Team pvp for the win!

I was doin some late night pvp yesterday, and i was fortunate to team with a mind troller and a empath defender.
My god how we "pwned"! Kill alot fo stalekrs, it was almost way to easy, even when the villian team of 2 stalkers and a brute attacked us at once we still beat them everytime! You almsot can't lose if you stay as a team together. They were clever thought, they try to take out the empath but they couldn't AS her thanks to us having 3 Clear minds we could see any stalker from afar, tk rocks in pvp as well and makes the life of a blaster so much easier. The brute was the one i felt the most sorry for because all its stratagies went out the window, because he couldn't stun us at all! I recommend to everyone scorned by pvp soloing to try it in a team with friends it the most fun i've had in a while

I second this and would like something like it stickied.

This is an MMO, designed for teaming, and as fun as solo PvP can be, it's so much better in teams.

Yup. This goes out especially to people that say PvP doesn't work in this game. Solo, I'd agree. But team PvP is where it's at. Pretty much all the best moments I've had in this game have been when in a decent team PvP situation (S4 especially. Two organised teams going at it, such great fun.)

I urge everyone who's had a bad PvP experience to get a team together and head to Sirens one night. Trust me, you'll love it. Especially if there's a decent team on the other side.

Nothing beats a team vs team brawl on that long stretch of road outside the hospital in Siren's Call

Yeah, I had a couple of friends from a sg and managed to get them into Siren's one day, and they just so happened to be an Emp / Dark defender and a Mind / Emp troller, with TK. I was the blaster.

Cue much death and destruction in our 'ZOMGOSH, but we're not made for PvP!! d00000m!!1' wake

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Yup. This goes out especially to people that say PvP doesn't work in this game. Solo, I'd agree. But team PvP is where it's at. Pretty much all the best moments I've had in this game have been when in a decent team PvP situation (S4 especially. Two organised teams going at it, such great fun.)

I urge everyone who's had a bad PvP experience to get a team together and head to Sirens one night. Trust me, you'll love it. Especially if there's a decent team on the other side.

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QFT - ask a couple of level 50s in the zone if you can hang with them since it's likely they're PvPing. Teams mean more bounty and you will find you get a genuinely enjoyable experience if there is a decent villian group to face you AND SOs if your team get the arrests / kills in

Any one up for forming a weekly pvp team? We would need one of each AT then 3 extras that can be whatever. ANyone lke this idea?

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Any one up for forming a weekly pvp team? We would need one of each AT then 3 extras that can be whatever. ANyone lke this idea?

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Silly, we don't like ideas, we pick holes in them and then come up with our own better of ideas

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Yup. This goes out especially to people that say PvP doesn't work in this game. Solo, I'd agree. But team PvP is where it's at. Pretty much all the best moments I've had in this game have been when in a decent team PvP situation (S4 especially. Two organised teams going at it, such great fun.)

I urge everyone who's had a bad PvP experience to get a team together and head to Sirens one night. Trust me, you'll love it. Especially if there's a decent team on the other side.

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QFT - ask a couple of level 50s in the zone if you can hang with them since it's likely they're PvPing. Teams mean more bounty and you will find you get a genuinely enjoyable experience if there is a decent villian group to face you AND SOs if your team get the arrests / kills in

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well if you go sirens, 30+ generally means its a PvP team (as you can only get mishes up to lvl 30). Or of course ask a team in the zone if they are a PvP team thats what I always do on my troller. I got no chance solo, being earth/storm, hurray for high dmg at lvl 30 *AHEM* (do have a chance of course, but its boring holding your opponent to death/arrest). Thus team PvP is the way forward, and team PvP 'owns' solo PvP everyday of the way (including wednesday!!!)

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Silly, we don't like ideas, we pick holes in them and then come up with our own better of ideas



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Its more of a "who will join me" question as a opposed to "do you like my idea"

In geek : Join me and we will rule the galaxy!.. i mean siren.. sirens ..yess thats exactly what i meant.. dum de dum

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Yup. This goes out especially to people that say PvP doesn't work in this game. Solo, I'd agree. But team PvP is where it's at. Pretty much all the best moments I've had in this game have been when in a decent team PvP situation (S4 especially. Two organised teams going at it, such great fun.)

I urge everyone who's had a bad PvP experience to get a team together and head to Sirens one night. Trust me, you'll love it. Especially if there's a decent team on the other side.

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Morning guys.

My two cents. The above hero team didnt make PvP very enjoyable for the Villains did it? Solo its imbalanced - team its imbalanced. Empaths are the rox in PvP. Much to my amazement. Cm/Fort just turns the tables. Perhaps too far?

I respecced chap last night. Ill post his build later today. IN any case, from turning up, i was instantly invited to a 2man blaster team. We were facing up to 8 villains at once. Not. One. Hero. Death. The villains got totally wasted.

So of course, Chaplain becomes the target. Much to my amusement, Power Push keeps brutes and stalkers on their backsides and even when faced with 3 or 4 villains beating on me, with Cryo armour and healing aura, i didnt die either.

