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Well fought! You'll be interesting to fight once you have everything down. x.x
Don't give me excuses for this or that or "I didn't save a log." If you wanna learn to combat, you're gonna save your logs. You're going to blow up a logging website with the amount of shitty losses and a few awesome wins, and your browser favorites is going to be full of them. Period.
If you don't want to post them on the forums (I don't blame you, people are jerks sometimes), then PM some to me. I don't mind helping you out on the Alchie front, even if it is @xinna's job and she's a terrible mentor for throwing you at me. Seriously. Fuck her. She's really mean. I heard she also uses off-brand shampoo.
70% of combat is echoes and highlights. 25% of combat is knowing when to run like a pretty white girl at a frat-house full of recently released sexual offenders. The other 5% is knowing how to kill someone.
Also, don't fraternize with the enemy. Ask @Melodie what happens. Something about a gorilla.
Subs have dramatically improved my ability to see what my opponent is doing, and what strategy they're going for, at a glance.
Try reading an alchemist combo and actually understanding it, in real time, for example. Impossible.
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I'll get logs soon. I admittedly lack highlights and echoes.
Infernal/Magi are really bad at doing that, for sure. Alchemist should definitely help you get what you're looking for.
Also if you don't read over every spar you lose and most of the ones you win, you will be wasting a lot of potential for growth.
I self-taught combat and found that worked a lot better than having someone teach me. I find I'm more innovative now because of it, but maybe not. Shrug.
Just some general tips.
I can't read subs, because I'm too used to seeing the actual text, but I need highlights. Need to make sure you don't highlight -too- many things, though, or everything just gets lost and it's distracting imo.
But bright colors attract my attention so well.
I basically just color code things based on offense or defense though. All enemy cures and stuff are one color, while my attacks are a different color. Then I have a few echoes for specific things.
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Cascades of quicksilver light streak across the firmament as the celestial voice of Ourania intones, "Oh Jarrod..."
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1. Falcon interrupts my somersault MID ALIAS, knocking me off for 1.1s.
2. Halluciations INSTA procs spiders (fear) which INSTA proc fear flee.
3. 50% chance to cure Hellsight botched.
Watching this in as it happened = hands off keyboard.
Parry head.
Really funny though, although realistically without any of that RNG hindrance, he could have just chased and completed it anyways.
Only really significant RNG was the aurum/hellsight smoke, which he prepped well with simultaneous focus(+anorexia)/kelp/smoke stacks, which is pretty much the only way to actually land Damnation other than just rolling the dice on huge kelp stack for asthma and hoping they don't cure it before Damnation (25% chance with amazing rapiers).
I find it a little silly to balance an instakill purely off of RNG curing, but that's basically the way it works. Only solid way to actually prevent it is to prevent the head break, or don't let yourself get kelp stacked while your head is prepped.
@Mizik wait a sec, why'd you kneel/somersault, when you could have just walked away? You totally boned yourself, by dismounting yourself and somersaulting for no reason.
Also, timestamps would be better to make this call, but if you included a 'mounted' check in your somersault alias, instead of manually kneeling (there seems to be a significant delay between kneel and somersault), you probably would have somersaulted before the falcon tic and somersaulted out just fine (unless there was an icewall, I suppose, in which case bad on @Gerwulf for initiating Damnation sequence on an icewall).
Also anorexia > head break for salves against Paladin is pretty risky (it got you killed).
On an unrelated note, it looks like serverside straight up ignored the fear message from hallucinations (spiders), and didn't bother curing it (COMPOSE) until after fear proc'd. Assuming that wasn't just the "intended delay" crap, I think that's pretty lame. Recommended: taking FEAR off SVO ignore.
Most momentum classes, significantly serpent, are all based around RNG preventing the impatience cure, or asthma cure, or darkshade/scytherus cure, or tree breaking out of lock. It's also very strong and part of the reason Damnation is considered a great insta by people who know aff combat. Prior to Frenzy, it's better than vivi in most cases (especially as an insta).
Also just adding in - that damn atrategy doesn't require and doesn't use a kelp stack.
It doesn't require one but it helps. He initiated with weariness which didn't actually matter that much due to kalmia arc, but being off herb balance from eating kelp for weariness is what made the setup work. If he wouldn't have eaten the kelp, he would have eaten another herb (and still had weariness) instead, at which point the asthma would have been kelp stacked. I would have recommended using curare/slike instead of vernalius/slike, and not initiating until sensi or weariness was stuck, for better RNG odds. (same exact sequence but 33% or 50% chance on the aurum curing asthma instead of 100%).
And yes, I agree Damnation is very strong. I'd argue that it's one of the easiest insta-kills in the game, particularly since most people haven't adopted proper curing/defense/meta yet.
Had an icewall and peels. There was no chance of completion for that Damnation from the original somersault attempt. Or the second.
The fear from Hallucinations procced back to back INSTANTLY, before server side reaction time. Spiders fear + fear global rng tick for somersault cancel.
He executed his kill sequence fairly well; however, the steps I took to prevent it were correct. The kill was a statistical blessing.
This all being said, the post was obviously not a call for advice. I grasped the situation. Autists can lay your heads to rest. Just enjoy the odds that played.
@Mizik Actually, the appropriate thing to do under the circumstances was to shield -after- head break (since you weren't prone) to stop the arc. Then it's only double smoke, no asthma, and you had time to cure that!
If he hellsights twice, you use bloodroot to cure the slickness and valerian to cure the hellsight, so no RNG.
Violence solves nothing.