Curse

HaloGrunt · Aug 12, 2006, 06:31 AM // 06:31

Hi. I was browsing through the skills and came across a skill called: "Virulence". it deals disease, poison, and weakness to a foe with a condition already. so i thought of a mesmer that could quickly spam those conditions along with fragility. and here's what i came up with:

Attributes

10 Fast Casting (base, add runes)
11 Illusion Magic (base again)
10 Domination Magic (must i explain?)

right now you're probably thinking, "WTF? where's the death magic?" well, that's where skill comes into play.

Skills

Fragility
Phantom Pain
Shatter Delusions
Arcane Echo
Virulence {E}
[Empty Space] (preferrably direct damage)
Ethreal burden(?)
Illusion of Weakness

The Scoop on this build...

Step one: Start off with Fragility on your unlucky target.

Step Two: Phantom Pain and Shatter for some damage and deep wound, your key to the big red button.

Step three: Arcane echo Virulence.

Step Four: since Virulence (your big red button) only lasts 3 seconds with 0 death magic, it causes 30 or so degen points and hits for 60 damage from Fragility.

Step five: if target foe isnt pushing up daisies, hit them with some direct damage.

Step Six: Presto! dead (insert class name here)!

please reply if you read. i want to know how i could improve this if possible, because energy is a problem, unless you put ethreal burden on first. also, it doesnt quite kill someone all the way without direct damage. any suggestions?

Kaguya · Aug 12, 2006, 06:39 AM // 06:39

Me/N Fragility Spiker

More or less the same build.

HaloGrunt · Aug 12, 2006, 06:52 AM // 06:52

That link freezes my comp up and i have to reboot.

Nikki Moonlight · Aug 13, 2006, 07:10 PM // 19:10

you've posted an old old old build..

HaloGrunt · Aug 14, 2006, 02:04 AM // 02:04

hmm looks like someone beat me to it

Gigashadow · Aug 15, 2006, 08:58 PM // 20:58

You don't need to use phantom pain/shatter delusions any more, as Accumulated Pain is better in that you don't need to spec any domination (although it does only 37 damage), and it's one skill instead of two. Nor do you need to use Conjure Phantasm; Images of Remorse is cheaper, although I usually have both on my bar when going illusion.

Cast order is:

Images of Remorse
Fragility
Accumulated Pain
Virulence

You can swap IoR and Fragility cast order if you want. In the above order, they get less notice that the fragility virulence combo is coming, but fragility is on the top of the stack and is more easily removed. Either way works.

The main downsides to this sort of build is the reset time of the skills. Also, it's good for spiking out one person, which isn't always a big priority in AB.

HaloGrunt · Aug 16, 2006, 04:21 AM // 04:21

thanks for the tips

Shuuda · Aug 16, 2006, 05:50 PM // 17:50

How about a duel team build,

a mesmer with fevered dreams
a necro with Virulence

Spead the conditions like mad.

Gigashadow · Aug 16, 2006, 06:41 PM // 18:41

Fevered Dreams is terrible IMO.

It only works on *new* conditions (as it says, and tested on test isle). That is, if someone was already poisoned (for example), and you poison them again, Fevered Dreams will *not* spread it. So although you can still get one virulence combo off with it, it's still not an especially effective elite, and doesn't play as well with condition spreading teams as you might expect.