PvP Boot Camp Season 2

Aww I can't farm Pixel now

Welcome to the Elephants though!

I think I can get behind this new strategy! Pain Dom to damage selves/Confuse/7 SD readygo!

(Yeah I know it's not really thought out. Its a joke ppl! )

I'm always willing to self destruct for a good cause.

'Phants : New Tactic.
We will get a Grav to snare someone into a pool then everybody get on him and self-destruct. LoL

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Originally Posted by Wavicle CoH players are stupid and incompetent compared to WoW players.

Matches tomorrow!

We will run 4 so we can make sure everyone gets a chance to play.

Lets try to minimize the resets. If I am not stuck at work I will list all the matches.

For those people not playing in each round we can do a quick KB or something while we wait.

Yep.

I know that we had talked yesterday about R and I trying to make it early tonight for practice Smalls, but it appears real life conspires against us again. Hopefully we can make it for the matches though even if we do we will likely be late.

This is Jazno, sorry for the short notice but family matters have come up and I'll not be able to make it to matches tonight.

good games tonight... thx for the fun even tho i crashed 4 times. missed our techy and ska, hope you guys are ok. also shout out to bambi & gris - COME BACK TO US!!!!













TEEHEE

Ska.. I'm sad... after I put all that work to go red, you don't even show up!? omg... sighs...




:3

Good job Fubaphants on your wins and great work Double Fubtendre on the teamwork, we'll get them next time!

There was a interesting/good discussion on team Fubaphants that I thought I would share with the whole group as well as try to put my spin on the situation.

There was a question raised about when to switch off a target. Sometimes team E was calling a target then switching because the target was not dropping instantly and it was noted by one elephant that the target was sometimes down to 20%ish health but the target caller had already moved onto the next target.

Honestly, a clean spike will remove a player's HP bar in less then 5 secs, that is what everyone should be looking to do, forcing a huge damage packet onto a target so that even if the healer sees who is target there won't be enough time to react and get a heal off.

I think we have had some clean spikes but for the most part as we are just learning at this point and practicing most 80%+ of the spikes are coming in a little staggered that is to say, people are firing from pretty far away so there will be an initial damage spike (closest player) then about a second later more damage rolls in as the initial attack of players who were further away finally reaches the target plus maybe the second attack from the closest player. This is why you often see a target start to evade while their HP bar is near full 80ish% then they drop down below 50%.

So the question is ... chase or drop target.

Honestly, people (target callers/teams) do both. Some people feel its better to keep on a target and try to drop it. Other people will say if you can't drop the target in the first spike, let it go and move on.

I would say our emps in this event are pretty darn good so the longer you stay on a target the greater the chance is they will be in position to give heals to the target. Thinking this way I would feel its best to drop that target and move on.

The faster you switch targets (while still getting locks) the more pressure you are putting on the opposing team's healers.

Lets say that team DE is shooting at Nugget, I see that he is taking damage so I start to position myself where I know he is evading too so I can give him heals (don't chase your teammate, cut them off to get them the heals they need) As nugget is evading away from the center of action he is in fact "pulling' me away from the rest of the team as he evades and I am giving him heals. If DE has already dropped him as a target and moved onto Lin I am way out of position to give Lin heals so the chance of a successful spike goes up.

By switching targets faster you increase the chance that your next spike will be successful.

The only caveat to this is you must get locks from your team. Again our ringer emps will know when someone needs a heal and when they don't if a target only gets hit to 90% HP they are going to ignore that target and stay with the group to give the next target heals.

If our emps were not as vet as they are, I would say, staying on a target to burn them out of greens is a good strategy but I just don't think you are going to get a kill on a target against our ringer emps if you let the spike go on longer then 20 seconds.

Now the one thing I would say is if a emp is in AP and is down to <10% health and phases, I would think it would be a good idea to have someone phase and go after them. While this does put that person as risk for being spiked I think the chance to get a kill outweighs the risk.

Hey Masque, against us on Cargo I noticed I was getting the Earth hold on me (on Emp) then damage would go onto the Stalker or one of the Blasters, then another damage packet onto Cherry or Trickster. Is that a strat to split up the heals or bait someone to evade so they're off target...or just pop greens or force a phase? For example, throw a hold on Emp, maybe they think damage is coming in so they phase or pop greens, meanwhile spike X, then spike Y.

TLDR: Do spikes get spread out just to cause disruption among the other spike team and to throw Emps for a loop, or is it just switching?

I think that was the dorks just being silly. Lib was calling really slow and trying to target the stalker so I bet people were just going rogue.

hai! just an FYI, I will be late getting home. I am truly sorry, but have to stay at work until 5, run to the bank, run to the post-office, then 2 more errands before I can even head south. So I am hoping to get home no later than 7-ish Pacific time. I sowwy!

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Hey guys, writing here from the lobby of my apartments. They have my section closed for the renovations (read: repaving and painting) and have yet to open them back up. I should be in soon, but last week they said they would be done by now and it was still 2 hours later we finally got in.

Soon as I can I'll be there.

Glad you guys were able to make it on Friday. Next Friday is the final matches of Boot Camp2.

We will be posting soon about the next event for PvP University.

cool. good times

Last practice before matches for Fants will be on Thurs 6pm PST/9pm EST... I set it in the chat channel but I'll post here in case someone misses it.

I might be late as it is close to end of month and don't want to be here at work all weekend long. Will try to get into practice as soon as I can. I sowwy

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