Curse

InfernalSuffering · Mar 08, 2006, 10:59 PM // 22:59

This as already stated is a r/n build but I don't think it follows the general guidelines of one. If it does it works awesome anyway and is the simplest build i've ever played. Here it is:

Beast Mastery: 15 (1 from head 3 from rune)
Curses: 6
Blood Magic: 12

Life Transfer {E}
Life Siphon
Faintheartedness
Vampiric Gaze
Call of Haste
Comfort Animal
Charm Animal
Rez Sig

I use Druid's Armor with a blood staff and a +30 health head and +30 health wrapping.

All you do is you pick ur target, send your animale to attack, and then cast the spells. First you cast life siphon just incase of the remove hex junk. Then you cast life transfer and call of haste back to back. By that time you should have them pretty much dead if another few teammates are also targetting that person. If not go ahead and cast faintheartedness and vamp gaze. YOU WILL RUN OUT OF ENERGY. After this point only use COMFORT ANIMAL, LIFE TRANSFER, LIFE SIPHON, AND VAMP GAZE. You will need the health but if played correctly you will still live. All you have to do is cast life transfer or siphon and have your pet attack which will kill most people especially when you use transfer. COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, COMPLAINTS. PLEASE TRY BEFORE YOU JUDGE!!!!

Kurow · Mar 09, 2006, 01:55 AM // 01:55

With that much BM wouldnt you gain from having atleast 1 more skill from that tree?

Jenosavel · Mar 09, 2006, 04:05 AM // 04:05

A ranger won't have the energy to use that many spells to their potential. Life Siphon especially shines when it is spammed, and with a maximum of around 42 energy with only 3 pips of regen you'll be dead in the water in no time at all. Saying you won't run out of energy and actually not running out of energy are completely different things. You'll get off three casts of Life Siphon, one Life Transfer, and maybe a Faintheartedness before you do indeed run out of energy. You've only got 3 pips of regen and zero energy management skills, so at that point you're pretty much dead in the water.

If you're interested in going Beast/Blood, at least try Necro touch skills with reduced costs via expertise. Relocating your Curses points (and possibly one point from Beast) to Expertise, and trying to rework your skill set to have non-spell skills would help you greatly. Also, using Ferocious Strike {E} to gain energy in such a build could really be worthwhile.

As is, though, I think this is in fact not an awesome build.

art_ · Mar 09, 2006, 05:08 AM // 05:08

^ /agreed

heist23 · Mar 09, 2006, 06:44 AM // 06:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by InfernalSuffering

This as already stated is a r/n build but I don't think it follows the general guidelines of one. If it does it works awesome anyway and is the simplest build i've ever played. Here it is:

Beast Mastery: 15 (1 from head 3 from rune)
Curses: 6
Blood Magic: 12

Life Transfer {E}
Life Siphon
Faintheartedness
Vampiric Gaze
Call of Haste
Comfort Animal
Charm Animal
Rez Sig

I use Druid's Armor with a blood staff and a +30 health head and +30 health wrapping.

All you do is you pick ur target, send your animale to attack, and then cast the spells. First you cast life siphon just incase of the remove hex junk. Then you cast life transfer and call of haste back to back. By that time you should have them pretty much dead if another few teammates are also targetting that person. If not go ahead and cast faintheartedness and vamp gaze. YOU WILL RUN OUT OF ENERGY. After this point only use COMFORT ANIMAL, LIFE TRANSFER, LIFE SIPHON, AND VAMP GAZE. You will need the health but if played correctly you will still live. All you have to do is cast life transfer or siphon and have your pet attack which will kill most people especially when you use transfer. COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, COMPLAINTS. PLEASE TRY BEFORE YOU JUDGE!!!!

last time i checked, you cast Life Transfer, THEN Life Siphon. Life Siphon is there as a cover hex, and to add degen/regen.

these two spells have a long-ish duration, but anyone with proper hex removal will pretty much kill you.

if anything, i'd suggest taking out Faintheartedness for some sort of pet attack....if this build wasn't flawed from the start. 3 pips of energy regeneration just won't work with these kinds of spells. life siphon + life transfer + call of haste= 30 energy. you're dead in the water. 3 pips=1 energy per second, which means you'll have to wait around 8 seconds to get enough energy to pull off another skill....

this build is not a good idea, period.

SnipiousMax · Mar 09, 2006, 06:35 PM // 18:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by heist23

last time i checked, you cast Life Transfer, THEN Life Siphon. Life Siphon is there as a cover hex, and to add degen/regen.

You beat me to it...

You also need to think about what happens if you DON'T manage to kill the opponent in the first go through of your skill bar.

1.) It's already been mentioned that you will have no energy (you even said this).

2.) You have no way of dodging or negating your enemies attacks should they decide to attack you instead of the pet (you wanna kill a snake, you chop off it's head, not pick at it's body.) You have Vampiric Gaze, but if you're outta energy how will you heal yourself?

It just comes off to much of a one trick pony to me. While you're probally planning for short bursts of action... I don't think its gonna be that short.

InfernalSuffering · Mar 09, 2006, 09:18 PM // 21:18

I seriously doubt anybody actually tried the build. This is for TA and RA so you will probably only have 1 person or 2 on you at a time. Your pet does approximately the damage of a warrior and with average help from your degen spells they have to take damage 2 ways, degen and direct. This is what most people will have a hard time to shrug off. If you try to take off the degen you take lots of dmg from direct. If you try to take on the direct, you take dmg from degen. I find I rarely die in TA and RA because of the skills. After the first go around or two a skill every so many seconds isnt bad. I've easily handled 2 warriors before. Granted they werent the best but I took them down with only losing maybe 1/2 of my life. If you don't want to try it fine, but until then don't judge.

Elthanor · Aug 20, 2006, 02:34 PM // 14:34

I say go Necro/Ra and take a beast... more energy.. more health...more tactics

there isent a reason to go R/N.. other then the Armor. But with Necor as primary, you can have more energy, and with more life siphons, more life.

Yes I havent tried this build, but I have tried a Necro with both degen skills. Works great, even then I run out of energy. Rangers have less, so its just not as smart imo to use Ranger as Primary...

This has been said befor, im just putting my side on things.