Searing Heros

Everyone knows by now that Searing Flames is a dominate skill to use in PvE, but sometimes Heroes have energy problems with the basic build right? I think I found a perfect build for them to use, while keeping all the damage from the base SF build, and also huge amounts of energy management.

This build works great on either Souske or Zhed.

[skill]Fire Attunement[/skill][skill]Aura of Restoration[/skill][skill]Searing Flames[/skill][skill]Glowing Gaze[/skill][skill]Glyph of Lesser Energy[/skill][skill]Meteor Shower[/skill][skill]Power Drain[/skill][skill]Leech Signet[/skill]
And if your one of those people who refuse to go anywhere without 6 resurrects on a team, just swap one of the interrupts for a Rez signet.

I go everywhere with at least one of these heros, and they do great with it. I have rarely seen them below 60 energy(only in very long battles) and NEVER below 40 energy. With 5 energy management skills, as well as perfectly interrupting skills whenever they feel like it. With two of these heros, as well as at least one interrupt on another hero, and sometimes even an interupt henchman, I don't see too many spells hitting me. Another bonus here is that it keeps all the killing power of normal SF builds, they can easily wipe mobs with mass amounts of burning and fire damage.

Any thoughts/ideas for this kind of build?

BTW: With my current hero team build(two of this build and a minion master for body blocking) it's very common to see high level mobs die before I can even target two or three enemies with my assassin!(who also kills enemies very fast)

Pretty similar to mine - I use Res Siggie and Mark of Rodgort in place of MS and Aura. In my experience, MS is often horribly misused by heroes.

sometimes, but it still works great when used... on any enemy :P sometimes i just disable it until its really needed

I like your avatar.

I'd take out Ms for a res. But yeah its fine.

I still prefer massive AoE.

I agree in that MS is used improperly by Heroes. Not improperly by definition...but with Hero groups there's very much less focus on tanking as much as it is all-out damage. Similarly, it'll cause aggro to scatter, creating more chaos without Deep Freeze or a similar hex.

I'm in the firm belief that Inspiration inturruption spells are the way to go for both that MS slot and the Aura slot (I'm in that camp that thinks that specialized healing is better than Aura and that there are better things to do with 10e and a second's time). Heroes are nasty with Inturrupts; why not give them more? Let the henchie healers keep everyone standing (they're more than up to it), I'd rather bring Sousuke and Zhed with 8 inturrupts between them (and another couple on Olias).

Yes, they shine with interrupts. But, unless you point them at individual targets manually, they'll also focus their attention on one foe, which would make it less useful to bring many of the same interrupts in similar hero builds.

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Kewl, better AI then I assumed, need to try some more of those then.

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Instead of those interrupts and Meteor Shower, I use Mark of Rodgort and Resurrect. Meteor Shower is replaced with...

[skill]Flare[/skill]

It's like having 68+ DPS!!! (-armor)

It does considerable damage now! It's incredible! Even [wiki]Ice Spear[/wiki] is a lethal weapon! 74 DPS!!! (-armor)

In the time it takes to cast for example [wiki]Fireball[/wiki], you have already casted two Flares and done potentially 136 Fire damage. And while Fireball is recharging, you can continue casting Flares. Same with Ice Spear, except half range.

(But Flare doesn't strike adjacent foes. But still!)

Corinthan... you are joking... Right?

im using necromancers as searing eles. SF,attunement,glyph,glowing gaze,br,signet of lost souls,res sig. 12 fire and 12 sould reaping and they dont run out of energy.

Mr. Stormlord, your avatar says it all.

All this time we have received minor damage buffs to both Ice Spear and Flare, and they have accumulated into massive amounts without anyone paying attention to them.

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