A/W Annoying as ----!

Decided to post it as it has been doing quite well for me in AB and RA. I've never seen it before, here or on pvxwiki. So I guess it’s mine to name.

Presenting:
A/W Distracting Moebius (real catchy I know )

CS: 12+1
DM: 12+1+1
DA: 3

- leaping mantis sting
- exhausting assault
- impale
- distracting blow
- moebius strike
- death blossom
- shadow walk
- dash

Zealous +30/+5e Daggers, Vampiric +30/+5e Daggers, Ebon +30/+5e Daggers, Nightstalker armor

This build, I created to react to the nerf of my beloved Horns of the Ox. KD spamming is now nowhere as attractive as it was before, depriving me of even more of the damage that could have just been Death Blossom. Still roughly based on the Moebius Breeze build, since it just works.

The real abuse (besides Moebius Blossom insanity itself) lies in Moebius-Distracting Blow. Once you get someone below that critical 50% you basically get a 3s recharge interrupt that has an occasional AoE effect as well (which proved to be particularly devastating in AB), that's also why I decided on Exhausting-Impale. Most important of all: using Distracting Blow inbetween attacks in no way breaks apart the combo chain you're building. So instead of wasting the dual attack link on the now-crappy Horns damage, you can just go Moebius-Distracting-Blossom if you need to and enjoy Blossoms damage while still having interrupted. Energy problems are nigh nonexistant using Zealous Daggers, no Warrior will ever be able to use Distracting Blow as freely as we can. All resulting in a high-pressure build that plays the shutdown game as well as the Moebius-HotO Sin I used to like so much.

Nope, no self-heal. Just didn't happen to be in the attributes I wanted to use, I guess. Fragile? Yes. Deadly? Hell yeah!

Thanks for reading. ‘Flame shield on max’, or something!

I'm no guru, but I like seeing Mobius+______ other than DB. That's an interesting idea...

So you took Yanmans old build and threw distracting blow in there. Okay? How is this worthy of a new thread?

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I like the idea man.

Ignore the nay-sayers.

As much as I like Yan. As good as he is. I doubt he made MS+DB all by himself, and every other MS+DB build is a copy of his. Somehow, just somehow, I think MS+DB is easy enough to think up by more than one person. (Although admittedly, the Leaping Mantis->Exhausting is pretty similar, but I believe that it's original to Bobby before he saw the Yansassin.)

Anyways, Bobby: The idea is great, I DEFINATELY wanna try this out when I get back from school, it looks like a pretty good laugh! It makes me wanna search wiki for other attacks that would work between MS+DB uses.

I never claimed that people copy me, I do claim that I was the first.

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Thanks for all the great replies! It's getting better as I'm practising more with it. As for previously done builds: Moebius-DB, I think, wasn't even first used by Yan - I think he's talking about the LMS-Exhausting intro.

Which is just evil, btw.

Plz DO POST how you do with it yourself if you're giving it a go since I'm curious to find what other (better?) players think of it, and would improve upon it.

EDIT: I've never seen Exhausting-Impale (DW pressure i/o spike finisher) before either, the Yansansin Impaled after Blossom and Breeze didn't run it at all. For you ABing lot: this thing can generally take Ranger and Mesmer shrines by itself @ full health no problem. But it makes more sense to go 12565656 in that case, when Blossoming you sometimes don't want your prime target to die too soon

Bobby,the day the update that put Exhausting on 'must follow a lead" and DB got put to 2 seconds, I made the Yangansin. It was the first build that had true loopable ms-db, because before that, db was only 4 sec rc.


I've used exhausting-impale when DW didn't have the gray bar effect, and when I was spiking with more than 1 character.


Haha: look what a post I found ( from a former mod ) http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...9&postcount=33

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