Norn Tournament Builds, Tips, Questions [Merged]

Ive been running this W build for awhile and it seems to work out just fine. Mesmers are the only ones that you have to be somewhat careful with. Since Gwen blinds, you just keep hacking away until you get your Brawling Headbutt charged and time it for Signet of Midnight. Same with Argo but time it to Stoneflesh Aura.

Attributes are flexible: roughly 10 sword, 11 Str, 12 Tac

Dragon Slash {E}
Brawling Headbutt
Reposte
Deadly Reposte
For Great Justice
Doylak Signet
Heal Signet
Flail or Drunken Master

To add some humour you can take out one resposte and replace with one of the Asura summons.

I currently use only ursan blessing and shatter enchantment for mehnlo. I am a monk/mes.

[skill]Faintheartedness[/skill][skill]Enfeeble[/skill][skill]Distracting Shot[/skill][skill]Savage Shot[/skill][skill]Grenth's Balance[/skill][skill]Feral Aggression[/skill][skill]Comfort Animal[/skill][skill]Charm Animal[/skill]
Feral Aggression should be able to take out most of the challengers. Shoot one arrow and immediately follow with Distracting shot to interrupt his bear form. Cast Faintheartedness. Wait for him to remove it before using enffeble. Sit there and absorb a few hits. Wait until you get within one hit of death, and cast Grenth's Balance. Now, run around and kite him while GB recharges. When it does, keep absorbing damage until you almost die. It should take 4 or 5 GB's to take him down.

OMG, I finally won with my Ele
This worked really well, even killed Alesia.

Necrosis
Parasitic Bond
Grenth's Balance
"You Move Like A Dwarf!"
Ebon Vanguard Assassin Support
Shock
Gale
Aura of Restoration

Use the dwarf shout to knock them down and interrupt, use shock and gale also as needed if they have lots of annoying skills you want to interrupt; use parasitic bond at the start of each battle and spam necrosis until they either die or your health gets low enough to justify using grenth's balance, and then a couple more hits of necrosis should finish the job. Summon the vanguard asssassin anytime you want to get a nice little burst of damage and have your opponent stop damaging you for a few seconds while it focuses on the assassin.

Ursan Blessing rips through every opponent with ease, I'm still working on magni but I assume that if bear form is inturupted then he'll go down fast.

any1 have a good dervish build?
ive experimented with a 130 dervish build but i keep running into problems. Im sure i can take out magni but getting there is hard, i usually get mesmer spawns or something that ends up killing me.

This build works for any primary: OwgiAyi8UNj2fzzZ58xd2CnA

[skill]Painful Bond[/skill][skill]Anguish[/skill][skill]Pain[/skill][skill]Wanderlust[/skill][skill]Bloodsong[/skill][skill]Union[/skill][skill]Shadowsong[/skill][skill]Displacement[/skill]

Cast Union and Displacement in the waiting area, step up to the line but don't cross it or your enemy comes running. Cast Pain, Wanderlust, Bloodsong, Anguish, Shadowsong (notice those that live longer get cast first), then cross the line, have your enemy come running, cast Painful Bond ... and on to the next level.

I usually placed my entire bunch in the right corner of the doorway, basically right on the front line of the entrance door, it seems to avoid a blind spot. One exception is Razah, if you get him, sprint out, cast Anguish within his range, hex him with Painful Bond and move out of his range.

If you get the heavy ele hitters, step away from your spirits or they get AoEed. I just hexed and kept moving from the left to the right wall and back.

Shadowsong is reasonably important for Bison Man, and in his case, I kept recasting spirits, just in case, plus obviously rehexing.

Last but not least, it's 12/12 Channeling/Communing, so any /Ri will do. Weapon sets are your friend, being able to switch to +15/-1 and back helps.

[skill]Mist Form[/skill][skill]Glyph of Sacrifice[/skill][skill]Meteor Shower[/skill][skill]Bed of Coals[/skill][skill]Frozen Burst[/skill][skill]Flame Djinn's Haste[/skill][skill]Flame Burst[/skill][skill]Fire Attunement[/skill]


E/X
Fire Magic 16 Water 9 or above and the rest in Energy Storage.

Recommended gear is:
1. Caster Weapon (Sword/Axe) w/ 20% longer enchants, +5e
Flame Artifact offhand w/ whatever you want. (I use Korr's Flame)
2. 20/20 Wand and the same offhand

And if you want to get really fancy bring a 2x 15/-1 Set to make sure you finish off Magni.

Does the Entire tourny including Magni in ~5 min. Everyone except for Magni should drop within 10 seconds of the gates opening.

Usage: Put up Fire Attune and Flame Djinn's before the gate opens.

