fire / em tank - RV


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hiya all,

Thinking of transferring to freedom from victory to actually see some people in PVP zones. I built my fire/em tank prior to the pain of i14 and haven't kept up since. It's currently slotted for +hp and +recharge, though some of that +recharge is in LotG's in concealment pool.

Anywho, input on what to take would be appreciated.

Fire - everything but blazing aura, burn, and rise of the phoenix, right? or is aura/burn good for stalker inturrupting?

EM - barrage, build up, energy transfer, and total focus. Anything else? Bonesmasher too or just use barrage and save a power?

Pools - hasten/SS, CJ/SJ, swift/hurdle/stam, and ?
Epic - ? I hear something about fossilize being brokenly good?

Thanks.


 

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fire - aura is useless. Burn is pretty good. Almost a guaranteed AS repellant. RotP is useless.

EM - Probably don't need bonesmasher, if you're just gonna play in RV. You also want taunt for the -75% range.

4th pool should be phase shift. Either that or tactics, but I have phase on mine.

Epic = definitely earth. Fossilize is basically an ET with 80 foot range, and -defense on top of it. Clearly broken, but whatever. You also probably want the immobilize, which also does good damage, although it's DoT. And the patch power is good too, for getting stalkers out of stealth and some other things.


 

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so with phase and stone epic, no +tohit or perception? Doesn't that make things painful?


 

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Slot the +percep IO in Build Up, grab the base buff too if you're going to be in zone a lot. Otherwise your main source of +tohit/+dam is Build Up, so team with Emps and Therms if you want more.


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people still bring support heroes to zones?


 

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There are actually a few people who play exclusively on buffers on freedom. Its pretty nice. Elistan is almost always emping hero side and mac is a mfing beast on his therm and emp and those are the only toons I ever see him pvp on.


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well, i'll be playing euro-times so unless they sit home and emp all day, I may opt for tactics or focused acc. I'd be sad to not even see people with the stealth IO coming.