PVP Builds For 1on1 Duels

Ok, so while I play I seem to recieve a lot of tells from many random players consisting of asking for good pvp builds, mostly I am asked for 1on1 duel builds.

Of course every build has a weakness to another build although at the moment since i13 defence is the uber thing for pvp right now.

Here are a list of some great pvp builds for the Blue Side
Enjoy

Shield/SS Tanks:
I personally was on mids for a long period of time, I had created a build for Shield/SS Tanks to get 30% Melee Defence and 35% Ranged Defence, in addition also it would add up to approximately 2800hp with accolades, and even higher if you get the right set bonuses. Shield defence would also be good for zone pvp and other team duels.

Ice/SS Tanks
Ice Tanks are probably the best thing going around at the moment, I can get even higher defence with ice rather than shield defence. Ice has a two or three defence toggles, a lot of nice resistances, some attack rate and speed debuffs, a click power draining endurance and defence from enemies, a self heal, a minor damaging pbaoe toggle, a toggle de-creasing damage from foes. So they obviously have a variety of resistances, although it has no resistance to psionic but hardly any defence sets have much resistance to psionic. Also it has very little resistance to fire and there are quite a lot of fire scrappers now so best watch out for them. Hibernate is a panic power, if your about to die quickly use it and you will be invulnerable and your hp and end will regenerate extremely fast. So you can get plenty and plenty of defence and high hp, plenty of resistances, definately the best build going at the moment.

Fire/Ice Blasters

Ice would consist of plenty of slow effects which isnt resisted much so any melee toons just slowing them down would help a lot. Although for the powers Shiver has a large - recharge and with a large -recharge around it's bad news! Although the fire has great DoT, DoT is ideal for pvp. This build is good against some builds and some not, as shiver isnt too great at all time, but the rest of the powers are pretty much useless. If you do go for this for pvp don't take the AoE attacks as for pvp you only need single target attacks, and Inferno isnt that good for pvp, but you can still take it if your in a panic.

Fire/Kinetics

The main good thing about this is the -end powers for Kinetics and the Fire Imps doing the damage for you while you concentrate on debuffing your enemy. This build is usually defeated a lot against tanks and scrappers unless you get their end down fast so there toggles run out and then your fire imps will help finish them off. Some of the other debuffs will consift of -DMG and -Speed. And you can keep your imps alive with transfusion which decreases the recovery of end and regeneration of hp to heal your imps also healing yourself.

Spines/SR Scrappers

These can be a pain for many as now the devs have made defence uber for pvp. So SR softcapped at 45% defence will make these very nice for pvp. The reason for being spines seeing as your enemy will hardly touch you and you will be hitting them all the time. And with spines the attacks have -recharge so they are even more less likely to hit you, also with -speed so a lotta enemies will be nothing to you. And spines is least resisted due to it being toxic damage. The only difficult enemies to you in pvp would be regeneration scrappers and stalkers and tankers. The others will be pretty much easy

Fire/Regen Scrappers

Fire for the great DoT and decent damage combined with it. Regeneration still get's by well with i13. With good IO slotting and the right set bonuses plus global defence. Regeneration will last long against a lotta builds like it would last toe to toe against tanks and end draining builds wouldnt be too much of a problem for regeneration. Also fiery melee does not cost too much end anyway (I think).

Kinetic/Elec/Dark Defenders

Well obviously Kinetics for the same reason I mentioned earlier for weakening your enemies.
Electric as a secondary for defenders has -end recovery attacks and as you know electric attacks drain end either way. Aim is a excellent power for the +To Hit to make sure you do drain their end, and the +Damage as defenders do lack damage. Short Circuit is awesome to stop opponents from recovering end and it is a DoT power and it is of course very effective with other end draining powers.
Voltaic Sentiel is kinda a pet, you summon it and it will last a certain amount of time, how long it lasts I am not sure. This is useful though for melee AT's. As it will follow you any enemies coming near you will risk being damaged and it will have even more - endurance for your enemies. Now onto dark it has a toggle to resist S/L and Toxic and Negative Energy(dark attacks). It has a pbaoe click to transfer and drain end from foes around you to add onto your own end. And now Soul Drain is also a pbaoe drain and it will give you self +to hit and +DMG so you know this build can be extremely nasty!

If you don't enjoy any of these builds then there is also Invulnerability, you would have to get as much as defence as you can with IO Set bonuses. There is claws which is resisted a lot as it is lethal damage, but it costs hardly any endurance for attacks and they are quick attacks so it is still a fun and good build for pvp from personal experience. Dark Melee for -accuracy which is extremely useful in pvp just like defence. And one quick note electric is the energy damage type.

This is my first post on these forums, if there are any mistakes just correct me so others will know better for their builds And Enjoy your pvp

Fire Blast is pants in pvp now, but then nupvp is pants in general... meh

I hear end drain has been nerfed too, and you're probably better off using a thermal than a kin. Given out of the two I'd pick pve tho tbh.

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Fire Blast is pants in pvp now, but then nupvp is pants in general... meh

I hear end drain has been nerfed too, and you're probably better off using a thermal than a kin. Given out of the two I'd pick pve tho tbh.

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i have to agree with rooks tbh, pvp on a whole now is a joke, and fire blast is also a joke, if anythin id go with sonic or psy for blaster now, but some combinations on there i agree with, ice/ss/ice is good, fortunata's, elec/therm corrupters, thermal > kinetics imo, mind/elec domi's, not been against 1 but they supposed to be nasty to deal with. but on a whole, there's more sets now than ever that are useless in pvp, i13 was supposed to balance things but its done a complete opposite and pathetic job.

