Yo, I play this quite frequently.
"Honya"
Total Level 55,
Potion Maker: Herbalism D, Potion Making D, Production Mastery A
Mari Server
If you see me let's do a dungeon run.
In another friend's guild, Okawari, so gonna pass on Sacchintoast.
Pic of character later.
Windmill is the best thing in this game. Here's one of the many applications you can use.
Rabbie dungeon has those annoying skeletons that change skills every so often. Rabbie basic has armored skeletons, so you can't hit them with normal attacks EVER and you can't defend. The solution?
If you have Icebolt (and if you don't you're retarded its the second best skill in the game) and you hit a skeleton that's loading up a skill, there's a chance that it will load ANOTHER skill. If the SECOND skill they load up is COUNTER, then it will sit and stare at you (literally forever). When this happens, you can windmill all the other skeletons in the entire room without fear of aggro. Once you are done, heal up (if you are a sissy) and fight that last skele. This works especially well in orb rooms where you can windmill 30+ skeletons at a time without any fear of reprisal.
How does this work? Icebolt "resets" the aggro of many mobs, forcing them to head on attack you once you hit them with it. Icebolt/counter is the safest way to deal with mobs that aren't immune to icebolt. Mobs like Succubus and Basic Golem run right through icebolt.
I usually find it's not worth the HP drain to damage the other surrounding skeletons, unless you like playing Deadly game (Or you're not soloing). Icebolt counter is pretty much THE technique, and WM useful (You only need it at F if you're life specializing) but not uber. There's always the chance in a Snake bunch or whatever fast-type fomors have you that's not a goblin or skeleton ready to double aggro (Snakes in Ciar basic). What's also killer is in WM animation charge time is neglected until you recover from WM. So you can WM things around you after inflicting knockback on an enemy, but then the knockback enemy has an attack advantage, and you take damage.
But yeah, Icebolt is one of the most useful skills in the game.
Oh, and one more thing, weapon speeds have nothing to do with your Very Fast/Slow ratings on your equips, in case anyone wonders why attacks sometimes work after WM completion. If you go blow for blow against an enemy, there's a 1/3 chance you'll attack first, 1/3 they will, and 1/3 chance you'll trade blows. The weapon speed is a reference to startup time in the timeframe when 1 aggro'd enemy has been defeated and the other about to start.
~Chun
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