Dueling monks

[mou]

<DIV>Just wanted to see other people's strategies for dueling now.  I haven't dueled every class, but have won against most classes.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I can win against some SKs and lose all the time against others (without them using HTs).</DIV> <DIV>I have faced one bruiser and lost, but he had fabled weapon.</DIV> <DIV>Tried facing a guild templar and lost simply because I have low divine resist and their heals are too power-efficient.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have not faced inquisitor, defiler, fury, illusionist, conjuror, berzerker, or swashie.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Every other class I've managed to beat.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I usually start off matches with a quick biting mantis for stun, then Silent Fist.  Try to space out my stun skills, but I always run into problems in the delay while all of the 30s skills are recharging.</DIV>

[ArivenGemini]

<span><blockquote><hr>mouko wrote:<div>Just wanted to see other people's strategies for dueling now.  I haven't dueled every class, but have won against most classes.  </div> <div> </div> <div>I can win against some SKs and lose all the time against others (without them using HTs).</div> <div>I have faced one bruiser and lost, but he had fabled weapon.</div> <div>Tried facing a guild templar and lost simply because I have low divine resist and their heals are too power-efficient.</div> <div> </div> <div>I have not faced inquisitor, defiler, fury, illusionist, conjuror, berzerker, or swashie.</div> <div> </div> <div>Every other class I've managed to beat.</div> <div> </div> <div>I usually start off matches with a quick biting mantis for stun, then Silent Fist.  Try to space out my stun skills, but I always run into problems in the delay while all of the 30s skills are recharging.</div><hr></blockquote> I haven't dueled anyone with my monk yet, but I have dueled a monk with my swashy... and while it is sometimes close, it is -very- hard to take him out when his level is within 1-2 of mine.. with me being higher in level..  when I got to 3 above him it wasn't easy, but I could regularly take him out by sheer damage done and my interrupts and debuffs with swashy...  Neither of us are PVP or dueling experts, but we do know each others style quite a bit and are familiar with our classes..</span><div></div>

[Jobeson]

The only class I consistantly lose to is wardens bc of their root with nockback  stun.  That makes em just too hard cant pull enough dps in the 20 second window we have.  I had my friend down to 10% hp but he got his big heals up bc i had no more interupts.  They removed our taunt interupt bc soe is evil!!! Stratagy I use is b4 fight put up proc.  Start with 4 second stun then defence decreaser and 5 hit attack. Followed by  2 second stun and the flyingdragon Dot. another 2 second stun and then your icy palm then Silent palm.  I save silent palm for last because every time you hit you can break the stifle.  In a duel wiht a 2hb I keep silent palm up for the full 11 seconds 80% the time.  After That breaks wait about .5 seconds and use an interupting taunt and your 2 faster reuse attacks.  After that Just wait the longest 8 seconds of your life hoping you can mele interupt em or just take a beating using heal when needed untill your stuns are back up.  I lose to zerkers with their insane dps up.  Some rangers who use quick stun then sneak, If you get a jump on em with interupting AE taunt you sometimes interupt their stun and they are shocked leaving you able to beat em down.  And the wardens dust storm owns me.  its not like porcupine where you just throw stuff for 150 damage and watch em mess their pants when they realise your not dumb.  Lostcause the lucky mofo who one hit killed a mage his level.  (5 hit attack with 4 procs fromw eapon 5 from our buff it was realy 2 bc I had a mele hit go off for 450 and finish em but it was right after that attack) That was the best duel ever. Oh also ignore a pet unless the mage is trying to kite you.  Then instagib the pet and laugh at the mage.  GO DEVISTATION FIST! <div></div>

[Winn]

<DIV>imo, duelling inquistors and templars are pretty hard... they just heal too much too fast sometimes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When I lost to my inquisitor guildie, he had 100% hp and 10%power, whereas i was empty on both bars.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Furies are easiest to handle among the priests... they can't heal fast enough before my CAs recycle and I can hammer them down again. Starfire hurts like heck though.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>For defeating shamans, just remember not to waste CAs on them if they get their wards up. Secondary effects like defense down, interupt, stun don't affect them if they don't take damage. I usually just autoattack their wards away and when i breaks i hammer out a stun before they can focus channel through another ward.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Have to be careful with defilers and inquistors though... they can fear and I nearly lost because I ran too far out of the arena.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Prufro]

If you want to consistently win with no challenge duel a guardian. <div></div>