Curse

Wolvenbear · Sep 29, 2005, 11:59 AM // 11:59

I appologize in advance if this has been posted. I did a search and didn't find anything quite like it so here goes.

I was playing inside Sorrow's for a bit (with all henchies) with my monk. Normally I'd have all my attribute points in Healing and Divine for grouping, extra points in Protection to reduce Rebirth downtime a bit. I thought for fun I'd level my bear pet a bit so I distributed points like so:
Healing -- 11+2
Divine -- 11+2
Beast Mastery -- 8
Protection -- 3+1 (leftover points)
And I used the following skills:
Healing Breeze
Healing Touch
Word of Healing
Mend Ailment
Edge of Extinction
Charm Animal
Rebirth
Vengeance

(Now before you flame the skills choice I was testing Edge of Extinction hence the two rezzes; I figured I'd be bringing back henchies a lot.) Here's the fun part: when any creature dies EoE deals damage to all other creatures in range. I found that in SF it ends up being very powerful. With Beast Mastery of 8, EoE deals 33 damage. Sounds like very little but lets add up the damage.
8 dwarves on screen, one dies. 33 damage to 7 dwarves = 231 damage.
7 dwarves left, one dies. 33 x 6 = 198 damage. 198+231=429
That's a total of 429 damage in about 5 seconds reguardless of armor! EoE lasts for 94 seconds at that level which is more than enough for the entire battle.

So next time you have a ranger with you who has a few points to spare, or that W/R using Tiger's Fury, have 'em bring along an EoE as well. You might like it!

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Any constructive comments are welcome and encouraged. Again, don't leave flames about the bad skill choices. Like I said, I just wanted to level my pet.