fixing PvX discordway

AtomicMew

AtomicMew

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

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...Instead of bitching about it in 5 different threads. We all think that it is subpar so how about we fix it? It IS a wiki.

So I'm thinking: Caller, bomber, resto, curser

Like so:
Caller:
[Assassin's promise][you move like a dwarf][finish him][optional][optional][optional][optional][optional]
Bomber:
[discord][signet of lost souls][bone minions][death nova]
Resto:
[discord][signet of lost souls]
Curser:
[discord][signet of lost souls]

*not done yet*

PS: before you even BEGIN to think of saying something like "lolol the mods will just rv" remember that I'm standing behind you ready to kill with a blunt spoon.

Daesu

Daesu

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Join Date: Oct 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by traversc View Post
...Instead of bitching about it in 5 different threads. We all think that it is subpar so how about we fix it? It IS a wiki.

So I'm thinking: Caller, bomber, resto, curser

Like so:
Caller:
[Assassin's promise][you move like a dwarf][finish him][optional][optional][optional][optional][optional]
First of all, your caller build is hardly the most effective for all professions and you want the build to be a great build right? Even if you look at pvxwiki here:

http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Category...general_builds

How many Paragon builds do you see with that AP template? That's right, none.

What do they have for an elite? [[Focused Anger], [[Song of Purification], [[Song of Restoration (pve)], and even [[Stunning Strike]. Let's give this another chance and look at ALL the approved PvE Paragon builds:

http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Category...general_builds

How many Paragon builds do you see with that AP template? That's right, none again!

We can go through the same thing for warrior builds and see how popular your template is but you can already guess what the result would be. So now, you can understand why some players do not think this is such a great template at all for their physical classes.

Quote:
Bomber:
[discord][signet of lost souls][bone minions][death nova]
Resto:
[discord][signet of lost souls]
Curser:
[discord][signet of lost souls]

*not done yet*

PS: before you even BEGIN to think of saying something like "lolol the mods will just rv" remember that I'm standing behind you ready to kill with a blunt spoon. The build can actually learn a thing or two from the sabway build concept. Sabway maybe outdated but it is cleverly designed. It consists of healer, minion bomber, curse buffer. Minion bomber provides the flesh wall to protect the rest. Healer heals all, and curse necro buffs the damage from minions using Barbs. I think you should consider the curse line for your discord hex and conditions needs and add enfeebling blood.

the savage nornbear

the savage nornbear

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2008

The Raging Cadavers [rage]

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[[meekness]
[[enfeebling blood]
I don't think a blunt spoon would kill me.
This thread is gonna go down in flames.

Axel Zinfandel

Axel Zinfandel

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Join Date: Sep 2007

Northeastern Ohio

LaZy

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Make that 6 different threads

/fail

daze

daze

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2008

In my own mind

The Dragon Exchange

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Should i make a discordway thread too just to make it lucky # 7?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Daesu View Post

How many Paragon builds do you see with that AP template? That's right, none.

What do they have for an elite? [[Focused Anger], [[Song of Purification], [[Song of Restoration (pve)], and even [[Stunning Strike]. Let's give this another chance and look at ALL the approved PvE Paragon builds:

How many Paragon builds do you see with that AP template? That's right, none again!
Quote:
Originally Posted by traversc View Post
Also, AP Discordway definitely does work on paragons. It's not ridiculous at all.

I run [assassin's promise][you move like a dwarf][finish him][there's nothing to fear][anthem of flame][fall back][go for the eyes][signet of return]
@12Deadly, 14 leadership, 4 command
Having near permanent TNTF and a party heal every 10 seconds helps tremendously.

Energy is more than enough. 2 pips doesn't even matter when AP is like, what, ~15? I use a caster spear and Bison Cup (lol finally a use for it) for 41 energy. I can AP-YMLaD-FH like 4-5 times before running out of energy AND keep up TNTF the whole time. If I really need energy (like if I miss AP) then I can just auto-attack for a few seconds and get 7 free energy from GftE.

