Curse

Nexx · Dec 09, 2005, 02:42 AM // 02:42

Profession: Ranger/Monk
Name: Smiting Beastmaster
Type: General PvP
Category: Damage/Smite/Interrupt
Attributes:
Smite: 10
Beast Mastery: 11 + 3 + 1
Expertise: 6 + 3
Wilderness Survival: 9

Skills Set:

1.) Ferocious Strike {Elite} (Beast)
2.) Disrupting Lunge (Beast)
3.) Call of Haste (Beast)
4.) Balthazar's Aura (Smite)
5.) Comfort Animal (Beast)
6.) Resurrection Signet
7.) Troll Unguent (Wilderness)
8.) Charm Animal (Beast)

Summary:
Simple concept. Use pet to attack enemy. Use Call of Haste to increase movement and attack speed while spamming Ferocious Strike and Disrupting Lunge. Once pet is within melee range of target, cast Balthazar's Aura. Keep your pet and yourself healed through Comfort Animal and Troll Unguent. Rinse and repeat as needed.

Ferocious and Aura are the key components to this build. Ferocious deals a lot of damage (+ gains energy) while Aura applies constant damage. Haste keeps your pet aggressive and random Lunges disrupt lock your opponent. You'll won't be able to manually disrupt your opponent (especially fast skills) since lunge tends to be a little slow so don't worry about reserving it-just spam it like Ferocious. You'll get lucky and score some disrupts. The recharge rate is fairly fast so you can apply a lot pressure.

I normally use a smiting staff with a +20% enchantment duration upgrade.

Notes & Concerns:
The pet AI is terrible (or the pathing system). More often then not your pet will get stuck behind you when you tell it to attack. Most of the time you'll need to move out of the way. Heck, sometimes your pet doesn't even attack at all until after a few seconds. =[ You'll also need to get within range to make your pet attack.

With no room for defense skills (aside from Troll Unguent), the ranger is pretty much defenseless when attacked. I've tried a few defensive stances here and there but felt it made the build less aggressive. Either way, it's your choice. I opted for the pure pressure build.

Credit:
Nexx. It's a basic build. Some variations here and there. Credit doesn't belong to anybody really.

chris_nin00 · Dec 09, 2005, 02:49 AM // 02:49

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Originally Posted by Nexx

Credit doesn't belong to anybody really.

The credit is for creating the explanation, not for the build itself

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I never really liked using pets as smiters. They are too slow to move from person to person,
But it's still a nice solid build

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Great job.

Divine Elemental · Dec 09, 2005, 02:54 AM // 02:54

For CA i always thought Judges Insight over Res Sig is better

aint res sig worthless in CA? its just my opinion

Epinephrine · Dec 09, 2005, 06:00 PM // 18:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divine Elemental

For CA i always thought Judges Insight over Res Sig is better

aint res sig worthless in CA? its just my opinion

Please never end up on my team. A fast rez is the sureset indicator of a winning team. Less down time is good, and those who don't bring it aren't worth having around.