Gimmershred
16-02-2008, 02:12
I posted this in the druid section, but i guess it's better suited here, since it's mend for pvp.
Hi there,
i been playing a firedruid for a while now in pvp. Although it's very fun and it has the potential to kill some people very fast, it's also easily absorbed and/or stacked.The reason why i was thinking about a hybrid is that fire is kinda twosided. It either hits enemies very hard, or it does nearly nothing. So i guess i could get around with a bit less firedamage and a second non-fire attack. Tornado seems perfect, since it's spammable during fissure cooldown.
How i play it now:
I use fissure vs meleechars, running chars and as a defensive area skill vs some casters.
I like volcano, but only if it stunlocks. It does stunlock some , but only vs "not so good duellers" or kinda glasscannon builds. If it stuns it's great though. It's my main skill vs casters. It can be hard since it needs namelock and has a long timer.
Firestorm is good for backtrailing "tele on top" enemies. Tornado can be used this way too.
Armageddon is good damage , but too random. Although it's random, duels are most of the times long and it usually lands a hit.
Molten boulder isn't very usefull, it's too slow. and in situations were it's use-able i prefer firestorm most of the time.
So now my mind goes out to a tornado/fissure hybrid. Whereas all fireskills are timered. Fissure can be cast and while waiting for the timer to end, it's possible to cast tornado's. This will severely affect my firedamage though.
I made some calculation and whereas i use the 68%fcr breakpoint now, i will need the 99% fcr breakpoint if i am going to incorporate tornado. This is do-able without loss of skills.
Damage of fissure will become 3.5k instead of 5.6k i have now. I will have -50fireres instead of the -55 i have now.
Damage of tornado will become 3.5k
whereas my cyclone armor only absorbs 382 damage on my firebuild it will absorb 1800 damage on the hybrid.
Life will slightly go down from 4.3 to 4k because i will have to maintain 99%fhr. Also i won't have summon grizzly, but only a point in spirit wolves.
Note that i have 100frw on this build and 75res all in hell with a stack of over 50%
Will this be enough damage? How effective is tornado in killing casters in general, since it will have to compete with my volcano that i use now. Does 1800 absorb from cyclone help me out? I hope i get some insights on if this build is viable or not in pvp.
i'm especially interested in hearing the tornado-side of this build, since i don't have much experience with tornado. What are it's biggest plusses + downsides in general and in my 3.5k build?
Hi there,
i been playing a firedruid for a while now in pvp. Although it's very fun and it has the potential to kill some people very fast, it's also easily absorbed and/or stacked.The reason why i was thinking about a hybrid is that fire is kinda twosided. It either hits enemies very hard, or it does nearly nothing. So i guess i could get around with a bit less firedamage and a second non-fire attack. Tornado seems perfect, since it's spammable during fissure cooldown.
How i play it now:
I use fissure vs meleechars, running chars and as a defensive area skill vs some casters.
I like volcano, but only if it stunlocks. It does stunlock some , but only vs "not so good duellers" or kinda glasscannon builds. If it stuns it's great though. It's my main skill vs casters. It can be hard since it needs namelock and has a long timer.
Firestorm is good for backtrailing "tele on top" enemies. Tornado can be used this way too.
Armageddon is good damage , but too random. Although it's random, duels are most of the times long and it usually lands a hit.
Molten boulder isn't very usefull, it's too slow. and in situations were it's use-able i prefer firestorm most of the time.
So now my mind goes out to a tornado/fissure hybrid. Whereas all fireskills are timered. Fissure can be cast and while waiting for the timer to end, it's possible to cast tornado's. This will severely affect my firedamage though.
I made some calculation and whereas i use the 68%fcr breakpoint now, i will need the 99% fcr breakpoint if i am going to incorporate tornado. This is do-able without loss of skills.
Damage of fissure will become 3.5k instead of 5.6k i have now. I will have -50fireres instead of the -55 i have now.
Damage of tornado will become 3.5k
whereas my cyclone armor only absorbs 382 damage on my firebuild it will absorb 1800 damage on the hybrid.
Life will slightly go down from 4.3 to 4k because i will have to maintain 99%fhr. Also i won't have summon grizzly, but only a point in spirit wolves.
Note that i have 100frw on this build and 75res all in hell with a stack of over 50%
Will this be enough damage? How effective is tornado in killing casters in general, since it will have to compete with my volcano that i use now. Does 1800 absorb from cyclone help me out? I hope i get some insights on if this build is viable or not in pvp.
i'm especially interested in hearing the tornado-side of this build, since i don't have much experience with tornado. What are it's biggest plusses + downsides in general and in my 3.5k build?