AtomicMew

AtomicMew

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Join Date: Apr 2005

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Daesu View Post
First of all, your caller build is hardly the most effective for all professions and you want the build to be a great build right?
Actually, it is the most effective for paragon too. The only class that it isn't is maybe warrior, but I don't know since I haven't played it with warrior. Generally speaking, AP-caller is the best possible build for the player. The fact that paragons only have 2 pips of regen is meaningless because AP is like 15 pips and paragons have lots of built in e-management due to leadership.

Quote: What do they have for an elite? [[Focused Anger], [[Song of Purification], [[Song of Restoration (pve)], and even [[Stunning Strike]. Do you honestly think any of those elites even come close to AP? AP means you can instantly spam 3 conditions, a knockdown and almost 300 damage on every target every couple seconds. Stunning strike lets you use... 1 condition every 10 seconds.

Quote:
How many Paragon builds do you see with that AP template? That's right, none again! AP caller is specific to discordway. It would be pointless to have an individual paragon build using AP, since it isn't general.

Quote:
The build can actually learn a thing or two from the sabway build concept. Sabway maybe outdated but it is cleverly designed. It consists of healer, minion bomber, curse buffer. Minion bomber provides the flesh wall to protect the rest. Healer heals all, and curse necro buffs the damage from minions using Barbs. I think you should consider the curse line for your discord hex and conditions needs and add enfeebling blood. I actually agree. I don't know why you have to be so antagonistic.... I even said basically the same thing in the OP.

Nightow

Nightow

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Join Date: Feb 2006

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I've seen plenty of discordway threads lately but I have yet to have seen a single team build for this that's accepted by everyone. When I saw this thread, I thought this might be different from the other 5 but nope! Come on guys, think!

Oh, and to the person complaining about AP on a paragon, just use Asuran Scan then.

AtomicMew

AtomicMew

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

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Okay, so continuing...

Caller:
[Assassin's promise][you move like a dwarf][finish him][optional][optional][optional][optional][optional]
Bomber:
[discord][signet of lost souls][animate bone minions][death nova][foul feast][infuse condition][protective spirit][aegis]
Resto:
[discord][signet of lost souls][putrid bile][protective was kaolai][weapon of warding][optional][optional][optional]
Curser:
[discord][signet of lost souls][putrid bile][meekness][barbs][enfeebling blood][rip enchantment][animate bone minions]

Okay, several questions:
1) To res or not to res? I generally don't take res on my heroes, mostly out of principal.
2) What should the resto bar be? I usually don't take life, since heroes are stupid with it and makes them slow and I don't like micro-ing.
3) Any essential skills missing?

the savage nornbear

the savage nornbear

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2008

The Raging Cadavers [rage]

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I like [[life] for [[spirit light] and [[mend body and soul]/

Nightow

Nightow

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Join Date: Feb 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by the savage nornbear View Post
I like [life] for [spirit light] and [mend body and soul] Seconding this because without a spirit, you're relying on less efficient heals basically.

Nightow

Nightow

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Join Date: Feb 2006

Kindred Order of Souls [KOS]

Edit: Nevermind, too tired to think right right now.

MercenaryKnight

MercenaryKnight

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Join Date: May 2006

Wolf of Shadows [WoS]

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Curser should drop minions, bring shadow of fear instead of meakness. Resto rit can be either recovery/ life spirit and the typical heals they bring mend body and spirit light. Minion bomber I prefer prot spirit and aegis just like original sabway bomber because it's useful in any situation.

daze

daze

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Join Date: Aug 2008

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I really only bring a 2nd mm when i do a 6 hero Discordway. Otherwise, one hero with minions is plenty.

Also i agree with the previous people about your restorer. [life][mend body and soul][spirit light] should be stapled to any N/rt

-Lotus-

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by traversc View Post
It IS a wiki. lol
no its really not. it looks like a wiki at a glance, but the mods just decide all the votes anyways.

while we are waiting for that spoon to the backm take a look at their imbagon and try to figure out how many times someone has attempted to fix it.

