PvP Friday - 3Nov06

[DZwart]

I know people want to stay with trappers for the time being. That is ok with me, but I think we should make some changes for tonight. We'll plan for now on going with a 3 trapper, 2 D/W ViM Earth, 1 P/W Support build.

Options:

1) Make ViM more effective by moving a point in expertise to 3 additional in tactics - gives more health and energy when you use ViM, but makes all skills cost slightly more energy. Spirit select is still a problem to not hurt the dervishes.

2) Change to R/Me resolve trappers. Build would replace whirling defense with Mantra of Resolve. ViM would be replaced by Spike Trap {Elite} and spirit would be replaced by Troll Unguent. This makes the trapper more self sufficient and less interruptable and adds the knock-down of Spike Trap, but looses the instant bonus from ViM.

3) Change the build entirely - need further suggestions here. This poll option will be counted only with a post suggesting a particular build or reference to something posted.

The poll will be public so that I we can accurately count actual participant's votes. Your vote will only be counted if you are in the guild hall at 9:45pm EST tonight to set up to start playing (pushing enter mission) at 10:00pm EST.

 

[one2dredd]

I think the Paragon Healing might take away the need for ViM in the build Just protect the paragon!

 

[ChickenSoup]

That's true

 

[dorkelf]

Obviously I've already had a tendency to move away from VIM myself. I found that having a troll unguent providing a +10 health regen for 10 seconds is a pretty good alternate - I think generally I was as survivable as anyone else in the group, though I didn't play with any particular skill or even common sense most of the time.

So yea, resolve trapping makes us much less interruptible, plus we can all spike trap, which can really have an effect with Brambles.

Paul

 

[MaidMirawyn]

I call trapper!

Not that there was a question on that, right?

 

[ChickenSoup]

Resolve sounds good. I might even BE there, since I don't have a soccer game tomorrow and I get to stay up a wee bit later...

 

[ChickenSoup]

If it's at 10 EDT then I'll be there (half an hour from the time of this post) and I call one of the trapper spots

 

[ChickenSoup]

Well that didn't work...

 

[slalomdms]

just saw this now, couldnt make it, had work. How did it go?

 

[ChickenSoup]

Well that didn't work...

That's how it went.

We got hit REALLY hard by a Hero/Hench group and found out the hard way that using heroes for trapping in HoH does NOT work. We then got more people on and then went again but after a heroic effort by everyone and even DZ, with months of PVP training and experience, well, to put it lightly... we got our butts whooped. But we didn't have a paragon like we had planned, either, so technically we weren't doing the same build mentioned here... we had 3 dervishes and 3 trappers. So that could have been a big thing with healing...

and then I left, but I think we are going to try Minion factory again, only with two teams of 3 each with a resmer, saccer, and MM so we could still have 20 minions. In the words of DZ, "MF is still feasable."