Common, rare, overpowered, gimped...

Still very new to this game, and I have a few more questions about the PvP scene. How balanced is it? I know, very generic question, but is this the type of game where only 4 or so AT/powerset combo's are actually played by the serious PvPers? Or where almost noone plays <random AT> or <Villain/Hero> because it sucks?

Are there way too common / too rare character builds out there?

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I'm the only Sonic/Psi I know. And I [censored] faces.


innit

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@Rooks

"You should come inside the box... Then you'll know what I mean."

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I'm the only Sonic/Psi I know. And I [censored] faces.


innit

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I wonder why

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For the very highest level of PvP you definately need the right build - however this is pretty much non-existence on EU servers. Hero side these builds are Fire/Energy Blasters, Empaths, Kinetics, Sonic defenders, and Rad/Psi defenders - pretty much every US pvp team is made up of combination of these.

For zonal PvP you have a much wider scope. Its much easier to play things with mes protection i.e. resistance to holds, stuns, sleeps etc. So tanks, scrappers, brutes and stalkers. The FOTMs (flavour of the month, common builds) are Ice/Energy tanks, Energy/Electric Brutes, Spines/Regen scrappers, and Energy/* Stalkers. The reasons they are so common is that they are tough and pretty straight forward to play and is a good starting point, but dont feel you need to play these specific builds to do well. Once you gain more knowledge of the game blasters are a nice choice for pvp in general but you will be reliant on external buffs or break frees (which arent cheating no matter how much people spam broadcast to say otherwise). I love my Ice/Elec blaster but any combination of ice/* fire/* with */energy or */elec will do very well. Sonic is a different choice with some nice tools - ranged stun, -res but longer activation time of the strongest attack mean it isnt in the same league as ice or fire, but that may change eventually. Thing is zonal pvp isnt as elitist as the high level team arena so most builds become viable. It will help if you post what kind of toons you want to play for more specific advice.

High level dueling is pretty rare on EU but worth mentioning the top tier dueling builds are Ice/* Fire/* */Energy tanks, Ice/* Fire/* */Energy */Elec blasters, Rad/* Storm/* */Psi blast */Sonic blast defenders, Ice/* Fire/* */Rad Controllers.

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thePhilosopher Martial Arts/Regen/Fire Scrapper
theRegulator Empathy/Energy/Soul Defender
Total Inertia Ice Blast/Kinetics/Psy Corruptor
Total Inferno Ice Blast/Thermal/Leviathan Corruptor

Anything is good, just depends on how you play it and some things are harder than others. It also helps to find a good team that you can work with. Empaths and Blasters work well together and are practically unbeatable unless you have more on your team. My Trick Arrow defender does well as he sets up the enemy to be defeated by a Blaster or Scrapper. I can't solo anything though.

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tro stix

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@Rooks

"You should come inside the box... Then you'll know what I mean."

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tro stix

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*points to sig*

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tro stix

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*points to sig*

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lol archery

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thePhilosopher Martial Arts/Regen/Fire Scrapper
theRegulator Empathy/Energy/Soul Defender
Total Inertia Ice Blast/Kinetics/Psy Corruptor
Total Inferno Ice Blast/Thermal/Leviathan Corruptor