ezareth_ESO wrote: »Dark exchange is a must for my Cardio on live. I don't have to worry about stuns from a sorc as with Ball of Lightning fragments and Crushing shock will hit my ball of lightning while I'm exchanging. The only thing you have at your disposal to stun would be your streak.
ezareth_ESO wrote: »That said I don't *run away* so much as keep a preferred distance. When you try to close distance I maintain the distance I prefer. There are always exceptions of course but if you stay in that comfortable distance to me then I switch to offensive abilties.
ezareth_ESO wrote: »With such little spellpower I don't see how you could break through my shields and health pool enough to kill me. I play similarly to you against good players by outlasting their resource pool but in a matchup between a BoL sorc and streak sorc the streak sorc has limited offensive capability. The streak sorcs who are dangerous to me are the glass cannon all offense ones who try to keep on top of me.
ezareth_ESO wrote: »Your weaker more frequent attacks will just continue to regen my magicka with my harness magicka behind my healing ward/conjured ward(even with the 3 hit nerf you still get more magicka back than it costs as long as you're hit by 3 spells before it fades).
ezareth_ESO wrote: »Also your choice of mundus is interesting as it further reduces the damage you do by lacking Apprentice.
ezareth_ESO wrote: »I could see us doing 15 minutes of shield stacking with no advantage gained by either of us easily. This is why I hate fighting other shield stacking sorcs, although I'll fight a streak sorc if I see them. As long as I keep my ball lightning up and typically recast it once the penalty disappears I don't have to worry about using break free at all even if you manage a streak stun.
LegendaryMage wrote: »We can do a virtual fight on the forum, sure.ezareth_ESO wrote: »Dark exchange is a must for my Cardio on live. I don't have to worry about stuns from a sorc as with Ball of Lightning fragments and Crushing shock will hit my ball of lightning while I'm exchanging. The only thing you have at your disposal to stun would be your streak.
I have top cardio without it. Fact No.1 if you agree = more magicka than you by default. More on interrupts below.ezareth_ESO wrote: »That said I don't *run away* so much as keep a preferred distance. When you try to close distance I maintain the distance I prefer. There are always exceptions of course but if you stay in that comfortable distance to me then I switch to offensive abilties.
I will be in-your-face the whole time, especially against BoL sorcerers as that's how I'm 'trained' to fight them.
BoL has limited radius. I'm between you and the light. You will make more mistakes than you plan to, guaranteed. Your best bet is to consciously keep telling yourself 'don't go too far, don't go too far'.
Meaning, much more often than you think, your BoL will be useless even if not bugged out unless you 'train' to do this against me, and as you seem to have said, you just keep 'creating' or 'maintaining' your distance which is exactly what I need you to do.
Further meaning, when I'm invading your 'preferred personal space' and you're playing it as you usually are, I will never stop invading it and you will be out of resources much sooner before I am. To explain why this is important, you will see the last quote and my first reply down below.
To further prove this, I will be often doing many heavy attacks to restore magicka when my judgment says I can't damage you safely (if you stay close to the light properly as I mentioned) and until my judgment says it's ok to attack (when you make a mistake and everyone does sooner or later), your hp will melt much faster than any other sorc has done before.
@ToReax can confirm that I am capable of killing people in 3 rotations that are not shielded or buffed in any way, no finisher keep in mind. 3 rotations, lets make it 4 for high hp targets. 4 rotations is approximately 5 seconds. That's how long I need to kill you if you're not shielded or buffed in any way. 5 seconds when the conditions are just right (last paragraph below your last quote for a potential scenario of when I'll get those 5 seconds or less if you're already damaged).
Just notice the first NB in my video right after I do a heavy attack on him, just how quickly his hp goes down. 3-4 seconds? Under 5 for sure before he shields up.ezareth_ESO wrote: »With such little spellpower I don't see how you could break through my shields and health pool enough to kill me. I play similarly to you against good players by outlasting their resource pool but in a matchup between a BoL sorc and streak sorc the streak sorc has limited offensive capability. The streak sorcs who are dangerous to me are the glass cannon all offense ones who try to keep on top of me.
I do not focus on spell damage at all, you should totally disregard this stat when fighting me. I am using maxed out weapon damage and my 'rotation' hurts, quite often more than 800 instant damage, fully sustained. That's 1.6K in just over a second, fully sustained for a long period of time (infinite with other syphon morph which I love using, but sadly it's useless in duels).ezareth_ESO wrote: »Your weaker more frequent attacks will just continue to regen my magicka with my harness magicka behind my healing ward/conjured ward(even with the 3 hit nerf you still get more magicka back than it costs as long as you're hit by 3 spells before it fades).
I will not be recharging your magicka a lot with 'mini attacks' as I do not have any of those. Unless a casual light attack counts with harness. I use it to 'test' your BoL sometimes unless it's perfectly clear to me you're not damageable atm.
