So I just started a Kamael and I'm loving it so far. It brings me back to prelude and C1 when everything was new and you had to learn your class. I love it!
I do have some questions to veteran Kamael players out there tho.
1. Which skills are dark based and which ones aren't? It'd help to know when to use what skill when hunting.
2. I haven't decided whether to go Zerker or SH, but what's the biggest difference between the two?
3. How does the death mark thing work?
4. What skills should i be focusing on and which ones are pretty useless?
5. Also, what's the point of souls? I know they soup up damage and stuff but how do you get them when you need them like in pvp!!
thanks guys.
So I just started a Kamael and I'm loving it so far. It brings me back to prelude and C1 when everything was new and you had to learn your class. I love it!
I do have some questions to veteran Kamael players out there tho.
1. Which skills are dark based and which ones aren't? It'd help to know when to use what skill when hunting.
2. I haven't decided whether to go Zerker or SH, but what's the biggest difference between the two?
3. How does the death mark thing work?
4. What skills should i be focusing on and which ones are pretty useless?
5. Also, what's the point of souls? I know they soup up damage and stuff but how do you get them when you need them like in pvp!!
thanks guys.
On which class?
Berserker is a hit and run melee class and Soulbreaker is a magic utilized swordsman
Death mark is a debuff it can be followed up by a Soulbreaker's checkmate for damage like vortex-buster/crusher/slug/extinction. It lowers dark resist, and does a DoT
4. On what class?
Souls make your damage go up higher. The ways to obtain souls are by killings mobs, by using life to soul, by using soul gathering, by using a filled soul bottle, by chance on a critical hit, and in gracia by using soul rage
On which class?
Berserker is a hit and run melee class and Soulbreaker is a magic utilized swordsman
Death mark is a debuff it can be followed up by a Soulbreaker's checkmate for damage like vortex-buster/crusher/slug/extinction. It lowers dark resist, and does a DoT
4. On what class?
Souls make your damage go up higher. The ways to obtain souls are by killings mobs, by using life to soul, by using soul gathering, by using a filled soul bottle, by chance on a critical hit, and in gracia by using soul rage
Well at the moment i'm still a trooper but I'm probably going Zerker. So should i be storing up souls in bottles for later use, cuz it sounds kinda stupid to waste the lil hp i have to fight or am i missing the point?
Well at the moment i'm still a trooper but I'm probably going Zerker. So should i be storing up souls in bottles for later use, cuz it sounds kinda stupid to waste the lil hp i have to fight or am i missing the point?
you fill up bottles when hunting cause you don't need em for pvp, they should only be used for pvp and empty and filled bottles should be in you shortcut bar
And with skill Life to Soul :P in gracia final you get a new skills which is like spammable and easy to gather souls you need:)
oh! then you could just spam that and fill the bottles up?! der! why didn't i think of that. lol. Well...I just learned last night on pts you could delete buffs so there is prolly lots i DONT know. :D
Personally i never use bottles on souls got via Life to Soul or Soul Gathering (or souls i got while exping). When you are high level enough for souls to matter you can easily afford to buy some combat soul bottles from suspicious merchant, use them during fort/castle siege when there's nothing to do, and use soul bottles to contain the souls. I usually gather around 1000 soul bottles per fort siege like that, and manage to participate almost full-time.
yeah. I figured that by the time i'll consistantly need them i'll be able to buy them. Doesn't hurt to carry around a couple dozen tho and it breaks the monotony of leveling to "fill er up". lol
Just did zerk quest today. Really cool quest! Didn't seem burdensome at all and took 35minutes.
So far just one new question.
What skills should i focus on? which are best for pvp and which for pve?
well the skills you should have are
blade rush which is an aoe bleed rush and allows the use of contagion
contagion which is a powerful smash only works on bleeding targets
crushing pain, same as contagion with no requirements
shoulder charge which is a stun rush
storm assualt, a main pvp skill which is spammable, useful to kiters
slashing blade(aoe) and darksmash are decent attack skills
violent temper is a must have debuff that lowers pdef and cast speed
courage, you can use going off agains't cursers like orc mages or necromancers. it gives alot of debuff resist
soul barrier is a good skill to use to reach nukers and archers while minimizing damage on the way to them. cause it lowers ranged attack damage on you for about 7 seconds
soul cleanse is a good skill which you can clear off debuffs off yourself or others.
spread wing, used to suck i heard its better now but idk
what about the soulbreakers make them so versatile?
- short rush to target and run speed togle
- magic dd skills
- physicall dd skills
- debufs: root, silence, fear
- self bufs, makes life little easer even without ch buffs or other buffer. And uber 8sec. party buff (Maximum ability) on criticals with +4 rapier.
- survivability skills: mobile ud, painkiler (don't understand this skill but looks like it work like some kind of celestial shield)
- magic defense passives
- pvp skills: buff stealing, dmg to oponent regarding his buff count (more buffs = more dmg)
Only downside is low hp and 1/2 heal on kamael. But it is for all kamael characters.
It's not half heal anyomore I believe they reduced it to 5-10% less heal only... not sure though, but we heal well...
Painkiller is indeed an invincible status for 8 seconds with another seconds of debuff after (atk speed and speed reduced). It gets nerfed in GF, it won't have the debuff effect but will fade when you launch an attack, so It will basically be an escape skill ^^
Soulhounds are really powerful if they are well played and they stand a chance even against a Doombringer... actually I have won more times against GK and titans with the hound than against same class with zerker... Ah and don't forget the Slow debuff that the soulhound has, and that Spread wing will be an AOE phisical dd skill ^^ which I find awesome.
Wing Spread looks fantastic now. It's AoE is also really large (watch out for aoe'ing on near Raid bosses ^_^). Seriously I'm really impressed they updated the animation as well as the skill. Even the purple wing looks right now.
Wing Spread looks fantastic now. It's AoE is also really large (watch out for aoe'ing on near Raid bosses ^_^). Seriously I'm really impressed they updated the animation as well as the skill. Even the purple wing looks right now.
Hehe... if you check the PTS forum you will start seeing some QQ posts of players claiming that soulhounds are overpowered ^^ this is nice to see, and maybe some of them were defending their classes from those "hey you are OP" posts... ^^
Thanks NC for that!! Now I'm glad I stuck to my class whenever I get pwned, laughed at, and humilliated in pvp (1st kamael update)... this is our reward for trusting in the new race :D Let's see the other side of the coin now... Soulhound power!!!!!! ^^
It really is possibly the most fun class I've ever played on L2. Even grinding seems to not be to boring. I just head to a really hard place and try not to die. Two box with an Agrade buffer and i'm pretty much unstoppable (pve wise, pvp is still rough) I love the charge skills and pdef buff is awesome! :D