Curse

payne · Apr 04, 2008, 04:38 PM // 16:38

just wondering has anyone else come across this?

one soul barb heavy hex neco - icy veins!
mesmer with hexes / shutdowns - psychic distraction?
ele with water snares / hexes - shatterstone!
general monk?

just played against it - practicing monking

get hit with soul barb and at 17odd damage combined with SS and icy veins etc. quite a powerful spike - dunno if this has been posted before or are there any signs of the spike about to happen? other then soul barbs being cast or the unsuspecting target?

don't know if this is a new or old spike but was wondering on ideas?

llsektorll · Apr 04, 2008, 04:40 PM // 16:40

ahh i remember facing this in gvg 2 years back.... shit is uninfusable before they nerfed something.... i think it might have been recurring insecurity.

payne · Apr 04, 2008, 04:52 PM // 16:52

may have been it...is a pain in the ass...image looked similar to PD so wasn't sure on that one!

Chrono Re delle Ere · Apr 04, 2008, 05:12 PM // 17:12

it's a quite old spike if I am not wrong.....I met it once in HA

Aera · Apr 04, 2008, 05:42 PM // 17:42

I run SB/Ri sometimes, but then with a ranger. Really easy kills already and good sig control.

leeky baby · Apr 04, 2008, 05:53 PM // 17:53

soul barbs dmg got reducded alot :P still quite common in icy vein spikes in ha.

DRGN · Apr 04, 2008, 06:29 PM // 18:29

If I remember right, the reason people stopped running SB/RI in HA and whatnot is because whenever RI renews, it's ALWAYS the second hex from the top of the stack. People just used Expel and it was gone. Least I think that's why people stopped running it, anyway. That, and the RI nerf.

nebuchanezzar · Apr 04, 2008, 06:51 PM // 18:51

The nerfs that hurt it the most was the limitation to healing reduction. [skill]Lingering Curse[/skill][skill]Malign Intervention[/skill][skill]Defile Flesh[/skill] would all stack the healing reduction to make even an Infuse heal for squat.
Old and once OP spike/pressure.

llsektorll · Apr 04, 2008, 06:57 PM // 18:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by nebuchanezzar

The nerfs that hurt it the most was the limitation to healing reduction. [skill]Lingering Curse[/skill][skill]Malign Intervention[/skill][skill]Defile Flesh[/skill] would all stack the healing reduction to make even an Infuse heal for squat.
Old and once OP spike/pressure.

oh i see.... i don't remember lingering curse being 25 energy.... no wonder no one ever ran it xD

Zena Starlight · Apr 04, 2008, 11:03 PM // 23:03

Its a pretty meh spike, I mean the raw power is amazing but the defense is generally lacking.

Fircen · Apr 07, 2008, 11:01 PM // 23:01

Well, the build is pretty much fun to play, although, as Zena said, the defense can be a problem. Our guild MAW designed a new version last weekend to bring it back into play as a counter to the enchantment-heavy healing that's running around everywhere currently, although the build we played differed a bit from what's posted here, so I guess another guild either had the same idea at the same time or decided to modify our build a bit ^^

A good balanced team was always pretty hard to overcome with this build however, but since I'm personally a fan of balanced builds (switched to this one simply because of all the lameway running around currently) I hope people will reconsider their A/D dual-monk-builds and we'll have a more diverse "TA-environment" again...playing against the same builds over and over again was getting boring

Seraphim of Chaos · Apr 08, 2008, 01:54 AM // 01:54

I got raped once by a Me/Mo healer, Me/A with Mark of Death and hexes and two necs hexing.

3 lines of hexes=gg dead lolwut nowai.

Barkeep · Apr 08, 2008, 09:07 AM // 09:07

I dunno why people are always so happy about SB/RI spike. It's another gimmick like smiteway.

But I suppose it's ok since it rolls the gay gimmicks and it gets beaten by balanced.

Hundbert · Apr 08, 2008, 07:12 PM // 19:12

Yes it's pretty old but it still works.

Shield of absorption stops this spike. Too bad it's hard to fit in on a ta monk bar, but if you have it... GG

masta_yoda · Apr 09, 2008, 06:20 AM // 06:20

soa wont save you, sh will

1/4 cast > 1 second cast

Aera · Apr 09, 2008, 08:39 AM // 08:39

Neither will.
[skill]Rend Enchantments[/skill]