Greetings and salutations!
Under normal circumstance, I would be obliged to scream "OP OP! THIS NEEDS TO BE NERFED INTO OBLIVION! RAWR BLARGH BLARGH!", however I am taking a much calmer approach. As many are aware, auto targeting with the flourish or the thorn has long been used in conjunction with the booster for obvious reasons. As I don't want to stoop to a level so low as to "fight fire with fire" and use the same playstyle, I've been wondering about alternate means to combat such enemies. I've mostly been using the Defender class in conjunction with a sealed sword (fighting at Tier 2 pvp). Unless I consistently knock them back as they dash towards me, there is no escape, the shield gets broken with ease, and more or less I cannot even use my own sword due to the interruption from each attack they launch at me.
From your experience fellow Spiral Knights players, what do you do to fight against the growing number of flourish + booster users in Lockdown? Is it a lost cause, or is there some underlying method I have yet to attempt that seems to have a high success rate for others?
Mist bombs and recon.