Hi folks,
My guild president made a call for people to come defend 2h0 from a clan attack a couple days ago and I figured I'd try PvP for the first time even though I'm a lowly 115 NT.
Needless to say, I got wiped. First womp in and I found someone almost dead...managed to get a nuke off (resisted) and they died to someone else. Next thing I know, someone jumps off a roof in front of me, roots me, shoot shoot, dead.
Hummm, I think, that was fast. OK, I'll try again.
Come back in...the clanners are right at the womp, I tab a big trox, next thing I see is Piercingevil rooting me, shoot shoot, dead.
Well...OK....try again.
This time I womp in to see a mass of clanners on the hill. I was dumb and got ahead of the OT rush and died before I knew I was under attack.
OK...last try.
I make sure to hang back from the rush...have changed my quick keys to roots and AOE. The OT rush clears the field...clanners run to bunker, and I manged to do exactly nothing useful in the battle (a little damage from AOE, but that's it). The OTers keep the clanners bottled in the bunker (except a few low lvl guys who we couldn't hit) w/ a few forays out by clanners. On OT chat, people are calling for us to back off so the clanners can come out but people stay up close. After a while I guess some clanners came out and I got aim/fling/bursted to death before I knew I was under attack.
I have no weapon damage, NR not very high at all, and maxed nano skills, nano pool and body dev. Evades are also pretty low. I tried to concentrate on blinds, roots and area nukes when I stepped out onto the PvP battlefield. A ton of what I tried to do got resisted and I resisted nothing.
Hummm...so, once you pass lvl 75 (I think?) you basically are useless at PvP until you get up near 200 and can max out things like NR, evades and get a decent weapon? Of course, being a nanomage NT makes me even more useless, but given what I saw Piercingevil doing, I'm hopeful. I have been reading the forums on how to play NT in PvP...but if I am right, most of the hints are for NTs who have NS, Crown, Kels, good weapon, etc. Is there any point to me trying to do PvP before having those things?
Thanks for any insight,