Dat's rite. Obersten turned 18 last night and got himself a nice knockback. I teamed up with Thecla (the hottest witch elf north of Naggaroth) and headed to Mourkain Temple.
The first few rounds I had to climb the learning curve somewhat, but after getting used to positioning yourself for the proper Dorf Punt it's a blast. An absolute blast! Those pesky Ironbreakers and Swordmasters were flying everywhere and Runepriest and Archmages got punted right into our own lines for taking it on the mouth in the proces. Awesome stuff.
And it really does add to your usefulness as a tank. Seeing that Shaman getting clubbered by a few Witch Hunters? Move in, 'it 'em 'ard and send them flying away. If they come back they'll need get past you and your trippin' skillz first. Absolutely enjoyable and the healers love it (dat's wot dey tells me).
After doing some Mourkain Temple runs Thecla ranked up to 22 and simply got too big for the rest of us. Off to Tor Anroc then. Being a melee dps in the low end of your bracket is apparently not the bomb. Being an ironclad wall of green with the punting skillz of Morten Andersen is, however. If punting people over the sides of the Temple was fun - punting them into sticky, hot, burning lava was hilarious. At times I seem to forget about being a tank and just goes all in on the punting - sorry 'bout dat team, but it's sooooooo fun! :)
Apart from getting the knockback Obersten picked up Juggernaut. No more snaring, rooting or tooting at him no more. It was really a delight to just shrug of the defensive moves of the squishies and go chop them up with a twohander - yup, I did bring the big stick instead of the sword and board. As long as I dont get hit that hard I still last a while. If the Order pussies decides to focus fire the tanks, the armor goes back on ASAP (or after I res that is).
PvE also saw a massive boost going from 17 to 18. Knockdowns and the chapter 9 elite PQ reward great weapon really ups my dps. Rank 20-22 mobs are just being munched upon. Blam, blam, blam and if thing's turn sour the Black Orc has so many moves that boost his surviability. Untill then, though, it's just been focused offense and down with the critters. Yay! :)
In the horizon rank 20 looms with a whole slew of great benefits. The obvious ones being a Mount (Piggyback Mountain), extra bagspace and a new tactic slot. The last one means that I'll have to tinker a bit with the combinations - and will be the subject of a future blogpost.
Rank 20 will also bring about a level 2 morale called Raze. It opens for the possibility of really doing some AoE mobgrinding (Stunty Stumper and Da Toughest has fine guides to using it) and I suspect I'll be going back to Sword and Board by then. For tanking and RvR there'll be the Challenge skill which I really look forward to - it seems really usefull in the bottlenecks that always seem to crop up in scenarios and keep sieges.
Anyhoo, that's almost it for me for this week. Thursday will see me flying to New York and I wont be coming back untill next weekend. Election day, yay! It'll also be my first ever trip to the US and I'm really looking forward to it.
The first few rounds I had to climb the learning curve somewhat, but after getting used to positioning yourself for the proper Dorf Punt it's a blast. An absolute blast! Those pesky Ironbreakers and Swordmasters were flying everywhere and Runepriest and Archmages got punted right into our own lines for taking it on the mouth in the proces. Awesome stuff.
And it really does add to your usefulness as a tank. Seeing that Shaman getting clubbered by a few Witch Hunters? Move in, 'it 'em 'ard and send them flying away. If they come back they'll need get past you and your trippin' skillz first. Absolutely enjoyable and the healers love it (dat's wot dey tells me).
After doing some Mourkain Temple runs Thecla ranked up to 22 and simply got too big for the rest of us. Off to Tor Anroc then. Being a melee dps in the low end of your bracket is apparently not the bomb. Being an ironclad wall of green with the punting skillz of Morten Andersen is, however. If punting people over the sides of the Temple was fun - punting them into sticky, hot, burning lava was hilarious. At times I seem to forget about being a tank and just goes all in on the punting - sorry 'bout dat team, but it's sooooooo fun! :)
Apart from getting the knockback Obersten picked up Juggernaut. No more snaring, rooting or tooting at him no more. It was really a delight to just shrug of the defensive moves of the squishies and go chop them up with a twohander - yup, I did bring the big stick instead of the sword and board. As long as I dont get hit that hard I still last a while. If the Order pussies decides to focus fire the tanks, the armor goes back on ASAP (or after I res that is).
PvE also saw a massive boost going from 17 to 18. Knockdowns and the chapter 9 elite PQ reward great weapon really ups my dps. Rank 20-22 mobs are just being munched upon. Blam, blam, blam and if thing's turn sour the Black Orc has so many moves that boost his surviability. Untill then, though, it's just been focused offense and down with the critters. Yay! :)
In the horizon rank 20 looms with a whole slew of great benefits. The obvious ones being a Mount (Piggyback Mountain), extra bagspace and a new tactic slot. The last one means that I'll have to tinker a bit with the combinations - and will be the subject of a future blogpost.
Rank 20 will also bring about a level 2 morale called Raze. It opens for the possibility of really doing some AoE mobgrinding (Stunty Stumper and Da Toughest has fine guides to using it) and I suspect I'll be going back to Sword and Board by then. For tanking and RvR there'll be the Challenge skill which I really look forward to - it seems really usefull in the bottlenecks that always seem to crop up in scenarios and keep sieges.
Anyhoo, that's almost it for me for this week. Thursday will see me flying to New York and I wont be coming back untill next weekend. Election day, yay! It'll also be my first ever trip to the US and I'm really looking forward to it.
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