[SM] Need help with solo
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:30 am
Hey, returned player here. First I am sorry if there are any grammatical errors, English is my third language and I haven’t used it much these days.
So, last Christmas I returned to RoR after a long year break, pushing my old 69 SM to finally reach lv 78 recently but does not do well at all as 2h.
I usually played SnB before but decided to get 5 off-sov and pick Bloodlord weapon from BS, does not have much problem in WB but end up dead every time I have a solo encounter with many other classes(I know, it's probably a skill issue).
So, what I need is not really about builds/gears since there are many guides about them already. What I looking for now is how to play and how to deal with other classes. And since SM is my only character, I have no idea about other classes at all except for some basic info.
Most classes I have problems with:
WE - melt everytime I get ambushed, try to fight back but my damage doesn’t seem to hurt them at all(and even with 700+ toughness, full parry&DD doesn’t seem to help me). Sometimes almost manage to kill them, then they just stun/jump away, go into stealth, then pop out of thin air again and melt me with their burst damage from behind. Is there any mechanic about them that I should know? Any counter?
Tank/Choppa - Doesn’t have much trouble with tank class, except for the regen one. Managed to fight well early on, the low-level one is fine but the high-level one seems to have a very high amount of regen, and I don’t seem to be able to do any damage higher than their health regen at all, while they can still keep spamming their abilities at me until I die.
I have tried a different build, full DPS build seems to have done damage higher than their regen amount but I die too fast. The defensive build is much better, survived longer but never be able to bring their health down more than 1/3 until they slapped me to death.
(-This is the most annoying one for me, same as regen WE. Is there any counter to this? Or should I make a regen build too? Phantom’s Blade alone doesn’t seem to help me with this long/tedious fight with those regen builds at all.)
Ranged Class - my biggest problem is catching them. like SH/shaman. Mostly I try to avoid them, but if you randomly pick a spot and you seem to find them everywhere. Sorc/magus doesn’t seem to have much problem if I bring Calming Wind+Max DD, but their crit damage is so xxxx hurt. I even got repetitive 2000+ crit damage from sorc once even though I have max futile Strike and 600-700+ toughness. Is that normal? Or did I do anything wrong?
I normally don’t go solo, so most of my encounters are on a defending side against those solo players, and it happen so many times to the point that I really want to get better at this.
As SM(a noob SM, of course, I know myself) Is there any enemy mechanic that I should be aware of? Like how they play/abilities/tactics-way to counter and so on.
So, last Christmas I returned to RoR after a long year break, pushing my old 69 SM to finally reach lv 78 recently but does not do well at all as 2h.
I usually played SnB before but decided to get 5 off-sov and pick Bloodlord weapon from BS, does not have much problem in WB but end up dead every time I have a solo encounter with many other classes(I know, it's probably a skill issue).
So, what I need is not really about builds/gears since there are many guides about them already. What I looking for now is how to play and how to deal with other classes. And since SM is my only character, I have no idea about other classes at all except for some basic info.
Most classes I have problems with:
WE - melt everytime I get ambushed, try to fight back but my damage doesn’t seem to hurt them at all(and even with 700+ toughness, full parry&DD doesn’t seem to help me). Sometimes almost manage to kill them, then they just stun/jump away, go into stealth, then pop out of thin air again and melt me with their burst damage from behind. Is there any mechanic about them that I should know? Any counter?
Tank/Choppa - Doesn’t have much trouble with tank class, except for the regen one. Managed to fight well early on, the low-level one is fine but the high-level one seems to have a very high amount of regen, and I don’t seem to be able to do any damage higher than their health regen at all, while they can still keep spamming their abilities at me until I die.
I have tried a different build, full DPS build seems to have done damage higher than their regen amount but I die too fast. The defensive build is much better, survived longer but never be able to bring their health down more than 1/3 until they slapped me to death.
(-This is the most annoying one for me, same as regen WE. Is there any counter to this? Or should I make a regen build too? Phantom’s Blade alone doesn’t seem to help me with this long/tedious fight with those regen builds at all.)
Ranged Class - my biggest problem is catching them. like SH/shaman. Mostly I try to avoid them, but if you randomly pick a spot and you seem to find them everywhere. Sorc/magus doesn’t seem to have much problem if I bring Calming Wind+Max DD, but their crit damage is so xxxx hurt. I even got repetitive 2000+ crit damage from sorc once even though I have max futile Strike and 600-700+ toughness. Is that normal? Or did I do anything wrong?
I normally don’t go solo, so most of my encounters are on a defending side against those solo players, and it happen so many times to the point that I really want to get better at this.
As SM(a noob SM, of course, I know myself) Is there any enemy mechanic that I should be aware of? Like how they play/abilities/tactics-way to counter and so on.