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.
i typically use some combination of howitzer, ballista, or destroyer. ill be taking a look at other stuff soon cuz sometimes i do use destroy health alot.. i dont think of it as an attack in the normal sense. merely flipping a switch and ta da, 500 health gone.
my speciality is in squeezing blood from the hacker stone.. cobbling together a bizarre build for every last 1% acc. the new and not-improved hacker accuracy (as compared to other classes) has been one of my biggest complaints about cr2 thus far so acc is usually priority #1. including clothing, i cant get it higher than +139 i think. keep in mind this is straining the bounds of practicality.. im talking max stats for hacker performance and all the bells and whistles i can pull outta my arse. still, not even as much acc as bare bones kfgm, max stats and no clothing and minimal abs loaded just to get kfgm title upgrade. jeez.
in the past, going toe to toe with other ballista, ive wrecked them on account of my superior numbers, tho with a more basic combat strategy. they simply couldnt put dmg on me as often as i could them.. my defense was also reasonable and any hacker worth his salt should keep determination loaded. any state being landed on you is serious business, as hacker defense is so-so at best. you just shouldnt take chances. vs gunners, ive gone so far as to drop smg specialists on the ground about the time they dropped my shield.. smg defense is terrible. i have my share of losses tho.. i usually lose to MA's for the obvious reasons tho i do better against kgfm's than i do against kgm's for some reason.
the great thing about cannon2 is that you can get MA-special dmg, outta nowhere, at any time, no state required. the problem is.. the longer it takes to use an attack, the more you cant afford to miss. in pvp, 8 secs is a really long time, as you vector guys know. its entirely possible to die in 8secs, even on recursion where many of us halfway know what we're doing =D so.. the reason why sneak is great is cuz it lets you get fluffed up with buffs and power tac when youre near the target, then hit sneak, then close the distance another 20-40m to get within range, then start the preload. then bam, pwnage in a bottle. ive hit other 50's for up to 18xx dmg. the thing is, land that then start with destroy health, cuz theyll certainly take notice of you and come your way, after you just half-killed them. so that makes 2k, maybe slightly over. you should still have a 'few attacks worth' of upgrade attacks left.. maybe you can squeeze out 4 ballista attacks.. if just 2 land, based on 300-400 dmg each, target = dead 99% of the time, you can bank on it.
hacker needs respect. any time neo did something REALLY cool in the movies, he was hacking. bending the rules, reshaping the code, blahblah.
another thing to consider is that most stun/root abs are overrated. whats the point of using stun along with cannon2 if the stun2.0 base is 3sec which then gets reduced further? any time that you get to load a hax unhindered is a help, but if at the last microsecond you get interrupted, whats the point? you should at least use 1.0 which isnt aoe but boohoo, neither is lc2 =D and, it lasts longer.
theres a root that lasts more than long enough to throw lc2, and its not broken by dmg at all. good times. pisses MA's off EVERY time. haha =D
I normally load Ballistia with some Artilerist and Despoiler. When doing PBs, I load Howitzer with Upgrade Attacks. Today I am messing around with the Ravager/Ballista trees after reading the post about soloing the Taskmaker. I still have some improvements to make though.
MrMatador
I am having problems killing the Unlimit Reactors that spawn downtown. Can anyone please provide some advice?
mobius code + fly in amber tops up ur I.S without hardly losing any health
I got a Taggert's Pipeline shirt today. That bumped my viral acc to 135 and a 86 viral acc bonus. My outerwear is the only thing I don't have that doesn't have accuracy points. I'll play around with various loadouts when I get back from getting my church on.
Ye like i said before, many of us are just trying different loads which i reckon if i have nothing to do today i'm going to, and also for the Mobius code and flyamber comment - i know but all i can say is 'Unlucky' lmao nah jokes but obviously just by not having these items doesnt mean you cant beat someone with em doesnt mean anything half of the people that do have it either hardly use em, dont no how to use em (stupid people) and or just doesnt help em all that much, Atm i also have a female character which im also turning hacker at a higher level the reason for this is because i wanted to test the effectivness in clothing for accuracy,damage etc. and obviously i'd like to look sexy while im hacking someone to death anyways, what do you people think to the increase in damage for Infect area 2.0 (espically the DoT hackers) i think this will give a decent impart of the DoT loads but i'm not totally sure how big the effect will be but if its to big i hope all of Trinity doesnt turn hacker (because thats what normally happens when theres a big effect over other loads) then i'll be happy Personally i dont really like the DoT loads all that much i only use em for dropping NPC's in mission quickly or farming, it is effective however espically good for intellock but thats my view, So what other loads have you pwning hackers counagering up !
- KD
