Ability Sets

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January 1, 2012 at 12:13 am #10667
the_renegade	I would like to know everyone’s favorite ability set, mine is WiNG’s death match ability set though I occasionally switch throwing knives for mute.
January 1, 2012 at 8:53 am #10669
ShinryuRQs	I like my deathmatch setup. Ability #1: Mute Ability #2: Smoke Bomb (Both abilities were crafted with reduced durations) Perk #1: Overall Cooldowns Perk #2: Kill Buffer Win Streak; 5 Kill Silent (+550) Loss Streak: x2
January 1, 2012 at 11:14 am #10675
sumoka	Ability 1: Poison (crafted for 250 points and faster acting) Ability 2: Smoke Bomb (crafted for larger size and shorter cool down) Perk 1: Overall Cooldowns Perk 2: Blender Win Streak: 3 Kill Silent Loss Streak: x2 i miss wall runner though, also debating on switching poison out for throwing knives
January 1, 2012 at 12:43 pm #10677
WiNGSPANTT	I’ve been trying to use Charge more since it’s pretty versatile. Still don’t have a real use for Closure or Teleport.
January 1, 2012 at 12:55 pm #10678
BigTime067	I found this very helpful in crafting abilities for shorter cooldown: http://www.triskaideka.net/etc/ac/uses.html
January 1, 2012 at 10:21 pm #10683
WiNGSPANTT	BigTime that’s an awesome resource! I feel there are some thing I’d like to plan out beforehand but I’ll definitely share that with the readership this week!
January 2, 2012 at 12:47 am #10697
Atonement	Personally, I play Manhunt whenever I can, and I run two set ups, one for offense the other for defense. Offense: Ability 1: Templar Vision (far too many people use Morph in my experience, and helps with multiple Templars especially.) Ability 2: Poison (sometimes I switch it with Throwing Knives/Hidden Gun if the enemy team enjoys running away or Mute, if they bunch together and stun commonly.) Perk 1: Enhanced Autobash (I think. I should probably look into the new perks I’ve unlocked. Never do check ‘em.) Perk 2: Blender (Easier for a sneaky approach, and sometimes I use this on Deathmatch, Wanted, etc., so I need to hide then too.) Win Streak: 5 Kill (non-silent) Loss Streak: Tracker (I think, another one I haven’t checked) Defense: Ability 1: Mute (for obvious reasons) Ability 2: Bodyguard (sometimes, but much less commonly, Decoy) Perk 1: Enhanced Autobash Perk 2: Blender Win Streak: 3 (or 5) kill (stuns, obviously.) Loss Streak: honestly I have no clue.
January 2, 2012 at 6:02 pm #10701
Hardcore Hitomi	I use my DM setup for almost every FFA mode. Ability 1: Smoke Bomb Ability 2: Charge/Mute/Throwing Knives Perk 1: Blender Perk 2: Overall Cooldowns Streak: 3 Silent Kills Loss Streak: x2 score I constantly switch my second ability depending on the level of the players in the lobby. If they are above level 20, I use Charge or Mute, and Throwing Knives are for the lower levels.
January 3, 2012 at 12:07 am #10729
gunnawin911	For FFA modes i use Ability 1: Smokebomb Ability 2: Charge (i used this before Wingspantt did because it is like he said very versitile) Perk 1: Blender Perk 2: Overal Cooldowns Streak: 5 silent Loss Streak: Score Doubler
January 3, 2012 at 10:16 am #10747
Toraka	@Atonement: You should really switch out Enhanced Autobash in both sets. It is, like Wing says, complete crap. Also, your offensive loss streak should be x2 score or Minor Hack. Tracker is just useless. Not much to say about def loss streak, since I don’t know what you’re using, but I have found that the best (or only) uses for that slot are either Revelation (if you’ve got a good team, you can constantly spot pursuers for them) or Cooldown reset thingy. It’s just so good, since it’s constantly active as soon as you’ve died 5 times, which happens quite a lot in Manhunt. I usually run: Off: Charge/Poison/Gun, depending on the enemy. Blender/Overall C 3 silent/x2 Def: Smoke/Mute/Charge Blender/overall C 3 silent/Revelations
January 4, 2012 at 4:42 pm #10779
Atonement	@Toraka After looking at this post and posting I reviewed my serums and have made several changes. On all of my sets I have the boost cooldown loss streak and usually a 5 non silent kill/stun streak. My main setup now is Mute and Smoke Bomb, sometimes using Templar Vision in place of Smoke. Perks are now usually Blender and Overall Cooldowns. Decided after some thought that I should delve into the realm of other perks and so I did. Sorry for any lack of capitalization, et cetera, I’m on my iPhone at the moment.
January 6, 2012 at 10:31 am #10847
Crylic	This set is the one I use for nearly everything… Charge: 1 point in CD, 1 point in Accuracy Smoke-bomb: 2 points in CD Killbuffer/Blender: Depends whether I’m focusing on killing or stunning. Overall CD: I always have this perk on. The +250 point Killstreak (Silent or not, depends on the other players) Score X2 (just in case, so that I can set up a 1k+ kill) I like this set, because I can kill with charge and smoke, and also defend with charge and smoke.
