Last night, I watched a Level 50 Widow take a Katana/Nin Stalker apart. Piece by bloody piece. Arena match. No buffs. No teaming. Just complete and total
ownage.
The Widow had to stand still and allow - I say again, ALLOW (because he told him to do it after the Stalker spent most of the match whiffing) the Stalker to
use every yellow he had and a build up, to hit the Widow with an Assassin Strike. He hit him ONCE. The ENTIRE match. Otherwise? Stalker couldn't hit him.
Period. Ever. And when they engaged, the Widow would take the guy apart in 10-15 seconds flat. Every time.
I watched this in utter disbelief. When the Stalker asked why he couldn't hit the Widow, the Widow responded that he had a Melee Defense of about 70. I
asked him later after the match what his other defenses were. He said his ranged was around 65. AOE about 61-ish.
70.
SEVENTY.
Widows don't get elude. So basically that's his defense ALL THE TIME.
Think about that for a minute. Let it sink slowly in. Feel it burn.
Now think about several Widows all BUFFING each other in a team. in Recluses Victory.
If you go to the entrance to RV in the Tech section of Atlas Park. On any given day, at any given time, chances are the map of RV is either mostly red, or well
on it's way to being so.
Now you know why.
When I built my MA/SR scrapper Cyberman 8, I built him with a partial eye to being survivable in PVP. Able to spot stalkers. He's got one of the highest
base accuracy modifiers on his attacks possible. His perception is maxed. He can take a first hit of AS and get away. (He has about 33 melee defense and 36
Ranged and AOE defense with his toggles running. Sure I can get 107 with Elude. But I can only use that for about 3 minutes out of 10.) I took him into RV
shortly after VEATs made it there. There was an Empath and a /Kin there buffing people at the exit of the Hero base. Didn't matter. Engage and die 10-30
seconds later. Engage and die. Engage and die.
Nope. No more PVP for me, thanks. Those zones no longer exist for me, except to maybe to get Shivans (because at least there, I can outrun people and stay on
the move). And Warburg, to get nukes.
Maybe. When the VEATs aren't making life miserable for people trying to do that.
I'll make the same recommendation and with the same intensity about VEATs that Cypher made to Neo in regards to Agents in the Matrix.
"You see one of those? ...You run. You run your ASS off!"
Zone PVP? Over. Done with. And forget about arena matches. No hero with any sense should engage a VEAT one on one. And no VEAT should ever be engaged unless
they're outnumbered at least 5 to 1. With about 2 out of that 5 being radiation debuffers.
Yeah, this is a rant. And it's about something in the game that I never made a #1 priority. So maybe it's kinda pathetic. But for awhile there, it was
reasonably fun to engage in. It was hardly balanced, and there were asshats who made life difficult. But I won as much as I lost. And I felt like I had some
moderate amount of skill, and that my build was halfway decent.
But it's an aspect of the game that's gone now. And even if/when I make a VEAT myself, it won't effectively be there, for the reasons I mentioned
above. I hate parts of the game being taken away from me for any reason. Sure, I'll be able to go into the Zones with god-like impunity and just smack down
any hero that gets in my way. Where's the sport in that, though?
I have to wonder if any of the RMT farmers are going to start making VEATs now. Oh wouldn't THAT be funny! Guess what! Villain-side prices go through the
frickkin ROOF once the RMT farmers figure THAT one out!
So - PVP may have been bad before. Arguably it was a bad idea to make it part of a game that wasn't designed for it in the first place. But now it's
officially dead and buried. And VEATs killed it.
ownage.
The Widow had to stand still and allow - I say again, ALLOW (because he told him to do it after the Stalker spent most of the match whiffing) the Stalker to
use every yellow he had and a build up, to hit the Widow with an Assassin Strike. He hit him ONCE. The ENTIRE match. Otherwise? Stalker couldn't hit him.
Period. Ever. And when they engaged, the Widow would take the guy apart in 10-15 seconds flat. Every time.
I watched this in utter disbelief. When the Stalker asked why he couldn't hit the Widow, the Widow responded that he had a Melee Defense of about 70. I
asked him later after the match what his other defenses were. He said his ranged was around 65. AOE about 61-ish.
70.
SEVENTY.
Widows don't get elude. So basically that's his defense ALL THE TIME.
Think about that for a minute. Let it sink slowly in. Feel it burn.
Now think about several Widows all BUFFING each other in a team. in Recluses Victory.
If you go to the entrance to RV in the Tech section of Atlas Park. On any given day, at any given time, chances are the map of RV is either mostly red, or well
on it's way to being so.
Now you know why.
When I built my MA/SR scrapper Cyberman 8, I built him with a partial eye to being survivable in PVP. Able to spot stalkers. He's got one of the highest
base accuracy modifiers on his attacks possible. His perception is maxed. He can take a first hit of AS and get away. (He has about 33 melee defense and 36
Ranged and AOE defense with his toggles running. Sure I can get 107 with Elude. But I can only use that for about 3 minutes out of 10.) I took him into RV
shortly after VEATs made it there. There was an Empath and a /Kin there buffing people at the exit of the Hero base. Didn't matter. Engage and die 10-30
seconds later. Engage and die. Engage and die.
Nope. No more PVP for me, thanks. Those zones no longer exist for me, except to maybe to get Shivans (because at least there, I can outrun people and stay on
the move). And Warburg, to get nukes.
Maybe. When the VEATs aren't making life miserable for people trying to do that.
I'll make the same recommendation and with the same intensity about VEATs that Cypher made to Neo in regards to Agents in the Matrix.
"You see one of those? ...You run. You run your ASS off!"
Zone PVP? Over. Done with. And forget about arena matches. No hero with any sense should engage a VEAT one on one. And no VEAT should ever be engaged unless
they're outnumbered at least 5 to 1. With about 2 out of that 5 being radiation debuffers.
Yeah, this is a rant. And it's about something in the game that I never made a #1 priority. So maybe it's kinda pathetic. But for awhile there, it was
reasonably fun to engage in. It was hardly balanced, and there were asshats who made life difficult. But I won as much as I lost. And I felt like I had some
moderate amount of skill, and that my build was halfway decent.
But it's an aspect of the game that's gone now. And even if/when I make a VEAT myself, it won't effectively be there, for the reasons I mentioned
above. I hate parts of the game being taken away from me for any reason. Sure, I'll be able to go into the Zones with god-like impunity and just smack down
any hero that gets in my way. Where's the sport in that, though?
I have to wonder if any of the RMT farmers are going to start making VEATs now. Oh wouldn't THAT be funny! Guess what! Villain-side prices go through the
frickkin ROOF once the RMT farmers figure THAT one out!
So - PVP may have been bad before. Arguably it was a bad idea to make it part of a game that wasn't designed for it in the first place. But now it's
officially dead and buried. And VEATs killed it.