Playing and abilities: Warlock

[Gabburtjuh]

Because 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 is harder?
1 cc
2 dot
3 cc
4 dot
5 cc
6 ...
etc ;P

[HuntShot]

Smelling a bit jealousy here huh Alenox...? =p

I totally agree with esptupac, why not just accomplish things without bragging about it.. if you achieve the same thing what's the problem?

Originally Posted by Alenox_I

not being a retard who just presses 1 2 3 4 5 6...?

No offence, but saying that makes you retarded...

[Gabburtjuh]

lol, meteor-ivy-ice blast-lightning-freeze, 5 spells, against a barb, put slow infront, against a marks, change meteor+ivy to will domain and think of the lock hugging a tree, for a knight, just takes long, hunter, depends if he jumps you from camo with confuse, etc etc..

[UmarilsStillHere]

Basically, can we all just stop pretending its hard to play the game?

Its easy to be a average player. And most of the elements that used to mark someone as above average are long gone.

[esp_tupac]

Originally Posted by Umaril

Basically, can we all just stop pretending its hard to play the game?

Its easy to be a average player. And most of the elements that used to mark someone as above average are long gone.

from my experience, here is a list of players in HORUS that is above average judging by their spell choice, precison of combo and their overall ability to survive in the warzone (toughness if u will)

Hunter:
Tsoglani (Syrtis)
Immune the Blue (Alsius)

Marksman:
El Drugo (Syrtis)
Enio (Alsius)

Warlock:
Siwy PI (Alsius)
Illuminati (Alsius)

Conjurer:
ieti (Syrtis) - support
gondu (Syrtis) - warju
Healerous (Alsius) - support

Knight:
jakob (Syrtis)
Sir Siwy (Alsius)

Barbarian:
Tigerous (Syrtis)
Irsh (Alsius)
Raely (Alsius)

[_Kharbon_]

But don't forget the gear makes lot of difference...

[Latan]

Originally Posted by _Kharbon_

But don't forget the gear makes lot of difference...

not for locks for the simple reason we haven't useful drops.
you just need a nice CS staff+gem. you can use the WM armor instead of the elite one with 150 mana/hp because the difference in hp is so light and you can skill mana pool if you need more mana points

[esp_tupac]

Originally Posted by _Kharbon_

But don't forget the gear makes lot of difference...

I do not judge a player by gear. It is the spells they cast and their timing that make them stand out from the crowd. killing a player don't mean nothing it's how u kill him that matters. The players that ive listed above are all very capable without gear.

[esp_tupac]

Originally Posted by Gabburtjuh

lol, meteor-ivy-ice blast-lightning-freeze, 5 spells, against a barb, put slow infront, against a marks, change meteor+ivy to will domain and think of the lock hugging a tree, for a knight, just takes long, hunter, depends if he jumps you from camo with confuse, etc etc..

It's easy to figure out what spell to cast in most situations. what distinguish one player from another is how fast you can cast them. To be able to cast what u want WHEN u want takes a lot of practise. timing is the key in all fights as 1 small delay between spells could cost u the whole fight. therefore, it is obsurd to even think that you can play well in RO with a bad internet ping.

warlock is the most sophisticated class of all 6 because it has the most spells which require that u constantly switch between bars (F1-F4) based on different situations. the concept that ive come up with to achieve such time efficiency is to have as few spells as possible and place them in such a fashion that minimize this bar switch business. the advantage of this kind of layout is that you know exactly what spells are available at any point in time as well as the cooldowns on each of them so u can plan ur attacks accordingly. One major flaw with this mouse + keyboard setup is that I can't turn with mouse while casting the spells I have on the column to the right side of the screen (ie. barrier, energy borrow, and arcane dev.) However, these 3 non-dmg spells won't affect my combat in a big way fortunately.


Now a more advanced setup requires that u cast all spells with keyboard. That is, you use both hands on the keyboard and occationally use mouse to turn and select target. I think that ppl who are experts in War/Starcraft should find the full keyboard setup easy to handle.

my point is nothing is as easy as it looks. an average player would know what spell to cast and what combo to use but how fast can he really cast them? and that will distinguish u from the general population. when a setup is given to you, are you able to handle it efficiently? ppl are talking like everything is easy...they are just taking things for granted.

[_Kharbon_]

Sorry guys, I should have made that clear. The remark about gear was to esptupac, who gave list of "tough" players. Indeed, most of them I know have very good gear, and it does matter to other classes.

I agree that for warlock, the gear doesn't matter so much. The only thing you need is cs and hp...