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Topic subjectRE: Overhead, legsweep and misdirect.
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51460, RE: Overhead, legsweep and misdirect.
Posted by Daevryn on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
>Overhead - Your opponent runs away after you do it unless it
>kills them. It would be great if it always lagged them 1
>round. With edge it might lag them 2 then sometimes. Makes it
>a good opener. Otherwise pincer is always a better opener to
>use except on an invoker.

Yeah outside of edge cases it's pretty marginal right now. I've tweaked it up a bit a number of times over the years but it's still not quite there yet.

>Legsweep - Trip almost always seems as a better option. Fly
>prevents this from working entirely. So it is kinda a useless
>skill imo. Yes, I understand it is a skill based trip. Still
>not worth it.

Given equal stats, it always works more and does more damage than trip.

>Misdirect - Does less damage than pincer and is not an opener.
>Lags you more than them. Not really worth it, might be useful
>for Felar. Maybe.

There's really no good answer to misdirect, though. Consider that you're also a dramatically better tank than an axe spec as a spear spec, too. To me it's actually one of the better arguments to pick spear as a spec.