Hello again,
I think you ...Blah blah blah blah... that what it looks like at first glance.
Did you ever try PvP ? it's strange I've never see you fighting any of us...
@PanDeMur
There is 2 school of PvPing as following:
- Timing, those who has a clock in mind at anytime and know exactly when they gonna hit.
- Chasing, the art of moving and chasing your opponent, more chance to get him if you are alway close enouth to hit even if your timing isnt perfect.
OH and there is third one, the LUCK.
If you're interested in learning PVP there are actualy some good ones, here are the names you should look for ingame:
- Farriro
- Jhe
- Bonifarzia
- Dalos
- Deryna
- Tazaun
- Wouli
- Ewek
I may have forgot some but here are a link of one of the last PVP event.
http://207.244.96.64/PlaneShift/smf/index.php?topic=42862.0
Ok, First of all I would not recommend learning anything from Jhe as that player has been banned for harassment and using bots more times than I can keep track of. I know for a fact that at least two of the remaining characters are played by the same player.
Bonifarzia, the player who won the grand prize, is someone who I count myself as a friend of and I hope she counts me as one too and I am certain she could teach my volumes of ps mechanics alone. I am good friends with and also guild mates with Farirro and have discussed pvp in depth with him. We both have our respective preferences him being a dueler and me being primarily a mage. We NEVER fight about who or what is better.
I'm not trying to argue with you on the best way of fighting but when some, not saying you, players argue with Eonwind, a planeshift developer, about armor being to much to cut through and he tells you its not one really does have to wonder what is being missed. I am simply trying to give some incite to a new player. I know that the dueling community is very outspoken and so I did not bother explaining anything about that because there are more than half a dozen other people that can do that as you already pointed out.
Unfortunately, what you refer to as luck is more often and much more easily referred to as frames per second and the server lag. These things will ALWAYS create uncertain variables in the equation. Being a dueler is to embrace these variables and let yourself be subject to them. Being a mage is to work through more a certain but much slower method. **Dueling does not equate pvp but rather a part of it.** That event that you provided a link to was STRICTLY FOR DUELING ONLY. You were not allowed to use an enchanted weapon and were not allowed to have anything magic at all in your entire inventory.
When I began pvping in ps I had about 1200 ping. No player, no mater how good can duel with that ping. Magic was my only choice. I had no time to learn to duel for the event because I was in the middle of my final semester of college. Farriro is my witness to that. I was plenty stressed at that time and due to some confusion and a great deal of foolishness on my part I got very upset about that event and created this post.
http://207.244.96.64/PlaneShift/smf/index.php?topic=42864.msg479378#msg479378Now, this post remains because I don't believe in hiding my mistakes or past. I would have thought you would have used this for ammo instead. That was then, I let it go as I have let many other things go for the sake of my own health and for the health of the game. I do not know or where this bitterness came from as it existed before I began playing PS but I think it is high time it ends. Some players told me to organize my own mages event but what they did not and probably still do not realize is that magic is so imbalanced right now that a good mage without any enchanted gear can easily out heal an opponent of equal strength resulting in an indefinite fight. I've never encountered so much hate and poor sportsmanship in all of my PvP gaming than I have in PS. What gives?