Vigor vs Peparation

[Malakar]

If a is mage really thinking, he'll blink out of CS, as mages can blink out of stuns (WTF?!).
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Mages can't blink out of stun. What you're seeing is them blinking immediately after stun wears off.

Cloth my level may have +stam gear but that's not gonna stop a 700 dmg evis (after armor reduction). Between poisons and SS damage, they're at half health by the time I get 5 cps.

Can you get 5 cp's and pull off a CB Evis before the initial 4 second stun wears off, though? Hmm, perhaps if you use a Thistle Tea...

My only hope is to surprise them so much they don't think fast enough.

This is one of the main things that used to get me killed by rogues. That and lack of experience, assuming they didn't pull something lame like ambushing me while I'm low health from mobs.

Or just catch 'em when they have no mana :)

That's obviously to your advantage, but if they're an arcane mage, health is more of your concern cause they can use Evocation to recover ~2/3 of their mana (10 min cooldown) while you're poly'd.

This ambushing in bad situations is what pissed me off about rogues, and inspired me to build my character to kill them. If someone does it to me, they'd better make sure they kill me, cause if they don't I'm going to pot, kill them, and camp their corpse for an hour.

Mind numbing Poison helps a lot too.

I have a question about this skill, since nobody ever seems to use it on me. What does it do to instant casts?