Azarddoze
02-25-2014, 11:54 AM
This is an attempt to collect as many little in-game observations that people notice and adjust their playstyles to when playing. What happens is we often fight the same fights or live the same situations, but we don't neccessarely fixate our eyes on the same details as there are some stuff we'll never realise until someone else tells us so.
Quick and easy exemple:
- Considering the dungeon layout, where exactly are you gonna fight?
- - Are you gonna pull agro, get back to last room and LoS everything right at the door, taking apart melees first while mitigating as much damage as possible?
- - Or rush straight in? Both answers can be good, it just depends on situation.
- Killing orders: Once you make a habbit of, say, killing casters first, it becomes just that : a habbit.
- Quick check on your buffs / buffs timers as buffing during fight is a loss of both HP and DPS
- DON'T LET YOURSELF DIE. It's really easy to know when someone's is going down, usually I can call it a couple seconds before it happens. Why do some almost never die?
- - Pure awareness. Knowing when to move to avoid death. Back to your buddies, heal yourself, pop a haste pots to buy you some time. You HAVE to try something. Hacking away at 20 HP when your obviously not gonna kill before getting killed can be easily avoided by just being constantly aware of your burst capability (finish quickly) and being there and aware of what's going on. Both on your side and the enemy's.
Line of sights: I couldn't stress enought how important it is to incorporate LoS as soon as possible in your gamer arsenal. It's good for every single game. In fact, the more you will use LoS for different occasions, the more you'll see NEW occasions where it would shine. It can be a defensive play (LoS to avoid range / gain some time) or an offensive play if you're looking to gather mobs in order to AoE them down. LoS usage is also a good way to cancel a spell you see is being casted at you or you guess it'll be casted in the upcoming seconds.
- - Last note, while it may be considered cheesy, there are fights where you can totally avoid being hit (or simply owned) by a smart usage of LoS, positioning and speed. If you prefer, playing hide and seek :) - hiding, casting/shooting - back to hiding.
Habbits are strong in our everyday life. It's the same for games. They take ZERO effort to incorporate and use once they're stuck in there. Why not develop good ones?
*These tips are easier to notice while playing (and i'm obv not atm) so the list will grow even no one cares or contributes.
Could be tips that are quest specific as well if they're known to be a struggle.
Quick and easy exemple:
- Considering the dungeon layout, where exactly are you gonna fight?
- - Are you gonna pull agro, get back to last room and LoS everything right at the door, taking apart melees first while mitigating as much damage as possible?
- - Or rush straight in? Both answers can be good, it just depends on situation.
- Killing orders: Once you make a habbit of, say, killing casters first, it becomes just that : a habbit.
- Quick check on your buffs / buffs timers as buffing during fight is a loss of both HP and DPS
- DON'T LET YOURSELF DIE. It's really easy to know when someone's is going down, usually I can call it a couple seconds before it happens. Why do some almost never die?
- - Pure awareness. Knowing when to move to avoid death. Back to your buddies, heal yourself, pop a haste pots to buy you some time. You HAVE to try something. Hacking away at 20 HP when your obviously not gonna kill before getting killed can be easily avoided by just being constantly aware of your burst capability (finish quickly) and being there and aware of what's going on. Both on your side and the enemy's.
Line of sights: I couldn't stress enought how important it is to incorporate LoS as soon as possible in your gamer arsenal. It's good for every single game. In fact, the more you will use LoS for different occasions, the more you'll see NEW occasions where it would shine. It can be a defensive play (LoS to avoid range / gain some time) or an offensive play if you're looking to gather mobs in order to AoE them down. LoS usage is also a good way to cancel a spell you see is being casted at you or you guess it'll be casted in the upcoming seconds.
- - Last note, while it may be considered cheesy, there are fights where you can totally avoid being hit (or simply owned) by a smart usage of LoS, positioning and speed. If you prefer, playing hide and seek :) - hiding, casting/shooting - back to hiding.
Habbits are strong in our everyday life. It's the same for games. They take ZERO effort to incorporate and use once they're stuck in there. Why not develop good ones?
*These tips are easier to notice while playing (and i'm obv not atm) so the list will grow even no one cares or contributes.
Could be tips that are quest specific as well if they're known to be a struggle.