Initially, when they first got their magic it was obviously too low. Not a single spell they cast on me was able to get past my resistance. However, on the other hand, why shouldn't that be the case for a 50th mage casting on a 99th mage? Not really a huge issue on my part, I don't see any reason why they should be adequite against me, but this seems to be a bit much.

These guys seem a bit tough, for the level they should be (ie, ~50th creatures) I just tested vs 15 casts of DO. All were at melee range, me against it. Both solidly balanced, no other creatures in the room. Out of the 15 casts, 7 stunned me, 8 gave me external bleeders while the 7 which stunned me also gave me internal bleeders, a total of one was dodged, one was deflected by armor, and one damaged my armor. Almost all were under the influence of TV, while I always had both Major Physical Protection and Benediction cast which should more than adequitely overcome the TV's skill/stat lowering.

This is a bit much, for a creature which is supposed to be on level with warriors. Warriors take 3 in a multi sutation before they start hitting me, while the mages are able to stun me and give me both internal and external bleeders one on one.

As usual, PFE seems less than adequite agaisnt the spells cast by evil creatures. A fully cast enormous prep spell of PFE was able to "protect" me by lowering the duration on TV from 4 minutes to 3 minutes. It did not seem to help against the DO, but I didn't really play with that much. TV seems unresistable overall. Is it a WvW spell, or does it have it's own contest?

Since the magic went in, there have only been a handfull of hunters I've seen go in and not come back out dead. All of us that have survived are so skilled that Adan'f barely teach us in the first place.

Overall, I feel like these things are too skilled for how little their warrior bretheren teach me. They should be about on-par with the warriors in capability to hit, while I find them much more skilled and much more damaging than warriors have been to me in at least 6 months, even with their (warriors) special attack.

I'm sure many other people are noticing the same thing.

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- Smeg

It does seem like they have a lot of targeted magic, I wouldn't complain if it was tweaked down a bit.


-Path

Westryl says, "I'll only roleplay a female if I can get stuck in the void with Pathian."

the way it is now, unless some tweaking is done, i expect a massive emigration from shard to rossmans. they are way overpowered.

the tv and do particularly.

even fighting from the shadows, i'm forced unless there is only 1 mage in the room to kill one and move on. and for those guilds that fight out in the open, it is worse, except for the dancing barbs that resist their magics.

schvartz


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>except for the dancing barbs that resist their magics.

And that's been changed, I resist them rarely now as a 56th barb with 30 intel, 28 disc, and 26 charisma, also while dancing.

I try to kill them as fast as I can now, it's harder to hunt them now than it was before, but that's ok for me.

But I must say, that Smegul's magic problems is pretty darn wrong from his experiments, a 50th critter hitting him like that? If that was a player doing that to a Character, people would grab their pitchforks and torches and be bashing down some doors.


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>Out of curiousity what are your applicable defense and stats like and do they get to fully target you before they cast?

As far as I know, they get fully targeted. It is a ~20 second pause between them targeting and then casting.

At the time of the tests my applicable stats were all over 55 with 375 evasion. Like I said, they do not teach me much in groups smaller than 3. I had no burden and "fair" overall hinderance on my armor. 100% evasion stance.

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- Smeg

<<ohh and its Pure SvA, no TM-Evasion checks are involved that I know off atleast.>>

Tm vs Evasion are an inherent part of the SvA spell type. How much it's a matter of tm vs evasion depends on the spell itself, but as far as I know, it's supposed to be there in some respect. The moral of the story:

Evasion should help, how much is variable.

-Accipam