Yet Another UW solo Build.......But For Ele/Monks!!!!!

Here's my E/Mo solo UW build:


Just need to be able to do more damage.
Those first 3 skills could easily be replaced with anything else. Something that does damage with a low casting time would be good.
I had Aftershock in there before and it seemed quite good, except that it takes ages to recharge. I have been thinking of a similar E/Mo build to solo UW as many of you guys, and especially like spirit's build. However
1. how are you down to only 55 hp (using 3 superior runes it seems)?
2. why don't you go for extra energy storage? (since you have points left over anyway)



EDIT: I will be testing my own variant of the E/Mo build since I do not have a pve monk either. Please post how well your build is doing and if your build is holding up vs aatax / smite / coldfire. I think the colds will be most problematic...

Looks pretty good, but you run the risk of running out of energy if you're facing a decent sized mob, especially during ether renewal's downtime. An alternative to the monk smiter, and one that I've found works pretty well, is an E/R with quickening zephyr and mist form.

With quickening zephyr active, you can keep mist form active indefinitely, and that's 100% protection vs. melee. Now that you've got that out of the way, you can get down and dirty with some fire AoEs and clean up the aatxes/smites/whatever. Take an attunement to offset the increased energy costs of zephyr.
Glyph of concentration would be a good idea again, since you really don't want to be interrupted in the middle of mist form. I don't really understand how you are doing decent fire AoE damage if you're relying on a long lasting mist form for survival. Since lvl 12 water makes mist form last 18 seconds, you need at least a 15 second mist form. (since recharge time is 30 seconds and zephyr will cut it down to 15) So assuming you have maybe 11 in water, you will still need a lot of points left over for fire and energy storage. Probably you have a few leftover points in wilderness survival ?

I don't really understand how you are doing decent fire AoE damage if you're relying on a long lasting mist form for survival. Since lvl 12 water makes mist form last 18 seconds, you need at least a 15 second mist form. (since recharge time is 30 seconds and zephyr will cut it down to 15) So assuming you have maybe 11 in water, you will still need a lot of points left over for fire and energy storage. Probably you have a few leftover points in wilderness survival ? 5 or 6 in wilderness survival is enough to get you a quickening zephyr that's 70s. in duration - should be enough for your purposes.

If you want to cut it short, or need all the points you can spare, you just need to get a 14s. duration on mist form. With a 20% enchants staff upgrade that bumps it up to 17s. duration, giving you just enough time to activate the next mist form. That's about 6+1 in water.

That leaves you with 158 attribute points to do what you want with. Granted, not as good as a monk smiter, but we're looking at alternatives, right? This setup lets you take 12 fire and 10 energy storage. Throw in runes, and you have 12+1+3 fire, 10+1 energy, 6+1 water, 6 wilderness.

I have been thinking of a similar E/Mo build to solo UW as many of you guys, and especially like spirit's build. However
1. how are you down to only 55 hp (using 3 superior runes it seems)?
2. why don't you go for extra energy storage? (since you have points left over anyway)



EDIT: I will be testing my own variant of the E/Mo build since I do not have a pve monk either. Please post how well your build is doing and if your build is holding up vs aatax / smite / coldfire. I think the colds will be most problematic... i can answer #1. he's using 5 superior runes and a -50hp offhand.

i can answer #1. he's using 5 superior runes and a -50hp offhand. But look closely at the picture... he only has 3 superior runes it seems, earth, water, storage. He does not have points into air or fire. It still makes no sense why he wouldn't opt to take the few extra energy storage he could get.

Edit: Also, I can't really think of a good strategy vs coldfires if you run the mist form build. If there are a group of 3 blocking your way to smites... most likely you'll be dead with the current anti phys build.

Here's my E/Mo solo UW build:


Just need to be able to do more damage.
Those first 3 skills could easily be replaced with anything else. Something that does damage with a low casting time would be good.
I had Aftershock in there before and it seemed quite good, except that it takes ages to recharge. I came up with a variation of this build on my own and was coming here seeking advice to improve it.

First some questions on your build:

1. Where did you get the -50hp item to get your hp down to 55?
2. How do you manage your energy? I find with Balthazars Spirit and Essence Bond, fighting only 1-2 enemies such as Aatxes at a time does not generate enough energy to keep me in action. And fighting more than 2 Aatxes increases the risk of them interrupting Prot. Spirit at an inopportune time.
3. Once you kill the Aatxes, how do you get past the squiddies that come out when you get the quest to open the doors? when I tried, they just interuppted all my casts and I was dead meat.



Here is my build:

Health: 105
Weapon: Staff of Enchanting +18%

Attributes:
Energy Storage: 13 (9, +1 eye, +3 superior rune)
Healing 8
Smiting 11
Protection 8

Skills
Divine Boon
Zealots Fire
Mending
Protective Spirit
Ether Renewal
Essence Bond
Balthazars Spirit
Balthazars Aura

Strategy,
At start, put on Mending, Essence Bond, Balt. Spirit.
Cast Ether Renewal
Spam Divine Boon to recharge energy
Wait for Ether Renewal to cooldown.
You now have 4 perm. enchantments on you and 0 energy regen.
Approach first pair of Aatxes.
Just outside aggro range, cast Zealots Fire
Attack with staff to attract them and lead them down the stairs a little bit
Before they reach you:
Cast Prot. Spirit
Cast Ether Renewal
Spam Divine Boon to take your E back to full.
Cast Balth. Aura
Spam Divine Boon some more
before Ether Renewal ends, recast Prot Spirit.

Now while Ether Renewal is off, you need to manage your E.
Basically cast Div. Boon as long as you have alot of E.
Recast Prot. Spirit whenever it cools down--do not wait until your prot spirit is ending b/c it might get interrupted and you wait til the last minute and you get interrupted you are dead. So just cast it early--that way if it gets interrupted, you have time to try again 2-3 times before you are in trouble.

As Ether Renewal is cooling down, target your E so you have about 20-25 left when it is done cooling.
Then cast 1 Divine Boon in case they are throwing an interrupt at you
Cast Ether Renewal
Spam Divine Boon to recharge
Cast Balth Aura.

Now just rinse and repeat until they are dead.
If they ever interrupt your Ether Renewal you may run into E problems and will not be able to heal as fast as they are dmging you. In that case, run back to where you started, the Aatxes will not follow for long and will return to their location and you can try again without dying.

Now, if someone can help me get past the squids I would be very greatful.

btw, this build works great against the sand giants. I can take on 8+ giants and a few rockshots at one time with this strategy.

It's not a good build for the griffon run though...I'd never live through the lure phase.

Oh, and to the OP: I don't see how your build would work in practice. It sounds nice in theory, but since you can only cast 1 Boon per second, and since there is now way you can kill the Aatxes before the 10s Ether Renewal ends, you will find that once it ends your E will drop to 0 REAL quick since you will lose 1 E per hit they make on you, plus you will have to keep spamming Boon to heal yourself at a cost of 7 E per cast. In roughly 5s-6s you will be out of E and will be dead in 3s-5s after that I am betting. But I must admit I have not tried it so who knows? Perhaps with a +1 prot. item you can cast Bond at a 13. If so, will that get it down to a cost of 2? Anyone know?