nightbringer_EU

Fire/nrg is great in PvE.

No, Power boost doesnt add dmg to the fire ticks. It does very little for fire. The only reason to get the power is to boost healing from aid self (medicine pool).

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There are less guides around for villains and players have had less time with them then heroes. Has anyone tried putting together a team of ultimate villains for PvP?

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I personally cant think of an ultimate team of villains that the EU test servers pvp'ers couldn't deal with. Infact I go as far as to say that the best team of villains would struggle against a semi decent team of heroes. But hey that's where the fun is, in the challenge right?

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Afaik You cant beat a villain team without Rad/psi's. They have too much resistance for anything else. Its cause people dont buff.
How many of you have ever had a team with 2 thermals, 2 colds, 2 kins and a sonic?

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Clear Mind is only unbalancing if the villain doesn't have a team.

Grab a Cold and/or a Thermal Corr and you're good/better equiped.

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AFAIK there is no corruptor (or defender) buff in the game that increases the mag of control powers.

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No, but you get the same kind of immunity that heroes get, and thos reballancing. Stalkers still have an insane amount of burst even without AS, and when they are buffed by therms/sonic shields, they arent squishie.
Villains get so many shields, its not even funny.

Why bother? Captain Freon will steal all your HO's anyway :P

You should like it. Its one of the most powerfull villain builds in the game (solo).

Get him to 50 btw, and get some nice enh from the RSF.

I can think about a million things that could have been done.

Some basic pointers.

1) Guard vital points better, and ignore the spawnpoint.
2) Getter a better combo of AT's. More defenders/controllers basicly. More blasters (duo nukes own).
3) Think harder about your base setup.
4) Defending is about killing really, really fast. So get more red insp, so your dmg dealers are always at the dmgcap.
5) Use your bubblers in more annoying places, and tell them to move more. So you screw up coordination and melee'ers.
6) Dont think this is solved by adding more tmp-powers. Its about knowing how to PvP. Get your SG-Members do to more team fights.
7) Read why FotM are FotM's. And how they are used.
8) Learn why team roles are important.
9) All our teams are highly buffed, so dont expect fear, holds, immobs and so on to work.
10) You cant slow a team that has a kinetics.
11) Cage dmg dealers before they do damage.

You should prolly get superspeed instead of blizzard. If you get hit by a -jump power, you have no means of escaping.

You have a self heal which means swift > health.

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Most everyone would want speed boost. (its for the endurance recovery mostly)

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Nah, its for the speed, I tell ya. THE SPEEEEEEEEEEEEDDD!!!!1

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All rad/rad defenders.... hee

Chiefette

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We have tried all rad corrs. 2 blasters, 4 support is better.

for PvP? Dont!

You do lethal dmg, and everyone and their momma has a shield that removes about 30% of your dmg. Nrg doesnt have this problem to the same degree, and here we still neglect that nrg hits that much harder.

PvP is about burst dmg only, not chains. There are only very few exceptions, and I can safely say Axe isnt one of them.

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This all empath team going ahead? Yes or No?

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Are people considdering an all empath team? I didnt read the whole post.

Why oh why? Its a pretty bad combo, well prolly just as good as the random PUG, but prolly not much better.
Defs do 50% dmg of a blaster, and when fort is the only buffer, that means slow lvling.

Aggro is only a problem in teams without a tank or a troller.

Your job is buffs and dmg, pref AoE. What Im saying is, you should never have to worry about aggro, if you do you are in the wrong team.

Fireball is my all time favorit power. I love it on my corr, I love it on my troller. I dont really play blasters, mainly cause I suck in PvP with them.

soz, instead of tank/troller, put brute/dom or other aggro builds.

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As Max guessed they fixed it, it has 0,9s activation time now on Test. Yay! Now to find the slots for it...

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Drop the snipe.

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heh, made me laugh. Seriously tho, 0.9 sounds good enough to make mental blast viable

Your choice man. This game holds enough for atleast 2 lvl50's IMO. Its after that it gets boring.

well kkthxbye

Listen to Lecxe or Xant. They give very good advice.

If you dont mind being a bit gimped in PvP, go MA/DA.

Get the eye poker attack (some call it cobra strike) and oppressive gloom for some nasty stuns.

Its a nasty PvE combo.

PvP - SR or Regen, either is fine.

You boyz are slacking. Only 37 kills in 20 mins. BTW any of you want a 1on1. I just respec' my fire/storm, and I would be a shame to waste the whole 5 mins it took.

Archies build is focussed on slows which is also very good.

My own preferance is kill, kill, kill which means fire epic and both immobs. Thats playstyle.

What we both have in common is we maximize for the effect we want to do. We dont try to get as much utility as posible.

But there is also a lot of powers which are so good, you should pretty much always take them. A build without self heal cant funktion in 1on1's.

What is the main problems of ice storm?
Endurance, low dmg (for a controller) and no self heal.

