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Yep, EM/ and /EA stalkers are pretty popular for playing in RV. Ice is a really good all-round blaster set. Dark is pretty decent too, especially in 1v1s. /nrg's ok as a secondary. Most popular secondary for ice/ and dark/ would be /plant, good damage with toxins and proc'ing out strangler, sonic manip is a pretty good pairing for those too.

Yeah, on boomtown you can jaunt into some of the crane areas, but can't get out other than jaunting out. Overall it felt like all maps we tried are pretty good for 8v8s (Boomtown, Council Earth, new Industrial, Last Bastion, Luna Square) in terms of size, layout, and geometry. I think a few people mentioned getting stuck on ramps on Industrial, but I didn't have issues. And someone mentioned one of the map spawns being too close together, but I don't remember which one. Thanks for the work on this, doubling the number of viable team PVP maps is pretty great.

@xhiggy @dan petro (?) @average player ice/emp contr psn/beam beam/elec

Thanks to all participants, people who stuck around to observe, and congratulations to Chris and Dak on their flawless upper bracket run, not dropping a single death! And thank you to Wombo and Fire Wire for funding the prize pool and Hot for the addition to 1st prize. Final bracket. Great job to the costume contest winners Reib, Riq, Hot Dogger, and Justin and to the FFA winners Silit and Silent (sudden death honorable mention Alouu). Checkout the upcoming PVP events on the 19th:

Travel suppression and heal decay. These are also both off in PVP zones so these 2 rules will be the same if you're used to that.

@xhiggy @average player elec/dp def psi/dev blast

500. Incredible. Well done, HP. To correct this: HP and I are the only people on the team that really use the root cancel in a significant capacity, averaging about 60 per match each (~6 per minute). Everyone else on the team doesn't really use it at the moment, on average ~6 per match per person for everyone else (or a whopping once every 90 seconds). On top of this, drawing the pistol doesn't mean the animation root is necessarily cancelled, the actual number of successful uses will be lower than this. An unsuccessful crey timing will still cause you to lose target, but leave you in the full animation root. Hitting a crey bind when not in an animation will still show up in a demo, but doesn't correspond to any cancelled animation. I want to reiterate what's been said several times since there still seems to be some confusion: this does not cancel out of the power animation duration, only the root. Using the crey pistol on the healing aura animation which you've used as one of your examples would do nothing for the emp.

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.mxd is a plain text format.

Open in Mids which you can get working on Mac with Wine with a bit of effort. Or in a pinch just view it in a text editor.

Here's a general ill/emp build with 1606 and some extra slots to do what you want with. Should be noted that there are a lot of different ways to build it and most builds I see have different power selections/priorities and they all work fine. E.g. some builds go power boost instead of hibernate, take both phases, take more/less pets, go medicine pool instead of concealment, etc. And with more people playing elec affinity now you mightwant to work recovery aura into the build. Usually you don't want more than 4 panacea sets since you're slotting at least 1 set of glad nets and you can only have 5 of the same set bonus in a build (i.e. if you have 5 panaceas and 1 glad net set then 1 of your 7.5% recharge bonuses wouldn't be doing anything). ill_emp_general.mxd

I think this was a hastily done build for 2v2s only and would be really bad in any other format.

Defense is not very good on ranged characters due to the DR curve that's applied defense. Tough is useful only if you don't have a resistance shield from your epic/patron pool; the additional PVP resistance you get from running tough on top of other resistances is really minimal.

gj to the 9 winners good matches, all

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hp (captain) dex hells lib march silit vinnie xhiggy z. standby: sorrows unholy pf h0j

consolidating various pvp-related links that have been posted elsewhere into one place. if anything's missing post it below or you can ask me to add it to this post. pvp wiki page - covers a lot of technical info well like base resistances, diminishing returns, damage differences, and pvp flags on powers. good place to start with no prior or outdated pvp info. pvp discord - the unofficial homecoming pvp discord. lots of helpful people willing to answer specific questions. advice skews towards team arena over pvp zones or dueling. also home of pvpbot who you can use to search builds in the spreadsheets and generate popmenus for test server build testing 8v8 demo stats - summary stats for 8v8 matches jul 2020 - sept 2022 by me (may go offline) attack chain timing calc - Basics on common 8v8 PvP attack chains by dexington arena/kickball primer - my writeup of general info for arena pvp and kickball specifically. emp basics - my writeup covering some of the basics of healing in arena team pvp (and pvp in general). links to VODs with additional emp info at the end. for new healers with some starting pvp knowledge. pvp builds - spreadsheet listing all Mids/Pines builds that have been posted to the pvp discord #build-discussion channel (no longer updated). Note there’s no curation of the list, so the builds may not be good. mids’ reborn hero designer - the program almost everyone uses to plan their character’s builds before respec’ing/leveling, usually up to date for homecoming servers general build advice - good comment by Dan Petro on general pvp build philosophy (be sure to also read his other comments in the thread) attack frame data - frame data on popular pvp attacks put together by mallex attack chain guide - Basics on common 8v8 PvP attack chains pvp calc - Mallex’s calculator for figuring out effects after diminishing returns and proc rates on powers ppm list - list of all enhancement procs with PPM rates and effects from macskull useful binds and settings

Mallex's RV list is pretty good https://i.imgur.com/XAjzpj5.png though it's from a while ago and there are some things he'd probably change now. Like dark control is no longer top tier since the hold is no longer bugged.

hells z. xhiggy

good event 👍 if you have any info you'd like added to that kickball doc msg me on pvp discord @daniel.

there's the KB on friday which may become a semi-regular thing, plus the impromtu kb's which start up here and there. problem doing kb on scrim nights is that half the regular people are playing or would prefer watching the scrims. maybe mondays if anyone wants to give it a shot.

Mystic flight is still very nice for 2v2s imo (unless it's an indoor map). For 2v2s compared to 8v8 builds you can get away with less range, not capped HP, and not capped move speed. I don't think the pets really do anything in a 2v2, but I still like them. Controllers don't bring much damage to the table so basically in a 2v2 you just want to keep your damage dealer alive. Maybe start with something like this, switch leviathan to primal forces maybe http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1467&c=661&a=1322&f=HEX&dc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