Curse

deluxe · Jul 28, 2009, 12:54 PM // 12:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lux Aeterna

I'm guessing all the hate was due more to your name than build.

When I used it nobody laughed and most of the feedback was positive, it won me several games and I ended up feeling like some kind of paladin by being the team's only healer and doing it successfully while still getting lots of kills, in hex heavy rounds I'd use it on recharge to keep the monk and/or other melees clean.

It makes quite the difference if you play in AD1, ID1 or KD1.

Mad Lord of Milk · Jul 28, 2009, 04:54 PM // 16:54

Necromancer/Any

Wail of Doom
Faintheartedness
Insidious Parasite
Defile Defenses
Enfeeble
Foul Feast
Plague Touch
Resurrection Signet

Make sure you put enough into Soul Reaping for 4 seconds of WoD.

Krill · Jul 28, 2009, 06:23 PM // 18:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mad Lord of Milk

Necromancer/Any

Wail of Doom
Faintheartedness
Insidious Parasite
Defile Defenses
Enfeeble
Foul Feast
Plague Touch
Resurrection Signet

Make sure you put enough into Soul Reaping for 4 seconds of WoD.

Eh, WoD use to be quite common in RA / TA but I'd only recommend it now if you're proficient with weapon swapping between a curses and soul reaping set. You kinda need to do that anyway though after the FF nerf to maximize HSR's.

WoD
Faint
Defile D
Rip enchant
Plague sending
Foul feast
Grasping earth or shield bash

Atts: 12 curses / 12 SR / 3 earth (if applicable)

^ Was the more common build.

Now that LC and WK are not as ridiculous for RA I think the old SV curses build works quite nicely, especially for the rampant mind blasters.

Spoil victor
Faint
Defile D or parasitic bond
Enfeeble
Strip enchant (removes attunement + aura)
Grasping earth
Glyph of lesser energy

Or:

SV
Faint
Defile D or parasitic bond
Stripe enchant
Plague sending
Foul feast
GoLE

Atts: 11+2 curses / 12+1 blood / 6+1 SR / 2 earth -or- 10+3 curses / 12+1 blood / 8+1 SR if using FF.

Shrimz · Jul 28, 2009, 09:35 PM // 21:35

Are blood spikes effective in RA? And if so, does anyone have one that I could use?

I was using a blood build earlier today but it doesn't do much damage. Although with Strip Enchantments cast on monk I could spike if fairly well, but never enough to kill it on my own. I could only kill people 1v1 when they have no selfheal.

I was running something like:
Vamp. Spirit
Life Siphon
Shadow Strike
Dark Pact
barb sig
Signet of Lost Souls
Strip Enchantments
Res Sig

It's really terrible but I like spikes. And ele spike would be cool too if you guys have a good one.

The Black Mumba · Jul 29, 2009, 05:05 AM // 05:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by deluxe

Hitting shit with faintheartedness and weakness on you too.
Anyway, empathic warr was "my idea", can't really claim anything in GW.

click

Pgm stands for pro gamer, i'm not sure that monk was ironic; however an hex removal won't save your ass without an healer.

superraptors · Jul 29, 2009, 06:47 AM // 06:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by deluxe

Hitting shit with faintheartedness and weakness on you too.
Anyway, empathic warr was "my idea", can't really claim anything in GW.

click

yeh i wonder whats a monk for? keeping you clean, also considering many factors in ra your most likely to face a sync of some sort and ur chances at winning are most likely below 0, and even lucky to make 10 with a no monk team

its better to dish out damage then play turtle

offense is the best defence durr
________
Ass teen

Lux Aeterna · Jul 29, 2009, 08:10 AM // 08:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by deluxe

It makes quite the difference if you play in AD1, ID1 or KD1.

ID1. Tried KD1 but got called a bad player due to ebon dust aura, came here made thread havent played it since.

superraptors: RA monks don't keep you clean, even when they try there's far too much shutdown to remove without focusing on it completely (or simply too much shutdown to remove at all), they can't keep empathy removed while fending off palm strikers, it's far more effective to use empathic removal to keep you and the other war clean than rely on your monk who's currently being spiked and diversion'd on recharge.

I beat several synchs badly with empathic removal axe, got 10 wins, and used it to win hex-heavy games when my team had no monk.

In case you didn't notice, the build is simply a meta axe template which just happens to be able to remove hexes from multiple party members at once.

PS: If you're using a controversial build, it's best not to ping it every time. The first comment I got about it was positive feedback from a monk who I'd saved from 2 mesmers.

Interestingly, empathic removal is current gvg meta.

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Mad Lord of Milk · Jul 29, 2009, 05:20 PM // 17:20

Ranger/Assassin

12 Expertise
12 Dagger Mastery
3 Wilderness Survival

Escape
Jagged Strike
Wild Strike
Deathly Blossom
Antidote Signet
Lightning Reflexes
Apply Poison
Resurrection Signet

Relatively tough with legitimate spam DPS.

Ranger/Dervish

12 Expertise
12 Scythe Mastery
3 Wilderness Survival

Escape
Pious Assault
Irresistible Sweep
Victorious Sweep
Antidote Signet
Lightning Reflexes
Apply Poison
Resurrection Signet

Chase down running foes to get the auto-crit.

.HunTer · Aug 07, 2009, 04:40 AM // 04:40

Dagger mastery 12+1+1
Shadow arts 3+1
Critical Strikes 12+1

Nothing new,but with the new buff its a very fast chain.
Maybe in AB and CM you can use flurry to get your elite slot back.

