Curse

Blaze997 · May 14, 2005, 08:23 AM // 08:23

10+4 Blood magic
11+1 Death magic
10 Sword

Dark Aura
Dark Pact
Touch of agony
Vampiric Touch
Vampiric Gaze
Offering of Blood [elite]
Hamstring
Sprint

This build features quick casting high damage spells by virtue of dark pact and touch of agony coupled with dark aura. Vampiric touch and gaze also do good damage for their cast times and heal you and their mana intensity is offset by offering of blood which will also somewhat damage your victim.

Since this build should be able to cast non stop for the most part, sword is just in there for a reliable snare to keep the enemy close so dark aura can do its work and sprint is in there to close the distance or run off if some warriors decide to attack you.

please critique

Edit: Attack schedule and possible dps of this build

This build has the capability to do 618 damage in 6.5 seconds worth of spells. Allow me to elaborate:

Start off of course byputting on dark aura running up to somebody and hamstringing them, then:

Dark Pact for 86
Touch of agony for 96
Vampiric gaze for 57
Dark pact for 86
Vampiric touch for 70
Offering of blood for 41 damage and 15 energy gain
Touch of agony for 96
Dark Pact for 86

618 damage over 6.5 seconds comes out to about 95 dps over the interval, but also about 33 dps on yourself.

I have gone through the cooldowns and energy costs and it is very possible to do this. The attack schedule could continue somewhat like this as well, albeit maybe not AS good. A high damage but risky build I would say.

Blaze997 · May 14, 2005, 10:19 PM // 22:19

Wow not so pro I guess, any other suggestions on a dps class except for W/E, I already know how to do that.

Dragoon Bobby · May 15, 2005, 02:00 AM // 02:00

very interesting build, im currently a lvl 18 n/w and using mostly blood and sword skills, but upon getting offering of blood, ill have to try this out, thanks!
and yes, it looks like incredible dps, but it will be interesting to see how it fares in pvp and pve...

Shaubarak · May 15, 2005, 08:03 AM // 08:03

There's a .75 second aftercast for most spells (longer for others), you cannot cast in that period of time. So your 618 damage actually takes much longer than 6.5 seconds.

Blaze997 · May 17, 2005, 02:24 AM // 02:24

Damn, yeah I have been noticing that but I still dont see how you can do much better damage than this to a single target, plus dark aura gives you some AOE too.

dorn · May 17, 2005, 04:59 PM // 16:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shaubarak

There's a .75 second aftercast for most spells (longer for others), you cannot cast in that period of time. So your 618 damage actually takes much longer than 6.5 seconds.

If such a thing exist why isn't it documented? That seems like it'd be a huge deal. How are we supposed to even know what the different aftercast times are?