Bonedancers ... is it actually possible to kill them solo ?

[thorungla]

People still at this 'discussion'

Whoever those 2 infils were that failed to kill a BD'er need to consider rerolling as any other class.

Seen RM's duel BD'ers, sometimes win sometimes lose. omg nerf runemasters.

Any class with range further than 1500, so thats all archers and all bolt casters should be perfectly capable of killing a BD'er

Any class with AE dot should be capable of defeating a BD'er.

Any class that can frontload 1000 damage in their first 2 hits should kill a BD'er aka assasins.

Otherwise, yes definitely nerf BD'ers, they really can solo groups themselves and if your not a group of 4 at least, dont even bother trying.

All that aside, Im back to enjoy all the soloing I do in this game's rvr. Off to go soloing round emain, off to go solo a keep defence.

As for the possibility that BD'ers are easy to play, thats probably true. I only usually use 6 of the 10 keys on my main QB. Having said that, pretty much all my chars only use a few of their many styles / spells 90% of the time. Guess DAOC is just quite easy.

Anyways, again have fun and good luck. And most importantly of all enjoy your forum whining etc etc.

 

[Old_Bean]

BD's are tough but not that tough.
I was in thidranki and got twatted by an Infil. Mind you I was sitting on the ground getting some power at the time.

 

[Mr TNT]

read like 1/4 of this post to lazy sorry but
1v1 bd wins hands down
and since when does anyone get a 1v1 in rvr these days ?

 

[constanze]

just to come back to the point ...
casters can ofc kill a bd

but i was speaking of melee classes...
i tried just for fun to kill mills commander
got desease and 600 on first hit 350 on second ...
bd still on 40-50 % killed him finally and faced mill used vanished for second pa but missed and got pwnd..
so forget about the idea to kill a commander first as a melee class

lifedrain is on 4sec recast timer.. so a bd can steal upto 1200 hp with lifedrain in 8 sec (not counting the heal pets atm)
so if anyone wants to tell me he can kill that class as a MELEE class i give him 300g just for his wonderful skill and good playing style

and to the post "balance depends on groups not solo" OFC a bd in a group with bladeturn and a healer is MUCH easier to kill

you need the RA "I can count to 4 and press instant lifedrain" and you are ready to own many soloing albs in emain
the fact that bd own every melee class with no skills is a bit lame


nm its a joke that in albion lifedrain timers for Reavers where nerfed to 30 sec becouse they were to uber LOOL

ps: double pa works fine thats what i can say

 

[old.Khain]

thought it was on a 5 sec timer

 

[old.SadonTheGrey]

Whatever its on, its currently quite ridiculous.

 

[thorungla]

Originally posted by constanze
so a bd can steal upto 1200 hp with lifedrain in 8 sec

Thats some Lifetap, I suggest ya edit the massive error

With 50 in supp, given average resists in the world of rvr, I'd expect the LT to do about 200 damage every 4 secs. (recovers less HP's) and of course the base chance of spells being resisted (1 in 6 approx.)

Carry on the whining though. Its a good thing all these melee classes cant remember the days when every single caster owned them.

Take it easy and have fun.

 

[1234Taz]

Originally posted by Derric
A class that doesn't have to do anything but standing still scratching it's ass and pressing one button while you desperately do 2000+ damage to it is a silly class,but I guess mids needed that class to finally feel overpowered about something since every other class apparently is gimped to hell and back.

Yes and pressing Dragonfang with a back up style takes skill to im sure.

 

[Jonaldo]

Originally posted by 1234Taz
Yes and pressing Dragonfang with a back up style takes skill to im sure.

Dragonfang r teh overpowahd style. But in Derrics defense he isn't dragonfang specced

/me fluffles Derric

 

[case-rigantis]

woohooo i did it in BG thats a start init?!

my theurg QC AE mez on bonedancer..watch bone dancer start to panic nuke the little shit to hell

 

[zapzap]

Not many classes takes skills to play in this game.
So how come so many still cant play.

Forgot Albs lag mincers hibs bards mids healers I guess to few people with skills in this game .



Careless-Zapsi

 

[Old_Bean]

Originally posted by constanze
the word "balance" is in my opinion the fact that every class could kill any other class solo

Let me get this straight...if every class could solo every class....we'd have a lot of combat ending in both parties dead?
'Cos frankly if one party in the combat died before the other one, he'd HAVE TO BE NERFED because something is obviously wrong.

Originally posted by Lanfaer
balance in the game comes from several players grouping together and making up for eachothers flaws, balance does not come from each char being able to kill everyother char ingame.

Who'd of thought it? A MMORPG designed around teamplay? Wow! the concept is just too mindblowing.

I'm dripping sarcasm here, but all in, IF GOA say the gameplay needs tweaking and it's your realms classes that feel the brunt of this "balancing", you're gonna complain. Frankly if I had 10 apples and someone came along and took half of them because it wasn't fair to the people who had no apples, I'd be pissed. I earnt those apples!

Anyway back to the topic thread "Can BoneDancers be solo'd"
Answer- Not easily and not without a fair bit of luck. But, as this has been pointed out before, they are not an individual. They have healers and fighters and casters with em, so this mini party is gonna take more than one to bring down.

I've only experienced them to level 24 so far, so by no means does my opinion reflect how they develop at later levels.
In Thidranki, I have found that I could solo 2 or three hibs/albs no problem when I first got there. Now they seem to be developing tactics and getting wise to Bonedancers. Never been solo'd though. They still have to gang up on me.

The only time I was owned (that is the correct spelling BTW, not pwned.) solo was when I was sitting down recovering some pow, I'd lost my pets in an earlier fight and some damn infil poped up and whacked me. Fair do's to him, if I'd have seen him coming and been stood up, it would have been a different story, even without pets.

Have I droned on long enough? I think I better get some work done now.

 

[stinkie]

when theurgs get bolt range pets BDs will be easy


aoe mezz / root dependsing on spec - run to bolt range - dump 3 - 4 pets on BD then and this is very important! spam /kiss /wave as you watch him melt.

 

[andyr00barb]

Originally posted by mung
Never been solo'd though. They still have to gang up on me.

Never seen a bone-dancer that can't be solo'd in thid (though I was an inf, so don't know if you included them as it's not really a fair fight). PA or backstab and you've won, miss PA and you've still got a decent chance. Personally bds were always a target of choice for me in thid due to intense hatred of all pet classes (which includes necros).

Never/ever run away from a bonedancer is all, better to die with your face to someone. Been guilty of that myself a few times, but I generally try to heed my own advice.