Best/Fastest way to rampage through pve

So I come back to this game after a hiatus since late 06/early 07 and am casually playing pve with a friend (thus 6 heros). Of course casually doesn't mean not wanting to find and use the most efficient builds for it but there is a rather significant information gap here. I have factions and nightfall and am not getting eye of the north but know little of the game currently.

Disclaimer: If you are going to recommend to me some version of the stance tank echo firestorm nuker orison monk whatever terrible version of this build that is popular now don't bother. That kind of waste of time/noobproof garbage is not what I'm interested in. Well nuking might be good now, who knows. But I sure know that orison monks and stance tanks without 16 weapon mastery are still rubbish.

Ideally I'd like to rely upon only one monk (me; friend is paragon). Healer's boon seems to make this viable, along with a healthy dose of prot. Are there any areas in any of these games where a 2nd monk would be strictly better than a mixed offensive support guy? I've heard stuff about broken pve skills like save yourselves..and don't really want to touch that.

The old combo of pve ownage was double orders+minions+a billion warriors. Although one monk couldn't handle everything so you couldn't quite iway it. Now that seems to be a bit more complicated, considering there are 3 new physical classes that I don't understand much of. But who knows, maybe the game has shifted upside down and mesmers are good outside of bosses and 4 man areas. Or hero a.i on physicals is bad and great on casters.

Fill me in! What's the ideal way to go? Where does the best damage come from? What off-monk support is most efficient? What of these things does the hero a.i suck at and what is it good at? (if anything)

I appears that you are an expert therefore need no help at all why ask?

Sabway.
And Ursan.

Cheapest and fastest way, although boring if you're running Ursan and you don't like buttonmashing until your fingers snap.

You're a monk and he's a Paragon?
This can't get easier.

For your friend, have him run the so-called 'imbagon' -
"Save Yourselves!" / "There's Nothing to Fear!" / Focused Anger / Aggressive Refrain / "For Great Justice!" / Vicious Attack / Spear of Lightning (or whatever 2 attack skills he likes) / optional - res or something

For yourself, either a Healer's Boon monk or a WoH hybrid work well - just make sure to keep your friend clean of any hexes or conditions that might impair his attacks, as he is pretty much the keystone of the team.

Then between you, run the 3-necro build, so called 'Sabway'

The rest of your party should be physical attackers - you've got 3 guys left, I'd recommend 2 Paragons (1 Cruel Spear with Command offensive buffs, the other some Motivation skills to support the party and spear attacks to kill shit), and the last guy is whatever - I'd say a Broad Head Arrow ranger, for caster shutdown.

Edit: though if you don't want to touch PvE skills, you could always bring "Watch Yourself!" and "Shields Up!" on your friend's para to relieve pressure.

Check out Ractoth's paragon hero post in the Hero section it works well also.

AR+Splinter Weapon + Orders, etc. is pretty godly in terms of physicals.

I guess Mind Blast/Rodgorts Eles are "meta" for nuking in a sense.

oh, long story short (and for the +1) - when it comes to PvE, Paragons and Necromancers are the strongest classes. Paragons because they're imba, period; and Necros 'cuz of the strength of Curses and minion walls in PvE, as well as the infinite energy.

have your friend run this:
you run a hybrid bar that can switch between WoH/RC/divert depending on the area
your three heroes:
1. Rt or N/Rt with some channeling throwing out splinter weapon like a madman. ancestors is good to. something like the sabway bar should work well
2. BHA/epidemic ranger. you might have to micro epidemic.
3. optional. I would probably go with a MM to cover the frontline, jagges battery from sab's build would work well

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