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Know thyself
Its easy to think you have the edge in PvP if you know your opponent. And its true, however the best PvP players also know the limits of what they can do. Understand your class better than anyone else. Think outside the box. As in all MMOs, things change. I will work to keep up this list but it is ultimately up to you to stay on top of changes to your class. I know there are some areas that are blank below.
Mage Classes
Necromancers
Harder Targets: Tempest of Set, Priest of Mitra, Rangers, DPS classes
Easier Targets: Assassins
Useful feats for PvP: Master of dead, Unholy Hands
Useful PvP Strategies:
Set pets on people and run, drain all their endurance/mana
Set pets and hide on a very high hard to reach area
Single target healers in Group vs Group and take out a groups healing. With 8 pets you can even divide them(given enough time) onto two healers and still get them to the point where they are useless
Demonologists
Harder Targets: Healer and Mage classes
Easier Targets: Most Melee Classes
Useful feats for PvP: Wicked bolt, Purge, Lore of Skeletos, Tome of Elrik, Possesion
Useful PvP Strategies:
Perform Fiery torment --> storm chains
Conflag and gates of hell will own most opponents if you live through the salvo and can get behind them
Heralds of Xotli
Harder Targets: Demonologists, Barbarians, Range classes
Easier Targets: Assassins
Useful feats for PvP: Improved hellfire breath, Avatar of Xotli, Fire Lance, Visage of Xotli, Burning words, Mindless brute
Useful PvP Strategies:
When fighting Necros, cast Avatar of Xotli then Phoenix cloak then AoE down the pets.
Don't stand still in PvP combat unless your combo cast bar is up.
Priest Classes
Tempest of Set
Harder Targets: Herald of Xotli (well played), Guardians, Necromancers
Easier Targets: Barbarian, Assassin, Demonologists, Herald of Xotli (poorly played)
Useful feats for PvP: Improved Cobra strike, Visions of Hatred, Puppets of Set
Useful PvP Strategies:
Lightning strike --> stun --> Lightning Strike --> Column lightning --> Lightning strike
Priest of Mitra
Harder Targets: Barbarians, Tempest of Set, Guardian
Easier Targets: Conqueror, Herald of Xotli
Useful feats for PvP: Avatar of Mitra, Vengeance of Gods, Improved Repulse, presence of mind,
Useful PvP Strategies:
Vengeance of Gods --> Clarity of Minds --> Smite
Condemn --> Clarity of Mind --> Smite
Rotate the CC stay out of melee
Bear Shaman
Harder Targets: Soldier Classes, Mage Classes
Easier Targets: Assassins, Rangers, ToS, Demo
Useful feats for PvP: Rune of grounding, Improved Spirit of the Bear, Improved Grizzle Hide, presence of mind
Useful PvP Strategies:
Range damage when in melee combat to trigger renewal then sprint to gain distance for healing.
Your knockdown doesn't last long enough to get behind someone, it's your ONLY defense against stopping someone's heal/attack/etc. Use it when you see an animation/ability you want to stop
Rogue Classes
Rangers
Harder Targets:
Easier Targets:
Useful feats for PvP: Sniper Stance, Agile Mind, Excellent Balance, Escape Artist
Useful PvP Strategies:
Focused Fire --> Critical Aim --> Marked for death.
Make sure you get the first hit, if you don't get it, trap the melee players then run away and hide.
Attack targets from behind from a good range with the slow shot then unload all your dps
Assassins
Harder Targets: Guardians, ToS, Conquerors, HoX (played well)
Easier Targets: Bear Shaman, Demos, Barbarians
Useful feats for PvP: Lunge, From the darkness, Death’s Gaze, Avatar of Death, Excellent Balance, Escape Artist, Agile mind, snap kick, Curse of the lotus, golden lotus
Useful PvP Strategies:
Lunge + From the darkness --> Swift Strikes,
Death gaze --> Any Combo
Corrupting Strikes + Avatar of death + Lunge --> Swift Strikes
Work on being able to move and circle strafe while executing combos
Grim Corruption --> swift strikes
Use Lotus extract + cats paw + excellent balance early to get heals early in fight.
Barbarians
Harder Targets: Any Caster Class
Easier Targets: Assassins, Rangers
Useful feats for PvParalysis, Insanity, Earth Shatter, Unstable Mind, Scatter Foes, Thirst For Blood, Excellent balance, Escape artist, Agile mind
Useful PvP Strategies:
For Casters: Clobber > Finishing Blow > decap. If you miss your Clobber-- Stunning Punch (w/ comatose) > CoS > earth shatter
In PvP, unfeated CoS hits practically as hard as a feated CoS, consider this when you chose your feats.
Soldier Classes
Conqueror
Harder Targets: All Caster Classes
Easier Targets: Assassins, Rangers
Useful feats for PvP: Cunning Deflection, Improved Frenzy, Cunning Deflection, Annihilate, Improved Inspire
Useful PvP Strategies:
Burst of Aggression --> Charge --> any Combo -- > Stun again
Know when and how to change stances in combat
Spec Carnage for most PvP useful feats
Dark Templar
Harder Targets: most DPS Classes
Easier Targets: Rangers, Assassisn, Necromancers
Useful feats for PvP: dark Burden, Mind Wrack, Mind Shatter, Dooming Presence
Useful PvP Strategies:
For Necromancers , Improved Aura of infusion with all there pets hitting us doing !@#$%^* damage just makes our health go up faster then they can take it down
Stay in the back of ur pvp group spamming martydom and wait for your teammates to do all the damage and when someones at like 25% pop on frenzy and attack
use blood for aid 5 + frenzy and attack, stun with mind shatter then MBIV
Guardian
Harder Targets:Tos, PoM
Easier Targets: Assassins, barbarians
Useful feats for PvP:
Bloody Vengeance, Momentum, Skewer
Useful PvP Strategies:
Use Momentum+Overreach,
Bloody vengeance and Strike and Guard. You should really include Bloody Vengeance its too good to give up.
To attempt to one-shot a player try Frenzy + Juggernaut + Momentum + Overreach
Volcanic rage -->Juggernaut --> Stunning Charge --> Knockdown --> High hitting Combo
Key Strategy: The use of the generic STUN BUFF is rarely used by the melee classes. Double tap 'W' (as described below) and your next hit is very likely to stun. When chargeing a caster, hit the W twice before you arrive, and you have the chance to interupt the spell that caster is tring to throw at you.
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