Breed Perk PvP Opinions

Breed Perks

Atrox: Body tackle, nice DD, usefulness to ranged = 1, to melee = 8
Rage, huge ATR buff with costs, usefulness to ranged = 10, to melee = 3
Fortress, nice AC offense with snare, usefulness to ranged = 7, to melee=4
Wit, nice dodge dmg buff, usefulness = 7

Soli: Sphere, group off def crit buff, usefulness = 7
Tacky, 90% root resist short duration, usefulness = 5
Feel, decent DD, usefulness = 7
Survive, group hot but short range, usefulness = 6

Opi: Derivate, decent dot and debuff must be behind, usefulness = 6
Opeining, great DD must open short range, usefulness = 7
Blind D, blind -5% nanoskill debuff, usefulness = 4 (see below)
Heights, very nice DD requires Blind D, usefulness = 10

Nano: Reject, puny DD, usefulness= 3
Sword, +100% nanocost debuff, usefulness= 5
Notum Shield, 15% shield costs 5000 nano, usefulness = -1
Pen, puny DD run debuff blind, usefulness = 6

Totals: Melee trox - 22, ranged trox - 25
Soli - 25
Opi - 27
Nano - 13

hmmm

You may want to look at NM again... While that 15% reflect does cost 5K nano... a nanomage with the right set up actualy could have that relfect on for hours. As is right now my NM crat at lvl 213 has a 9K nano pool and a 117 nano delta from symbs... a simple nano stim would be all i would need to keep that sheild active for hours. I can't see how this would be a -1...

Skylles

It doesnt stack with normal reflect line sols nor engis and since you can always have 13 procent from graft (yes in sl as well), there is no logic behind using this.

The way I rated was based on considering the usefulness for each of my toons of the various breeds. So certain profs may find something I rated very useful as useless and vice versa.

If the NM reflect were 25%, it might be useful generally. Regarding nano regen and stims, etc., in PvP I try to leave my stim open for healing and root breaks.
I stand by the rating of Notum Shield as less than useless.

The DD is generally useless also, I can't think of a single profession that couldn't use some other better perk in the same time period. The 100% nanocost increase debuff is of very limited use. It is too short duration and as a poster here said, nanoregen is fast on high level toons.

The only half decent nanobreed perk special is Pen and it's nothing to write home about. NM is the only breed that didn't get a really nice useful special. Soli got a good heal, trox got a couple of cool things, and opi got some really good DDs.

I don't mind the tradeoffs on the good specials, and will train them on my opi and trox toons, adds to strategic play. What I do mind is that with each expansion, FC proves they could care less about players who want balanced pvp.