what REAL PvP looks like (AoC vs WAR)

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Originally posted by Malthros

Originally posted by Malickie


As for the 3 second attacks, certain classes have such an attack speed. Whether they are auto attacking or not each skill will take that long to swing or cast. That's your attack speed regardless of auto attack or skills being used.

 

That's incorrect.  The Warrior Priest I played used a sledge until level 10 when I bought a new hammer and a tome to do more healing, and my weapon speed with the sledge was 3.2, however my skills could be used every 1.5 seconds unless cooling down, so when that was factored in the following would happen:

 

Put some HoTs on everyone taking some damage until out of juice.

Run up to an enemy, usually a healer I got behind, hit with skill, giving defensive target (myself) +strength (thus +dam) for 20 seconds.

1.5 seconds later, hit with skill to lower inititive, which makes it easier to land crits (not but my though) and did nice damage.

1.5 seconds later, since by now I had taken some damage from a tank trying to save the healer, drop a HOT on myself since my melee skills regen my fury for magic.

1.5 seconds after that, hit with an attack skill that heals the defensive target (me) for 250% of the damage I dealt to the target, at level 11 I was usually healing about 300 hp total.

 

After that, if I was low on health and had morale up, I'd use my morale heal to heal about 600 damage to myself.  Also, when the target would try to flee, I'd hit them with a melee skill to lower their movement by 60% for a few seconds, allowing me to continue my onslaught.

 

Now if this was AoC, I'd have stood there doing nothing to the healer as his tank did nothing to me, instead, one of us would die.  In one lucky case, I killed both the enemy healer and a tank that tried to save him (both were rank 3 bumped to rank 8, I was rank 11 so had a big edge) and it was a lot more fun than AoC.  The only downside was if 2-3 melee got near me I often found myself dead from about 70% hp almost instantly.

Oops you're right that wasn't entirely correct, I was referring to weapon attacks not spells. I should have been much more clear about that. If I had more time earlier I would have went on to point out if you feel your chosen profession is to slow pick another, the bigger the weapon the slower it swings. Go for dps instead like witch hunter, or the elf version of it (forgot its name).