Just beat the shit out of a paladin

[Arafura]

I only get to play a few hours a day now, so I turned in my PVP book a few weeks back because I'm either camping clickies or sitting in the GH.

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I also get tells all of the time "Why is your name red?" bla bla.

today some paladin sends me a tell:

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Spell Line Up:
Splart
Drain Essence
Putrescence
Putrefaction
Funeral Pyre of Kelador (never landed)
Exigency for Blood (doesn't land, had to switch out for Witherin Venom)
Annul Magic (not really worth it with the recast time)
Shadow Step
Quivering Veil of Xarn
Harmshield

Abilities/Items Used:
Wisperwind
Second Spire (Pet Proc, stacks with robes)
Corrupted Energeiac Silk Robe (Pet Proc)
Shadow-Vexed Silk Robe (Pet Proc)
Blightbringer's Tunic of the Grave (DoT Crit Chance % Booster)
Suspend Minion

Final Thoughts:
First thing I did was wisperwind behind him and send the pet in. Casted Annul a few times while I shadowstepped and Whisperwind'd. Unless you have the Abashi Rod, there really is no point in annulling as the recast time is way too long. Splart, and the 2 corruptions had no problem landing. Funeral never landed, will probably either switch to a nuke for that slot or pyrocuror.

I let him tank my pet down (probably discd him down) then I pulled out my second pet and used second spire and robe clicks which created some havoc on him. I dont think he was expected a second pet, and if he was, he wasn't expecting a tougher version. Never used my harmshields as he only got me below 80% once or twice.

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All in all, that was fun

[Ultulus]

paladins are easily one of the worst dueling classes in the game. sure they can last forever.. but their dps is pitiful. make yourself 200 orbs before you go into a duel with them.. you probably can just sit there and tank them yourself. its pretty pathetic.

orbs > all.

[Khyandys]

Regardless, amusing story. The trash-talking beforehand just made it that much better. Thanks for posting.

[encephalitis]

I'm just curious why you used Funeral Pyre or would use Pyrocruor? Resist checks?

[Arafura]

apparently all fire spells up to and including funeral pyre of kelador have a preset chance to land, regardless of resists. Believe it is around 10%. anything above level 60 won't land for crap.

but putrefaction,putrescence, splart and lifetaps never got me below 80% mana.

I might replace the fire dot slot with a pet heal.

[Ultulus]

apparently all fire spells up to and including funeral pyre of kelador have a preset chance to land, regardless of resists. Believe it is around 10%. anything above level 60 won't land for crap.

but putrefaction,putrescence, splart and lifetaps never got me below 80% mana.

I might replace the fire dot slot with a pet heal.

against a paladin all you need is the corrupt dots :P... they are weak sauces.

[Killegore]

Ok. So far i have had success with most of my duels.

I have dueled lots of monks, all die easy to dots. Same with Rogues, Warriors, Paladins, Shadowknights. Really long fights are Clerics, Druids. and Shamans. They take forever. But are winnable. Just gotta run them oom.

Rangers are fun duel. You really need to keep moving, but at the same time stay close to them. Not so close they can melee, but not too far they can shoot. If possible keep behind them. Don't stand still too long either. You stand still long enough and they will BoA you.

But, if the ranger knows what he/she is doing ur screwed and it will last a long time. I dueled an 85 ranger, 3k aa's, and it lasted 3 hours. We decided to call it a draw.

I had my Shade Orbs, HoT pots. The spells i used were
Corpseskin rk2
Quivering Veil of Xarn
Harmshield
Splart rk2 (will not stack with splurt)
Putrescense rk2
Putrefaction
Pyrocruor
Funeral Pyre of Kelador
Unliving Murderer
Drain Essence rk2
I also used my Harmshield aa, Rise of Bones AA, Swarm of Decay AA, T5 group robe pet clicky, Third Spire, CoA BP Clicky. Used epic clicky all well, plus right clicky arcstone BP as well. Just gotta wait for him to shoot out 1 or 2 pets from aa's or fabled wep. Then those 2 items are useable, and once pets die they go after him. =)

Pretty much strat here was Pet, Dot, move, dot, aa pet, move, dot, aa pets, move. Lifetap, Shade Orb, move. And so on. I did run him oom 2 times which he admitted to me after we called it. Said he used vet aa Staunch Recovery, + mana refresh potions. All in all it was a good fight. We had fun with it. I had a pet suspended, plus the one already out. Then kept summoning more pets as he actually attacked them. He obviously healed himself during the duel as well.

What i found to be funny is we both came in fully buffed. I dotd him for the first hour. After that he debuffed himself, then when i would land dots he'd just debuff them. Which made it take longer, so i had to keep life tapping to do any significant damage. I didn't go below 50% mana the whole time.