PvP Boot Camp Season 2

Old school as in Old school legends or as in I PvP'd ages ago?

lies!!!! and ZOMG take rez for goodness sake.

i R teh pr0 sNiPe KS'eR. dUmb Test League DUH!

I would go with the ages ago.

We will be discussing Incarnate boosts at a later date, I believe that during the first meeting (I could be wrong because I missed this part) that Flux went over the fact that we might set all matches to Heavyweight rather then Super Heavyweight and this may remove all incarnate slotting.

However, there is a toss up between slotting cardiac and musculature for alpha for the following reasons- Cardiac does indeed give you more range and psi blasters are notorious for being end hogs. However Musculature Core give about 20pts more damage per attack which would equate to about 80+ pts of extra damage coming in from all the psi blasters on target (80x4)= 320HP= 1/5th of the HP of a blaster just in extra damage.

(More on this later- I will discuss zone/duel vs team pvp)

Yes, the timer is 2 minutes and remember that +recharge is DR'd in PvP. So having 2 recharges guarantees that that phase is recharged when you need it. Remember there are other powers that also affect recharge.

That Steadfast should be a kb not the 3%. I will edit the build to reflect the appropriate IO.

As far as DR, I have a very special guest lecturer who will be explaining DR to us. I will give you a hint- who is the top "numbers" person in the game today.

For a top tiered PvP build I would use glad javs for all my ranged attacks, if however, I am missing some I will fall back on Decimations for those reasons you outlined- the same +hp as ruin, a very nice +max end, and some recharge. However, in keeping in mind that these builds have to be as inexpensive as possible and again, not having to run TFC is a very nice bonus to some people who want to learn PvP without investing a lot of extra hours to get to the HP cap.

For the blaster builds no you won't need to run sprint, however, you will need to run both SS and SJ all the time. I typically will throw a stealth IO into sprint and toggle it on as well. For some of the other builds where I only used 1 micro, or if you don't have the funds for Micros then yes toggle on sprint.

Yes, always try to maintain as much +stealth as possible, we will be talking about this during the next meeting which will be covering *survival skills*. Remember, that the stealth vs perception battle is not all or nothing, its a game of distance so the more stealth you layer on the 'less' distance you need to put between yourself and your attackers.

I run assault, never maneuvers. That is the reason I place my kismets in stealth because I do run stealth.

Some people still use hibernate builds in team based pvp (remember we are doing team not zone or duels) however, the benefit of PFF and temp Invuln is just too great to pass up (imo). Temp invuln will give you about 40% resistance to all damage types (this includes psi) therefore you will be taking 40% less damage during a spike. Frozen armor is ok, it allows you to slot 2 kb ios and hoarfrost gives you the ability to heal yourself twice a match but thats about it. For me- 2 extra greens and KB that I don't need isn't worth losing out on 40% resist.

I wouldn't give up more +damage for recharge or +HP you don't need. Remember your job as a blaster is to load as much damage onto a target in a single attack chain. If something doesn't die in 5-7 secs of you clicking your first attack the chance of you (the team) getting a kill drops dramatically. So you want as much damage coming in as possible in that first attack chain (4 attacks).


One thing I will state is that team based PvP is a lot different then zone or duel PvP. Remember you are relying on heals coming from your healer. This also includes buffs in the form of AB/Fort/CM/Painbringer/Enforce Moral/Forge etc.

Also remember that you can pick up a full tray of insp before each match, (we will also be going over inspiration usage, in a future class) so you should be able to adjust your insp as necessary for your play style. If you find yourself spike target a lot, bring all greens. If you evade like a champ then bring 3 lines of reds. If you were not able to afford a build high on +end and recovery, carry a few blues.



All great questions Hemm, and very useful for sparking some discussion about these topics. I am glad you are bringing up these types of questions, and if you have any more I know we have lots of mentors who are more then willing (as I am) to answering yours of anyone's questions about what we have covered so far or build specific questions.

No, that is Strike's long lost brother.

Elmo?

It's got to be The Count!

Probably the same person it's been as long as I can remember...

Unique Dragon is helping out?


Is it this guy?

Global handle on Live/Test-
@TMK

List your PvP viable toons here-
The Mighty Kraken Ice/Ice/Cold Blaster 50
TMK Ice/Ice/Cold Blaster 50
The Mighty Kraken II Ice/Ice/Cold Blaster 50
-TMK Ice/Ice/Arctic Tanker 50
KRAKEN Ice/Cold/Mako Corrupter 50
KRAKEN II Ice/Ice/Mako Dominator 50
Krakatoaken Ice/Storm/Ice Controller 50
Fire KRAKEN Fire/Energy Blaster 50
Mr. Kraken Ice/Empathy Controller 39

Are you interested in zone or arena PvP? Both?
Both!

What kind of role are you used to playing (support, offensive, both)?
All

(If your interest is arena) What nights are you available for practice/officials?
Any!

Do you have vent and do you use it?
Yes!


BC2 would rock if TMK made an appearance...

No matter what just remember it is all Shocker's fault.

Can we make it a ... four hour long Synapse? Just so nobody ever runs them ever again? :3

@War-Nugget

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

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.

Originally Posted by Brillig It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.