Xanthus_EU

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name: soaring dragon
global: @soaring dragon
At: lvl 50 tscraper
sets: kata/regen

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Wrong server, dude. Disregard this post.

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I'd sign up by any idea when it would take place, (time/date) sorry if i missed it, at work and should be working

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Fight nights will be on Thursday, starting from 7pm GMT. Sign-ups will close on the 25th of May, with the first fight night taking place the week after (1st of June).

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The sign-ups are actually full now (after a few hours! Whoah!) but if you're still interested, keep signing up. If we get more people, we might be able to make the competition even bigger!

Edit: One more space left. I'm not counting my own post, stupid brain.

Editx2: It's gone now. Sign up anyway!

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small point xanth, you havent signed up yet - are you not playing because you're the ref?


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I'm not playing because I have to ref over on Union :P You guys get Captain Morgan as the referee here though.

Also, the sign-ups are actually full now (after a few hours! Whoah!) but if you're still interested, keep signing up. If we get more people, we might be able to make the competition even bigger!

Edit: One more space left. I'm counting my own post, stupid brain.

Editx2: It's gone now. Sign up anyway!

Putting Empath on here, since he's lazy and isn't online:

Name: Empath
Global Handle: @Empath
Archetype: Defender
Powersets: Empathy/Elec

Once the servers go back up I'll be creating the global channel "3vP". It'd be a great help if those entering the tournament could join the channel to help with the organization of the tournament as a whole. It also means that you can hear the other servers results as they happen, and stay up-to-date with the general goings on of the tournament. A little trash-talk wouldn't go amiss either

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Taken from the '3vP is coming!' thread -
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Sign-ups will close on the 25th of May, with the first fight night taking place the week after (1st of June).

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Doesn't that mean if you get 24 or if it gets to the 25th?

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We weren't too sure originally, but chances are we'll let it run until we have 24 for both servers. At the rate that people are signing up now, we'll probably have 24 per server WAY before then.

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How do you randomize the teams, btw?

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Captain Morgan (the Union organizer) is going to pull the defiant teams out of a hat. I'll be doing the same for Union.

If we get silly teams like 3x Controllers or 3x Empaths we'll re-draw.

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Why do you have to put powersets on your sign up if it's random?

Also, how many sign ups are you accepting or how long are the signups open for?

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As it says in the rules, we're accepting up to 24 people. The powersets are there because I'll re-draw if (for example) I get a team of 3 empaths or something silly like that.

I know many of you guys who post here aren't really interested in PvP, but hopefully this competition should change that. Those of you who read the PvP boards will have already seen my post about a random-team based tournament.

Basically, the point of the tournament is to get non-PvPers interested in PvP. There'll be no "uber" teams, since the teams are COMPLETELY random each week so everyone has more of a chance of winning. You certainly don't need a PvP build to enter, and you don't need PvP experience either. Only playing a support toon? No problem! The best PvP teams all have support, and playing a support toon in PvP is more fun than you think (I should know :P).

If I've convinced you (or even if I haven't), head over to the sign-up thread and put your name down. You never know, you just might like it.....

Edit: Once the servers go back up I'll also be creating the global channel "3vP". It'd be a great help if those entering the tournament could join the channel to help with the organization of the tournament as a whole. It also means that you can hear the other servers results as they happen, and stay up-to-date with the general goings on of the tournament. A little trash-talk wouldn't go amiss either

I know many of you guys who post here aren't really interested in PvP, but hopefully this competition should change that. Those of you who read the PvP boards will have already seen my post about a random-team based tournament.

Basically, the point of the tournament is to get non-PvPers interested in PvP. There'll be no "uber" teams, since the teams are COMPLETELY random each week so everyone has more of a chance of winning. You certainly don't need a PvP build to enter, and you don't need PvP experience either. Only playing a support toon? No problem! The best PvP teams all have support, and playing a support toon in PvP is more fun than you think (I should know :P).

If I've convinced you (or even if I haven't), head over to the sign-up thread and put your name down. You never know, you just might like it.....

Edit: Once the servers go back up I'll also be creating the global channel "3vP". It'd be a great help if those entering the tournament could join the channel to help with the organization of the tournament as a whole. It also means that you can hear the other servers results as they happen, and stay up-to-date with the general goings on of the tournament. A little trash-talk wouldn't go amiss either

This thread is for signing up for 3vP tournament, the random-team PvP tournament discussed on this thread. This thread is for those of you taking part on the Defiant server. If you sign up, please do so using a format like this one:

Character name: Xanthus
Global Handle: @Xanthus
Archetype: Controller
Powersets: Gravity/Empathy

Please try not to post questions or comments on this thread, just keep it for signing up. If you want to ask questions or anything, you can do so on the thread in the PvP boards which I've linked to above.

One more thing; If you have a support toon PLEASE enter! This is team based, so you don't have to be able to get kills or survive 1vs1 to win the fight! Don't worry if you've never PvP'd before, either. This tournament isn't intended to be serious in any way, and there won't be any “uber teams” so everyone has a pretty much equal chance of winning.

Edit: Once the servers go back up I'll also be creating the global channel "3vP". It'd be a great help if those entering the tournament could join the channel to help with the organization of the tournament as a whole. It also means that you can hear the other servers results as they happen, and stay up-to-date with the general goings on of the tournament. A little trash-talk wouldn't go amiss either

Edit x2: The event is full now, but if you're interested keep signing up! If we get enough people, we could make this event even bigger.

