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Waramp · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 4788 0.59 Silvarrr

cant psychic hammer work for stunning? it does the same thing, but i think it only kb's about 1/3 of the time though...

Zeiris-lld · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:05 am Post subject:

Insight gives 25 FCR, methinks. Or something low like that. I guess it would make an excellent fire trapper weapon, but you'd lose block/lots of FCR/CBF... At this point it'd require too much of a rebuild for me to consider :p

Imho, the key to a viable fire trapper is mana potting. Before you whine about it, I'd like to point out that you suggested an insight - compared to that, mana pots are nothing. You can run out of mana pots Very Happy

The key thing about mind blast, is it adds the same stun swirlies smite/shockwave/stun (barb skill) and I think maul add. When you've got those swirlies over your head, any damage taken (or damage taken but absorbed by whatever, even - I'm fairly sure ele-shielded druids are still stunned by WoF with those) forces a hit recovery animation, even if the damage wasn't 1/12th of your hp. (The german skill calculator on the german weapon speed calculator site shows the hidden knockback % for skills, methinks.)

Something important I recently realised about fire trappers, is that while wake of fire has a nextdelay of 4 frames fireblast doesn't. So while a mindblast-heavy stunlock sequence is effective (since MB always forces 'em into FHR) a mindblast/fireblast heavy stunlock sequence may be MORE effective since not only will it be faster (9 frame trap laying is easy) but it'll do a lot more damage too! Off-topic, I know, but it's good fire trapper knowledge Very Happy

(And I just realised why blade sentinel sucks so much more balls in practice than it does on paper. Turns out the thing has a 1 second nextdelay, no WONDER it never hits jack when you set it to patrol over a short distance....)