Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »you need to CC.
driosketch wrote: »Radiant Mage Light will put an end to that real quick.
Pink_Violinz wrote: »Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »you need to CC.
Okay, pretend I'm an idiot. How.
It wasn't just me getting taken out by this guy. Javelin hurled him back and gave him CC immunity. He breaks free immediately, starts up again. Tank uses talons. He breaks free, again, starts ambushing again. Sorc uses frags, he goes after him. Sorc dies.
I run two Kena, full Kagrenac, full Willpower, two Torugs. 5 light 2 heavy. Dual swords. All V16 purple. I heal often for PvE, which is why I use Kag.
I've been in PvP with this char since she was in her mid 30s. Shes nearly a year old and my main. I encountered a player who fights differently than I'm used to, and am asking for advice. Telling me to go and learn how to play a templar gets me nowhere.
Pink_Violinz wrote: »Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »you need to CC.
Okay, pretend I'm an idiot. How.
It wasn't just me getting taken out by this guy. Javelin hurled him back and gave him CC immunity. He breaks free immediately, starts up again. Tank uses talons. He breaks free, again, starts ambushing again. Sorc uses frags, he goes after him. Sorc dies.
I run two Kena, full Kagrenac, full Willpower, two Torugs. 5 light 2 heavy. Dual swords. All V16 purple. I heal often for PvE, which is why I use Kag.
I've been in PvP with this char since she was in her mid 30s. Shes nearly a year old and my main. I encountered a player who fights differently than I'm used to, and am asking for advice. Telling me to go and learn how to play a templar gets me nowhere.
There's no need to get snotty as I did give you advice - you already quoted that above.Pink_Violinz wrote: »Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »you need to CC.
Okay, pretend I'm an idiot. How.
It wasn't just me getting taken out by this guy. Javelin hurled him back and gave him CC immunity. He breaks free immediately, starts up again. Tank uses talons. He breaks free, again, starts ambushing again. Sorc uses frags, he goes after him. Sorc dies.
I run two Kena, full Kagrenac, full Willpower, two Torugs. 5 light 2 heavy. Dual swords. All V16 purple. I heal often for PvE, which is why I use Kag.
I've been in PvP with this char since she was in her mid 30s. Shes nearly a year old and my main. I encountered a player who fights differently than I'm used to, and am asking for advice. Telling me to go and learn how to play a templar gets me nowhere.
Pink_Violinz wrote: »Was doing a little pvp the other day when my V15 friend starts yelling about a NB. I laugh when I see him getting slaughtered by a V1, go in to help him only to get ambushed to death. I'm a V16 templar. Minute later, said V15 Dk tank dies as well.
Fine, I think, just some guy out of his mind on CP.
We go into a few other battles where the same guy hunts us (me) down and does the exact. same. thing. Normally, I would just forget this but this instance got a little under my skin. My gap closer is bugged beyond belief and he gets to spam his until I die? A+.
I am not calling for nerfs.
Really, I just want to know how to defend against them. And maybe get my gap closer fixed, but that's a problem for another day. I know as a templar I'm probably not going to beat them, but I shouldn't die in a second either. I didn't really count on my friend straight from PvE to help too much, but when there are two other V16 players as well fighting this guy this is insane. I'm magicka build, and I've heard Blazing Shield may be some good but I haven't had luck with it in the past. Did too little for too much, but that was awhile ago so that has likely changed.
I use javelin often, but it doesn't really seem to do enough against NBs. Unless I have my meteor I mind as well be slashing at the air.
Pink_Violinz wrote: »Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »you need to CC.
Okay, pretend I'm an idiot. How.
It wasn't just me getting taken out by this guy. Javelin hurled him back and gave him CC immunity. He breaks free immediately, starts up again. Tank uses talons. He breaks free, again, starts ambushing again. Sorc uses frags, he goes after him. Sorc dies.
I run two Kena, full Kagrenac, full Willpower, two Torugs. 5 light 2 heavy. Dual swords. All V16 purple. I heal often for PvE, which is why I use Kag.
I've been in PvP with this char since she was in her mid 30s. Shes nearly a year old and my main. I encountered a player who fights differently than I'm used to, and am asking for advice. Telling me to go and learn how to play a templar gets me nowhere.
I assume it was a stamblade, right?
