GongKilluminati
07-29-2011, 02:18 AM
I've played PL for quite some time now. I have 2 characters over lvl50, and during this time I've seen many different play styles for the three different classes.
This is my opinion on what is right and what is wrong
Bear Playstyles:
1. Be the first one into the battlefield, get the enemies to be focused on you instead of the birds and mages on your team. (This is in my opinion of what a bear should do everytime he plays, take advantage of your extra health, armour, and beckon abilities to make way for your teamates to use their combos and skill.)
2. Be the bear that nobody notices. You are invisable, you don't use your skills because you don't want to waste mana. You don't rush in first because you don't want to die. (Bears that play like this gets on my nerves, even lvl50+ bears play like this, it seems like they expect the mage to rush in first with mana shield and tank everything.)
Bird Playstyles:
1. Be the first to debuff the enemy. Birds have very powerful skills that can debuff and do massive damage to the enemy. Trust in your mage that he/she will heal and/or revive you. Trust in your bear that he/she will take the attention away from you so you don't concentrate on spamming hp ppts when you can do damage to enemies. (Every bird should play like this, this is what birds were made to do.)
2. Be the bird that nobody notices. You only use the standard attack because you are afraid of being aggroed on by a boss. You don't go for the boss when your team are all attacking the boss, instead you attack the weaker enemies to avoid death. (I'd rather have a bear that does nothing than a bird that does nothing because atleast bears don't die that easily.)
Mage Playstyles:
1. Heal your teamates when they are hit, revive your teamates when they are down. Always keep an eye on your teamates' health, be ready to heal when someone's health goes down even a little bit. Revive your teamates, this is so important, don't wait for your teamates to say "res plz kind sir", revive them right away. If your teamates died them it is because they got aggroed on, if the enemies just killed your teamates, who are they going to kill next? YOU! So revive your teamates to avoid restarting over from the beginning of the map, and make every membet of your team hate you.
2. Afraid of using skills because they eat my mana away:(. (Mages have sh*t loads of hp and mp regen. Even if I spam all the skills I have I still have 3/4 mp left.)
Rant:
I love it when people wait at the entrance to mobs for others to go in first. THIS is the reason that my bird has 11k kills and 1k deaths, I always end up charging in headfirst even tho I am a dex bird. I'm sick and tired of watching people playing footsie with each other at the entrance to mobs while I rush and die. What makes it worse is that bears do this also.
I love it when people don't revive you. I was playing in Victory Lap today, me and another mage rushed into a mob and I died, I waited and waited for that green glow that surrounds your body and brings you back to life. Guess what? I never saw that green glow. So I said "res" to the mage, he said "say please", I assumed it was playful banter, until he he ran to the next area. So I ignored it and respawned myself back at the entrance. Later in the game the mage dies twice, I revive him both times without him/her sayiing anything. Then, I die, the mage doesn't revive me, decides to run off again. After that I rage quited, sat in my chair a for 5mins and started to ask myself why that mage won't revive you. Being a mage and not reviving people is like being a dog and not taking a piss on the first fire hydrant you see.
AFTER ALL THAT, I ask people to play smart and help your teamates out, makes thing go much faster.
This is my opinion on what is right and what is wrong
Bear Playstyles:
1. Be the first one into the battlefield, get the enemies to be focused on you instead of the birds and mages on your team. (This is in my opinion of what a bear should do everytime he plays, take advantage of your extra health, armour, and beckon abilities to make way for your teamates to use their combos and skill.)
2. Be the bear that nobody notices. You are invisable, you don't use your skills because you don't want to waste mana. You don't rush in first because you don't want to die. (Bears that play like this gets on my nerves, even lvl50+ bears play like this, it seems like they expect the mage to rush in first with mana shield and tank everything.)
Bird Playstyles:
1. Be the first to debuff the enemy. Birds have very powerful skills that can debuff and do massive damage to the enemy. Trust in your mage that he/she will heal and/or revive you. Trust in your bear that he/she will take the attention away from you so you don't concentrate on spamming hp ppts when you can do damage to enemies. (Every bird should play like this, this is what birds were made to do.)
2. Be the bird that nobody notices. You only use the standard attack because you are afraid of being aggroed on by a boss. You don't go for the boss when your team are all attacking the boss, instead you attack the weaker enemies to avoid death. (I'd rather have a bear that does nothing than a bird that does nothing because atleast bears don't die that easily.)
Mage Playstyles:
1. Heal your teamates when they are hit, revive your teamates when they are down. Always keep an eye on your teamates' health, be ready to heal when someone's health goes down even a little bit. Revive your teamates, this is so important, don't wait for your teamates to say "res plz kind sir", revive them right away. If your teamates died them it is because they got aggroed on, if the enemies just killed your teamates, who are they going to kill next? YOU! So revive your teamates to avoid restarting over from the beginning of the map, and make every membet of your team hate you.
2. Afraid of using skills because they eat my mana away:(. (Mages have sh*t loads of hp and mp regen. Even if I spam all the skills I have I still have 3/4 mp left.)
Rant:
I love it when people wait at the entrance to mobs for others to go in first. THIS is the reason that my bird has 11k kills and 1k deaths, I always end up charging in headfirst even tho I am a dex bird. I'm sick and tired of watching people playing footsie with each other at the entrance to mobs while I rush and die. What makes it worse is that bears do this also.
I love it when people don't revive you. I was playing in Victory Lap today, me and another mage rushed into a mob and I died, I waited and waited for that green glow that surrounds your body and brings you back to life. Guess what? I never saw that green glow. So I said "res" to the mage, he said "say please", I assumed it was playful banter, until he he ran to the next area. So I ignored it and respawned myself back at the entrance. Later in the game the mage dies twice, I revive him both times without him/her sayiing anything. Then, I die, the mage doesn't revive me, decides to run off again. After that I rage quited, sat in my chair a for 5mins and started to ask myself why that mage won't revive you. Being a mage and not reviving people is like being a dog and not taking a piss on the first fire hydrant you see.
AFTER ALL THAT, I ask people to play smart and help your teamates out, makes thing go much faster.