blizz sorcs and bone necros can be played offensively and defensively.
But it seems every trapper I face, the second they low life, they are l8z chars. Does shaman pull that off?

btw, 99/99 ftw? why dont you go max block? save you an extra time or two. I know you said it doesnt fully save you, you will still lose, but its nice if you arent used to the char.

volcano chainlocks wheee

chainwut?

once you cast it once you uh can't do anything with a fire druid O_o
with a shaman you can chainlock volcano grizzly combos.

@soccer

I find that the very few matchups where max block would ever help (bvc, bowazon, charger), you simply do not need it; bvcs/smiters are only going to be slain with fissure control and only the rarest, most well timed bearstrikes, which never puts you in the way of their attacks; and even if you did have max block, if a bvc tri-whirls you, you are dead. So losing your damage effectiveness for survivability that doesn't help you survive, well, not worth it. And bowazons are so laughable in general it simply doesn't matter. But yes it would be nice against some of the better bowazons

But why cripple your build for 9/10 matchups just to fight 1/10?

keep a nl on them still and just stomp re-lock when they're about to go off screen

it is for all intents a chainlock, just with a delayed skill

what are you dueling, crash test dummys? O_O
The only times I've ever namelock volcano chained someone is when they're fleeing with 5% hp or something.

You can't just sit there for 4 seconds and not expect them to rock your world

not when they're being locked!



of course this won't apply for 95 es sorcs, smiters, barbs etc but if someone is stupid enough to try and outtank you while being volcano'd then just teleport on top of them and abuse minion stack, the defense that provides is enough.

This post was edited by Tails chao on Sep 6 2009 11:01pm

thats the silliest thing I ever heard.

I don't even stay on top of people for a second when I am swiping them with a volcano/grizzly combo, and you're telling me you try to do it with a druid who has to twiddle his thumbs for 4 seconds?
Volcano doesn't pin people down indefinitely. It locks them up just for a split second or two based on luck. If it held someone down 4 seconds, they would already be dead.

Almost every character will outtank you if you try to just sit on a volcano, sans grizzly. Smiters, chargers, hammerdins, bvc's, es sorcs, necros, windys, strafing bowazons, cs zons, wwsins, trappers, all melees, i could go on.
Volcano is a great spell for doing instantaneous combos to trip someone up, but expecting people to sit on it and die before you do is foolhardy

?...

I had fire druid dittos at one point using PERFECT GEAR on d2pk, the only thing my druid could do when he volcano'd me was to wsg out, I hope you're not implying that someone can just randomly ignore volcano's locking properties and sit there spamming shit at you.

you keep the lock in-case they teleport out

did you really need me to spell that out for you?

I wasn't lagging, and I don't see how it'd revoke my ability to hurt someone in a situation I usually can do, considering I can spear the shit out of sins if they don't set up a good lock