Whether you use inspirations or not is a personal thing but I'm tired of the general moaning of inspirations even if there are none in use. Note that I'm not finding my blaster an uphill struggle, quite the contrary, and have been PvPing the better part of a year with him. Feel free to throw a challenge my way for arena combat, you can propably find me on defiant pvpers or forumites channel if Im online.
I sincerely don't want to turn villain chat off if I go to Sirens or other pvp zone.
Edit: Just like Plight below, you will find out that the best PVPers have extensive knowledge when to use and when not to use insps. Which ones to get, how to preserve them as much as possible and the best moments to use them. PvP in this game has been balanced with inspirations in mind, not without. They arent cheating in any way. They arent automatic route to victory because, like I said, the games been balanced with them in mind. Use or not, learn how to play around them, but completely ignoring them is silly.
If you think you are proficient in zone PvP, I recommend moving to arena combat because zones are merely the preliminaries ^^
Stuns and self heals = good.
RE: Luminos. Not really sure what happened throughout htis discussion but a blaster vs mez is a sitting duck, i am very much of the insps balance the game camp of thought. I can do nothing against 90% of well built toons if they have mez and I have no BFs, the other insps have their uses too. To discount insps as skill negating or overpowering is silly, a character with 10 lucks for 2 minutes is a total non-risk for 8 minutes in a duel. The zones may vary but I dont recommend zoning without teams, duels and timed matches are what I understand 
Plight
I find that views on inspirations, in and out of PvP, tend to be very dependant on what archetype people usually play. Squishy characters tend to use more inpsirations in general, not just in PvP, and be quite dependant on break frees for survival. I would no more consider PvPing without them than I would go in to a Carnie or Malta mission without them. Even if I'm teamed with someone who offers status protection, I still want a couple, just incase it drops at the wrong moment.
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They were put into the game well before PvP, they have not been removed for PvP, that neither tells us they are meant for PvP or not, however it makes fools out of us all to assume what the right and wrong thing to do in this case.
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The fact that inspirations are available to buy in the arena and Bloody Bay and the fact that the only inspirations you can't buy in the arena are Awakens which are no use anyway due to respawning indicates very strongly to me that inspirations are "meant for PvP". If someone chooses not to use them that's their own business.
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