I play a 50 celtic spear hero on Gawaine and hes specced 50spear 50parry and every duel I have been challenged to or challenged against a LW specced hero or champ I have lost, I was just wondering why does it seem my hero is so gimped in duels against LW specced fighters. :(
I'm thinking of going 44 in Spear/Parry/LW. Looking at the attack discriptions I believe I will get most out Hero this way, switching to Spear for the Mids, and LW for the Albs armor. Do you think this is flawed and I should max parry and spear as many suggest here? And oh yeah, I evade all the time. At character gen. I put more into dex. than into Con. or Str.
If you want to lvl quickley a CS hero and a bard make the best team. Usally i will get my friend on...he's a bard, and we can fight reds all day. At the end of the day i've already gone up 3 lvl's. HEEHEE =] i'ts really fun...
If you want to lvl quickley a CS hero and a bard make the best team. Usally i will get my friend on...he's a bard, and we can fight reds all day. At the end of the day i've already gone up 3 lvl's. HEEHEE =] i'ts really fun...
I have a lvl 33 hero, spec'd CS and Parry. spears are CELTIC SPEAR SPEC ONLY. you will almost always want to keep 2 spears on you at all times. in groups, you will want to use your fast spear, otherwise if it aggroes a caster(rare occasion) you will not get your taunt off before the caster is likely to die, especially if you miss. as said before, backup styles using parry openings are a must. tracking/forest is one of the best combinations I've found so far, cause for one, tracking spear stuns the mob, allowing you to pull off another skill before it hits you. in RvR you want to use your slow spear because the damage on slow spears is ungodly, even if they are slow, and considering a long fight in rvr is about 10 seconds, you want to get the most damage in as possible. at lvl 33, I can solo any orange mob, and low lvl reds. the best combination I've found for a group is having 1 spear hero, 1 shield hero, and one bard. spear hero's almost always maintain aggro, and with high spec in parry and the shield hero blocking for you, you barely ever get hit, even from purps, and if you do you have the bard to back up heal and run end song. all I can say to rvr is, /stick and strafe around them after every hit. I have soloed more orange trolls than I can count......they never expect you to charge. <grin>
Cuinneir Ruadh Shadows of Eire 33 Spear Hero Igraine
i killed a yellow with no armor and a horilbbe SPEAR go its eather i rock or i rock cant wait for RvR all u mids/ albs will be wishing u stayed with N64
To all new users and elder users of a Celtic Spear Hero:
I will first off saying that i love my CS hero, DMG is the way to go with this spec class. And since the recent changes to the class by Mythic, its more enjoyable than ever. Secondly, if you play this type of hero, you should learn it. Ive seen many other Spear heros around who dont even bother to use the styles except taunt and the other non openers. I usually also see em fail occationally due to overuse of 1 style. I would suggest learning how the backup system works first of all (Thank you Mythic) and getting ur styles into a good formation where you can remember where they are. Learn to watch what happens when you are attacked. With the new backup system, you can now cancel your attacks to bring out a different one but you need to be quick bout it. For those of you who dont know, the backup style is a system where should your First style that u choose be unable to perform perfectly, it goes to the Second style to perform it. A good example would be 1st Style: Tracking Spear Backup: Forest Spear. I find this all too sweet, even if I miss I can do some dmg, and if I hit, jump for joy. Nsturally you are gonna spec 50 parry and 50 CS, but the remainder will be up to you. Ive heard putting your remainder points into Shield will help in RvR and be able to block arrows more efficently. Or some may put into LW or Blades, entirely up to you, but the most important rule about playing your hero, HAVE FUN, after all, you are paying $10-$12/Month for it =) Peace yall Forcee: 25 Firbolg CS Hero Majirayan: 41 Celt Druid Kamehamehaa: 31 Luikreen Eld
#Mythox,
Posted:Apr 17 2002 at 2:01 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) on group fighting.. think.. your friend takes the lead and makes the big uggly troll attacking him.. you get behind it.. raise your spear (i use barbed) and .. hunters boon.. ouch.. thats gotta hurt he is slowed.. then.. javelin.. ouch ouch.. he is bleeding.. and then hunters gift..ouch ouch ouch.. it makes the mid crap flew out of him.. attack speed reduces and your defend raises.. but i think u cant hit him 3 times.. he should die at the first one.. :) ++ casters in rvr died at one-two hits.. blue viking died at the first..and for the dudes who spoke about the evade thing.. cs spear dude wont evade he is a man/firbolg and we are the warriors of honour .. and also .. i evade once in a day.. :)
Im at lvl 13 Hero, and im advancing well in CS. Something I think that reallie useful is when your soloing keep a spear or short spear on hand. When in groups use your barbed. The dmg range is considerable.
Just thinking, Like all CS heros, Maxing CS and PArry are obvious, unless im wrong. But Should I get a bow? As a puller, bows can be useful. I calculated that after Maxing CS and parry, I could get around 25 bow. Which is not bad. Do you think I should get a bow ?
First off, you cannot spec in bow, its just a weapon use that you get at LvL 15, and 2nd off, yes get a bow, tanks are almost physically required to have one,except champs, you will get a bow for your lvl 15 epic and thats all you need, well that and long range arrows. CS POWNS!
i just wanna say ... celtic spears really rock ;) i can kill some yellows in 3 hurts ;) thats all and heroines rocks and hibernia rock and DaoC too :)))
Dont wanna sound like a whiner but spears in my estimation are all messed up. They dont exploit what a hero does well. Consider this
Entrap + Hunters largeness chain is based off Evade ...... that is one chain
Later you get Hunters gift which can add to that chain or stand alone again after guess what ..... an EVADE.
MY question is WHY EVADE!.... look guys fact of the matter is this Heroes get Evade one. The skill may or may not be based off anything pertaining to skills or what have you ... but trust me you will ONLY actually evade against blues and MAYBE yellows. Anything higher is a one in a million shot. Gotta say that im very dissippointed that its not parry the chains work off of. Not only would that make ((far)) better sence but it would also be useful and fun to play with. Parry is pumpable with hero's and most heros go with a plot plan end carrear of 50 spears 50 Parry and what ever is left is up to there personal preferance. If it were Parry that these chains went off of Much like every other Combat skill in the game.. we would have us a lotta fun making it work. As it stands now we have a lot of chains that are only useful against blues .... Creatures that die as easy as as snot anyway.... just pointless
I personally think the CS rocks & I have had much success with evade against reds & up to purps.& the tracking spear, hawks talon, wyvern talon chain is all based off of a parry. Bah..shields, who needs em anyway....when u got a big **** spear in your hands :-) Thats MHO :)
Look at other weapon styles and tell me the one thing different then that of celtic spear...none of the styles in Celtic Spear have High Bonus Damage. Not that spears need it. I was just looking because I play a 32 Healer, armed with the best armor and weapons possible for my level, fully buffed, and still a yellow Hero smacked the livin crap outta me in RvR. Talking 200+ per hit every time. She had no assistance from others aside from buffs she might have had on. If yer a Hib and wanna do melee...go for Hero with all Spear...
If Spears have Second highest, what has highest? LW? but I still don't know if i should put on blades or blunt, too...cause anyone says somethin else :-/