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Monkor · 07/28/07, 1:57 PM

I hope you dont mind me breaking in here to ask a few questions.

I am looking for advice regarding a mace spec for PvP. I have been using daggers for over a year and am looking for something different and fun and am currently saving my arena points for a set of S2 maces. I would like to try maces because I have experienced first hand what the stuns can do to you in arena, but have a few concerns.

1) My major concern is how the mace procs could fit in or be diminished by a stunlock opener. For example, if I stunlock my opponent and over the duration of my CS/KS stuns my mace stun procs 2 times, I have not reaped the benefits of those stuns, which is the entire reason for going maces over swords. Now when my opponent comes out of stun if and when my maces proc again the diminishing returns will make it a pretty short stun. One way I could think to try to prevent this from happening is to wait for your maces to proc after a CS and not KS until the mace stun wears off, but I definitely think that basing your play style around a proc would lead to certain death. Do you mace rogues seem to have have a problem with losing mace proc effectiveness due to your stunlocks?

2) Does the lack of crit from being a sword/mace spec coupled with high resilience opponents reduce your dmg absurdly? Is this crit worth giving up for proccing stuns?

3) Warning: Noob Question:

I have searched far and wide and cannot find a good thorough explaination of mace diminishing returns. How long do the DRs on mace stuns last? Is it 20 secs? Does the duration of the DR end after the first proc or the most recent proc? For example if it is a 20 sec DR, will I get a full 3 second stun again on a proc 20 secs after my first proc or my most recent proc?

4) Aside from focusing players you would like to interrupt often, is there any special strategy to playing with maces or do you just play as if they were swords with a pleasant proc?

Also if anyone has done the switch from daggers to maces and has additional insight it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

07/28/07, 1:57 PM	#32 (permalink)
Monkor Glass Joe Monkor Troll Rogue Burning Blade	I hope you dont mind me breaking in here to ask a few questions. I am looking for advice regarding a mace spec for PvP. I have been using daggers for over a year and am looking for something different and fun and am currently saving my arena points for a set of S2 maces. I would like to try maces because I have experienced first hand what the stuns can do to you in arena, but have a few concerns. 1) My major concern is how the mace procs could fit in or be diminished by a stunlock opener. For example, if I stunlock my opponent and over the duration of my CS/KS stuns my mace stun procs 2 times, I have not reaped the benefits of those stuns, which is the entire reason for going maces over swords. Now when my opponent comes out of stun if and when my maces proc again the diminishing returns will make it a pretty short stun. One way I could think to try to prevent this from happening is to wait for your maces to proc after a CS and not KS until the mace stun wears off, but I definitely think that basing your play style around a proc would lead to certain death. Do you mace rogues seem to have have a problem with losing mace proc effectiveness due to your stunlocks? 2) Does the lack of crit from being a sword/mace spec coupled with high resilience opponents reduce your dmg absurdly? Is this crit worth giving up for proccing stuns? 3) Warning: Noob Question: I have searched far and wide and cannot find a good thorough explaination of mace diminishing returns. How long do the DRs on mace stuns last? Is it 20 secs? Does the duration of the DR end after the first proc or the most recent proc? For example if it is a 20 sec DR, will I get a full 3 second stun again on a proc 20 secs after my first proc or my most recent proc? 4) Aside from focusing players you would like to interrupt often, is there any special strategy to playing with maces or do you just play as if they were swords with a pleasant proc? Also if anyone has done the switch from daggers to maces and has additional insight it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Monkor Glass Joe Monkor Troll Rogue Burning Blade