by boomcome Sun Dec 09, 2012 3:26 pm
Recently, I had decided to make a crazy SL85 Pyro build, however, it became SL51 thanks to the forest. Seeing how I wanted to be a Darkwraith, I decided to practice the build in the forest. Oh man, I am never going to level up or leave the forest with this. The amount of gankers I've killed and higher SL's is phenomenal.
I have the Dusk helm, Balder Leggings, the Bellowing ring, and the Red Tearstone ring on, leaving me at 9.8/52 equip load. I am a naked warrior. From how I've been playing, poise is a silly thing when you can just dodge everything and if you do get hit, the tearstone ring kicks in and lets you deal some damage. I've managed to one-shot a lot of gankers this way and it is super duper fun. I don't use a shield at all, instead, I use an ascended flame on my left and an Iaito+10 on the right to quickly poke someone that has low HP.
Seeing as I'm in the forest, I have no mercy at all whatsoever. I use the proper bow to lure Hosts into using the regular slower bow and quickly toss a Chaos Fireball at 'em. Although, that usually ends up with me getting one-hit back-stabbed and having the pointing down on me, which I totally know I deserve.
When it's a 1v2, I try to lure/catch them unaware and pop a Firestorm and quickly follow up with Great Combustion. That and I try to control the area I'm in by tossing untargeted Chaos Fireballs.
Essentially, my tips are:
- Go for fast roll, dodge everything. Shields are useless when you take no damage from evading.
- Use the terrain to your advantage, get up on a slope where they can't climb and use range to hit them.
- Learn the area, knowing where things are such as slopes or places to jump from to run away can help a lot in a battle, especially 1v2. Never got the chance for a threeway though so I wouldn't know much about that.
- Stick to one target, I usually go for the phantoms first, and make sure it gets killed, although sometimes it's worth switching to the host immediately if the opportunity arises.
- Make sure you know where the enemies are, you don't exactly need to see both of them but its better that way. If one of them is out of site, try and estimate where they could be.
- Watch out for camouflage and invisibility! Usually the fake saplings are darker than the others and for invisibility hit that target button.
- If it looks too good to be true, be careful it might be a trap! If you see a lone host try and look around for a phantom in case of backstabbers.
- Try not to walk in a straight line, it makes it easy for poison arrows/avelyns to get you. Try to zigzag your way around.
- Evaluate your opponent! Make sure you know what types of weapons he has. If it's sort of curved and short, it might be a shotel, so watch out. If he has a certain armor and you known its got weak defenses against a certain type, try to use that against them.
- Never back up into a corner of sorts, its the easiest way to get slaughtered by gankers!
Well, I gotta go. I'll edit this later.
- Edited: added tips and stats are below in the page somewhere
Last edited by boomcome on Sun Dec 09, 2012 6:04 pm; edited 1 time in total