Caster interrupts

[Fafnir]

Originally posted by Jenna.
Mebbe it was some other n00b that I screamed on at DC then

I was lvl 35 and you where purp con. I had spent 3 weeks in emain having a blast but after this i returned to the slow xp ladder of soloing.

 

[Jenna.]

Originally posted by old.Hardbein
Prolly my thane in the good-old-n00b-days

When the fierce mezz-breakers was about in the battlefield omg thanes were realy hated back then Aint that right Jenna ?

And I thought they still are hated

 

[Jenna.]

Originally posted by Fafnir
I was lvl 35 and you where purp con. I had spent 3 weeks in emain having a blast but after this i returned to the slow xp ladder of soloing.

3 weeks doing rvr and you didnt know that lords couldnt be damaged with magic?

 

[Aerran Darktyde]

Originally posted by Melachi[Mid]
Caster interupts are ok i suppose, theres just a few cases that come into mind as being buggy, like with my bg chanter on excal if someone gets the jump on me, tank or stealther class, and if they dont one-shot me, i usualy try to qc stun, then pbaoe em, but i manage to pull off the qc stun, then go to cast pbaoe, and guess what, interupted,interupted,interupted, still interupted, stun wears off, he beats me into the ground. So now, i just run let my pet do the work.

With regards to melee misses still interupting, i think thats due to pbt, would make 6s pbt -v- a slow swinger like MoC

I agree that is a bug and needs sorting..

and sadon so you dont get QC... gee you are gimped..

but i think you have the twisted view.. over 1000k hps WITH resist buffs are you insane !! without buffs that is going to be about 1400+ (allowing base max resists) that is alot of players dead or a staff tap from it.... and you want to cast in melee too?? sorry but you are insane... "I am soo nerfed i can only do 100hps+/second damage at range" dont you have some form of slowing or stopping enemy??

Fix the bugs as described but if an unmezzed unstunned Melee'er gets to a caster he should have to use MOC (if he has it) or try to get away. Melee should be the death of casters.

Casters get ways to stop interupts like a tank guarding them.

Casting a spell is not like swinging a sword you need concentration and taking damage breaks concentration.

 

[Fafnir]

Originally posted by Jenna.
3 weeks doing rvr and you didnt know that lords couldnt be damaged with magic?

That was my first keep take, well not first, but the first one i got up to the lord alive, normally died to the guards and none bothered to rezz me so it was to release and run back.

 

[old.SadonTheGrey]

Aerran, what would I use quickast for? I've given up try to quickast root now, because every time I do, even when using face, the enemy just runs straight into me, and because of the lack of collision detection I cannot root someone 'inside me:' same for nukes.

I didn't really understand what the rest of your post is getting at.

 

[Makwaerk]

Originally posted by Jenna.
3 weeks doing rvr and you didnt know that lords couldnt be damaged with magic?

playing a mmorg for god knows how long and don't know how to treat your fellow player?

 

[Saturnine]

Originally posted by old.SadonTheGrey
Kerram.... lets see. You have a shaman and a healer, by some feat they both have the highest magic resists. With equal or greater difficulty, I managed to get 2 x EARTH theurgs in my group for twin synced 3 sec pbt. I start nuking you for 280(-350) or thereabouts, because resists > int buffs. I get 3/4 nukes off in the time it takes you to /face and sprint at me. Wow, just over 1000k hp's. You hit me. It does no damage because of pbt. You hit me again. Again, no damage - pbt. ---But--- I'm not damaging you because you still interrupt me. Tell me, where does the mage own the tank here? Eventually, the PBT will be broken when someone else gangbangs the caster with you, and that caster will die. Before you say 'use moc,' I quote Scunner, and also, that for the same amount of points as a caster can get MoC, you can get shit loads of resists RA's (AoM/Empty mind) to effectively make you bordering immune.

IMHO Kerram, you need to study what happens in RvR, because you seem to have a pretty twisted view of what does go on.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
He's right though

 

[Glacier]

Originally posted by Jenna.
3 weeks doing rvr and you didnt know that lords couldnt be damaged with magic?

Originally posted by Makwaerk
playing a mmorg for god knows how long and don't know how to treat your fellow player?

 

[<Wels>]

Found this thing again, I know it was posted here some time ago.
Not sure how accurate this thing is but hey you can always click around for fun (these are before ressits)
http://mortal.peril.org/jack/daoc/damagecalc.php

 

[Kerram Darktyde]

Hehehe
one moment you seem to whine about how a Mage cant take a tank in RvR but to get resists you need 2 other players thus no longer one on one...

RvR is about Teams vs Teams and 100+damage per second at range is nothing to whinge about. Get real get grouping with some people that will protect you..

though if you whine like this to your realm mates I doubt anyone would protect you

680 before resists at 2-2.5s is very nasty.. why do you think casters are targets because they hurt more than anything else..
ok Spearos and polearmers and zerkers (per nerf) hit hard but they can be blocked, parried, Evaded, BTed, or be out of range due to lag etc and reduced due to resists and adsorbtion

Spells can be resisted, out of range due to lag (though rarer) or damage reduced due to resists, bolts can be blocked but DD's cant..

 

[The Real Redi]

My experience as a 46th merc...

Funnily, with the advent of MoC (Is that THE most popular RA after MCL or what???), my main target now stands as Hunters and Rangers, as once i close on them, my sprint can keep me with them for the duration of the Rangers nasty little speed buff, and the Hunters pets, i have to say, aren't as devestating as they should be compared to ALL the other pet classes.

If i approach a chanter, i would guess 8/10 times, ill hit my back style, then followup with a slow/hinder style, follow it up with Enrage, to set up for the bleed, then...

I'm dead. Two, maybe three blasts from them. I'm not whining, as i know being only 46th, its a huge difference from a 50th's chances of surviving it, but to be hit for 500+ (with all relevant magic resist at at least 23/24%) then add crits/reactive buffs/resists etc, im hitting them for barely 100 each strike. I put my damage output down to my season (or lack thereof).

Flurry - for some reason doesn't interrupt, even though its a mercs primary damage dealing ability, and thats only every 2 (5?) minutes.

Purge - Useless frankly. "It isn't possible to be mezzed/rooted twice in a row!" err... shall i go find my screenies? It doesnt even matter that mezzes and roots can be recast on me in such a short time period, there's a million and one other ways to halt a tank - Mezz, Root, Stun, Debuff... i spend more time standing dead still in places like Emain, and having purge on a half hour timer is just weep-worthy.

I also have a 21st Fire wizzy and i get furious when a Luri unstealths next to me, misses his PA, i go for the QC-root to get a run going and to allow the fighters to get on him, and im told "you must wait 1 second to cast!" on my damn QC = the luri gets his second strike in, DoT activates and theres perhaps two, maybe three seconds before i die.

oh, and whats the point in PBT being ignored on a backstab? its a PULSING BLADE TURN! not a pulsing, front blade turn! I've always considered it something of a blessing to the stealthers as they have this backdoor, which casters can do absolutely nothing about, seeing as we have to stand still to cast anything.

 

[Lochlyessa]

Answering your last point, critical strike openers always ignore bladeturns if you hit. Otherwise what would be the point PA'ing a caster, if you -knew- it'd be bladeturned? :/

 

[Saturnine]

Infs braking bladeturn for an instant kill is fair enough, they should get a 30second timer on PA and stuff though scene as we have a 30second timer on q-cast though

 

[Jenna.]

Originally posted by Makwaerk
playing a mmorg for god knows how long and don't know how to treat your fellow player?

I farm rp!