Elwendryll wrote: »Roll. Find cover. Any little rock between you and the caster/ballista can interrupt the cast.
I run the poison morph so I can follow people around obstacles, because it's very easy to LoS. I always place a stun beforehand.
You are immune while roll dodging. Look for a cover. Blocking is also an option, but against the ballista you may be hit by a stun/fear.
Moonsorrow wrote: »
Mariusghost84 wrote: »Moonsorrow wrote: »
Yeah i needed help as this ability always seem to kill me. Often i have nothing to hind behind, and even though i block the dmg is pretty big and i end up dying. Is this btw considered a "noob skill"? I never see "good players" use it, if you know hat i mean?
Mariusghost84 wrote: »Moonsorrow wrote: »
Yeah i needed help as this ability always seem to kill me. Often i have nothing to hind behind, and even though i block the dmg is pretty big and i end up dying. Is this btw considered a "noob skill"? I never see "good players" use it, if you know hat i mean?
Moonsorrow wrote: »Mariusghost84 wrote: »Moonsorrow wrote: »
Yeah i needed help as this ability always seem to kill me. Often i have nothing to hind behind, and even though i block the dmg is pretty big and i end up dying. Is this btw considered a "noob skill"? I never see "good players" use it, if you know hat i mean?
Well, after so many nerfs to so many ultimates, there often are just choices on what is the least bad sort of. And Ballista imo is not a "noob skill", it is not that cheap and as said, it can be LoS avoided and mitigated, of course it does decent damage if takes it to the face completely.
Just that any such ultimate is sort of only dangerous if you are already low enough on hp or not much resources left to mitigate.
Good test is try using Ballista yourself, you can see good players not get destroyed by it, not unless your burst combo, CC and timing goes well also. Using something often teaches when you see how others fight against it and learning from that.
But yeah, sort of depends on your setup/playstyle, very hard to give one perfect advice, always depends on situation, goal, if its 1vs1 or battleground where you have to stay on flag and so on. Personally not got problems with that skill, depends on character i play with how i deal with them, with some i can burst the enemy dead while they are using it, just gotta hit harder than the enemy does. Or tactical retreat and come back when they spent it (same as for any heavy hitting DoT/channel ulti).
I did meet you on battlegrounds the other day couple times, avoid overextending on the open, positioning means a lot. With some LoS objects between you and enemies always helps and keeping some near, like after you taken a flag, no need to stand on the flag but can go stay near some platform that can use as LoS when/if need comes but so that always fast to hit on the target area. It just comes with time and practice. Good luck and have fun!
Mariusghost84 wrote: »When someone pops ballista or that other morph of bow ultimate, is it possible to Dodge or block the damage?