Honestly i'd say guns offer the besy choices simply because there's a style for interlock and out. Plus, you can double as a good Truma Surgeon when the need arises.

No one said it was impossible, Phay, but good job.

Also, where's your master buff? You're obviously using Ravager, because there's the ravager ability in your hotbar, but uhm. I don't see any master buff in your buffer. :/

but that load you're using is brutal, it's definitely hard to stop those DoT's, and the downgrades and stuff that come with the Ravager Tree are awesome as well. Ravager is probably one of my favorite hacker classes. It's a really good support class, and just as effective in a 1 on 1 fight. If you know what you're doing, you can take down just about anyone with that load. but then again, if you get paired up against someone who ALSO knows what they're doing, you might get taken down just as easily.

MarsNova wrote:

why cant SOE give MxO a good amout of Devs/Mods all other MMOs seem to have staff on weekends all we get is sonic and wendys ads

1 Vote for Mars being a MxO Dev/Mod!

PS. Mars, your sig is t3h pwn. You never seem to let us down!

Yay for the red while dead fix!

and also looking forward to the white hallways and new taskmasker drops!

Yet another great patch to look forward to!

 To me, this ability should be buffed up, or made levelable. Although the level requirement for it is low, it's a core ability, so we HAVE to use it, but as of right now, it's completely useless. Even as a noob it does nothing but take up memory space that could be used to load something more helpful. Hindering Shot is useable as a high level to keep people from running. but, Intensify Damage is totally useless, and it takes up 2 memory space! I don't really have any other suggestions other than buffing it up, or making it levelable [prefferably buffing it up], but something should be done about this ability later down the road!

Well I know that taking the Taskmasker 1 on 1 as hacker isn't easy, but if you've got a partner or more and are trying to take him out, it's very possible.

I kind of felt the same way about hacking in constructs, too. Although I haven't tried it I feel that the operative trees such as MA and Gunman have the advantage as far as accuracy and damage go for the abilities that are accessable at the required level, therefor giving those operative trees the upper hand against construct bosses. Perhaps I'll try it on another character, but I doubt that the results will be very successful.

Another topic I'd like to discuss, the force multiplier tree. We all know that in CR1 you could be a total tank with the correct load using this tree. With rolls in the upper 300's, and mad ranged combat tactics, this load was pretty tough to beat 1 against 1, unless the opponent was using hacker as well. But I never really tested it after cr2, does anyone know of any really good loads using FM, or is it just about worthless now? I know there's a few abilites worth loading for the area heals and such. but is there anything else?

Hmmm. I have a bunch of ideas brewing in my head right now.

I know I have items in my compiler that buff Pacify Duration States, Stun Duration States etc.  I was just thinking there would (should) be similar buffed items for Staggered...

Zen Master was a gnarly tree, and I honestly agree with Frink. The devs SHOULD re-think it and possibly re-add it to the game. I think that we're in need of new trees, honestly. We've had the same classes since beta, and although we've all heard rumors about the upcoming org abilities, I've still yet to see any sort of announcement of when they'll A)be ready for testing, and B)be ready for release.

Either way, with or without the org abilities, I think that Zen Master should be re-implemented to the MA tree, and possibly add another section to the gunman tree. Also so more assassin stuff would be neat, too.

....I have no clue what any of this means. :/

Explain to us, Bay!

Well hacker is a really good tree, in my opinion. It doesn't narrow you down to a specific thing like an operative tree does. and especially since the combat revision, being able to hack in interlocks makes hacker an even better tree. The combo's and possibilites with the hacker classes are almost endless. Making the tree a lot more fun to play with, in my opinion, and you can load all sorts of things to change what type of fighting you want to do. Whether it be debuffs to help out your team, or you want to go all out and take out people on your own with Ballista, or you wanna tank up and destroy the masses with Howitzer. This is why I like Hacker, the possibility of variation.

Also, does anyone know about hax in constructs? I never really tried it with any of my alts or anything, but I don't know if anyone has, and if they've been successful or not? As far as I know, Operative such as MA or Guns is the best way to take out construct bosses, but has anyone tried hacker since CR2? What was successful? What wasn't? Anything? :/

ZOMG. I GOT 7UCK1NG BANNED.

I just want to let everyone know, disch0rd will return...

FOR NEO!

Well it's not so much that the load is cheating, it's just that it works versus someone who uses a full operative tree, and are good at it, like myself. (not to brag) and still get beat solely because of the buffs that the opponent is using.

We've dueled before, Bay, and no doubt about it you know what you're doing when it comes to that load. As I've said it's not simply buffing yourself to h3ll and back, and then letting your gun do the rest, unlike CR1 there is SOME skill involved, and the load CAN be beaten solely with an operative tree, or a hacker tree, or anyone who knows what they're doing, but it just comes back to tactics and knowing what works against a patcher build like that. :/

lemme know how much or talk to me in game

AlCapwnt

I would like to direct u to This Thread.... The Juryman will give u his verdict soon enough..

