December 10, 2014 06:25PM
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I was in a similar boat as you with previous characters. What I did to surmount this is to find a race/class that allows you to slow down the fight and you can take it pieces at a time. Anything with natural damage reduction or insane dodging I think helps this. Even if you are not very offensive, it allows you to get used to being in combat for more than a few rounds. I feel this allows you to overcome some of the nerves and just observe from relative safety PK fights.
Classes I would recommend: Defense Shifter, Shaman, Monk Paladin, Giant Polearm, Arial Staff/Spear. There may be others but these are the ones that leap to mind. I would warn against Healers and Bards as they are often the first to be targeted in large PK fights even though they may qualify in my recommendations. I would recommend non-shifters picking a race with hard to exploit or no vuln.
By doing this, it took me from the flee from the first few rounds of combat no matter who started the combat (including me) due to nerves, to someone that has stood toe to toe with some of the more recent PK bad asses. Even though I may have not won any of those fights I survived them and at least I can look back at that as a self confidence booster.
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