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    Petition to reinstate root-cancelling on Nullifier

    in The Arena (PvP)

    Posted · Edited by Mallex

    /signed

     

    The weapon redraw macro, which has been popularly used for over a year in our community, resulted in making PvP faster and creating a much better balance between ATs and roles. Once discovered, the major teams (6 teams of 8+ people each) had an official vote which legalized it's use in the Arena.

     

    Given the macro made the user lose their current target, full damage characters benefited the least as they had difficulty re-tabbing onto their target, while buff/debuffers/healers benefited the most, and this was seen as overwhelming favourable in a meta that is still dominated by full damage characters.

     

    The reason so many are signing this petition is because they realize we'll end up with a much slower and imbalanced version of PvP if no alterative is implemented.

     

    The slowing down of the game, and those supporting it, is not too unlike the situation/discussions around PvP Travel Suppression when it was first introduced. Thankfully the community spoke out, and we were given an opt-out choice in the arena, which eventually became zone-wide standard.

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    Normalizing Stalker Primary Set Damage

    in The Arena (PvP)

    Posted

    Although Assassin's Strike damage is currently normalized across all stalker primary powersets, dealing 250 unresisted damage and 139 resisted damage, the AT in PvP typically relies on a follow-up attack after successfully landing their Assassin's strike.

     

    Stalkers currently have 17 available primary sets in PvP, with only 1-2 being used (Psionic Melee for GPB or Street Justice for Uppercut). If the damage of their follow-up attacks were normalized, then all 17 could be used effectively.

     

    Crushing Uppercut, the most powerful follow-up stalker attack that isn't currently overtuned, from hide, has a 205 base (with Combo lvl 3) and a 165 crit, totalling 370 damage from hide.

     

    Recommended changes to follow-up attacks:

     

    Powerset Follow-up Attack Base Damage Critical Damage Notes
    Broadsword Head Splitter 185 185 Change to 100% crit rate from hide
    Claws Eviscerate 185 185  
    Dark Melee Midnight Grasp 155 185 +30 as DoT (5 ticks of 6 dmg each)
    Dual Blades Vengeful Slice 45 185 +135 as DoT (3 ticks 45 dmg each)
    Electrical Melee Thunder Strike 185 185 Change to 100% crit rate from hide
    Energy Melee Total Focus 185 185  
    Fiery Melee Greater Fire Sword 155 185 +50 as DoT (RNG 80% chance and cancels on miss, max 5 tick, of 10 dmg each)
    Ice Melee Freezing Touch 20 185 +160 as DoT (10 ticks of 16 dmg each)
    Kinetic Melee Concentrated Strike 185 185  
    Martial Arts Eagles Claw 185 185  
    Ninja Blade Golden Dragonfly 185 185  
    Psionic Melee Greater Psi Blade 170 170 Potential for +100 from insight
    Radiation Melee Devastating Blow 185 185  
    Savage Melee N/A     Unsure, it's all special damage
    Spines Ripper 185 185  
    Street Justice Crushing Uppercut 205 165 205 base is from Combo level 3
    Staff Melee Sky Splitter 93 185 +93 as a single DoT tick

     

     

    Let me know any thoughts or suggestions for number changes.

     

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    Recluse's Victory and incarnate powers

    in The Arena (PvP)

    Posted

    The most oppressive and problematic strategies in Zone PvP (excluding the pending Base TP fix) are....
     

    - Incan Destiny + Large greens = Full heal inspiration pops

    - Jump Pack + Steam Jump = 100% uptime of jumping anywhere

    - Ethereal Shift = A phase shift that ignores NoPhase

     

    These can fixed in the current PvP zones or a new PvP zone by adding the following:

    kDisable_Temp

    kArena

    kDisable_Inspiration_Medium

    kDisable_Inspiration_Large

    kDisable_Inspiration_Special

     

    This will disable:

    - All temporary powers except those which work in the Arena (which are balance for PvP); no more Jump Pack/Steam Jump or Ethereal Shift

    - All inspirations except small inspirations

     

    I'm not sure how to flag to disable all Incarnates except Alpha, but that would solve a lot of issues too (Barrier spam, Incan stacking etc.).

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    Beam Rifle Penetrating Ray not lining up with the animation (easy fix inside)

    in Bug Reports

    Posted

    Hello,

     

    Despite Penetrating Ray showing a very fast projectile firing out of the rifle halfway through the animation, the travel time of the actual projectile is very slow. At maximum range, it can take a full 4 seconds to hit the target, long after the visible projectile animation has struck the target.

     

    Currently in the game files, Penetrating Ray is showing a speed of 60, which is much slower than most projectiles. If this was sped up to a little less than speed of Archery powers (300), approx. 250, the actual hit would travel at the same speed at the current bullet animation.

