Personally, since i tried practicing in pvp, me: 1 opponenet: 14. maybe its because im using iron and they are using explosion idk. but all for the good practice. :))
You underestimate your magic, when in fact it’s a really good magic despite being uncommon among the player base. You should message me sometime, I could teach you how to properly utilize your magic.
Try coming up with a strategy with your magic or using weapons like dual daggers or crossbows
Attack them when they attack you since your magic is slower than most. Try and bait out their attacks and then hit them while they’re in animations or charging.
tbh it might just be a gear difference, whenever i fought against an iron friend with near-equal gear i always lost.
As a fellow metal magic user, the #1 thing to do is keep applying your DoT bleed. Whittling down someones health as they run away is one of the biggest strengths of any magic that has a near 100% proc on a status effect.
This is just my playstyle so it might not work for everyone, but what I’ve done is I completely scrapped blast spells. I run a tank/crowd control build so my main method of damaging is using Explosion spells. They’re quick to cast, cover a large area, and have instantaneous travel time. The only drawback is the very limited range on how far away from yourself you can cast it.
Or you can just “haha dual daggers go brrrrr”
Also, if you do use explosion spells, make sure you set them to Sphere.