With the coming of 5.0, the pvp environment has changed drastically. The overdone and stupid wiz nar/wiz ele team appears to have been abandoned in favour of a peltast fig and some sort of ranged support. Peltast seems to be a rather overpowered stance with skills spec to leather, it 1hkos ELN scouts with ease while providing very good defence.
Calyce has mad a very prominent return with her expert stance, as a good bow is now a basically garenteed 1 shot, 1kill... no exceptions. Personally I did 70-80k on a peltast fig. I haven't been able to think of a counter to a dual caly team for a 1v1, as you can easily go double invis to shadow dawn and take out either all their combat ability or their rezzor and the more dangerous combatant, then its a easy either double eagle, and refresh one--> shadow dawn again/ heartbreak to spacebar while kiting the melee.
Catherine is as expected very good, but again peltast fig can hit her very hard and easily 1hko, but she gives very good terrain control with her great kd aoe ability death stun/cut and vet stance's girandol... I have found she has difficulty fighting multiple rezzor teams, as although she does hit proposterously hard and her debuffs, her finishers have long action time thus making her a very easy target.
Reckless is in all honesty not so great for 1v1 but is fearsome in mass pvp. Her aoe capability is great, but she has trouble killing people with great stats. Obviously this can be circumvented with debuffs, but that is risky. I have had moderate success using gabiquake to pagical piercing then 3rd ele, but its a lot of work. For mass pvp, 2 reckless and scout is required to garentee kills, obviously this team has a multitude of weakness's, but peltast is basically helpless vs it, so it is quite easy to use.
Lorch isn't used by many, but after playing with him, well... i am making me a shotgun. his traps are incredible, the corrosion debuff doubles dmg to target, and the entangle debuff leaves you open mo moving skilling potting for a good period of time, so if someon gets entangled basically they are dead :3. and his perma invis is quite formidable against a ill prepared opponent.
I have a feeling people will still be using Darkness for PvP. I don't see a change in the stance at all. It is still overpowered, haha.
ReplyDeletei haven't seen a darkness user survive more than 3 cycles from a calypso...... blink and they die
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