Curse

Homicidal Brainiac · Mar 09, 2006, 09:30 AM // 09:30

An E/Me build that'll have those abyssals thinking twice.
This build is for use whenever a nuker is needed (of course :P)

Skills:

Fire Attunement (fire)
Arcane Echo (other)
Meteor Shower (fire)
Meteor (fire)
Mantra of Resolve (inspiration)
Glyph of Elemental Power (other)
Glyph of renewal (other, also a 1337 skill [lol])
Rodgort's Invocation (fire)

Equipment:
Droks armour (of course) any type will do
Flame's Eye (with sup Fire Rune)
Sup Energy Storage Rune
Sup Vigor Rune

Weapon:
Rago's Flame Staff
+10 Energy
11-22 Fire Damage
Improve fire Skill Cast time by 20% (20% chance)
Improve fire Skill recharge time by 20% (20% chance)
+5 Energy
Enchantments last 20% longer

carlokes · Mar 09, 2006, 05:04 PM // 17:04

That's a pretty basic nuker build equal to many other...really nothing new worth talking about.

Ira Blinks · Mar 09, 2006, 09:34 PM // 21:34

I said it many times and i'll say it again - there is absolutely no good reason to cast shover on the same target more than once (unless it has moved).
You will not get more knockdowns nor uber dps from it. It takes 8 seconds for shover to even start doin damage... you could use that time to cast rodgot's invocation and fireball and something else and _kill_ mobs instead knocking them down 5 times and letting them heal up again.
This isnt what the "nuke" all about. The "nuke" is about compressing your damage into timespan of 3-4 seconds, which means that you have to combine your spells in a way that they scale down in terms of delay of effect. So first you would most likely cast shover, then something that takes 3-4 seconds cast ans start dealing damage, then something that takes 1-2 seconds and then (if mobs still alive) something that is 3/4 of a second cast time.
Trying to echo the hell out of biggest spell simply doesn't work. Even if your dps will overcome healing abilities of mobs, you still wasted too much energy and time on it.

Also I want to say that the only reason you would want to use arcane echo if you want to free up elite slot for something like elemental attunement. Otherwise glyph of renewal beats both echo and arcane echo.

Francis Crawford · Mar 10, 2006, 01:14 AM // 01:14

Read the spell description of Arcane Echo. A Glyph causes it to "end prematurely."