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Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
Nothing that I could find in the magi skills stops it. Maybe a bug, but yeah, destabilize grounding doesn't stop it. Nor does creeps, if the target is prone.
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* There is now a room-wide message when a burning player takes steps to reduce their level of inflammation.
This'll make working up to Destroy easier!
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
Dude. Just set variables for staff strike element and golem attack. Then make tiny aliases that just target different limbs.
sll for staff left leg:
sendAll("setalias sll staffstrike " " ..tar.. " " ..element.. " left leg/golem " ..golatk.. " " ..tar, "sll")
Or whatever.
Then set aliases to swap both variables as appropriate.
Make two separate aliases for wind legs.
Or have someone script you a one button push.
And by alias I mean one that keeps track of the target's affs and chooses the right impurity to afflict and destabilises when they have the right affs ;D
So, in a spar, I prep legs, using maybe earth and smash arms to slow offense (fighting weapon classes) until prepped (still 4 hits/break with staffstrike, right?) then go for a damage burst to hit with timeflux. Once that's stuck, I guess I maybe break one leg with air/scorch then break the other with fire/dehydrate? Or will they have stood up by then? And what the hell good is dehydrate anyways, other than setting up for destroy? If I dehydrate, what should I go for next? I need to keep them on fire for four more tics, right? I guess to cure burn they'd need to apply mending, so could I break torso after dehydrate? Would that stop mending from curing ablaze?
tl;dr:
1. How long does timeflux last, how is it cured, and what exactly does it do?
2. Is scald necessary or does it just help get health low enough for timeflux?
3. Does hypothermia come into play anywhere?
4. Is retardation still a staple of Magi offense? Because I've just gotten smashed when I use it now.
5. How is destabilise plague useful when it affects me as well? Or any of the vibes, for that matter?
Destroy:
1. Prep one or two legs (depending on what they parry) and one or two arm (again on what they parry) for a total of three limbs. All this is done while using golem smash on their arms to hinder their offense.
2. If you so desire, damage burst to stick timeflux (lasts 45s right now).
3. Cast golem inferno
4. Break an arm with earth/golem smash arms
5. Break leg with air/smash arms
6. Break the third limb with fire/dehydrate
7. Proceed to combo staffstrike earth on a limb with golem scorch three-ish times while inferno is still going.
8. Use destroy.
9. Laugh at your victim as they're forced to pray because Destroy doesn't leave a body and goes through starburst.
This strategy does not take into account things like rebounding/shielding/tumbling/running. You have to figure out how to get past that stuff on your own.
Pummel:
1. Prep an arm and a leg with earthstrike/smash arms. Add in a waterstrike/smash arms to the torso once or twice if so desired.
1.5. Timeflux if you want.
2. Break arm water/smash arms
3. Break leg air/smash arms.
4. Finish prepping torso with water/smash arms
5. Break torso with water/hypothermia
6. Strike torso water/pummel x2.
7. Dance on their broken corpse.
For strategies with Retardation, you're going to be relying a lot on Golem Impurity to mess them up, destabilise lullaby and Golem Hypnotise. You can go for either strategy in retardation as well. Pummel is the favored go-to.
To actually answer your questions:
1. Timeflux increases salve recovery balance by about 0.6s and lasts for 45s. The skill may change from classleads though.
2. Scald isn't really used.. there' no place for it in 1v1 imo. It might come in handy for group skirmishes, but there are more useful things you can be doing.
3. See Pummel Strategy
4. Retardation is now more an optional thing than the staple it used to be. It can be great if you use it intelligently. Otherwise you're more like to get destroyed by certain classes that rely heavily on afflictions and such.
5. Destabilise plague, when used in conjunction with airstrike, can be a good way to catch a moment of respite from an aggressive offense. It's not a very long respite (about 2s or so), but many times that can be a huge difference. As for other vibes, experiment with them. I find that destabilise offers enormous raid utility, and can be helpful for locking people down in ret when you have a good advantage.
And thanks for the overview, that will help tremendously in figuring out what to do.
It's not about the ablaze ticks. It's more like how freeze goes from caloric strip > shivering > frozen. Now, if you're ablaze AND dehydrated and you get hit by inferno or golem scorch, you increase to lvl 2 burn > lvl 3 > lvl 4 > lvl 5. Can destroy at lvl 5.
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curing burn levels: (the diminish is shown to the magi, aswell)
"The fires consuming you diminish somewhat." (victim perspective)
"The fires consuming &person diminish somewhat." (magi perspective)
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burn levels increasing: (the increase tiers are not shown to the magi, have to guess these and track their burn level based on their appliances)
"Your skin begins to char from the bones as the fires feast upon you."
"Your skin runs like wax as it melts from your bones."
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If the magi makes the mistake of using water staffstrike when prepping for Destroy (TEST ALL THE THINGS!)
"Waves of elemental water surge over your body, quenching the tongues of flame." (victim perspective)
"The fires consuming &person diminish somewhat." (magi perspective)
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Failed Destroy :
"A crystalline golem advances upon &person, but abruptly retreats without apparent reason." (magi perspective)
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EDIT : oh forgot your other questions. The levels do the same amount of damage, they don't increase the ablaze or scorch or whatever damage. They're just a "OH MY GOD RUN THE HELL AWAY NOW WHAT ARE YOU EVEN STILL DOING HERE"
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
Intended?
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."