Savannah Heat's PvE applications?

I know SH is pretty popular in PvP but are there any PvE builds built around it?
If so, please list them.

its good in PvE to, but its from the same chapter as SF. its just not worthing using if you could be using SF

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It's used along with meteor shower in solo farming builds to kill mobs before they can flee, I've seen variants for pongmei valley and UW with it. Typically along the lines of meteor shower->savannah->bed of coals->PBAoE. Also run one in FoW 3 man successfully, though the third player is barely needed anyway. SF is pretty weak in many situations where Savannah heat can be strong - with only 1 ele in the party and against enemies with reduced condition duration (Prophecies+shing jea bosses, wurms, etc).

I use something like this:

[wiki]Fireball[/wiki]
[wiki]Breath of Fire[/wiki]
[wiki]Savannah Heat[/wiki]
[wiki]Meteor[/wiki]
[wiki]liquid flame[/wiki]
[wiki]Glyph of elemental power[/wiki]
[wiki]Fire Attunement[/wiki]
[wiki]Resurrection Signet[/wiki]

Works wonders, for me anyway.

I've tried using Savannah Heat for nuking in FoW but the damage is just terrible. Even one ele with SF will outdamage it anyday.
Mobs with condition resistance are probably the only thing, though. Them blasted Infernal Wurms :P

savannah heat is good when ur the only ele or 1 of 2 eles.

[skill]Fire Attunement[/skill][skill]Glyph of Lesser Energy[/skill][skill]Rodgort's Invocation[/skill][skill]Deep Freeze[/skill][skill]Savannah Heat[/skill][skill]Searing Heat[/skill][skill]Fireball[/skill][skill]Resurrection Chant[/skill]

attributes-
fire magic-12,3,1
energy storage-12,1
healing prayers-3

usage-
put up attunement. use GoLE followed by invocation and deep freeze. IMMEDIATELY use savannah heat and searing heat. use fireball to finish off targets.

damage output-
rodgorts-169 (nearby, includes burning)
savannah heat-315(nearby)
searing heat-210(nearby)

frozen burst will keep them in for both savannah heat and searing heat to finish. in total, it is 694 to all nearby foes. PWNAGE.

~Polynikes

People bashing PvE use for Savannah?

Alright, they may think what they will, I however firmly believe Savannah is superior to SF in PvE.

My GF and I ran 6 SF eles and 2 monks (all heroes except us two) through the NF campaign after we capped SF. It was superior to most pug teams and rolled through the game with ease. It was raw, it was basic, the bars were all the same, it worked.
Ease-Wise: 9/10

Recently however I changed the build up to... 5 Savannah Heat Eles and 1 Water Ele w/ Snares... Performs absolutely remarkably and is by far superior to 6 SF eles.
Ease-Wise: 10/10

Basically I did random torment quests with the 5 SH eles and 1 Snarer (snarer made no difference what-so-ever, the build would have been more effective with 6 SH eles TBH), and it worked really well. So I was like "Heck I'm going to try this in FoW"

So we took our 6 heroes to FoW and moved much faster than any other group I've been in -and- without encountering a single death while procceeding to do all the missions in the order they appear...

A guildie on vent was like "meh, FoW is child's play compared to UW"
I didn't argue with him on that point so once we were done with FoW we decided to try UW without changing anything just to randomly see how we could do...

So we went into the Underworld and again the team rolled right through without incurring a death... I've never been in a 'real' group for the Underworld so I wouldn't know how difficult it would be with a real group, but not even the aatxe's (sp?) proved to be a problem because in this rare instance the water ele proved valuable in that he snared and blurred the aatxe's and within seconds they would roll over and die, most of the time never even getting a chance to attempt to attack someone, and when they 'did' successfully hit they did between 40-60% daamge to a target which was easily "heal-able"

We only did about 4 quests in the UW before I had to go to sleep... by that time it was about 4AM... So I don't know if it gets extremely more difficult later on... but up to that point nothing presented any problems.

I do not know how FoW and UW compare to other areas, but I know I flawlessed all that I explored with 6 heroes... I never tried it with SF, but from my experience SH is superior.... when you have 5 SH's appearing out the wazoo accompanied by more aoe then it's impossible to avoid it....

