Are My Builds Good for PvE?

I'll try to think up of a few *cough* OK warrior prophecies only build.

For an Earth Warrior

Runes on head, legs, and gloves. Stonefist on pants, anything you want for chest.
12+1+1 Hammer Mastery
10+1 Tactics
8+1 Strength

[skill]Flail[/skill][skill]"For Great Justice!"[/skill][skill]Crude Swing[/skill][skill]Earth Shaker[/skill][skill]Counter Blow[/skill][skill]Mighty Blow[/skill][skill]Healing Signet[/skill][skill]Restore Life[/skill]

Basically, charge up adreneling, try to keep flail up, use Earth Shaker whenever possible, try to keep enemies knocked down of course =P Keep in mind Flail is from Nightfall.
But yeah, not using Swords is best for Prophecies only. For Hammers, you have Earth Shaker, for Axes, you have Cleave (Better than Evis for PvE, imo.) and Eviscerate. Heck, you can even toy with the PvP build Shock Axe in PvE...

Superior runes isn't that bad for PvE (until they became all the rage in PvP about 12 months ago, superiors were used all the time. HM is the only time the extra health from using minors instead of superiors is really "neccessary"). I wouldn't tell him not to use superiors. He is only using one (which is perfectly fine, just don't use 2 or more, because then you will be very limited for health). I'm pretty sure the main reason for the change in opinion(for PvP) is the removal of the ability to swap armor as well as power creep from Nightfall skills. I haven't played in PvP since Factions, so feel free to flame/correct me if I'm incorrect there. Everything hits harder, and you can no longer swap down to a minor after DP. Avarre's "Duality" article and Racthoh's posts and threads have possibly contributed to the shift in mentality for PvE on this forum. Also, Hard mode has changed the argument in favor of minors in PvE for some.

On topic, Charm Animal is wasted on both of those builds(especially the Warrior), and Conjure Phantasm is not a Ranger skill. There's some good advice in other posts here.

Okey dokey.

I see what you're trying to do with the ranger. I remember not too long ago seeing in a "things you did as a newb" thread someone saying "Aw, cmon. We *all* had conjure phantasm on our rangers at one point!" I remember taking it into ABs once thinking it was the best thing in the world. I now cringe at my past self for being a nub :P. I'd suggest dropping the Illusion stuff and taking Apply Poison instead. Now, it's not possible to poison everything, but you'll soon learn what can't be poisoned and drop it out when it's not needed. This is a prep, much like Melandru's Arrows, so you'll need to drop that. you already cause bleeding from Hunter's Shot. I'd suggest something like Punishing Shot or Crippling Shot as your elite. These are both available in prophs.

If you're bringing a pet on a ranger, it's a good idea to put a substantial amount of points into Beastmastery so the pet does some damage and is actually a threat. Right now all it will do is flail pathetically at enemies. Similarly, when bringing a pet, bring Comfort Animal. It's your job to keep your pet alive. If you bring the pet into PvP and people notice it's doing next to nothing, then they'll just take it out to cause a long shut down on all your skills as the pet dies, leaving you pretty helpless.

Hope that makes some sense and gives you some idea why the skills need tweaking rather than "LOLOLOL RUN THIS, NUBCAKES" which doesn't help anyone now really ^_^.

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With regards to the warrior, Battle Rage is a pretty poor elite. You can't use your non-attack skills (such as a self heal) and you lose all adren, the thing that powers your attack skills. Make sense? So yeah, meh.

You're a sword warrior so your only sword elite is Hundred Blades which is.... not that good. Have you tried playing with axes? If so, pick up the "Eviscerate" skill. This is considered one of *the* best warrior elites. But if you really like your swords, then pick up Hundred Blades. It's not *wow* by any stretch of the imagination, but it'll do!

Apply poison is far too much energy to use on your warrior. Drop the WS stuff and add in Healing Signet, throw those points into Tactics. You'll get -40 armor when using heal sig, so be careful with it. Though a maxed armored warrior shouldn't have too much issue with this as they're already armored out the wazoo. As time goes on you can ditch the self-heal and just rely on monks to keep you upright. But if your only monks are Lina, Mhenlo and Alesia then yeeeah, a self-heal might be good

As you have Frenzy on your bar, it's a good idea to bring a cancel stance for when things get nasty. As your prophs-only, the perfect one for this is Rush or Sprint. They're speed boosts and relatively cheap adren/energy wise

Again, like with the ranger, consider dropping the pet unless you can spec beast mastery in there as it's not really helping you, just taking up 2 skill slots (again, if bringing a pet, bring something to heal it/rez it)

Hope that helps you figure out where to improve without being too over demanding on what your build must have... type... thingy ^_^ Thanks a lot for your post. Actually all your posts are good (except for those few that says these builds are fail, go away), and I'll take all of them into consideration, I'll respec and post another build. Actually, my main focus is my Warrior, not my Ranger, because I enjoy melee a lot more. I'm not one to hide, though it does work with a pet (though it does die fast and it goes for me next, but I have Troll Unguent and the pet doesn't). I think I defeated the purpose of the pet because the monster always goes for me instead of allowing me to hide behind my pet. Anyways, I like melee damage more, I might give up on my Ranger, I only wanted one because bows are cool and they look cool(male)/sexy(female).

Anyways, is Flourish a good skill to get on a Warrior?

I've decided to build an axe warrior, I hate mace except the knockdowns because in my personal opinion, shields are good. Anyways, if I'm going to have a secondary class (which I want) which one should it be? I really don't know, anyways if I'm getting tactics just for the Healing Signet (one of the posts above) shouldn't I just become a monk and get Orison of Healing/Healing Breeze? (I like Healing Breeze better, you can fight while it still takes effect)

Should I go with Gladiator's Defense? That way I can still be a sword warrior (though I don't think I want to anymore) and have a stance with Frenzy.

[skill]barrage[/skill][skill]savage shot[/skill][skill]needling shot[/skill][skill]splinter weapon[/skill][skill]charm animal[/skill][skill]comfort animal[/skill][skill]rebirth[/skill]
Teach me to use 3 professions please...

But yeah what everyone else said is right drop conjure phantasm and the pet crap.

Neither of those builds can be used with Prophecy only skills. And do you really find bringing splinter yourself is any more effective than having a hero bring it? Plus no D-Shot

@Bisurge -- You'll need to use Rush or Sprint. Bonnetti's Defense is pathetic outside of farming. You're also best using 9 in Tactics and Strength and using 12 in Weeapon Mastery. Or 12/12 Tactics/Weapon.

Tbh complete fail on both
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go there much better builds the builds are for pve,anything works there,who cares if the builds are fail.