Playing and abilities: Knights

[DkySven]

While grinding and wandering through the warzone I developed a tactic for knights to scare away or even kill high level hunters with pet.

You'll need:
a spear with balestra (3th spell in piercing)
army of one(10th of vanguard)
high level shield, try to get it maxed and put points into block and precise block, you need to block key-spells if you want to win.
mind squasher(8th of blunt)
and of course the usual stuff: feint, shield bash, spring, caution, etc.

When a hunter attacks you, cast Army of One(500 mana is a lot, but you don't need much spells against a pet, you'll regenerate a part of your mana), weapon buffs and taunt the pet. In case you hit extremely low the hunter probably casted skin of the beast, dispell this with mind squasher. If you're lucky you'll manage to kill the pet and have 1/2-1/3 health left. Of course you need some luck, like blocking ambush, stunning fist or confuse but when I had full health I always managed to kill the pet. After pet is dead some of hunter's evasion buffs might have run out too.

Run towards the hunter. Some hunters don't want to fight without pet and run, try to catch them with balestra. When you are close to the hunter release your full arsenal, mind squash his buffs, keep him dizzy so he can't cast his evasion-buffs, feint him. If he casts SotW and keeps attacking cast precise block+protector and pray to the gods of RNG. If you survived until now and you got the hunter's health down he'll (try to) run away at a certain moment. He can use escapist, use balestra and mind squasher, SotW, use mind squasher, this might be your lucky day, or just mobility.

If he manage to get away from you follow him out of combat mode to regenerate mana and health. Do not abort the fight if the gap between you and the hunter is not huge, he'll shoot in your back and you can do nothing. Have a spear equipped an your finger at the balestra-shortcut Use spring to keep at least a little close and keep your buffs always on. A hunter will try to turn around and launch an ensnaring arrow/tear apart/break apart/ambush at you. Use this to get close. If you're knocked down the hunter will keep shooting at you. When you're up or blocked/resisted the ambush, or the hunter just launched another spell at you try to get close to him, many hunters turn around just a little too late. In this stadium of the fight you need to kill the hunter or he'll kill you/escapes.

If he kills you, get back there as soon as possible and get revenge, he's on low health now and you're full. If he manages to camouflage rest to gain full health and mana and run around with all your buffs on, he'll return; go back to step 1. Sometimes the gap between you and the hunter becomes huge, take a rest. Hunter and you will have full health and are fully buffed. Go back to step 1. If you can abort the fight without getting shot in the back and the hunter and you are reaching his home realm, abort, there's a big change of running into his realmmates. The hunter will be back, return to step 1. If you manage kill him, yeeeh!

I hope that this is useful for knights, thanks for reading.