Quote (Ziecheik @ Wed, Aug 12 2009, 07:31am)
read the past few pages for tvd discussion.
and of course the sin knows what the druid is doing with the bear, thats the point of using a bear, that it attracts all the sentries to focus on it while the druid can walk traps all day.
Its also a quite useful strategy on shamans. Like I was saying a few pages earlier, I have been using this against pure trappers a lot lately (never hybrids). Teleport in close and immediately land a volcano namelocked, and then WSG around. If you're lucky, the bear doesn't get mind blasted, and will walk up to the sin and hit her. Due to WSG & Bear distractions, you'll barely get hit by any traps, even though you're right in the middle of them (This only applies to sentry, not wof). Most trappers, once they see a druid on their screen, go apeshit trying to namelock mb spam. Many will simply underestimate the power of volcano and sit in it for a second or so before realizing they are taking massive damage and you are taking almost nothing. And then they have to spend another second trying to escape from being struck every 6 frames and clawblock/fhr locking in place :~)
Its not a safe tactic, and leads to alot of deaths where I mistook hybrids for trappers (since it puts you in an easy position to whirlwind), but its very entertaining. Duels against good trappers can often take a few minutes because it devolves into one of the two of you l8z'ing & camping, which could swing either way. But when you blitz them like that with volcano, it exploits players natural instinct to seize on the offensive and mind blast spam, when their proper reaction would be to teleport off the damned volcano.
(which could score you a namelocked telegrizzly strike to boot, anyway)
This post was edited by deathwinger on Aug 12 2009 02:26pm