Steady Stance war Questions

I was thinking possibly Brawling Headbutt for a nice little shutdown, and maybe throwing in steel fang? Steelfang Slash + Scythe = fail

Save Yourselves! is a super-powered party boost, works well with a Scythe Warrior. Been there, done that...a D-Slasher is way better.

Actually, the biggest hit to Steady Stancers was putting a 6 sec recharge on "Fear Me!" - the main strength of SS was the retarded energy denial, which could swiftly drain even high-energy sets - and when a monk bottoms out his 15/-1s, the team is screwed.

The nerfs to the Blows that needed them to hit hurt too, but nowhere near as much as killing "Fear Me!"

However, because "Fear Me!" fails @ PvE; and blocking is nary a problem - SS is fine for a change of pace on a PvE war
SS with a scythe is the way to go - simply put, scythes deal the most damage and you're not losing much by using them. yes, i know just about every variation of the SS war. rending touch was something we (the black parades) did as well that actually got rending touch "noticed". what we did was use [skill]aura of thorns[/skill] + [skill]rending touch[/skill] to cause an insta-snare (for the most part) against kiters since kiting was the only real way to ever stand the slightest bit against us with zerg (though this variation was just a test and only ran it a few build before once again changing it to something else to keep the HA community from knowing the legit version of zerg)

about the build you posted... i would change WY for SY and HS for LC since LC was "buffed".

oh well, this is also just my my 2 cents on the matter. ^^

actually, cathode reborn, SS war was originally created with zergway 15 months ago. "the black parades" made the build and i am actually proud to say i was part of the guild when we created the build.
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i kinda miss them. great people :> Tell someone who gives a shit'n'stuff.

I despise this 'build invention' BS - how about giving credit to Anet for creating the skills. We don't invent builds, we slap pre-existing skills on the bar and see how they turn out.

I'd be surprised if Anet hasn't tried every conceivable bar in the game. That's how new skills arise, that's how skills are buffed and nerfed. They move the meta by actively encouraging us to try new skill combinations to keep the game from growing stale for too long.

Take a look at the changes to Foul Feast, Plague Signet, the complete rework of Wail of Doom. This encourages 'creativity', but don't think they don't know what the changes will bring to the game. Anyone could see from a mile away what would happen with Headbutt, Foul Feast and Plague Signet...rock, paper, scissors - a change to the meta brings renewed interest in the game.

re: Steady Stance - it doesn't take a genious to combine a skill that prevents knockdown and gives an energy gain by preventing it, with a skill that would otherwise cause a knockdown - why else would the skill exist? Credit where credit's due...gimme a break! Congrats on the ability to read a skill description.
Ditto. Moment I saw nightfall, This was my first cap goal.
At 14 tactics, you'll get 4 adr and 8 energy with a zealous weapon using drunken/desperation - net energy cost of 2 energy.

There's only one flaw with it - As a stance, it's prohibitive as far as ias and speed goes. I've tried other ideas - didn't like the rit weapon of aggression (costly!), iway with a low level pet may work i guess, but seems clumsy for pve - i don't bother with pvp.

Even without ias though, it's good for sustained damage. At level 14 tac, it's +38 damage. plus timing it right, you'll have steady stance recharged in time for the 2nd drunken hit, immediately afterwards. depending on the skills used, you can chew through adrenaline skills. My version of a scythe warrior used *gasp* symbolic strike. The other 4 skills were 3 signets - Signet of Pious Restraint (snare!), healing sig, sunspear rebirth; and Eremites (simulated? ias). not taking full use of symbolic, but it's not the most versatile one. +30 is pretty fine.

My axe version used adrenaline gain as for go for the eyes (preceed drunken with this). I'd guess there was a 50% chance to crit on this - the hit would charge it again (4adr), ready for a follow up second hit, also with gfte - and helping any other physical dealers.

For swords, I'd go with all their adrenaline based attack skills. Final trust will charge FAST here.

I found it difficult to maintain steady stance when using multiple energy based attack skills other than drunken/desperation. Not that there's any need to given the adrenaline bonuses. Consider that you need an existing pool of energy to use this build. you get back 8 energy on striking - it wont cost 2 or 3 energy.

This build is PERFECT if you're doing your clone in prophecies - i.e. don't EVER give this combo to a hero. They'll just end up on their heiney.