Iriidius wrote: »

Theignson wrote: »

In PvP people want "burst" damage, which means, everything hits at once.

This is why the Vateshran staff/ master's dual wield is so popular now (and so hated).

Warden is easiest class to do this, let's illustrate with a warden in Vate staff, master dual wield, maarselok monster set, and Fire set.

Warden puts elemental susceptibility on you, then switches bars, casts shalk, then winds up dual wield heavy attack. How many things could hit you at one?

Vate: dot plus 3 status effect, shalks, heavy attack from both bars (2 hits) weapon enchants from both dual wield weapons (make them proc a different status effect than Vate= two more status effects from the weapon enchants), Maarselok hits 4 times, fire procs.

Lesse: that is potentially 13 things hitting you. They cancel it into a dawnbreaker and you are dead.

Of course usually not all those things go off, but it is easy to get 9 things hitting someone at once.

Sorcs, Necros etc have other ways to do this as do most classes with a delayed hit ability.

In this case ez to avoid, as soon as you see the Vate tether, you could stun/root them. Move aside from the shalk, block the heavy attack, etc

Burst is not why/what people use master dw and vateshran destro(for)! Maybe they hit 8-10 times when applying them, but they hit 8-10 for low dmg.
8-10*1k dmg is not what oneshots players/more useful than 1*10k dmg for a oneshot. But the DoTs and statuseffects hit every (2) second(s). Multiple unblockable undodgeable low dmg Hits every second melting threw corrosive deal more dmg than you can‘t outheal or force you to spam burstheal and cast heals so much you run out of ressoursses. Vateshran destro and master dw are not used for burst but for pressure.