Curse

MagmaRed · Apr 06, 2009, 05:47 PM // 17:47

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Originally Posted by epgelinas

Helm- (sword +1) Knights & Superior Absorption
Chest- Survivor & Superior Vigor
Arms- Knights & Swordsmanship (you choose level, I go with minor)
Legs- Survivor & Strength (you choose level, I go with minor)
Boots- Knights & Tactics (you choose level, I go with minor)

If you insist on using a Superior Swordsmanship I would definitely use the Survivor's and maybe add a Vitae instead of the Superior Absorption.
If you use a lot of spells replace the 2 Survivor with 2 Radiants and you get + 5 energy instead of +25 health. When using this layout attack spellcasting enemies first as between the 3 Knights and the Superior Absorption 12 dmg is taken off every physical strike.

PS- Dont forget to go back and get your new Elite Armor INFUSED!

If you found this advice helpful feel free to look me up IGN- Teddy Ballgame

I find that advice wrong, and bad both.

Helm should have a +1 for your weapon, and a rune for that same attribute. Putting the Absorption rune on the helm means that if you switch to a Hammer or Axe build, you need to replace the gloves as well, not just the helm.

Knights and Absorption only reduce damage from Physical attacks. So any Elementalist, Necro, Mesmer, Ritualist, and Monk will ignore that, but even Dervish has skills to change damage type, and many monsters in PvE have teams that use skills like Judge's Insight, etc. to change damage type of allies. PvP you will see people weapon swap to an different damage type for fighting warriors. Worse, you say that with 3 Knights insignias and an Absorption rune you get -12 damage from physical attacks. This is wrong. Absorption is universal, but the Knights insignias are not. So if you have Survivor on the chest, which is where most attacks hit, and you get hit with physical damage on the chest, you only have -3 damage, not -12. If you get hit on the feet, head, or hands, then it would be -6, not -12.

My opinion is that you should use a helm for your weapon attribute and a rune to match it. Minor Strength on one piece of armor, Superior Vigor on another, Absorption on another if you want the damage reduction from physical, and either Minor Tactics (for builds using skills from it), condition reduction rune (Clarity or Restoration), or a Vitae. Insignias I recommend wither Survivor or Sentinals with 1 Stonefist, as even Sword and Axe builds can easily provide knockdowns. Example of an armor set:

Survivor Helm of Minor Swordsmanship (+1 Sword from helm)
Survivor Cuirass of Superior Absorption
Stonefist Gloves of Minor Strength
Survivor Leggings of Superior Vigor
Survivor Boots of Minor Tactics

But some builds will want different armor, so it will be more based on what you run most of the time and how you play.

_Nihilist_ · Apr 07, 2009, 03:55 AM // 03:55

MagmaRed, a Lieutenant's Insignia isn't worth the -5% damage output reduction. Or the -20AL on that piece of armor, tbh. Rely on your supporters (Monks or otherwise) to remove the dangerous hexes (make sure you let them know when a nasty one is on you) or a Ranger, Mesmer, or Heroes to interrupt the nasty hexes before they finish casting.

Lt's Insignia = bad.

MagmaRed · Apr 07, 2009, 12:59 PM // 12:59

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Originally Posted by Tyrael_Eveningsong

MagmaRed, a Lieutenant's Insignia isn't worth the -5% damage output reduction. Or the -20AL on that piece of armor, tbh. Rely on your supporters (Monks or otherwise) to remove the dangerous hexes (make sure you let them know when a nasty one is on you) or a Ranger, Mesmer, or Heroes to interrupt the nasty hexes before they finish casting.

Lt's Insignia = bad.

LOL - thanks, my brain farted. I did not mean Lieutenants, but that is what I typed out, sorry. I meant to say Sentinals, and edited my post to fix that. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

imnotyourmother · Apr 07, 2009, 02:59 PM // 14:59

Strength is the best for your helmet as there is the 4% armor pen that you get right off the bat.

Second your a tank so absorb that damage with the sentinels. This Boosts your ability to stay alive.

I then opt out for health where applicable. With Strength now at 15 you will get 15% armor pen every time you hit. There are skills that do a set amount of damage in Strength even if you have the starter weapon.

In my opinion the skills in strength are better than the skills in Sword. I currently have my sword set at 0 and my skills do the damage. This makes my secondary prof so so sweet.

(I am skill capping right now and I am only running 6 skills and this seems to be the best way. I found synergy between a secondary skill and the primary weapon where I do massive damage cause my sword's modification does the degen. This allows me to have the crappiest of all weapons as long as it has the mod required. I then use the extra 45 attribute points to max out the secondary attribute)

Synergy people S Y N E R G Y.

Edit: As for interrupts Get Headbut use the elite that give twice as much adren, lions comport and use the war interrupt. These 3 skills will
1) keep you alive with Lion's Comfort - a STRENGTH SKILL
2) let you run to the bugger that is casting that nasty spell 33% faster
3) let you knock down the buggers once every 6 seconds or so

So 4 skills = Total Dominance

Mark of Rodgort does burning for 3 seconds as long as you have a "fiery weapon". Head but knocks them down and your elite gives you double adren.

Equip a War hero with the same runes and then go ranger secondary and use apply poison. use the shift button so that you can control the preparation.

now target the SAME foe and you and your Jora/Koss/Mox are knocking down, burning and poisoning the foe for over 20 seconds.

You can knock down for 2 seconds every 6 seconds and interrupt them and this is just you and your hero war. Use endure pain and lion's comfort for heal.

their toasted

Picuso · Apr 07, 2009, 05:10 PM // 17:10

So, it's better to need 20 seconds to do 400 dmg (max 10 degen = 20hp/sec) than to need 5 seconds to do the same direct damage?

Degen sucks. Not using your weapon propertly suck even more :S

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You can knock down for 2 seconds every 6 seconds and interrupt them and this is just you and your hero war. Use endure pain and lion's comfort for heal.

Or you can knock down for 3 seconds (Stonefist insignia FTW) every second after they stand up (g0g0g0 d-slash+brawling)

P.S: Any warrior with [email protected] will out-dps you only with autoattacks

imnotyourmother · Apr 07, 2009, 05:23 PM // 17:23

Like I said mine just rocks.

You insignia is crap with lions comfort so I think that you need to get some synergy there.

So there stonefist gone. d-slash a lvl 30??? are you insane. Your going to be there forever and you will not kill anything in HM without interrupts and degen.

oh and watch as you almost have it dead only for the monk to heal it?? Come on.

That's the typical war smash smash smash and no synergy.

For starters knocking someone down and then lighting them on fire is very exciting. As they are just about to cast a healing to be interrupted and poisoned is even more outrageous. Then to be knocked down again all while burning is a GAS!

So while I can sustain this damage constantly while remaining ALIVE you are only able to stand there for 10-15 seconds and in a battle your waiting to be res'd?? this is smart strategy?

Remember its all about the last man standing.

When I am in AB it takes 6-8 foes to bring me down. It also takes about 3 minutes of constant bashing. During that time I can kill 2 or 3 of them all by myself as others are capping shrines and I am getting faction.

So um??? sure you smash and maybe kill one or two and then die.

I hate getting on AB with war that just run in hoping to kill something... maybe....your lux right??

Picuso · Apr 07, 2009, 05:38 PM // 17:38

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