January 9, 2012 at 2:59 pm #10940
Dipneuste	My biggest concern is not to find my target but to stay alive most of the time, so I prefer using Mute rather than Charge. My set for FFA is Smoke bomb/Mute Blender/Overall cooldowns 5 Silent/Score x 2 In the end I’m using the same set as in Brotherhood. The new abilities are fun but they’re not as good as the original ones except maybe Tripwire bomb.
January 9, 2012 at 6:04 pm #10942
WiNGSPANTT	How often do you find you get to trigger the 5-silent streak?
January 10, 2012 at 6:11 am #10957
Dipneuste	On Wanted I get it at least once in a game but in Deathmatch I feel lucky if I get it. I still don’t know if it’s more efficient than using the 3 silent streak in Wanted.
January 19, 2012 at 5:27 am #11160
Wedran	I use Ability 1:Throwing knives 1 cooldown and 1 in target speed Ability 2:Mute 1 cooldown and 1 range Perk 1:Overall cooldowns Perk 2:Blender Kill streak: x5 +250 points Loss streak:I dont think i even have it
January 19, 2012 at 10:09 pm #11182
WiNGSPANTT	Wedran I’d recommend against Target Speed for Throwing Knives. Since TK prevents high profile movement, ANY target speed is already reduced by about 75% under TK. Try doing 2 points in Cooldown, or 2 points in Duration, or a 1/1 split.
January 20, 2012 at 6:57 pm #11223
dominator4732	Thus far I like having throwing knifes and smoke coupled with blender and sentry. And have 3 killstreak reward and a X2 loss streak
January 21, 2012 at 11:03 pm #11256
peace0459	In deathmatch I keep 3 profiles: 1. mute/smoke–cooldowns/blender–3 silent/cooldowns 2. poison/smoke–cooldown/blender–3 silent/2x score 3. knife/gun–cooldown/blender–3 silent/cooldown I always start out with mute/smoke. If I die enough or need to complete a variety+ I go with poison/smoke and try to go for a hidden/focus/poison/X2. It can sometimes be difficult to get since you need both abilities. knife/gun is just to annoy wall runners–even if I don’t score high I get a real good laugh.
January 24, 2012 at 2:41 pm #11308
LovelessMemory	Main Set – “Heavy Strike” Ability 1: Mute – 2 Points Cooldown Ability 2: Hidden Gun – 2 Points Aim Time Perk 1: Overall Cooldowns Perk 2: Blender Kill Streak: +250 5-Kill Loss Streak: 2x Score. Mute is my main defensive, which I choose over Smoke Bomb. So far, I like it, feels quite fast; smokes make me feel like I’m losing momentum. Also good for offensive, and has no tel-tale “I’m gonna go after you” animation that smokes have. Range is fine and the window is long enough, so I just dropped cooldown as far as I can. Hidden Gun….well. Deathmatch and Assassinate (which is most games I get into/are voted for) tend to have a lot of runners and roofers, or at least on PC. Cooldown is enough to keep up with the rate that people choose to bolt or climb, so points into aim time is so that they really don’t have much time to escape. It’s my anti-runaway tool, really. Overall Cooldowns speak for themselves. Blender is generally for Deathmatch, to mitigate the lack of duplicates. I would like some input on if I should shift this to the kill buffer so I can tack on a better killstreak, or something to get an edge on runaways.
February 12, 2012 at 12:46 pm #11885
RudeOnion	As of now I have my sets Offensive, Defensive 1/2/3, and “Party Mix”. If I recall correctly (I don’t have my game in front of me), Offensive is Smoke and Gun/sometimes Knives, my Defensive ones consist of Smokebomb and a mix of Bodyguard, Disguise (sometimes Morph)and Decoy, and Party Mix is Smokebomb and Mute. I never use Closuer or Teleport – hell, I haven’t even bought them. Although interesting note – I actually had Closure used against me for the first time, last evening. Locked down both the door and the lift I was gunning for. We don’t have to discuss how that ended for me… I’m sure your imaginations are quite handy. I’m still experimenting with crafting my abilities. Mute I switch around A LOT – I’m never quite happy with how it works. Smokebomb I did have on double cooldown, but seeing as my smoke was being outlasted by other people’s smoke and I have cooldowns as a perk in most sets anyway, I ditched one cooldown point and put it in duration. We’ll see how that works out for me.
February 13, 2012 at 10:45 pm #11931
tk88	I use either smokebomb with one in duration and range and mute with one range and duration or charge with double cooldowns. For a lot of the FFA modes but I always seem to change mute and charge a lot mostly because I either mute to late or my charge misses which is a lot. For my perks I use overall cooldowns for obvious reasons and blender again for obvious reasons and I use the 3 silent streak for a lot of the FFA modes For the loss stream I use either boost cooldowns or x2 but mostly I use boost cooldowns