lupi with staff is fine if you know how to use it.
fire 4: free dodge
water fields help your team mate.
earth 3: reflect.
the easiest lupi is x/focus. cos of whirling wind + earth focus.
I want to ask what are your traits? if you have at least 10 in arcane get the trait that gives vigor on crit. then you dont even need to put sigil of energy in your weap. I almost always put that trait on when I know I need alot of endurance.
ps: know lupi’s animation for all phases so you don’t waste your dodge.
Very bold claim, no just no, even with renewing stamina do take a sigil of energy if you’re gonna melee.
first off, I did say know lupi’s animation. sigil of energy gives you wiggle room to dodge but if you know his animation, there is no need for sigil of energy, instead put in an offensive sigil. Again, it is only recomended for experienced players. I use to do lupi path 1-4 dailies when the champ boxes came out. I am not saying that I know arah like the back of my hand but doing 4 lupis per day for a month. I think I know his animation pretty well.
it isnt hard to predict his moves. I have never put sigil of energy on any of my ele’s weap. It is always either sigil of force and/or battle. (battle always on staff +off hand weap, force on main hand)
p1, dodge everytime he raise his hand. he does this about every 5 secs to cast a grub on you. if you dodge this you will get 0 grub to worry about except maybe the last 2 grubs at the end.
p2, he has the crazy aoe circles that you can just side step and get out of it or dodge back. if using staff, earth 3 sometimes work but the timing need to be right. I’ve been hit using earth 3 bfor. it doesn’t always work, you need to cast it before the aoe hit you. or fire 4.
if you are using focus use air 4 or earth 5. you can actually switch be and forth between air 4 and earth 5 with 1 dodge because of the cool down. so that’s why x/focus is the easiest because you do not need to dodge much. earth 5 is such an amazing weap skill on focus.
then you have his charge, that one is easy to see.
then you have his little spit poison that 1-2 hit you. he kinda bob his head and move his hand when he’s about to do this.
I assume you have something like mist form or arcane shield when you do lupi. I save those for when I have less then 50% endurance or when I am resing someone.
p3, super easy. you have his life suck( he raises his hand to do this).
if you are “melee” do it from behind. I guarantee that he will not focus on you for the death bubble or the super poison spit field. if that happen there’s always focus 5 or mist form or earth armor or whatever utility that negates dmg.
the big life suck circle is easy to get out.
he still have that poison spit from p2 in p3. ( same animation as above)
There is also traits and utility skills to help you with this. I run a 0/30/0/10/30. I dont use LH so you can guess that I have evasive arcana on, and the bigger aoe staff if I use staff(switch with renew stamina if I use other weaps). and in all honesty if you are using staff why the heck would you be in melee range. but if you are using x/f then there is less room for usage of your endurance to dodge.
my gear is a mix of cavalier and berzerker. I only have with 2 rings and pants drop from fractal with cavalier stats so that’s why i am using it. and a ptv amulet. everything else is berzerker.
my staff is most of the time valkery and other weaps berzerker.
sorry, if my English is hard to understand.
ps. I didn’t want to write so long because my english is crap and when I say things noone understand it. My guild mates have told me this in ts. But, I try to be helpful, it isn’t always helpful if people don’t know what you are saying. And I understand this because when I try to explain things to guild mates, they often say they don’t really understand my english.
I was happy with it last year but it gets boring after a while if you aren’t even talking to your team mates.
