In MASS PvP I'd say the worst profession is the Doctor. Why? Because it gets sent to reclaim about 3 seconds after poking its head up. Its amazing how fast everyone targets the Doctor after an init drain has been cast. I spend 90 percent of the time buffing/travelling, 10 percent actually at the battle.
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Yeah id have to agree with that as a Doc im the first to die in mass pvp, although it does take 5 ppl to do it , im still dead in 5 seconds.It goes root, blind, divest, plunder, crown of frost, FA,burst,fling,brawl..... reclaim.If im lucky i get 1 or 2 debuffs off but those are useless now as well since everyone can still hit 1.1 cause their inits. are through the roof, and forget about healin anyone im so debuffed myself i cant use lvl 50 nanos.Oh well at least while im biting it someone else can get some shots off.
Docs are attacked first becuz they are one of the biggest THREATS and if left untouched they can seriously boost the lifetime of defenders. They are faaaaaaaar from useless. They are in fact target so much becuz they are so USEFUL. There's a difference there. If you have an MA or melee adventurer running through your ranks just root him and leave him there, he's not going anywhere. Or even better, use him to ladder up your divest/plunder tree.
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Funny, perhaps you shouldn't stand in front of the packOriginally posted by Majikall
In MASS PvP I'd say the worst profession is the Doctor. Why? Because it gets sent to reclaim about 3 seconds after poking its head up. Its amazing how fast everyone targets the Doctor after an init drain has been cast. I spend 90 percent of the time buffing/travelling, 10 percent actually at the battle.
Hang back behind the real damage dealers and heal them as they need it. It's tough to be killed when the opposition has to run through a line of people your own faction to get to you.
I lasted over 2 hours in a tower battle with just barely more Clan then Omni. I spent the whole time init debuffing with a range increaser and ctrl-tabbing through all the Clan and healing those getting hurt. Omni slowly dwindled our numbers (the towers attacking us helped a bit too) until they overwhelmed us where they all charged and massacred us and I finally died by about 15 attacked-by's.
But it was fun.
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I do hang back, its suicide for me to be near the front, I'm usually behind the biggest pack I can find. But because line of sight plays absolutely no part in AO (pfft, yeah, like thats believable), and everyone can shoot/cast nanos through 50 people, I still get picked off fast.Originally posted by Sheffy
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Hang back behind the real damage dealers and heal them as they need it. It's tough to be killed when the opposition has to run through a line of people your own faction to get to you.
The last time I went to a tower battle, I cast an init debuff on a smurf (thats a fixer in GA for the uneducated), the smurf pulled out and stood around for a while. Then suddenly said smurf came rushing around and took a shot at me. Obviously having set it up with friends before hand, the moment his shot landed, just about everyone with a long range weapon also hit me. I think I saw the fixers burst then three aimed shots before I was back in reclaim.
I wouldn't mind, but this kind of thing happens all the time. It would be so nice if AO had line of sight rules and the ability to use cover. But thats just one of many things wrong with this game, that brings it to a - face opponent, press Q, see who dies first - type of game.
IMHO you got to look beyond the direct fighting capabilties of some classes (engineers in particular) to evaluate their usefulness in mass battles.
If you do this, then engineers with their ability to warp people into battle, are far from the most useless profession. Having people warped quickly back into the battle will have a huge impact on both attack and defence. I'm not saying they are the most useful profession, but also not the most useless.
With the current state of roots and snares, and the number of single target and area rooters and snarers throwing around their debuffs, I'd say that MAs and melee adventurers are by far the most useless profession. Also considering that the buffs theese two professions has to offer are pretty unwanted theese days, with 1/2 crit chance and all. No one else runs the same chance of getting killed without having inflicted a single point of damage or buffed a single ally.
Thats more like the worst nerf on pet classes ever, especially the MP... A lvl 125 MP can properly selfbuff a demon and maybe Belamorte... but Belamorte refuses to heal him, and the pet will not attack towers or other playes at his lvl... only the pets lvl... Well the thing that the MP can use such high lvl pets before other pet classes, is that pets was infact balanced so that MP pets were hitting for less than the other pet classes, thus needed to buff to use a high lvl pet, which is similar to a medium lvl pet of the crat/engi... Damnit we were designed to use highlvl pets early, and it was needed too, to compensate for the uselessnes of those lower lvl pets... and now we cant use them...Originally posted by Jynne
There's another semi-exploit for engineers as well - a level 130 engineer can buff on a level 200 slayer, but the slayer's pvp level range is its owner's, so level 200 players can't hit the level 200 robot hitting their towers.
2 words....Originally posted by Coldstrike
IMHO you got to look beyond the direct fighting capabilties of some classes (engineers in particular) to evaluate their usefulness in mass battles.
If you do this, then engineers with their ability to warp people into battle, are far from the most useless profession. Having people warped quickly back into the battle will have a huge impact on both attack and defence. I'm not saying they are the most useful profession, but also not the most useless.
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Yeah the new buffing/healing level brackets really goofed pets and pet users upOriginally posted by Jamespond
Thats more like the worst nerf on pet classes ever, especially the MP... A lvl 125 MP can properly selfbuff a demon and maybe Belamorte... but Belamorte refuses to heal him, and the pet will not attack towers or other playes at his lvl... only the pets lvl... Well the thing that the MP can use such high lvl pets before other pet classes, is that pets was infact balanced so that MP pets were hitting for less than the other pet classes, thus needed to buff to use a high lvl pet, which is similar to a medium lvl pet of the crat/engi... Damnit we were designed to use highlvl pets early, and it was needed too, to compensate for the uselessnes of those lower lvl pets... and now we cant use them...
And I didn't know it wouldn't attack people at the user's level either... I just knew it could hit my towers and I couldn't do anything about it
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Sorry, but i have to disagree with most of you all..
MA's are by far the most pathetic group of pvp'ers out today.
No dmg, no range (for most of us), no resistance..
Im such a low threat that sometimes im not even attacked right off the bat, some fixers or agetns or whatever just root me with one huge root so i cant go do anything, and keep coming back to refresh my root (how nice of them), until they are ready to kill me...
On the one hand this is pretty darn funny and im usre they get a kick out of doing this.
But on the other hand, its so darn POINTLESS for me to even attempt to do any tower battles, which is imo very very bad.
No class should be so bad that they are laughed upon by pretty much every other class.
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No, you're all wrong - obviously you don't know what you're talking about. <MY PROFESSION> is clearly the most useless in Mass-PvP. We get owned by <OTHER PROFESSONS> all the time. All I do in mass-PvP is buff and die, then spend lots of time getting back to the area.
FC has nerfed us so much that we're now officially complete gimps. Unless we soon get some love, I'm quitting this damn game!
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