AtomicMew

AtomicMew

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Join Date: Apr 2005

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Quote:
Originally Posted by -Lotus- View Post
lol
no its really not. it looks like a wiki at a glance, but the mods just decide all the votes anyways.
while we are waiting for that spoon to the backm take a look at their imbagon and try to figure out how many times someone has attempted to fix it.[/QUOTE]
You have a point with the imbagon, I agree. PvX isn't perfect, okay, but discordway isn't one of those builds that the mods have had a tight grip on. It's just that no one has tried to fix it.

Quote:
[[Finish Him] doesn't make sense for causing conditions, unless you're just fighting a boss. [[You Move Like A Dwarf] is slightly more sensible in general, but expensive. The point of AP-ymlad-FH is not just for condition priming, but also for damage. It's about 250 armor ignoring damage which is 2.5 discords instantly.

Quote: Yes, I would agree with that at least for eles, necros, mesmers, and maybe rits. It would be hard to convince some monks to give up their elite.

As for AP on rangers, I would not consider replacing my BHA+epidemic build which has been working so well for me especially in caster heavy areas.

Quote:
That makes sense. Stating that AP is the best elite for every single profession in the game, in most situations, is just not going to be convincing. Better not to post a caller template, than one that you have problems defending for all classes. Fine: can we at least agree that the AP caller is best on caster-professions? We can use that as a template for caster professions, and please post build suggestions for martial professions.

Opinion: as far as paragon AP caller vs. imbagon, imbagon simply does not kill fast enough for my tastes. What I like about discordway is that it rolls stuff fast, not that it has imbalanced defenses. I've tried both, and the AP caller was significantly faster in my experience.

lishi

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

AP work fine on a ranger too.

The only profession where it might have a problem its on a warrior.

left to themselves the heroes are much slower in killing. And micromanaging the heroes discord its way too boring.

upier

upier

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

Just a few things to note:

The first picture is my selection of heroes for a 2man+6-hero FoW party. The second one is just what I've been running the next day.
My guildy was running your average Sabway (which means we we're running with just one guy that made the red bars go up).
The reason why I am bringing this up is to simply show that I NEVER run SoLS. And my heroes run on +5 energy spears and shields, giving them 35 energy.
(Of course I needed to modify some things since we we're running 6 necros - I have a second necro running minions otherwise. The second one has also been modified since. Because I can.)

Second of all - if you are going to make a full build (which I am not in favor of since the best thing about Discord (next to the fact that heroes can actually run it) is the huge sandbox which leaves many options for the user - ready to be modified depending on the area and the foes encountered) - keep in mind that Sabway had a 4-man and an 8-man version.
And for the 8-man version - I do not see the point in Resto. Yes - Life, PwK and WoW are sweet - but you'll be running two hench monks also. And that should completely satisfy your healing needs. I'd rather have massive amounts of protection at my disposal then some additional healing - especially if one uses Dwayna's.
And for the 4-man version - I run a primary monk.

And third - probably the best thing you can do is to simply state that the core of the Discord build is:
1. high Death
2. Discord
3. some hexes/conditions - Cracked, Weakness are sweet since the necro skills are spammable. Test attack speed reducing hexes - my experience showed that unless the target is a weapon mastery class - heroes have issues with the most used hexes - SoF, Meekness. Suffering proved to be more spammable.
EDIT: 4. I completely forgot about the MOST obvious reason - 8(+) in SR.

Then add various options on what to do with the remaining skillbar slots - thus giving each individual the option to fill out their builds themselves.
Meaning - if the secondary of the Discord necro is /mo then the skills advisable are: Cure Hex (requires next to 0 investment), Dismiss Conditions (requires next to 0 investment), Aegis (9), SoA (10), PS (X), ...
if running /me then: Power Spike (next to 0), CoF (next to 0), SV/AV (9), ...
and so on.

ALF71BE

ALF71BE

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Join Date: Jan 2008

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hai guize i hurd [[Weaken Armor] wuz effective

Daesu

Daesu

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Join Date: Oct 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by traversc View Post
Fine: can we at least agree that the AP caller is best on caster-professions? We can use that as a template for caster professions, and please post build suggestions for martial professions.
Opinion: as far as paragon AP caller vs. imbagon, imbagon simply does not kill fast enough for my tastes. What I like about discordway is that it rolls stuff fast, not that it has imbalanced defenses. I've tried both, and the AP caller was significantly faster in my experience. Killing fast is good and that is why you have a discord team. But +100 armor for your team is also useful when you need it.

