Duelist Skull Cracker [omg]

Yeah, this one I've read about and must cap the elite to see how devastating he'd be... Let's look...

12+1+3 Swordsmanship
8+1 Strength
10 Inspiration

Sever Artery
Gash
Galrath Slash
Skull Crack {E}
Frenzy
Sprint
For Great Justice!
Drain Enchantment

Definitely a team oriented build that probably won't get much done if in CA randomness...

Trying to find a way to make Skull Crack not take so long to charge is a tough trick to try, but if done right, at least for the duration of FGJ, you can daze 3 people if frenzied hits land cleanly.

Obviously, condition removal and hex/conditions on myself is probably going to stop the build utterly but the mesmer half will allow you to cut through things like Armor of Earth and the like...

Not meant to do too much damage, the Sever,Gash,Galrath is still feasible under the right conditions. SkullCrack was really meant for those very pesky skills like hard res [yeah, who brings that] and ele or mes spells that strike AOE causing massive pain...

Why don't you use Savage Slash and Distracting Blow in conjunction with Skull Crack?

2 interrupts that can easily throw a caster out of his rhythm while dazed and stop some critical heals/spells from getting off.

Skull Crack makes baby jesus cry, a lot (as in it's terrrrrrible).

It does sound great in theory but Skull Crack is indeed utter pants


They need to add a non-removable daze AND lower the adrenaline cost significantly -- at least sword's might bring it :S

As it stands you charge it up and then either miss the interupt -- wasting the skill or more likely the daze gets removed by another foe.


Just another broken Warrior skill, along with Warrior's Cunning and DBS along with all the shouts and stances with their stupidly high charge times.


Quote: Originally Posted by Yukito Kunisaki

Arcane Conundrum would help a lot. Build the adrenaline first then drop it on them, they try to remove it and you slap them with daze.

9 adrenaline elite attack that will get patched up in seconds...

Two thumbs down, mate. Maybe it'll work in arena, although <1s monk spells are atrociously difficult to catch with melee attacks.

Why not use B.S. instead of frenzy? too...

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Crack is good in the arena, since often the monk is on his own, and has absolutley no chance if your smacking him with ias on. I usually use concussion shot instead, but the second i hit it i spam ctrl+click and scream dazed in teamchat... people usually react accordingly.

FGJ!, doesnt do it for me at the moment... savage slash would be nice whilst your waiting for crack to charge, but obviously its usless past the dazed stage.

With a zealous weapon, you dont need the energy management from drain, so i would say w/n with rend would be the better choice, in case e.g. aotl necro comes up against you.

Final Thrust maybe in there somewhere as well...?

if you really love the dazed condition its far easier for a ranger to use concussion shot than it is for a warrior to pull off skull crack. so... im not sure i see this build doing much.

and actually this might do alot better IN ca where alot of teams simply dont have condition removal, making the dazed condition actually last more than about 3 seconds.

Quote: Originally Posted by Yukito Kunisaki

Yukito if you want me to share with you an axe war version of this type of build.. just give me a pm letting me know.. it uses axe/domination and has been very very effective.... using swords just gets annoying... for this build it can be very difficult to pull off sometimes!

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Quote: Originally Posted by Oryaka Drake

obviously you can only do cookie cutter stuff man.. because if you are using skull crack you are no longer a damage dealer but an interrupter/dazer. Using skills like disrupting chop... with this are very effective. Try to use domination in conjunction with both of these and you have a power house combo(that works)

If you daze a called target, using disrupting chop is a waste of 6adrenaline. They are interrupted whenever hit, so the chance of you hitting the skill before anyone else is small. Swords are good because they have a solid interrupt which can be mixed with distracting blow to give consistent interrupt before you hit the daze.
If i wanted to use anything with daze, it would be conundrum. The increased casting time from daze plus this plus rampant saturation of the target with wands and weapons alike enough to stop anything getting through, even rofs. Of course thats a bit overkill i suppose.

the whole idea is that if you are using daze you are going after the protection monk... or the secondary monk. Then in this instance you are by yourself... and using disrupting chop on one of their skills disables it for 20 seconds...(which is longer than 15 seconds...blah blah blah...). Before you type out instanced situations ^ think about it for a second and why someone would want to use disrupting chop in pvp... if it lands it devastates! Plus in a build using domination as a secondary... skills such as power leak and shame(or guilt if you aiming for mesmers and ele, or the ocasional smiter) will make any skill they use while dazed cost them either 20 energy(at 10 in dom) or take 11 energy from them with shame.

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