Originally Posted by Jarlaxe

Hi

I wish to know +/- of using healing ball strategy - for me healing ball team is 3monks/5rangers. Monks use life barrier on each other and life bond - then healing seed. Rangers using healing spring - All stay very close each other.

now -_-'

I tried it before with random team 2monks/6 rangers - it was just test if it works at all. 3 rangers had healing spring maxed and one had it like 2/3 max power. All stay quite close. We died quite fastcoz of hammer warrior + knockdown + aftershock + balthazzar aura. So i need to know if healing ball can work at all in map without altar and if it can work in gvg.

Any ideas and so on pls.

Originally Posted by ICURADik

You are forced to have Quickening Zephyr if you want a chance at this. Just recasting the seeds can brute through nature's renewal.

Originally Posted by Odd Sock

The idea sounds sane in the sense that you're using all your ranger's Wilderness to add to the heal power of the party. It's actually not that bad to be quite frank. I don't know how effective the general concept would be but using your idea I'd try the following:

5 ranger trappers with Oath Shot: 15 expertise, 16 Wilderness, dump points in anything else: make them all pack Barbed Trap, Flame Trap, Heal Spring, Oath Shot, Whirling Defense, Res Sig and Distracting Shot. Make one of them carry a Fertile Season. The damage comes from the traps not the bow.
3 monks: won't go in any specifics cause I might leak parts of our heal ball but given the current state of the metagame, avoid using enchantments that are over 1 second cast time and any other enchant that requires pips since they are often costly and get wiped out by Nature's Renewal. Try and pack an energy creation engine on your monks too, something like Offering of Blood or perhaps BiP on 2 monks since that Heal Spring*5 will get them on tons of heal per second.

With such a build you'd have trouble getting to the hall since your offensive powers are quite low. Ranger trappers are very conditional in their effectiveness but played agressively and with practice, 5 of them could be made into team killers. Once you get to the hall, just Heal Spring-Oath Shot and trap the hell out the dias if you have spare time. Adding a Throw Dirt on one of the trappers could also be a good idea. Given that they will all bunch up on the Hero, one Oath Shot-Throw Dirt guy will give them lots of trouble.


Not really. That many Oath Shots will result in alot of Heal Springs that will permanently be up. Adding a Zephyr to the build messes up energy for the rangers but even more for the monks. I'd just bring one Heal Seed since odds are it'll be useless anyways. And no you can't brute through a Nature's Renewal through recasting Seeds: that's 15 energy lost and a huge cast time everytime any half-wit puts down a NR. Not viable at all