Mar 08, 2006, 05:34 AM // 05:34
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: May 2005
Location: in the midline
Profession: E/Mo
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Um, restore condition;hexbreaker/shatter hex?
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Mar 08, 2006, 03:39 PM // 15:39
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Mar 2005
Guild: Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LifeInfusion
Um, restore condition;hexbreaker/shatter hex?
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Restore Condition would work, but the thing with Frag spiking is that the second you inflict conditions, Frag is triggered. Frag also triggers upon removing conditions. Sure, Restore Condition would probably heal for more than enough after removing conditions, but it's an Elite, and even with the recent changes, I think you'd still get more mileage out of Mend Ailment.
I don't think condition removal is the most effective counter to Frag. Hex removal is, though, like you mentioned in the second part of your post. But I wouldn't bother with those two skills, unless you've got the energy for Shatter Hex (15e). I've found Remove Hex to be pretty handy, that is, unless, Frag is protected by a cover hex, which usually it should be if the Mesmer is even barely adequate, heh.
But yeah. Hex removal is the way to go to counter Frag, not really condition removal.
And yes, I think we could expect to see a re-emergence of Frag spiker A/Me with Factions.
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Mar 08, 2006, 11:14 PM // 23:14
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Frost Gate Guardian
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Well, the thing is, most Hexer's are smart enough to cover their damage hexes with cheaper skills, such as SS necros covering SS with parasitic bond.
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Mar 23, 2006, 05:48 AM // 05:48
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: N.Z.
Guild: _
Profession: P/
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I quite like :
using in this order with fast cast mesmer
1 Fragility
2 phantom pain
3 shatter delusions
4 arcane echo
5 virilence
6 virilence
Problem is it is slow between using frag and virilence but when it works it works
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Mar 23, 2006, 08:45 AM // 08:45
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#7
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Frost Gate Guardian
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nevin
I remember back in the day.
Frag, Phantom Pain, Shatter Delusion, Virulence. (Repeat Virulence)
Instant dead W/Mo.
Generic Wammo: i culd smash u [email protected]!!!!!
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I met my favorite type of Wammo tonight in Random arena. He used Live Vicariously on himself and carried a frost artifact. I was taking on the earth spiker when I noticed him attacking rather fast so I targeted him to see what was up. Frenzy. I immediately changed targets, put on Fragility and after 1 spike, he was dead. WOOT for a 40 damage Fragility going off 6 times!
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Mar 23, 2006, 02:15 PM // 14:15
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I'm the king
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Aussie Trolling Crew: Grand Phallus and Chairman Pro Tempore
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Congratulations, you've found the most roundabout way of dealing damage ever. Instead of just hitting a target with your Daggers, you're going to apply conditions to a target with fragility.
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Mar 23, 2006, 02:54 PM // 14:54
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#9
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Academy Page
Join Date: Oct 2005
Profession: E/Me
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fallot
Congratulations, you've found the most roundabout way of dealing damage ever. Instead of just hitting a target with your Daggers, you're going to apply conditions to a target with fragility.
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-light goes on in head-
Okay, what if you packed IW instead of Virulence as your elite?
123 <Assassin skills
4<Illusionary Weaponary
5< Ressurection Signet
6< Channeling
7< Fragility
8< Ether feast
Of course, the drawback being that you don't have an attack speed boost, or a feasible way to protect yourself. Oh well, back to my Me/Ri IW build.
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Mar 23, 2006, 03:53 PM // 15:53
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Sep 2005
Guild: Nova Alliance
Profession: Me/
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fallot
Congratulations, you've found the most roundabout way of dealing damage ever. Instead of just hitting a target with your Daggers, you're going to apply conditions to a target with fragility.
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O_o
Your kidding right? The assassin skills that deal out conditions usually also have a damage boost along with it.
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Mar 23, 2006, 05:02 PM // 17:02
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#11
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: European Union
Guild: The Amazon Basin
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A/Me could use Fevered Dreams with their condition attacks too, or even Epidemic. What was that concussion attack? Temple Strike? You could combo that up really easily. That's all in addition to Frag / Phantom Pain I suppose.
A/N obviously has Virulence, Plague Touch/Sending and Barbs to play with. Warriors could easily be tamed with Enfeeble -> Virulence and it's easily spammable to keep up with condition removal (5e spells the both of them). The beauty of causing Disease is that it spreads
The other way to look at it is as a Me/A or N/A for the condition causing dagger attacks and rune-enhanced spells - if you pick the right armour it's easy to have AL70 on both of those two.
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Mar 24, 2006, 01:24 AM // 01:24
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#12
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: NYC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fallot
Congratulations, you've found the most roundabout way of dealing damage ever. Instead of just hitting a target with your Daggers, you're going to apply conditions to a target with fragility.
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This is the kind of mindset that's going to make the first few months of Factions PvP so much fun for the rest of us
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