Curse

Solstace · May 26, 2009, 11:50 PM // 23:50

Seems like everytime I play my warrior in HM, it ends up as a frustrating experience. The PVE game in HM seems to be heavily weighted toward anti-melee/ anti-physical. Enemies employ tons of stances and enchantments to block/stop attacks and also have plenty of conditions and hexes to blind, snare, etc. No where near as much hate for casters.

I seem to get shutdown quite a lot, especially when playing with H/H who don't always seem to react to it. I can bring stance removal, but the enemies are spamming stances and/or they just hit you with someother form of melee shutdown.

I've tried some of the builds listed, but godmode doesnt work well if you cant hit anything to build adrenaline.

Any suggestions? Or is this just HM being hard mode.

Arkantos · May 27, 2009, 12:41 AM // 00:41

It's just HM being HM.

Examine the area you're about to go in on wiki, and play build wars. Lots of stances? Whirling axe. Lots of enchantments? Enchantment removal. Wards? Interrupts. Conditions/hexes? PnH.

Zodiac Meteor · May 27, 2009, 12:44 AM // 00:44

It's HM so you have to know what is going your way.

It's a card game, bring whatever to counter the enemy cards.

Lord Of Blame · May 27, 2009, 12:54 AM // 00:54

Have you tried taking a PnH hero with you?

Rhamia Darigaz · May 27, 2009, 01:16 AM // 01:16

ITT: speccing against opponents with static builds and predictable AI is hard

Eragon Zarroc · May 27, 2009, 01:17 AM // 01:17

enchantment removal, stance removal, condition removal, hex removal, go go go ;-)

azlnick · May 27, 2009, 04:26 AM // 04:26

PvE skills ftw? PI+Vanguard, summons, YMLAD, all that stuff helps if you want to deal damage while you're shutdown, in the meantime while you are using those skills, your monks should've already cleared you of stuff. You have to remember that NPCs have very specific AI that makes them use certain skills against anything that is holding melee weapons.

AznAndy · May 27, 2009, 07:27 AM // 07:27

the thing i usally do when i'm getting shutdown is summon "Ebon Vanguard Assasin Support" or summon "Ruby Djin" but in most cases my sabway/Discordway just own the most, and i just being a target practice for the mobs :P

superraptors · May 29, 2009, 07:51 AM // 07:51

bring 3 roj heroes with 3 smite hexes - everything solved
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toocooltang · May 29, 2009, 05:34 PM // 17:34

Well the curses necro line has good AoE ench removal, I almost always bring that. Most of the henchmen monks have alot of condition remvoal. I also like to bring a Rit with recovery and I have a 20% blind shield. I also have remove hex on one of my necro heros. If you are facing a hex heavy area its worth while to bring more. I think the best advise is to look at what your fighting before you leave.

Spike Stritter · May 31, 2009, 05:32 AM // 05:32

Though they are some areas with heavy anti-melee i dont really recall almost all of them having it. I role as a warrior and usually im the only frontline in the party when i HM. If im the only melee in the party and theres all this anti-melee then its just affecting 1 party member then more than 1.Just make sure you wiki the area ur going to vanquish and adjust you/your heroes accordingly.

TJVigilante · Jun 01, 2009, 07:16 AM // 07:16

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Originally Posted by Solstace

Seems like everytime I play my warrior in HM, it ends up as a frustrating experience. The PVE game in HM seems to be heavily weighted toward anti-melee/ anti-physical. Enemies employ tons of stances and enchantments to block/stop attacks and also have plenty of conditions and hexes to blind, snare, etc. No where near as much hate for casters.

I seem to get shutdown quite a lot, especially when playing with H/H who don't always seem to react to it. I can bring stance removal, but the enemies are spamming stances and/or they just hit you with someother form of melee shutdown.

I've tried some of the builds listed, but godmode doesnt work well if you cant hit anything to build adrenaline.

Any suggestions? Or is this just HM being hard mode.

It depends on your area...in areas with soothing images (riders in asura lands or the same things in the desert) I'd just take war's endurance and tank out the clumsiness. Those same enemies have heavy anti-caster as well so it's a rough go either way. There's just areas out there that are built to beat certain things. In places with stances, take wild blow or unblockable attack skills.