Duel - Reality Check
Since the ladder reset I have been playing my ex ladder lighting trapper all decked out with what I had on my none ladder account. She has good gear. For the fun of it, I have decided to duel her in pubbies pvp games. She has around 3000 Bo'ed HP (I know that by today standards it's a bit low but she was not meant for pvp at first) and her lightning traps can do up to around 10k max damage.
I have not duel in a good long while really but I did my good share a pvp so I know that in pubbies everything and anything goes. Still, I must admit that a couple of things surprised me nevertheless :
1) Many of the games I entered were made in normal mod.(I joined the game by typing the name without seeing it). What the hell is that ? There are no reasons, Imho, that dueling games should take place in normal mode. With what the game offers now, it's completely ridiculous. Is this the new ways of dueling now ?
2) I don't know if my lighting trap damage is considered weak but it seems to deal very little damage to a lot of people. Are people all sporting 90 % lightning resistance with 40 % lightning absord ? I remember dueling lightning trappers with my paladin and even with thundergod and 85 % lightning resistance I was taking some serious damage. I know that duelers now can have very high life, 4000 HP or even more but I was a bit flabbergasted that they can stand in the middle of a trap field, being MBlasted and having fun like it's their business.
3) I am also really amazed that MH and AA are in full force in PvP games even after the latest ban spree. In this regard, things haven't changed that much since my dueling days
Since the ladder reset I have been playing my ex ladder lighting trapper all decked out with what I had on my none ladder account. She has good gear. For the fun of it, I have decided to duel her in pubbies pvp games. She has around 3000 Bo'ed HP (I know that by today standards it's a bit low but she was not meant for pvp at first) and her lightning traps can do up to around 10k max damage.
I have not duel in a good long while really but I did my good share a pvp so I know that in pubbies everything and anything goes. Still, I must admit that a couple of things surprised me nevertheless :
1) Many of the games I entered were made in normal mod.(I joined the game by typing the name without seeing it). What the hell is that ? There are no reasons, Imho, that dueling games should take place in normal mode. With what the game offers now, it's completely ridiculous. Is this the new ways of dueling now ?
2) I don't know if my lighting trap damage is considered weak but it seems to deal very little damage to a lot of people. Are people all sporting 90 % lightning resistance with 40 % lightning absord ? I remember dueling lightning trappers with my paladin and even with thundergod and 85 % lightning resistance I was taking some serious damage. I know that duelers now can have very high life, 4000 HP or even more but I was a bit flabbergasted that they can stand in the middle of a trap field, being MBlasted and having fun like it's their business.
3) I am also really amazed that MH and AA are in full force in PvP games even after the latest ban spree. In this regard, things haven't changed that much since my dueling days