A battle of wills

Passifest · August 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwO5TDtF4S4&feature=youtu.be

Hey everyone it's your favorite permablocking wrecking blow scrub here. Today I have another 1vs1 video. This is a more lengthy video and the actual fight took in total twenty to thirty minutes so feel free to skip towards the end if you don't want to enjoy the near death moments. I thought it was a fun fight, regardless of what my opponent may have thought, and I also thought it would showcase some of the problems with magicka dk and with the game in a larger sense.

Now I am no expert on magicka dk but a couple things became very apparent as the fight went on. The lack of a magicka dk execute was extremely telling in the fight. There were several moments that if my opponent had any form of reliable execute I would have been dead. The second thing that stood out was that a magicka dk had no way of reliably healing itself other than from resto staff abilities. As seen in the final minute of the video my opponent, without a healing dot ticking on me, could do little other than pop a resto staff shield.

Now another thing, which is more of a problem with the new potions in general, is how much of an effect using a lingering health potion had on the battle. Now for the majority of the fight I had been using simple health/stam pots and as seen I was in quite the danger of dying a few times. Towards the end of the video I decided to try switching to lingering health pots which changed the fight completely. It almost completely nullified the dot dps my opponent could do and left me in a much better place to do offensive bursts. I think I can safely say without that edge I wouldn't have been able to go as offensive as I did in the later part of the video. As a side note I doubt the potion would have had the effect it did if I was fighting a more bursty build. Now the question is should a pot really have such an effect in battles of this nature? Dunno personally.

Now granted that I am fairly certain do to the grueling length of the battle my opponent simply stopped giving a *** towards the end but I believe these points remain valid.

Rohamad_Ali · August 2016

You're using two handed and two handed has an execute . DK is so tanky and rediculous with black rose or reactive sets right now , making them with high burst damage execute from magika pool would cross the line they're already standing over . DK had a year and a half of glory days in light armor and got slapped backwards for it . Now everyone is jumping on the IC sets and doing the same with heavy this time . Hopefully they nerf the sets and not the DK class again .

Passifest · August 2016

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

You're using two handed and two handed has an execute . DK is so tanky and rediculous with black rose or reactive sets right now , making them with high burst damage execute from magika pool would cross the line they're already standing over . DK had a year and a half of glory days in light armor and got slapped backwards for it . Now everyone is jumping on the IC sets and doing the same with heavy this time . Hopefully they nerf the sets and not the DK class again .

If you read my post or watch the video I am a stam dk and use an execute so not sure what you are saying in your first sentence. In regards to the rest of your post I can't say I really disagree. I was just pointing out some of the things I noticed in the fight that didn't work out in the magicka dk's favor. Not really sure how I'd go about changing any of it tbh.

PrinceFabious · August 2016

Are you trying to shame people? This is a boring fight of you spamming dizzing swing. Im sure your purpose is to shame the other person.

Smasher5551 · August 2016

PrinceFabious wrote: »

Are you trying to shame people? This is a boring fight of you spamming dizzing swing. Im sure your purpose is to shame the other person.

How dare he post a video of a fight he had in the game! Get the pitch forks boys!

Passifest · August 2016

PrinceFabious wrote: »

Are you trying to shame people? This is a boring fight of you spamming dizzing swing. Im sure your purpose is to shame the other person.

I don't see how I am shaming anyone when I don't even mention his name and also imply if things had been slightly different he could have easily beaten me. I'm sorry you think it is a boring fight but please stop shaming my video thank you. Also I don't use dizzying swing.

Armitas · August 2016

I thought this was going to be a battle between two people named Will. Alas, the search continues.

Passifest · August 2016

Armitas wrote: »

I thought this was going to be a battle between two people named Will. Alas, the search continues.

