Curse

smurfhunter · Nov 03, 2005, 03:21 AM // 03:21

alright back to the 8 person teams.

i was thinking... people do air spikes, earth spikes... why not fire spikes? like hey why not. so heres what i came up with:

E/X x 4
each one would definetly take:
fireball
flameburst
meteor shower
fire attunement
elemental attunement
resig

the you would have to branch out on the last 2.. so 2 would take gale and putrid, one with windborne and gale, and one with ward against melee and foes.

the last one would be E/Me, and use
fireball
flameburst
meteor shower
mind burn
fire attunement
resig
drain enchantment
arcane mimicry

then possibly force the monks to use drain enchantment, have a life bonder and you have the 8 man team.

The Plan
life bonder life bonds everyone, arcane mimcry guy steals ele attunement, they all line up and do a fireball spike. 119 damage each, x5, should kill a target. theres no armor penetration so its not so hot against rangers and the like, but hey its not so bad either. the idea is 5 guys use fireball then the mindburn guy does mindburn right after.. sort of like the orb/strike combo. this should kill the target, etc etc. it has the same weaknesses any heavy caster build has, but its a bit different since you can put 5 meteor showers on the altar and then do a flameburst spike on it <3

What Actually Happened
this is what happened when i tried it. to start with, our 'bonder' had no clue. he did nothing before the timer started and then bonded one (1) guy. i guess he was trying to bond himself. aaanyway, we all run in and it was possibly the worst timed spike ever. i thought it was because it was the first run. anyawy.... run #2. again, after yelling at the life bonder he STILL doesnt do anything, the spike is now ish timed (i.e. like 2 people do it with me, the rest are jacking off or something). we lose etc. i kick the gay bonder, get a real one. we go in. now it turns out one guy is deliberately sabotaging the spike. no joke. obviously we get hardcore owned and i rage quit. so... it might work with a decent team, mine was anything but.

gl hf, dont blame me when you die

pagansaint · Nov 03, 2005, 04:35 AM // 04:35

why not have your 4 main spikers go E/Me then arcane mimic fireball or phoenix?

LightningHell · Nov 03, 2005, 04:45 AM // 04:45

...You can't Arcane Mimicry Fireball, nor Phoenix.

It copies another ally's ELITE spell/stance/whatever.

Try doing water spike

smurfhunter · Nov 03, 2005, 01:48 PM // 13:48

the idea was the mind burn guy would arcane mimicry the elemental attunement, and he would generally be able to steal it when he needed it (i think).

and see water just doesnt do enough damage. on the plus side it works well with an foc spike.. lol...

Red Junky · Nov 03, 2005, 11:30 PM // 23:30

I like this idea, i've tried to make a similar team ( only diffrence is my team existed out of 4 diffrent eles (all spikers) wich makes it harder to counter imo)

I kinda had same problem u had, too many noobs not knowing what the hell they're supposed to do..

But I'm pretty sure it works tho.

Greetz Junky

qwe4rty · Nov 04, 2005, 12:13 AM // 00:13

Hmm... maybe add mark of rodgort to the eles
They all cast on different guys
Spike w/ fireball (aoe i belive, right?)
Whole team burns

smurfhunter · Nov 04, 2005, 12:53 AM // 00:53

qwe4rty thats called flareway. you make 8 me/e and have them all fastcast mark of rodgort and then meteor shower them etc.

i guess the idea in this build would be to do the same thing an air spike would do with lightning orb, only have it be fireball instead... hmmm...

glenn_rolfe · Nov 04, 2005, 03:00 AM // 03:00

gale + aftershock spike - think about it................