The_Masque

MP is correct.

If after 3 rounds we are tied we will play a tiebreaker match.

Yes to all of the above.

P3 can win if the take all 3 rounds. If they win 2 and tie the last round the scores are tied. If PH wins a round they win.

Had a lot of fun yesterday with practice and KBing afterwards.

For those of you who missed it- we had a short meeting where I passed out a draft of bootcamp2. I will try to email all the rest of you the draft as well as the proposed rules for next season.


Next Friday is the final match- Currently PH is up by 10 pts over P3.

Practice tonight- 9pm est- we will focus on TK.

Short meeting to follow concerning Boot Camp 2.

If people still have time and want to PvP we will run an open KB and invite all of Victory.

I'll take a different route here. I formed tons of Kahns, LGTFs, and STF/LRSFs and honestly, it was kind of fun meeting players I had never met before. Even with team of 3 players I knew and 5 pick up players (we shall call them PuPs) the TFs were never longer then anticipated (I think I had a STF that went 47 mins).


Sometimes it maybe that persons 1st time running a tf in a 'speedy' fashion and in those cases I usually try to communicate with that person via tells as what we are doing for the mission we are on as well as the next mission. I can't think of anyone who actively complained during the WTFs that we were speeding, I think most of the angst against speed runs is that people think they will end up face planting a lot while the team runs off and leaves them behind. This 'can' happen but it doesn't take that much longer to clear to objectives or tp people to objectives if they can't stealth.

So yeah, I really haven't had any bad teams since these WTFs started.


(Had a horrible 2.5 hour LGTF a few weeks before, but I'm trying to block that out).

Beer has been around for thousands of years, and there is always another Friday. Besides who goes out at 9pm est on a Friday, thats still way to early.

PvP in this game is 'interesting'.

There is a bit of learning curve because there are two sets of rules in this game. Your character's powers/shields/resistances work one in PvE and another way in PvP.

One of the nice things that has been implemented was the use of dual (now triple) builds. This allows you to have one character who has a PvE build and another build that could be spec'd for PvP.

I find PvP in this game to be a great break from the same old PvE tactics. After a while fighting the same groups in the same missions resulting in the same outcomes can get a bit a boring. With PvP at least you are fighting someone who can(should) adapt and learn from your tactics and may act(react) in surprising ways.

Currently, I would say there are three types of PvP in this game:

1) Zone- there are large maps where anyone can enter and PvP against players of the opposite faction (there is one exception to this). These zones have different levels: 15-20 Bloody Bay, 20-30 Sirens Call, 30-40 Warburg (this zone is a complete free for all, you can attack your own faction as well), 40-50 Recluse Victory. Each zone has a 'mini-game' attached to it that can lead to nice temp powers. 99.5% of the time all the zones on Victory are a ghost town. Which honestly, I am ok with. Zone PvP in my opinion was always the worst PvP in the game. Sides were never even,and there was way too much broadcast PvP.

2) Duels- some people call this fight clubbing. People want to test their builds 1v1 against other opponents. This is done in both zone or arena. In zone you are affected by the PvP rules of travel suppression, heal decay, diminishing returns as well as the PvP inherent resistances. While in arena you can turn all of these off except the PvP inherent resistances.

3) Arena team PvP- team matches or free for alls, set up to run in instanced maps via the 'arena terminal' you used to have to travel to a specific location to access a terminal now it is in your options menu. I find this type of PvP to be the most fun, as you can play a buff/debuff/disruption type of character which may not be as successful in zone or duels, so there are a lot more options of what to play.

Having said all that, success in PvP come from 4 things: Having the right build (this might be the most important part), skill (maybe the 2nd most important), 'gear' (this is what turns a lot of players off from PvP is the expense that it takes to fully outfit a character for PvP can be more then a casual player will ever see after years of playing the game), and luck.

If you are interested in City of Heroes PvP I know those of us running PvP University and PvP Boot Camp would welcome you to our event which should be starting up in the next month or so. It will be low key, low cost, entry level pvp, designed to help people understand the differences between the PvE and PvP game.

