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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

It's not 9AM Pacific time yet.

That's the stated beginning of the event.

Originally Posted by Tr3yTr3y

The suspense is KILLING meh!!!!

Originally Posted by Fulmens

I know my ignorance does not disprove your statement, but I never heard anyone say it was definitely a bug.

If I was the devs I would relabel it a feature, but that may be just me.

Originally Posted by __Divine__

AS is partial unresisted..the critical part to be exact. It is would be REALLY easy to placate and AS again in 4 seconds...just saying.

Originally Posted by B_Witched

With free reactivation and dbl xp and gr pre buy all hitting, any thoughts to moving back this weeks thurs and sun matches to next week? If freedom dings red like it always does it could make it hard for people to get on and lag tastic for those who do..

Originally Posted by RoboBug

lol. also, we didn't know traps was broken so it wasn't our fault we took turns walking into Arb's traps and getting slaughtered. /vr

Originally Posted by Borderline Boss

Okay, I'll add my 2 cents.

-Blasters don't do damage unless they have glad jav procs, which are 1.8billion influence. If you are not divine and buy your influence, or farm for them extensively, you will get out-blasted by controllers. Also please re-add unresisted damage, make everything like the old bugged TK blast.

-Controllers are not damage, please revert the mez changes and make people other than criticalkat use bf's again, thanks.

Originally Posted by Daemodand

The combat log says Taunt is auto-hit but I suspect it's lying to me. I've heard the Taunt portion makes a ToHit roll, but the -Range portion (the part I'm interested in) is auto-hit. In finalizing my approach to Taunt, I need to know if this is accurate or not.

Originally Posted by Supermax

I don't believe the devs ever said that tp droning is a valid tactic (they also never denied it though)....but they did very clearly say that tp'ing someone into a spawn of NPC's to get kills is a valid tactic. In fact, valid isn't the word they used. They made it sound like it's not only valid, but actually a great idea and something they themselves would do.

And considering getting killed by NPC's gives debt while being droned doesn't (a case of something negative vs nothing negative), it's pretty safe to assume they are ok with that too.

If that's not enough proof for you, consider the fact that people have complained about it for YEARS. Literally 100% complaints and petitions about it have been ignored. 100%. So yes, they consider droning a valid tactic.

Case closed.

Originally Posted by macskull

Musing here: I suggest everyone buy up Decimations, Devastations, and Apocalypses to resell for all the people leveling DP characters over double XP weekend.

Originally Posted by robobug

i love how easily pvp falls into drama.

Originally Posted by Punkture

Well I watched Vennetrix quite a bit of the time last night and his claims are not so far fetched. He was a great add to the team he was running and I watched him near solo a tank and scrapper using a pool and web nades trap setup. It was pretty sweet. He got other kills of note but these two I watched near the hero base were impressive. The tank is one of the more well built ones we see in the zone and he was defeated in less than 10 seconds with very little outside help. GG

I got sent to the hospital once on my main Corrupter over the nearly two hours I observed and played near him while he made, lets say a few more trips than I. From my vantage point I would have to say the SS / SJ combo was the superior escape travel setup in most of the situations I witnessed. He was suppressed a bit and spiked is what it looked like to me. As to be expected. But I am playing a Pain secondary and am a little more resilient to be fair.

However he did have some situations where he was able to hover out of range for many of the SS only users and got some lols out of me for his taunts and such. He did make good use of his Hover / TP setup quite a few times. He was able to make quite a few good escapes using invisibility or phase as he noted in his posts. I was able to make more escapes is all. Although they may have been gunning for him after some of his comments on here. Just to try and prove him wrong. I dont think they did.

I also observed how he attempted to pursue a few runners who either resisted the TP or he got a bad roll on it. I was not impressed much by the results of his pursuits. He did get ahead of the runner a few times but most escaped over the sustained pursuit. Pursuit with TP is a mixed bag. I will stick with my SS / SJ setup I think.

All in all, a very viable build but I still stand behind my earlier comments. I would not suggest this to a starting PVP player. I would suggest learning the ropes on a ranged toon but probably not that secondary to start with. That is not to say that I would never play a traps for PVP. I would think it will take much more practice, trial and error to refine the skill. A new player should start with something easier is my opinion.

Good work Vennetrix. Some of the later ire you are getting is because you really did well on that build last night.

Originally Posted by Clouded

Do you say the samething to scrappers?

Originally Posted by Tonality

Still, why play a brute in pvp?

It was more a jab at fury mechanics in PvP then a legitimate question.

Originally Posted by Buddha Bread

I know you probably don't want to share you're build with me, but I've tried building a mind/cold, and its so... tight. I cant possibly fit all that I want, what powers would I cut short on slotting with?

And someone told me a few weeks ago that mind/cold was pointless because there was too little damage, and too little -rech? Care to chime in?

Originally Posted by OneAboveAll

Couple other ideas I had....

Defiance 3.0 - Blaster damage is commensurate with the amount of endurance they have. Remove current buff blasters get from Defiance 2.0 including attacking while mezzed.

DMG Base <----> Potential Cap
END 0 <----> 100%

I think in this system, buffers aren't meaningless. I'm also on the bandwagon that there should be a cap on the amount of buff you can get though from external sources, and that the higher same type buff just trumps a preexisting weaker buff.

Defenders - Give Defenders Blaster Defiance 1.0. Since Defender damage is pretty bland. And everyone likes to go after the defender. This could help them out somewhat but not over power them.

DMG Cap <----> Base
HP 0 <----> 100%

Tanks(arena only) - The longer a tank stays alive or is not attacked the more damage they can do. So a timer(in background) or bar(for end user) continually increases a tanks damage potential(they would need to increase a tanks dmg modifier or cap to make this meaningful) and does not stop filling up until they are brought down to like 25% health.

Brutes -Reverse Fury in PvP. Start Brutes at full Fury, and the more damage they take reduce their damage potential.

All Melees - Increase travel speed by like 10% or Reduce Range travel speed by 10%

Maybe this can help solve the "only spike squishy syndrome" that we've had since day one in arena.

Originally Posted by OneAboveAll

Hmmm.....

what if the devs added a conditional based upon damage mitigated by AS on a target effecting the overall out of hide time.

The more damage you do the longer you are out of hide ranging from say 10-16 secs....of course they would need to bring back old AS values....and bring sharks inline with other epic ranged attacks.

Originally Posted by __Divine__

So why are you Mr. hot heals crying as well....you are not a team leader last time i checked...

p.s. might want to get a new forum account before they "catch on".

Originally Posted by B_Witched

ah yeah...I think you already checked in with miss on how she felt about that whole thing.