Please help new SK with PvP

[DirtyJawa84]

<p>Hello,  I'm new to SK and new to EQ2 pvp.  I'm level 13 with 7 AA points (INT line going for spell crit then going for Reaver)  First fight: I got taken down to half life while afk by a fury 1 level below me, then I dropped his hp below half before he killed me.  (i used infernal blessing and cleave flesh.. i think i could have won this fight fairly easily if i wasn't afk for the first half of it).</p><p>Second fight is really where I don't understand.  I fought a Warden 1 level higher than me, and here's how it went:</p><p>I was rooted, casted on, I ran in for melee range and used infernal blessing then cleave flesh... next thing i know, the Warden somehow sucked all of my power away.  Normally these two spells cost about 1/4 of my power, but this cost 100%!  I don't know how he drained it, but it dropped by half nearly instantly (i have roughly 400 hp and 400 mana).  Next thing I know, the warden is hitting me with spell after spell and healing any damage I do to him.  It didn't take very long for me to die.  I'm sure part of this is due to gear, as he was very twinked out, and I haven't been able to afford buying better armor.</p><p>Do you have any tips?  Or are wardens just one of those classes that pwn us?  If so, what classes are good for anti-druid?  There's too many of them on my server.</p>

[Norrsken]

<cite>DirtyJawa84 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Hello,  I'm new to SK and new to EQ2 pvp.  I'm level 13 with 7 AA points (INT line going for spell crit then going for Reaver)  First fight: I got taken down to half life while afk by a fury 1 level below me, then I dropped his hp below half before he killed me.  (i used infernal blessing and cleave flesh.. i think i could have won this fight fairly easily if i wasn't afk for the first half of it).</p><p>Second fight is really where I don't understand.  I fought a Warden 1 level higher than me, and here's how it went:</p><p>I was rooted, casted on, I ran in for melee range and used infernal blessing then cleave flesh... next thing i know, the Warden somehow sucked all of my power away.  Normally these two spells cost about 1/4 of my power, but this cost 100%!  I don't know how he drained it, but it dropped by half nearly instantly (i have roughly 400 hp and 400 mana).  Next thing I know, the warden is hitting me with spell after spell and healing any damage I do to him.  It didn't take very long for me to die.  I'm sure part of this is due to gear, as he was very twinked out, and I haven't been able to afford buying better armor.</p><p>Do you have any tips?  Or are wardens just one of those classes that pwn us?  If so, what classes are good for anti-druid?  There's too many of them on my server.</p></blockquote>If that happened to your power, you had an illusionist hiding somewhere draining you since wardens cant do that. AND, in t2, wardens are severely overpowered, so get some levels and you'll be fine. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> And remember, mastercrafted or better to be an active pvper.

[DirtyJawa84]

<p>Okay, that's relieving.  I thought it was odd.  There's no items that reduce power like that?  I guess I'll just have to keep on pushing on and getting killed in T2.. or fess up the money for gear.  I'd rather save it for a nice mount though.</p><p>Am I doing everything right so far, aside from gear, from what you can tell?</p>

[Norrsken]

<cite>DirtyJawa84 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Okay, that's relieving.  I thought it was odd.  There's no items that reduce power like that?  I guess I'll just have to keep on pushing on and getting killed in T2.. or fess up the money for gear.  I'd rather save it for a nice mount though.</p><p>Am I doing everything right so far, aside from gear, from what you can tell?</p></blockquote>There is a wand in FG that crusaders cant use, everyone else can though. there are also phantom adorments for your weapon that does it, but its its nothing like "Poof, I pwn all your power". <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> And yeah, you seem to have a basic idea of the sk in pvp. Keep your blessing up at all times and cycle your lifetaps when they come up, and keep your target debuffed and you'll win most fights. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> As you gain levels and AAs you get even more toys to play with, such as a snare nuke, and HT (boy do people hate that one).

[DirtyJawa84]

<p>Awesome!  thanks for all the information.  I'm rolling an Armorer now to keep me more up to date, so hopefully that should help some.  Harm's Touch does sound nice.  If I don't feel like fighting a certain class, just hit em with that and keep going.  I wish I had that v.s. Paladins in WoW..</p>

[Norrsken]

<cite>DirtyJawa84 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Awesome!  thanks for all the information.  I'm rolling an Armorer now to keep me more up to date, so hopefully that should help some.  Harm's Touch does sound nice.  If I don't feel like fighting a certain class, just hit em with that and keep going.  I wish I had that v.s. Paladins in WoW..</p></blockquote>As you gain lvls HT is gonna be more of an "Sigh, hes running ZAP!" spell than an "Omg, I dont want this fight ZAP!" spell. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> And if you go for leech touch in reaving, you also start to use it more for the heal than the damage. Other fun tricks is spell reflect and divine aura. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Beagest]

<p>heres a solid aa setup (i believe anyways), int 4/4/8, sta 4/4/6/8/1, agi 4/4/3, reaver <img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[DirtyJawa84]

sweet.  Thank you!