I have a Grav/Psi that is built for zone play. It does extremely well solo and teamed, but it's a very eccentric build... perhaps not for those terribly newbish to PvP.
I skipped Singy... never used it. I skipped PSW... I have no need to be in melee. I slotted each power in my primary with 3 range IOs, until I could afford to replace them with damage/range IOs... Of course GDF and wormhole just have the range IOs still in them.
Every attack in my secondary was treated the same. 3 range IOs til I could get the damage/range HOs in there.
Slotting for mez duration became overrated IMO, so I turned my primary into damage... and the best part is all of my attacks and controls outrange my opponenets. In recent months I've even added about 56% range bonus too from PvP IOs... you could almost say it's a blaster-killing build... for a mezzed blaster that cannot reach you you with attacks a is a dead blaster...or a very fast runner!
So like I said it's far from cookie cutter but definately strikes fear into most that see me hovering above, regardless of AT. The only melee poweer I use is Drain Psyche, which is only the only one I really need against harder foes like regens and Tanks... or for breaking someone's hibernoob.
I'd highly reccomend a TP/hover/Fly combo. When you have the ability to drop flyers left and right...its a good idea to do so while hovering above. Teleport is about the only thing that trumps a webgrenade which, is what everyone will come at you with if you hover/fly above.
Wormhole and D-shift are your golden powers. Ya gotta take'em and use them often. If you team then do be sure to make team chat bind for them. (ie. "wormhole in effect! or "I just phased out $Target!) Finishing off a squishy troller or defender while their amp'ed up teammates can only watch is fun!
Lift is a solid attack and offers some of the best ST mitigation you will have. Slot it for some KB though, and try to use it after your first attack...or before your last. With good timing this is how you can prevent your opponent from hibernating or fleeing your teammates AS. keep in mind that GD will prevent KB so you'll want to get the timing down. I use GD right after lift... (after the KB animation has started, not before or GD will not allow the KB) combined, the two powers offer about 5-6 seconds of solid mitigation.
I took assault and tactics.... I respecced into them after realizing Taunt's -range was a bane to my playstle and assault helps to cut its duration down a lot, plus well +perception is a must imo. Lastly I took fitness.
Overall Grav/Psi kinda just screams All-Range for zone pvp. It has enough ST attacks to keep a steady stream of attacks flowing and offers good secondary effects in eah one... whether its the -fly and slows from the primary or the extra immobile and -rech effects from the secondary one. I just spit most of this out while on the road so it it may be a little unstructured, but I hope it helped. Of course feel free to ask specific questions I didn't answer or list specific problems you may be having.
"Situational power? Sure. Although in a sense... all powers are situational. It's just that some situations occur more than others." Understand the situation needed in order for the power to be most effective... and make that situation happen.
Thanks for your time in typing that out i'm definately gonna look into putting some of those into effect. thanks for your advice on powers and strategy
now when you say you use DP to break a persons hibernoob does the drain effect actually hit them while they're in that state or do you hit them before they activate it?
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I've played around with differnet ways of doing this. The most effective against non-blasters is simply follow with fly, cast it once in range, fly away, and start my attack chain.
Other times I hover bait with PFF... deactivate it once a foe is in range, cast DP, and then drop them to the ground... or wormhole them above me and snipe heh. Falling damage plus DoT and a snipe = gg for many.
Lastly, there is the precision and surprise that teleport offers. I will admit that this was hurt a LOT when they added surpression to TP, but still there are many times when I catch a blaster in an attack animation on the ground as I tp in and DP them. Often this is while teaming or when I am not aggroing the blaster myself.
It is hardest to DP a blaster, but quite easy for trollers and Ice tankers. Either way the duration of DP lasts as long as hibernate. Usually this means that DP will end sooner than Hibernate will, but even still its fun and funny to see a foe hibernating with no HP gain... even if they start to recover some near the end.
"Situational power? Sure. Although in a sense... all powers are situational. It's just that some situations occur more than others." Understand the situation needed in order for the power to be most effective... and make that situation happen.
Cool I'll definately see I can give that a go I went wih leviathan mastery though since I wasn't sure which epic to pick the and I didn't have the best survival rate on my permadom side that had pff when I get home I'm gonna continue to try and get sown the timing on my mez and kb so I can maximize my effectiveness also since I have hibernoob is it possible to que up tp while in hibernoob so that when it ends u tp out of danger?
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"the reason there are so many sarcastic pvpers is we already had a better version of pvp taken away from us to appease bad players. Back then we chuckled at how bad players came here and whined. If we knew that was the actual voice devs would listen to instead of informed, educated players we probably would have been bigger dicks back then." -ConFlict
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we should make your iPhone an AT. It'd one shot everything.
"the reason there are so many sarcastic pvpers is we already had a better version of pvp taken away from us to appease bad players. Back then we chuckled at how bad players came here and whined. If we knew that was the actual voice devs would listen to instead of informed, educated players we probably would have been bigger dicks back then." -ConFlict
Yeah that was a mouthful.
I wouldn't count on it... not for those times when you'd really need to get away. There are too many AoEs and patches and stuff to supress your getaway. However a well slotted D-Shift when coming out of Hibernate could consistently buy you time to TP away. Personally, the temp phase found at the BM is cheap enough to keep enough on hand and has worked fine for me.
"Situational power? Sure. Although in a sense... all powers are situational. It's just that some situations occur more than others." Understand the situation needed in order for the power to be most effective... and make that situation happen.
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I wouldn't count on it... not for those times when you'd really need to get away. There are too many AoEs and patches and stuff to supress your getaway. However a well slotted D-Shift when coming out of Hibernate could consistently buy you time to TP away. Personally, the temp phase found at the BM is cheap enough to keep enough on hand and has worked fine for me.
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You can immediately TP after hibernate before anything suppresses you.
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Perhaps I suppose... I admit I've never used Hibernate on my toons... I based my thoughts on my experience against those that use it. I guess it could be as effective as PS... unless of course theres a Grav/ hovering above with wormhole queued. 
"Situational power? Sure. Although in a sense... all powers are situational. It's just that some situations occur more than others." Understand the situation needed in order for the power to be most effective... and make that situation happen.
Hey, i'm pretty terrible on this guy and i dont know what powers to take or how to use him effectively. Help me out? I'm basically going to be in the zones (lol). Also, any general strategies would be helpful, thanks.