Arguably, Empaths make PvP unbalanced, if last nights anything to go by. I even think i could successfully duel with Chap in his current build. Beating Stalkers and Brutes last night, soloish really built my confidence.

Empaths could of course be nerfed. However, since we have no place in late game PvE, and in Solo PvP we are the sux, i think that would be extremely harsh. Its also not beyond a good PvPer to lock down an Empath. Its just that my Energy 2ndary provides a fairly unique tool that makes it quite hard for melee types. BU/Aim Snipe from a Blaster, or Aim Snipe from a Corrupter would give me issues.

(Air Superiority, on a Brute at Max altitude = Brute with near 1 HP when he hits the floor. Quick brawl - dead. Never laughed so hard)

Anyway. I enjoyed it so much, anyone on Union who wants SC Empath support should gimme a yell at @Chaplain. It was a LOT of fun.

Maybe imbalanced in terms of co-ordination and teamwork. The villian "teams" i faced always do what you would expect, teamup for more bounty, but solo in a fight, occasionally teaming up to ambush a player that they see as key (like an empath). I once faced a team with a stalker a brute a MM and acorruptor, and the fight was awesome and actually lasted more than 30 seconds.

Problem is most people don't team properly in pvp, they team just to "gank" or to get extra bounty from their teammates kills.The reason i say that the villians have imbalacnes more than heroes, is because heroes tend to be better at teaming ( and i mean the PCs not in comics). Villains in pvp zones don't tend to stick together, while the heroes do in fear of stalkers and the such. Maybe stalkers are the begining of the down fall of solo pvp as more heroes will learn to team? Not saying that stalekrs can't team well, they're abit like scrappers, they tend to run off at the first sign of a hero and give chase, while the others stay as a group. When sticking together how ever stalker probably would do alot better as i've seen because the visible players allow the stalker to go even more unnoticed and AS a key player.

Still no one wants to make a pvp team? shame

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Yup. This goes out especially to people that say PvP doesn't work in this game. Solo, I'd agree. But team PvP is where it's at. Pretty much all the best moments I've had in this game have been when in a decent team PvP situation (S4 especially. Two organised teams going at it, such great fun.)

I urge everyone who's had a bad PvP experience to get a team together and head to Sirens one night. Trust me, you'll love it. Especially if there's a decent team on the other side.

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Morning guys.

My two cents. The above hero team didnt make PvP very enjoyable for the Villains did it? Solo its imbalanced - team its imbalanced. Empaths are the rox in PvP. Much to my amazement. Cm/Fort just turns the tables. Perhaps too far?

I respecced chap last night. Ill post his build later today. IN any case, from turning up, i was instantly invited to a 2man blaster team. We were facing up to 8 villains at once. Not. One. Hero. Death. The villains got totally wasted.

So of course, Chaplain becomes the target. Much to my amusement, Power Push keeps brutes and stalkers on their backsides and even when faced with 3 or 4 villains beating on me, with Cryo armour and healing aura, i didnt die either.

Arguably, Empaths make PvP unbalanced, if last nights anything to go by. I even think i could successfully duel with Chap in his current build. Beating Stalkers and Brutes last night, soloish really built my confidence.

Empaths could of course be nerfed. However, since we have no place in late game PvE, and in Solo PvP we are the sux, i think that would be extremely harsh. Its also not beyond a good PvPer to lock down an Empath. Its just that my Energy 2ndary provides a fairly unique tool that makes it quite hard for melee types. BU/Aim Snipe from a Blaster, or Aim Snipe from a Corrupter would give me issues.

(Air Superiority, on a Brute at Max altitude = Brute with near 1 HP when he hits the floor. Quick brawl - dead. Never laughed so hard)

Anyway. I enjoyed it so much, anyone on Union who wants SC Empath support should gimme a yell at @Chaplain. It was a LOT of fun.

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LMAO i too was there last night (thursday), and there were plenty more heroes then just the three of you (i remember there being roughly even sides throughout much of the night) i can't say who was in your team but just as many heroes died as villains constantly.
As amusing as i'm sure you found it, we actually only started on you when you LEFT THE BASE for more than 5 seconds at a time, and when you did you were invis most of the time (a perfectly sound squishy tactic btw) and we had to start attacking the people we thought you were teamed with to get you to appear then i held you and watched you die nearly everytime allowing us to finish off the others without any rude empaths messing us up, this of course required teamwork on our part and was indeed much fun (back on topic hehe)

I think a lot of the unfairness as far as Empaths unbalancing things would be helped if the version of Clear Mind in Thermal Radiation was actually as good as Clear Mind. It would still be iffy, seeing as there's no hero AT that depends on invisibility, but it would go some way to correcting the imbalance, especially in lower-level PvP zones. Clarity for Sonic Corruptors (which IS as good as Clear Mind, if I'm remembering correctly) isn't available until level 35.

Playing both an Empath and a Thermal, I know how much I miss the perception boost and Fear and Confuse res when I'm PvPing on the villain side. Also, the Thermal heals root you for a moment, while Empath heals don't.