2009-05-13, 03:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 2009-05-19, 01:25 PM by IllegallySane.)
I roughly found this out after getting level 21 Dragon Strike and after the patch lowered it's cooldown. Wanting to emulate the Viper in the KMST video, I pretty much discovered a bucket of awesome. Essentially, the idea of "Dragon Dancing" is to minimize damage taken while dealing as much damage as possible to mobs.
It's rather simple thanks to the KMST changes:
1. CSB into the mob
2. Dragon Strike
3. While still invincible, tap CSB
4. Due to the way Dragon Strike works it also hits enemies a reasonable distance from behind your character.
5. Here, as soon as possible, tap Backspin Blow. If done fast enough, the mobs behind you will remain in the same spot while you move back
6. Dragon Strike for even moar damage since you also got 3 stunned mobs
7. Repeat 1-6 until mobs are dead from your awesomeness.
Essentially, this technique cut down my pot consumption by roughly 1/2 from ~400-500+/hour to only ~150-200+/hour at Skeles; even more, this makes repotting much less of a pain since I'm not repotting after every 4 hours. Dragon Dancing works beautifully for me because it only leaves me open to hits roughly 20% (and add in ~20-25% avoidance) of the time while remaining untouchable the other 80%. Also, it's quite devastating dealing 810% to 6 enemies, which makes for sexy time.
Slight adjustments can be made with CSB, where if you don't like where the mobs are positioned, you can wait about a split second after CSB connects to be able to push them back more while still remaining unhittable.
Thoughts about this, or does someone else have a better way to kill fast while mitigating pot burn?
It's rather simple thanks to the KMST changes:
1. CSB into the mob
2. Dragon Strike
3. While still invincible, tap CSB
4. Due to the way Dragon Strike works it also hits enemies a reasonable distance from behind your character.
5. Here, as soon as possible, tap Backspin Blow. If done fast enough, the mobs behind you will remain in the same spot while you move back
6. Dragon Strike for even moar damage since you also got 3 stunned mobs
7. Repeat 1-6 until mobs are dead from your awesomeness.
Essentially, this technique cut down my pot consumption by roughly 1/2 from ~400-500+/hour to only ~150-200+/hour at Skeles; even more, this makes repotting much less of a pain since I'm not repotting after every 4 hours. Dragon Dancing works beautifully for me because it only leaves me open to hits roughly 20% (and add in ~20-25% avoidance) of the time while remaining untouchable the other 80%. Also, it's quite devastating dealing 810% to 6 enemies, which makes for sexy time.
Slight adjustments can be made with CSB, where if you don't like where the mobs are positioned, you can wait about a split second after CSB connects to be able to push them back more while still remaining unhittable.
Thoughts about this, or does someone else have a better way to kill fast while mitigating pot burn?