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Twilight Doll · May 23, 2005, 06:10 PM // 18:10

Well you'd be surprised how often warriors think I'm an easy kill and come chasing after me. It happens about mor than 75% of the time. And when you say focusing, that doesn't apply to all. A mesmer's job is usually either totally anti-caster or anti-melee... and if you're a bit of both, you only dedicate half a cheek to each.

Here's a situation I often see warriors get murdered. There's an elementalist on the team, your team has 2-3 warriors and they're attacking the same target. AoE and they're done for. It's usually not a good thing to bunch up so closely together depending on the situation. Situations always change. That's what's so great about the game. The strategy is never the same/should never been the same.

As I've stated before, strategy must always change.

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Besides, a good and disciplined team isn't going to allow that sort of thing.

I think that's a rather pointless statement to make. A good and discliplined team isn't going to allow their one good monk that is being focus fired upon to go down either. You can say this and that about what you consider a good team.

Here's another situation... If we're focusing on a target and someone is stabbing me in the back, why would I want to stand around and take it? I think it's better that I face whomever is attacking me 1v1 especially if it's a war. Just because you focus all your fire on the monk doesn't mean he has to heal any less. If i'm attacking one of the monk's teammates, he has to heal that person too. Considering I use IW, the dmg I deal to any job/class is generally the same.

MyriaN · May 23, 2005, 08:17 PM // 20:17

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Originally Posted by Twilight Doll

I don't why many people think focus fire is always good strategy. Strategy changes with party setup and skills, hence why it was such a good idea on their part allowing you to redistribute skill points without being able abusing it.

Everything mostly depends on your teammates and your foes, rather than preset strategy guidelines. This is what seperates the good players from the, I don't want to say bad, but not so great... The ones are able to adapt.

While I agree with your points, I think that the OP was looking for PvP pointers for beginners.

The reason why people emphasize focus firing in the early Arenas is that it's an easy strategy that beginner teams can use to coordinate their attack. It's a basic step towards understand more complex ways of working together.

Also, most teams can't even handle focusing correctly, so such simple strategies are usually all you need to succeed in the early stages.

Of course there is no single strategy that works in all cases for all parties and skills. I don't think that anyone was implying that focus firing is the best and only strategy you'll ever need. But it's a pretty good improvement from everyone just hitting whatever they feel like.

Twilight Doll · May 23, 2005, 10:16 PM // 22:16

The reason why I "emphasize" focus fire as a bigger concern is that fact that I still do see level 20's going along with that strategy. -_- Doesn't always quite work out and it's a lot harder to do than most people think.