P/Rt GftE-less spearchucking

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

25 Jun 2007 at 01:27 - 1
Paragon/Ritualist
Level: 20

Leadership: 12 (10+2)
Spear Mastery: 13 (12+1)
Channeling Magic: 8

- "There's Nothing to Fear!" (Sunspear skill)
- Aggressive Refrain (Leadership) <-- IAS
- Wild Throw (Spear Mastery) <-- stance breaker
- Spear of Lightning (Spear Mastery)
- Vicious Attack (Spear Mastery) <-- deep wound
- Weapon of Fury [Elite] (Channeling Magic) <-- under aggressive refrain, massive energy gains to fuel TNtF
- Leader's Comfort (Leadership) <-- heal
- Signet of Return (Leadership) <-- res

Sideboard:
-Merciless Spear (Spear Mastery) instead of Vicious Attack, for a more reliable deep wound

Quite odd, if I do say so myself.

Racthoh

Racthoh

Did I hear 7 heroes?

Join Date: May 2005

Scars Meadows [SMS], Guild Leader (Not Recruiting)

25 Jun 2007 at 07:23 - 2
I'm all for creative builds but why use your elite slot for something that GftE would do anyway with an additional % critical for all of your attackers? Not to mention you're sacrificing 8 armour from not meeting any shield requirements. On top of that, Vicious Attack becomes less effective without a GftE to greatly increase the chance of deep wound.

If you're trying to break the GftE norm, going to need a pretty solid reason to do so.

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

25 Jun 2007 at 16:09 - 3
I was trying hard to drop GfTE because it is so common, and having no other physicals makes it pretty dull.
Soldier's Fury is probably better than Weapon of Fury except energy wise.

Electric Friend

Electric Friend

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2007

Noitacol

Just Confuxed

Me/

01 Jul 2007 at 03:29 - 4
"There's Nothing to Fear" and Aggressive Refrain are both costly energy skills. How do you suppose someone will use those in correlation without some sort of radiant insignia on a major piece of armor? (legs or chest) BTW, what [I]are[I] you recommending for insignias to use with this build?

Turbobusa

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

By the Luxon Scavenger

The Mentalists [THPK]

N/

01 Jul 2007 at 07:18 - 5
you need a chant to keep up aggressive refrain, like anthem of flame.

Racthoh

Racthoh

Did I hear 7 heroes?

Join Date: May 2005

Scars Meadows [SMS], Guild Leader (Not Recruiting)

01 Jul 2007 at 08:24 - 6
Quote:
Originally Posted by Electric Friend
"There's Nothing to Fear" and Aggressive Refrain are both costly energy skills. How do you suppose someone will use those in correlation without some sort of radiant insignia on a major piece of armor? (legs or chest) BTW, what [i]are[i] you recommending for insignias to use with this build?
Aggressive Refrain only becomes a costly energy skill if you don't know how to maintain it until the zone is clear/mission over/you die. Only in the if you die instance does the energy every become an issue, and even then all it requires you to do is swap to a high energy set to re-cast. Given that paragons only have a base of 30 energy, and Aggressive Refrain is 25, my assumption would be that every paragon worth taking into a group is going to bring something to raise their energy in case they die a few times.

There is no reason to use radiant insignias, when it is much easier to just weapon swap for a lot more energy than the radiants could provide.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Turbobusa
you need a chant to keep up aggressive refrain, like anthem of flame. 12 leadership is enough to maintain TNTF constantly, even between fights as your only chant/shout provided the group is balled up enough.

Gaidax

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2007

01 Jul 2007 at 14:03 - 7
All you need to maintain AR and TNTF constantly before any fight is starting at 34 Energy (energy runes and insignias good enough here) and having 12 leadership with 6 party memebers around - this way you can fire up AR and keep it up with TNtF used each 15 seconds... This way you will actually even slowly gain energy over time. That's all you need to start it all, no need for AoF at all...

Once you get in a fight, your energy problems will be instantly over...

Electric Friend

Electric Friend

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2007

Noitacol

Just Confuxed

Me/

01 Jul 2007 at 16:36 - 8
I personally hate AoF. But I completely forgot about the fact that TNTF could be used to keep up AR. It seems like a good build now that I got that out of the way.