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dr love · Oct 24, 2009, 05:20 PM // 17:20

auspicious + shatter hex
drain enchant

its the only way i could manage using B Light. it worked well against the hex teams, but now there's lots of frontline heavy builds.

Nerf Me Haha · Oct 24, 2009, 05:34 PM // 17:34

If the opposing team spreads the damage between you and the other party members, there is no way you can survive it with Blight, it works decently against hex teams, but now those aren't so common, mostly the cripslash +blindbot +vor teams, or 2 r/a's or a/r, with SaO +pets, and sometimes Barbs necro.

Short · Oct 24, 2009, 07:24 PM // 19:24

OP Class of the Day? Blindbot Dervish, shutdown the opposing melees amazingly well. And if the other team has one? It's whoever Swift Javelins the other Blindbot first that wins.

bungusmaximus · Oct 24, 2009, 07:30 PM // 19:30

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Originally Posted by Nerf Me Haha

If the opposing team spreads the damage between you and the other party members, there is no way you can survive it with Blight, it works decently against hex teams, but now those aren't so common, mostly the cripslash +blindbot +vor teams, or 2 r/a's or a/r, with SaO +pets, and sometimes Barbs necro.

damage spreading also blows up your average WoH monk amazingly fast

Nirconus Otreum · Oct 24, 2009, 08:23 PM // 20:23

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Originally Posted by Short

OP Class of the Day? Blindbot Dervish, shutdown the opposing melees amazingly well. And if the other team has one? It's whoever Swift Javelins the other Blindbot first that wins.

Nah... Pensive Guardian works really well against them.

Morgoth the dark · Oct 24, 2009, 10:24 PM // 22:24

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Originally Posted by Short

OP Class of the Day? Blindbot Dervish, shutdown the opposing melees amazingly well. And if the other team has one? It's whoever Swift Javelins the other Blindbot first that wins.

rend touch says hi

Arkantos · Oct 24, 2009, 10:39 PM // 22:39

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Originally Posted by Morgoth the dark

rend touch says hi

Vital boon and mystic regeneration say sup.

erk · Oct 24, 2009, 11:00 PM // 23:00

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Originally Posted by Short

OP Class of the Day? Blindbot Dervish, shutdown the opposing melees amazingly well. And if the other team has one? It's whoever Swift Javelins the other Blindbot first that wins.

As long as the bot that is shutdown is too stupid to call for a blind removal.

I Jonas I · Oct 25, 2009, 12:49 AM // 00:49

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Originally Posted by Short

whoever Swift Javelins the other Blindbot first that wins.

Codex Arena is sooo fun!!!

Sieg Sunblade · Oct 25, 2009, 02:08 AM // 02:08

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Originally Posted by Nerf Me Haha

Blessed Light monk? are you kidding? this skill is so crappy it makes me go QQ, have you actualy tried to monk with it? unless you can actualy show me a build with it which isn't crappy which, I, don't think is possible.
I tried loads of combintions and none of tem survived against the better teams, and I'm a decent monk.

What.

BLight is fine, as long as you're meeting the clauses it should not be killing your energy. 10e for a good heal, hex remove, and condi remove is fine.

Melee damage is negligible. Or should be, because you have EDA, remember? Who has >two< cover enchantments.

Hex removal in this sealed deck is scarce. Aside from BLight you have:

Shatter hex.

Kudos. So you're going to try to face hex overload builds with >Shatter Hex< as your removal?

Good luck with that. Don't spam Blight as a heal, carry EDA for damage mitigation, and blow up the 3 or 4x squishy hexways with your high melee damage. How do you see ANY alternative to Blight?

DreamWind · Oct 25, 2009, 02:31 AM // 02:31

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Originally Posted by Short

OP Class of the Day? Blindbot Dervish, shutdown the opposing melees amazingly well. And if the other team has one? It's whoever Swift Javelins the other Blindbot first that wins.

This is mostly true today. I got bored fighting blindbot after blindbot. Another strong build is shattering assassin, but half the reason that is good is to help remove opposing ebon dust. Overall a pretty boring/annoying meta today.

Sieg Sunblade · Oct 25, 2009, 04:18 AM // 04:18

The Assault Enchants sin is also strong because it gives you a way to shutdown the best non-physical damage atm, which is the SF ele. Run AE for fire eles and dervishes, run EDA for physical teams, if you face a mirror it's a race to rip EDA first and not have your ripped.

The only other thing I see working, and this is only with mediocre EDAs, is petspam with hexes. Which is fine until they all take Death Blossom damage and die. Or all get blinded. Etc, etc, etc.

awry · Oct 25, 2009, 05:40 AM // 05:40

too much builds wars today, kinda like a rock paper scissors sorta game atm for monk builds. Take blessed or shatter hex and get rolled by melee, take healing light and stances and get rolled by hexes...

i used a d/a zealous vow dagger build and everytime i saw a d/p we would inevitably end up autoattacking each other and he would try to cover his enchants while i tried to rending touch his ebon. Matches dragged on for way too long. Also, i would like to say mind shock eles were pretty underrated today, really dangerous spikers.

Winstar · Oct 25, 2009, 07:23 AM // 07:23

Assault enchantments owned eda all day.

Sieg Sunblade · Oct 25, 2009, 09:39 AM // 09:39

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Originally Posted by Winstar

Assault enchantments owned eda all day.

Unless the dervish was good and blinded you before you could get your combo off. Or got a lucky guardian block then blinded you. Am I right?

PS: 7~8/10 at today having a >near perfect< EDA build. I know there's strip and flesh wound to deal with it, it still makes me a little mad.

icedwhitemocha · Oct 25, 2009, 09:56 AM // 09:56

Everyone I know is 10/10 over EDA in the deck two days in a row. NOT fun.

Morgoth the dark · Oct 25, 2009, 10:41 AM // 10:41

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Originally Posted by Arkantos

Vital boon and mystic regeneration say sup.

new day, same blind shit, strip enchants and corrupt says hello

icedwhitemocha · Oct 25, 2009, 10:57 AM // 10:57

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Originally Posted by Morgoth the dark

new day, same blind shit, strip enchants and corrupt says hello

derv has ~3 covers and monk can provide more if they're coordinating on vent

Sieg Sunblade · Oct 25, 2009, 01:00 PM // 13:00

FUN FACT! EDA will pop up, on average, in 1/3 of the Codexes!

Isn't Codex Arena SUPER FUN?

Seriously. EDA is, in my opinion, too powerful a skill in 4v4 arenas, esp those where non-melee damage is unreliable (eg, solitary hexes are all you have, or easily mitigable fire damage), or the counters to EDA are difficult to bring (Rend)

I might be biased, because my favourite classes in the game are easily para and warrior, but in my experience whenever EDA pops up, every successful build revolves around how to shut it down effectively, which often takes more effort than it should for one skill, albeit an elite skill.

DreamWind · Oct 25, 2009, 01:35 PM // 13:35

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Originally Posted by Sieg Sunblade

FUN FACT! EDA will pop up, on average, in 1/3 of the Codexes!

Hahahaha. Cool now we finally have our first case of a need to balance around Codex arena. Let me sit back and get my popcorn.