     

    Thank you

     

     

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    Top 10 Emps in the Game

    in The Arena (PvP)

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Tahliah said:

    Your question appears to be "let's argue?".  Am I reading that right?  If so, my argument would be that I have no idea at all who any of these players are, though RavenFrost sounds familiar and in a good way

    Yea I'm with Tahliah. Ravenfrost should be higher. Can we get a poll going?

    Discord Weekly Discussion - Week 35: PVP

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Mallex

    3 minutes ago, vegetableknife said:

    Also I dunno if the Domination Archetype ability actually works for dominators in pvp.  Like, in the wiki it says with domination up abilities last their full duration despite resistances but that's not really the case.

    Info on Domination here: E9iL8Fx.png

     

     

    That being said, DO NOT FIX IT.

     

    Every dominator hold would last 8 full seconds on everyone with 0 counterplay.

    Discord Weekly Discussion - Week 35: PVP

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    My only contribution to this is the following:

     

    It would be a mistake to re-balance or make changes with the intent of bringing in newer players who do not PvP. This failed in issue 13, and fails in a lot of other PvP scenes (Starcraft, Street fighter etc.).

     

    It's better to cater to the established player base, and if it's a great competitive scene, it will naturally attract others who are curious.

     

    I think Banana man does a great job of speaking for the majority, and Alouu is similarly trying to make it better for those already playing. These are the approaches that have the best effect on the scene.

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    Couple of Zone PvP Questions

    in The Arena (PvP)

    Posted · Edited by Mallex

    I've been looking into it.

     

    It can happen in any PvP zone (BB/SC/WB/RV). If you look at the "PvP" tab under their info, it says "PVP Disabled".

     

    It only happens to the first person zoning into a PvP zone if nobody else is there, but it isn't consistent.

     

    I think that if nobody enters one of the PvP zones for X amount of time (24 hours? Server reset?)....something happens. If you go into a PvP zone nobody has been in for a while, and you're the first one, your PvP will be disabled. The next person who enters will have their PvP enabled.

     

    I've come across a few people farming RV in other servers while being totally immune, due to RV not typically being active on those servers.

     

    This shouldn't be a problem for RV in Indom, and will only apply to lower population servers. Even Warburg on most servers has someone go in at least daily to get the nukes, so it rarely happens in those zones.

     

    Edit: It used to be a lot more common on Homecoming, when the servers were constantly being reset, which supports the above (fist person zoning into an inactive PvP zone). And people's advice of "change your alignment" just had people leave the zone and come back which fixed it.

    Focused Feedback: Player vs. Player

    in Open Beta Testing

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Dan Petro said:

     

    With this one, what do you feel like is a good solution / fix? 

     

    Right now TK has been pretty much universally banned in arena stuff since i14 or so on live because a 10 second auto hit hold that you can't break out of (with BF's, CM's etc) ends up being pretty broken in small scale matches, and is essentially a free kill once every 20 seconds.  For random people throwing damage it has never been as bad because of the "Breaks on taking damage" aspect of it.

     

    I've always sort of leaned towards 4 second hold, the + is it is auto hit and impossible to avoid and isn't affected by mez resistance.  the - is the duration breaks on taking damage and can't be enhanced. 

     

     

     

     

    Well for standard jump teams, I'd rather throw a well-timed Dominate to hold a target through 3-4 seconds of damage rather than use the current Telekinesis and have them break out + phase the second they take any damage. When Telekinesis was still in a grey area a couple months ago, I was actually using it to cage emps rather than hold spike targets because of that. 

     

    The real issue I see with the current Telekinesis is it enables stalkers to AS too easily. Telekinesis + a stalker is death sentence in the arena meta and in zone right now.

     

    The best way I could think to fix this is to change "Temporary_Powers.Temporary_Powers.KillTk" to activate after say.....4 seconds? That way it's a 4.5 second unresisted hold, that still breaks on damage.

    Strictly worse than a Dominate hold (3-4 seconds through damage) for standard jump teams, but still has some synergy with any comps with a stalker or zone. Keep in mind Telekinesis also does no damage whereas Dominate should do about 300+ damage with procs.

     

    Right now though, it's breaking the characters of anyone who took telekinesis. For a power that's working as intended, that doesn't feel right to me. It was accidentally included into the list due to a misunderstanding. Keep in mind I currently have 0 characters with TK because I only use arena-legal characters.

     

     

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    Focused Feedback: Player vs. Player

    in Open Beta Testing

    Posted · Edited by Mallex

    Looks like Telekinesis was accidentally added to the list of powers that get mez suppression.

     

    The developers purposefully didn't add mez suppression because it's a hold toggle. It lasts 0.75 seconds and re-activates every 0.5 seconds. It cannot be slotted for hold.

     

    By adding mez suppression, it now stops itself after the initial 0.5 seconds.

     

    Instead, it has a damage suppression tag, so that it will not work if the target has taken damage in the last 10 seconds. It also grants "Temporary_Powers.Temporary_Powers.KillTk" to the user, which automatically turns off Telekinesis after 8 seconds. This power was working as intended in PvP.

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