Curse

|pyro| · Nov 12, 2006, 02:01 PM // 14:01

The Build

Equipment:
I have:
Five 15 armor level, armor parts from Kamadan.
Each piece has a survivor Insignia and vitae rune, one pice has major vigor rune.

Totem Axe
+30hp Off hand always or +45hp when Enchanted

Because the key to this build is to have the longest lasting Shield of Absorbtion as possible I did this.
First I put a +4 Divine Favor Scalp on and I casted Blessed Aura on me for 37% longer enchantments. (16 Divine Favor, Protection Prayers 12)

Then I switched to +1 proteciton prayers scalp.

Shield bonder Skills:

1-Protective Spirit
2-Shield of Absorbtion
3-Spirit Bond
4-Spell Breaker{E}
5-Blessed Signet
6-Essence Bond
7-Blessed Aura
8-Balthazar's Spirit

Smiter skills:

1-Vital Blessing
2-Life Attunment
3-Rettribution
4-Holy Wrath
5-Shield of Judgment (if Coldfires are aggroed)
6-Blessed Signet
7-Optional/Blank
8-Rebirth

Logics Behind it:
It seems that
Protective Spirit works first and makes you take 10% of you maximum heath per hit
and Spirit Bond heales you 80hp+ each time when you take damage,
Shield of Absorbtion comes in and negates damage given to you by -5 per every hit.
When Spirit Bond dies off you have only Shield of Absorbtion on you but you will be taking 0 damage until it ends.

The Battle:
Smiter casts all 4 enchantments on the shield bonder and bonder also enchants himself. The smiter moves back to a safe distance while shield bonder tanks.
Tank has Protective Spirit always active. Then cast Spirit Bond on you and after that cast Shield of Absorbtion. After Spirit Bonds ends wait until Shield of Absorption starts blinking then recast Spirit Bond and Shield of Absorbtion. If Protective Spirit starts blinking recast it.

Result:
I cleared Chamber and Ice Wastes several times with this build and it works perfect.
The only limitation is how much can you aggro and still be effective, because the bigger group you aggro the longer it takes to kill them(melee mobs scatter), but you can aggro 4 groups+ of smites and live to see the day.

I would say the big advantage of this build is that that is faster than Famine/55hp build or Trapper Builds. Not as fast as the pre - AI change but still its proffitable.

ibbo · Nov 12, 2006, 02:16 PM // 14:16

what are u trying to ask with this post? u start by asking about SoA and ps and sprit bond but then u go on to answer your question? so what do u want to know?

|pyro| · Nov 12, 2006, 03:16 PM // 15:16

-_-
Am, maybe I wasnt clear enough, I was explaining how did I came to this conclusion.

If my point wasnt clear enough, this is the new way to to Smite Run, faster then Famine/55-av-av

Renegade26 · Nov 12, 2006, 03:27 PM // 15:27

Possible to solo with this and IW using a scythe, becuase health isn't needed as low sa 55, freeing up the second slot?

Crazyvietguy · Nov 12, 2006, 04:33 PM // 16:33

Haha, well it took me a good 20 mins to figure out what you were saying but i got it.

Since the negative damage stacks over time (-5, then next hit is -10) Your build would work because after 10 hits your negative damage would be around -50, which will hurt you for a bit but you should be able to get SB back up in time.

As for IW Monk maybe....
SoA
SB
PS
IW
Power Spike
Essence Bond
Blessed Aura
Bals Spirit/Retribution (depending on how much health you want, 55 should go Spirit, and a 580 should go Ret)

(just a thought

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|pyro| · Nov 12, 2006, 05:26 PM // 17:26

I was in a hurry when I was writing, corrected it now.
Comments are more than welcome, if some one hasnt trown away his 15AL clothes away test it please and report. When you get the hand of it its realy goes nice.

[BtL] poke · Nov 13, 2006, 06:23 AM // 06:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crazyvietguy

As for IW Monk maybe....
[...]

