Curse

Kokuyougan · Oct 28, 2009, 12:25 AM // 00:25

I know this sounds completely retarded but:

I quit playing around 6-7 months ago and I recently came back with a friend (new account, new everything). We decided to get GWAMM before rolling out our PvP carpet. Unsurprisingly, PvE skills were still dominant in PvE and mobs went kersplode at everything.

I had been playing WoW in my spare time after I abandon'd GW. (Don't shoot me.) And my favorite class had been the Warlock, a class who could be specialized to burst a target down quickly and efficiently with a 15-20 second recharge by his own abilities through 5-6 spells with 1-2 second casts each. It was often regarded the most powerful DPS class in the game. It became my 'caste'. And strange though it may seem, I don't have as much fun now in GW as I did then in WoW without doing what I did then.

My friend convinced me not to use PvE skills in PvE cause he wanted more challenge to it than simply spamming Necrosis and Critical Agility and winning the game.

Since then I've been running an IV/Putrid Bile nuker which has been working out fairly well in NM, but I'm having doubts as to what will happen in hard mode, with the addition of more armor and more natural resistance. PB and Corpse Explosion are armor ignoring and IV isn't... So I've been looking around for a new elite or hell, even a new class, that can spike well in unorganized PvP and PvE while still having a needed role, flagger, caster/melee hate, shutdown, straight dps, pressure, whatever, in GvG/HA.

Lately, I've been looking at the Elementalist elite Invoke Lightning, which I must admit, is just badass in practice. But I feel like I am abandoning the whole Necromancer idea by switching now. In every game I've played, I've always chosen Damage > Defense, in WoW no difference, but here... The usual class who is all about damage at the cost of defense is no longer the Warlock/Necromancer/Dark Mage.

I don't even care so much as to what I play, so long as I can bend the backstory a little to match me. The original idea was that this black mage was an entity that had pushed the boundaries of knowledge and had been shunned by everyone at the gain of knowledge/power.

I simply wish to return to what I was once before; a spiker, nothing more, nothing less.
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^ There you have my convoluted story.

Thenameless Wonder · Nov 04, 2009, 01:13 AM // 01:13

Recall on some ally
Shadowstep to enemy
Use shockwave and aftershock and maybe ash blast
End recall
Repeat

Vazze · Nov 11, 2009, 09:23 PM // 21:23

ST spiking is rarely good for anything in pve. Anyways, a really good ST spike is (perhaps a fun farming build for special situations):
1) sac yourself to 1-100HP
2) Grenth's Balance, urals H, YMLD, FH: this will kill anything under ~5-600HP in a fraction of a second.