Quick question, just came back to the game.

JFouc · 05-08-2009 10:45 AM

Hi guys, just came back to the game due to being bored with everything else and I'm having a blast with my Shield/Mace Tanker. My question being this, for what I've been reading SS is the way to go in PvP but I just love my toon, would I be able to compete with Mace?

Thanks in advance.

Alloric · 05-08-2009 10:48 AM

*shakeshakeshake*

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ConFlict · 05-08-2009 11:14 AM

If you can't at least compete in this pvp you are doing something really wrong. Yes ss is better but any well built shielder should be able to be a pain in zones, even more so if you have taunt.

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JFouc · 05-08-2009 12:01 PM

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If you can't at least compete in this pvp you are doing something really wrong. Yes ss is better but any well built shielder should be able to be a pain in zones, even more so if you have taunt.

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Thanks, I haven't gotten up there but I do plan to PvP a bit with a group of friends.

Thors_Mitersaw · 05-21-2009 04:42 PM

would the same statement go for a mace/shield brute?

Supermax · 05-21-2009 05:05 PM

Con's statement seems to apply only to I13 PvP. Defense was turned back into a joke in I14, so shield is pretty bad now. Really the only truly viable set for brutes now is fire. It's well above everything else.

Mercury_Down · 05-21-2009 05:14 PM

I still do great on my shield/SS tank. Granted it's not i13 levels of godliness but that was retarded anyway.

Fire armor is probably the hardest brute/tank to kill though, as Max said.

macskull · 05-21-2009 05:49 PM

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Con's statement seems to apply only to I13 PvP. Defense was turned back into a joke in I14, so shield is pretty bad now. Really the only truly viable set for brutes now is fire. It's well above everything else.

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Despite the elusivity nerf, defense isn't worthless. It's not longer the "ZOMG YOU CAN'T HIT ME" that it was in I13, but it's still probably better off than it was in I12.

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Supermax · 05-21-2009 07:12 PM

Well, you guys are probly right in general. My view is a bit skewed since I play exclusively in sirens since I13. The game is too much of a joke to me at level 50, with the I13 changes. Sirens is somewhat closer to how it used to be. Since not everybody is at the res cap with phase and hibernate, people still actually die. But that's a different subject.

Anyway, in sirens, defense truly is a complete and utter joke. The whole "bug" where you can't use tier 9's in sirens anymore doesn't help either, lol.

In RV, with stuff like elude in play, I'm sure it's still reasonable. Just like in I12. But if you're making a new brute, I don't think there is any reason at all to make anything other than fire right now.

That's why I still haven't made one. I have probably the oldest fire/SS PvP tank on freedom, and playing the exact same thing on vil side sounds lame.