If not - then no mana regain from harness for you until I go full damage mode and then it won't be interesting to do anything else other than defense, as my damage is no joke on live.ezareth_ESO wrote: »Also your choice of mundus is interesting as it further reduces the damage you do by lacking Apprentice.
Apprentice, if it even applies on my types of attacks (I did test it but can't remember actual results as it was some time ago) which I think it doesn't, is definitely not making any difference damage-wise. At most it would be extra 5% which I can live without, and would trade for top magicka regen that atronach gives. Atronach is even stronger on 1.6, test it if you don't believe me.ezareth_ESO wrote: »I could see us doing 15 minutes of shield stacking with no advantage gained by either of us easily. This is why I hate fighting other shield stacking sorcs, although I'll fight a streak sorc if I see them. As long as I keep my ball lightning up and typically recast it once the penalty disappears I don't have to worry about using break free at all even if you manage a streak stun.
I will not aim to streak stun you. I will do something much worse, bash you from a distance when you start dark exchanging.
If you don't know what I am referring to, it's ok - I haven't seen many (any tbh) sorcs doing this effectively, and it was one of my favorite tricks when I was on s/b. I can definitely do it on destro too, it just costs a bit more stamina.
I showed this technique to @Germantrocity, from his reaction I don't think he saw any sorcerer doing this either.
Basically, if you stun me with BoL and you get 1 or two more casts on me, I will be right there to bash you under 2 seconds of when you start dark exchanging. That skill is totally useless vs me tbh.
LegendaryMage wrote: »@Germtrocity What do you feel about the range bash technique I showed you few days ago?
LegendaryMage wrote: »@ToReax can confirm that I am capable of killing people in 3 rotations that are not shielded or buffed in any way, no finisher keep in mind. 3 rotations, lets make it 4 for high hp targets. 4 rotations is approximately 5 seconds. That's how long I need to kill you if you're not shielded or buffed in any way. 5 seconds when the conditions are just right (last paragraph below your last quote for a potential scenario of when I'll get those 5 seconds or less if you're already damaged).
ezareth_ESO wrote: »BTW I'm not sure what software you're using for recording but if it is FRAPs you will see a huge performance decrease. I use Action! and there is no noticeable difference while I'm recording.
Hm that was when testing Apprentice actually, though you were killing me faster than 4 seconds I think. Anyway, duels on live are for me like a special survival game to test out all tricks I can come up with while my own attacks seem a bit meh in comparison .
Germtrocity wrote: »It is a very nice little technique that could easily make a huge difference if anyone ever attempts a channel attack hehe
DisgracefulMind wrote: »LegendaryMage wrote: »so ur only dps skill is crushing shock.... come duel legend duelers on the na server cause i dont think u could beat anyone just using crushing shock.
Thank you for your opinion.
@Germtrocity I wanted to come to NA many months ago but I was too unorganized and simply didn't sadly. I wish I could fight your duelers as well.
Would love to see the two of you fight.
Maybe one day in a perfect ESO world it could happen
LegendaryMage wrote: »ezareth_ESO wrote: »BTW I'm not sure what software you're using for recording but if it is FRAPs you will see a huge performance decrease. I use Action! and there is no noticeable difference while I'm recording.
Yeah, the problem with this video was 1) Fraps making it almost unplayable for me quite often, maybe not entirely seeable in the video but very often I was experiencing awful performance decrease and just had to hope everything will turn out fine in the end, 2) Some of these names (Blazemaster/EisenFaust) are the top duelers in their respective alliance/class so it's not too smart to go into a fight with them with bad PC performance.
I will definitely try out 'Action!', thanks for the tip!Hm that was when testing Apprentice actually, though you were killing me faster than 4 seconds I think. Anyway, duels on live are for me like a special survival game to test out all tricks I can come up with while my own attacks seem a bit meh in comparison .
After I swapped apprentice for atronach again, I did some more tests and I think the crushing shock damage was pretty much the same, or the difference was just too small to make it worthwhile. I'm 100% sure that CS scales off of weapon damage on live and therefore is not affected by Apprentice. It should be affected on the pts now I believe, but Atronach is still too strong to miss out on.Germtrocity wrote: »It is a very nice little technique that could easily make a huge difference if anyone ever attempts a channel attack hehe
Yeah, it was perfect back when I was on s/b and heavy ranged attacks were interruptible.
edit: Btw, we got the EU chars now, we could do a fight or two if you're around (I noticed you're not often).
Would love toLegendaryMage wrote: »Btw, we got the EU chars now, we could do a fight or two if you're around (I noticed you're not often).
DisgracefulMind wrote: »LegendaryMage wrote: »so ur only dps skill is crushing shock.... come duel legend duelers on the na server cause i dont think u could beat anyone just using crushing shock.
Thank you for your opinion.
@Germtrocity I wanted to come to NA many months ago but I was too unorganized and simply didn't sadly. I wish I could fight your duelers as well.
Would love to see the two of you fight.
Maybe one day in a perfect ESO world it could happen
Your love of Germantrocity is forbidden, Braidas would have you both executed if he saw this affair happening.
