11-10-2007, 01:50 AM
Ok well...
Ive been watching the tournament for a bit today. And the whole spamming thing seems to be a battle of who can hold their finger on the "1337 sp4m" button the longest? What is the skill in that? In most battles, there is never a single point where both players don't have all three lines of text above their heads occupied with words of power.
Like Tabion said, all I keep seeing is pointless spamming that most definately involves no extra skill. I keep hearing about all the extra skill and concentration it invlolves, but what I saw looked like people who sat a weight on their spam hotkey, and then PvPed like normal. It is obvious what they are going to do (either try to dump on you, try to heal, or nothing), so I still don't see a point in it.
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Ok, I just saw one case where not knowing what they casted got them killed (they were trying to dump but had low HP themselves, and they got FSed back when they seemed to expect their opponent to heal). Although, with spell timers as long as they are, I don't actually think he would have been able to do anything about the counter-FS anyways, regardless if it was hidden. He had run out of mana and just drank a mana pot, and even if he saw it coming, there would have been nothing he could have done. So I guess that brings the "Pro-Spam" score back down to 0 for me...
*edit*
So far, every other fight has had an outcome that would not have been affected either way by it. I saw the same type of PvP styles in IN without any spam at all (ranging from defensive and assuming they are always going to try to dump, to much more aggressive and risking sitting at low HP for longer just so you can get that extra hit / spell in before they can).
Ive been watching the tournament for a bit today. And the whole spamming thing seems to be a battle of who can hold their finger on the "1337 sp4m" button the longest? What is the skill in that? In most battles, there is never a single point where both players don't have all three lines of text above their heads occupied with words of power.
Like Tabion said, all I keep seeing is pointless spamming that most definately involves no extra skill. I keep hearing about all the extra skill and concentration it invlolves, but what I saw looked like people who sat a weight on their spam hotkey, and then PvPed like normal. It is obvious what they are going to do (either try to dump on you, try to heal, or nothing), so I still don't see a point in it.
*edit*
Ok, I just saw one case where not knowing what they casted got them killed (they were trying to dump but had low HP themselves, and they got FSed back when they seemed to expect their opponent to heal). Although, with spell timers as long as they are, I don't actually think he would have been able to do anything about the counter-FS anyways, regardless if it was hidden. He had run out of mana and just drank a mana pot, and even if he saw it coming, there would have been nothing he could have done. So I guess that brings the "Pro-Spam" score back down to 0 for me...
*edit*
So far, every other fight has had an outcome that would not have been affected either way by it. I saw the same type of PvP styles in IN without any spam at all (ranging from defensive and assuming they are always going to try to dump, to much more aggressive and risking sitting at low HP for longer just so you can get that extra hit / spell in before they can).