I only use haxor for farming and PB mish, where I load as many AoE attacks as possible, with upgrade attacks from Ballista tree.
Depends on your focus:
TEAM PVP, focus on team, use debuffs. Focus on individual attacks, use Ballista.
DUELS: Ballista. Stun, root, logic cannon 2.0 FTW!
why stun, root, LC 2?
why not root, LC 2
the stun will have run out by the time you have cast root anyhow...
why stun, root, LC 2? why not root, LC 2 the stun will have run out by the time you have cast root anyhow...
There are 2 roots, but 3 pacifies.
A much better tactic would be freeze system 3 which should pacify for long enough to cast the logic cannon, it also reduces the targets viral resistance by A LOT.
Therefore, freeze sys 3, Logic cannon 2.0, root.... kill (hopefully)
There's not much variety with the hacker tree anymore, really. The stuns and pacifies don't really last as long, but I'm a big fan of howitzer. I love using area hax, and I always have, for some reason. :/
I like to use Insidious Code, Upgrade Attacks, Overclock, Cannon 2. and root or such prior to doing so, if needed. Normally with this tactic you can do around 1500 damage to someone even with a lot of resistance, and getting 1500 damage right off the bat in a duel, or even in pvp, is pretty much a death sentence for the opponent.
The load I use doesn't really vary much, just the master buff depending on the situation. but I don't like to talk about my loads, MxO is serious business. :/
Ballista/Howitzer is the most practical damage dealing support for PvP. If it's one person, you want Ballista/Ravager. The vector abilities take a big chunk out of your opponent's reserves so you don't have to work as hard.
*sigh* and I remember when the ravager tree was useless...
You could just use Code Infection 1.0 since it's high up on the tree and wouldn't cost alot of memory I guess....but if the hacker had high concentration then the enemy could get by. I just think there were other moves worth loading up instead of the Ravager ones that were worth more.
Ravager is the pwn now. It's definitely good for duels because the vector ab is alot better than the stuns you get from ballista, in my opinion. If you hit 'em with that right off the bat, and then proceed to stack the code infections/area infections, then use your ballista attacks, you can finish off the opponent 9/10 times without getting touched. If you get most of the DOT attacks off, it makes it almost impossible for another hacker to hit you, because there's so much damage that regardless of concentration your abs are going to be interrupted pretty frequently.
Even in a pvp setting the AoE DOT attacks are nice when teamed with howitzer, because not only are you hitting with more than one person, that's constant damage.
Oh, and I've also noticed that occasionally, MKT DOT attacks will cause states, so if the person using the MKT DOT attacks is using speed attacks while throwing the DOT knives, it will occasionally cause the dazed state. and so on with the other attacks. (Speed, Power, Grab) Is this a bug or is it supposed to be like this? Cause I'm almost positive the DOT attacks with hacker don't do this. I don't know if it's just me, or has anyone noticed this?
Btw, Just wanted to say that i've found out a few other little tips and loadouts that are pretty good that me and a few other hackers on Vector have been recently looking at, specially ones like Sneak hacker, and multiple infections agaist ma's when in intellock, i even had a really close duel with a good MA in my faction and and SMG specially when both in intellock and the SMG one has 232 viral resistance and we was both on about 20hp or less lmao A no i havent experienced any of them problems dischord but i will be testing that out today
- KD
No offense, Kaos, but I think sneak hacker has to be one of the most worthless loads ever. ESPECIALLY since CR2. Hackers aren't meant to hide. Plus, you're losing a lot of memory by loading sneak. Not to mention the amount of accuracy, damage, et cetera from passive buffs in the hacker trees that you could be using, but instead decide to lose like 20 memory just to load sneak. This is just my opinion, but I'm sure others would agree.
Hacker is still a deadly tree, you've just got to know how to use it right. I've been using it for a little over a week now, and I think I'm almost loving it as much as I did pre-cr2. I've seen you on vector, and I think it's safe to say you know what you're doing when it comes to hacker. Keep up the good work, man.
