The_Masque

I couldn't agree with you more on this. I still think that well organized teams will be able to get through this in 30(ish) minutes if they do two cycles at the obelisks and two cycles on the AV. However, timing is so tight (~30 sec widow) that just a few secs will make the teams go through another 2 cycle phase.

Is this still on Slax? Can it be claimed per kill, because I know where he hides and I can replace his farmer with my fire/kin..... just saying.

I think Endlessly hit the nail on the head.

Great question Flux, I actually have been meaning to post something along these lines but haven't gotten around to it yet (stupid RL). Instead of talking about what ATs make up a typical PvP team, lets talk about the different roles on a PvP team:

Damage-Typically Blasters and Stalkers. Their role is to spike targets, they need to be able to tab through various targets and "lock" on a common target then attack in a coordinated fashion to "spike" a target. The goal is to have as much damage coming in a single packet so that the target can not heal/evade/receive heals/phase/hibernate.

Buffs-The most commonly found is Empathy. Empaths (which Psoma covered very nicely) typically are on a team to pass Clear Minds around so that everyone can see stealthed targets, as well heal the spike targets.

Debuffs- Typically Rads (some times sonic and colds)- their job is either increase the effectiveness of a spike (by decreasing the targets resistance).

Disruption- There are many different types of disruption and different types of ATs that disrupt on a PvP team. Brutes/Tanks can act as taunt bots, their goal is to remove one player from the opposing team from the match. They do so by perma taunting (and webnading if brute) so that the target can not lock and participate with spikes. Other power sets that work well as disruption include: Gravity, Cold, Mind, Force Field,Trick Arrow, Storms. Even MM's could be classified as Disruption by summoning multiple pets it makes it more difficult for a team to lock on a target that is hiding in the masses of pets.

Strategies- well if you boil it all down, the goal is simply to kill more then you die. If you can out lock and spike your opponents then you may bring 6 blasters 2 emps. If you have 2 really good stalkers on your team you may try to set up Assassin Strikes by bringing in something that can immob/hold/stun a target for a few seconds. If you know the team you are facing is relying on stalkers you might want to bring a fortunata who with double tactics +perception IO can see a stalker in hide. There are so many different strategies it would be very difficult to list everything that people do or run, but maybe in further posting we can cover some of the teams that have been successful.

Team Size- Well the league that just finished had 2 team sizes: 8v8 and 6v6. There are some other league/events like Pinn Cup which I believe are 2v2. Strategies with team sizes are very important as well because if your team is only 2v2 you can't have damage/buff/debuff/disruption.... or can you... You could play 2 sonic/pain doms, both of you buff each other, heal each other, debuff via sonic attacks, damage via sonic attacks and disrupt using stun attacks to set up more powerful spikes.

Anyway, I will try to work on getting some people to post 'lectures' about the different roles.

OMG its a shu!