View Full Forums : Druid vs Pally (both lvl 70)


Nadjaiskeniskie
02-21-2005, 05:52 AM
Having never dueled before - what strats/spells should I be using vs a Pally - me 200 AAs VT/PoP geared. Pally 400 AAs - PoP/GoD geared.

Thanks.

Kamion
02-21-2005, 11:10 AM
Hope he fall asleeps at the keyboard

Jarvalor
02-21-2005, 10:41 PM
theres really not much you can do, you'll probably both regen mana faster than you'll need to use it

Iegluan
02-22-2005, 12:46 AM
Unless the Paladin is a complete moron you have no chance of beating him.

Netura
02-22-2005, 01:24 AM
Pretty much. Good Pallies are very difficult to beat.

Banbin
02-22-2005, 09:09 AM
Need a VT mace to stand a chance.

Iilane SalAlur
02-22-2005, 10:14 AM
Short of some miracle *coughtrainscough* there's very little chance of beating a competent paladin.

Mordimar
02-22-2005, 04:45 PM
duel him in the old world and have a manastone

Banbin
02-22-2005, 05:10 PM
duel him in the old world and have a manastone



Hence why I like dueling in the old arena.

Auviena
02-24-2005, 09:05 AM
Like the rest of you here, I'm just wishing you "good luck", because you will need a truck load of it.


But as always when duelling a melee-class. Use every DS you can lay your hands on, since that is mana-free damage.

Be mobile. Move as much as you can. Use wolf form to get an edge on him.

Logilitie
02-24-2005, 12:23 PM
DS is awesome..
annull all his buffs you can..
debuff him with HoR and Sun's Corona to lessen the hurt he puts on you
then lay on the dots and heal yourself..
( maybe new DoN snare would stuck? that would be GREAT for PvP )

probably be a long fight since you'll need to kill him twice ( LoH )

Nadjaiskeniskie
02-24-2005, 03:54 PM
Grrr - did not win any of the /duels. Each fight took 45+ min. Kept running into mana problems (was hard to get anything to stick apart from swarm dots).

Ensare rarelly stuck. Fire DDs hit about 40% of the time. Cold DDs I gave up on.

LoH sucks :mad:

The last /duel I died when he was at less then half a bubs worth of health - so am taking that as a sort of vitory at least :wiggle: By the end of this fight I was using all my old clicky stuff since I was Oom - root neck, clicky DoT arms, epic 1.0, clicky DoT from SSRA etc.

Was the most EQ fun I have had in ages. And I so wanna try this again when i get DoN.

Mellen
02-25-2005, 04:24 PM
For all melee duels put up both DSs, get a shm click DS and any other stackable ds you can get your hands on.

Keep both regens up and if you can get it the shm rejuvenate potion for an extra 71hp a tick

don't bother with cold stuff... use hand of ro, immolation, then sun's corona in that order after you've dispelled him enough... the first 2 should land **relatively** easily.. sc might take some doing but seems the extra atk debuffage really takes a bite out of melee.

From there it's mostly about surviving and letting them get worn down on your ds. When you're ready to kill use the two stackable Vengence of dots (make sure immo is on before you try) and stackable swarm lines since those 2 lines have the best chance of landing. If they're lom and getting low on health while you have some mana to burn trying to land nukes while dots are whittling away will cause them problems when one lands. Otherwise nukes in duels are normally wasted mana unless you know the person is gimp and won't be resisting anything.

Mellen
02-25-2005, 04:27 PM
oh... and affliction haste / efficiency via. tribute = $$ : )

Jarvalor
02-26-2005, 12:25 PM
when you dotted him, he wasn't dispelling it?

Eluden
03-28-2005, 06:01 PM
First have your level 69 snare spell, its the greatest dueling tool in the history of the world.

Snare him first, stick dots on him many many dots, use your level oow stun to interupt as many heals as u can. Dont get close enough that if he stuns you he can get to u keep away. Keep up thorns and regen. It gonna be a long fight like this but you can out endure him, just watch those stuns that is what will kill ya (buff your magic resistance better chance)

Sharnna
04-29-2005, 02:12 AM
Would you think it would be any easier if you both was Time geared/400 aa each and both with DoN spells?

Ravara
04-30-2005, 11:14 PM
With a High MR, he won't be able to stun root or blind you. His mana will just be for healing himself. So get the don snare and out last him, though the don snare prolly won' land if he has resist buffs up, so dispell is good there. Clicky dots, and serrious fire debuffs are your friends.

Want to cheat? Be grouped. Have spell awareness Leadership AA. Then you can see what he's casting. If casting a dispell, you can get oor before it lands. If he's casting a HoT, you know he won't be able to cast another spell for 5 seconds. If a quick heal, you can throw your stun nuke if you are fast. 1.5 sec cast time, vs his 1.8 sec heal. But interupting heals will drain your mana faster than his, just do it when you are going for the kill, not while whittling down his mana with clickies.

And sharnna, his don spell won't matter. Its a vie type disc, 30 seconds.

Mordimar
05-04-2005, 05:57 PM
If a quick heal, you can throw your stun nuke if you are fast. 1.5 sec cast time, vs his 1.8 sec heal.


a) yup

b) I can't read "Palidan_Name_Here is casting <Light of Piety>" in under .3 seconds...but maybe that's just me. Heck, the network time alone is almost .3 seconds...obviously never used as a tactic since it doesn't work.

c) Even if you are a spectacular reader and a quick trigger finger, Our.stun.doesn't.land.in.pvp. Unless he's naked...in which case just nuke him a bunch and he'll die....but you got other issues if you're dueling naked pallies.