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Join duel servers and get use to manual blocking. You can't just become good at it it takes time that's for sure. Practice practice practice.Yes, this definitely. I started out as a shielder, bad idea. It took me weeks (of practicing almost every day) to learn how to manual block, and one day I just got it. Eventually you'll get up to the chambering level, but that's a whole nother step
Just look for a chap named ivani4, he'll teach you all you need to know about blocking.
Just look for a chap named ivani4, he'll teach you all you need to know about blocking.
If you're NA come to EU duel or if you're EU go to NA duel server and play there for a week. It will be extremely painful, you'll die all the time, you'll be frustrated but eventually when you come back to normal ping you'll be one of the better blockers on the battlefield.I find that blocking isn't a huge problem with EU ping (140-160ms for me). The biggest problem is that player positions aren't accurate, so you'll constantly find yourself missing entirely, phasing through your opponent, or glancing. It's also very difficult to counter quickly enough to prevent hiltslashes.
I find that blocking isn't a huge problem with EU ping (140-160ms for me). The biggest problem is that player positions aren't accurate, so you'll constantly find yourself missing entirely, phasing through your opponent, or glancing. It's also very difficult to counter quickly enough to prevent hiltslashes.
I find that blocking isn't a huge problem with EU ping (140-160ms for me). The biggest problem is that player positions aren't accurate, so you'll constantly find yourself missing entirely, phasing through your opponent, or glancing. It's also very difficult to counter quickly enough to prevent hiltslashes.
Starting as a shielder probably has its merits as mentioned, but for me half the fun is the manual directional blocking system. I learned to play the game as a 2 hander and it is hard, but its pretty satisfying when you start getting some kills. Blocking just becomes second nature if you learn it early.
Polearm might be easier to learn with because you can take a point or 2 in shield and can take a break from manual blocking if you want while still attacking (get some spear type weapons for this). As a new player you can play a support role with polearms too, just stabbing from distance without committing to a fight. 2 handers are fine though and really force you to learn to block. 2 hander + crossbow might be good for taking breaks while still being semi useful for the team. I would get some speed for whichever you go for and some IF rather than the str builds people mentioned. Taking more hits is cool but you can avoid hits by dodging or escape from someone chasing with 6+ athletics. 5 is ok too, I just ended up with 6 in most my gens
Learning how to block doesn't take too much time, now almost everyone knows how to do it.
If you're NA come to EU duel or if you're EU go to NA duel server and play there for a week. It will be extremely painful, you'll die all the time, you'll be frustrated but eventually when you come back to normal ping you'll be one of the better blockers on the battlefield.
Just look for a chap named ivani4, he'll teach you all you need to know about blocking.
Playing in a high ping environment is much like Goku's hyperbolic time chamber. One hour of high ping training is like one day of normal training. If you truly want to push your abilities as a warrior to the limit, enter the china servers. Don't forget your senzu beans.With 450 ping there you have no chance, you don't even see the attacks coming. And I tried playing there.
With 450 ping there you have no chance, you don't even see the attacks coming. And I tried playing there.
Your power level is too low.
My ping is over 9 seconds.
Started out with just practicing. This helped me out quite a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9jHcZjWw9U
Check out the other vids of reapy (http://www.youtube.com/user/reapy) too, quite good. But playing and practicing is the only way imho. You can't really get taught by a video, it's like reading an instruction book through for so to do it.
My tip is to play with light equipment. If you die by one hit you are forced to block better if you want to stay alive. Sometimes it's frustrating when you hit an enemy 5 times and he kills you with one lucky hit, but at least you can say to yourself that you would have won the fight, if he had the same gear. :D
Good video, I remember watching that in awe when I first started playing.
And then you'll be ready to take on King Harlaus from Swadian duel server.
I'm not trying to start an argument, but I actually think it's much better for a beginner to play as a strength/plate crutcher first as they are very forgiving. A beginner is going to make a bunch of blocking mistakes, and the only way to learn is to play, not die in the first few seconds of every round :wink:Okay, that's true. But if your blocking skills are at an average level this is a good practise to become better imo. Also I'm only talking about siege (team deathmatch/respawn), in battle it's better to wear atleast medium armor, just for all the ranged.
As someone else said you might be able to get away with not blocking for awhile but eventually you'll learn the need to block, plus you'll have a lot more opportunities to practice it when people will need to hit you 5+ times to kill you instead of 1 or 2.