Post your best eliteless builds!

SmokingHotImolation

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2008

Odense, Denmark

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Hi!
The title pretty much says it all.
- Post your best eliteless builds, and explain why its good, and why it doesnt need an elite.

mistokibbles

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2008

N/A

[Patient Spirit] Do you really need anything else?

Axel Zinfandel

Axel Zinfandel

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2007

Northeastern Ohio

LaZy

P/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by mistokibbles
[Patient Spirit] Do you really need anything else? [Dwayna's Kiss]

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zling

zling

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

I can show you plenty of fine builds without elites, the thing is though that if you bothered fitting in an elite it would have been better...
take the classic Ranger template as an example, instead of using an elite we'll just use a non elite skill...

[skill]sloth hunter's shot[/skill][skill]distracting shot[/skill][skill]savage shot[/skill][skill]apply poison[/skill][skill]natural stride[/skill][skill]troll unguent[/skill][skill]mending touch[/skill][skill]resurrection signet[/skill]

still a very good and effective build. would it be even better with an elite? YES!

zelgadissan

zelgadissan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2008

The Warrior Priests [WP]

Me/Rt

While it's always beneficial to use an elite there are still workable builds that, while better with an elite, will still do fine without one.

[Critical Agility][Critical Defenses][Golden Fox Strike][Mantis Touch][Trampling Ox][Falling Lotus Strike][Death Blossom][empty]

Feel free to place [Resurrection Signet], [Death's Retreat], [Critical Strike] to force-keep enchantments up, or similar in empty spot.

Edit: Slight change to give two combos instead of one huge-ass one.

[Critical Agility][Critical Defenses][Golden Phoenix Strike][Death Blossom][You Move Like a Dwarf!][Falling Lotus Strike][Critical Strike][Death's Retreat]

zelgadissan

zelgadissan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2008

The Warrior Priests [WP]

Me/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by SmokingHotImolation
I was just wondering if some people out there had an eliteless build that they were convinved was just better off. I know my build that I posted above ([Critical Agility][Critical Defenses][Golden Phoenix Strike][Death Blossom][You Move Like a Dwarf!][Falling Lotus Strike][Critical Strike][Death's Retreat]) would be a lot better if you replaced [Death's Retreat] with just about any elite; the one that strikes me more than any other would be [Way of the Empty Palm]. That said, I'd say it's still viable. But pretty much no build is better off without the elite.

mistokibbles

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2008

N/A

[Patient Spirit][Dwayna's Kiss][Dismiss Condition][Protective Spirit][Guardian][Shield of Absorption][Cure Hex][Rebirth]
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Alex the Great

Alex the Great

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

America.....got a problem with that?

[Lite]

W/

[sever artery][gash][final thrust][frenzy][rush][healing signet][bull's strike]rez

seriously, swords don't even need an elite!

Turbobusa

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

By the Luxon Scavenger

The Mentalists [THPK]

N/

[golden fox strike][wild strike][death blossom][twisting fangs][critical agility][assassin's remedy][death's charge][critical eye]

Works ok.
Rangers cheat, they have distracting shot.

Stormlord Alex

Stormlord Alex

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Beyond the Forest of Doom, past the Cavern of Agony... on Kitten & Puppy Island

Soul of Melandru [sOm]

W/E

[screaming shot][distracting shot][savage shot][apply poison][mending touch][natural stride][troll unguent][resurrection signet]
14 exp, 10 marks, 10 ws
Screaming could also be [[pin down], [[debilitating shot] or [[sloth hunters shot]

[dismember][body blow][bull's strike][distracting strike][shock][frenzy][rush][resurrection signet]
14 axe, 13 strength
Lacking +dmg on dismember, I'd take Distracting over the standard DChop for a stronger spike.

[dwayna's kiss][patient spirit][cure hex][dismiss condition][aegis][protective spirit][shield of absorption][gole]
14 heal, rest split in DF/prot
Standard hybrid, with WoH subbed for Patient/Kiss

eliteless builds are really easy, just take a good build (WoH hybrid, shockaxe etc.) and replace the elite with it's non-elite counterpart.

Tyla

Emo Goth Italics

Join Date: Sep 2006

Meh, Ranger builds have already been took... (Cripshot, but with Pindown instead of Cripshot)

[wearying strike][signet of malice][eremites attack][heart of fury][guiding hands][shadow walk][dash][resurrection signet]
Like AoM Dervish, but Signet of Malice can be used on every spike.

I'm not sure if the signet has an aftercast though...

blue.rellik

blue.rellik

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2007

Melbourne, Australia

None

W/

[spirit rift][ancestor's rage][splinter weapon][destruction][essence strike][spirit light][life][weapon of warding]

I ran something like that with my rit until I could cap [offering of spirit]