Curse

Kaida the Heartless · Feb 23, 2011, 07:22 AM // 07:22

I'll roll an Ele and run this, because I'm a lunatic.

"Dude, your Necro is missi-"

The blank skill is intentional. It's the best skill 'n the game. It doesn't matter what it does, it costs 0 energy, has 0 cast time, and has 0 recharge. HOW CAN THAT NOT BE THE BEST?! It can't. Double negative. *sunglasses* Deal with it.

"And the first Ritualist is... well... what do you think?"

Someone once said that the Ritualist Bar right there is the ugliest combination since the Hamstorm Warrior. Well friend, I disagree. What would you go 'n do if someone covered in tattoos started summoning ghosts while running at you with a spear, blindfolded and screaming jibberish? Yea. Thought the same thing. Oh and uh... just between you an' me.. Razah gives me the heeby jeebys.

"You realize the irony in the Avatar of Dwayna running around screaming "GO FOR THE EYES!", right?"

Yea, well, I was thinkin' 'bout teachin' 'er the ol' "FOR GREAT JUSTICE!", but Bananazam-

"You mean "Balthazar?"

Yea, whatever.. said he wasn't havin' it. Said somethin' 'bout openin' somethin' called the Fissue of Woe 'nto Nolani Pre-School. Not too sure 'bout what the Fissue of Woe is 'n all, but from the sound of it, I figure we don't need anymore of 'em "Gwen" types runnin' 'round here.

"Right. So, uh.. what about that second Rit there? Shouldn't Rits stick to Spirits?"

We'll I was thinkin' th'other day right after Razah gave me that creepy blank stare for somethin' 'round 20 minutes, that the only thing scarrier than a tattoed freak runnin' 'round half naked summonin' ghosts was a tattoed freak runnin' 'round half naked summonin' ghosts AN' zambies. I mean, a light'll stop ghosts, but zambies gon' go ahead 'n bite yer brains, ya'know?

"Can I have whatever you're on?"

I used ta be on somethin' called "IWAY!", but the great nerfing of 08' took that away n' it hasn't been th' same since. Tried a little BoA, that's Burst of Aggression fer you none ragers, but it leaves ya a lil down after.

"Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you? This build is awful."

What're you tryna say, pal?

"Your Mesmers suck."

You suck.

"You're an idiot."

No you can't.

"That doesn't even make sense!"

No, you.

"... Get out of this thread and take your nonsense builds with you. Go be terrible somewhere else!"

I'll be whatever I wanna do!

HigherMinion · Feb 23, 2011, 10:42 AM // 10:42

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Originally Posted by Kaida the Heartless

I'll roll an Ele and run this, because I'm a lunatic.

Ok...

1. The ER bar. EbsoH is shit, Aegis is shit, Burning Speed can burn in hell, Elemental Lord is meh when you can use another ally--targeting enchant.
3. Dude your necro is missing a skill! And it has Res signet and GoLE?? Is Signet of Lost Souls not good enough for you? And Soul Reaping? kk, is for me.

Two MBs, two soul twistings... Right, and both have 5s recharge Animate skills. There will be alot of fighting over corpses.

Also, Shelter synergises really well with Prot Bond.

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The blank skill is intentional. It's the best skill 'n the game. It doesn't matter what it does, it costs 0 energy, has 0 cast time, and has 0 recharge. HOW CAN THAT NOT BE THE BEST?! It can't. Double negative. *sunglasses* Deal with it.

Holy shit, you're deep.
It also adds 0 damage and 0 damage reduction.

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because I'm a lunatic

I can agree with this.

novawhiz · Feb 23, 2011, 02:30 PM // 14:30

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Originally Posted by HigherMinion

1. The ER bar. EbsoH is shit, Aegis is shit, Burning Speed can burn in hell, Elemental Lord is meh when you can use another ally--targeting enchant.

Are you dumb? Its a bonder bar. You have to have Burning speed lol. And elemental lord helps with e-management.

HigherMinion · Feb 23, 2011, 02:35 PM // 14:35

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Originally Posted by novawhiz

Are you dumb? Its a bonder bar. You have to have Burning speed lol. And elemental lord helps with e-management.

The skill to the right of Burning Speed is all that is needed to maintain energy. ANY ENCHANTMENT helps with E-Management, and Aegis is slow cast, slow recharge, Ebsoh is slow recharge. Why did you start off your post with "are you dumb"? makes you look dumb

Xenomortis · Feb 23, 2011, 02:59 PM // 14:59

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Originally Posted by novawhiz

Are you dumb? Its a bonder bar. You have to have Burning speed lol. And elemental lord helps with e-management.

Burning Speed can be replaced with any low recharge enchantment that does something. So can Elemental Lord.

The combination of defensive Rit spirits and an ER is overkill defense. I would seriously look to pump offense with that setup; at least some buffs other than splinter on the physical or more caster damage.

