Why does it take so many enhancements!
All you need to pvp is SO's/Common IO's, a stealth IO in sprint, and a perception IO. If you're feeling fancy buy a Numina/Miracle/Performance shifter proc.
The only IOs you really need on a PvP build are -KB IOs if you're a squishy, and 50 million should buy you a few of those. You can PvP just fine on SOs. Will you be at a disadvantage to those expensive builds? Yeah, but if you know what you're doing you'll do alright. Not good, just alright.
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The only IOs you really need on a PvP build are -KB IOs if you're a squishy, and 50 million should buy you a few of those. You can PvP just fine on SOs. Will you be at a disadvantage to those expensive builds? Yeah, but if you know what you're doing you'll do alright. Not good, just alright.
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If you are teaming then you should be fine with the above and just a standard/common IO's. You can mix and match other IO's (franken-slotting) fairly cheaply to give yourself some better stats or save on slotting.
If you were looking at dueling then you are at a disadvantage but that doesn't mean you cant have fun and still put up a decent fight.
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If you don't have kb ios on the us servers you will get farmed pretty bad.
Duel me.
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Shooting for KB protection in the upper 30s to lower 40s will keep you from getting KBd from anything other than Power Push and Force Bolt (neither of which is terribly common, the big ones in use right now are Lift and Levitate). If you're a melee character your in-set knockback protection will be enough (once they fix that nasty mez + KB bug).
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If you don't have kb ios on the us servers you will get farmed pretty bad.
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I would have thought sharks would be a bigger issue than kb.
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Not so much a problem over here on EU. Usually I am on my dominator so domination protects me
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You can phase/hiber heal through attacks. KB spikes make you unable to react until the animation plays out. This makes it much much easier to put a target down before they can escape/react.
The most common being a mind dom doing hold -> lev with a stalker asing before you can get up.
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Hm, this discussion kinda makes me wonder - if we do get cross-server arena, will that also work between the US and EU servers, like the market does?
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The market is US and EU combined?
Yep, no one from the EU would buy my overpriced IO's

You can phase/hiber heal through attacks. KB spikes make you unable to react until the animation plays out. This makes it much much easier to put a target down before they can escape/react.
The most common being a mind dom doing hold -> lev with a stalker asing before you can get up. |
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knockback got too popular too fast imo, im not asking for a nerf but more options other than throwing money at a build should exist to combat it.
forcing a pvper to sit at a market window for hours to spec up for pvp is a cruel joke that totally ruins my desire to play a toon anymore, my eyes glaze over and i switch to old toons i already IO'd when it was alot easier.
i have spent hours and hours to get to 50 mill and then i found out thats not gunna like by me any good PVP IO's. so currently im running a sonic/energy blaster and i just really want to at least have a good chance at pvp can some one help me?