I don't think IW is possible when you have no superior protection and superior divine favor in. (You won't have enough attribute points to get Illusion to 12)
So I think you have to use your 55HP build with IW.

|pyro| · Nov 13, 2006, 12:01 PM // 12:01

So has enyone tried this, if you want I can show you, just contact me In Game if you want.

This build can also duo FoW with some minor adjustments.
bonder brings SV or AV
and smiter takes signet of judgmend and bane signet

Hay anyone tried this build?
If you did I would realy like if you psot some feed back.

Bloodied Blade · Nov 22, 2006, 06:10 PM // 18:10

I've tried similar builds, but I'm almost certain that this is not faster than 55/Famine duo... I have both monked and run famine, and famine just blows everything out of the water (sorry SS necros, but famine actually was faster even before the SS nerf on mass pulls).

|pyro| · Nov 22, 2006, 07:36 PM // 19:36

have you tried this build in particular?

Zeph · Nov 25, 2006, 11:41 AM // 11:41

This duo build is great. Testing it out all over the 3 continents and its working well, great fun too.

Bloodied Blade · Nov 25, 2006, 04:52 PM // 16:52

...you know your smiter's skills go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8? Might wanna throw in Purge Signet.

benjef · Nov 25, 2006, 06:15 PM // 18:15

it works i was doing this the other day with a lvl 12 hero :P

NinjaKai · Nov 26, 2006, 01:11 AM // 01:11

I'm loving the look of the smiter build. I shall have to do some UW duo with this sometime.

Puppets · Nov 26, 2006, 01:35 AM // 01:35

Very nice, I find it better than famine rangers. Thanks.

Jabilo · Nov 28, 2006, 03:50 AM // 03:50

Thought I would bump this. This build is nice, specially because you can take a monk hero. Get them to put all the smite enchants etc on you and then put their flag by the ghosts and go off and tank everything from the first room without even moving Tahlkora (or Dunkoro). I only really ever found farming fun if it was with other people that I play with regularly, but this works fine and takes absolutely no effort to control the hero if you want to do it on your own with minimal effort (the most you have to do is move them when you go to next area).

The free slot in your build I either use blood ritual (if I'm too lazy to used blessed signet) sig of judgement as energy is always 0, or I think it was ether signet, the mesmer one where you gain energy if you are under 5 energy, just to give hero a quicker way to get some mana to use Shield of Judgement. But to be honest I am yet to find an elite that I even have the smiter use for this build as not annoying the coldfire is so rediculously easy, just the 4 enchants is enough really, and rebirth if you're not used to farming uw yet.

Anet will stop it somehow eventually though, maybe making dying nightmares into deadly nightmares that are level 35 with hunger of the lich, jagged crystal skin and impossible odds or something hehe. But for now, nice build

|pyro| · Nov 29, 2006, 08:38 PM // 20:38

Well I prefer to duo it with real humans, because after a long week of PvE ing I decide I will do 3/4 Finder Keeper runs. Hehe most of the ecto for me :P.

I stoped uding this build because I need to get my characters trough NF, after I'm finished i will start farming for new armor set

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Covah · Nov 29, 2006, 09:08 PM // 21:08

Me and My friend have used this build in UW and it works great. The coldfires take abit longer though.

Concerning FOW which skills would u replace with SV and AV. We can't seem to kill the guys b\c the monks keep healing them so these would help alot.

|pyro| · Nov 29, 2006, 09:17 PM // 21:17

Well I took out Balthazars Spirit, and took SV.
Smiter took Bane Signed and Signet of Judgment.

After I aggred them all, I brought them to the monk and then activated SV for 14/15 s. After it expires if the monk isnt dead Bane Signed and SignetOJ is your friend.

About the colds, try NOT to aggro them, the only thing I can think off :S.

Covah · Nov 30, 2006, 01:40 AM // 01:40

Yeah my friend and I just did a Successful IDS run with this build and cleared mineral springs

only one IDS dropped but that was a highlight.