Curse

buggsy · Jun 05, 2005, 01:53 AM // 01:53

One day while I was questing through Iron Horse Mine with my warrior, I ran into these big rock throwing guys. So I started swinging my sword.

Swing....40 damage
swing.....35 damage.
Swing......34 damage.

Swing.......5 damage.
Swing.......4 damage. (Huh?)
Swing.......4 damage. (WTF)
Swing.......3 damage. (MAN!)

I look and see I have this condition called, "WEAKNESS" on my warrior.

Swing.......4 damage.

So I started thinking to myself, how can I use this "WEAKNESS" thing to my advantage?

Swing........3 damage.

I log off after dying a horrible death to these monsters, get on my necro. I had faint memories about having a curse that weakened an enemy but thought it was pretty useless at the time. I look at my skills, THERE IT IS! "enfeeble". Weakens enemies for 18 seconds, only costs 5 mana, cast time is fast, and rechargest fast.

A bell went off in my head. If I combine this "enfeeble" hex spell with "faintheartednes" hex spell (which slows down enemy attack speed by 50%) I can make myself virtually immune to warrior/archer damage. I figured it was a perfect time to test out this theory with my necro that could never complete the last mission in the game. The infamous Hell's Precipice mission, yeah the one with the titans. Well after allot of begging I finally get into a group. We spawn into the mission and I cast "enfeeble" then "faintheartedness" on the first titan, and then "enfeeble" then "Faintheartedness" on the second titan. Our team, which normally have health bars going up and down like a jackhammer, stayed at full health throughout the entire battle. The titans were doing little damage, and they were swinging reaaal slow which was funny to watch.

WOOOT!

Needless to say, after 2 jerks dropping out (after capturing their skills. I had to capture aura of the lich but didnt abandon my group afterwards), we still finished the mission with flying colors.

Respect curses. I could even tank the titans with not so perfect armor on as long as those 2 curses are on them continuously. It also works BEAUTIFULLY in PvP against enemy warriors and enemy archers. Enfeeble works on archers even though archers dont have strength attributes like a warrior, but it still works.

ComMan · Jun 05, 2005, 01:59 AM // 01:59

Hehe, pretty much all debuff is fun.

Aranador · Jun 05, 2005, 10:11 AM // 10:11

Yes - very strong in arena - in PvE sometimes there are too many too fast to try and debuff them all - but in arena numbers are even, and you can make one of your opponent become useless

ComMan · Jun 05, 2005, 05:46 PM // 17:46

Well, I have had rare occasions where monks will immediatly remove hexs (even though I tend to switch targets), which is far more annoying than the masses of PvE enemies.

Also, you really want to make more than one opponent useless. If all you do is keep one guy from attacking, then you're not being much more productive than that guy (unless that guy's a monk).