Yesterday I fought one of my friends that had a thermo + iron leg berserker file, and he just kept flying around with crash and zoning me with shot.
As a conjurer, my beam and blast did less damage than theirs, while still having much lower hp and range (They used speed + resistance focus, which made their health like 2.6k)
I didn’t have access to ethereal flash as a conj, and so the best mobility move I could muster was spiraling fury into shining cycle/devastate/tempest… which can all be easily avoided.
I would appreciate some tips for dealing w/ them and pvp in general
this is definitely a massive skill issue, fighting style moves are the easiest to parry in the entire game. You have magic, use it. Mages are called zoners for a reason. You can’t tell me your weapons don’t have any ranged skills either. The only problem i could see is them having a lot of hp.
Do note that I am absolute garbage at PVP, so take everything I say with a heap of salt.
Berserkers are literally made to be close combatants. Your number one goal when fighting them should be to stay the heck away. Shot is a mediocre move at best, you should be beating them in a DPS race if that’s all they’re hitting you with, but if they’re up close, you’ll be taking more damage than you can dish out. Also, while tempest is good against mages for its ability to nullify projectiles, you should not be using close-ranged moves with lots of endlag near berserkers. Mobility is a huge thing in this game.
I’m assuming you’re max level and so are they, if not–you have your answer. Do note that HP is a lot more important in PVP compared to PVE, as loads of players abuse attack size to no end, so unless your agility is really high, it’s virtually impossible to not get it.
The issue is im fighting on munera garden where there is a ton of open space and they can just dash around and fly 20 miles upwards. There’s practically only very small windows for me to hit them but their shots deal like 200 damage anyways so I’d lose most damage trades. Like I also said before, their shot both outranges and outdamages my blast and beam.
Ranged skills like flying slash and piercing gale are easily avoidable because they are the one zoning me.
Sure parrying shots are easy but I can’t just parry every single one. Closing in on them is literally a nightmare as they have insane movement options (Thermo crash)
they have:
2.6k hp with focus and bonkers speed (iron and thermo focus)
shots that deal 200 damage and are massive
i have about 1.7k hp and a piercing gale deals about the same damage as their shot, but its not hitscan so its worse compared to theirs
zoning is p much impossible as all my abilities deal equal/less damage and have less range
… listen, uh, I don’t know how to break this to you, but if it’s really that big of a difference, the only way you’re going to win that is to either abuse the ever loving heck out of some busted build someone has found or to get significantly better than him at the game.
Either that or see if there’s anything you can do with your equipment. Idk, I’ve literally PVPed 4 people in total, and two of them beat me into the dirt with ping and iron leg imbues.
Berserkers easy to fight as conjurer, crystal iron leg warlock is whats quite annoying for me tho, basically both out damages and out hps me; pretty much feels like I’m just having to put in 3x the effort they do (fuck crsytal iron leg users frrr)
I honestly have a harder time with crystal iron leg warlocks than mages, mages not that bad unless they play like absolute pussies and if they die in the game they die irl (pulsar 1 frame after the cd ends and ult art explo every 2 seconds)
Metal mages
Actually smart and use Argos gear(shivers in 2000 HP mage)
Pulsar plus S-key holding spammers(y’know, mages that spam pulsar, run for cds, repeat)
Metal mages
Idk man, always the berserkers I fight pretty shit or I dispose of them quite easily, if they fly in the air punish with golden bullet musket & placed explosion, even if you trade no way they’re gonna benefit off that trade. Musket is your best friend against classes like berserker
