Sabway or Discordway for normal PvE?

MercenaryKnight

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2006

Wolf of Shadows [WoS]

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You have 8 slots anyway. All you need on any class of character is EVAS, FH!, YMLaD!, AP, some form of e-management, and three optionals.

More often than not, the one copy of Aegis on a hero is enough to deal with physical aggro break.

As for Mo/A, I stand by reasoning that Aegis is bad for energy reasons. In Ranger heavy areas, I agree that it is a fairly good option to spec it into your bar, if you can put some points into Prot, but aside from that situation you're better off focusing on keeping your energy up. FH! is far too broken to not have energy to cast because you decided to maintain Aegis instead. Something is WRONG WITH YOU. 12 deadly arts, is 17 energy minus 5 from casting ap. Then 10 with you move like a dwarf. Is still a net worth of 2 energy. I understand that you like to hit finish him as well on every single enemy, but to me that is a waste when they die quickly enough as it is. Then you end up wasting time forcing extra energy management which will slow down more chains.

I can cast assassin's promise, then ymlad on a paragon with 2 energy pips and watch the enemy die with nothing else needed by me nonstop.

If you need additional energy management, besides assassin's promise you are doing something very wrong/ spamming too much.

Not to mention all the casters have 4 energy pips and thus they will regain more energy during casting/ waiting for the monster to die in a couple of seconds.

Instead of bringing more pointless energy management skills, you should focus on how to work your chain so that you will have all the energy you need through assassin's promise and natural regen.

I only have problems if I cast ap, ymlad and sin about 5 times in a row with 2 energy regen. I use a high energy staff and get like 50 or so energy. Then all I have to do is use assassin's promise on one already conditioned/ nearly dead enemy and gain back enough energy to start over.

If your not playing any place hard with a lot of heavy physicals then aegis spamming is pointless. But when you need it, a monk can easily pull off casting ap, ymlad and aegis nonstop as long as you don't waste casts on other skills. If you run low, you minimize your casting to just Assassin's promise on a foe with a condition already and bam, 12 free energy right there.

Finish him usually isn't required. They will die quick enough so knocking off 2-4 seconds doesn't quite do as much as effectively protecting a party from physical damage. Then again, that is only if your actually playing in a hard mode/ difficult area where your minions will go down in a second/ don't even have minions.