Curse

Shadowfox1125 · Nov 08, 2007, 03:26 AM // 03:26

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Originally Posted by Spazzer

This is a screenshot of my build during the February 2005 Beta Weekend Event
http://la.gg/upl/februarymonking.jpg

Ooh ooh! Old GUI!! I remember when it was changed.. I liked the old one.

Skyy High · Nov 08, 2007, 03:55 AM // 03:55

I don't think it's really fair to criticize builds, yours or other peoples, which were used prior to, say, LA. Skill selection is just too poor in those areas to really come up with much of a good build.

Omgopolis · Nov 08, 2007, 03:57 AM // 03:57

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Originally Posted by Darkobra

Meteor shower warrior.

I used to do that in RA all the time. Glyph of Sacrifice + MS with cripslash owns way too hard there or in Alliance Battles...

fujin · Nov 08, 2007, 02:04 PM // 14:04

Smile Like Umean It · Nov 08, 2007, 03:36 PM // 15:36

I can't remember the build exactly and for some unknown reason I deleted the screenshots, but here are the stories.

First one takes place in Unwaking Waters, Luxon side. Normally, I'd just H/H this, but nooo, I just had to decide to help out a pug. Ranger1 pings build along the lines of [skill]Apply Poison[/skill] [skill]Charm Animal[/skill] [skill]Revive Animal[/skill] [skill]Meteor[/skill] [skill]Fire Storm[/skill] [skill]Meteor Shower[/skill] [skill]Conjure Flame[/skill] and one other skill, it wasn't an elite and it wasn't a res. Believe it could have been [skill]Glyph of Lesser Energy[/skill] At least he had some kind of energy management cause his expertise was about 2, 12 in Fire Magic and the Rest in BM for his level ten pet.

Ranger2 pinged almost the exact same bar except he had [skill]Barrage[/skill] to replace Conjure and [skill]Comfort Animal[/skill] in the place of MS. Still with no res and Att points were similar. No Marks, with Barrage as his elite. Excellent! I quickly checked to see if they were in the same guild, but they weren't.

Got a Necro next. Said he was MM and pinged his build. [skill]Healing Breeze[/skill] [skill]Heal Party[/skill] [skill]Heal Area[/skill] [skill]Animate Bone Fiend[/skill] [skill]Animate Bone Horror[/skill] [skill]Animate Bone Minions[/skill] [skill]Animate Shambling Horror[/skill]
And guess what that incredible elite was.... You got it, [skill]Blood is Power[/skill] Points were something like 12 Healing Prayers, 10 Death Magic and the rest in Blood. I quickly left that group and apologized profusely to my H/H for ever leaving them.

Next encounter was trying to get my ranger through Raisu Palace or whatever it's called. Again, I was rendered temporarily retarded and decided to pug. The group wasn't half bad and they listened when offering build advice. All we needed was a healer. A monk soon joins and pings her bar. [skill]Distracting Blow[/skill] [skill]Sever Artery[/skill] [skill]Healing Breeze[/skill] [skill]Mending[/skill] [skill]Bane Signet[/skill] [skill]Signet of Judgment[/skill] [skill]Resurrection Chant[/skill] [skill]Mend Condition[/skill] All of her points were piled into Strength and Tactics (with no Tactics skills). The rest were divided into Protection Prayers and Smiting Prayers with maybe three in Healing Prayers. She saw nothing wrong with it, in fact she thought it was great cause she could interrupt the monks. Oh, yeah. That would have been mad fun.

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Originally Posted by Hyper Cutter

[skill]Power Attack[/skill][skill]Sever Artery[/skill][skill]Gash[/skill][skill]Orison of Healing[/skill][skill]Sprint[/skill][skill]Mending[/skill][skill]Restore Life[/skill][skill]Bane Signet[/skill]
The sad thing is, this was mine. I'm amazed I even reached Lion's Arch with that...

At least you carried a res?

Squishy ftw · Nov 08, 2007, 04:05 PM // 16:05

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Originally Posted by Smile Like Umean It

Next encounter was trying to get my ranger through Raisu Palace or whatever it's called. Again, I was rendered temporarily retarded and decided to pug. The group wasn't half bad and they listened when offering build advice. All we needed was a healer. A monk soon joins and pings her bar. [skill]Distracting Blow[/skill] [skill]Sever Artery[/skill] [skill]Healing Breeze[/skill] [skill]Mending[/skill] [skill]Bane Signet[/skill] [skill]Signet of Judgment[/skill] [skill]Resurrection Chant[/skill] [skill]Mend Condition[/skill] All of her points were piled into Strength and Tactics (with no Tactics skills). The rest were divided into Protection Prayers and Smiting Prayers with maybe three in Healing Prayers. She saw nothing wrong with it, in fact she thought it was great cause she could interrupt the monks. Oh, yeah. That would have been mad fun.

At least you carried a res?

You encountered some lovely builds lol. But the monk with strength must've been pretty leet

Smile Like Umean It · Nov 08, 2007, 04:34 PM // 16:34

Yeah,sorry. Not strength, Sword.

If that monk had Strength I would have been damn afraid.

Squishy ftw · Nov 08, 2007, 04:36 PM // 16:36

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Originally Posted by Smile Like Umean It

Yeah,sorry. Not strength, Sword.

If that monk had Strength I would have been damn afraid.

No need to be afraid,he'd probably tell you not to worry because his uber leet armor penatration would kill enemies faster than a mending whammo could.

