Those two skills play without doubts a big role for us.
DE, fractal, dungeons, whatever. feel free to share your thoughts, which one you like the most? Is it also the one you USE the most? How do you think it really shine?
Im particularly interested to know if anyone play pistol and how it works with boss battles, magic bullet is a great cc but im not sure it worth the slot in that situations. I did not play pistol for ages so i can be wrong.
I’ve used the Magic Bullet to interrupt boss attacks before but it’s somewhat unreliable. I’ve noticed that after a successful interrupt there is a long period before it actually affects the boss. I may be crazy, but that’s what I’ve seen, at least.
I love the focus for it’s mobility and disruption but I use Sword/Pistol, personally.
TC on focus for swiftness, balling up braindead enemies without any AI and iwarden for killing them all at once is by far the best for pve. Pistol has no use for general pve. iduelist is single target=no thanks and magic bullet doesn’t even stun bosses most of the times and the two sec of CC on two targets isn’t worth its 5 years CD.
Fact: every Thief tells you to “l2p” when the subject is to nerf stealth.
I’ve used the Magic Bullet to interrupt boss attacks before but it’s somewhat unreliable. I’ve noticed that after a successful interrupt there is a long period before it actually affects the boss. I may be crazy, but that’s what I’ve seen, at least.
I love the focus for it’s mobility and disruption but I use Sword/Pistol, personally.
I’ve used the Magic Bullet to interrupt boss attacks before but it’s somewhat unreliable. I’ve noticed that after a successful interrupt there is a long period before it actually affects the boss. I may be crazy, but that’s what I’ve seen, at least.
I love the focus for it’s mobility and disruption but I use Sword/Pistol, personally.
Yes, defiant is the main reason of the doubts i have about the viability of pistol. So you carry it for the phantasm and maybe for the aesthetic aspect, the last one is something i really hate to deal with!
personally, I always have a focus in my inventory but i prefer to use sword when i can. Block is unreliable against a flurry of strikes but amazing for single aoe attacks. If traited, counter blade also gives a good stack of vulnerability and swordman is a good phantasm.
I like to see potential for the torch, I use it in pvp and well, the prestige is one of my favourite skills even in a shatter spec. I feel like phantasm can be a good choice now but not the best one.
Focus is excellent in most situations, with Pistol being my secondary choice.
Focus has the AOE interrupt, huge AOE damage if the enemy stays next to Warden for the full duration, and can be traited to give you near-constant projectile reflection.
Pistol is only really useful against some specific bosses and other enemies where Warden dies too quickly and you need as many hits as possible.
A good example of this is the Molten Facility bosses. Illusions in general aren’t great there because of the huge number of AOEs, but iWarden dies particularly quickly in melee range of Berserker and isn’t reliable at hitting Firestorm. Duelist, on the other hand, spawns right next to you, so you can help it avoid the AOEs right in the beginning, and hits enough times to help significantly when removing Enrage stacks on the enemy you’re not focusing throughout the fight.
