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FWIW Archery isn't terrible, it's just that most sets are better. It does have a fairly hard-hitting tier 3 with an 80 foot range and the bonus accuracy in the attacks almost directly counters elusivity. I have an Arch/EM on Justice that I use when the downie /Nin Stalkers come out to play and it does decently.
You're going to want Acro in that build, and lots more KB protection, but that's just what I'm seeing without importing it. -
dUmb vs. U2BG:
7-7 tie
14-0 U2BG
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Invuln has Dull Pain, which is nice for erasing an entire spike, but Elec has a neat bunch of tricks (notably really high energy resist for all the EM and Elec Stalkers out there). You've got to build Elec for knockback protection, unlike Invuln, but it's worth it. Even without a +HP power, Elec Tankers can be ridiculously hard to take down.
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It does, but it's not flagged as smashing, only fire.
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...What's that menu you're using to activate your toggles?
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Quote:MA is a solid set after the I13 changes (long animation times = more damage). Regen's been the Scrapper standard since I4 and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Anyways, you're going to want to build for some HP (try to get around 1750-1800 with accolades) and recharge (60% or more is good, as recharge means your heals and such will be up faster). Don't be afraid to kite a target instead of standing in melee range with them constantly or you'll get AS'd a lot. My Spines/Regen has Speed, Leaping, Leadership, and Concealment, though an argument could be made to take Fighting instead of Leadership (Tough gives resistance to all which is somewhat nice on a Regen, but I found I wanted the tohit and perception more).Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Any recommendations for someone who wants to melee in PvP? I'm thinking of tweaking out a secondary build for my MA/Regen Scrapper, and wondering what I should shoot for. I've heard that defense is useless and I'll be better off going for more recharge, regen, and resist, but I'm still curious if that is the best goal.
Or maybe melee isn't worth it and I should just trick out my Earth/Storm Controller, or one of my Blasters? -
Quote:Reply to this (and all the others that say adding an XP/inf per map cap is a good idea):Originally Posted by firespray
If true (and I have no reason to believe it's not) then the cap is so high as to be meaningless.
The leveling speed cap actually came into play with that exemplared MM pet farm that got nuked a few weeks back. Adding an XP cap per map would only achieve the same thing adding a ticket cap did: farmers would just exit and reset the mission once they hit the cap. All it would do it add a bit of time in to reset the mission, without actually solving the "problem" (there's a problem here? news to me).
Also: lol at the people who seem to think they know who Solo is or what he's talking about. -
S'why you should be slotting it in Aim/BU.
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Quote:There is, believe it or not, a hard cap on leveling speed, and it's been in the game since way before I14.Originally Posted by Rodion
The real problem is that the system has no inherent throttle on gaining levels.
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This should be interesting. Also, hai Victory!
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This is funny, actually: I wrote several arcs midway through I14 closed beta. Was at first disappointed to discover I couldn't set the level of my missions without manually bracketing them with the appropriate level NPC groups (fixed in I15, but that wasn't the case when I was first writing these arcs). Still, I managed to get them to work, but by the time I14 went into open beta my arcs had been so badly broken (just by the changes made during closed beta, let alone anything during open beta or after I14 went live!) I just gave up. Looking back on it now, I ended up actually saving myself all the headaches I would've had to deal with by constantly adapting my arc to changing limitations by simply not publishing the arcs on live in the first place.
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Wall-of-text-obvious-troll in the post above me aside, no. I14 wasn't the worst issue. Second-worst behind I13, sure, but not worst. If you're talking in terms of developer time wasted, then yes, I14 was worse than I13, but both were pretty big wastes.
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Quote:Unfortunately, just about every redname PvP-related post when I13 hit open beta (right around when the post you're referring to happened... mid-November I believe) has been eaten by the forum monster, except those posts made by Castle in the I13 PvP changes thread, such as one which can be summarized by:Originally Posted by ConFlict
You can probably search around and still find the defining moment of pvp2.0 were we told very specfically that pvPers were not the 'segement' they were concerned about with the changed.
(The joke here is that getting kills with the I13 ruleset is so much easier than before, it's not even funny. Actually it kind of is, in a sad way.)Quote:Just how easy do you want your kills to be, anyways? -
Wow, most of that was so horrifically wrong I don't even know where to start. Back in your box, you! Haha, we've all had our fun, you can stop your 5-month troll streak anytime.
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It's bugged and the TP protection isn't working. It's been that way since I13, so the odds of it getting fixed anytime soon aren't all that good (unless someone can convince them to fix it with I17).
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Your sarcasm detector is broken, good sir.
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Quote:This is not a bug - the Honoree uses the same version of Unstoppable as Statesman (i.e. 100% resistance to all damage types except psionic, negative, and toxic). Easiest way to defeat him is to just bring lots of debuffs (-res and -regen are preferable, as with almost any AV encounter) and mow him down before he has a chance to activate Unstoppable (or if he does, kill him after it's worn off and before it's recharged again). I don't agree with anything having 100% resistance (except where it's warranted, of course), but them's the breaks for now.Originally Posted by je_saist
hmm. There's a bug floating around that results in some AV's gaining Reichsman values instead of using their AV values. It's been a while since I've run an LGTF, so it's possible that this bug cropped (back) up.
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Quote:Hey Sterling, PvP on Justice has been more or less dead since I11-I12 when many people moved to Freedom. Almost all of those that remained went to Freedom after I13 (free transfers helped), so these days you're lucky if there's one busy night a week in Justice RV while the other zones are almost always empty.Originally Posted by Sterling
I wish I could have an opinion on this. I wanted to see how PVP was in this game now...I ran a baby Fire/Dark Corruptor into BB on Justice server just to see what was up. I expected to get my butt handed to me, no big deal. But I saw no one at all to mess around with. It was just completely dead. It's hard to find out how PvP in a game is if no one on your server is actually PvP'ing. Might have to give it a try again later.
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Quote:Me? Mad at you? rofl.Originally Posted by Dahjee
You got it Mac. Stop being mad at me btw. I need your numbers skills for future posts. I will try and answer to the best of my ability.
I'm decent but I still have questions. Please be objective with me when I ask them.
What's more exciting is that is worked!
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You still haven't answered any of Optical Illusion's questions from upthread. I think we're all interested in how you'll answer them.
Quote:lolololololololololololololI've used Cage on spike targets -
Dark: Dark Blast, Gloom, Torrent (to mess up people who don't have much KB protection, if you want/have room), Life Drain. Dark Pit if you're feeling good about yourself, otherwise Spirit Shark Jaws will work to drop offensive toggles.
Cold: everything except the shields and Frostworks, though all those powers are good for slotting -KB IOs (2 in each shield plus one in Frostworks gives you 20 points of KB protection). Some people skip Snow Storm. If you only have room for one of the shields I'd get Glacial Shield because it gives a bit of ranged defense. -
Fun fact: Dahjee hasn't posted outside of the PvP section since November.