Yeah I just went on a pvp moment with my fire/kin corrupter and yeah it kinda is a joke now. Probably would reccomend something like sonic instead for the defence reduction.

And yeah I would definately roll a fortunata for pvp, although these were all builds on the blue side.

Definately Agreed I really hope they take some of the changes back from i13

-Rec has always been far better than -End, this is why Thermal trumps Kin.

(Poor Fireblast ).

Yep, Fire/Thermal Corrupters can be extremely effective.

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Yep, Elec/Thermal Corrupters can be extremely effective.

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Fixd

Fire/ice blaster should be removed from that list imo, for dueling builds at least. Slows are useless now and fire blast just doesn't compare with psy or sonic as a few others have already said. I think taking /em should be even more popular now with the taunt buff 'n' all.

Also if you gonna do a defender for pvp take power mastery, especially on a kin Powerbuild up will make all your end draining ability so much more powerfull. Not to mention total focus which you will need in order to kill things.

If you gonna go for a controller go for TA or thermal. Fire/therms do really well and earth mastery on 'trollers now is just pimpin'

Gamete..

Yeah I realized most of there powers are actually useless, suppose there a joke now.

And yeah Fire/Thermal is still awesome, if your on the Union Server then Max Khaos is a fire/therm corrupter so you could ask him for anything, he's an old school PvPer

He means Fire Control/Thermal, not Fire Blast.

And Max Khaos is Energy/Thermal anyway.

Yeah - bad list.

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Fire/ice blaster should be removed from that list imo, for dueling builds at least. Slows are useless now and fire blast just doesn't compare with psy or sonic as a few others have already said.

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I really disagree with you on this, DOT damage is great on fire and I have taken down Psy/EM for fun with my Fire/Ice in Arena(Durin MCU in case you want to know). Shiver is great works well and stops the attacks coming at you, Blasters have 3 attacks(Usual) what after that when I use shiver and I have a snow storm on you? Fire DOT is great damage still it has been reduced but the attack rate I'm hitting at it does not matter.

I urge anyone to try Fire/Ice or Psy/Ice.

DD

was it under i12 (or sorta i12 rules the fight, becoz this seems very unlikely to me if it was under i13 and psi blasters dont really do enough damage to nething neway even with bu aim +TF, seem an unfair figth from the start. its like putting a traps corr against a NW/Fort

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I have taken down Psy/EM for fun with my Fire/Ice

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Must have been some epicbad psi/em

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I have taken down Psy/EM for fun with my Fire/Ice

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Must have been some epicbad psi/em

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LoL, My last fight vs Psi/Em I won 8-2 and he was all IO'ed out!! Fire/Ice is better than you think!!

DD

That sounds like some epicfail psy blaster, what was his name? Fire/ice might be good but it isnt better than a psy/em tbh. If you were fighting a good Psy/em you would of been dead by the time you root to cast snowstorm and shiver lol. Least if it was in i13 anyway. If it was in i12 then yeh you can triumph over psy with fire

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That sounds like some epicfail psy blaster, what was his name? Fire/ice might be good but it isnt better than a psy/em tbh. If you were fighting a good Psy/em you would of been dead by the time you root to cast snowstorm and shiver lol. Least if it was in i13 anyway. If it was in i12 then yeh you can triumph over psy with fire

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amen to that loar lol, fire > psy in i12 not now tho lol, that must of been moghedian on that psy/em, the 1 who says u wont get supressed if u dont attack or be attacked lolz.

Any time you want to try here is my global

@Durin danark

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Any time you want to try here is my global

@Durin danark

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dats fighting talk

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Any time you want to try here is my global

@Durin danark

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not bein funny seen u plenty of times in RV on that blaster or ur FF fender, the name bashy might ring down your ears alot lol, and my psy blast isnt slotted anymore, the only toon i have slotted now is my tank and thats a fire tanker i wudnt advise trynna take that on lol.

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DoT is ideal for pvp

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What?No.

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Fire/Ice Blasters

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No.

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Kinetic/Elec/Dark Defenders

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No.

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I really disagree with you on this, DOT damage is great on fire and I have taken down Psy/EM for fun with my Fire/Ice in Arena

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Must have been pants Psy/em totally.

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I urge anyone to try Fire/Ice or Psy/Ice.

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I urge you not to.DoT damage in PvP is biggest failure ever in general.

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LoL, My last fight vs Psi/Em I won 8-2 and he was all IO'ed out

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Fail of a blaster.

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Kinetic/Elec/Dark Defenders

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No.

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Kinetic/Elec/Power Defenders

Acceptable, dark is poor

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Kinetic/Elec/Dark Defenders

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No.

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Kinetic/Elec/Power Defenders

Acceptable, dark is poor

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Agreed under i12 rules.Under i13 squishies are just cannon fodder.

I would like to extend my sympathies to the OP for getting killed so much in RV and while spamming a bunch of tells i will kindly remind him that "36month Vet rewards, 1800million spent on 1 character and 10level 50's" doent make you a good pvper.Also calling Vindicate a ganker SG is kinda laughable to be honest.

Next time better luck tho and my conolences on dying so much.

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I would like to extend my sympathies to the OP for getting killed so much in RV and while spamming a bunch of tells i will kindly remind him that "36month Vet rewards, 1800million spent on 1 character and 10level 50's" doent make you a good pvper.Also calling Vindicate a ganker SG is kinda laughable to be honest.

Next time better luck tho and my conolences on dying so much.

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i lol'd so much wen u told me this TG, I GATZ MA 1800 MILLION BUILDZ YO, MAKES ME IMBA AT PEE VEE PEE !!!! and [censored] lol @callin u a noob at PvP, thats just imba lolz. was fun how we just come along tho and wiped the zone clean, was like spreadin butter on bread