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Originally Posted by Kungen
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Most casters can do like 3-6 nukes (3 if you count Ice comets) at level 50 before they go oom and that's not even close to killing a buffed high level melee with resist gear :x. Casters only shine early on during leveling when no one is wielding proper gear.
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Most people also have like 1000-1500ish HP with that resist gear on, so you don't need to land that many spells. Getting 150 FR or CR takes some
serious gear and an easily dispellable buff. Most people will be running around with 80-100ish tops. Spam flux staff until it lands and that debuff coupled with the innate -10 resist check on wizard nukes will make sure nukes consistently land, even if it's for half damage some of the time.
Other classes can do even better. A full ebolt is like 1100 damage for 300 mana and poison resist is hard to get. Pets do a lot of damage by themselves. Druids can cast their ice nuke which applies a -50 FR debuff and then follow up with starfire, each with a max damage of 600+ before the PvP penalty. Necro dots hurt like hell and are mostly unresistable. Pumice and cure potions can counter some of it, but you can also buy insta invis potions and other assorted crap. The only melee class that can cast see invis is shadowknight and there are practically no see invis items until Kunark.
Resist gear mostly just evens the playing field. You'll still get hit by nukes for 500+ fairly regularly unless there's a bard singing resist songs, and several casters have pets that basically melee like a ranger all by themselves. People only sit at like 120MR 100FR 100CR in high-end resist gear at this point in time. Most casters have ways to overcome that, and with a bit of luck or the right debuffs, you can take out most people in two or three casts.
10-06-2011, 10:55 AM
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