Avatar of Balthazar

Quote: Originally Posted by Ragnar Blackmanes about point 1) i've meet this matter in some post ago, you can have an elite that can giv you +40 damage with an attacck and then normal skill that give you +24 armor, or you can take elite that give you +40 armor and normal skill that do +30 damage. that's a choice. You're forgetting that reaper's sweep causes DW when used at the right time. That's the potential for around a 150 damage hit. But yea, it may well be a choice to either have an elite for armour or an elite for damage. But at the end of the day, a melee's job is to kill things, not tank. More damage makes that happen.


Quote: 2)With un-needed you mean that a melee can have 70 armor withouth taking huge damage? i dont think that. for the armor matter its and imho-way. Monks prot you. They stop damage alot better than you do, which frees up slots to get proper skills as appose to more armour.

Quote: 3) your personal opinion. And many others' opinions too, i believe. Lyssa > PvE. Wounding / Melandru > PvP. Why would you want to spend an elite on a bit more armour when you have those skills available?

with some of the people who post here they wont get and think that I was being serious. Even though frenzy healsig is the oldest joke in guildwars

Quote: Originally Posted by Sir Pandra Pierva

good argument dan!

I would have gotten bored and lost patience ages ago.

Erm Frenzy and Heal sig work fine on lvl 1 mantids ok


getting back to the topic- balthazar's avatar is perhaps the most used but one of the most (negatively) criticized elite skills on dervs. I use it more than i use grenth, so there must be something really good about it 8)

or something bad about you ?

Quote: Originally Posted by dan-the-noob

Quote: Originally Posted by misguiding_prophet

grenth pre nerf to hell>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AoB
post nerf=not even worth using almost ever

pre nerf grenth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GvG and HA

it was rediculous.... thankfully only a few people were running triple-smite...

Lyssa and the tree kill stuff. Balthazar does not. Thus, balthazar sucks.

/thread

Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Strangelove

Dude and then do my alliance, tell them that healing breeze is baed. =]

i just left my alliance after i got into an argument with like 10 people about how tanking is bad...

Quote: Originally Posted by Darkside

Grenth is a relatively horrible avatar in most cases but, can is useful in some elite monk tome farms- esp the insect monk bosses outside sunspear sanctuary.

I've made a lot of money spamming balth when running people-only because i cant be arsed running with a mo/e. The holy dmg bonus you get from it and its consistent spamming capacity makes it worthwhile against swarms of undead.

I really only see this skill in PvE, where the +40 armor and faster running is most useful. And combined with Eternal Aura, it can be maintained infinitly.
Also its used a lot for running.

Only thing is, when I see someone use it in RA, TA, or AB, I'm just thinking, well they are down a competent player...

Quote: Originally Posted by Coloneh

Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Strangelove

Whooo, I'm not alone.

I was banging my head against the wall earlier trying to explain why wasting half of a Derv's bar on heals and defense is baed

Might leave...