Curse

Rape of Faith · Jan 14, 2006, 07:16 AM // 07:16

Alright, I was thinking about some massive AoE damage dealing while having a crippled enemy. And this is what I have so far:
(Illusion) Illusion of Haste
(No Attrib) Plague Touch
(No Attrib) Epidemic
(Curses) Mark of Pain
(Illusion) Illusionary Weaponry {E}
(No Attrib) Arcane Echo
(Curses) Shadow of Fear
(Curses) Parasitic Bond

May not be the best skill set, but this is what I'm thinking:
Run into your mob and cast Illusion of Haste. When it ends and you are crippled, Plague Touch it onto an enemy, then cast Epidemic. All enemies attacking will be crippled. Now cast Illusionary Weaponry and Mark of Pain. You will be dealing 34+ [Shadow Damage] to the enemies as they limp away. When they turn around and start attacking again, use Shadow of Fear.
And Parasitic Bond... well, that was the only healing spell I could think of. Since it has an annoying recharge, you could use it in conjunction with Parasitic Bond, essentially.
Anyways, let's brainstorm a way to make this build. I think it would work very efficiently if there was some good self healing or defense in there to prevent damage.

theclam · Jan 14, 2006, 09:47 PM // 21:47

I doubt this would work. Here are the problems I see:

-Does IW even set off Mark of Pain? I thought it was either chaos or magic damage.
-You have no damage mitigation besides Shadow of Fear. Enemies will still hit you in between scatters.
-Parasitic Bond might work, but the 20 second delay between healing and casting would hurt a lot.
-You'll have a lot of energy problems.

For a Me/N farmer, I'd go with something like Aura of the Lich/Blood Renewal/Channeling to keep you alive and give you energy. Then you only need damage.

Rape of Faith · Jan 15, 2006, 11:22 PM // 23:22

Of course it wouldn't work, thus why I'm coming for help. Like I said, I'm not the best at making builds.
As for IW and MoP, I don't know... MoP is set off by physical damage, but the description for IW is as follows:
For 30 seconds, you deal no damage in melee, but whenever you attack in melee, target foe takes 8...34 damage. This is an elite skill.

It may work?

tigernz · Jan 16, 2006, 03:11 AM // 03:11

IW isn't physical damage so therefore wouldn't trigger MoP.