Wut, why would anyone have the need to automate tumbling. Typing out a 2-3 letter tumble alias and pressing enter = < 0.5 secs, queueing should handle everything else.
If you know your opponent has a tendency to tumble, gamble on the timing of a single leg break dsb, which brings you in line with SnB.
If you know they're using a reverse limbcounter and don't tumble on a single leg break then prep both legs and still gamble on a single. It's not like prepping/re-prepping as a lvl 3 runie DWC is slow by any stretch.
I would name SNB Runewarden the best class in the game. Best passive damage resist (and resist all!) + 10% magic resistance + SoA + access to lv3 regen and uruz. They have built in +3 strength, +2 constitution. Aside from prone Battlecry and tertiary balance undeaf, wunjo/nairat God mode is an actual game breaker, nullifying most classes' offensive design. They have Fitness AND passive curing, they also have Rage for some reason, immune to bellwort afflictions.
They have Dedication. The best ability in the game. Immune to paralysis.
Offensively, I didn't find the prep time too bothersome, seeing as the fight ends once I get there, and I was always relatively safe with xentio and vernalius stacked, sensitivity passively ticking on tertiary, and simultaneously working toward soft lock. The sensitivity health and affliction pressure is insane.
Nothing prevents an SNB Disembowel after takedown, very little survives Disembowel itself, and a single thurisaz or hugalaz cleans up the rest.
They literally only need to invest in Gauntlets to kill the whole game.
Alchie is countered hard by slow prep and by fast prep. So anyone that can hit and run or anyone that can break something every 2-4 balances will shut them down.
For what it's worth, sound has a faster pathway to the decision making centres of your brain when compared to sight, because the visual pathway has to go through a different region (visual cortex of the occiptal lode) and have some processing done there before it can be fed onwards. You can react more quickly to sound (granted by ~0.1ms) as a result. You could potentially also benefit in that music that you have an emotional connection to can increase your state of physiological arousal, which could mean release of adrenaline, which will increase reaction time.
(Smell passes through the basal ganglia which is associated with emotional processing and also closer to processing lobes compared to vision so if you could somehow trigger scent off of in-game stuff at high mechanical speed and you had some mental response queued, that would also beat out reading text)
/off-topic
I've been assuming most of these lists are going off of high artie levels - with regards to what @Kythra mentioned at the start for new/un-artied players, I'd be interested to see what people rank things at under those circumstances. I'd assume jester, apostate, shaman sit higher when offensive pressure isn't as intense.
I had Jester as a third slot class for over a year and I don't think I fashioned anyone other than my team mates for summon. You don't even need puppetry at all for that class.
Do jesters have a good counter to shielding at the right time without puppets? I always thought that was the biggest counter to axes and aeon that not many people seemed to talk about
I know I shouldn't derail/necro the thread further, but I definitely got a good chuckle sitting here reading the forums seeing this as I'm queuing up for dungeons to work on set pieces for my vMA. I basically live in ESO now and I've been having a great time.
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If you know your opponent has a tendency to tumble, gamble on the timing of a single leg break dsb, which brings you in line with SnB.
If you know they're using a reverse limbcounter and don't tumble on a single leg break then prep both legs and still gamble on a single. It's not like prepping/re-prepping as a lvl 3 runie DWC is slow by any stretch.
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I would name SNB Runewarden the best class in the game. Best passive damage resist (and resist all!) + 10% magic resistance + SoA + access to lv3 regen and uruz. They have built in +3 strength, +2 constitution. Aside from prone Battlecry and tertiary balance undeaf, wunjo/nairat God mode is an actual game breaker, nullifying most classes' offensive design. They have Fitness AND passive curing, they also have Rage for some reason, immune to bellwort afflictions.
They have Dedication. The best ability in the game. Immune to paralysis.
Offensively, I didn't find the prep time too bothersome, seeing as the fight ends once I get there, and I was always relatively safe with xentio and vernalius stacked, sensitivity passively ticking on tertiary, and simultaneously working toward soft lock. The sensitivity health and affliction pressure is insane.
Nothing prevents an SNB Disembowel after takedown, very little survives Disembowel itself, and a single thurisaz or hugalaz cleans up the rest.
They literally only need to invest in Gauntlets to kill the whole game.
- Limb Counter - Fracture Relapsing -
"Honestly, I just love that it counts limbs." - Mizik Corten
Player > arties > class > traits > background music
Music choice tends to take the longest tweaking for final min-maxing and having to change the song mid-fight is where most high level combat is lost.
Background music > player > class > background music again > traits > arties
If I'm in a duel and I start up Magus's theme, you gonna die.
(Smell passes through the basal ganglia which is associated with emotional processing and also closer to processing lobes compared to vision so if you could somehow trigger scent off of in-game stuff at high mechanical speed and you had some mental response queued, that would also beat out reading text)
/off-topic
I've been assuming most of these lists are going off of high artie levels - with regards to what @Kythra mentioned at the start for new/un-artied players, I'd be interested to see what people rank things at under those circumstances. I'd assume jester, apostate, shaman sit higher when offensive pressure isn't as intense.
Fashion, leap east, fashion, leap east x 30.
30 minutes later...
Press some buttons, rek some face.
And concussion bomb strategies.
Ugh and now I want to drop DW and go back Jester.
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