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Originally Posted by audioaxes
may work in trying to use this in random but any good monk in organized pvp is going to remove the blindness
You're the mesmer... so why isn't the monk shut down? A diversion thrown the monks way after you've thrown on the blind can work wonders.
Quote: Blind for 15 seconds and recharge of 15 seconds sounds good to me -- slap on Empathy for ~30 dmg per swing and those stupid Warriors will simply kill themselves -- whilst the 90% miss chance from Blind ensures you won't get hit =) It's redundant. Shut the warriors offense down then just leave them alone and save them till last.
Quote: Blind for 15 seconds and recharge of 15 seconds sounds good to me -- slap on Empathy for ~30 dmg per swing and those stupid Warriors will simply kill themselves -- whilst the 90% miss chance from Blind ensures you won't get hit =) It's redundant. Shut the warriors offense down then just leave them alone and save them till last.
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| Signet of Midnight {E} + Plague Sending/Epidemic, is blind really worth an elite slot? It is if you can take care of condition removal. You can pretty much shut down two guys for free, minimal time and energy involved. Then you can spend the rest of the time shutting the rest of the team down. There've been times where I've had blind on two guys, backfire + diversion on the monk, whilst guilting and powerleaking an offensive caster all at the same time. |
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You're the mesmer... so why isn't the monk shut down? A diversion thrown the monks way after you've thrown on the blind can work wonders.
Umm..mend ailment still removes the blindess, even if you do divert it, the warrior will be free to attack you unless you run distortion. W/Mo's with purge conditions also do so.
Also the popular W/N combo with plague touch (a non elite) makes yours worthless. There are better elites out there.
Also the popular W/N combo with plague touch (a non elite) makes yours worthless. There are better elites out there.
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ya id like to see a mesmer have all that ready. A warrior can destroy a mesmer in seconds if it isnt ready to devote stopping it. And if it does that you cant effectively shut down a good monk that can still find room to operate under backfire/diversion spamming. A mesmer's only saving grace is having its own monk to protect him.
Signet of midnight is still a trash elite, your friend challenged him to a scrimmage knowing he had several ways to win. If the warrior brought an interupt or condition removal as he should've, your friend would be eating dust. This skill reminds me of Broad Head Arrow, would be good if it wasn't for the fact that conditions are so easily removed.
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Most monks aren't going to care if you put diversions on them >_> They inspired hex some teammates hex, boom...diversion has nothing to divert because inspired replaces itself. you diversion them again? they just cast the hex they inspired earlier. By the time you are rdy to divert them again with normal recharges, inspired hex is probably back and the process repeats.
So saying divertioning the monks will make this elite a good one...is "meh" at best.
Where this has seen play is in the Alliance battles, because of the randomness of it all, and in RA where no monk is there most of the time to remove blind.
So saying divertioning the monks will make this elite a good one...is "meh" at best.
Where this has seen play is in the Alliance battles, because of the randomness of it all, and in RA where no monk is there most of the time to remove blind.
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Originally Posted by Former Ruling
Most monks aren't going to care if you put diversions on them >_> They inspired hex some teammates hex, boom...diversion has nothing to divert because inspired replaces itself. you diversion them again? they just cast the hex they inspired earlier. By the time you are rdy to divert them again with normal recharges, inspired hex is probably back and the process repeats.
So saying divertioning the monks will make this elite a good one...is "meh" at best.
Where this has seen play is in the Alliance battles, because of the randomness of it all, and in RA where no monk is there most of the time to remove blind. I agree with you former ruling.
The problem with this skill in more serious pvp is that most teams that focus on damage with physical attacks (warriors, ranger, assassins) will have external condition removal. Draw conditions is used alot on support charachters.
On the other hand.. signet of midnight + mantra of inscriptions can be used over and over every (5 seconds or so) without using any energy. If the monk is the only guy with condition removal (in team arenas this is sometimes the case) it's simply not going to be enough.
This skill is godly in random arenas or alliance battles.
Also quite useful in team arenas.
Not so useful in gvg or heroes ascent.
I actually like this skill alot. It combines well with many hexes like empathy, spiteful spirit, spirit of failure, price of failure, reckless haste to name a few
So saying divertioning the monks will make this elite a good one...is "meh" at best.
Where this has seen play is in the Alliance battles, because of the randomness of it all, and in RA where no monk is there most of the time to remove blind. I agree with you former ruling.
The problem with this skill in more serious pvp is that most teams that focus on damage with physical attacks (warriors, ranger, assassins) will have external condition removal. Draw conditions is used alot on support charachters.
On the other hand.. signet of midnight + mantra of inscriptions can be used over and over every (5 seconds or so) without using any energy. If the monk is the only guy with condition removal (in team arenas this is sometimes the case) it's simply not going to be enough.
This skill is godly in random arenas or alliance battles.
Also quite useful in team arenas.
Not so useful in gvg or heroes ascent.
I actually like this skill alot. It combines well with many hexes like empathy, spiteful spirit, spirit of failure, price of failure, reckless haste to name a few
Try SoM+Resilient Weapon+Resilient was Xiko... a permanaent +8 regen that can't be enchant stripped. Using that combo, here's an awesome and unique Signet of Midnight build I made. Enjoy.
By the way, any serious Diversion build will come with Mantra of Recovery. That's a Diversion cast every 6s which easily overpowers the once-every-20s IH cast (which can be interrupted once the Mesmer catches on BTW).
By the way, any serious Diversion build will come with Mantra of Recovery. That's a Diversion cast every 6s which easily overpowers the once-every-20s IH cast (which can be interrupted once the Mesmer catches on BTW).
