Curse

Lyssas · Apr 06, 2007, 09:48 PM // 21:48

This is a build I've been running with quite some success in RA ages ago before beastmasters were even useful for anything in most peoples oppinion.
It is quite simple and makes use of some skills comsidered worthless and stupit in PvP but please try it before you start flaming it completely.
Also please note that you can modify it quite a bit to suit your exact needs, so please dont say "it's bad you should change this and this" because I know you can change it a lot, I do so myself, feel free to do so yourself.

Well, to the build then

Ranger / Monk
16 (12+4) Beast mastery
11 (10+1) Expertice
8 Healing Prayers

Ferocious Strike (e)
Brutal Strike
Call of Haste (this slot can be changed for whatever you prefer)
Symbiotic Bond
Comfort Animal
Charm Animal
Mending
Res sig (or any other useful beastbuff but ress is sugested in PvP)

First thing to point out, if you carry this out you'll most likely never need to use Comfort Animal as your pet is most likely never going to die.
Be sure to use Symbiotic bond, giving your pet +3 health regeneration and take half damage (that equals +6 health regen on a normal character) this will leave your pet quite invulnerable to anything but a direct spike, and I've not yet lived to see that happen in RA or any other place for that matter.

Mending (please dont rage on me yet) will make up for the health you take from your pet through Sybiotic Bond. There ae probably other less straightforward ways to get around this feel free to experiment with other skills.

Just keep Call of Haste or whichever skill you're running up for the bonuses it gives.

Ferocious strike and Brutal strike can be chained as Ferocious strike manages your energy and deals a steady +29 damage, brutal strike deals unconditionaly +37 damage and if the target is below 50% health (and they will be quite quickly) it will deal a +74 damage.

I've personally destroyed everything from monks which can't take the pressure and confused warriors with this build. The best thing with beastmastery is that the opponent almost never understand what you are doing, it's so wonderful when you get blinding flashed for the 5th time and your pet is running over the ele still.

So that's it, the build is of course far from flawless but it's fun watching your portable tank beat down the opponents

XvArchonvX · Apr 07, 2007, 12:25 AM // 00:25

Personally, I'd suggest [skill]Call of Protection[/skill] over [skill]Symbiotic Bond[/skill]. I also don't see a justification for mending, even with Symbiotic. Troll Unguent at equal attributes would provide better self healing and doesn't isn't as fragile as staying enchanted, especially if you are running a BM build where you can continue to use pet attack skills while casting. Since the recent update, it would also be advantageous to run Otygh's Cry as well, perhaps even more so than Call of Protection, depending on where the build is used.

Lyssas · Apr 07, 2007, 10:32 AM // 10:32

Well as mentioned there are a lot of things to throw around in that build, if you remove symbiotic there is absolutely no need for mending.

If you keep it then you'll need some healing, as you suggested troll unguent, depends on where you use it really. Personaly I rather put my money on an enchant than a constant 3 sec cast but it can be done either way. I havent tried running Predatory pounce or Predatory bond either, at such high Beast mastery I figure they could do for the healing.

Bloodied Blade · Apr 07, 2007, 08:13 PM // 20:13

Double posted?