Daesu · Feb 23, 2011, 04:00 PM // 16:00

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Originally Posted by Kaida the Heartless

Heroes don't use Signet of Creation well. It is one of those skills that require the AI to detect targets (in this case summoned creatures) within a certain distance from another target (in this case earshot distance from themselves) and the AI fails with these kinds of skills, casting the signet even when no summoned creatures are within earshot when the hero requires energy.

Unless ANet has improved on the AI, heroes also dont use order of the undeath well and tend to over sacrifice themselves to death. Also, instead of leaving a blank skill for your MM, you could have taken vampiric horrors, which is a common minion to bring on a OOU MM to get back some life.

If you dont bring Glyph of Swiftness in your ER build, you will not be able to maintain ER without using cons. With a 20% enchant weapon, you would have about 5s downtime unless your 20% faster recharge kicks in.

novawhiz · Feb 23, 2011, 04:59 PM // 16:59

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Originally Posted by HigherMinion

The skill to the right of Burning Speed is all that is needed to maintain energy.

infuse health? what? i guess it depends who or what he is bonding, but id keep burning speed. Can bond the minions and still maintain energy with burning speed spamming

Outerworld · Feb 23, 2011, 05:17 PM // 17:17

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Originally Posted by novawhiz

infuse health? what? i guess it depends who or what he is bonding, but id keep burning speed. Can bond the minions and still maintain energy with burning speed spamming

Why bring burning when you can bring PS, SB, Shield guard, bassically any low recharge ench that actually does something.

OddFuture · Feb 23, 2011, 05:26 PM // 17:26

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novawhiz · Feb 23, 2011, 05:49 PM // 17:49

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Originally Posted by Outerworld

Why bring burning when you can bring PS, SB, Shield guard, bassically any low recharge ench that actually does something.

oh i see what your saying. Dunno why youd use Prot bond in normal pve anyway. Standard ER prot makes more sense

HigherMinion · Feb 23, 2011, 07:02 PM // 19:02

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Originally Posted by novawhiz

oh i see what your saying. Dunno why youd use Prot bond in normal pve anyway. Standard ER prot makes more sense

Is there an accepted "standard" of ER prot? It seems to all be BS BS bars...

Shasta Hawk · Feb 24, 2011, 12:39 AM // 00:39

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Originally Posted by Maver1ck87

Ok, i'm interested in what people are gonna run for team builds with the upcoming change to 7 hero parties.

I can't find it anywhere so can anyone give me any info or links to the 7 hero party thing

**Marty Silverblade** · Feb 24, 2011, 12:41 AM // 00:41

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Originally Posted by Shasta Hawk

I can't find it anywhere so can anyone give me any info or links to the 7 hero party thing

There isn't much to say about it... we'll be able to fill our party with heroes. What other information were you looking for?

Shasta Hawk · Feb 24, 2011, 06:55 AM // 06:55

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Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade

There isn't much to say about it... we'll be able to fill our party with heroes. What other information were you looking for?

When and the source would be nice

Miss Merryweather · Feb 24, 2011, 12:00 PM // 12:00

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Originally Posted by Shasta Hawk

When and the source would be nice

its the last question on here
http://www.arena.net/blog/what-does-...survey-results

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Q: How would you feel about having a party that you could fill with Heroes?

Our final category proves to be another big positive—50.7% of people say that they “love it,” while 14.4% are between that and “OK,” which comes in at 23.1%. Only 5.7% “hate it like burning,” while the final 6.1% were seemingly indifferent. You can look forward to filling out your party with Heroes as another feature of the free update build that will include Embark Beach.

Chthon · Feb 25, 2011, 02:06 AM // 02:06

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Originally Posted by novawhiz

infuse health? what? i guess it depends who or what he is bonding, but id keep burning speed. Can bond the minions and still maintain energy with burning speed spamming

Higher Minion is correct. You are not. You can just Infuse an ally who doesn't need it and gain energy just as fast as using Burning Speed. The difference is that Infuse also serves a useful purpose, while Burning Speed does not. So, in sum, outside of builds that are supposed to solo stuff (farming mostly), Burning Speed is just a waste of a skillslot.

Miss Merryweather · Feb 26, 2011, 03:30 PM // 15:30

i want to try this out, will probably just fail but meh...

Xenomortis · Feb 26, 2011, 03:34 PM // 15:34

Give the second Nec Mark of Pain and Barbs.
Give someone on your team Prot Spirit and ideally Aegis.

Your odds for success just rose.

HigherMinion · Feb 26, 2011, 03:44 PM // 15:44

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Originally Posted by Miss Merryweather

i want to try this out, will probably just fail but meh...

Unfortunately, SaO is terribly bugged, especially under AI control. Would be nice if pets weren't so bad in general, either.

Although I'd expect Mark of Pain/Barbs in that theorycraft!

Miss Merryweather · Feb 26, 2011, 03:45 PM // 15:45

[edit] ok took strike as one out and replaced with earth shaker and swapped r/w to w/r to use flail and added barbs and mark pain, prot spirit and aegis

also didn't realize heal as one added life steal to pet attacks? when did that happen?

Thankyou Xenomortis and HigherMinion, making me a better player