I'm beginning to lose interest in these town battles already. There is always someone with 50 smoke bombs just running on and off the altars. There is virtually nothing you can do about this seeing as there is 0 cooldown on smokebombs and they can be used while bleed/para. This really needs to be looked at.
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So in otherwords when I'm fighting alone, you expect me to train an extra skill to reveal these guys or log onto another char to compete? That's silly. As for conflag pots, they have what 30 second cooldowns? How am I suppose to keep a stealther off an altar with 1 conflag when they smoke bomb after a conflag?
Smoke bombs do have a timer...
from uoguide.com "
Egg bombs, also known as Smoke bombs, allow players with at least 50 Ninjitsu skill to go into hiding instantly, even while in combat. Once the bomb has been activated, a Hiding skill check is performed as if the player were greater than 7 squares away from their opponent. Players with 100 skill in Hiding can detonate a bomb and go into hiding right next to an attacker.
Using a bomb counts as activating the Hiding skill and is thus affected by skill delay (around 10 seconds). If revealed, a player cannot use a bomb to hide again until the skill delay has elapsed."
Besides what @DJAd said, you can also run a toon with detect on them. I will swap scribe/poison/SW out for detect depending on the shard and whom I am up against
Have you never used smoke bombs? I don't think you guys are understanding what I'm saying or you are the people that are doing this hiding.
You are basically telling me to change MY template so that one of these ninja/dser chars already have hiding in their template to give them an edge?
If I am on a dexxer, they can smoke bomb 3 times to one conflag timer which makes it IMPOSSIBLE to keep them off an altar. So this basically forces me onto a mage to stop it?
You are basically telling me to change MY template so that one of these ninja/dser chars already have hiding in their template to give them an edge?
If I am on a dexxer, they can smoke bomb 3 times to one conflag timer which makes it IMPOSSIBLE to keep them off an altar. So this basically forces me onto a mage to stop it?
Wha ttemplate do you play? From the sounds of it, I'd guess a dexer. Not being too familiar with them, I can't comment.
However, if you have mages on your account, and I'm sure you do, take one of them. Poison field, Meteor Swarm, and Earthquake can all reveal. I believe Poison Strike can too, should you have Necromancy.
However, if you have mages on your account, and I'm sure you do, take one of them. Poison field, Meteor Swarm, and Earthquake can all reveal. I believe Poison Strike can too, should you have Necromancy.
It also tells you when they step into it. Fire field doesn't, if I remember right. If they're stam-blocked (say, at a spawn chokepoint), they'll stay there until their stam recovers.
I'm not sure what you are talking about? What tells you?
Reason fire field is more effective is because every second you are on it you are taking damage which also gives a check on the RNG to reveal just like conflag. It is better then conflag because it last a lot longer. If you pay attention to the sound, you can distinctly hear when someone is on the fire field and taking damage as well. So you can prep your next move before they realize they are revealed.
Poison field. If they have no resist (and most stealthers don't), they'll be poisoned right away, alerting you to their location.
Because you need to be in a guild to join VvV and a guild (usually) requires more than 1 person.
I'm sure on some of the less populated shards there might be alot of 1v1 fights (like the example you are giving).
Hi, what game are you playing?
Yes this is correct.
i went into a town today where there was 2 guilds in an alliance that had 10-12 guys in the towns.
in opposition to them.... me.... on a stealther.
it was near impossible for me to get up on the alter and IF i made it up there it was to get an escape route away from the constant fields and EQs and poison strikes and conflag pots.
no my friend, there is plenty enough ways to reveal stealthers in the VvV.
Yes.
are stealthers that steal sigils supposed to remain hidden? would be better if they showed up purple like the old days.
Although you turned purple, you could still hide/stealth with the sigil in the retired faction system. You either needed to cast invis or wait for the skill use timer before hiding.
Indeed I think Thieves that steal sigils should be revealed and not able to stealth while carrying the sigil, currently its kinda hard to stop a thief stealing sigils, specially on low pop shard where its most of the time you vs the thief ... and the thief will always win because stealing sigils gives more points than killing VvV players or fighting for altars, which is a bit ridiculous imo.
I completely agree. The thief right now can single handily win a battle without ever being seen...
I've always believed that having a sigil should make it more difficult for the carrier to hide/flee but also should provide the the person some protections that would make them harder to hold/kill.
So negatives: Hue purple, [-30] to hiding, and stealth, auto reveal once every 2 minutes - no recall, can't change forms, can't fly or ride a mount
Bonus's: HPR regen +5, Stan Regen +10, Resist 120, higher resist to poison, DMG Eater 10
This will make them easier to track and find but harder to stop/kill once revealed.
-Lore's Player
So negatives: Hue purple, [-30] to hiding, and stealth, auto reveal once every 2 minutes - no recall, can't change forms, can't fly or ride a mount
Bonus's: HPR regen +5, Stan Regen +10, Resist 120, higher resist to poison, DMG Eater 10
This will make them easier to track and find but harder to stop/kill once revealed.
-Lore's Player
Right now the best tactic for a guild to use in dealing with a thief is having their own. There has been a lot of competition on Atlantic between thieves and the larger guilds have been recruiting thieves, so I've been told. When no competing thief is on it has been hard for other guilds. There have been lots of tactics they've tried to reveal us but so far it has been a marginal deterrent. Honestly I still think its cool that a "faction" thief is useful to PvP guilds again.
VvV seems to work best on higher population shards where you can have guildmates performing different roles. That is what VvV is about, team work and guild activity. On lower population shards where VvV is a 1v1 activity the thief is always going to win.
VvV seems to work best on higher population shards where you can have guildmates performing different roles. That is what VvV is about, team work and guild activity. On lower population shards where VvV is a 1v1 activity the thief is always going to win.