Regulus is right... can't remember which mish tho. If anyone wants a hack grant on the other hand....

This could be a good idea on a hostile server. Maybe someone wants to challenge the leader of a particular faction without him being able to call the pwn squad. It could add a cinematic feel. I'm on a non hostile server though, and from personal experience I know that people can exploit flag another player that they're Dueling with. <_<  >_> 3 seconds later- knife owned.

I remember grousing about this on the playtest server, and as I recall the Devs actually had a quasi-legitimate reason for doing away with them.  I propose a RADICAL improvement:

Bindable tactic keys.

Why limit ourselves to the arrow-keys?  Make tactics bindable to the keys of player's choice.  It will save time and effort as well as hotbar space.

contact dischord

hes from emo island!

and still, after the countless times I've pwned you, you still don't know how to spell disch0rd.

When will you learn, cril?

No way im gonna move...theres a church right there you can go to after youve killed a bunch of people!!

I like the silver bullet animation. :/

and the /drinkmoosejuice

I still find hacker to be a really aggressive load, and can be used for more than a support class. Running around with a duelist or MA is fun, especially if you've got a nice debuff/ballista load going, then yeah, it's a great support class.

but if you load ballista/vector, you can literally be a tank. a gunman friend of mine eSk0 and I took down red after red tonight using this sort of style, the DOT attacks are awesome, with short reuse timers, so I can hit someone with 4 or 5 of these attacks before my shield even gets taken down. So if eSk0 was interlocked with someone, I'd hit them with as many DOTs I could before another red pulled me into interlock. from then I'd use upgrade attacks and switch it up between the DOT attakcs and the ballista attakcs in interlock. but those DOT's that I hit the first oppenent with are constantly destroying the person eSk0 is interlocked with, so either way before the second opponent even killed me, eSk0 would have the person he was interlocked with first dead, and be working on the opponent that's fighting me. This is an example where it's fit for a variety of styles.

Hacker is the most versatile in my opinion, it's what I've been using a lot lately, and I really like it now. I think there's so much you can do with it. I've got like 5 really good hacker loads, and I'm sure it won't be that few for much longer.

As for the patcher/operative stuff, I really hate that. I mean, hey, Bay, I know it's your thing, and that's cool. but I think that buffing yourself to bloody h3ll and letting your gun do the rest, is kind of weak and cheatin'. but it works, and I know there's a lot more to it than buffing yourself to sh1t and letting the combat system do the rest. Some people like it because it works, but I don't like it for that reason. To me it's not a challange. I just think it kind of takes the exitement out of a fight. :/ but if it works for you, then /thumbsup

That makes sense. Now I know why I can never understand his native tongue...

Thank you for this insight.

or you could just shoot them in the head

Only if his name is Cril........

It was a fake the first time it was posted and guess what?

IT'S STILL FAKE -_-

Nah. I've been on Syntax a lot lately honing some skills I haven't worked with much. I'm in a tourney today on vector, so I'll be there most of the day today.

I agree completely with what you've said about the cannon/sneak thing. It's got many ups and downs, but to me, it's just something I wouldn't use. but I can see why you would use it, especially on a team and in a hostile environment.

I wish they'd fix root 1 though.

and im so glad that you think alca, granton and the others are so much better than me. rofl please, they are good but when i was MA they stood no chance. you can even ask them. I dont talk to them anymore simply because i dont play this stupid game as much.

Whoa, I think that's a little harsh. I believe I saw you get beat by Granton and the others several times. Granted, you're a *CENSORED* good MA. Certainly one of the best I've ever fought or seen since CR2. but to say that you beat us constantly is taking it a little too far, in my opinion.

Also, to all the vectorites who are letting Movie get to them. Keep in mind that not all of us Syntaxians are stuck up, egostatisical maniacs, because it's not this way. He keeps saying "we" and grouping us all together. Most anyone who's talked to me 1 on 1 knows that I'm a pretty decent guy, and easy to get along with. I play this game to have fun, not to build an ego or break emo kids hearts. I don't play to cause drama, nor do I like to be a part of it. I have had nothing but fun on vector, and I love playing there almost as much as I love playing on Syntax. Vector is a change of pace, and it's something that I certainly needed.

I just want to make it clear that I'm not a meany.

Actually what he meant was that once the duel has completed, whether in the duel I kill regulus or he kills me, and I've hit him with the DOT abilities, once the duel is over, the abilities should disappear, thus stopping the damage and removing them from the person they've affect. Either way it's pointless to argue over what Regulus said, we've all made different interpretations of it, apparently.

And I didn't mean that abilities literally last forever, I meant that that last for a long time. It's a figure of speech, you've used it before. No need to nit-pick or be ignorant. kthnx.

Also, the fact that he was indirectly complaining about the length of the DOT abilities, may give the devs an idea of yet another hacker nerf. That's all that I was stating. Maybe next time you shouldn't try to flame a thread that I was trying to be serious with.

Hey Cril, any time you want to go, any load, any day. You let me know.

Later cutieeee<3