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by Slappywag, Level 49
Last updated at October 4, 2008, 8:39 am

Nothing really special in this blog (aside from it being a break from Bill’s anime trash which for some unknown reason people keep clicking on), but I figured I’d post a video that I recorded in the T3 WAR scenario “Tor Anroc”.

 

Since our Engineer hit level 29 he had access to an ability in his career trees that pulls everyone within 65 feet towards him.

 

 

Obviously we didn’t “invent” the strat (not that we “stole it”, but it’s been around since beta and it’s pretty simple to figure out), but basically when you couple this skill (or the Magus alternative) with AOE – it becomes pretty potent.

 

Basically whenever our Engineer was online we started running 2-4 Bright Wizards all specced AOE to just abuse the **** out of this, and complete scenario’s quicker. Realistically it’s not THAT much quicker, but it’s a lot more fun since we’ve been running single target strats for the last week.

 


If you CBF watching the whole thing (I added a text to explain what’s happening to avoid the inevitable “why did you all just stand around” questions), the best example of our AOE strat is at 2 mins.

 

Oh as for specific Bright Wizard strats (if anyone cares), we’re using Annihilate rather than Rain of Fire since it does more damage than tick, and at level 30 we’re using the Close Quarter tactic (25% more damage point blank, which is what Annihilate is), the int tactic, and then you can pick either Explosive Force or Wildfire from your career tree.

     
35 comments
Bethryn
Bethryn Oct 4, 2008 at 8:47 am
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Oooh cool trick.

I would suggest you try adding an Immolation specced BW into the mix. Detonate is deadly, and adds so much dps pressure into the mix.
Slappywag
Slappywag Oct 4, 2008 at 8:54 am
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Nah. With this spec people die in under 3 seconds (no joke) so adding an AoE DoT would be kinda useless.
Goblinmatt
Goblinmatt Oct 4, 2008 at 8:48 am
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Rofl thats nice. Kinda hard to tell whats going on though, maybe thats just becuase I haven't played yet.

Is a 65 yard pull not OP? Does it have a limit of people it can pull?

What server do you play on? Would you reccomend it?
Slappywag
Slappywag Oct 4, 2008 at 8:55 am
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No limit atm which is why we're having fun with it (our record so far is like 20-25 or something in 4 seconds with a group of 6). And yeah, it is OP as ****.

I'm on Darklands (oceanic).
Deepmist
Deepmist Oct 4, 2008 at 10:24 am
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It's 65 feet.  Very different from WoW's yard and a lot smaller than you might think.
Slappywag
Slappywag Oct 4, 2008 at 10:27 am
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I'd say it's the equivalent of 30 WoW yards.
Yiska
Yiska Oct 4, 2008 at 8:53 am
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jflanden
jflanden Oct 4, 2008 at 3:11 pm
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I don't need to say anything, he wasn't making any false claims or spewing nonsense about WAR(Like Jasi does every entry).
Yiska
Yiska Oct 4, 2008 at 3:36 pm
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Snuffy
Snuffy Oct 4, 2008 at 9:27 am
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Ducks
Ducks Oct 4, 2008 at 9:36 am
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I spent 80% of that video looking out for my hot sexy dwarf.
Ducks
Ducks Oct 4, 2008 at 9:41 am
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Solange
Solange Oct 4, 2008 at 10:56 am
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you'd think someone as fat-fingered as that would unbind the scoreboard from the ~ key by now

also, shouldnt you change the description of your blog and gtfo to warhammer portal?
Slappywag
Slappywag Oct 4, 2008 at 10:59 am
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There's a bug so you can't without resetting all keys to default every time your client boots up, idiot.
Ducks
Ducks Oct 4, 2008 at 1:07 pm
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Oozo
Oozo Oct 4, 2008 at 1:28 pm
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Hrm, I have had my ~ key rebound for months now.  Maybe there is a recent bug that has more to do with rebinding than what is actually there, though.
Grieverlol
Grieverlol Oct 4, 2008 at 11:01 am
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good thing you are not pointing out any design flaws (because there are none, right?)



..... Im on Jflandens team btw =)
AllCharters
AllCharters Oct 5, 2008 at 11:08 pm
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SWEET DOOD. U WHITE KNIGHTS OF JUSTICE ARE WELL NEEDED HERE IN WOWRIOT WHERE THE TRUE BATTLES OF LIFE ARE FOUGHT!

GO TEAM
elusive
elusive Oct 4, 2008 at 11:10 am
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Dear god, how can you stand watching those movie's? It really looks boring. :(
wsvg
wsvg Oct 4, 2008 at 1:24 pm
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ROFL KOREAN NETCAFE MAFIA FTW
Oozo
Oozo Oct 4, 2008 at 1:32 pm
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For those who are destruction, you can do a similar thing with magus and sorcerors.  In fact, it might be even more effective for destruction given the nature of some of their ground target spells.
Ducks
Ducks Oct 4, 2008 at 1:46 pm
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ye, it's a lot better as Destruction. :[
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