Curse

strange wilderness sucked · Feb 10, 2008, 03:27 AM // 03:27

So ive been farming glads and i noticed to streak you need a healer so i made this build to keep a good healer alive while doing decent damage since often the healer cant handle the pressure on his own. i was so bored of healers not holding their own and if you play it right you can keep them alive while not going full healer which is kind of boring to play.

Mysticism 14 runes, sup vigor and rest energy runes

scythe mastery 12

Avatar of balthazar

heart of fury

victorious sweep

chilling victory

crippling sweep

watchful intervention

imbue health

death pact

so basically i use hand of forgotten with a +5 energy chaos axe + 20 enchants that i pull out for emergency heals of my party and to cast initial enchants to have a chance with off hand of halving their recharge time. if the healer is good i can keep the guy alive. damage is like pressure nothing can out run balthy and when its not on use the cripple. you keep your team alive with imbues and faithful intrventions, you cant heal except with the intervention but your assuming theres a healer in your team which is necesary to streak more than 15 (with lucky exceptions)

death pact is the awesome part of this build, always death pact the monk so others save their res and its easy to keep monk alive, and is what makes it possible to streak very really far with this build. if you death pact you have to commit more to healing the guy rather than damage and never ever death pact a mesmer. ive been in so many battles where we should have lost but i kept death pacting and keeping alive for 120 secs resing my team like 8 times over we ended up wining, love that skill as it can help you defeat teams that are better than yours.

the only ta build thats kind of the nemesis of your strategy is corrupt enchants its hard you have to cast faithful at level of hp where its imediatly triggered (withought letting guy die) but even though its never flawless (proving you have been carrying ur team) if you play it right you can beat it.

im looking for feed back or alternatives that preform the same sort of role seeing as damage sophistication does kill quicker but has no ability to help the healer and is often the reason a perfectly good team losses its streak.

mrmango · Feb 10, 2008, 03:37 AM // 03:37

Avatar of Balth sucks. Try any other elite, perhaps lyssa. But then you'd want mystic, eremites, and protector's strike.

strange wilderness sucked · Feb 10, 2008, 03:50 AM // 03:50

i sort of need the speed otherwise stuff can kite the armor bonus is also useful as it deters people from atacking me making imbuing more effective. or at least they discover what im doing a little later

Sir Pandra Pierva · Feb 10, 2008, 06:08 AM // 06:08

ava of mel and a speed boost

strange wilderness sucked · Feb 10, 2008, 06:17 AM // 06:17

takes up two skill slots and meladrus looks ugly

Bowstring Badass · Feb 10, 2008, 06:27 AM // 06:27

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Originally Posted by strange wilderness sucked

takes up two skill slots and meladrus looks ugly

Coolness > effectiveness? wtf

Last time I checked Mel and cooler looking then Balth... and was useful.

Terraban · Feb 10, 2008, 07:34 AM // 07:34

A Dervish healer?

strange wilderness sucked · Feb 10, 2008, 10:10 PM // 22:10

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Originally Posted by Bowstring Badass

Coolness > effectiveness? wtf

yeah i streaked 42 last week with this build and i can can safely say this build carried my team as not only did my imbuing/interventions save the monk countless times but matches we should have lost due to finite reses were won cause of my use of death pact. all this while doing lots of damage aint bad, hardly ineffective.

if you changed the avatar you would be far less effective as non of the other have speed boost alone. the +40 armor also makes it easier to keep your hp up and have higher imbuing value.

Arkantos · Feb 10, 2008, 10:16 PM // 22:16

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Originally Posted by strange wilderness sucked

yeah i streaked 42 last week with this build and i can can safely say this build carried my team as not only did my imbuing/interventions save the monk countless times but matches we should have lost due to finite reses were won cause of my use of death pact. all this while doing lots of damage aint bad, hardly ineffective.

if you changed the avatar you would be far less effective as non of the other have speed boost alone. the +40 armor also makes it easier to keep your hp up and have higher imbuing value.

With avatar of melandru, you'll be immune to conditions, and you'll have +100 health, which works well with imbue health and draw conditions (if you go /Mo). For a speed boost, you can go /W for rush. /W also has many good attack skills such as wild blow, bulls strike, etc. In the end, melandru will be more useful then balthazar. But you probably won't run melandru, because it looks worse then balthazar.