-While I hate assassins,this build is pretty fun to play

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Omgopolis · Aug 07, 2009, 06:43 AM // 06:43

I assume I'm not the only one playing around with boon prot monks again now? I've tried using Offering of Blood, Mantra of Recall, and Melandru's Resilience for my elite so far. OoB seems nice, but the health sac isn't what you need when you're getting wailed on a get low on energy. Mantra doesn't seem to return enough energy to be worth it, but it's cool with Contemplation of Purity. So far I prefer MR.

11+1+1 Prot
10+1 DF
10 Wilderness

Disciples Insignias are cool.

Melandru's Resilience
Reversal of Fortune
Draw Conditions
Guardian
Shielding Hands
Holy Veil
Contemplation of Purity
Divine Boon

I suppose this was already posted quite a few pages back already, but it's much nicer now

Edit: After playing around a bit more, Life Sheath seems like a solid elite, and it frees up two slots for other stuff.

urania · Aug 07, 2009, 10:47 AM // 10:47

fairly risky, considering wild throw/wild blow/wild strike are part of virtually almost every team in RA or TA. Life sheat is less risky, but you have no e management then, so yeah...

Wyat Hawke · Aug 07, 2009, 03:45 PM // 15:45

Found a fun way to use Divine Boon, for lulz at least.

Divine Prayers: 12+2
Protection Prayers 10+1
Earth Magic: 8

Glyph of Renewal
Divine Spirit
Guardian
Dissmiss Condition
RoF
Holy Veil
Divine Boon
Kinetic Armor

Bring a 20% ench set for casting Divine Spirit and Kinetic Armor. Apply Divine Boon first and then the rest to let Kinetic armor stay on top. Not the best build, but being lazy feels good.

Omgopolis · Aug 08, 2009, 06:42 AM // 06:42

After playing around in RA a bit more I think I'm the most fond of Life Sheath for the boon protting.

Life Sheath
Guardian
Shielding Hands
Deny Hexes
Divine Spirit
Divine Boon
Power Drain
Waste Not, Want Not

11+1+1 Prot
10+1 DF
10 Insp

Powerdraining diversion and backfire feels good, but I'm sure there are better ways to use those last two slots.

urania · Aug 08, 2009, 10:50 PM // 22:50

haven't had RA teams that would bring me far in ages (mostly because i dont/didnt RA much till recently), but this morning I got to 25 with a hexway RA team - soul bind n, ss nec, psychic instability dom mes (lost on 26 after another hexway with a r/p specced vs us with pnh) and then later on in the evening, we go as far as 50 consecutives and stop after because i needed a break.
Lesson of the day? Hexes rock ur sox.
x)

On a side note, I haven't played hexway in TA for months, if not years. The irony.
Also, I entered from korean distr and no, it was NOT a synch.

Atrum Ex · Aug 09, 2009, 08:24 AM // 08:24

That is ridiculous, 50 wins while redbarring, lol.

urania · Aug 09, 2009, 09:40 AM // 09:40

Yeah, a guardian might be useful, especially for our mesmer who kept getting bullsed and trained by prage warr in one of the 2 better teams who were in at the time, but I think that a 1 s cast spell wouldn't stay uninterrupted for long vs a rapid fire turret

.
Also, don't act surprised, that's the bar monks run in TA now, I just couldnt be arsed to change it for RA.
Edit: on a side note, the mesmer had grasping earth and no mantra.

zelgadissan · Aug 09, 2009, 02:03 PM // 14:03

Had a lot of fun a couple days ago in RA with a slight variation of a hammer warrior:

Magehunter's Smash
Crushing Blow
Hammer Bash
Bull's Strike
Flail
Enraging Charge
Resurrection Signet
Ether Lord

Hammer 12+1+1
Strength 10+1
Inspiration 8

X Cytherea X · Aug 10, 2009, 12:43 AM // 00:43

enduring toxin, BMT, JS, TO, FLS, TF, empathic removal, res
^hex can change but i prefer a cheap/fast one. common (but good) 5-attack combo is a bit faster thanks to BMT buff. empathic is just lovely and ftw. lol JS aoe.

WOTA, golden lotus, golden fang, death blossom, golden phoenix, holy veil, mendtouch, res
^this is quite fast, damaging and spammy thanks to GLS buff. no snare or IMS but this build is best played TAB123454 style. spread DW to everyone. DB~GPS(+aoe)~DB = yellow numbers. keep veil up, clean self as necessary.

go 13CS and as high as you dare with DM. 3 deadly for the first build and 3 prot for the second. energy is never a problem for these, so you should always be on vamp (and ele for warrs).

Snow Bunny · Aug 10, 2009, 05:29 PM // 17:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by urania

haven't had RA teams that would bring me far in ages (mostly because i dont/didnt RA much till recently), but this morning I got to 25 with a hexway RA team - soul bind n, ss nec, psychic instability dom mes (lost on 26 after another hexway with a r/p specced vs us with pnh) and then later on in the evening, we go as far as 50 consecutives and stop after because i needed a break.
Lesson of the day? Hexes rock ur sox.
x)

On a side note, I haven't played hexway in TA for months, if not years. The irony.
Also, I entered from korean distr and no, it was NOT a synch.

Haha I've played in RA with all three of them.