Curse

Jarec Kross · Nov 24, 2009, 02:38 AM // 02:38

First, for people who are unfamiliar to the 55/SS.

http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Build:Team_-_55/SS_FoW

Basically, while the mobs are all attacking the 55 monk, the SS casts

Spiteful Spirit on the enemies, and Sympathetic/Ancestor's Visage on the 55

monk. This drains the energy of the attackers and also damages them.

With strained reflexes, I tested the 55/SS in the domain of pain with Master

of Whispers as the SS. I disabled all his skills so I could control them manually

after I got the mob focused on me, then flagged him far enough so it

wouldn't break the aggro I had. After that worked, I got an idea. What if

you could get another monk that casts Shield Of Judgment on you to further

increase damage? The other monk could also carry spare skills in case

the 55 still gets interrupted. I tested this using the same strategy I did with

Master, (Dunkoro as the SoJ caster) and it worked for a

bit, but the only flaw was that I forgot to flag Dunkoro far enough and it

broke the aggro.

So yea, what do you guys think? Does this have potential for a human team?

(Attached is a picture of the experiment, it failed because it was too much

of a mind rape to manage 3 bars.)

mistokibbles · Nov 24, 2009, 02:57 AM // 02:57

600/smite > 55/ss imo. You'll hardly find anyone doing 55/ss in ToA and using a hero SS can be difficult. However, 600/smite is easily done with a hero smiter.

sonofthort · Nov 24, 2009, 03:56 AM // 03:56

I used to 55/ss uw all the time because if u were pro enough it was faster than 600/smite, but now you cant do it cuz dhuum is a jerk. SS+55 can be faster than 600/smite for certain areas and mob types. Combing SS with Shield of judgement is kind of counter productive. Shield of judgements slows down the enemies attack speed which makes ss trigger less often. Infact, good ss's usually use recklass haste to speed up enemie attacks. A couple things that might work better than ss+SoJ would be ss+600/smite or ss+famine.

majikmajikmajik · Nov 24, 2009, 04:58 AM // 04:58

Famine would be best.

_Nihilist_ · Nov 24, 2009, 03:13 PM // 15:13

If you really wanted to go with a 3-person team, why not? Personally, I'd probably take the 600/Smite team along with an SS to make the mobs explode (gotta agree with sonofthort here), but you could also run a 55/SS team with someone carrying Famine for fun, too.