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Posted by: roelvanesch.2817

roelvanesch.2817

Q:

I am having a lot of fun lately running S/F fresh air ele in spvp. There are a couple of weapon skills I (almost) never use. I was wondering if these skills have their uses in spvp or if they are just a complete waste of casting time.

Fire

Dragon’s Tooth
The skill does Mad damage, but I have no illusion of actually hitting it. Currently, i only use it on downed foes.

Water

Shatterstone

Freezing Gust
This one actually doesnt seem so bad, come to think of it…

Comet

Earth

Dust Devil

What is your experience with these? Please let me know!

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Posted by: Nutshel.7264

Nutshel.7264

A:

DT:
1. combo it with gale
2. use it on yourself if you expect thief to attack you
3. Use it to stack might if enemy is doing some bs like invulnerable
4. Area denial

Shatterstone:
??? useless

Comet:
1. Damage, can be cast w/o line of sight
2. Interrupt, use it if you expect enemy to cast something you don’t want them to cast
-thief HS for combo stealth
-engineer coming out of invulnerability elixir – time it right so it hits just after invulnerability ended
-interrupt ressing
-interrupting long cast spells such as Eternal Renewal
-removing rangers Shared Anguish so you can gale combo
-can proc Lightening Rod
?Increases damage of air attunement, lightening strike if you have Tempest Defence

DD:
-dude it’s long range, short cast, damaging blind. Sure it’s not a very good skill. But hey throw it out randomly and it can mess up with enemy combo. It can crit and proc fresh air so meh.. just use it on cd.

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Posted by: roelvanesch.2817

roelvanesch.2817

Thank you for the advise!

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Posted by: BlackBeard.2873

BlackBeard.2873

Just to add to what Nutshel said:

Shatterstone:
- Randomly spray the ground with aoe when you think a thief got downed inside Shadow refuge but there isn’t someone around to res him.

Yes, that is super-duper specific, but it happens every now and then. No, it is not worth having a weapon skill specifically for that, but that is its use.

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Posted by: tostadude.9214

tostadude.9214

shatterstone is absolute trash
auto-attacking in water is better, since you have more chance to crit and proc fresh air, or heal if youre using healing signet.

you can literally avoid shatterstone by walking backwards and not get hit.
even if you hit with shatterstone (which i assure will most likely not happen) you only do around 1.2k on a crit