Hi there Started a while ago as a bucc, and wanted to understand I frames. Can someone explain to me how I frames works? Thanks!
Imagine taking a 30 second video of you attacking and then chopping that video up into 30 still images played like a slideshow. Each of those images is a frame. When using a skill, the duration of that skill can be measured in those frames; how many still images you would go through from the beginning to the end of the attack animation. If we apply this to Buccaneer skills like Barrage and Demolition, during those attack animations, there are frames where you cannot be hit by anything. No touch damage, magic damage, stun, 1/1, etc. These are called invincibility frames, or iframes for short. Buccaneer skill animations are very long, but during these animations, almost all frames are iframes. Using the single target combo as example (Barrage+Demo), because of all the iframes, you can't get hit until the end of Demo before the next Barrage, about once every ~5 sec or so, meaning less knockback, less pot usage, less chance of dying because pet auto pot is napping during HT, etc. Its sort of like our pseudo-Shadow Shifter.
u take damage between barrage + demo after the barrage is done too but for the most part ye, its no damage taken till end of demo
Actly because the barrage iframes last for a good few frames after the completion of the attacks, and you can instantly go into demolition upon the completion of barrage, you will be invulnerable between the 2 skills as long as you mash the demo button while in barrage The classic combo is barrage + demolition, but you get iframes for both those skills individually, as well as corkscrew blow. You will have iframes during the course of the skills/for a short while after they are completed, so you can combo them however you like. Be careful with demolition however, because you wont be able to move for quite some time after the skill ends & there is a period where you are vulnerable.
If you use barrage+demo macro (I use it all the time lol) you won't get hit until the end when demo have that frame when you're back to your place and recovering. Another advantage of macro is that it allows you to chat+atk without losing damage because the skills are quite slow and you can chat as long as you're still attacking. You can also use it to atk on 2 clients at the same time Also the main multi target combo (ds snatch) got no iframe unfourtanelty, so while it can outdamsge barrage and demo in Ht right side you'd also end up falling a lot more