Friday 9pm est. Matches are every other week (for this season). We are down to our last practice then final match is slated for March 4th.

PvP Boot Camp2 is in the works.

Hey, welcome to Victory.

I said it after our matches but it really deserves repeating, you guys really impress me. You have made tremendous strides in locking, evading and over all just thinking about the PvP aspect of this game.

Great matches tonight, by far, the closest matches we have had all season long.

Steel- 5:4 P3 over PH
Graveyard- 8:9 PH over P3
Skyway- 2:6 PH over P3


Next weeks practice I'd like to run some target calling drills and maybe talk about TK and how we can use it more effectively.

Friday 2/18/11 @ 9pm est. 5th round of matches for PvP Boot Camp.



This week’s matches will be 6v6's (we will run 8v8's if both teams can field 8 players).


Rules:

1) Common/Uncommon Alpha slotting is allowed, however, no rare (t3, level shifted) alpha boosts.

2) Matches will be set to SHW, with Heal Decay and Travel Suppression turned off, small inspirations only.

3) Any and all characters that a player has (on their global account) is eligible for this event, you are not limited to just the PvP U character you created. Stalkers will be limited to 2 per team per round.

4) All players must be played at least once.

5) The following maps are playable: Atlas, Steel, Skyway, Cargoship, Perez, Outbreak and Striga.


6) Resets on maps due to crashing/zoning errors/vent crashes are allowed once per round, per team, within the first 2 minutes of the match.

Points:
Win= 5 pts
Tie= 2 pt
Loss= 0 pts

Note: there will no longer be attendance pts.


Both teams will submit lineups via private tell to me, once both teams have submitted a lineup I will broadcast it and the teams will take turns listing the event and selecting the map.


We will have a coin toss to decide home team for this week's matches. Winner will select list and have map selection for the 1st match.
The second round will be listed by the other team and the third round will be listed by the home team but the map will be set to random.

Prizes this week:

Each team will bank 200 million per win, 125 million per tie and 50 million per loss. These funds will be divided up equally amongst the team members who show up for all 3 rounds (if you have to leave early or show up late, it will be up to your team captain as to if you will receive your portion of the funds).

Miss you too Sunny

Awesome, hey Merc.

2 matches.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

I watched 6 movies, took the family out to dinner twice, did a bunch of cleaning around the house and got my garden ready for spring.

In game, I did a bunch of pvp practice, ran a 2.5 hour lgtf, a khan, a posi part 1 and 2 and a freakspec. (Oh I think there was a stf in there as well).

I am begining to really dislike double xp weekends, I think that 2.5 hour LGTF killed it for me on Friday morning. I had a few tfs where the people on it were unslotted or "my enhancements just turned red" and then they felt they best served the group by following behind and not really doing much.

I am glad its monday.

I honestly have not played or played against that many KM stalkers, however looking at the numbers, it should be decent.


Both of the assassin strikes hit for 139 pts of damage (unslotted) however, if you look at the next 'good' melee attack for KM concentrated strike hits for 179 pts of damage while thunderstrike is 193 pts of damage. CS will make your build up recharge while thunderstrike can crit multiple times.

As far as seondaries-
wp is pretty awesome for stalkers as it gives max hp and a self heal.
regen is nice if you build for hp and rechage because you have a self heal, a max hp)+heal) and a +regen.

Looking things over, I'd either try a km/wp or a elec/wp... I'd lean towards km as thunderstrike maybe a broken power and might get fixed.

Out of the builds you listed, I would guess the easiest to play would be KM/Regen. KM/Ele is what I built due to higher psi resists. I could also see a KM/wp being decent if you built for +HP and had an escape power like phase.

While there are a few people out there who pvp on claws the damage output on this powerset is a little lower then what most people are looking for in pvp.


In anycase, I always try to build for +hp, try to proc your attacks, and pick up something that can immob/hold/mez your target so you can close on them and get into melee.

Taunt is also nice, as it does a decent -range, and if you are on a team with a squishy you can keep them from being spiked.