LMAO

Forgot that Titans add Fr/w.With 3x 7% Fr/ws, Soul Spurs, and Titans, I have 81% Fr/w.

my biggest problem seems to be trappers. My friend's that I duel on a regular basis has 4k life, 4 gul shield, 105%fcr and max trap laying speed. right now I'm doing 99k poison dam (am lvl 80, will use my last gc in 3 lvls) and i barely hurt him. He doesnt do much damage to me either (3 Lo headhunters, i got the headhunters and one with 3 vexes for 3 runes so I decided just to use those instead of 4*Lo/vex) but he mbs so fast and it seems that i dont do any damage with thrown javs when throwing out of hit recovery.

note - for west clan duels +max res is fine but absorb is prohibited.

edit: i seem to do fine when we do, no +max res duels but that gul shield shuts me down

This post was edited by wolfy3455 on Aug 4 2004 11:21am

Yup, gear can shut down any elemental user. I maxed LF just for that reason. If your friend uses the shield instead of GA, you might stand a chance.

If you go +max res/absorb on a elemental damage user, they're screwed.

LOL, sup Spellmaster

Ya I dueled your buddy's trapper when he was using that 4 x Gul shield. I had him down to about 150 life he said, but I stopped dueling and started typing bull$hit to him because I thought he used an antidote. After he killed me, I was like, Dude, you turned green, and then you weren't, what gives. He showed the shield and I was like OH, ok then. No antidote, the duration just ran out

Dueling against him, you have to use light fury. Is yours maxed? Maxed light fury does about 2K damage, so it definitely hurts. I killed him a few times when we were just messing around with my bow also. Not serious dueling, but he was surprised that it worked so well. Maybe that's the key to beating him. Is your CTA a bow? If your being mindblasted, bow still works quite well. You can get off quite a few shots on him while he is mindblasting you, even with his ultra fast mind blast. Of course then, your LO shield won't be in effect, so you have to do it when only 1 or 2 traps are set up near you. If I duel him again, I will know that he is using that shield, and I will light fury him, or use bow to kill him. It takes him quite a while to kill me, so i'm sure that I can get him before he gets me. The trick to trappers is to run AWAY from them and out of mind blast range, and then regroup and go back for more. In the duel with him, I must have done that at least 5 times. He's good at mind blasting, but if you run away from him and out of it, he has to risk teleporting back in, and thats when you can shell him a few times before the next retreat.

Oh ya, and when you run away from mind blast, always run a little bit diagonally away. Just so you don't get shelled in the back with traps as your running away. But that 4 x Gul shield is a bitch no doubt, and he's probably the best shield trapper I have ever dueled so he's a challenge forsure. I still think he should go dual claw and put a few points in weapon block, but he seems to like shield so...

I'm going to make a 4 LO shield next. After that, a 4 x Vex, and I'm all set

This post was edited by wu-banger on Aug 4 2004 09:49pm

damn, nice guide

i usually dont bother wit ppl who do that with shields. unless its a important duel then ill pull out all the stunts =)

My friend has one of these, and he can beat 9/10 of the standard duelers out there. Good guide for a good build ^^

actually when I duel in pubby games, I find that about 1 in 4 duels is a 1 shot kill. The reason for it is that the cloud stays around for a while. When you hit someone with the plague it poisons them, and depending on how fast thier life goes to 1, the same cloud can hit you twice and you can die from it. This happens to those people that go to 1 life in less then a second. Also, once you get your aim down, it also happens alot when the javalin itself hits the guy. When I started playing the character, I just poisoned people with the cloud, but now i'm such a rip shot, that I can hit most characters, even good duelers with the javalin itself. It's all about learning how to anticipate what each character build is likely do to, and lead the javalin where they are about to go. It's hillarious when you anticipate it, and 1 hit kill someone with a jav before they even see what happened.

I love it. It's the coolest thing when you throw 1 jav and kill someone. There always like HOLY SHIT !!!... it's worth making the character just to see the 1 hit kill and the response it always gets