Starting Elf, need some tips from Pros.

[Turd Cutter]

What bow should I use and what build once I get high enough. Goign to use duel long swords or the pike. Been in groups where some elves destroy everything. Not sure what they are using?? any pro tips? thx

[Kumori^]

which class?

[🐰🐾~Grinse~🐾🐰]

The most obvious tip I can give any player is to git gud.
It sounds dumb, I know but not getting hit is the first step to approve alot. How to learn block and push at the right time can save you alot as well where to position yourself.

I can recommend the first and third class.
The first class has some awesome offensive abilities such like her arrows who searchs for their target. Wanna fight a blightstormer? Press your class-ability and you are good to go. It can deal some great amount of damage and can be considered a neat ranged class.
For that class I recommend the longbow. Great damage, precision and the cabiliity to oneshot nearly everything.

The third class is also awesome but rather melee focused.
It's ability makes you invinsible as well allowing you to go through units, enemies will ignore you.
While you are cloaked your damage increases greatly, allowing you to one shot literaly chaos warriors which are a pain in the ass on legend btw.
The shade is also avaible for some neat boss nuking - drink a concentration potion and unleash shade-attacks without end!
For this class I recommend the glaive - great wide sweeps and great heavy combo - it also has a headshot multiplier.
For a ranged weapon, either the crossbow or longbow.

[Rack]

Play Handmaiden, probably best versatile class in game. You can be tank, Elite/special killer, horde killer. But you are best solo class in game. Great stamina regen, dodge. 25th talent gives you invisibility after DASH, Dash has 20 sec cooldown <3

[Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy]

Don't fall victim to Sniper Syndrome.
If you keep your ranged weapon out all the time you WILL get hit, because you weren't blocking when you should have.

After every couple of shots, look around, focusing on one enemy will get you stabbed in the butt.

[Amber Baal]

Originally posted by Rack:

Play Handmaiden, probably best versatile class in game. You can be tank, Elite/special killer, horde killer. But you are best solo class in game. Great stamina regen, dodge. 25th talent gives you invisibility after DASH, Dash has 20 sec cooldown <3

How to give bad advice to new players 101.

[Vacca]

if you plan to go legend, try to get used to shade. team will thank you for taking care of cws and bosses.

[halogamb]

Originally posted by Amber Baal:

Originally posted by Rack:

Play Handmaiden, probably best versatile class in game. You can be tank, Elite/special killer, horde killer. But you are best solo class in game. Great stamina regen, dodge. 25th talent gives you invisibility after DASH, Dash has 20 sec cooldown <3

How to give bad advice to new players 101.

Ignore this troll with the reputation for being such all over these forums.

Originally posted by Turd Cutter:

What bow should I use and what build once I get high enough. Goign to use duel long swords or the pike. Been in groups where some elves destroy everything. Not sure what they are using?? any pro tips? thx

Handmaiden is a great class and functions exceptionally well as an off tank primarily if you use the spear. Increasing stamina, block angle, and having stamina regen allows you to decimate hordes and hold the line to allow breathing room for the ranged primaries. The spear's weakness is AP, but with the wide block arc partnered with well timed dashes and bashes, you can hold elites at bay to allow for your teammates to decimate them from a flank or headshot them with ranged. Your increased dodge allows for great boss kiting. If you want to take a more proactive role with DPS, use the Glaive instead of the spear. It still has great horde clearing but less stamina and block arc so you'll need to be more dilligent about your block/bash timing to minimize damage. The handmaiden can't mitigate damage as well as the other tanky classes (Ironbreaker/Zealot/Foot Knight) but makes up for it with stamina management, dodge, and dash versatility.

[Kumori^]

tank... off tank... wtf? There is no such thing, there are classes who can take more of a beating. That's it. When it comes to threat every class works the same except for one ulti.

[halogamb]

Originally posted by Kumori^:

tank... off tank... wtf? There is no such thing, there are classes who can take more of a beating. That's it. When it comes to threat every class works the same except for one ulti.

If you think it's that one-dimensional, I feel bad for you.

[Vacca]

hm is... fine, but struggles on legend especially if running spear. with glaive she's ok, not top tier but playable.

[Kumori^]

Originally posted by halogamb:

Originally posted by Kumori^:

tank... off tank... wtf? There is no such thing, there are classes who can take more of a beating. That's it. When it comes to threat every class works the same except for one ulti.

If you think it's that one-dimensional, I feel bad for you.

why?

[Myrmidon]

Amber may get bashed for being a troll but on this occasion he is in fact spot on. The Handmaiden is not in any sense of the term "A Tank". Tanks are about soaking up punishment and keeping hordes incapacitated. Really we only have 3 proper tanks in this game which are the Ironbreaker, Foot Knight and Unchained. It's simply not possible for a Handmaiden to holdfast at a chokepoint and absorb a horde with little to no assistance. Handmaidens need to move around a lot, they're flimsy with low CC capabilities, the only time they can hold ground is if they're being supported.

[halogamb]

Originally posted by Myrmidon:

Amber may get bashed for being a troll but on this occasion he is in fact spot on. The Handmaiden is not in any sense of the term "A Tank". Tanks are about soaking up punishment and keeping hordes incapacitated. Really we only have 3 proper tanks in this game which are the Ironbreaker, Foot Knight and Unchained. It's simply not possible for a Handmaiden to holdfast at a chokepoint and absorb a horde with little to no assistance. Handmaidens need to move around a lot, they're flimsy with low CC capabilities, the only time they can hold ground is if they're being supported.

With the stamina regen I have on my gear and get from handmaiden, I have yet to have a problem timing block-bash-swing into hordes to decimate them pretty flawlessly in chokepoints on Legend with little to no help. Handmaiden excels in some areas and struggles in others, but horde holding/clearing is one that she excels in if you understand the playstyle, both in a chokepoint and out of one.

[Wizard Skeleton]

I like Shade or Wutelgi. I recommend a glaive. It has nice anti-horde and anti-armor. Always pick longbow because the rest isn't viable. With longbow you're really good at taking down armor (not superarmor tho) so make use of it.

For the build I run the standard +critchance +infantry damage. Elf is really strong against all of the larger targets, always try to pick them out from a horde when you spot them.

[Vacca]

horde clearing she's pretty good, yeah - especially if they fixed phantom hits on spear. glaive works well too, less bash+attack and more leaning forward and backwards, but works still.