Abnaxus · Nov 08, 2007, 05:18 PM // 17:18

Well, this is not a bad build but I dialog I had with a level 20 Ranger in the late 2005 I think.

I was with one of my characters in Droknar's and a Ranger started to ask in the local chat:

(R) Now that I've done Dragon's Lair, what do I have to do here?
(me) You need to take the primary quest, you can get max armor, and also do the quests for 30 attribute points
(R) Who gives the quests?
(me) The primary here (I showed the NPC) the attribute points in the desert
(R) Could you explain me what are attribute points?
(me) :O the points you put on the skills ...
(R) Where do I see them?
(me) press K
pause
(me) do you see them?
(R) wow I have a lot of them!
(me) you have to put them on marksmanship, expertise and so on to improve you skills
(R) nice never noticed this before!

I remember perfectly that he said he arrived there doing Dragon's Lair, still don't understand how he could do the ascension ...

SpeedyKQ · Nov 08, 2007, 05:18 PM // 17:18

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Originally Posted by Shadowfox1125

I think my build when I was pretty new was:
[card]Sever Artery[/card][card]Gash[/card][card]Pure Strike[/card][card]Final Thrust[/card][card]"Watch Yourself!"[/card][card]Plague Touch[/card][card]Healing Signet[/card][card]Resurrection Signet[/card]

Yes, I started the game as a W/N.

What is supposed to be wrong with this build? It looks passable to me, especially for old-school Prophecies-only.

HawkofStorms · Nov 08, 2007, 05:58 PM // 17:58

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Originally Posted by SpeedyKQ

What is supposed to be wrong with this build? It looks passable to me, especially for old-school Prophecies-only.

Yeah, that build is actually kinda okay. It doesn't have an IAS but other wise its actually pretty passable (especially without the power creep that is NF).

Rinadan Farhunt · Nov 08, 2007, 09:10 PM // 21:10

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Originally Posted by Abnaxus

Well, this is not a bad build but I dialog I had with a level 20 Ranger in the late 2005 I think.

I was with one of my characters in Droknar's and a Ranger started to ask in the local chat:

(R) Now that I've done Dragon's Lair, what do I have to do here?
(me) You need to take the primary quest, you can get max armor, and also do the quests for 30 attribute points
(R) Who gives the quests?
(me) The primary here (I showed the NPC) the attribute points in the desert
(R) Could you explain me what are attribute points?
(me) :O the points you put on the skills ...
(R) Where do I see them?
(me) press K
pause
(me) do you see them?
(R) wow I have a lot of them!
(me) you have to put them on marksmanship, expertise and so on to improve you skills
(R) nice never noticed this before!

I remember perfectly that he said he arrived there doing Dragon's Lair, still don't understand how he could do the ascension ...

Sadly this happens more often than should... I once saw a monk trying to make a flesh golem, and saying "wtf?? this things so rubbish", i then proceeded to explain that his LEVEL THREE golem would get stronger if he put some attributes into death magic...

Mister Overhill · Nov 08, 2007, 09:44 PM // 21:44

I've been jumped for having barrage and a preparation on the same skillbar. I just explain that you don't use them together -- it all depends on what you are going up against and when. Some people still don't get it though.

BenjZee · Nov 08, 2007, 09:51 PM // 21:51

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Originally Posted by aapo

- Some basic stuff for PUGs here from screenshot collection. I seriously wonder what's the logic of taking 5-6 almost mutually exclusive healing skills on same bar. Loads of PvE Monks play builds like that. That Ranger apparently can't even read skill descriptions.

lol I know i cant eactly speak because i usually make up my builds but atleast i have some sense behind it. That ranger build scares me.
The last one has a few skills i use. is that really that bad or are u talking about the first monk build. I usually use healing breeze, heal party and either word of healing or orision of healing. combined with my other skills it's not bad. it gets me through all missions

BenjZee · Nov 08, 2007, 09:54 PM // 21:54

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Originally Posted by Rinadan Farhunt

Sadly this happens more often than should... I once saw a monk trying to make a flesh golem, and saying "wtf?? this things so rubbish", i then proceeded to explain that his LEVEL THREE golem would get stronger if he put some attributes into death magic...

lost my dignity writing my last post after playing 2 and healf years now and questioning my healing builds.

Im alright now but seriously getting to droks that way in the game and not knowing how to use attributes makes me feel sorry for that guys team the most o_0 was my reaction to him. The flesh golem thing is hilarious

just remembered how ages ago when i was a total noob. I didn't have max armor when i got to last prophecies missions. I had bad rune setup as i never understood them and i dont beleve at that time i understood wat divine favour was. This led to a shortage of energy. especially because in the mission my healing monk had no elites on his bar and would waste 5 energy casting banish.
I would hear crys from the team saying "??? was that smiting?" "Banish WTF?"...my replies would be either "its not me...." or "I had room on my skill bar"....
the first excuse makes me laugh especially because u can see what skilsl people cast. I also recall for a long time having the spell (cant remember its name) that is like fire showers. lol it used to take forever to cast and used 15 energy back then

Muspellsheimr · Nov 08, 2007, 11:06 PM // 23:06

[skill]Awaken the Blood[/skill][skill]Blood is Power[/skill][skill]Demonic Flesh[/skill][skill]Blood Ritual[/skill]
8 Axe Mastery

I forget the rest, but the necromancer refused to change, insisting Demonic was required for BiP.

Don't bother asking about the axe... I don't think he had any skills for it either.