Ultimate battle scenario 1:

Sorry, forgot to mention that the wiz was sharded full JoSD.
Match was held at 5:42 am eastern in my mind.

Wiz undines.
Barb starts to charge.
Wiz casts gush for (crit!) 10408.
Barb casts bestial onslaught for (crit!) 4947.
Wiz casts pyrogram for 4992.
Barb casts mighty swing for (crit!) 3822.
Stun failed!
Wiz distance shrinks.
Wiz casts essential sutra.
Wiz casts Divine pyrogram for 6100.
Wiz casts Black Ice Dragon Strike for (crit!) 19107.
Barb uses solid shield genie skill!
Barb uses Tree of protection genie skill!
Wiz casts pyrogram for 2075.
Barb casts mighty swing for 1954.
Stun successful!
Barb casts bestial onslaught for (crit!) 4777.
Wizard is lagging! Absolute domain is not going off!
Barb casts perdition for (crit!) (zerk!) 37616!
Wizard has been reduced to 0 hp.
Barb is victorious!

Retaliation - Harshlands wrote: »

this isnt a reasonable outlook to the actual victor in a situation like that. for one Wolfo is strength built granted he hits like a truck but his HP is lacking greatly. If you were going for the builds that were orignally picked for the scenario id have to say barb. Between HP pots charms TOP and other genie skills it would be extremely hard to kill him through a charm. Also in a situation like this Burnout your forgetting the other barb skills he doesnt have to rely on mighty swing to stun. There is mighty swing, and frighten both have the chance to stun, Also their 79 skill although it is only 1 second stun it can be used quite effectively. For example (Wiz is casting Bids barb uses 79 skill interrupts channeling then uses mighty swing which successfully stuns) then if you add an occult ice genie into the mix and can keep the wiz there GG. If that fails fu.ck it, Demon sunder,pop white tea, occult ice, perdition. ZERK CRIT dead


XD although Wolfo vs Kalyptica would be a fun 1v1 to watch

It depends on buffs. Self-buffs only, barb would actually be a somewhat easy kill under undine strike. Even the top geared barbs only have around 50% magic resists reduction during undine, which means just a regular gush can hit for over 5k even with 70 defense levels. Put in a few crits, and you have a dead barb after his top + solid shield etc wears out. Until then a wiz should be able to kite.

Also, if the fight is in the air, it's just not possible for a barb to get an air-to-air stun if the wiz doesn't want it to happen. The best u could hope for is a stun right after the wiz drops, which means arma hits for half damage (which basically means you need to zerk crit to win).

If the fight is ground-to-ground, the wiz can kite the barb forever with just sage gush. The only exception to this is a good barb who holy paths into you while you're in mid-cast. Even then it's only a 50-60% chance to stun (and also leaves him with very little energy to use occult ice).

Now if you're talking about a "real" 1 v 1 where the wiz just stands there and doesn't kite or only distance shrinks like once, then I think it's an easy win for the barb. Up close a barb has too much damage potential.

Now, if the barb is buffed w/ cleric magic resist, I think the advantage starts to go over a bit to barb, since all they have to do is bide their time until the wiz makes a mistake. Then again it's unlikely the wiz will die either if he's bm/cleric buffed.

The barb can catch the wizard if he uses occult ice, but then that leaves the barb with only solid shield/TE as an option for defense, while the wiz can BoC out of the occult. But there's that option to go for a win .

Isn't there some barb in Catalyst that's better geared than wollfo? Noeum or something. I remember inspecting him and he had +11 r9, but that was a couple weeks ago. He came outta safe zone and started one-shotting all the noobs around him then left. lol.

There's a couple extreme-geared barbs and wizzies around but they almost never meet outside of TW. It's like they are trying to avoid each other b:puzzled. I wonder why.

....oh yeah, sins.