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I think empaths are just like tanks..you don't REALLY need em but it can speed up things a lot..


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so you dont need either tanks nor empaths to team with you?
would love to see you handle an av or a gm without either´of them.

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Well, the other day we took down quite a few AVs (bobcat, siege/nightstar and praetorian Synapse whose name I can't remember for some reason) with just a sonic/sonic defender, fire/kin controller and a spines/regen scrapper. This was on Unyielding or Invincible iirc.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again: You do NOT need a tank and an empath to kill an AV. You don't even need a full team.

P.S. Imaginary has done Lusca by himself (yes, in i6). Does that count as doing a GM without a tank or an empath?

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Would take some co-ordination for everyone to stay together tho.

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And one fire blaster with 3 IDs on him to completely ruin your team. Even more so if he has the fire epic.

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Not if he doesn't have
1) any endurance to use any powers
2) with stacked ff's will need some boosting to hit and when it does, the sonic shields should give a reasonable reduction

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You're assuming the other team won't have buffed their own players at all. Besides which, if he flew above you and dropped down using the arena temp power there'd be nothing you could do about it.

Everything you're talking about is PbAoE pretty much. It's very easy to split a team up.

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Would take some co-ordination for everyone to stay together tho.

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And one fire blaster with 3 IDs on him to completely ruin your team. Even more so if he has the fire epic.

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Where do you get the percentage figure for the effectiveness of powers?

Thanks

Doc

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Sherksilvers Hero Planner has a lot of numbers in it, but resistance percentages are pretty easy to work out yourself if you have time to do a bit of testing and a spare friend.

The 16% I quoted is with 3 SOs in it. Defenders get almost 32% res out of the bubbles, hence why the primary is better. Yes they do stack, but how sensible is it to be standing next to a spines/regen in full whirling-death mode?

Problem with sonic for controllers is that the values for the shields are pretty low (something like 16%) so they aren't actually that good. Sonic Dispertion is handy, though, since it adds mez protection. On the other hand, you can get that from Dispertion Bubble in the FF set and you get quite a few more useful powers (from a controller point of view) from FF as well.

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My idea was this, granite is virtually unkillable (yes we all know how to pull them down) and would be basically a damage sponge. Yeah they are [censored] slow and granites -recharge is a proverbial which is why i considered the presence pool, so that at least one taunt would pretty much be ready when the need arises in PVP. I can see 2 methods of play where this could be useful, 1stly stay and fight around the aforementioned rock and secondly run to the rock should any player(s) be in trouble for them to pull the agro off. I find taunt really annoying and this would drive me absolutely nuts

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The thing is, while that sounds nice it's a lot easier to just have another tank moving around faster and then have an Empath to heal him/her.

And Chives, when we've used Powernova in team fights before he's been able to keep ID on all of us quite easily. Only one, mind, but that's all you need to be TP-proof.

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I dont play these kind of battles in the Arenas (yet) so am not au fait with the dynamics but wouldnt a decent Granite tank with the presence pool be a boon? 3 taunts and damn near unkillable.

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Except that you can just run away from a Granite tank and there's no way in hell they'll be able to keep up with you. Of course, if you have a kinetics on your team with 3 runs in SB it's a different story.

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just jump on a box and laugh at the granite tank

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Tp foe?

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Any sensible 8 man team has a kin/ or a /kin on it. ID gives teleport resistance. Even with TP, Granite based tankers are just too slow for high-level arena PvP.

Also, seriously stalk, have you ever seen a tanker with 2 taunts from the presence pool and taunt from their secondary?

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I dont play these kind of battles in the Arenas (yet) so am not au fait with the dynamics but wouldnt a decent Granite tank with the presence pool be a boon? 3 taunts and damn near unkillable.

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Except that you can just run away from a Granite tank and there's no way in hell they'll be able to keep up with you. Of course, if you have a kinetics on your team with 3 runs in SB it's a different story.

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since when doesn't pve need proper slotting...:P

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Anyone can get to 50, with any powers and any enhancements. It doesn't matter what you take, or how you slot it.

No Heal Other? Why?!

I can't say I like the way that you've slotted most of your powers, but I suppose I'm looking at it from a purely PvP standpoint. In PvE it doesn't really matter how you slot.

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Chances are the PD's won't show up in force.

Some of us are taking a break considering the way they've handled RV and the toggle dropping issue.

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Well, I've gotten us a blaster to replace Captain Freon. We just need a tank to replace Chav now.

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no problems holding an invul tank with gravity distortion (which ofcourse is a bit stronger than most holds)

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Erm, no it's not.

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same attack failed to hold alot of diff ATs (without domination) that used acrobatics and no break frees or other mez-res buffs.

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Acrobatics allows you to resist ONE non-controller/dominator hold.

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im guessing Dispersion bubble has about the same res-strength as acrobatics (assumption) and it can withstand 1 regular hold like char or block of ice.

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Dispersion Bubble resists 2 holds, iirc. The third one will go through and hold you.

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MOG? i need no stinking MOG To be honest I dont like "emergency buttons" in the vein of mog or elude (IH is enough like that for me now ) MOG also seems a little out of place in the lvl 38 powers to me atm too. Besides, what can MOG survive that Dull pain, IH and copious applications of reconstruction cannot?

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Force Bubble.