Smite and RW (melee to-hit & damage boost) are your friends.

Do you train brawling? Try some of the non-damaging maneuvers to throw them off balance.

What are you hunting that you can't Halt? With high teens in my mentals I was able to halt Marauders at 13 mana & probably low 80s PM/Harn. If you started your Pally a month or two ago I'd imagine you're not too far off. DiG & MO (although you can't get that until 50th) will help with success.

Maybe bust out the horse to face them & give them a MO penalty if you're hunting solo.

Some ideas at least.

~Thilan

Slam with your shield.

Just what the other folks sais: Halt, RW, Smite.

I would also say use the feint routine until you have balance.


Madigan

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Arthur Ashe

>>Smite counteracts the RW negative and then goes beyond it?

No, I mean hunt with RW up and use Smite every so often once you get to the appropriate point in your combo (slice, bash or thrust). IIRC it also has a to-hit bonus. For the RW negative, if you can't hit then I'm assuming you're doing fine in the defense department (otherwise you should move down a critter), and I find the defense penalty to be negligible.

>>I thought this was an intelligence booster?

Yes, and as Halt is WvW (using char, disc & intel on the caster's side) the boost to intelligence will help with its success.


~Thilan

<<What do Paladin PvPers do to bring their opponents onto the same play field?

You use the following abilities:

Smite Foe
Halt
TR
Lead
Lights

Then, you use smart tactics:

You increase your balance and tactically use your spells/abilities or just wait until they make a mistake.

Until they change Smite Foe, that is your checkmate spell if you are close to level. After that is gone, you have to be very smart when fighting an equal opponent.



Madigan

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Arthur Ashe

<<What do Paladin PvPers do to bring their opponents onto the same play field?>>

WATCH stealthy players
WARD ranged
LIGHT always
snap CLA (i never let this drop when outside of a hunting ground) and HoW for instance boost.

I'll post more when i'm home

CLA = Clarity.

I'd also say train a ranged weapon.

Something I want to test out is stancing attack 0/100 evasion/100 shield at the start and see if I can take their first attack easily enough to get rid of the first strike soul hit (although if you are fighting under challenge mechanics I believe there isn't any penalty anyway). This probably isn't viable at higher levels where the damage scaling starts to get out of control, but at the sub 40th level I'm at I hope it will work for tourneying.


~Thilan

CLA helps see who is doing what to you. If they are stalking DISB. If they are aiming point X/Trace ward X.
Plus I don't always have a CV, DiG and GoL up at all times so when clarity triggers spidey sense they immediately go up.

RW works only for melee weapons.

Smite is awesome. It only works for melee weapons as well. Raise that charisma to get more smites out of your pool. Don't keep trying to smite if you are out of juice, I've noticed it affect my soulstate.


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>>HT is my prime. Which is why I was hoping I could find a way to use my boosters.

Good. HT is my prime ranged now, after messing around with 4 others first. I really wished I trained it from the beginning.

HeS is great for throwing too.



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ther eis a erason everybody uses crossbow, you should too.

Last I checked RW isn't exclusive to melee, it works with all weapons.

More mana can help you win the contest so you can make them immobile. There is only one immobile state that I know of. Well two if you count what immobile used to be and what it is now. But I won't rehash that discussion again :p


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That's because even though they are immobile, thier leftover evasion ranks and parry ranks still outclass your weapon ranks and agility. Your best chances will be with the highest cast of RW you can cast on yourself and when using smite in your combat sequence.


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<<Immobilization only lowers evasion, not parry or shield. Might be why it's hard to get through a marauder's defenses even after Halting them. This is one reason why I believe stunning spells/abilities overall lower an opponent's defenses more, despite what the GMs tell you. The loss of balance from a stun affects evasion, shield, and parry.

That is my experience as well re: halt/stun.


Madigan

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Arthur Ashe

One thing to do is halt them just after they do a sweep attack. This carries a large defensive penalty that will carry over while they are halted.

It's also nice if you can time it to attack them immediately after doing this with a nice slice or chop attack (assuming you are using an edged weapon here)to put a quick hurt on them.

Also, wearing chain, Marauders are vulnerable to impact damage, so a heavy weapon or blunt will also help add some more factors into your attack. Being patient (assuming you can defend against them) and stacking all of these odds in your favor can really take them out quickly.


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