black_barrier

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  1. black_barrier

    Elec Stalkers?

    EM is not great.

    1. you have no ranged attacks, so compared to spines, you're forced into melee a lot more, when you could be impaling from range in order to get a kill shot.
    2. bone smasher is essentially the same as havoc punch from elec so you can't make an argument for bone smasher's animation being a good follow-up, since well, elec can do that too.
    3. ET does not crit for damage.
    4. TS crits for damage once or twice and is heavily proc-able.
    5. TF does not crit for full damage and should be buffed.


    there is no reason to roll an EM stalker when you can rely on the awesomeness that is double proc'd impale or the straight up amazingness that is thunder strike.
  2. my grav/kin was super cheap.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by IcyKiri View Post
    I disagree... In zones with the prevalence of TA's, Quicksand (earth mastery tanks) and caltrops on every fcking scrapper, you are going to need phase and hibernate. You use hibernate for initial phase/HP Recovery and then pop out with phase to escape. If you do not double phase you will die 80% of the times you come out of hibernate.

    In team pvp, I will concede that phase is mostly useless. However in the odd time you fight a team with an extremely good TA you may need phase to lose acid arrow.

    IMO if you are playing a stalker without a defensive tier9 or shadowmeld you need to take both Hiber and Phase.

    -Kiri
    very much disagree, kiri.
    in zone, you really dont need hiber if you have phase and a heal. no heal takes longer than the phase timer to recharge, so once you're inside phase, you can heal up if you really need to.

    also, phase requires 0 slot investment.

    hibernate on the other hand, requires that you slot at least the equivalent of two heal SOs to make it even remotely comparable to lolrest.
    i could see making an argument for using hibernate on an /sr on a /ea, but definitely not on a wp/nin/regin.
    in the time it takes you wait til the hibernate regen kicks in, can go into rest and gain more hp out of it with a single green so slotted into it, while still being able to hit reconstruction if you are wp/nin/regin. warhamster did the math on that already.

    also, phase is most definitely not useless in a team pvp match.
    i've gotten my fair share of thunderstrike/shrak phase kills on my elec/ea (back when i didn't have many kb resistant toons and insisted on stalking/shraking).

    finally, on a stalker, you should always be in evasion mode. you get touched, you run the crap away to get back into hide. anyone who stalked even once in the old ladder will tell you that as soon as you get hit, you need to gtfout asap and get back into hide order to do your job because once you're out of a hide, you become a really nice target if people that understand how ridiculously squishy stalkers are, is calling.
    if you go straight into hibernate when you're being attacked, you will, more likely than not, take an extra hit of damage since you just stood still for 1.5 secs while the stupid thing animates and activates. that's 1.5 secs and a reset into your hide counter that you dont get if you phase and while running. 1.5 secs when you have the likes of march or hot trying to gerbil up your *** with their stupid grav dots is the difference between having to wait 5 seconds for crush to stop dot-ing or 10 seconds for a second crush to stop dot-ing. that happening 5 times during the match means you have just been taken out of 5 spikes/potential kills.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rent_ View Post
    That's how it works. You must be subbed to log in to the forums.
    this is how it works: retarded people are retarded.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by RidgwaysDemon View Post
    What are your in-game Globals?: @Braydar206

    What characters do you have on Freedom?:

    ----HEROES----
    Psiona Winter-psi/cold Blaster
    Freeze-ice/em Blaster
    Heaterz- fire/em Blaster
    Jessica Rabbit- fire/fire Blaster
    Beattlejuice- spines/da Scrapper
    Dark Patriot- dm/regen scrapper
    Lil SoCo- spines/wp scrapper

    ----VILLAINS----
    Ridgeways Demon- rad/rad corr
    Hypothermia'- elec/storm corr
    CoX's IT- dm/da stalker
    K33K tha SN33K- em/invuln Brute
    Braydar's Widow- Fortunata/Nightwidow


    Are you willing to respec into a PvP build?: all my toons r built for PvP, but if u think u can help im listening.



    THIS BASICALLY THE BEST PvP TOON I GOT:

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    Are you willing to roll a new character if needed?: aslong as the build fits my playing style.

