Tired of Acrobatics

I am very much a neophyte PvPer, but I have seen many times the "fly iz for nubs" comments when someone uses fly in zones/arenas, because of the use of -fly attacks... but then I watched on night in RV when someone was complaining about a pair of hover-blasters being "noobs", but the people they were killing had no ranged -fly attacks... nor did any of their teammates. I wonder if everyone saying over time that fly is bad has made people actually stop taking the defenses against flying foes, therefore making fly viable again on account of "expectation of failure".

Edit: At least for ranged 'toons, especially /EM blasters with increased range on their attacks.

ZOMG a flying TANK!!

Hey man, this was post-DR, so all those buffs actually did pretty little. No idea where Ronin is. He came back for a while in I14 or something, but sirens kinda died in the last few months, so I guess he took off again.

I'm sure he'll figure out another exploit and be back. Good to see you and keep doing your thing.

I guess SC will turn into BB+WB before i get back to play...too bad.

DoT supresses like any other ST attack. It starts when the attack shows up in one's combat window, and ends shortly after... sometimes even while the DoT is still being applied. As mentioned previously, the method of 'attack first then web' can often work in a TP'ers favor because the duration of TS from the attack lasts longer than that of webnade... making the TS caused from webnade not even happen when used right after.

Basically it boils down to falling patiently without attacking whenever webbed until TP becomes available. Making a lot of this work has to do with how high you're flying when webbed. Low flying often leads to a dead flyer. High flying with +range to make it work brings opponents up to you and usually out of their element (as SS/SJ'ers). As someone earlier in the thread suggested... a good flyer can usually get the jump on others from above or see them coming before they let them get within webnade range.

TP Foe alone, like web grenade causes very little (if any) TS due to the fact it is not a damaging power. It also thankfully, provides a TP'er with 1 or 2 seconds for any TS to wear off while the 'unaffected ' phase is still being applied. Also, with patience and a quick finger it isn't terribly difficult to queue up TP when one heres the TP Foe animation starting to play and dissappear imediately after being TP'ed. Since TP Foe will count as the 'first' TP, the one a TP'er queues during the TP Foe anmation acts as the second TP and cannot be suppressed and players and even drones aren't quick enough to fire a shot before the TP'er is carried off to their own queued destination.

I like the idea that it is more noble to tp away than ss away to the base. Because if you can rp it, its better.

tp is not as RELIABE regardless of how quick ur fingers are. How many toons do you see in RV webnading people by themselves? None. And if they are webnading people by themself, they're a downie. Ts will kick in, and even though it doent stack it will start over befofe your tp can be used. I have a pb with and when I switch to dwarf I use a bind to tp, and if there's multiple people attackin, which in my case there usually is, tp does not go off. Your fingers aren't quicker than a key bind, and you can't pull that lame card, "do you have any toons with tp? No, then, I know more" because as mac said a while ago, I don't need to own a pinto to know it sucks...