by Darkson Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:24 pm
Don't take this as an insult or whatever, this is just how I honestly feel, and I'm also not trying to compensate for my lack of skill at pvp or anything else I may lack of. Just listen to me, please.
I'm sorry, this is just based upon my own experience, but whenever I see a ninja flipping dude in Giant Armor, with some herpa derpa mask and that green particle effect, I can be 90% sure he'll do nothing else than fishing for backstabs or casting WoG. It would not be such a huge deal actually, because that outfit makes him predictable. But there is literally no other "non-cheap" build that really works against those builds. You can't easily hit such a guy, and if you hit him, you don't do much damage, and you can't interrupt his dodge/attack/backstab fishing because of his high poise. So attacking him won't do much but increase his chance of getting a backstab, and lag makes it even worse of course. If you manage to drain his health somehow (with another cheap tactic maybe) and he feels like he's about to die, he just flips and sprints away and heals. Then maybe if you're lucky you can get a backstab yourself, and maybe if there is no lag and your timing is perfect, you can chain-backstab him, but for me this is just impossible. And one bad timing and he will either flip away, or worse, start spamming WoG. I immediatly get staggered if he WoGs while he got his back turned to me by the way. And then he will backstab me, heal while I'm down, then use WoG and backstab again until I'm dead. Then I can enjoy the "YOU DIED" message and a dumb-looking douche doing a taunt. And this is what more than half of my fights are, and THIS is why I immediately get mad at someone using that build:
Because whenever I see a similar "outfit", I just have to think about how damn tired I am of these kind of builds and of all those things mentioned above that are just connected to it in my head already.
I can't speak for everyone, but my general and shorter answer to this is:
People who hate "Cookie Cutter" Builds are simply... really damn tired of them.
I hope you didn't take this more as a rant than rather an attempt to convey my feelings, along with what I've experienced. Because when someone asks me why I hate these builds, he's basically asking me how I "feel" about them, and what causes me to have such an oppinion. I am in no way longing for fights/flame wars or whatsoever.
Last edited by Darkson on Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:41 pm; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : typing errors :/)