The "Elite" Discussion

And I mean elite skills! lol There are literally hundreds of elite skills in the game. I cap them based on how good I think they are, then of course location and attribute. So I was wondering, what all elites does everyone out the like the most, and which ones suck? Here's my list (more might be coming later):

Good:
Barrage (love 5 energy 1 second recharge)
Burning Arrow
Spiteful Spirit (except for the 15 energy requirement)

Bad:
Shatter Storm (why would you want to have a skill disabled for so long because of how many enchantments it removed?)

Shatter storm has fastest potential enchantment removal in the game, so it finds use in some spike builds.

Eh? why is 15e going to be a problem with a Necro? SR is ftw...

Dragon Slash gets to go in the good Elite section.

Greatest is ray of judgement

[card]Triple Chop[/card] Awesome skill

Have you EVER seen someone running THIS?!? [card]Balthazar's Pendulum[/card]


Is there honestly more lulz to be had in GW than rolling [card]Crippling Shot[/card] in AB?


[card]Illusionary Weaponry[/card] Good for some giggles in RA, but not much else.






Police officer: "Can you describe your attacker, and what he was using please?"


[card]Light of Deliverance[/card] "Oh it was so horrible, I know his name is Izzy, and he was weilding some kind of soft nerf bat!"


Police officer: "Thank you mam"



To name a few....

Eviscerate is good
Word of Healing is good

Good:

Glass Arrows
Spiteful Spirit
Spoil Victor
Divert Hexes
Healer's Boon
Signet of Illusions
Ineptitude
Beguiling Haze
Moebius Strike
Avatar of Melandru
Avatar of Lyssa
Dragon Slash
Eviscerate
Headbutt
Vengeful Was Khanhei

Bad:

Wastrel's Collapse
Peace and Harmony
Amity
Keystone Signet
Primal Rage
Healer's Covenant

Just my opinion. The 'bad' skills are ones I never use, and never have used. Just don't see a point in using any of them in their current form.

SF,DS,SV,BiP, SoJ to abreiviate a few.

good ones

elemental attunement for elementalist
poison arrow for ranger
spiteful spirit for necro

I don't know any bad ones, but a useless one comes into mind, Quick Shot.... what the... this should be a mod on your bow!

very bad at other profession, haven't a clue what is good for them.

For me

Good:
Offering of the spirit
moebius strike
aura of displacement
eviscerate
woh(in its current form)
mind blast
dragon slash(with FGJ ftw!)
devastating hammer
backbreaker
restore condition
shield of deflection(back to 5sec recharge please)
glass arrows
spiteful spirit
spoil victor
icy veins
jagged bones
elemental attunement
shove(depending on what you synergize with)
cripshot
burning arrow
AoM
song of restoration
shadow prison(too bad it's been nerfed alot, still usable though)
ineptitude
migraine
beguiling haze
icy shackles


bad:
balthazars pendulum-seriously who the hell would run this when there are monk elites like woh D:?
the list goes on :/

[card]Melandru's Arrows[/card] I've recently fallen in love with this
[card]Poison Arrow[/card] Used to be on my skill bar for a long time
[card]Zealous Benediction[/card] Great healing for 3 energy
[card]Power Block[/card] Fun to shut down people with this
To name just a few.

[card]Mark of Protection[/card] I would love to use this, but it's long rechage gets me >.<
I could've sworn I dislike more elites. Hmm...

How about a supporting smite build to compliment the WoH monk in a 4-man team??

Good: Broad Head Arrow. If it hits, interrupts and dazes
Zealous Benediction. one of those skills you pray it never becomes the target of a skills update

Bad. Light of Deliverance. You know it's nerfed when henchies won't even use it

SS, Shove, Moebius Strike

Dragonslash is currently the baby on my war.
Healers boon and ZB on my monk.

[skill]Zealous Benediction[/skill] is my all time favorite Elite.

Along with the [skill]"For Great Justice!"[/skill] and [skill]Dragon Slash[/skill] Combo

[skill]Mind Blast[/skill]

I'll let you decide what category to put it in.

Dragon Slash is win. I don't think that I need to post what is fail, just know it has to do with the bears.

Covenant isn't good, but it's not anywhere near the class of those other skills. It has no downside with skills such as patient spirit or healing seed, and theres a dumb zealot's fire build you can make with it.

For shame your a ranger and you don't even mention [skill]Broad head Arrow[/skill]. That + [skill]Epidemic[/skill] == GG hard mode.

For pvp [skill]Rampage as one[/skill] & [skill]Heal as one[/skill] & [skill]Magebane shot[/skill].

For farming [skill]Famine[/skill] & [skill]echo[/skill] (traps) & [skill]offering of blood[/skill] (E-manage for vamp skills).

Not even gonna mention other profs. To many good elite's to outway the really bad ones.