Curse

Avatar Exico · Feb 19, 2011, 03:27 PM // 15:27

Hello had idea got me thinking for elite areas with a dervish that can resemble similarities to Ursan due to new recent update.

Balthway(Ursan Style Reborn)

Team Setup: Cons are required
4-5 AoB Tanker/Dmg dealers
1 SoS/Earthbind
WoH
UA

Skills:
AoB Dervishs:
1) Avatar of Balthazar(e)
2) “Save Yourself!”
3) Ear Bite
4) Brawling Headbutt
5) Pious Restoration
6) Optional
7) Optional
8) Optional

Attributes: These can be changed to your liking
Mysticism-10(+2)
Scythe-Varies
Wind-Varies
Earth-Varies

Gear:
(5)Forsaken Insgimas
(1)Sup Vigor
(1)Major Mysticism
(1)Minor Scythe
(1)Minor Mysticism(Optional)
(2)(Rune of Vitae

Weapon:
Scythe: 1/-1 +30,15^50%
Scythe: 15^50%,10/10 adr. +30

AoB Dervishs are the Tankers/Dmg dealers. Ear Bite and Brawling Headbutt are armor ignoring dmg. SI is for defense. Pious Restoration is Heal and removes hexes which can come helpful if a Dervish can’t gain adr or use SI. With AoB+Forsaken a Dervish gets 110 Armor to physical and
80 against elemental. With SI and Cons a Derv can get 190 armor against elemental, 210 vs. Physical.

Ritualist:
1) Painful Bond
2) Signet of Spirits(e)
3) Vamprism
4) BloodSong
5) EarthBind
6) Optional
7) Optional
8) Optional
Same build and attributes for glaiveway SoS except adding more optionals. EarthBind help keep a mob on his butt when the AoB Dervs Brawling Headbutt.
WoH:
1) Word of Heal
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Let the community pick skills for this.
UA:
1) Unyelding Aura
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Let community pick skills for this

Give your suggestions or thoughts about it. I do not mind.

Thank you~

LifeInfusion · Feb 19, 2011, 10:54 PM // 22:54

Why Ear bite? It's 70 piercing (although armor ignoring for some random reason) and doesn't net you back adrenaline (it's a touch skill not a attack skill) so it can't be chained. After the second copy of SY, there's diminishing returns and I'd just run ST rit (ER doesn't work here if you're trying to use forsaken insignia).

I'd also run Pious Fury or more likely, Heart of Fury because without them, you might as well just run an IAS instead of the Avatar for 33% more adrenaline.

Right now, a Warrior has 100 armor base (sentinel makes it vs elemental also) + 16 from shield, so 70+10 (forsaken)+12 (mysticism)+20 (balth)=112 isn't that impressive, especially when 20 of that is vs physical only (92 vs ele).

After you have SY!, I'd look into capping armor-ignoring stuff and reducing the damage by 15 through union.

UA would likely have DH+HD + deny hex. I don't see a point to WoH if you have SY! and a UA. If HP spikes to <50% HP then your multiple copies of SY! clearly aren't working and your UA isn't pumping out party heals.

Maybe run Healing Burst or Avatar of Dwayna + Whirling Charge.

The fact that you need cons is troublesome. Cons are usually to boost attributes on characters like ER E/Mos which need 13 prot for Protective bond.