I'm going to address everyone. :]~


The only chars I find it necessary to play defensive against are some paladins, some necros, and most GOOD telly wwsins. On the exterior it looks like a hit-and-run kind of char, and to be honest that's how it is when you first start dueling with the character, but when you become more comfortable with the build you let valk take out a lot of the name lock hits and elemental chars.

I Play this character much more like a phys zon than a poison one-that is I hit whenever the chance reveals itself. I rely heavily on the phys portion of my damage---that is why I try to max ga and get 70+% critical. Others will prefer to max the d/a/e skill tree and rely more heavily on the psn dmg. I think it's foolish to rely too much on one type of damage, especially if that damage is able to be negated.

I also utilize open wounds [25-75%ow w/ different set-ups] with the build to compensate for the lower phys damage which is actually closer to 1-2.5k [2-5k after crit]. Even with that I may also use a lacerator for possible 4-10k phys damage range.

When I say I use this zon more like a phys damage zon, I also mean that I have become more comfortable using a 70% fcr 200% frw set up. This gives me decent telly bps and insane desynch, [If anyone knows what telly-walking is, then you know how insane the ability can be]

The poison damage my arrows deal is not slow. It is roughly 6-7k psn damage over 6 second intervals [compared to plague's 70k+/- dmg over 19 seconds]. Plague appears to work faster because the average damage per second is 3684, when my arrows will do 1166 psn damage per second. It's 10x the damage, but delivered over 3x's the seconds. So in reality I do 21k+ poison damage in the same time it takes plague to run its course.

Here's a breakdown of each arrow: 25-75% ow [8 second timer], 7k psn/6 seconds, 1-2.5k phys dmg, 70% crit.
--- On the low side I will do 1k phys, 7k poison/6 seconds - pvp penalties
--- On the high side I will do 5k phys, 7kpsn/6seconds - pvp penalties & 300+ life done from open wounds/8 seconds.

The average arrow fired will generally do 400-600 damage given the time for it's duration to subside [8 seconds assuming ow has casted]
So 8x arrows will do, on average given their durations, 3.4k-4.8k life after pvp penalties.

I'm just saying waiting out for full poison duration does work, gay style but if its gm some people will use it, if bvcs can make it work then its devastating on a zon and it means they make a lot of mistakes lol.

pff shaman>

In damage over duration, yes. But their attacks are also limited range, speed, and do not track down opponents.




I come prepared in the psn department. The hardest duels a char will face are against itself---or it's type of damage [ie wwsins]. So my telly circlet has 50% psn reduce along with my fcr ring's 25% [when both or none are needed ofc]. With 200 frw I out run bone prisons, so a barbarian's ww is generally and simply avoided altogether. If I encounter any problems with my opponents speed and the duels are not gm, I will simply use % slow.

I don't think dittos will always be the hardest duel, considering they are always 50:50, whereas that char may have terrible match-ups like a bunch of 70:30 or 80:20 match-ups. An extreme example I guess is something like an Enchantress, where they're going to find Trappers, Barbs, wwsins, hybrids, hdongs, smiters and a crapload of other chars far harder than an Enchantress ditto.

Ghosts are pretty difficult, I'm not too sure how well a poison zon does against a wwsin but I do find myself with a standard zon that I have a much better chance vs them than vs a mb nec or es mb blizz, though.

PLR is good no doubt though, but all it requires you to do is apply poison more frequently (which, yes, puts you in more danger, but its the only way around it). Even with 75% plr, you can still wait out the whole poison duration while teleporting/walking/wsging away and then just shoot an arrow when poison finishes. If I felt lame that's what I'd do vs a Trapper, just poison them and play defensive, wsg and find an opening where they haven't mb'd and then just apply it again. Obviously the exception is if they play defensive or they have a really big opening that I can Strafe or pelt a bunch of GAs at them (I'd say jab too but I can't do that with Wizzy lol)

This post was edited by Tails chao on Nov 24 2009 06:28pm

hmmm...



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This post was edited by darkkobra on Nov 24 2009 06:35pm

I didn't lose once to his druid when I dueled him =/





Valk is often times immune to light damage at lvl 30+ so I let her walk towards trappers = attract most of trap's fire-offs.

I really have no difficulty dueling trappers unless they mind blast while 3 other chars jump on top of me.

Ghosts are the toughest battle imo. Psn dmg doesn't wreck them enough so I have to rely on valk name locks [her/his mistake], taking out auto mb'ing shadow, & playing quite defensively. Slow and open wounds > wwsin tho ;p

ya I don't think this build would have much problem with a trap.

I can imagine ghost being a lot harder without javs, you can jab the shit out of a ghost anytime they make a mistake. if they try and stomp triwhirl you without wof you can just jab them to hell, well with phys anyway. But on a norm zon a es mb blizz is definitely harder to fight.

This post was edited by Tails chao on Nov 25 2009 07:01am

ez. Psn + open wounds > es.

with 25% chance to land a hit, that's 1 in 4 arrows, 4+ arrows shot every second.

cheese sauce!

for the average es sorc obv, but plenty of bmana sorcs just go pure vit which means 3k+ life with mb