For Melee opponents, throw up Mist Form as soon as they start running at you, followed by glyph and meteor shower. Make sure meteor shower drops when they are ontop of you, or youll screw up the entire chain. Follow up with bed of coals, frozen burst, flame djinns and finally flame burst as quickly as the prior skill is done casting. Be careful with the aftercast delay for PBAoEs cause you dont want to mess up the cast order.

For Casters, you dont really need to throw up Mist Form, but it doesnt hurt and you will probably just do it on as a habit anyways. Run straight up to them (recommend using a sword/axe with caster stats) with flame djinn's and unleash the chain in the exact same order. (2/3/4/5/6/7)

None of these enemies should really get you below 80% health. The only ones you might wanna watch out for are Zho and Old Mac. Make sure you put up your enchants before engaging, as well as putting up glyph before they are upon you. You can ussually finish them off without unleashing the entire chain but watch out for interrupts nonetheless.

For Magni you need to do this in 2 steps. Throw up fire attune and flame djinns out of the gate, run near him and 'aggro' him. While hes putting up bear form throw up Mist form. But make VERY SURE that you dont glyph or it will only take you longer. Start casting meteor shower on him and by the time hes on you it should be dropping. Again DONT USE GLYPH FOR THE FIRST CHAIN! Meteor shower all the way down untill Flame Burst. You will only take him down to about 50% health after the first chain so you need to kite him untill meteor shower recharges. (this is why you dont glyph, cause it will merely take you longer to bomb him again) While MS is recharging, you should be kiting him with Flame Djinns on. My technique involves me wanding him a couple of times, and before he gets near me I run off to the side a bit. He will break aggro because of your increased movement speed and run back to his gate. Rinse and repeat for the 45 remaining seconds it takes you to recharge MS (Recommend putting a 20% HSR Wand on before casting MS, you might get lucky) Be extra careful not to let him get to close, as he can probably kill you in his 2 hit combo before you have a chance to stand up and run away. Once you have MS recharged, put Mist Form back up, glyph then continue down the chain again. He will most likely be defeated after the second chain if you do it all properly.

I have never lost using this build unless I get antsy and let Magni get too close while im wanding/kiting him.

Oh and if you recognize the build.. its an old Mist Form troll bombing build

I've got nothing for Bison, but since I didn't see an Assassin Build, this one beats everyone else.

1. Siphon Speed
2. Iron Palm
3. Black Spider Strike
4. Horns of the Ox
5. Impale
6. Signet of Toxic Shock
7. Open
8. Open

If someone has an assassin build for beating Bison, I'd appreciate it. This one is my AB build, thus the holes in it. Easy to run though. Siphon Speed slows them down with a hex. Iron Palm does great damage and knocks them down. Black Spider Strike poisons and hurts them as they get up. Horns of the Ox knocks them down and hurts them. Impale does massive damage as they get up. Signet of Toxic Shock finishes them before they can cast. Basically kills everyone easy except Bison. Note: I have never faced Danika, but if she's like Old Mac, forget her pets and kill her and you'll win.

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[skill]Barbed Spear[/skill][skill]Maiming Spear[/skill][skill]Blazing Spear[/skill][skill]Go for the Eyes[/skill][skill]Awe[/skill][skill]Finale of Restoration[/skill][skill]Soldier's Fury[/skill][skill]You Move Like a Dwarf[/skill]
*What's up with GftE icon?*
Ok, I don't see anyone post the Paragon solo yet. I based this build from some of the solo builds from the Paragon section so I won't take any credit for it. I have taken out some skills here and there.

With this build you can go up against both caster and melee easily. Start the battle with Finale of Res then Soldier's fury. Depending on the enemy, if you're fighting a caster use "you move like a dwarf" follow by Awe for kd & daze, after that just let your spear do the talkin'. Keep spamming GotE for energy.

For melee, start of the same use dwarf shout to kd & cripple him/her, then barbed spear, blazing spear then maiming to cripple the enemy again. You can also use you move like a dwarf to interrupt their healing, healing sig or alike.

Pretty much the same with Bison, but remember to keep your distance and keep moving, moves like a butterfly sting like a bee. He'll be cripple all the time from dwarf shout & maiming spear and won't be able to hit you at all.

Take some getting use to but can easily be done.

Burning Arrow, Savage Shot, Disrupting Shot, Apply Poison, Mending Touch, Troll Unguent, Natural Stride, Pin Down.

Went in with a pretty standard Burning Arrow build. You'll wreck most opponents, the blindbot can be annoying though, and Lukas is if you don't d-shot his healing signet. Bison takes some a lot of kiting and frequent use of pin down and natural stride to escape his 300 damage bitchslaps, and you need to keep him poisoned so he degens to death. Not to hard, but a stupid move gets you killed.