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Bloodborn Tactics
Riluo
The Doctor
After a long departure from the game, I have once more returned and to be honest many things have changed and combat is now super –fast- ! Therefore, during the last two weeks, I have been sparring with random people to get a better overview of things as well as building up my offensive as I go. Now that I have a –very- basic feel for low/mid-tier combat I have decided it is time to begin asking people, "what did I do wrong in that fight?" AND "What did I do right?” The overall response has been you heal very well, you output damage fine, however your priority list needs reworked. Therefore, I added in new whispers and moved a few around just to test things out, sadly I kind of hit a bit of a dead end with it, so I am here to seek advice from other Bloodborn and competent fighters in the game. I am not looking for scripts or anything of the sort; I will do that end of things on my own.
Basic tactics:
What I do however need is a few pointers about what I need to whisper first, in this regard I am going to show a current set of venom and whispers I send in order to see if I could maybe swap a few around.
This is the order I tend to whisper in:
"impatience","stupidity",
"epilepsy","confusion",
"indifference","anorexia",
Etc etc
Basic venom I use:
"paralysis",
"asthma",
"limpveins",
"slickness",
"anorexia",
"clumsiness",
Etc etc
Rituals and stuff:
As part of my strategies I employee all the standard rituals and aim for good old mindsurge/painted scythe to pressure mana/clotting. This however seems to have been slightly nerfed from what I can gather as I am not really causing as much bleed as I use too. In this regard, I added in MINDBURROW to fire once a target hits around 55-65% mana and has between 5-8 afflictions on them. The whole idea as far as I can tell is to give a knock to the other player’s mana pool. Other than this, I am kind of at a loss as to where to go now.
So advice please as I have not played in a long time and people seem to be curing like no tomorrow and to be blunt I am struggling at this point to get peoples mana to drop or afflictions to stick.
On a side note, wish this class did not requires so much investment in artifacts to match up slash/whisper speeds.
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Comments
Does the listed order mean that you use the first two afflictions from that list that the target doesn't already have?
Are you using bloodmeld?
Yes, I give the first two from that (priority) list in a descending order. So for example my first attack will be:
gash with curare/dwhisper impatience stupidity.
Then if they cure impatience but do not cure stupidity on my next dwhisper balance it will give them epilepsy impatience, if they cure epilepsy, it will now give epilepsy confusion. In theory working its way down the list as I hit my attack button. Does that make sense? I also do the same with my venom, if they fail to cure it that round it grabs the next on my list. If they do cure it however it gives that affliction again until it stick then moves to the next etc. It is far from perfect, but it works to some extent.
As for invoke bloodmeld yes I started adding it back in recently, although it seems to get interrupted in the 5 secs I am off balance sometimes! I am not sure if that is because they hit me, or not.
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
The affliction selecting looks solid, I do the same. You may want to look into adding more queues for different situations. I have four of those - the 'primary' one, a damage one, a locking one, and a movement-prevention one.
Would help if you can post some logs that demonstrate what you are struggling with - without those the best I can tell you is generic things such as getting rid of that anorexia/indifference combo.
@Ilyon sorry should have posted a few and I will remove those two afflictions from my list and add something else.
This is my first PK after returning, it is against Dato: http://www.logsty.com/logs/DxZ8H
Ranked match against Kaeus, which to be honest was really hard: http://www.logsty.com/logs/YQgOX
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Have made sure it tracks anxieties now. I never even considered it, also yeah the Kaeus spar was a mess as things did not go as planned. I kept spamming a macro I haphazardly made that was meant to "diagnose|purify blood" but yeah nothing.
[Tripwire]: Info: Mastema has gained hubris (Wisp - Anxieties)
[7095(100%)|5720(100%)|0|100%|100%|80%|90.5%|R:100] [HMcsdb eb]
mastema has < hubris, impatience, insulation, rebounding, sileris >
Mastema touches a tree of life tattoo.
You discern that Mastema has cured the effects of hubris.
[7095(100%)|5720(100%)|0|100%|100%|80%|90.5%|R:100] [HMcsdb eb]
[Tripwire]: Info: Mastema has cured impatience (liver) (9.262s)
[7095(100%)|5720(100%)|0|100%|100%|80%|90.5%|R:100] [HMcsdb eb]
mastema has < hubris, insulation, rebounding, sileris >
Mastema eats a liver slice.
[7095(100%)|5720(100%)|0|100%|100%|80%|90.5%|R:100] [HMcsdb eb]
Mastema eats a liver slice.
[7095(100%)|5720(100%)|0|100%|100%|80%|90.5%|R:100] [HMcsdb eb]
[Tripwire]: Info: Mastema has cured hubris (6.962s)
[Tripwire]: Info: Mastema has gained sadness (Wisp - Anxieties)
[7095(100%)|5720(100%)|0|100%|100%|80%|90.5%|R:100] [HMcsdb eb]
mastema has < insulation, rebounding, sadness, sileris >
[Tripwire]: Info: Mastema has cured sadness (bladder) (0.713s)
[7095(100%)|5720(100%)|0|100%|100%|80%|90.5%|R:100] [HMcsdb eb]
mastema has < insulation, rebounding, sileris >
[Tripwire]: Info: Mastema has gained commitment (Wisp - Anxieties)
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
With L3 runes, stillmind and no crown:
Spinning a gruesome crescent scythe around you, you gash open yourself.
Balance Used: 3.44 seconds
You lock your gaze to yourself's for the briefest moment and sharply whisper a word of
command, driving the imperative into your mind with the force of your supernatural will.
Your mind feels somewhat slower and more plodding.
Yourself shuffles your feet in boredom.
Equilibrium Used: 3.75 seconds
With L3 runes, stillmind + (Jeromy's crown):
Spinning a gruesome crescent scythe around you, you gash open yourself.
Balance Used: 3.44 seconds
You lock your gaze to yourself's for the briefest moment and sharply whisper a word of
command, driving the imperative into your mind with the force of your supernatural will.
Your mind feels somewhat slower and more plodding.
Yourself shuffles your feet in boredom.
Equilibrium Used: 3.48 seconds
If I ever get spare credits I will get one I think, although no big rush as I will just get it when I get it.
Abhorash says, "Ve'kahi has proved that even bastards can earn their place."
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax