Duels

May I create a topic to ask some random questions about duels?

I play assa with WW and traps. WW is 3.5 k damage each approx, LS is 7k approx. My life is not great yet, only 3k under BO.

First question I have is what to do with cold sorc. I had raven, snowclash and... she 1-shot me with 14 k damage only. How is it possible? I mean I had 90 res to cold and 35% absorb? Then, on mutual agreement, I weared 2nd raven (which is against "respectable rules"). 90% res, 55% cold absorb. And she still 1-shot me. Is it normal? Because literally every hero can eat few dozens of my LS shots...

 

Only few players can take 2 blizzard shots and remain alive.

 

90 cold rez that is sweet but Cold mastery /alone/ removes most of your resistances thus that so called absorb is efficient when you somehow remain in 75 Rez even after her mastery kicks in.

My advice is to get knowledge - get a hold of what “the enemy” has and what it actually does instead of waiting for guidance.
Everybody can tell you how to “walk that certain path” but it would be you making the steps.

 

Well, I guess it makes no sense to ask how is it fair and balanced that sorc 1-shots you while you need 10-20 hits to kill her with LS.

But I instead would ask about cold mastery. How does it work and what resists should I have (total / max) to be able to fight this? Because indeed I am not familiar what enemy does in every 7 match-ups yet. I play this game for a month or so. That's why I asked...

And I believe learning through "guidance" is totally fine. Some games exists for a very long time and a lot of experience is already collected by previous generations of players. And this experience already became a "theory". Would be stupid to ignore it. Seriously, you would never get anywhere "decent" in chess for example just by your own play without actually learning a theory.

 

Yeah, I read that before. What total cold res should I achieve to be competitive? I.e. to which extend sorc lowers my resists with her abilities? And also how can I actually stack 250 cold resists??? Sounds like a lot...

Also, I noticed that some people use both Wisp and Thundergod. This might explain why my traps don't do any damage... But isn't it too much according to the rules?

 

May I also ask about common resist combinations I can think of?

From what I understood:
Thundergod + Wisp is not allowed. Only 1 of them.
Dwarf ring + Nokozan is ok
Snowclash + 1 Raven is ok if total cold res is not crazy high. Snowclash + 2 ravens is forbiden under any conditions. 2 ravens are ok.
Guardian Angel should be prohibited, right?
What would be poison resist combination?

Am I correct with my assumptions? Are there any other common items in use?

 

Thank you! These are indeed useful things to know.
About claw block. It does not work when I run, does it? Means I have to only walk or tp?

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Also a question. I use shadow master and would be happy if she casts MB more often. I read that just 2 points to this ability is enough (while the whole SD tab is 1 except for venom). But it does not seem she MB too often. Do I need to reassign much more in MB? If yes, then from Venom or LS synergies?


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Am seriously thinking about my build. Philosophically...

Cold sorc, ww barb, hammerdin simply 1-shot me using like 1-2 abilities. I play some kind of hybrid sin with ww, maxed venom, 15 shadow-life skillers and LS with 7k damage. With this I need to hit them like 10-20 times. Or 3-5 very good ww vs sorc (no way it works vs pala or barb). Does not look like a battle of skill tbh...
Are all these hybrid assa builds simply a bullshit here because inventory allows to boost abilities of my opps to some ridiculous values of damage? Do I need to just pack all my inventory with clean traps and hope to shoot them faster?

I mean, I may choose to not duel with them of course. But then there will be no one to duel with...

 

bro u dont keep same items for duel all class wtf
if u start to learn this game recent there is low lvl duel rly fun too if u dont want fast kills. joaida say it very good in his msg go look what other trapsin ppl do bcz u will learn more from their build

 

C'mon there is no low-level dueling There are couple of games daily packed exclusively with sorcs, palas and barbs. I mean, it is as it is.

I will try to go kiwi's way. Will indeed pack my skillers half to half and rearrange skillpoints to maximize LS synergies instead of venom...

 

not so soon bro ppl farm now and lld needs more brains and special item build
many ppl who pvp start with easy popular builds like u say sorcs, pala and barb then u make other class later when u have runes and items. i duel last weekend with two good javazon u will see them how they play if u enter duel games bcz javazon is rly good in pvp

 

We will see, we will see then

Yeah, I indeed collected a full inventory of pretty good SD 30+ life charms. It's just not very effective as it seems. Will replace half of them to traps clean and try it in battle. Ideally yeah, I would want traps with smth useful (fhr / life) but these are extremely expensive. And since I am getting 1-shot anyway, does not look like 200-300 additional hp will save my day...


So... I respeced and have 12k LS damage. Pala with grief and wisp still take like maybe 5% of his hp damage from 1 LS shot. And still 1-shot me with hammer. Is that how it supposed to be?

 

I did not know about "resist lighting skill". Is it then allowed to use TG as an addition to this skill for pala? Or no one controls it?