Theory Crafting PvP 2v2's

[DrFaustus]

Tank Mage build

Use Anatomy over Eval

Produce 2 50+ damage hally hits

Success?

Fail?

[Pro]

fail.


No resist = die to one sync even with heals. Once people are aware of your lack of resist you'll constantly be targetted as well.

[DrFaustus]

Eh?

No I meant Anatomy instead of Eval.

Resist would be a staple of the build.

The point would be to utilize halberd hits of 55+ while still being nearly unkillable as a solid healer.

[Pro]

my bad i just assumed it meant no resist.


Waste of time though tbh the only way that template would work is if you break the opponent down over time with big hits (or massive luck).

Basically you won't kill anyone without a lot of luck and even if you luck out in a few fights you'd need a new halberd every time and the template isn't exactly versatile. Finishing opponents would be difficult and no good players will die to you ;/

[Mikel123]

Anatomy adds an average of 5-6 damage per hit with GM through +25 vanqs. Eval literally doubles the damage of your spells against GM resist, so like 12+ damage per ebolt. I don't think it's worth the tradeoff.

[RoadKill]

On OSI a friend of mine had a really brutal template he started using in T2A and went future updates came it only got sicker (UO:R and then Pub16 surged his success rate)


Swords / Tactics / Anatomy / Mage / Med / Eval / Resist

100 Str, 75 Int, 50 Dex was the original stats, but I know he ended up molding it overtime to adjust to how well he played it. It was only really reliable in field pvp and 1v1 duels. You need to really pay attention to the status of your opponent (so you don't disarm giving them a free hally hit).

He was pretty successful with it, it's much better than people who stick to 100/25/100 stats using the same template above.

[Zeppelin]

On OSI a friend of mine had a really brutal template he started using in T2A and went future updates came it only got sicker (UO:R and then Pub16 surged his success rate)


Swords / Tactics / Anatomy / Mage / Med / Eval / Resist

100 Str, 75 Int, 50 Dex was the original stats, but I know he ended up molding it overtime to adjust to how well he played it. It was only really reliable in field pvp and 1v1 duels. You need to really pay attention to the status of your opponent (so you don't disarm giving them a free hally hit).

He was pretty successful with it, it's much better than people who stick to 100/25/100 stats using the same template above.

Sounds like an interesting variation to the Meditation Dexer.

[MatronDeWinter]

I have a template exactly like Doc describes, and it only works good now that damage is overpowered. Once that changes, and I suspect soon, it will be lame.

Roadkill has a good idea there, but with today's fast connections, the 1 second action delay will likely cause most people to take a few hits. It would have been easier to arm before getting hit in t2a when everyone couldn't run at 100 tiles per second.

There is (currently) no point in having 50 dex though if you plan to take advantage of the wildly inaccurate hally jousting-cycles. 33 stamina is the magic number for the fastest hally cycles, which is why most people go with 35 (well actually, they just copy sandro, they dont know why), because walking takes 1-2 stam. From the actual formula, 46 Stamina should be the ideal number, but again, the halberd cycling is wildly inaccurate.

[clintbeastwood]

fail.


No resist = die to one sync even with heals. Once people are aware of your lack of resist you'll constantly be targetted as well.

He did not mention having 0 resist sir.
but still fail. There is no way to sync the hits properly so it would be easily healable. and if someone realized you had no wresltle then they would pull katanaand rape you

[clintbeastwood]

i am making a char somewhat like one i used to play and i think it will work.
gm mage/mace/tactics
80= healing, anat, eval, resist, med
90 str 70 dex 65 int

get stammed.

[archaicsubrosa77]

toggle that dress macro for that chain tunic,
been three seconds he is going to pull that hally

Could try this...

Fencing 100
Tactics 100
Anatomy 50
Evaluating Intelligence 80
Wrestling 70
Meditation 100
Magery 100
Resist 100

95/50/80: Swords would work, it's just Kryss and shortspear in hand is pretty fast at 50..even at 40 debuffed it's alot more reliable then cycling I think.

70 wrestling is not bad at all chance to escape if you are just really vulnerable to that 3 second hally coming in at you and need to cast right then and there.

[marmalade]

faustus is talking about the template with regard to 2v2s. with magerys use being limited to healing, you would have to rely on weapon hits alone to kill your opponents. with the 50/50 hit rate and the 25% durability bonus not likely being in place for much longer, the bonus from having eval will probably outweigh the bonus from anatomy in pretty much any combat situation.