Curse

moonblade pete · Nov 05, 2008, 04:52 PM // 16:52

Hiya i know people say illusionary weaponry is just for fun and that but i was wondering does anybody have any builds of it i could use please? id really like a build for it its for pve btw thanks

wind fire and ice · Nov 05, 2008, 06:05 PM // 18:05

IW is kinda bad...[Flurry][Illusionary Weapon][ancestor's visage][Sympathetic Visage][illusion of weakness][healing signet]/some pve skill.[Finish Him!]/[You Move Like a Dwarf!][Bonetti's Defense].

12+1+1 illusion and 12 tacs,use daggers or a sword+shield,depending on where you are..daggers is more dmg,but much less defense.

subarucar · Nov 05, 2008, 06:29 PM // 18:29

Use a scythe, Multiple hits are ftw. stay 2ndry war for some defensive stances and flurry.

Daisuko · Nov 05, 2008, 06:50 PM // 18:50

Cyclone axe + IW for the lulz.

Painbringer · Nov 05, 2008, 06:51 PM // 18:51

If you set your secondary to assassin and take advantage of the shadow arts you have alittle more protection. You need to know the areas you are going to becuase if the area has enchantment strips you are dead in the water. Pick up an enchantment sword and a shield that adds health for enchantments. The mainskills I would look at to take advantage of are

[dark escape] [feigned neutrality] [shroud of distress] [viper's defense]

Good luck

Skyy High · Nov 05, 2008, 06:56 PM // 18:56

Daggers provide no benefit over swords if you're running with 0 in your weapon mastery attribute, because double strikes are dependent on dagger mastery. Without double strikes, daggers have the same attack rate as swords.

upier · Nov 05, 2008, 07:28 PM // 19:28

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Originally Posted by wind fire and ice

IW is kinda bad...[Flurry][Illusionary Weapon][ancestor's visage][Sympathetic Visage][illusion of weakness][healing signet]/some pve skill.[Finish Him!]/[You Move Like a Dwarf!][Bonetti's Defense].

12+1+1 illusion and 12 tacs,use daggers or a sword+shield,depending on where you are..daggers is more dmg,but much less defense.

You'd need to take a serious beating to accumulate that 8 adrenaline to fuel BD.
http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Adrenaline
For every 25% of your health lost, you gain approximately 1 "strike" of adrenaline--the equivalent of an attack landing. Note that health lost includes ranged attacks and spell damage but excludes health degeneration and life stealing skills.

Plus your attacks never get blocked under IW - so you aren't getting back ANY energy from BD.

Not pretty.

cognophile · Nov 05, 2008, 07:54 PM // 19:54

I sometimes enjoy using IW with a 55 HP build, like maybe this:

[Illusionary Weapon][Protective Spirit][Healing Breeze][Mending] plus whatever (visages, illusion of haste, energy tap ...)

IW does good damage, especially against heavily armored enemies, and doesn't take much energy to maintain.

wind fire and ice · Nov 05, 2008, 08:19 PM // 20:19

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Originally Posted by upier

You'd need to take a serious beating to accumulate that 8 adrenaline to fuel BD.
http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Adrenaline
For every 25% of your health lost, you gain approximately 1 "strike" of adrenaline--the equivalent of an attack landing. Note that health lost includes ranged attacks and spell damage but excludes health degeneration and life stealing skills.

Plus your attacks never get blocked under IW - so you aren't getting back ANY energy from BD.

Not pretty.

Meh,i tried.

Not my fault i never used IW..or is it? either way..droping that for some other sort of emanage would work i guess.

upier · Nov 05, 2008, 08:25 PM // 20:25

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Originally Posted by wind fire and ice

Meh,i tried.

Not my fault i never used IW..or is it? either way..droping that for some other sort of emanage would work i guess.

Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
Homer Simpson

Daesu · Nov 06, 2008, 02:44 AM // 02:44

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Originally Posted by upier

Plus your attacks never get blocked under IW - so you aren't getting back ANY energy from BD.

You get energy from BD when YOU block, not when someone blocks your attacks.

IW is out of style nowadays but if you want to explore IW here are some old build ideas:

Me/D: http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:Me/D_Mystic_IW

Me/A: http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:Me/A_Neutral_IW

Me/W: http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:Me/W_Illusion_Slasher

R/Me: http://guildwars.incgamers.com/showt...+Illusiona ry

upier · Nov 06, 2008, 07:10 AM // 07:10

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Originally Posted by Daesu

You get energy from BD when YOU block, not when someone blocks your attacks.

I found this skill to be interesting ages ago AND I looked it up yesterday, reading it's description a few times and still got it wrong ...
D'oh!

Thanks!