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PK curing question - confusion
I've been wondering is someone up here would be able to shoot me a bit of help regarding a special PK curing question I have with warrior types. I seem to be able to hold my ground 'okay' in most cases, but especially in cases against a warrior, be it in a 1vs1 sparring or an actual struggle (the death domoth upgrade thing @Thalkros posted is a good example), I seem to go down very fast compared to other classes I tried 1vs1 against. I have no delusions being standing for long against a seasoned demigod with a lot of curious and artifacts to boost them, still ... it goes down quickly and my m&m doesn't seem to keep up especially with deep wounds. Asked few people in org, but didn't find anything substantial, except of parrying setup improvements, which help but don't help with the fact that the curing doesn't keep up at all.
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A good warrior can build wounds really fast, and will always outpace wound curing unless you are actively hindering them. In groups this is exacerbated and they can drop someone really fast if left alone.
However, there are a few things you might want to check that will improve your defense:
- If you're not using robes (with raised hood)/tattoo armor.
- If you're sipping health instead of applying for wounds. In a 1v1 against a warrior, you should never be sipping health. Any health damage should be covered by scroll, sparkle and regen. In groups, you might try increasing the priority of wounds curing, however especially as a non artied out demigod, you're gonna be vulnerable one way or the other to damage or wounds.
- Run when needed. In groups if you notice yourself get targetted, it's not a bad idea to run out of the room and come back in a bit. Especially as a harmony monk you have a lot of ways to disengage, make use of them.
If you wanna post some logs from your perspective, we might be able to diagnose if something is going especially wrong.
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You shouldn't be using greatrobes as a monk, at least after you get inked. Tattoo armour, even just from kata (i.e. you don't need to know tattoos), is equivalent to splendours (65/65) and you get that just from having all your tattoo weight inked. It doesn't even need to be inked with resistance tats.2
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Cyndarin
used Flamethrower! It was super effective.
What Shuy said. The most common PK mistake that I've come across is that people set m&m up to sip before they sparkle and scroll (probably because it's cheaper, idk). It's actually better to keep your health/mana/ego topped off with your scroll so set it somewhere around 90%, sparkle to supplement that (80%ish) and sipping to actually somewhere in the 65-75% range. The numbers will change depending on your max health but that's a general idea of the priority. This leaves you more room to apply wounds when you aren't actually in danger of being damaged to death and also gives you room to handle burst mana drains.
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Learned a few things from just that:
- I'm very positive I was sipping health instead of apply priority-wise. doh
- disengaging ability, got to look at them.
- remember to raise that hood...
I'll see if I can dig out my log from the incident that Thalkros posted as well. Thanks for the offer.
@Thalkros I more or less referred to your posted log because it was immediately accessible and I had no access to the computer that I use for playing, so I couldn't tell whether I actually had remembered to log. Will log more in the future. I have seen the same problems in 1 vs 1 too, hence why I even posted that question. In the group fight we had, it was pretty clear that with that amount of demigods, I would be hard pressed to keep up even if I had more experience and defenses then I do.
@Tarkenton Thank you for your kind offer. I do have my tattoos 95% done ( I think it says I have 61/61 on the tattoo armor, seen that somewhere). I'll especially check with health sipping and wound priorities, as I learned from this thread today.
edit: oh and yes, stance /parring I had someone help me through it and set it up right, so.. that shouldn't be an issue. Missing skill here and there might, though.
@Shuyin, @Enyalida I'll see that I script myself one of those PK toggles. @Shuyin's lol toggle also sounds very interesting, hrrhrr ;-)
@Tarkenton I hope that "TATTOOS ARMOUR" is correct and right in it's detection, as it detects when I wear greatrobes. Still not sure why there's 61 in stead of 65 in my tattoo armour, but I'll figure it out.
@Everyone Thank you all for your helpful tips and comments... will change things around, tackle a few allied people for sparring and report back :-) I appreciate all the help.