My bad man sorry to disappoint

Rohamad_Ali · August 2016

Passifest wrote: »

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

You're using two handed and two handed has an execute . DK is so tanky and rediculous with black rose or reactive sets right now , making them with high burst damage execute from magika pool would cross the line they're already standing over . DK had a year and a half of glory days in light armor and got slapped backwards for it . Now everyone is jumping on the IC sets and doing the same with heavy this time . Hopefully they nerf the sets and not the DK class again .

If you read my post or watch the video I am a stam dk and use an execute so not sure what you are saying in your first sentence. In regards to the rest of your post I can't say I really disagree. I was just pointing out some of the things I noticed in the fight that didn't work out in the magicka dk's favor. Not really sure how I'd go about changing any of it tbh.

I watched a lot and was just commenting on the DK execute you mentioning magicDK didn't have and stating reasons why I don't think it's good to add to DK as a tank class . Apologies for any confusion .

NBrookus · August 2016

PrinceFabious wrote: »

Are you trying to shame people? This is a boring fight of you spamming dizzing swing. Im sure your purpose is to shame the other person.

TL;DW

If it takes a stam DK 15 minutes to kill a mag DK in the current meta, shaming the other player isn't what comes to mind.

Passifest · August 2016

NBrookus wrote: »

PrinceFabious wrote: »

Are you trying to shame people? This is a boring fight of you spamming dizzing swing. Im sure your purpose is to shame the other person.

TL;DW

If it takes a stam DK 15 minutes to kill a mag DK in the current meta, shaming the other player isn't what comes to mind.

Yeah you tell him. Also 1vs1 me *** tier

NBrookus · August 2016

Passifest wrote: »

NBrookus wrote: »

PrinceFabious wrote: »

Are you trying to shame people? This is a boring fight of you spamming dizzing swing. Im sure your purpose is to shame the other person.

TL;DW

If it takes a stam DK 15 minutes to kill a mag DK in the current meta, shaming the other player isn't what comes to mind.

Yeah you tell him. Also 1vs1 me *** tier

Have. Lost. Wasn't particularly upset about losing to a class spec with more damage, more healing, lower skill costs and more viable armor selection while also having access to every utility skill I had.

The fact I can't quite puzzle out what that insult was supposed to be is far more perturbing.

Lokey0024 · August 2016

NBrookus wrote: »

Passifest wrote: »

NBrookus wrote: »

PrinceFabious wrote: »

Are you trying to shame people? This is a boring fight of you spamming dizzing swing. Im sure your purpose is to shame the other person.

TL;DW

If it takes a stam DK 15 minutes to kill a mag DK in the current meta, shaming the other player isn't what comes to mind.

Yeah you tell him. Also 1vs1 me *** tier

Have. Lost. Wasn't particularly upset about losing to a class spec with more damage, more healing, lower skill costs and more viable armor selection while also having access to every utility skill I had.

The fact I can't quite puzzle out what that insult was supposed to be is far more perturbing.

Think he is pointing out he can smoke you so this guy he fought isnt a scrub.

yodased · August 2016

@armitas

Passifest · August 2016

NBrookus wrote: »

Passifest wrote: »

NBrookus wrote: »

PrinceFabious wrote: »

Are you trying to shame people? This is a boring fight of you spamming dizzing swing. Im sure your purpose is to shame the other person.

TL;DW

If it takes a stam DK 15 minutes to kill a mag DK in the current meta, shaming the other player isn't what comes to mind.

Yeah you tell him. Also 1vs1 me *** tier

Have. Lost. Wasn't particularly upset about losing to a class spec with more damage, more healing, lower skill costs and more viable armor selection while also having access to every utility skill I had.

The fact I can't quite puzzle out what that insult was supposed to be is far more perturbing.

Exposed. Nah I don't know WHO you are

but the person I utterly destroyed(SARCASM) is an extremely good player. Probably in the top 10 dks imo. Anyways fighting a good player can take a long time especially if they are reasonably tanky which is one of the reasons I like dueling so much in this game.