Archy's solution gives a better endurance management than what I would go for. I go for more dmg than arch would. But we both cover one of the downfall of ice storm.

Here is my own fire/storm build. I would pretty much copy that into a Ice build.

Name:
Level: 50
Archetype: Controller
Primary: Fire Control
Secondary: Storm Summoning
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01) --> Ring of Fire==> Acc(1) Acc(3) Rechg(3) Rechg(5) EndRdx(5) EndRdx(7)
01) --> Gale==> Acc(1)
02) --> Char==> Acc(2) Acc(7) Hold(9) Hold(9) Rechg(11) Rechg(11)
04) --> Fire Cages==> Acc(4) Acc(13) Rechg(13) Rechg(15) EndRdx(15) EndRdx(17)
06) --> Smoke==> Acc(6) Acc(17) EndRdx(19) EndRdx(19) Rechg(21) Rechg(21)
08) --> Snow Storm==> EndRdx(8) EndRdx(23)
10) --> Steamy Mist==> EndRdx(10) EndRdx(23) EndRdx(25)
12) --> Combat Jumping==> Jump(12) Jump(25)
14) --> Super Jump==> EndRdx(14)
16) --> Freezing Rain==> EndRdx(16) EndRdx(27) Rechg(27) Rechg(29) Rechg(29)
18) --> Swift==> Run(18)
20) --> Hurricane==> LysosExp(20) EnzymExp(31) TH_DeBuf(31) EndRdx(31)
22) --> Hurdle==> Jump(22) Jump(46) Jump(50)
24) --> Stamina==> EndMod(24) EndMod(33) EndMod(33)
26) --> Acrobatics==> EndRdx(26) EndRdx(33)
28) --> Hasten==> Rechg(28) Rechg(34) Rechg(34)
30) --> Aid Other==> Heal(30)
32) --> Fire Imps==> Dmg(32) Dmg(34) Dmg(36) Acc(36) Rechg(36)
35) --> Tornado==> EndRdx(35) EndRdx(37) Dmg(37) Dmg(37) Dmg(39) Rechg(39)
38) --> Aid Self==> Heal(38) Heal(39) Heal(40) Rechg(40) IntRdx(40) IntRdx(42)
41) --> Fire Blast==> Acc(41) Acc(42) Dmg(42) Dmg(43) Dmg(43) Rechg(43)
44) --> Fire Ball==> Acc(44) Acc(45) Dmg(45) Dmg(45) Dmg(46) EndRdx(46)
47) --> Fire Shield==> DmgRes(47) DmgRes(48) DmgRes(48) EndRdx(48) EndRdx(50)
49) --> Super Speed==> EndRdx(49) Run(50)

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You lack 2 very important powers.

Your single target and AoE immob.

and skip LS. Its just bad.

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I have block of ice listed on hero planner and did in fact take AoE hold as well as I still play PvE and it works well with tornado.

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The AoE hold is pretty much worthless in PvP. The recharge is too slow. Im sorry, I thought you wanted a PvP build, not a hybrid.

Im pretty sure you havnt played against a PvP controller.

You dont by any chance have a lvl50 toon on defiant?

I havnt played CoH for 3-4 months so Im a bit rusty. I also need to respec my fire/storm. Anyway give me chance to prove why you need both immobs. Give me an arena challange, you know rated rules.

You lack 2 very important powers.

Your single target and AoE immob.

and skip LS. Its just bad.

No DA isnt PvP friendly if you ask me. You are by far the squishiest scrapper of the lot, and the extra utility you have doesnt make up for this.

DA is the only set that scrappers can kill solo.

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fire/em is the only chance u have to kill a regen and this is if you time it right and the regen is bad.

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An ice/ss tank could beat a spines/regen if the spiny has high end useage by draining him fully with energy absorbtion then using knockout blow to hold him then knock him back

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He said bad regen. If the regen lets that happen, hes a bad regen. No tank can beat a regen. It doesnt matter if its Fire/nrg, Ice/SS or what it is. Also be said, Im not sure a scrapper can beat a tank.

We are talking about arena 1on1's with rated rules right?

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AoE control, nothing like Illu/Rad IMO

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Damn straight. So much sweet soft control.
Only real problem about illu is the lack of posibilities to gain containment. In the pure control department however its prolly the best.

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Ahh, that's a shame, if you had less than twenty I can see you had an issue.

@Cognito: That was way back in the day. All you need was Rad Defenders w/snipe. Back then there's wasn't a range cap so you could snipe from outside Hamidon's bubble. They've also upped his difficulty since then as well I believe.

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They have increased hamidons difficulty many times either through buffing hamidon or through nerfing heroes.

Btw Union a little hint for hamidon raids. Your effort to reduce lag is what killed your raid from what I can tell. Hamidon isnt hard to take down if you do what you can to optimize a raid. Take time to tell people what powers to use and what not to use, take time to explain everything during the raid. Yes it will take 10 minuts, but you save 30 minuts because of lag.