Curse

Satire Elexus · Jun 23, 2005, 09:14 AM // 09:14

Hi all. I seem be having a lot of trouble with my Ele/Nec in the PvP arena's. My character is lvl 20 but I still class myself as a bit of a Noob (especialy with PvP) as I havn't yet done the Ascention missions. The furthest my character has been is the start of the Crystal Desert.

Back when my character was only lvl 10-15 I was competing in the Shiverpeak Arena at Yak's bend. I was winning most of my games and had winning streaks of up to about 10 matches quite often. However now I'm lvl 20 and I'm up against other lvl 20 characters, I have found myself constantly getting my butt kicked.

I have changed my character many times using different skills. (fire, earth, air and a bit of water) but none seem to be any good for me. If I choose to use high damging skills then I become very weak and get hacked down in no time. (normally as everyone seems to pick on me). I then started to use defensive earth skills to keep me alive longer. This did work and I was a lot harder to kill. However all that I found myself doing was trying to keep myself alive and running away a lot and not dealing much damage. My team normally loses becomes of this as it is technically 4v3 as I'm not really helping out my team by using defensive skills. I have mixed my skills i.e 10 points on Air, 10 points on Earth and 12 on Energy Storage. (or something close to that) but I can't find anything that keeps me alive and helps my team to win matches.

Am I having difficulties because I havn't done the Ascension missions yet and I'm up against people who have gone much further than me. Is it my low armour rating. All of my armour items are between 51 and 59. Any help would be greatly apreciated. Thanks.

Myodato · Jun 23, 2005, 11:40 AM // 11:40

The most straight forward E/N build is Fire or Air + Blood. Life Siphon and Vampiric Gaze work nicely. Lay down multiple Life Siphons straight away to give you a comfort zone if aggro comes your way, then top up with Vampiric Gaze as necessary. It's worth noting that Vamp Gaze ignores armour, so is very useful against Warriors.

Apart from that, just load up on heavy damage, and make sure you pick on the same target as the rest of your team.

This isn't a very complex build, but it will get you through arena. You can always start playing around once you've got the basics working. I don't recommend trying it in organised PvP though.

Satire Elexus · Jun 23, 2005, 12:48 PM // 12:48

Ok thanks. I'll start experimenting with that

Carinae · Jun 23, 2005, 05:04 PM // 17:04

Max you Blood Magic, and put whatevers left into Air Magic. Then load up on the Life Stealing spells:

Awaken The Blood (prep)

Vampiric Gaze
Vampiric Touch
Shadow Strike
Unholy Feast

Not only does this do lots of damage (and totally ignores all armor), but you get the life back! Making you very very hard to kill. (The best Defense is a good Offense)