Stamblades are though. They can resist a lot and vanish before your eyes before starting a new attack. The trick is to use a skill like caltrops and try to focus all the fight within the calytrop's area. That's useful because:
1- Stamblade cannot cloak, and if he does, it is magicka lost.
2- Caltrops has a small but useful DoT that will drain his health slowly. It is ideal as help for:
3- ranged users such as archers and staff mages should using light and heavy attacks to dmg as much as possible before going for the kill. This is helpful because:
4- The NB has to choose between healing or blocking. If he heals through vigor then he's losing stam. If he choses to block, then he is not regen stam. Don't you ever try to CC a stambade BEFORE he has used vigor. You MUST do it immediately after he did it for obvious reasons. If you manage to put the StambladeNB with liitle stam, then
5- You pretty much won the fight. No cloak and no stam means a dead Stamblade.
Pink_Violinz wrote: »Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »you need to CC.
Okay, pretend I'm an idiot. How.
It wasn't just me getting taken out by this guy. Javelin hurled him back and gave him CC immunity. He breaks free immediately, starts up again. Tank uses talons. He breaks free, again, starts ambushing again. Sorc uses frags, he goes after him. Sorc dies.
I run two Kena, full Kagrenac, full Willpower, two Torugs. 5 light 2 heavy. Dual swords. All V16 purple. I heal often for PvE, which is why I use Kag.
I've been in PvP with this char since she was in her mid 30s. Shes nearly a year old and my main. I encountered a player who fights differently than I'm used to, and am asking for advice. Telling me to go and learn how to play a templar gets me nowhere.
I assume it was a stamblade, right?
Stamblades are though. They can resist a lot and vanish before your eyes before starting a new attack. The trick is to use a skill like caltrops and try to focus all the fight within the calytrop's area. That's useful because:
1- Stamblade cannot cloak, and if he does, it is magicka lost.
2- Caltrops has a small but useful DoT that will drain his health slowly. It is ideal as help for:
3- ranged users such as archers and staff mages should using light and heavy attacks to dmg as much as possible before going for the kill. This is helpful because:
4- The NB has to choose between healing or blocking. If he heals through vigor then he's losing stam. If he choses to block, then he is not regen stam. Don't you ever try to CC a stambade BEFORE he has used vigor. You MUST do it immediately after he did it for obvious reasons. If you manage to put the StambladeNB with liitle stam, then
5- You pretty much won the fight. No cloak and no stam means a dead Stamblade.
The only good advice here is caltrops, but even that's bad advice for a magplar. Magelight is a much more suitable counter for magika builds and unlike caltrops it actually prevents cloak being used to dodge attacks (in caltrops you can cloak and it won't break until you take the next damage tick, sometimes as long as 1 second). Imo, its not about CC'ing him after he uses a particular skill, but its about keeping him out of cloak and CC'ed every 6 seconds, he'll have trouble executing enough burst to kill you that way and if you get him heal debuffed he's gonna melt the second he stops dodge rolling.
By keeping pressure up with sweeps (particularly if you can do it in a ritual), you'll likely be able to put him on the defensive first at which point its just a matter of eventually executing your own burst combo on him.
Pink_Violinz wrote: »Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »you need to CC.
Okay, pretend I'm an idiot. How.
It wasn't just me getting taken out by this guy. Javelin hurled him back and gave him CC immunity. He breaks free immediately, starts up again. Tank uses talons. He breaks free, again, starts ambushing again. Sorc uses frags, he goes after him. Sorc dies.
I run two Kena, full Kagrenac, full Willpower, two Torugs. 5 light 2 heavy. Dual swords. All V16 purple. I heal often for PvE, which is why I use Kag.
I've been in PvP with this char since she was in her mid 30s. Shes nearly a year old and my main. I encountered a player who fights differently than I'm used to, and am asking for advice. Telling me to go and learn how to play a templar gets me nowhere.
I assume it was a stamblade, right?
Stamblades are though. They can resist a lot and vanish before your eyes before starting a new attack. The trick is to use a skill like caltrops and try to focus all the fight within the calytrop's area. That's useful because:
1- Stamblade cannot cloak, and if he does, it is magicka lost.
