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Divineshadows · Jan 03, 2007, 11:07 PM // 23:07

I designed this build with the goal of packing in a lot of distributed defense and to have a powerful spike. It's untested, but this is definately a build I would like to try out sometime. Spikes are about as frequent as a signet of mystic wrath spike, but much harder for your opposition to interrupt. I was thinking the PD mesmer would be the spike caller, since their bar will be blacked out at times. In between spikes, the players use their defensive skills and disrupt the opponent's offense using domination.

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With four copies of spiritual pain and two of them paired with glyph of lesser energy, it should definately blow up teams that decide to let their spirits play for them. And if they set up any spirits on an altar, then you get to nuke both teams at once...

Lord Natural · Jan 04, 2007, 11:09 PM // 23:09

Looks like a dangerous build. One thought though -- Since you're packing 2 copies of Shield of Absorbtion, why not swap Life Sheath for a more powerful hex removal. Some hex builds, such as the one ran by [ftl], still incorporate Vocal Minority, which would hinder Hexbreaker Aria. If a team such as this manages to get a hex stack on your Paragon, you could face some problems with just a single veil.

Divineshadows · Jan 04, 2007, 11:18 PM // 23:18

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One thought though -- Since you're packing 2 copies of Shield of Absorbtion, why not swap Life Sheath for a more powerful hex removal?

What did you have in mind? Expel hexes or divert hexes? Expel could easily replace life sheath on the Me/Mo's bar. If you wanted divert hexes instead, then that would need to go to the monk and put ZB on the Me/Mo (fast casting with ZB kind of makes up for the lower prot spec and no divine favor).

karunpav · Jan 04, 2007, 11:33 PM // 23:33

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Originally Posted by Divineshadows

What did you have in mind? Expel hexes or divert hexes? Expel could easily replace life sheath on the Me/Mo's bar. If you wanted divert hexes instead, then that would need to go to the monk and put ZB on the Me/Mo (fast casting with ZB kind of makes up for the lower prot spec and no divine favor).

IMO, ZB would be much more powerful and useful on the monk than on the mesmer. I would stick Expel on the Sheath mesmer.

Other than that, looks like a great build. I'll have to test it some time.

necrosfeelyaks · Jan 05, 2007, 01:25 AM // 01:25

Yeah, it looks like it would actually pack a spike punch. I was considering running a SP spike in HA, but then I realized that I would be better off playing a a holding build. The Shatter-phantom is what makes the spike work really, and unofrtuanetely, it will give it away. But luckily, not much infuses seen in HA, but u will see a quick Spirit bond or Prot on him

just rude · Jan 05, 2007, 01:43 AM // 01:43

First things first, the mes spike that people see isnt a spiritual pain spike. It's the dmg on the watrel's demise that kills. There are any number of skills that can be used for the primary damage.

Spiking every 30 secs is aweful, period. It's 10 secs slower than a SoMW spike, giving you the ability to kill someone 2 times a minute, if all your spikes kill you will need at least 3 mins to kill a team and that is if they dont rez.

You should be able to counter the spirit spam buils until you run out of energy, spamming a 10e skill over and over taps you out quick, and if they have an oath shotter he will be able to out pace you because, you just can't kill fast enough.

Your extremely low on enchant removal I would hate to see the timer on the match when you run into them. I bet it would way past the smash head on keyboard, aka, /roll stage.

The Mes monks have no decent energy management, the protter in particular would run dry extremely fast if you face the thumper spirit build.

Def put expel in.

any particular reason for windborne over Storm Dijin?

Prot Spirit, thats like my fav spell, use it. If they kill your bonder you screwed.

its a good start but you def need a secondary spike on all the spikers.

personally I would drop the paragon, run 2 real monks, and bring enough skills to counter everything, it's 4 mesmers.

I ran the mes spike a few days ago with some friends and 2 hero monks, we did well considering they made me call when I was a little tispy. We used a SP/Burn combo for the primary spike dmg. 2 SP and 2 burn per spike.

w/e you do have fun

Divineshadows · Jan 05, 2007, 03:42 AM // 03:42

Ok, here is some of the logic behind the decisions I made when creating this build. Please point out any logical fallacies you see.

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