Avatar Exico · Feb 10, 2008, 10:18 PM // 22:18

Avatar of Balth Works fine in PvE esp if you go into FoW you will deal 100+dmg with your Skills easy, it x2 dmg to Skeletons and Menzies. The Melrendu is 15 and Balth 10 energy. I saw like 250dmg on bonder with Balth on. If you PvP go with Mel or Lyssa they are better suited for it.

strange wilderness sucked · Feb 10, 2008, 10:21 PM // 22:21

yeah but if i pick up a speed for sake of getting new avatar then i have to drop a scythe attack, and yeah avatar of balthazar looks badass man gotta make it work.

melandrus is porbably better if your going full damage but wouldnt be as good for going undercover healer.

Arkantos · Feb 10, 2008, 10:23 PM // 22:23

Sorry, but an undercover dervish healer sounds awful.

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Avatar of Balth Works fine in PvE esp if you go into FoW you will deal 100+dmg with your Skills easy, it x2 dmg to Skeletons and Menzies. The Melrendu is 15 and Balth 10 energy. I saw like 250dmg on bonder with Balth on. If you PvP go with Mel or Lyssa they are better suited for it.

Aura of holy might says hello.

Avatar Exico · Feb 10, 2008, 10:26 PM // 22:26

Actually hate AoB, Only tested in places to see what it more suited best and it works in Torment also that pretty much it, anywhere else it sucks. I like Lyssa more, more energy to spam the attack skills and do more dmg on casting skills helps more esp though pisky Monks. The Grenth was cool to use for fun.

strange wilderness sucked · Feb 10, 2008, 10:27 PM // 22:27

thats exactly why it works, who the hell expects te avatar of balthazar holding a scythe to be healing? they usually catch up to what your doing to late or not at all even in ta.

Avatar Exico · Feb 10, 2008, 10:29 PM // 22:29

hehe watching the HA battles with Dervish with Avatar of Lyssa really owns the Casters and with right skills they fall down fast.

Arkantos · Feb 10, 2008, 10:31 PM // 22:31

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Originally Posted by strange wilderness sucked

thats exactly why it works, who the hell expects te avatar of balthazar holding a scythe to be healing? they usually catch up to what your doing to late or not at all even in ta.

It's not that they aren't catching on, it's that they aren't caring. You have one healing spell. If that's the only healing your ally has, he's still going to die. Your damage and survivability is quite laughable. You're pretty much a wasted slot in a RA team.

strange wilderness sucked · Feb 10, 2008, 10:40 PM // 22:40

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Originally Posted by Arkantos

Your damage and survivability is quite laughable. You're pretty much a wasted slot in a RA team.

well duh its build designed in partnership or assuming theres a healer in your team, and you healing for 275 and close to 300 with intervention, i know as a fact its that they dont notice vs they dont care because ive streaked into ta as sole healer of my team and obviously they would have killed me as it is standard to kill the healer first.

this build totally can carry an ok ra team far into ta even when facing better organized teams, its a build that may suck if sole healer but again such a team isnt likely to streak far in the first place, and it only sucks then if its discovered which isnt imediatly

ZenRgy · Feb 11, 2008, 12:21 AM // 00:21

You only need 3 attack skills.

Needs moar [skill]Eremite's Attack[/skill] and/or [skill]Mystic Sweep[/skill].

strange wilderness sucked · Feb 11, 2008, 12:31 AM // 00:31

[QUOTE=Dr Strangelove]

Anyway, it was said before - the only healing spell you have is imbue health. QUOTE]

no i also pack the watchful intervention which can be casted on allies.

as for damage a normal attack on a monk does 70-80 damage, thats pretty high. and even if u wanted to you cant kite an aob

I like the concept of the blood strategy but though it sounds really cool but in a way this gives you more control, in a way its a build to compensate for healer not being fantastic.

Stormlord Alex · Feb 11, 2008, 12:50 AM // 00:50

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Originally Posted by strange wilderness sucked

no i also pack the faithful intervention which can be casted on allies.

No.
No it can't.
Read [skill=text]faithful intervention[/skill]