Reporting for duty on my Ill/Rad!
/em salute
That's because rads defdebuffs, resist debuffs and regen debuffs havent been nerfed. If u got someone taking the aggro -or if u r illu primary, the decoys-, u wont really notice much difference with new nerf. But u sure will if u dont. Rad ToH debuffs, at least in trollers, are useless atm.
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Reporting for duty on my Ill/Rad!
/em salute
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What Kaya said 
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And as was explained at length, the so-called nerf (on thtdbfs) really only affects fights vs even-level foes and once you're up against +3s +4s (and AVs of course), we will actually come out better given the changes in defence scaling (although, as we know, AVs will also be boosted).
CoX 50s: <ill/rad> <ice/ice> <fire/kin> <grav/sonic> <ice/storm> <earth/kin> <kin/elec> <cold/psy> <thugs/dark> <fire/dark> <dark/elec> <night widow> <EM/ninj> <mind/icy>
Who knows there might be villains in the zone as well, fighting with the AVs.
Just kidding (that would be griefing).
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Who knows there might be villains in the zone as well, fighting with the AVs.
Just kidding (that would be griefing).
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One Radiant villain waiting for this to go live and she just loves to debuff.
Someone mentioned Rad? 
Hmm must copy over Radio and give RV a try - I know he can't do anything in terms of damage but still a good team set
I also happen to think that sonic, trick archery, dark defenders should be good there its just there is so few about of some of those powersets. On the villain side add poison and thermal. All other sets are still good and very useful in different ways as it is a pvp zone after all. They are, in the -res department, just not as good or better than rad afaik of the top of my head. My money is on sonic as being king for -res. Dropping the AV resistance is the key i think.
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
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I also happen to think that sonic, trick archery, dark defenders should be good there its just there is so few about of some of those powersets. On the villain side add poison and thermal. All other sets are still good and very useful in different ways as it is a pvp zone after all. They are, in the -res department, just not as good or better than rad afaik of the top of my head. My money is on sonic as being king for -res. Dropping the AV resistance is the key i think.
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I am afraid I disagree on the resistance part, I have fought these AVs on the US and UK server and have beaten them all. I have also spent a LONG time not damaging them with 40+ heros pounding away the health barely drops by 2-5% before the regen fully heals them, even if you are able to lower the resistance to the point where heros/villains are causing double damage it still wont be enough (in my opinion) to overcome the incredible regen rate (you ahve to watch the health bar numbers to beleive it)
-regen is key as far as i can see
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Completely true stalky. The regen on these AVs is HUGE, even spamming -regen from tranfusion isn't enough for these AVs. Lingering Rad is the key for these guys.
In the case of villains vs heroes, cold and rad corrupters, poison masterminds are needed.
We got black scorpion and lord recluse yesterday being myself then only debuffer (we were like 12-14 heroes), and it is true, whenever i was ASed while debuffing, the AVs regen was higher than the dmg dealed. Luckily a couple of broadcasts made villains stop attacking us while we were AV bashing 
my rad/rad defender is only lvl 8 so far but as soon as my lvling buddy gets his comp up and runnin again it shouldnt take too long to get there
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Ok after spending a great deal of time in Recluses Victory and fighting the AVs for many hours with up to 50+ heros all on the same AV, I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to kill them without a Rads debuffs, at least it is that way for the signature villains.
SO please all rads to RV on live day 
One rad debuff and we can actually damage them and whittle down their health, 2 rads and its nice and easy. SO whether the changes made rads slightly worse isnt relevant anymore, in RV Rad is king and without them we are lost
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