    Briefly describe your PvP experience: subscriber since i6, PvP since i8, but really just started doing alot of PvP in BB/SC/RV as of last 9 months
    that's a near soft-cap pve build.
    and it's an ice/em with no boost range, no dmg procs and with bone smasher and TF.
    most of your +def bonuses are pretty much worthless in pvp.

    oh yeah, just saying that in case anyone needed to know what that data chunk was but is too lazy to copy paste it.
  6. black_barrier

    Want to learn

    add arena chat to one of your chat tabs on freedom.
    don't get emo when someone verbally tears you a new *******.
  7. i miss broken elusivity.


    it was less broken than broken defense.
  8. GL Selling the Glad Armor for 3 Bill when I'll undercut you and sell it to anyone for 1.8B.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DivineMajestic View Post
    wtf no SR? Im hurt.
    just because you can do it doesn't mean any downie can..
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Not_Haunting View Post
    Stop farming then.

    ::coolface::
    Yeah, cause we already have enough glad javs in the market...
    :sarcasm:

    It's amazing how people complain about the availability and price of pvp ios, yet they don't leave their toons as stand-ins for the offensive farm toon when griefing farms...

    If you're gonna grief, don't shoot yourself in the foot son.
  11. Don't waste your money. Roll a blaster (psi/em for max effectiveness), a shraker or a good emp if you want to actually be remotely useful to a team...
  12. black_barrier

    Rad in PvP

    rad corrs have been touched and tainted by -divine.

    don't touch that ****.
  13. arena? elec/nin, spines/nin. defense is good. elec/ea and spines/ea in certain situations.
    zone? infinite budget: spines/regen, elec/regen, cheap: elec/wp, spines/wp.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Supermax View Post
    Shadow meld has like 1/3 the recharge MoG does. It's available basically any time you need it, unlike MoG.
    shadow meld needs that the blasters shooting at you need aim and bu to hit you.

    mog does nothing against psi/ems.
  15. key to "balancing" kickballs is to not be a tard and balance around who's playing and not what they are playing.

    giving a team a shiddy farmable emp is a lot worse than giving them a kin with 1000 hp that dies less than hot heals.
  16. if you don't have impale, not having sharks is stupid.

    and if you're dying on a stalker, any stalker, because you dont have shadow meld, you're bad.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by K l e s k View Post
    I suggest starting your own KBs... Dub yourselves a "Not so cool kids Leader" and start doing your own carefree matches.

    What's going on now is that the league is quickly approaching and there is not enough practice being done among the top teams so your friendly KB quickly turns into a Division 8 bloodbath practice.

    Most competitive people in this game and in any sport (not that this is a sport) do not like to lose. So even in KB as much as we don't want to... Try Hard... It's not that losing is against the law or anything but I know for myself I need to be in the mood for a sloppy KB or I get aggravated.

    Best thing to do is start your own KBs and enjoy yourselves. What is going to happen is that whenever the try hard matches are done or the "cool kids" get really bored they are going to wonder over to your KB and be at your noobish mercy. Then if you see a "cool kid" in your KB you will know that they are there just to have fun and not to pound face. That would be the best way to meet a "cool kid" and possible get recruited to a "cool kid team".

    And if you need any PvP advice you can contact our "Cool kid Leader" @Divine
    yo yo yo

    ARE YOU SURE IT'S NOT -DIVINE?
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ConFlict View Post
    Be willing to put up with dewshes.

    Be willing to get on vent.

    Be willing to forget everything you know.


    Be willing to farmed and be bad.
    i approve of this message.
  19. black_barrier

    Rad.Cold Corr

    Good build. Vinnie has one.
  20. black_barrier

    Regen Question

    A video game you suck at. Guess it's hard to click while actively trying to keep the drool away from the keyboard...
  21. black_barrier

    Regen Question

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by AresSupreme View Post
    Misread, but I can assure you that my English is better than yours. You seem so angry every time I find you on these forums, maybe get outside, and hit up a gym sometime or are you just rping an overweight dude with badskin? Lol this game is so serious. Take a chill pill kiddo, it's just a video game.

    Generic comebacks are generic..

    You are retarded for three very specifc reasons:
    1. You die on a regin. Soul touch killed you on one and when con and I asked you to 2v2, after running your mouth in RV and the boards, you went all quiet and pretended not to understand us.
    2. Or maybe you do not grasp the language quite well. Reading before answering on the boards is hard? Srsly, I'd rather be huge and pimply than just uncurably dumb (proactiv + exercise could fix me).
    3. You play a regen with tough. When people talk about downie regins, they are generally referring to the likes of you.
  22. black_barrier

    Regen Question

    Is your English that bad? I said tough instead of phase...


    Forst eld h, are you rping as this kid?
  23. black_barrier

    Regen Question

    Taking tough over phase on a regen is pretty dumb.