Basic Bar for SH eles was: F-Attune, SH, F-Storm, T-Heat, Searing Heat, B-O-Fire, Meteor Shower, Res sig.

Standard PvP monk builds: LoD Infuse and ZB prot.

nice angel, i must try it sometime

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After re-reading my last post I would like to clarify a couple things to stay more on topic...

-I did not mean to 'compare' SF and SH (got on a large tangent)

-I -do- like Searing Flames seeing as how it's what I used to go through NightFall

-To get straight to the point: Yes, Savannah Heat is a viable option for a Fire Elementalist. Even with a basic "nuking" Build, a Fire Elementalist with Savannah Heat is a strong option for PvE-Play.

Hope this new post is more to the point a less bias ^_^

maybe u could use a snare for maximum damage???

~Polynikes

Savannah's Heat causes too much AoE scatter unless you use Meteor Shower, but then you can only use it every 60 seconds. Even if you snare them in Deep Freeze the mobs will most likely run out by the time the last and most damaging wave hits.

I've tried both in FoW as the single nuker in a 4-man group and Searing Flames is by far superior.

they only scatter at 3 seconds, all u need to do is keep them in nearby range for 2 seconds. deep freeze does that. will try to get a video in later.

~Polynikes

Just got out of a FoW group using Deep Freeze, GoLE, Savannah Heat, Fireball, Immolation, Fire Attunement (didn't need it actually so long as I remembered to use Glyph), Searing Heat and Res. Anything that wasn't dead was picked off by the spiking ele, SS necro or the ranger.

The sad MS echo ele kept throwing rocks at dead things though and eventually ragequit, it was funny.

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I find the only real use SH has is farming LB in D.o. Secrets, since it's so cheap.
Everywhere else SF is just better.
5 man SH team? Try a 5 man SF team and watch the world burn down. Oh, and things cant "just sidestep" SF.
Sorry guys, one's ten times more popular then the other for a reason.

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man this really sucks, Anet RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing ruined the game by AoE scatter and it pisses me waaaay off. FFS, no1 plays anything but that shitty SF build in PvE, and to be honest, nothing else works, dam u Anet!!!!

~Polynikes

Actually found one other good use for Savannah Heat: Shiro. I helped an alliance group with Shiro at Imperial Sanctum. With the warriors pinning him. With Savannah Heat and Celestial storm, bang! 1:34.

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such as this?

[skill]Fire Attunement[/skill][skill]Glyph of Lesser Energy[/skill][skill]Mark of Rodgort[/skill][skill]Deep Freeze[/skill][skill]Savannah Heat[/skill][skill]Searing Heat[/skill][skill]Glowing Gaze[/skill][skill]Resurrection Chant[/skill]

u think thats good? well i thought so also, but SH aint getting any love from wiki:

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Build:E...l_Freezes_Over

>_<

~Polynikes

Polynikes,

I've tried the SH build you suggested and I have to agree with Wiki on their judgement. This build does a good deal of damage (maybe even more so then SF) but the amount of scatter is causes makes it a poorer choice then SF.

However, I still enjoy using it as a break FROM SF.

Ensign posted something he was having fun with a while ago. If I remember right, it was something like this.

Savannah Heat {E}
Deep Freeze
Searing Heat
Tenai's Heat
Fire Attunement
can't remember
Glyph of Sacrifice
Res Chant

Yeah, I was running something like that, with GLE in the last slot. With matching heroes (sans Deep Freeze) of course.

Mobs don't scatter, they *die*. Holding aggro is really important in DoA, everywhere else, things melt.

Peace,
-CxE

So, Ensign, like MY build? I was just wondering if someone as good as you would approve of my build, while the entire heads-in-their-asses GuildWiki community didn't...

About my build: Many people think that once enemies get hit by SH, they scatter immediately. This is absolutely false. They take about three seconds of damage, then strt to scatter. With Deep Freeze at 66% slower, it CAN keep enemies in nearby range for at least 2 more seconds. I also have Teinai's Heat in Variants, if you want that instead of Glowing Gaze. Mark of Rodgort + Glowing Gaze is fun to play in PvE.

I will and am determined to get in a video of me, a tank, and a monk fighting a group of some kind of monsters. I'll show you the devastation of one and only one SH ele.

~Polynikes

Yeah that looks like a fun build.

Peace,
-CxE

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