@corwin
this thread should be for new players who need our help or for those still want to learn more, please keep the trolling down
@george
your build, your weapons/armor and your mind as well form your role i guess. So there is no really bad build in my opinion, it comes down how you handle it. Bamboo spear is a great weapon for stabbing out of second rank f.e. . 39/ Str is surely something anyone need to worry about, if i would face you more often i would recognize the fact that you are able to oneshot me and would be carefull. If you got maul you definetly have a large exclamation mark above your head and i would try to trick you and those who support you by target switching. Here comes the often mentioned footwork into place, with that low of agility in your case you have a problem there and really need support of teammates to give you air. So you need to have an eye on if your your partners have an open strike ready, then you can also go into open strike position more safely if not, you will still be outspammed. I would try to get your teammates in between me and at times when you have raised your attack i would switch from attacking your teammates to attack you ... and hopefully getting the timing right. It mostly depends on the situation. Still in one of your generations to come i would suggest a more balanced build and much later when you are more experienced a build rather focused on agility with high athletics(it is also about learning what others can do and you need to be prepared for).
@Grumbs[some very good tips, thanks, i hope you don't mind that i tried to edit them for some more perspectives]
overtime when you got to know the players you will be able to recognize some of them, some these but rather go in disguise so they can't be majorly targeted.
Pressing tab casually never hurts, at round start to see who is on the server and topping the board(you can determine some of the things you may face or would be able to avoid), after 1-2 minutes to see how it is going(when you see you have fewer then the enemy there maybe a point where you need to take more risks to even the odds), and as you said at the end to see who is still alife.
I disagree on the soloing part partially, as a new player you are totally correct, but when you got the basics and want a bigger and riskier challenge you can try flanking or even going ninja(the differences are blurry at times
) For that you will need exactly the map, have planed out a route in your mind, so you have less risk to be confronted by too many cav or run into the main mob of the enemy. You need to be comfortable in fighting against 2-5 guys, you need to customize your build for that purpose(a flanker is not only a "agi" whore but especially an athletics fanatic.
Securing kills +9000, i myself get mindless at times, just on automode and trying to kill the next dude, when then i get th because we attack 1 single guy with 3+ of ours ... silly me and when then that dude finishes of the team i could bite me in the a** for not activating my brain more.
Outnumbered is one of the most intense situations and i love them, you can target switch to another dude with an open attack to get him down, you can run through them either with block or with attack open and hit at the instance you see an opening you can backpedal spam, you can try to outmanouver them when they try to spam you, going left/righ that brings the enemy often into their own strikes and much more, there are some players out there which do especially well in these situations, watch them and see how they time things or if only to stay in awe
@Dexxtaa
seen you yesterday couple of times on NA Servers, respect, now i know what is all the fuzz about you
And your tip
Zen of crpg
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Lately again i often thought about Survivability, as it gives you the opportunity to strike. You see there are many players out there with the concept, the more dmg the better, as you need fewer strikes to kill someone(if you are able to hit him), which is fine, also with high iron flesh and a good armor your survivability is really increased, still if you play mindless, a couple of hits and you are done nonetheless. Then there are the so called agi whores, they have less in IF, less armor, less PS, but more athletics which opens up a big box of new tricks you can try to learn. For starters, they can avoid fights they guess they may not survive, then they choose the terrain and time. In this game it is all mixed in, from the point of Zun Tzu these are 3 major factors to win a fight. Location(hill against cav f.e.), Strike when he is week(sneak attack or targets you think you can handle more easily), timing(the dude is looking into his telescope to target another ranged ... he doesn't see me coming, you see the trap of someone prepared for your team out of another direction ...) ....
