Curse

**Marty Silverblade** · Oct 21, 2009, 04:17 AM // 04:17

Monks and Paragons can resurrect aswell. Para isn't much help, but Monk offers more than just a rez (as opposed to Rits, which don't). Some condition removal is nice. Also, from what you've written, I don't think you realise you can change your secondary freely when you pass a certain point in the game.

~ Dan ~ · Oct 21, 2009, 12:26 PM // 12:26

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Originally Posted by Field

Im a bit confused about what secondary to pick though.
Im thinking about Ritualist. It was mainly the ability to Ressurect that pulled me in that direction.

No. If you want a rez, take a res sig/sunspear sig. A melee should never stand still mid combat for ~ 6 seconds to use a hard res, and waste his secondary on it in the process.

Go /W, it offers the most. Skills such as bull's strike, rush & wild blow for example.

Field · Oct 22, 2009, 11:01 AM // 11:01

Hmm, i didnt know you could change a secondary later on.
Im still kinda new, the highest level i have gotten so far is 15 (in the factions campaign)

I just remember from earlier when i was playing factions as a M/E.
With a npc party i would often get stuck on a mission if i was the only one who survived after
a battle when i had already used my signet.

It did seem like a waste to use a secondary just for the ability to res.
But at the time i didnt really think the other professions offered anything i really needed.
I guess /W makes sense though.
Edit: This may sound stupid but how does adrenaline work when you arent a Warrior primary?
Do skills use energy instead?

~ Dan ~ · Oct 22, 2009, 03:38 PM // 15:38

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Originally Posted by Field

Edit: This may sound stupid but how does adrenaline work when you arent a Warrior primary?
Do skills use energy instead?

It works the same as if you were a warrior.

Field · Oct 22, 2009, 04:11 PM // 16:11

Thanks.

/W it is then =) (when i get to change from /Mo)

Revelations · Oct 22, 2009, 04:29 PM // 16:29

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Originally Posted by ~ Dan ~

Go /W, it offers the most. Skills such as bull's strike, rush & wild blow for example.

Assuming the guy is talking about pve - neither of the first two are incredibly helpful, and the third is only really useful in certain places. I'd still probably go /W for prot strike and SY though.

His initial selection of /Rt for a hard res isn't completely terrible. Death pact is pretty strong for decent hero setups. /E for conjure on WS isn't terrible either.

Those are the only options I'd really consider for general pve on a derv though. Not that you'd ever find me on one. =/

~ Dan ~ · Oct 22, 2009, 04:32 PM // 16:32

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Originally Posted by Revelations

Assuming the guy is talking about pve - neither of the first two are incredibly helpful, and the third is only really useful in certain places. I'd still probably go /W for prot strike and SY though.

Of course; I was just listing a few examples that came to mind. And wild blow should be one of the standard attack skills to have on your bar unless you're running SY.

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His initial selection of /Rt for a hard res isn't completely terrible. Death pact is pretty strong for decent hero setups. /E for conjure on WS isn't terrible either.

Death pact is ok on frontline but i'd still leave hard res to the midliners and take a sunspear sig on my bar - Though lately I haven't taken a res at all.

Revelations · Oct 22, 2009, 04:40 PM // 16:40

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Originally Posted by ~ Dan ~

Of course; I was just listing a few examples that came to mind. And wild blow should be one of the standard attack skills to have on your bar unless you're running SY.

I suppose with the high crits of scythes wild blow is pretty decent. Given a choice between it and prot strike I'd probably still run the latter though, especially running something like Zealous Vow.

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Originally Posted by ~ Dan ~

Death pact is ok on frontline but i'd still leave hard res to the midliners and take a sunspear sig on my bar - Though lately I haven't taken a res at all.

Agreed on this. I normally run a copy of death pact somewhere in the midline, and hench monks are strong at res chanting shit while their team is blowing up, so I usually don't run a res myself either. As far as sunspear sig goes though, there's so many stupid overpowered pve skills around that I'd rather not waste a pve slot on it.

Kotetsu Rain · Feb 18, 2011, 03:45 PM // 15:45

Soo... who's gonna write up the new one?

shoyon456 · Feb 19, 2011, 02:09 AM // 02:09

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Originally Posted by Kotetsu Rain

Soo... who's gonna write up the new one?

Good question. If people actually put some thought into it, it should be at least a month for skills to be nerfed/adjusted and the new builds of the class to be fleshed out.

I got on to try to see what I could do with all the changes and was just so overwhelmed at the fact that I basically had to relearn the class that I just logged off.