The Balanced Hero Team HM (better than sabways imo)

His bars arent too bad, they do, however, lack any kind of synergy. The monk shouldnt have a res, it should be on the ele or a necro, you're not taking advantage of some key elements:

1, Burning from your Ele, there are many ways you can exploit this in other hero builds. Eg, [["They're On Fire!"].

2, Knockdown from both you as an ursan and the ele. Many skills can take advantage of a knocked down foe.

3, Vast amount of energy to be had from soul reaping. Most of the builds lack energy management, the ele only has [[Fire Attunement] and could do with [[Glyph Of Lesser Energy]. The necro will probably be ok, but would be better with [[Signet Of Lost Souls]. Your monk only has [[Bonetti's Defense], which they will cancel as soon as they have enough energy to cast a spell, making it a little bit pointless. Try [[Glyph Of Lesser Energy] and [[Divine Spirit], I find they make managing energy a whole lot easier.

4, From what I can see you have poison, bleeding and burning. All nice degen skills, but degen is not hugely useful in hard mode, the most powerful conditions in hard mode are all the ones you're not using: Weakness, Blind, Daze and Deep Wound.

5, Fairly solid monk build. Barr the subpar energy management, your monk build isnt too bad. Maybe swapping out dwayna's and dismiss (your necro has FF+infuse, so this is doubly redundant) would be a little more effective as they rely on enchants and your monk only applies one. But the fact that it is a good healer means that you really don't need to invest in self-healing for the ele and the necro. You'd do a lot more damage investing in some other skills and attribute lines other than earth magic, maybe for energy management? Good comments. I added Dwayna's Sorrow and Aegis to the healer. The enchants are not just coming from the monk as far as the Ele and MM are concerned. Adding GoLE should suffice for the Ele.

By the way, I replaced the monk with a N/Mo since you already have a MM to supply almost infinite energy through SR. It works alot better than a primary monk. The individuals builds themselves are not new and their energy management is lacking. But it is not difficult to make it work with some modifications.

heh, methway would be an awesome name for a build. Then I could say I got the guild wars population hooked on meth You should join the guild me and my RL mate made :The Pigs are Flying [Meth]

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anywho ppl saying the ele is a take on an AB ele - it is also a HB ele with the removal of mirage cloak ()

monk should not have a rez - if you want a 2nd prof on it...have ele for GoLE or something similar - 2nd = mes?

LOL i'd like to see sabwyas do rotscale xD Vanquished Rotscale with sabway in HM just a month ago, wasnt easy, but he tends to not be a piece of cake, but I did it

LOL i'd like to see sabwyas do rotscale xD I guess I should have taken a screenshot when I did Majestic Vanquish. I use standard sabway at that time and we killed him.

EDIT: Yea the Ele is going to cause a lotta scatter which equals you possibly arggo'ing other mobs (HM creatures run far far away on a scatter) which we all know can REALLY suck. Also since creatures have increased movement speed they can easily get out of MS since its a KD every 3 sec. I'd rather see a water ele in HM with say Ward Against Harm with a ton of snares so splinter weapon can cause death.

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Actually Ele damage can kill tough caster mobs faster in general for HM and they dont need to have to bring another buff hero like Barbs necro or Splinter Rit to make their attacks worth while. O RLY?

ele damage is reduced by armor. bonus damage from weapons and armor-ignoring damage from barbs is not. have fun with your single-digit yellow numbers.

From personal experience, Sabway can handle every one of those areas with relative ease, along with every other zone. Better than Sabway? Hardly. Is it the OP's build that can't handle those areas, or the OP himself? As I said before, the person that has the biggest impact on the team and it's success is the human player itself. If I took the OP's exact build, and managed to vanquish those listed areas, does it all the sudden make the build better? If I took Sab's exact build and failed multiple areas with it, does it make the build bad? Of course not.

I henched just about every HM mission with a typical SF ele/2monk setup before I got better at the game and came up with better setups. Of course all of those missions weren't easy, and not all were hard. It took me several tries to finish some of them. You could often get a setup that sucks for a certain area, and still manage to complete if you're really persistent and keep going at it.

What people need to do is stop thinking that being able to Vanquish/complete HM missions is a sign of skill. They...arn't...hard. There's very very few that are actually challenging, but because more than half of it is easy for the most part, I'd consider those grind titles. If you really wanted to attempt to prove skill through Vanquishing/Missions, you'd have to post screenshots of your times. Someone could say they H/H'd most of HM, but how would others know if they didn't barely finish the area with half the team at 50%+ DP and a horrid time to go with it? I've known a few people with Leg. Vanquisher - a few of them are definitely not very good at the game...

Omagawd darkspirit what is wrong with you? Oo OP's build just well, sux. omg what is wrong with you Igor. Did you even try the build out or did you just theory craft? I thought you are a hands-on person who believes in testing things out in the game before you post....Don't be swayed by ursan haters. If sabway didnt exist, someone can post sabway (with an ursan as the player) and be dissed to no end too. Trust your own testing.

By the way, the monk does suck, but the MM and Ele arent too bad.

If you like, I'll post my build instead. Earthshaker warrior, BHA ranger, Orders necro with splinter. There you go. Take all physical damage henchmen and you're ready to rumble. i'd like that. I want to know how you make a melee hero work.