2- Caltrops has a small but useful DoT that will drain his health slowly. It is ideal as help for:
3- ranged users such as archers and staff mages should using light and heavy attacks to dmg as much as possible before going for the kill. This is helpful because:
4- The NB has to choose between healing or blocking. If he heals through vigor then he's losing stam. If he choses to block, then he is not regen stam. Don't you ever try to CC a stambade BEFORE he has used vigor. You MUST do it immediately after he did it for obvious reasons. If you manage to put the StambladeNB with liitle stam, then
5- You pretty much won the fight. No cloak and no stam means a dead Stamblade.
The only good advice here is caltrops, but even that's bad advice for a magplar. Magelight is a much more suitable counter for magika builds and unlike caltrops it actually prevents cloak being used to dodge attacks (in caltrops you can cloak and it won't break until you take the next damage tick, sometimes as long as 1 second). Imo, its not about CC'ing him after he uses a particular skill, but its about keeping him out of cloak and CC'ed every 6 seconds, he'll have trouble executing enough burst to kill you that way and if you get him heal debuffed he's gonna melt the second he stops dodge rolling.
By keeping pressure up with sweeps (particularly if you can do it in a ritual), you'll likely be able to put him on the defensive first at which point its just a matter of eventually executing your own burst combo on him.
It is from a group vs NB PoV In a 1v1 is quite different. In case of a Magplar I'd go with sweep too. But not all the classes have puct sweep to put pressure
driosketch wrote: »I would replace javelin for blazing spear and use sweeps as mentiond above. /quote]
I'll play with sweeps more, as I haven't tried it too often in pvp. Forgot about blazing spear, I'll have to start using that again.Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »There's no need to get snotty as I did give you advice - you already quoted that above.
Love, you gave me vague advice I can't do anything with. If someone does not know how to do something, just saying "CC them" is wayyyy too broad of an answer. Don't call someone rude when you are the one lighting the kindling.
I think I'll just try Blazing Shield.
Corrected the quotes for you as until I saw "Love", I wasn't aware it was a reply to me.Pink_Violinz wrote: »Sunburnt_Penguin wrote: »There's no need to get snotty as I did give you advice - you already quoted that above.
Love, you gave me vague advice I can't do anything with. If someone does not know how to do something, just saying "CC them" is wayyyy too broad of an answer. Don't call someone rude when you are the one lighting the kindling.
I think I'll just try Blazing Shield.
Dracan_Fontom wrote: »Get rid of there ability to cloak, force them to dodge roll or cc break, debuff them, aoe, snares, etc.
Dracan_Fontom wrote: »Get rid of there ability to cloak, force them to dodge roll or cc break, debuff them, aoe, snares, etc.
Why get rid of a classes skills just because someone isnt skilled enough to get around the NB's skills.Each class has something that will outdo another class.Unique to that class.Players just need to find out how to use it effectively.
Personally,I NEVER use cloak abilities,but the Devs put them there because they want the NBs to be able to use it.
That's like saying that I dont want someone who has better gear to have it because I havent found a way to beat him.I dont have the right to want that.
Each player can play as they like.
PvPers are always saying if your in the open zone,you have to take it.Learn to play.That's their motto.
Dracan_Fontom wrote: »Dracan_Fontom wrote: »Get rid of there ability to cloak, force them to dodge roll or cc break, debuff them, aoe, snares, etc.
Why get rid of a classes skills just because someone isnt skilled enough to get around the NB's skills.Each class has something that will outdo another class.Unique to that class.Players just need to find out how to use it effectively.
Personally,I NEVER use cloak abilities,but the Devs put them there because they want the NBs to be able to use it.
That's like saying that I dont want someone who has better gear to have it because I havent found a way to beat him.I dont have the right to want that.
Each player can play as they like.
PvPers are always saying if your in the open zone,you have to take it.Learn to play.That's their motto.
I use cloak because it's a great ability. Imo cloak is the skill makes gives us who we are. I haven't came across one nightblade who didn't use either morph of cloak on PS4, yet. As I play both magic and stamina nb very aggressively so I feel experienced enough to give our weaknesses. MagBlades are squishy as hell, and without their escape they could fall easily. And with their small amount of stam, we can become CC'd for large periods of time if we are not careful. However, a stamblade relies on their burst to kill and sustain. If you can force a stamblade to waste all his stam and get his to use cloak 3 or so times and pull him out he or she will have a hard time recovering theu less they have insane regen.