Apply cripple when possible,shield stack and weave on resto, count 6 after wings and soul harvest into a bow when possible. Fear every six secs if wings are being spammed. Its tedious but you will eventually get them. Only garbage mdks use wings so its just a matter of time if you play it right against them.
I have been finding I might need to drop flame reach for fear, but there goes a skoria dot, but that's a problem for another time.
So you say weave on resto, does resto staff not reflect from wings? I have noticed resto heavy gets through things like npc bubbles.
I do have a couple buddy's who main magdk so I can get them to help me test this out in duels.
Apply cripple when possible,shield stack and weave on resto, count 6 after wings and soul harvest into a bow when possible. Fear every six secs if wings are being spammed. Its tedious but you will eventually get them. Only garbage mdks use wings so its just a matter of time if you play it right against them.
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From the perspective of a magDK, if those wings are winning the fight, they aren't garbage, are they? They aren't a good counter to every situation, but when they are the appropriate counter, they're pretty great. (For the MagDK)
But also from the perspective of magDK, if those wings are what's causing the problem, keep the pressure up with non-reflectable attacks. You can pressure me into forgetting to spam, or pressure me into running out of resources to spam wings. The fears will be really annoying, since I have to break off what I'm doing to respond. Overall I agree that wearing them down is a good tactic.
It should be noted that wall of elements really hurts melee builds. I wouldn’t run it solo open world, but it’s worth considering for duels imo.
I don’t like niche duel builds so I don’t personally run it; but you can get nice damage off wall of elements if a melee build has to deal with it then they can’t control the engagement as easily. Path is similar but less tooltip damage, doesn’t cause status effects, and can’t proc poisons or glyphs. Now, obviously path is great and you should be running it on most builds, stacked with woe you’ve got excellent pressure on builds that have to engage you at melee range. I believe @Subversus runs it though
Update. I have changed my gear setup because shadow image is still broken. Image won't activate if I'm out of los, which is how you want to use the dang thing.
I'm now running a reposte/transmutation setup and I have dropped flame reach for fear and image for refreshing path.
Since the gear and skill changes along with the advice from @lynog85, I have successfully won and competitively lost battles with wing spam magdk now. Refreshing path is also an amazing skill vs them because the turtle up so much. The dot and hot is amazing vs them I have found.
Good to hear youre having some success mate. The build youre using imo is more of a group play build. Lacks some burst. Have you ever tried winterborn skoria open world? So much fun. Suits that style of play too.
Really? Wall of elements can proc poisons and glyphs? I would love to get unbalanced from lightning staff but then I lost single target buff from flame staff
If you took flame reach off your bar, you don't have increased single target damage with a flame staff anymore
Hmm that sounds interesting, I have been messing with an ice staff build but I've been finding it redundant with cripple as a snare also. But I guess ice clench and cripple together are good in 1vx situations. I started with it mainly because I looted an asylum iice staff, however I don't like using force pulse over funnel health.