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Old Sep 29, 2006, 03:27 AM // 03:27   #1
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Anyone else notice this build has become rampant in the last month?.
It makes the touch ranger look like a whammo. The spike damage of an assasin from range with very few counters.
The whole thing is so robust, it only relies on 1 hex, Fragility which always has 2 covers, then removing the following conditions just helps kill you faster.

This build is really dominating in TA and RA at the moment.
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 03:37 AM // 03:37   #2
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*Sigh* I smell a closed thread.
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 03:38 AM // 03:38   #3
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and why is that
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 03:38 AM // 03:38   #4
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People are probably catching on late from the preview weekend with hypochondria.
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 03:40 AM // 03:40   #5
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TA and RA
That might be why.
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 03:42 AM // 03:42   #6
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Yes I had missed seeing Hypochondria.

Having just looked it up theres not much to say. Virulence spiking is already exceptionally powerfull, add in Hypochondria and youve got an I WIN build from the get go.

No chance that will make it to release without a heavy nerf.
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 03:44 AM // 03:44   #7
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People are probably catching on late from the preview weekend with hypochondria.
Hence RA only... I love how people say "TA and RA" or "RA and TA" when they're really only talking about Random Arenas...


@The OP, I'm going to guess it'll be closed because it's not really a good topic for discussion, only really pretains to Random Arenas(for which there is no subfourm for a reason), and because anyone running this after the Nightfall preview event is a fool. Oh, and Touch Rangers suck.
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 03:47 AM // 03:47   #8
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Having just looked it up theres not much to say. Virulence spiking is already exceptionally powerfull, add in Hypochondria and youve got an I WIN build from the get go.

No chance that will make it to release without a heavy nerf.
What you said in this post could go in the Nightfall and PvP evolution thread, because it's there to talk about anything related the PvP and Nightfall, at least skill wise.

Oh, and I wouldn't call Frag spike as-is very strong at all...
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 04:41 AM // 04:41   #9
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Frag spike pretty much sucks as-is. The only way to really get a kill with it is in the monkless arena of randoms. Unfortunately, it lacks the utility to make a decent solo gank character, especially when forced into an 8v8 fight. A lot of crappy builds dominate RA, solely because they're fairly easy to run and can score kills on mending W/Mos.

Hypochondria made it obviously too strong though.
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 09:00 AM // 09:00   #10
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Plague touch > Frag Mesmers, it's how my Warrior deals with the annoying little buggers, or any Monk, but it's more fun my way.
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 10:20 AM // 10:20   #11
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I bumped into someone using a Virulence/Frag Mesmer the yesterday, claiming his build was "the new big thing". It seems a lot of people caught on late,and didn't hear about the skill that actually made Fragspike good again; Hypo.
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 01:25 PM // 13:25   #12
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anyone running this after the Nightfall preview event is a fool. Oh, and Touch Rangers suck.
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Frag spike pretty much sucks as-is. The only way to really get a kill with it is in the monkless arena of randoms. Unfortunately, it lacks the utility to make a decent solo gank character, especially when forced into an 8v8 fight. A lot of crappy builds dominate RA, solely because they're fairly easy to run and can score kills on mending W/Mos.

Hypochondria made it obviously too strong though.
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It seems a lot of people caught on late,and didn't hear about the skill that actually made Fragspike good again; Hypo.
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 03:43 PM // 15:43   #13
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fragility spikes is laughable with a monk and even when im just fooling around in ra with a warrior i can easily heal sig through it
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Old Sep 29, 2006, 04:14 PM // 16:14   #14
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The horse is officially dead. Resume beating.
Beating dead horses is fun. ...Mend Ailment anyone?
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