruining the game. Last I checked, I paid 15 dollars to have fun this month, not 15 dollars for you to have fun. The few times I was in Sirens Call previously, it was a far cry from the EoB event, so it's not like something has been taken away from you.

2) Sitting around on your tookus waiting for SC to be YOUR kind of fun and [censored] about other peoples initiative to make SC their kind of fun is silly. You want SC to be your kind of fun, make it so. I wouldn't rely on you average SO hungry bounty hunters to make it that way, i would find an opposing sg to have a 3 team event. You obviously can't have a zone locked down for Sg v SG action, but the stragglers of each side that zone in will likely end up contributing to the organized action in accidental ways. Besides, that buys you more runners to respect while you unsafely skirt around the frey in the FEBA.

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And mage, they aren't standing around on a roof, they are fighting, honorably, in a no run-away fashion.

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Sure because its so easy and safe to just stand there and slap each other.

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ha, you clearly don't know what you are talking about. thats what they do, they sit around and slap each other safely. whatever.

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I think they ruin the zone. They take everyone that should be out dispersed doing whatever taking hotspots or something and have them standing around on a roof.

You mean I can't collect my bounty because he happens to be sitting on top of a roof spectating?

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well, I got 1 shotted by quason tonight as a spectator and I thought it was funny, so I pretty much think you are welcome to nail spectators as much as you want.

I haven't had that much fun PvPing EVER as I did tonight in Fight Club.

And mage, they aren't standing around on a roof, they are fighting, honorably, in a no run-away fashion. People are having genuine fun. I'll take that over the hyper-runaway attacks of the siren's call mechanic.

Whats all this fuss about bounty anyway. I seem to remember making it to 50 once without it.

come to Champion's Tanker Tuesday to see whats special about tanks!

Global: @Ring

Heroes
Ring : 50 : Inv/SS Tanker
Cap'n Comet : 43 : Ice/Em Tanker
Meteor Mite : 34 : Fire/Fire Tanker
Smashteroid : 29 : Stone/Stone Tanker
Devil-Dog : 29 : AR/Dev Blaster
Rumbleweed : 25 : Spines/Dark Scrapper
Quickbolt : 12 : Elec/Elec Blaster

Villains
Grip : 25 : SS/Inv Brute
Pretty Hate Machine : 7 : Claws/EA Stalker
Wildflower : 7 : Plant/Thorns Dominator
Mr. Angstrom : 5 : Dark/Dark Corruptor

Teamed up with (Not-so) Silent Spy with a cameo appearance by NeoRadiation for that council beatdown that is the Moonfire TF.

Great team, thanks for the invite!

eeek, you say that as if it were a bad thing, lil' Miss TooBusyToBeFriends :P.

Upsen helped me out with an AV that 3 of us couldn't manage (though 4 did just fine). Thanks for saving the day Upsen!


I got an invite to one of JG0001's notorious PuGs last night. We pretty much cleaned house though I was a little off my game due to the trackball, and generally lower performance of my non-cooked-cpu machine (XP2000+ w/ GF ti4600). Anyway, it was a good team-up, thanks for the invite.

I have also recently had the pleasure of teaming with the Dazzling Anne "Music is my Boyfriend" Blaze.

And on a completely unrelated note, where do you go in Paragon City to change one's name... to "Music" or something.

It warms my heart to see all the best wishes to your brother, and there are plenty more from me I assure you. He is a helluva guy to be doing what he is doing, and the best thing is that soon he will be surrounded by people just as amazing as he is.

3 cheers for the selfless!

Having served in that theater back in beta (GW1), I can honestly say I don't envy his deployment but i do envy his spirit. Even tho he is Army, a big fat Semper Fi from me!

What an adorable family! Great pictures.

Welcome back to Paragon City, if you and your hubby even need a team, just holler.

Wow, you people are great (crazy) but great.

Hmm, in my last posty, I didn't give details. here is me.

34yr old Web Developer in STL MO.
Father of a wonderful (holy cow almost 3yr old) daughter.
I enjoy Pizza, Mountain Biking, making pigtails, helping the overpriveleged for handouts, writing, reading, fingerpainting, playing computer games, and freaking out over what I am going to do when my little angel hits the "difficult years".

Here is our latest picture
(Taken on Memorial day by a dutiful Zoo girl)

And by popular demand, my little patriot
(yes I did her hair, why is that so hard to believe?)

If you are ever in St. Louis, you MUST visit our Zoo. It is awesome!

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At the very least this ADHD syndrome needs to be removed from Rage for the sake of teams. The penalty is completely out of synch with the power and the AT. It does nothing to put the tanker in danger. I'm still just as invulnerable when Rage crashes as I am when it's not crashing; I'm not going to die in ten seconds because I can't throw a punch. The team, however, suddenly becomes seriously threatened. No other power has a penalty which endangers the entire team. The penalty needs to be one that endangers the tanker and not the team, instead of the other way around.

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If you put the tanker in danger, you are putting the team in danger.
It makes much more sense for my Inv/SS tanker to have to take a break from swinging his arms and helplessly struggle to get back into the fight to save his friends that are now subject to more enemy attention, then it does for him to punch himself to death.

Okay, here's me and my squishie.

And here is on of me and a firey controller that I haven't teamed with in a while

Currently accepting teaming offers, so forward them to me pls.

Command line SGWhoall [sg name string]

/sgwhoall "The Watchguard"

returns a list of everyone online in The Watchguard SG.

Can you do it?

(oh yeah, and fix the sorting for online as it is currently an alpha sort)