General Tips for All
Bonus exp: Besides killstreaks, kills and not dying you can add a lot of bonus exp inflicting status effects or just by absorbing a lot of hits without dying. Because mages are great at inflicting status effects they pump a bit more exp into the match. Barrier counts as a beneficial status effect.
Rune damage: Runes only increase the power of basic attacks, they have no impact on the power of abilities. Spirit Blade is the only exception to this rule.
Did you know? You can recover from knockdown, stun and the Demon Commander's panic attack by drinking a healing potion.
Did you know? You can avoid Terror demon warp attacks, the Demon Commander's warp attack and Despair demon "Ice Summon" attacks by jumping as you move.
Kill the archers : It doesn’t matter if you’re great at turtling or if you’ve just killed a dozen warriors, if you let the archers build up during the final fight you will lose. KILL THE ARCHERS
Do not rush the Red Templar Commander : Not only does he have several seconds of invulnerability, he starts his deadliest attack when he is below 60% health.
Use natural cover during the final battle : If you go stand where you can be surrounded by archers you are inviting death
Make friends : You can invite friends to your matches and you can join them wherever they are playing, even in a private match
Tips for reviving
A common mistake is to try and revive a ally when there are still very dangerous enemies in range. The Red Templar Shadow is a prime example, he will kill then kill anyone who tries to revive his victims. Do everything you can to take him out first. Other examples include reviving allies when there are half a dozen archers shooting at you, take out as many archers as you can before you revive. Avoid trying to revive anyone when you are being targeted by the Red Templar Commander, his combos will kill you and the person you are trying to revive.
+For warriors with shields: Try and revive while having your shield pointed at the enemies for much better defense
Tips for being revived
If you are being revived you may want to crawl towards an ally or away from enemies, depending on the situation. Tanks prefer that you crawl to them. more vulnerable classes prefer that you crawl away from enemies. Whichever the case, if you can crawl to safety behind a wall or pillar you should definitely do so. DO NOT MOVE WHEN BEING REVIVED, this will make the revive cancel.
+For characters with Scenting Blood (Reaver, Katari, Assassin, Avvar). If a character has SB it has a much faster crawl whenever it is near an enemy with low health, which is very often when things get tough.
Getting the chests on perilous
If you are a beginning or intermediate player, do not play perilous for the gold.
-Treasure rooms have powerful guardians that can easily cheapshot players, this will lower your chances of completing the mission succesfully
-Veteran players have a highly reduced interest in gold and may not help you
-DO NOT OPEN A ROOM IF YOUR TEAM IS ELSEWHERE
The best potions
-Jar of Bees : Very good for low difficulty boss fights, but rare
-Mighty Offense Tonic : Because this tonic adds to your base weapon dmg it gives an enormous boost to mages, a very good bonus to rogues, but only a slight bonus to two-handed warriors
-Lyrium Potion : A common potion that provides a serious boost to mage attack and mana reserves, not as good as Mighty Offense Tonic though.
-Healing Mist Grenade : A good bit of health for you and nearby teammates
-Rock Armor Tonic : Now adds 200 points of armor, greatly reducing damage from physical attacks
Casting an Area of Effect spell
I am talking about skills like Firestorm, Static Cage or Horror. If you spend a lot of time dragging these you are doing it wrong. You have a white crosshair that determines which enemy you are targeting. By strafing and shifting the camera you can move this crosshair onto other enemies. An AoE spell will automatically be placed directly underneath the enemy you are targeting. Lightly moving the spell towards you, away from you, lef or right will determine wether or not you miss or hit several targets at once. Be careful though as this also applies to Barrier and missing with Barrier can have tragic consequences. To resolve this aim the camera downwards before casting Barrier.
Strafing tips
Bows are less accurate than staves, here are some tips to improve your accuracy.
-Moving backwards while shooting greatly increases accuracy
-When an enemy is moving across the screen you want to strafe in a the direction opposite of where the enemy is going. So when an enemy is moving to your left, you go right and when he goes right you go left.
Types of Venatori mages and the effects of their barrier (not very important below Nightmare)
The mages come in 3 types: Electric, Fire and Ice. This type determines which elements and status effects they are resistant to. Electric resists paralysis, Fire resists burning and Ice resists frozen. On sight you cannot tell which is which, but there's a trick. The mages cast deadly elemental mines, but each mage only casts mines of his own type. Ice can be recognized by his blue mines, Electric by purple and Fire by orange. Now Venatori Mages have the ability to pass on their elemental resistances to the targets they give barrier. So a Venatori Fire Mage can half the damage from fire for his companions, a nightmare Venatori Mage can reduce damage taken from that element to 1. Status immunities do not transfer. Elemental weaknesses are overruled by the barrier buff.
Red Templar Behemoth and his annoying Red Lyrium Wall
RT Behemoth cast this big red wall to separate teammates, trap victims, frustrate melee attackers and block small enemies from being targeted by ranged allies. Here are some abilities that can break the wall (does not activate cooldown)
-Shield Bash
-Mighty Blow
-Charging Bull
-Stonefist
-Walking Bomb, but only if an enemy explodes
-Korth's Might
-Explosive Shot
-Throwing Blades
-Veilstrike
-Wrath of Heaven
-Hakkon's Charge
-Elemental Mines
-Firestorm
-Crushing Leap
to be updated
The attack-cancel exploit
Normally a basic attack sequence consists of a four hit combo (more for daggers). If you are at all unsatisfied by the speed of that combo you can try the attack-cancel to speed it up. You wait until you landed your first hit, then hit L3, the sprint button. You will return to your starting position in the combo. By spamming L3 with proper timing you can hit an enemy a lot faster in a fashion much resembling an old-school hack-and-slash animation. Alternative to L3 you can use "press and hold" skills like Shield Wall or Block and Slash, which even provides a chance to block/counter with these abilities.
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