Curse

AKB48 · May 31, 2009, 07:03 AM // 07:03

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Originally Posted by Celeborn10

Oh no! The horror, mesmers are all alone in the world having no place in this army of GW. Grr, can't really think of a spot for them in this army. Where the heck does midline come into the picture? Designated marksmen?

Forgot mes but they can be the snipers as well. In my previous comments, i put midline w/ backline. But w/e

Cirian · Jun 03, 2009, 11:48 PM // 23:48

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Originally Posted by anima_illumina

As a rit, melee classes have always been a joke in pvp (the sword rit build never fails). Mass blind takes out rangers and paragons. Necros and mesmers arent really that troublesome since they lack the capacity to deal with my spirits. Elementalists, on the other hand, give me alot of trouble. When facing them 1 on 1 in pvp, I aways find myself beaten because of their extremely high damage and their capability to heal themselves with their energy storage skills. When I use spirits, they (the spirits) die seconds only after I cast them. Anybody have a good build that would deal with eles?

Hmm, that's a tough one all right. With ele's in their current state, my answer would be "no."

Ele's today can be played a lot like touch rangers except that they're using nukes that heal them instead of touch skills, and their energy management makes them invincible instead of saccing 20%.

Take Immolate cast through Aura, Attunement and Glyph of Restoration with 16 Fire + 13 Energy Storage. It costs 5 energy (you get 4+1 back), you do 121 damage (79+42 burn) and heal yourself for 178. That's just your basic nuke.

In short, it's going to be very tough, but it's a team game so why not concentrate on that if you can't solo them? If you had a melee team mate you could try Rt/E Glyph of Renewal + Warmonger's Weapon together with Ice+Tenai's Prison for instance... and if your aim is just survival then you might try Rt/Me Sentry's insignias with Elemental Resistance and Power Drain.

Ritual of Grace · Jun 04, 2009, 02:10 AM // 02:10

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Originally Posted by Cirian

In short, it's going to be very tough, but it's a team game so why not concentrate on that if you can't solo them?

Quite so, honestly killing Elementalists doesn't work out for me. I've tried dozens of variants and am still working it out... I'll probably get on the right direction in a week or so. However, my best friend and I (He plays a Warrior) take care of business together against any casters, between me and his hammer. There isn't much contest.

Just remember Ritualists don't really fit the bill for 1v1 roles at the moment. We're pretty much support, which is NOT a bad thing in the slightest. Matter in fact, because of us we can make some scary builds if you coordinate with other players.

False Maria · Jun 04, 2009, 09:53 PM // 21:53

I've never had trouble killing eles in 1v1.
What I do is bring a spirit build with dissonance, pain, bloodsong, and use Spirit Twist to cast dissonance quickly when the ele is in range. While he's having fun being interrupted on every spell, pain, bloodsong, disenchant or whatever else I brought is cast and he dies in 3-5 seconds. Works on monks who don't know how to stick to healing too.

Rangers, on the other hand...

Lux Aeterna · Jun 04, 2009, 09:59 PM // 21:59

Rt/Me, pblock any fire spell then wand duel him with your 16 spawning power staff.

Coney · Jun 04, 2009, 10:10 PM // 22:10

I love these 1 on 1 questions, reminiscent of my WoW days. PvP shouldn't be about 1 on 1, unless you're scrubbing PUG.

No game with different character classes and abilities can be balanced around 1v1. Come on, already. PvP is about team, not solo.

Ritual of Grace · Jun 05, 2009, 05:39 AM // 05:39

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Originally Posted by False Maria

I've never had trouble killing eles in 1v1.
What I do is bring a spirit build with dissonance, pain, bloodsong, and use Spirit Twist to cast dissonance quickly when the ele is in range. While he's having fun being interrupted on every spell, pain, bloodsong, disenchant or whatever else I brought is cast and he dies in 3-5 seconds. Works on monks who don't know how to stick to healing too.

Rangers, on the other hand...

See, I never had a problem with Rangers just by holding onto Weapon of Remedy... =P