Curse

Gamblor · Jul 17, 2008, 03:44 AM // 03:44

I just used a 10hour/14day trial of factions. I'm planning on unlocking as many useful skills for my heroes as I can since heroes will be able to use those skills once they're locked again. I don't want to waste my plat and faction points unlocking skills that seem useful at first glance but end up being useless for my heroes.

So far I've been looking at the top rated hero builds on pvx for some ideas and read through some threads here. So far I've listed 81 skills and 14 elites.

Need suggestions on more skills, especially if it's needed for variations on popular Hero builds like Sabway. Also need help identifying which skills I shouldn't unlock from the following list.

The list so far:

Ritualist:
Ancestors' Rage
Bloodsong
Blind was Mingson
Life
Mend Body and Soul
Protective was Kaolai
Resilient Weapon
Resilient Was Xiko
Smoothing memories
Spirit Burn
Spirit Light
Spirit Rift
Splinter Weapon
Weapon of Warding ***

Maybe:
Attuned Was Songkai
Boon of Creation
Destruction
Dissonance
Displacement
Essence Strike
Explosive Growth
Feast of Souls
Flesh of My Flesh
Generous Was Tsungrai
Ghostly Haste
Guilded Weapon
Mighty Was Vorizun
Nightmare Weapon
Pain
Preservation (E)
Recuperation
Recovery
Ritual Lord (E)
Shelter
Shadow song
Signet of Creation
Spirit Channeling
Spirit to Flesh
Spirit Transfer
Union
Vital Weapon
Vengeful Weapon
Weapon of Quickening (E)
Weapon of Shadow
Wielder's Boon

Necro:
Bitter Chills
Discord (E)
Icy Viens (E)
Reckless haste
Rising bile
Spoil Victor (E)

Maybe:
Animate Flesh Golem (E)
Vampiric Bite

Monk:
Dwayna's Sorrow
Etherial Light
Gift of Health
Resurrection Chant
Reverse Hex
Spirit Bond

Maybe:
Blessed Light (E)
Empathic Removal (E)
Extinguish
Life Sheath
Heaven's Delight

Eles:
Ash Blast
Bed of Coals
Breath of Fire
Ice Prism
Lava Arrows
Lightning Hammer
Shatterstone(E)
Shock Arrow
Sliver Armor
Smolder Ashes
Teinai's Heat
Ward of Stability

Warrior:
Furious Axe
Dragon Slash (E)
Signet of Strengh
Sun and Moon Slash
Standing Slash
Quivering Blade

Mesmers:
Ancestor's Visage
Auspicious Incantation
Ether Signet
Expel Hexes (E)
Feedback
Hex Eater Signet
Power Return
Psychic Instability
Signet of Disruption

Ranger:
Broadhead Arrow (E)
Zojun's Haste

Assassin:
Dash
Shadow Form (E)
No clue what to unlock for them

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Cebe · Jul 17, 2008, 09:48 AM // 09:48

For Elementalist unlock [[Unsteady Ground]

For Ranger unlock [[Poisonous Bite], [[Bestial Fury], [[Heal as One]

For Monk unlock [[Signet of Rejuvenation] and [[Ray of Judgment]

For Warrior unlock [[Triple Chop]

Assassins aren't that great tbh. but I guess if you want to create "ok" builds for them get:
[[Moebius Strike]
[[Locust's Fury]
[[Critical Strike]
[[Wild Strike]
[[Critical Eye]
[[Beguiling Haze]
[[Shadow Refuge]
[[Jagged Strike]
[[Return]
[[Falling Spider]
[[Horns of the Ox]
[[Siphon Strength]

...off the top of my head.

zwei2stein · Jul 17, 2008, 10:03 AM // 10:03

I think that you should make theese skills very low priority, at least for hero usage:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gamblor

Ritualist:
Resilient Weapon
Resilient Was Xiko
Spirit Burn

Necro:
Bitter Chills
Rising bile

Monk:
Reverse Hex

Eles:
Ash Blast
Bed of Coals
Breath of Fire
Ice Prism
Lava Arrows
Lightning Hammer
Shock Arrow
Smolder Ashes
Teinai's Heat

Warrior:
Furious Axe
Signet of Strengh
Standing Slash

Mesmers:
Feedback
Signet of Disruption

Hope this saves you some faction / gold.

Marverick · Jul 17, 2008, 01:44 PM // 13:44

Warrior:
Dragon Slash
Sun & Moon Slash
Standing Slash

Mesmer:
Expel Hexes
Signet of Disruption

Ranger:
Broad Head Arrow

Monk:
Spirit Bond

Elementalist:
Unsteady Ground
Churning Earth
Ward of Stability
Teinai's Heat

Necromancer:
Reckless Haste
Discord

Assasssin: sin heroes are useless, but
Critical Defenses
Critical Eye
Golden Phoenix Strike
Death Blossom
Moebius Strike
are the 5 main skills you should get if you really want to use them

Ritualist:
Splinter Weapon
Ancestors' Rage
Mend Body and Soul
Spirit Light
Protective Was Kaolai
Life
Recovery
Weapon of Warding
Weapon of Shadow
Weapon of Quickening

These are the top priority skills you should get.

Some other useful ones if you have time are:
Soothing Memories
Bloodsong
Shadowsong
Warmonger's Weapon
Triple Chop
Essence Strike (not really used that well by heroes, but if you have a lot of spirits in your team then they can't really screw it up)
Boon Signet
Needling Shot
Ritual Lord
Boon of Creation
Shelter
Displacement
Union
Dissonance
Pain

Gamblor · Jul 21, 2008, 08:57 AM // 08:57

Thanks everyone for the help.

I don't plan on using my assassin hero so I'm going to unlock assassin skills that might be good for my other heroes as secondary profession.

So far I've been doing Zaishen Elite for bal points to unlock Elites. Once the elites that I want are unlocked I'll work on the regular skills, on the last day of the trial key I'm just going to buy the rest of the skills.

If anyone has anymore skills to suggest, please do. And any skills on my list that I shouldn't unlock, I just read somewhere that hero's screw up Bed of Coals real bad.