[Rachet]

This quote above says a lot about how much you know about our PvP at this point. Type ".watchtour" next time the 1vs1 autosupply tourney-broadcast shows up, and watch people duel, see if they use weapons or not.

Overlord Dudaz from the fizzle shard said this in the post above: "you can't just spam magic arrow at our fizzle shard, because you would run out of mana", but in other words, well that same thing happens here if you only use magic. Flamestrike costs way more mana than the greater heal spell, so if you just keep spamming flamestrikes you will run out of mana and wouldn't have accomplished anything really, except for loosing all your mana and dieing a few secs later from a hard hit and a flamestrike when you don't even have the mana to heal anymore.

I can see that it may seem "basic" and "boring" and "brainless" when you just hear about it on the forums or see ganking going on, but it is not. The combination of spells (which are faster but either costs more mana or deals less damage) and the normal spells makes it a lot more advanced then it would look. On top of that you need to calculate the dumps, when to do them and how much mana you have, and how much each spell / scroll costs and what you will have left IF the dump would fail, so you can still stay alive. On top of that you need to combine small manas, total manas and greater heal potions, and a whole lot more.

Try it out, see if you can flamestrike people to death, people who are at least decent at the pvp, then learn it from Vys, and once you've learned the PvP and won some tourney I'd say come back here and tell us what you think, because before you've tried it what you say really carries no weight, just like if I would come to a fizzling shard and try to change that because I have played this, you'd just be like "uh, no? This pvp is perfect, if you remove fizzle-pvp people would just fs each other to death, get lost". But if I would have first pvped, learned it, gotten good at it, and then said "this PvP would be BETTER if fizzle was removed" and then compare what I know from the fizzle shard with what I know from my old shard, then that carries A LOT more weight.

I have a friend who had 600 ping, and he was amazing at pvp, sure his first spell was delayed but he had learned when to hit the next spell to get a good timing anyway. He wasn't the best pvper but he won tourneys and so can you, 200ms is not much really, I've had more than that at most US-shards I've played and I have won several tourneys at all of them.

Good luck getting used to the PvP, I think you will love it when you've tried it, just like you guys think we would love fizzle pvp when we have tried it.

- Adam

Good post. This has inspired me to learn more about pvp here. I've never been much for pvp but i sounds like there's a useable system here.
I've been playing since IN1 and never pvp'ed at all.. might be time to try and learn.