Experiences in PvP

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Google337 wrote:

It was so funner back in te day with all the dramains vs icu, mulla vs google vs some leonamenus?? guy 2hers shadowtf and haunt vs herpes, slaydemkidz retarded ea user oh yea and biggdaddy slam yourorignal the flicker dude dulahan???headless something. was good days

Lol Leo, now thats i havent heard of in a Long time. Had sick bis 2h gear but lost to me and mulla and was pissed. Prob ragequitted.

Long time since slay quit too, he was so angry when His build was ported to PvP alpha server

Those were indeed simpler and better times for PvP. There was only one clearly broken mechanic combination at the time....block + crit + shotgun spells. Before that was + RF to said combo. With crit flicker trailing second and a few meta builds that didn't last long i.e RF only for example. Things like 1h,2h and bow were viable ....when used properly. Totems/summons still sucked nads and traps were pretty much crap too until CC was introduced. You could do basic counter plays like igniting/bleeding es users to prevent regen. RoP shields were swapped onto ll casters to prevent ignites for that very reason etc..etc.. Now its just apes throwing shit at one another. Reminds me of classic Diablo2 PvP where everyone was pretty much a character specialist and knew their shit. Now you look at the game and its a bunch of fuckwads with heavy mods and 0 skill.

That leo guy was also bad....so very bad. He was down there with Godkas and most every other 2h at the time. Some had godlike gear and some only now reached that level. The gear carries you only so far.

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MullaXul wrote:

Those were indeed simpler and better times for PvP. There was only one clearly broken mechanic combination at the time....block + crit + shotgun spells. Before that was + RF to said combo. With crit flicker trailing second and a few meta builds that didn't last long i.e RF only for example. Things like 1h,2h and bow were viable ....when used properly. Totems/summons still sucked nads and traps were pretty much crap too until CC was introduced. You could do basic counter plays like igniting/bleeding es users to prevent regen. RoP shields were swapped onto ll casters to prevent ignites for that very reason etc..etc.. Now its just apes throwing shit at one another. Reminds me of classic Diablo2 PvP where everyone was pretty much a character specialist and knew their shit. Now you look at the game and its a bunch of fuckwads with heavy mods and 0 skill.

That leo guy was also bad....so very bad. He was down there with Godkas and most every other 2h at the time. Some had godlike gear and some only now reached that level. The gear carries you only so far.

That you are not even mentioning molten shell as broken back then is frightening

Molten Shell and zero-cooldown Tempest were nightmarish. Back when I had to use way too much strategy against Grieviel after CranimAnnihilator was being his crafting sugar daddy, Griev's tempest was the only thing that could keep him alive.

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Tommie_Sjukskriven wrote:

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MullaXul wrote:

Those were indeed simpler and better times for PvP. There was only one clearly broken mechanic combination at the time....block + crit + shotgun spells. Before that was + RF to said combo. With crit flicker trailing second and a few meta builds that didn't last long i.e RF only for example. Things like 1h,2h and bow were viable ....when used properly. Totems/summons still sucked nads and traps were pretty much crap too until CC was introduced. You could do basic counter plays like igniting/bleeding es users to prevent regen. RoP shields were swapped onto ll casters to prevent ignites for that very reason etc..etc.. Now its just apes throwing shit at one another. Reminds me of classic Diablo2 PvP where everyone was pretty much a character specialist and knew their shit. Now you look at the game and its a bunch of fuckwads with heavy mods and 0 skill.

That leo guy was also bad....so very bad. He was down there with Godkas and most every other 2h at the time. Some had godlike gear and some only now reached that level. The gear carries you only so far.

That you are not even mentioning molten shell as broken back then is frightening

Puncture bow man, you just had to put your sword/axe/mace away. It was broken but it had a work around. A very primitive and slow one which made duels a real chore but...ya a work around. Now we have a lot of ways around it so I consider it a mute issue. Scolds + Molten = sheer stupidity though, hoping we see something come of that one day.


Edit: Tempest, ya can't forget that one. Hit you from full screen, shock and crit...good times. Again why casters > all back then, no questions asked...unless you asked half of ICU that is. To those guys casters were low tier, booty butt cheek tier.

yea it was simple.


tempest shield was one shotting from 6k and could repeat zillion times per second,

there was not enough dps modifiers on tree or as gems to deal enough damage more than leg kaoms builds' life regeneration per second;

panicked avenger flasks were complete absurdly broken at that time,

cyclone and molten strike had no T values literally killing everything in less than one second with almost no fucking dps investment. people were seriously stacking ONLY life + regen and yolo with cyclone and calling themselves pvp god. everybody was almost one shot. i remember my 12k ES charater was dying in a bit more than second.

molten shell. ahah. i dont wanna even talk about it. if you didnt have leg kaoms, you were just getting rekt. or you should have had leg shavs + gg es gear.

puncture traps -> that barrett guy was 1# pvp one shotting, trivializing any build with GG duration CC + puncture double dipping.

TC 20/23 + enhance lvl 4 -> holy hell you werent able to even move on its effect. stack attack speed with quill rain spam everywhere - congratz you are pvp god. just use some aoe skill and spam around.

sorry guys because your cyclone was king back in time, it doesnt mean those times were better. same shit, different color.

I hated using cyclone, only used it because it bypassed frost walls and kb/stun immunity. It let me path my tree and gear more freely beyond that I could care less. You're right though, there were other issues which have since been resolved/replaced with new ones. Look at 3.0 for instance, they've already shown us massive improvements to what we know to be problematic. Yet.......look at what they've already introduced so far, more over tuned shit that will breed new cancer.


PvP now is like when you take a shit and you immediately feel like you should take a shower afterwards....you know the ones.

I heard from someone, and I'm not gonna name any names Gutbags, but I heard ShadowtheFall six-linked his tempest. Was that ever true?

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ocd_xana wrote:

I heard from someone, and I'm not gonna name any names Gutbags, but I heard ShadowtheFall six-linked his tempest. Was that ever true?

Shadows tempest was 3l, he obv had a 6l ek

I just got a gaming rig, reinstalling poe to play again

g g g guess whos back :D