Step #1
Choose A Build
SELF EXPLANATORY
Step #2
Identify your build’s play style
Different classes in ao have different play styles, the most notable being magic, the zoner play style is natural to them, as they lack close quarter abilities (well should when double blasts are nerfed)
Slower magics, weapons, and fighting styles are usually inclined to close quarters, in exchange for more damage and size, ex: earth magic and iron leg
Step #3
Choose a good gear loadout
In PVP, your gear is 70% of the equation. If your gear is bad, you’re going to have a rough time. But how do you choose gear to use? Currently, there’s no good reasons to use the new stats, so stick to the old ones.
In pvp, there are THREE types of Gear (in my opinion)
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Statmaxxer
Ex: High Size/Power Earth Mage, High Speed Thermo Fist Warlock -
All Rounder Builds
Ex: Most Builds that focus on Calvus drop (it gives 3 stats) -
Counterbalance Builds
Ex: Boxing Warlock with Size, Ice Mage with high speed
To be quite honest, the only really viable ones are Statmaxxers, as you’ll see most builds lean very heavily torwards high speed, high size, or sometimes high agility (with a medium amount of one of the other two).
For this example, I’ll use one of my favorite builds, Crystal Conjurer
Crystal has HIGH damage potential, but middling speed and size. As a result of this, you can statmaxx in either stat, but I choose to statmaxx speed, as it is most useful for high level pvp. I’d likely end up using sunken warrior gear and carina accessories to achieve this.
Step #4
Get COOKED
As I normally say, if you’re not losing at least 60% of your fights, you’re barely learning. Fighting competent players regularly pales in comparison to the average 5 kill 300 hours player you’ll see. The best way to find really good players to fight, is to join the AOSL discord, and wait until someone opens an elysium.
This is where the best pvpers are, and if you actually TRY and learn (unlike some people), you’ll end up improving incredibly quickly. Before you say this doesn’t work, this is quite literally how I learned PVP since WOM, I fought my clan members who were SO MUCH better than me over and over and over and over… AND OVER until I started winning. Then I sought out tougher opponents. At the start, because AO has a very steep skill curve for pvp, you will NOT be winning 99% of your matches. This stage will mostly be learning how to
- Block
- Parry
- Move Effectively
- Predict
And overall pvp knowledge, like knowing when to use piercing shot (only when they’re in endlag cause ur not BWDareDevil), and knowing how to read opponents.
Step #5
Hone your skills
I know quite a few people who are really good at munera pvp, but cannot fight anywhere else for crap. Doing bounty hunts (of good players) and claiming islands for infamy so that whoever’s claimed it comes after you are both good ways to improve game vision, and learn how to deal with more than one person fighting you (if its over a 1v2, ur cooked LOL)
But yeah, I’d say that’s pretty much all you need to know to learn pvp, if you’re actually interested in learning and don’t want to complain about the meta.
TLDR: I can’t be asked to write one ask chatgpt or something idk
