Curse

Thomas.knbk · Sep 21, 2007, 01:36 PM // 13:36

+38 damage and a KD (twice) is nice, but why the hell would I ever take it over +60 dmg?
Lotus strike needs to follow a lead attack and is therefore bad.

Symbol · Sep 21, 2007, 05:24 PM // 17:24

Trampling Ox is great. I've been abusing it with grenth's grasp and it's really good. Falling lotus and lotus strike are a bit meh. 12s recharge makes them niche. Falling spider with poison + 8s recharge >> falling lotus IMO.

Vampiric assault is weaksauce healing with weaksauce damage (since most builds can't spec high in DM and deadly).

Smoke Powder Defense is decent, but bugged (apparently the blind duration doesn't scale with investment). Shield Bash still has the edge over this...I'd like to see it get 1-2s more blind duration or a 15r.

Way of the Master is a silly skill. ZOMG A/D SCYTHE R NEW META!

Golden Fang Strike. People are going apeshit over the fact that you don't need to hit to deep wound, but...it's deep wound without any +damage. Nothing terribly exciting. A solid offhand if for some reason you're going lead offhand dual (but I think wild strike is >> this, since you can always use impale for DW).

Signet of Deadly Corruption, Sadist's Signet, Shadow Fang...all trash. Too bad, because a decent heal in DA would be awesome.

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+38 damage and a KD (twice) is nice, but why the hell would I ever take it over +60 dmg?

You wouldn't replace BoS with this in a shadow prison build, but it's good in other templates.

Grenth's grasp + gps - trampling - falling - blades of steel ~ 400 damage + poison + spam cripple + unconditional KD every 9 seconds. You can fill your remaining 3 slots with whatever utility you want.

Black Mantis - Wild - Trampling is spam cripple + stance removal + KD (can be combined with moebius for MOAR damage).

Xasew · Sep 22, 2007, 11:19 AM // 11:19

I've had a lot of fun in RA with the following build:

Assassin's Remedy, Fox's Promise, Leaping Mantis, Golden Fang, HotO, GPS, BoS, Res Sig. Blind gets removed and you can't be blocked. You do a lot of dmg, a DW, possibly a cripple and KD. Sure it doesn't have any way of surviving, but it does kill stuff quite fast so that compensates. Especially funny to watch those Frenzied Defence Monks.
Yes, I do know that if you don't have a Monk in your team and you get targeted you will probably be crushed. But when you do get the Monk it'll be worth it.

Signet of Deadly Corruption: Buff the dmg/condition(4 or 5 more dmg than atm). It needs conditions and has to follow a dual attack, how the hell could this be abused? It's not even a 1/4 cast like Impale so it doesn't exactly make your spike very fast and deadly. Falling Spider and Lotus Strike are a bit bleh, I couldn't really find any use for them. Golden Skull Strike and Temple Strike could really use a buff, not that it has anything to do with GWEN skills.