Why is Death From Above so much better than Mortar Volley?

well no, if everything is at the same angle etc, there is no room for argument. Besides, would take me the same amount of time to export, convert video etc then it is to level up a bounty hunter to 10, do MV, record it and do the editing.

Only with me leveling up a bounty hunter, I can ensure that the test requirements are exactly the same. While someone else footage, I can't change it to a slightly different angle or whatever.

I think if mortar volley just fired off its rounds quicker to compensate for the slow rounds, it would be balanced.

Angle isn't relevant to anything. You can look at the cast bar and then look at the damage numbers pop up and look at the timer. You don't need to make an "unbiased" video to do this. You're just trying to delay admitting that you're wrong.

I think if mortar volley just fired off its rounds quicker to compensate for the slow rounds, it would be balanced.

The problem is when you activate it you get the blue circle on the ground and people have a full 2 seconds to get out of the way before you start doing any damage. Death from above has at most a 1 second delay.

DEATH from above does not have at most a 1 second delay
watch the video and count it.. its almost 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTibe-wypQc

there's a second one.. again you can't watch the animation watch when the ability is clicked and actual damage starts taking place it is nearly 3 seconds.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHabk4Zl3m8

this video from 4 days ago is even longer.



Its the same thing with all of these threads, you guys are saying animations are slowing things down.. just because the animations are there doesn't mean that's when you've started taking damage..

The only one I think that might be different is the sage/sorc one, but I'll have to level both to actually speak intelligently about the comparison.

you do realise your arguing against youtself right ? the 2nd video showned it perfectly, once he actually engaged the skill it was less than 0.5 seconds before first tick, which is almost 2 seconds quicker than the first tick of the mortar volley

this is an issue as the time you get to deal damage with channeled skills in pvp is limited due to the mobility involved, it is exactly the same with autofire and it comes from their added animation issues with the large gun vs handguns, this is beside the point on how superior dual wielding is to singel weapon atm.