DisgracefulMind wrote: »DisgracefulMind wrote: »LegendaryMage wrote: »so ur only dps skill is crushing shock.... come duel legend duelers on the na server cause i dont think u could beat anyone just using crushing shock.
Thank you for your opinion.
@Germtrocity I wanted to come to NA many months ago but I was too unorganized and simply didn't sadly. I wish I could fight your duelers as well.
Would love to see the two of you fight.
Maybe one day in a perfect ESO world it could happen
Your love of Germantrocity is forbidden, Braidas would have you both executed if he saw this affair happening.
LOL WAT. I just saw this.
Did you see this @Germtrocity ??
@Hughezy You cannot stop me from what makes my heart happy!!!! *cries dramatically and runs away*
ezareth_ESO wrote: »I gotta hit the gym tonight but I suspect I'll be online from 10PM-1AM EST. I accidentally rolled DC on my template char (not sure what alliance you are) but I could reroll to whatever alliance or you could to keep the playing field even. My char on PTS is called Ezarethe (must be an EU Ezareth out there).
Other than fighting an emperor forever and some crazy templar I'm doing well in 1 v 1 matchups.
Germtrocity wrote: »Would love to
I accidentally made my template AD.
I'll be creating another one today on EP.
DisgracefulMind wrote: »DisgracefulMind wrote: »LegendaryMage wrote: »so ur only dps skill is crushing shock.... come duel legend duelers on the na server cause i dont think u could beat anyone just using crushing shock.
Thank you for your opinion.
@Germtrocity I wanted to come to NA many months ago but I was too unorganized and simply didn't sadly. I wish I could fight your duelers as well.
Would love to see the two of you fight.
Maybe one day in a perfect ESO world it could happen
Your love of Germantrocity is forbidden, Braidas would have you both executed if he saw this affair happening.
LOL WAT. I just saw this.
Did you see this @Germtrocity ??
@Hughezy You cannot stop me from what makes my heart happy!!!! *cries dramatically and runs away*
LegendaryMage wrote: »Yesterday was exactly one year since I started playing this game in my first ever beta weekend and certain recent developments have made me decide it's time to call it a day for now.
I've opened one email address I will occasionally check (when I remember), it's legendarymageteso at gmail dot com so if anyone ever wants to drop a word or two, by all means please do so! Arena guildies, please link this thread in guildchat for any of my friends to see - I won't be logging back in for a long time probably.
I hope I'll be back sooner rather than later of course, but in case I don't at all - thanks for all the fun, people who know me, people who don't - it was great, will miss you all. Make sure you have a lot of fun!
LegendaryMage wrote: »Yesterday was exactly one year since I started playing this game in my first ever beta weekend and certain recent developments have made me decide it's time to call it a day for now.
I've opened one email address I will occasionally check (when I remember), it's legendarymageteso at gmail dot com so if anyone ever wants to drop a word or two, by all means please do so! Arena guildies, please link this thread in guildchat for any of my friends to see - I won't be logging back in for a long time probably.
I hope I'll be back sooner rather than later of course, but in case I don't at all - thanks for all the fun, people who know me, people who don't - it was great, will miss you all. Make sure you have a lot of fun!
LegendaryMage wrote: »Yesterday was exactly one year since I started playing this game in my first ever beta weekend and certain recent developments have made me decide it's time to call it a day for now.
I've opened one email address I will occasionally check (when I remember), it's legendarymageteso at gmail dot com so if anyone ever wants to drop a word or two, by all means please do so! Arena guildies, please link this thread in guildchat for any of my friends to see - I won't be logging back in for a long time probably.
I hope I'll be back sooner rather than later of course, but in case I don't at all - thanks for all the fun, people who know me, people who don't - it was great, will miss you all. Make sure you have a lot of fun!
LegendaryMage wrote: »Yesterday was exactly one year since I started playing this game in my first ever beta weekend and certain recent developments have made me decide it's time to call it a day for now.
I've opened one email address I will occasionally check (when I remember), it's legendarymageteso at gmail dot com so if anyone ever wants to drop a word or two, by all means please do so! Arena guildies, please link this thread in guildchat for any of my friends to see - I won't be logging back in for a long time probably.
I hope I'll be back sooner rather than later of course, but in case I don't at all - thanks for all the fun, people who know me, people who don't - it was great, will miss you all. Make sure you have a lot of fun!
LegendaryMage wrote: »Yesterday was exactly one year since I started playing this game in my first ever beta weekend and certain recent developments have made me decide it's time to call it a day for now.
I've opened one email address I will occasionally check (when I remember), it's legendarymageteso at gmail dot com so if anyone ever wants to drop a word or two, by all means please do so! Arena guildies, please link this thread in guildchat for any of my friends to see - I won't be logging back in for a long time probably.
I hope I'll be back sooner rather than later of course, but in case I don't at all - thanks for all the fun, people who know me, people who don't - it was great, will miss you all. Make sure you have a lot of fun!