Pwic Tournament Streamed Live

Futurelord - Dreamweaver wrote: »

b:avoid If it was me i would have ignored my squad completely and went on the offensive. Non healing clerics ftw!b:laugh



Thanks to a wonderful R9 cleric on Dreamweaver who followed my advice on genie build and then tested on a barb, i managed to prove that clerics can hit 20k non crit on a R9+12 barb. (If they don't turtle) Cant wait to get R9 myself.



P.S. I went to sleep right before the pwi matchup so i dont know what happened, did the veno purge the others? From what i know there is no fault in tripple sparking, as long as you make yourself immune to damage with something after doing so.

Sarrafeline - Sanctuary wrote: »

So hit for a little less than half their HP... Not bad. If they're charmed, it's not even a charm tick though.

LilNai - Harshlands wrote: »

Well if you cared enough youd google the winner :O

Leviath_Imp - Lost City wrote: »

I trust that he knew what he was doing when he Triple sparked

SomebodyTwo - Lost City wrote: »

Lol I don't think you read the posts above you.

The tournament is pretty much over, the only round left is China VS. south Korea (I think).

The USA team (Tri-Force) was stomped pretty early on.

Longknife - Harshlands wrote: »

Not saying he's horribad, nor was that ever my intention. Sorry if it came out that way, but I'm being honest when I say a triple spark is pretty much the last thing I'd ever do and I can't name a good Psy on my server that trip sparks; those that do get friggin' shot. When I initially pointed that out, it was because I watched the video, saw the triple spark light up, thought "oh boy, let's see who the G is that did this," and the very last thing I expected to see was a Psy. I wasn't there and I wasn't paying attention to every single circumstance so I dunno if he'd been purged or who was shooting at him or how his genie was on energy; I just saw the trip spark, thought "great way to call attention to yourself" and expected to see a sin or an archer or something. My comment had more to do with the fact that, I can only recall ever triple sparking once in serious PVP. That was in TW: I did it because I was being focused so hard that I was going down no matter what: I figured I might as well do it, call some attention from my teammates, maybe hit someone hard before I die, then die. But that was TW where I'm like one of 80 people: in a 6v6 fight like that, you can't go throwing away your life. Your team needs you.

But listen: he said the BM was coming after him to stunlock, so that's why he trip sparked. There's dozens of other options there. Why not Absolute domain the Roar of Pride and follow it up with one of your Psy skills. You can just freaking Psy will and the BM will only be able to get Roar of Pride or Occult Ice off; saves you two sparks in the process, makes you fully immune to half the damage on the field and doesn't attract a ton of attention. You can Retaliation and he may unknowingly stun himself. You can Soul of Stunning if he doesn't have anti-stun and stun him way longer than he'll be able to stun you in one go. Hell, you can even just wait for Soul of Silence to tick; r9 +12 means he had like a 30% chance of silence for five seconds. (if he was wearing it, though in a fight like that, I'd imagine it's best to just leave it on the Psy)
There was another fight in this tournament (can't remember which two teams) where a Psy-BM match-up went down just like that. BM came to stun the Psy, got Roar of Pride off, but then had to switch targets to stun someone else once Psy will was cast. With the two spare sparks, the Psy was of course able to AOE stun for his team and soulburn an opponent.
Triple spark, on the other hand, leaves you helpless. A Psy isn't the best tank in the world unless he's got Psy will or white voodoo. White voodoo is great, but defeats the purpose of triple sparking entirely, so trip sparking is announcing you have black voodoo and take 11% more damage than all other classes, OR you're a self-contradicting idiot and you're in white anyways, which again, just means you wasted sparks. Trip sparking also means that unless your chi was ABSOLUTELY full, you're not going to be able to cast Psy will, so an APS class or an archer is free to fire away at a class that has trash physical resistance and trash HP. And sure enough, the moment his immunity was off, he went down quick. There's another little trick he could've done but I'd rather not say as I like keeping the community ignorant to Psychics; helps me fend off all them sins. :P
And besides that it's just the matter that a Psy can be rather supportive of it's team when it has chi. With chi, a Psy can AOE stun for 6 seconds. With chi, a Psy can soulburn a target and make them think twice about attacking/make them incredibly vulnerable for the next 10 seconds. With chi, a Psy can ensure his own safety as he damage deals, and a Psy damage dealing will likely get a kill. With chi, a Psy can absolutely nuke a wizard or cleric's cast speed. I guess you could say, in that sense, triple sparking would be like if one of the axe BMs out there triple sparked: that's great that you have high damage now, but how do you expect to stunlock opponents and Dragons others, a job we DEFINITELY need you to do?

Titsania - Lost City wrote: »

Stop ridiculing the people who were representing our country. You have no idea what was going on at the time and why they did the things they did. In an instance where time is of an essence and adrenalin is flowing fast and furious its easy to hit the wrong skill or make a decision that later you wanna just slap yourself for.. Gratz to all of you armchair quarterbacks who are perfect and can sit back after the fact and criticize the actions taken.

To the USA team. Gratz for what you did accomplish and I hope you guys in China had one hell of a great time. Please post pictures