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I just made a simular thread without reading this one. Here is another funny one. You are attacking the troll in front of you only to attack the one behind it, which the shot bounces off to the right and left cause the 3 behind the one you attacked to come after you. The one in front of you isn’t happy you picked on his friends behind him so now you have 4 on you.
Oh wait there is more. After hitting all your “uh oh” skills to finish all 4 trolls with like 64 hp left, your character auto selects and auto attacks the troll next to you just out of agro range but just in attacking range so he can throw an axe to finish you off… brilliant!!!!!
I’m not sure if it’s a bug or bad design. When I target a monster and use ranged attacks (even sometimes in melee), it likes to switch targets to the monsters behind it or in front of it. Can you create an option to cancel auto-targeting if a target is already selected? I like targeting a monster by attacking without hitting tab or clicking on the monster, but once it starts switching between targets like ping pong, I just end up training myself.
I’m trying to decide on warrior, ranger, theif, or elementalist.
Warrior is a solid PvP class if you like hitting people, and they do respectably in PvE. The gameplay tends to lean towards knockdown-burst-done, though. Warriors are good for overall damage output, and are fairly durable, but lack some of the cooler active defense stuff that other classes — like thieves and guardians — get.
Thief is a great class if you like big bursts and being really slippery. The class suffers from some pretty repetitive gameplay in PvE (95% of the time, the optimal strategy is to auto-attack while recasting Black Powder every once in a while) and WvW (spamming Clusterbomb in ranged fights; I actually enjoy this a lot, though). I think of thieves as the best “glass cannon” class because of their unparalleled ability to disengage from combat. Also, for PvP, you may enjoy the fact that dagger thieves have the most time-compressed burst in the game.
Elementalist is a bit of a “challenge yourself” class. You can be very effective, but you have to juggle more buff durations and skill cooldowns than pretty much everybody else.
I really don’t like rangers at the moment. They do have some nice long-range attacks, but they often feel like a bit of a liability in PvP. (I’m a bit biased, maybe, since I play thief. But the ranger’s class abilities all seem designed to make them easy kills for me.)
Exactly the response I was looking for. Thank you. I already went with elemental and can see what you mean for juggling between skills. I’m probably the person that will make a chart and list which combinations to use for what if scenarios:
Example If hard dps player surprises me in melee range, use fire roll away, lightning dps/make next attack miss, lightning stun when gets close again to miss the first hit, lightning speed, water slow as I run, water aoe heals ahead of me to run into, earth slow line for them to pass through, earth aoe, and big earth aoe to finish.
Something like this. It will take some experimenting with combinations, but hopefully with enough practice in the combos I come up with in the what if scenarios, I will be good at executing them.
Had I have gotten this reply before I made my character, I probably would have went thief. Although I might reroll over the 4 day weekend from work. In case I do, is power or crit the main dps build for a thief? or something like 75% crit / 25% power build…
What are your experiences? Whats a good glass cannon build? Is there both crit power and crit chance stat? If so I would probably go 100% crit build.
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Thanks for the tips guys.
go with ele, warrior or guardian. do not go ranger they are horrible.
Thanks, i’ve been reading rangers are unhappy with their dps on the forums. Maybe I’ll skip this class. Also is there something wrong with the theif? Been watching a video on the pvp of it, and it doesn’t seem like my style of play. Seemed the dps was small and too much jumping around.
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Hi all. I played lineage 2 2003 – 2006 (c1 – interlude) and have pretty much quit mmorpg’s since then. I’m choosing to give this one a shot and need some pointers.
- A clan/guild to join with goals in mind of pvp/pve/fun/adults.
- A nice dps class.
- A healthy server to play on.
- Early permanent setups for my class.
I’m trying to decide on warrior, ranger, theif, or elementalist. In lineage 2 I played a nuker due to the high burst damage, ability to cc my enemies and kite them to death, and usefull for pve too. I like to play classes where I can get in kill and get out. I was wondering what the strengths and weekness of these classes are. If anyone could tell me that would be great.