Ladies and gentlemen.
Are you tired to get swift strike and overpower every time you try to level up your weapon?
Are you disappointed every time that you find your legendary drops to be balanced or agile instead of slaughter?
Do you whine every time you get the thunder strike instead of dark/holy at the lv.10 of your IW run?
ARE YOU SAD WHENEVER YOU GET A SHORTSWORD INSTEAD OF A RAPIER?
Do you feel like Dovahkiin is a wasted achievement for your efforts?
Well... not anymore!
Now the Epion & CIA come to you with the new meta that can solve all of your problems!
1H / LIGHT ARMOR!
Yes ladies and gents, you heard me well. For the 1st time.. FUS RO DAH can be useful even if you don't pay the attention you should with it on DW.
Combine the light's speed of light armor, fast attacking, unblockable furry, uberstuning power, high attack values with the untouchable power of evasion/block/parry/ressist.
More attack speed? GOOD!
Overpower? GOOD!
Critical hits? WUNDERBAR!
The 1H power of the keep my OVERPOWER charged combined with the YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS mode of the light armor and the YOU MOVE ONLY WHEN I SAY SO BI*** mode all combined.
Try it now.
1H combined with a light armor.
Get pro now. Become as well... an indestructible master of war!
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Lol, i should go back at making commercials.
Anyway... Hi guys.
Had a little accident before, as i was training some proficiency for light armor and then distracted got in a PF RE while having on
Low burdain bucklerShade "head"Shade "body"Shade "hands"Shade "legs"Shade "feet"In short light armor and 1h. Well up to this point nothing special.
BUT... Since i got further distracted i started attacking straight out without buffing myself (IA haste) or paying attention.
Realized what was happening several moments later and i was like "OH F**K I'M SOOOOO DEAD"... but was i?
NOPE! I was full health.
Several rounds of 6 PF monsters attacking me and missing or getting evaded.
Set up buffs without trouble and proceeded to massacre the poor monsters that hardly managed to touch me.
Intrigued by that expedient, an experiment came to mind.
IW test run at nintendo on a legendary equipment with FUS RO DAH and f**k rules.
It went well. It went SOOOOOOOOO WELL.
With heavy armor i always have regen on (24/24). This time buffs would expire and i was still hitting several turns before putting them back on. I healed only 2 times in 80 rounds and what's more, i can see a lot of potential flexibility on such a run.
Shortsword works better than a rapier (i would not use an axe since the accuracy of a shortsword is far better). Balanced works better than slaughter. Of course you don't get the same speed as with DW, but any plus on attack speed counts.
The build has unfortunately several problems, since you can only go for it with low burden, hence a buckler, shade armor with fleet and negation and as much attack speed as possible. Also every hit counts, in order to keep your overpower stacked, hence accuracy and maxed counter attack.
But boy that was a surprise. Every time i felt i had to slow down to check my position all i had to do was launch FUS RO DAH and all was at my mercy again.
In short this was a fun test run.
For me who has a mediocre weapon and lacks savage armor, hence low attack power, this run gave space to several potential moves that can use all the otherwise pointless drops i (and many others) get.
Unfortunately my time is limited as always, so further experimentation will require a lot of time, but now that aria's auction will end and i'll get back my legendary shortsword that nobody wanted to buy (sad face) i'll try again some combinations that might give nice results.
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Nov 7 2015, 15:37
