Why are we choosing to focus the assassin when there are two vokers there?
Arbrarn dispel a voker of your choosing. Probably Aehwic because Yanni seems more slippery. You don't need to get all the shields, you just need to get the major shield. Then Waka can bash. Repeat on second voker. Never focus the assassin. For a whole bunch of reasons.
I do a lap around Udgaard. If you're lucky someone killed Thestur for a wand so there may be flail/bracers/shield etc laying around. Then I run to ar'atouldain for black iron gear. After that, if past lvl 11, I run to Kiadana and hope that someone has gone through the inner areas there. Those are my three main go-tos.
I'll also check the who list. If I see people who might be le
I maintain this is a fight that a shaman should easily win, especially with 3 levels on the muter....but I just checked and of the 300ish Shaman kills I have pbf evidence for, not a single one of them was a transmuter. Interestingly, I also don't have any deaths to a transmuter over that time. So apparently despite my namesake and hundreds of hours playing shaman at a high PK level I have no
Mace + landslide is redundant there IMO. You're taking mace for the lag, because boneshatter alone isn't much of a maledict at hero and there is literally no fight where maces are better than swords on elf/drow stsf. I don't care what class they are. I don't care if you have vuln maces. 99.9% of fights, swords are better. So you'd only be using maces to boneshatter shifte
Your path doesn't matter in this matchup.
Man. First of all you're not paying respect to just how much level difference matters in a caster vs priest matchup. If you have 3 levels on a muter he's not perma neuroing you. He's just not. And if by some grace of the RNG gods he is, he doesn't have the mana to sustain the lag. Especially not at 37. Neuro is a high mana cos
Dwarf shaman with levels against a muter in the midranges is a solo fight I'd take EVERY day of the week as the shaman. Even if the muter had a super suit and eagle inscribed.
I'll answer this, mainly because its something that has crossed my mind before. (Primarily due to the fact that I can barely make an alias.)
I do think there'd be some dropoff in production from Shapa, Marcus etc. I don't think they'd be any less strong, per say, but I think that more people would be able to successfully escape from them, dropping their numbers. I also thin
2 cents for the ragers.
Shaman and Invokers are super rough for ragers. I get what Ugnarl was going for with Vengeance (wrath) against Hok (duergar shaman) but black sanc is completely nullifying the vuln_holy of duergar. Much better off with h2h. I'd also consider trying to knock out Hokrur. Mainly because if he is shielded by the voker (which he is) the voker is going to have to think t
Exploit any vulns you can and at low lvl especially that arial assassin's hp pool is small. Targeted damage is nice and frankly absolutely wrecks low hp dexy guys, but there's not much targeted damage in the warriors kit sub-20. Sub 20 I would try strapping on weapons the assassin doesn't learn (flail/mace would be my choice.) and going for bash + rng to give you one or two lucky r
Pally/pally/druid.
Absolute monstrous ranking potential. You're basically just undead murderers. One pally goes storm shield ded, the other one goes any race champion. Reason for this is you can get poleaxe super early (double vuln on undead) and a storm giant can wield two handed or one handed wrath/silver weapons and upgrade as he ranks into request ranges. You're going to shaft th
Efficiency. Marcus didn't waste time. He was -always- hunting and he it seemed like he was always ready for a fight. I'm probably one of the most aggressive pkers. Marcus was more so, and better at it than I am by a mile.
He also found people. Always. He could look at the who pk and figure out who was grouped with who and where that group would most likely be ranking. His chars have
So dagger spec first spec is certainly a bit of a harder mode of warrior. You don't have the inherent offense/defense of other specs. Your strength in pk is in the fact that your weapon is hard as balls to dodge and you have maledictions to drop your opponent's weapons so they can't parry. That's the pk aspect.
PvE, dagger spec lets you maledict mobs and whittle them down.
Baelen and Caldysias were so deadly because of a combination of greeting + shield ded procs. But half of their lag was coming out of a passive non-guaranteed form. Shield ded procs.
Also, I don't think Baelen was a high end PKer. That's neither here nor there but if you got two high end pkers on a storm giant lag spec + a champion (or monk) paladin it'd be absolutely insane simp
Seriously. If you could play a champion paladin in empire. Do you know how fast it would get toned down? Imagine a high end pker playing a champion paladin with eagle inscribed. You can kill almost ANYONE solo by putting up your prots and spamming a command or two.
Jalim did it I think, but he was in Trib, not exactly a cabal the lends itself to high pk.
Now if a well played champ.monk got
I think a thief can actually be a fairly effective assassin hunter in the mid ranges. Sub-40. After that, trance and a thief's general falling off power-wise skews it pretty hard in the assassin's favor.
Basically if I were to play an assassin-killer thief I'd go the thug/third attack route. And I'd use haste scroll + mace/dagger. Vulns obviously if you can get them.
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