a...youll get laughed at for having a melee toon in pvp.
b../ss is the fotm so good choice
c.. pick the earth mastery
d.. blazing aura is nice cause it disturbs a/s from stalkers..also burn as well....make sure you slot acc in both!
Fire/SS is good because it's very survivable because of the heal, because rage is great, and because the earth epic is broken.
You need mostly the same stuff as in PvE, with a few differences.
Things NOT to take that you would in PvE:
blazing aura - will NOT interrupt AS from any stalker that is even half decent. It ends up just being a big end drain.
consume - AoE powers in general are pretty useless. If you're ok with consume hitting only 1 target, then you could get it I guess.
ROTP - self rezzes are useless, since you can immediately rez anyway once you die
foot stomp - same as consume.
Things to take that you wouldn't in PvE:
Hurl - one of your strongest attacks in PvP, while useless in PvE
stone prizon and fossilize from earth epic - great attacks. fossilize is actually the stongest attack you'll have. Yeah, PvP is a joke like that.
phase shift - pretty much 100% mandatory for all PvP toons
You also definitely need taunt, even more so than in PvE...but mostly for the -range.
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I had it on my Spines/Fire scrapper I was dabbling in PvP with, it kind of amused me. Actually killed a brute with it who stayed too close after killing me (I usually leave it on autofire, so it goes off as soon as I drop), his health was low and he decided to gloat instead of immediately jumping away. It was funny as hell, but something like that will be a very rare occurrence |
Originally Posted by Supermax
ROTP - self rezzes are useless, since you can immediately rez anyway once you die
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Aside from amusing yourself though, it's not useful in PvP.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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not true at all...i have 400 rep on my fire/fire tank|
Originally Posted by Supermax
Things NOT to take that you would in PvE:
blazing aura - will NOT interrupt AS from any stalker that is even half decent. It ends up |
i was dueling a brute in rv and 2 stalkers came in and tried to screw me and b.a. took BOTH out of hide and they got no a/s off. the issue is building it with enough acc for one of the 2 or 3 ticks to hit them.
yes its endurance heavy but if you skip b.a. then your crazy
Blazing Aura is garbage in PvP, as is Burn. Blazing Aura will have about 1 chance to check against a stalker before AS fires off, and has to do so against a stalker's considerable AoE defense. Burn requires you stand in one place to use, which just paints a huge bullseye on your back.
"the reason there are so many sarcastic pvpers is we already had a better version of pvp taken away from us to appease bad players. Back then we chuckled at how bad players came here and whined. If we knew that was the actual voice devs would listen to instead of informed, educated players we probably would have been bigger dicks back then." -ConFlict
Not to mention that BA is an offensive toggle so it'll drop whenever a mez hits you.
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I've heard things.. crazy things about Fire/SS tankers being amazing in PvP. I thought to myself, "Maybe I can harness this power and dominate RV!". Well I got into mids and soon realized.. I had no idea what I was doing. I have very weak "search-fu" and didn't know if there was a post for this already but.. whatever. So is this true..? Can a fire/SS tanker really be THAT good at PvP? And if so.. how would I go about accomplishing this?