Absorb help

[FiveCent]

Well I dueled a frozen orb sorc and she couldn't damage me at all with 2 x ravenfrost blizzclash and massive resist.

I then dueled a fire sorc with maxed resist, a rising sun, and a dwarfs star, but i took massive damage instead of heeling right back up with about 75% absorb, is there something im missing in pvp at least with fire absorb? not sure how lightning will work either.

Can someone tell me why i can absorb cold but not fire?

[DayDream]

That must've been one frozen orb sorc if you wanted to sorb to that point Lol.

You need 95 total resist on screen while negating -res ~.~ Then use dwarf.. That should be good enough to tank hits not heal.

[FiveCent]

so i need to get my max resistance up from 75 to 95 for the absorb to work properly? I thought if i had 50, i'd take the damage and instantly heal back up again, will that happen once its at 95? thanks.

[DayDream]

I tried doing the same in your exact position to a tging fire sorc.

I used rising sun, stacked resist, 2 dwarfs and i died quite quick.
Next I did nokozan,stacked resist, 2 dwarfs and I tanked alot more than the above setup.

So I would have to imagine using hotspurs,nokozan,x2dwarf to tank alot more (I don't know the full sorb setup but this will tank alot.) The use of hotspurs and nokozan has enough fire resist to stack so you can use normal gear for the other slots.

[FiveCent]

ok i might try that, btw is rising sun just +fire sorb not the %? If then i need to get another dwarf too. I might have missed that before.

[DayDream]

Not by %
I've never seen it sorb fball though.
I seen it sorb hydra and stacked auras but never fball.

[Voorhees]

A pair of Hotspurs and some stack usually do the trick for me, though I'm not generally interested in completely absorbing someone. If your going to do that why fight them to start with? The outcome would seem fairly obvious, afterall.

[FiveCent]

first off this is only for public duels and wouldn't be used in any gm form of dueling heh. And is there any reason why a firebolt couldn't be absorbed?

[frooglemon]

With my charger i use dual pheonix, spurs, rising sun, and a pair of dwarfs on top of my normal kiras for elemental helm. I got healed with the non gg sorcs but there were ones that had the mega res cutting weps 30/30, 20/20, 20/20 etc. He still does 12k but only 7k if i decide to put on salvation to spite them.

[FiveCent]

Alright, anyone got a fire sorc on W/SC/L that wants to shoot some fireballs at me? pm me or post here if you do. I need someone to test it out with normal dueling gear.

[Hyphy]

`` hottpsurs+ kiras'= victory

[mephiztophelez]

spur's and enough res to take advantage of them should be more than enough to give 99% of fire sorcs a migraine.

[FiveCent]

ok i think ill be up to 95 fire resist with 2 dwarfs for absorb, hopefully i'll do better than a have before

[Von Lazuli]

ok i think ill be up to 95 fire resist with 2 dwarfs for absorb, hopefully i'll do better than a have before

Well, when you say better, do you mean better in so far that no-fire based character will ever duel you more than once?

Absorbing that much is just being a prick, what is the point of dueling if one side cannot hurt the other?

Laz

[Dennis_KoreanGuy]

Well, when you say better, do you mean better in so far that no-fire based character will ever duel you more than once?

Absorbing that much is just being a prick, what is the point of dueling if one side cannot hurt the other?

Laz
exit + join one of many + abuse elemental prowess rather than be abused.

[mephiztophelez]

ok i think ill be up to 95 fire resist with 2 dwarfs for absorb, hopefully i'll do better than a have before
eeeeew. if you need that much sorb to take on a mere fire sorc, you must be a really appallingly bad dueller.

Well, when you say better, do you mean better in so far that no-fire based character will ever duel you more than once?

Absorbing that much is just being a prick, what is the point of dueling if one side cannot hurt the other?

Laz

word. the truly 1337 duellers use no sorb and still pwn all.

[Von Lazuli]

word. the truly 1337 duellers use no sorb and still pwn all.

Yeps... and do you ever wonder why they don't ever play elemental based characters?

Laz

[mephiztophelez]

Yeps... and do you ever wonder why they don't ever play elemental based characters?

Laz

lolz.

*sigh*
i curse my 220+ ping that makes BvC's nigh on impossible for me...... and i point blank refuse to build a hammerdin.

[dainbramage]

You'd lose your enigma eventually once you started building several chars that require it...


Why not a wind druid/boner?