[Archer vs Blademaster] Anticipation is a Lovely Mistress

Not a bad video but a couple of things I would have tweaked.

You seemed to play pretty defensively throughout the fight. I didn't see you use mo zun or any chi draining skills. The archer was using bv wing grace whisper shot too often, but didn't seem to have cloud on their genie. I would have deleted cloud and heart and swapped it for virulent and mantle ripple of death. Blade Hurl you seemed to use too often when not needed to disable a combo, again to build up chi faster I'd get rid of ocean's edge in comboing for tiger maw, ocean edge only gives 5 chi to maw's 10, and drake sweep gives 12 + chance to get an additional 30.

Again I like to play pretty offensively so if you had been using white tea more often instead of immunity pots, you'd have had immune stun and drake bash to use to keep him locked rather than just tanking him. Again, being aggressive against archers will help keep you alive just due to the fact they're half damage at melee range for their ranged attacks and if you chi drain them, their metal attacks are pretty weak. You had one good combo going for you @ 3:02 but you can't reckless rush as a finishing move if they're above 50% hp to bypass charm, it's always best to wait till they're like 30-40% hp remaining as an instant cast skill.

Everything else seemed pretty nicely played, leap forwards were timed well to evade BV and stuns, I'd just try to play more aggressively and you will see results. Just my advice.

Walpurga - Dreamweaver wrote: »

b:shocked not true? ZTP metal combo is a monster when it catches you stunned with mag def charms ticked.

and HoS is essential for fighting archers IMO; better to stop a metal combo, especially if it's a sage BV-->Stormrage metal combo, with an 80 energy HoS than it is to get rid of debuffs with belief or ad or sutra orbs

But that archer lol; god of RNG? Such purge proc

TheDan - Sanctuary wrote: »

if you chi drain them, their metal attacks are pretty weak.

I think you misunderstand, I'm saying they are weak alone if they cannot be comboed with BV or any other skill, thus the triple chi drain skills on my STR genie + mo zun taunt. The assumption being the archer never has any chi ever when mantle, virulent poison and dissolve are in effect, it's nearly 3.5 sparks gone every 30 seconds.

I'm sure if I had a 91 LP genie, HoS would be a luxury, but in the example he has an 81 LP genie, perhaps removing Holy Path and Cloud for the two other chi draining skills.

Haven't tried chi suppression genie on an archer, really. I always assume completely giving up my genie to suppress a class that has Awaken to be a bad idea. I burn my genie, they use Awaken, I've accomplished nothing but left myself genieless. In TW Mo Tzu's on archers is great to keep anti-stuns and barrages down but doesn't seem like an amazing techinque in 1v1 (just commenting, like I said I haven't tried it.)

Seemed to spend a lot of time belling at range rather than closing the distance then belling. As TheDan said the best thing you can do against an archer is be on them like glue. Also, after the purges (purges purges purges) I wouldn't throw up mag marrow until I'd belled because it unbalances you poorly against pdef attacks which are still 90% of the archers attacks.

Ask Mr. Dan to get you another sexy genie like his. b:thanks