insigina's and runes for sab's build

Aman

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

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Warriors of Narsil

R/Mo

03 Feb 2008 at 03:16 - 1

hi i just got all the skills and i would like to know what runes to put on now

thanks

Antithesis

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

BrisneyLand

Sphincter Says [What]

W/

03 Feb 2008 at 07:05 - 2

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...&postcount=361

DarkSpirit

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Redmond

03 Feb 2008 at 18:15 - 3

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antithesis

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...&postcount=361 I dont like using Tormentor's as it makes your heroes more vulnerable to holy damage from monk and dervish monsters.

For the MM, I use the MM insignia (since we are using superior death with bone minions), the SS hero uses undertaker (has enfeebling blood and rip enchantment sac skills), and the restoration hero uses herald (since he/she is almost always carrying the pot which would then give him/her a total of 94 armor when carrying), on chest and leg.

Marverick

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

R/

03 Feb 2008 at 18:54 - 4

The amount of damage that 10 armor reduces from other sources is well worth the extra damage taken from Holy Damage...

if you want then just run full survivors

Also MM insignia is kinda paradoxical; if there are 10 bone minions frolicking around then every monster and its mother will attack those bone minions due to their low level and health. It's when you have no minions up that you need to worry about being attacked directly, and that's when you need the extra armor.

DarkSpirit

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Redmond

03 Feb 2008 at 19:12 - 5

Originally Posted by Marverick

The amount of damage that 10 armor reduces from other sources is well worth the extra damage taken from Holy Damage...

To each his own, I still feel that 10 armor can be achieved through other insignia without such heavy penalties when faced against smiters and dervishes.

Quote: if you want then just run full survivors Survivors protects through a totally different concept, it requires your monk to keep on healing, while armor constantly protects. Besides, survivors on a sac build means your necro has to sac more life.

The pro for using survivors is that health protects against everything since armor can be ignored or penetrated. Therefore I still agree with sab that having survivors on everything else, other than chest and legging, can be a good idea. Since most of your beating are going to be in the chest and legging areas, these areas need armor boosting insignia. Having survivors on the other armor pieces would boost your overall hp.

Also MM insignia is kinda paradoxical; if there are 10 bone minions frolicking around then every monster and its mother will attack those bone minions due to their low level and health. It's when you have no minions up that you need to worry about being attacked directly, and that's when you need the extra armor. You forgot that you only need 3 minions (not 10), to equal the +10 armor from tormentors. Furthermore, it has the potential to up the armor to +15 if the MM has at least 5 minions. Since you get 2 bone minions per corpse per cast, getting up to at least 3 minions only requires 2 corpses. A MM with a superior death rune can maintain up to 10 minions and Jagged Bones gives each of them a second life, so effectively it is more like 20 minions, the MM is pretty safe as far as maintaining the number of minions is concerned, as long as there are available corpses.

If the area has almost no corpses, you wouldn't be bringing the MM hero anyway and sab build falls apart in those areas since sab build relies heavily on constant minion death to fuel soul reaping. Remember: Sab build itself is heavily reliant on minions.