You can make your discord team kill faster if you bind the spell to your keyboard and micro manage a little.

Super Igor

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2008

why should you kno? Oo

A/W

Why dont you just go to pvxwiki and discuss the change there instead of creating another threat about it? They wont revert if the change is good, hence they know that the build is subpar probably and just lazy/dont care to change it. Also if you will edit their discordway dont do it from an IP adress, this will make them think that its me, revert the changes and block your IP. :>

As for the build it needs more dwayna's sorrow, less meekness and more shadow of fear because its better in any way, more restoration and more shambling horrors as thanks to their long recharge it will reduce the time wasted on minions and make them discord much more which is gewd. Also might drop sols somewere because when you are killing that fast additional energy gain is not really worth an extra skill slot.

I have this idea:
[[email protected]][animate shambling [email protected]][putrid [email protected]][death [email protected]][protective [email protected]][[email protected]][dwayna's [email protected]][cure [email protected]]
[[email protected]][animate shambling [email protected]][putrid [email protected]][spirit [email protected]][protective was [email protected]][mend body and [email protected]][[email protected]][optional]
[[email protected]][enfeebling blood][shadow of fear][rip enchantment][protective was [email protected]][mend body and [email protected]][[email protected]][optional]

Fit anything you want in the optional slots, barbs and rez are a good option.

the savage nornbear

the savage nornbear

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2008

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I second [[dwayna's sorrow]

Super Igor

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2008

why should you kno? Oo

A/W

Dwayna's Sorrow is gewd.

AtomicMew

AtomicMew

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

N/A

You guys say more resto while upier says less resto...

:<

Super Igor

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2008

why should you kno? Oo

A/W

majority is win, and upier is stoopit.

:<

Nightow

Nightow

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Join Date: Feb 2006

Kindred Order of Souls [KOS]

[Recovery] just seems redundant though if you already have 2 with Mend.

Turbobusa

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Join Date: Jan 2006

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imo 1 resto + 1 healer hench does the jobs pretty good considering you have weakening curses + enfeebling blood + minion wall + some prots...
gogo full offense on the other 2 necros

upier

upier

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

Quote:
Originally Posted by traversc View Post
You guys say more resto while upier says less resto...

:<
Because Dwayna's should be all the party-wide healing you need - especially if you run around with two guys with Animate Minions.
I'd rather chain Aegis and have the ability to keep everyone under PS at all times then give that up for Life and PwK.
Especially since the hench do healing well - but suck at prot.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Turbobusa View Post
imo 1 resto + 1 healer hench does the jobs pretty good considering you have weakening curses + enfeebling blood + minion wall + some prots...
gogo full offense on the other 2 necros The more offense you add on a Discord-hero bar - the bigger the chance that they refuse to spam Discord because of other options.

beserk

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Join Date: May 2008

UK

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discord sucks for wars =(

upier

upier

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Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Super Igor View Post
Prot doesnt make your bars go up, you cant have a build with no healing if you want it to replace d-way on pvx.
Quote:
Originally Posted by upier View Post
... keep in mind that Sabway had a 4-man and an 8-man version.
And for the 8-man version - I do not see the point in Resto. Yes - Life, PwK and WoW are sweet - but you'll be running two hench monks also. And that should completely satisfy your healing needs. I'd rather have massive amounts of protection at my disposal then some additional healing - especially if one uses Dwayna's.
And for the 4-man version - I run a primary monk. Designing the "ultimate" Discord bar and not designing it with an 8-member party in mind is what should be avoided here.
You don't need "red bars go up" heroes (outside of Dwayna's - because it's really sweet and works nicely with a bunch of minions and doesn't require a huge investment in Healing) in an 8-man party with 3 heroes. You have hench for that.

4-man Discord parties should be a separate thread (or at least marked VERY clearly in the post discussing it!) because you have a completely different set of demands from members in such a party.