What hero build do you always take?

When I did PvE, I always took a MM and a N/Rt healer (myself playing SS) and third slot usually variable.

But that was at least a year ago, I'm sure there are better options now. (VoR/Empathy spam seems like a good idea, and Aura MM would be better than Jagged MM)

I'm lazy so I mainly run sabway

Sabway MM & N/Rit healer with Gwen for interrupts are my basic hero setup.

Used to run sabway, but now that I basically beat everything I like to try different setups and see what happens. Mostly been mesmer and dervishes atm with me playing ele.

Eh, when I'm vanquishing it's usually two man six heroes. Boyfriend - an ele - prefers to take MM + Curses, with last being either ele or barrager. I play monk, and I pack Gwen (Domination), Vekk (usually fire), and Tahlkora (set to sync with whatever bar I play; I manual her.)

Normal mode: 3 heroes are (1) ele: either incendiary bonds / rodgort with SF or Savannah heat...I bounce back and forth... or an earth ele, heavy on the wards, with Sandstorm or some other lovely damage elite
(2) Minion bomber
(3) Gwen, using mantra of recall and then Cry ofFrustration, bunch of interrupts, OR Tahlkora, as RC or ZB prot

Hard Mode:
(1) ALWAYS tahlk as a prot monk, often Mo/me with an interrupt (power drain is nice) and inspired hex (if it's hex-heavy)
(2) Ele: earth / water warder: Ward Against harm, some other stuff.
(3) if it's worth it.. Gwen, using the stuff above. usually a guildie brings the minion bomber, since they know even less about mesmers than I do.

An mm, a healer, and a nuker

When me & a friend play, it's usually discord/sabway mix. Otherwise, I'll take a WoH monk, mm & ba ranger/interrupt mes. I do use RoJ w/ my monks heros though.

A MM is always first choice regardless of team build (BP/SF/paraway/sab/discord/ROJ). Only exception is places with no corpses.

I bring a 15 death 13 curses or 14 death 14 curses Necro of some sort and run it as a dual necro build (death & curses 101). I run SS and Parasite for curses, I also load him/her up with bone minons and the shambling horror skill, death nova and dark bond (75% damage goes to minion) skill and usually Life Renewal rez. They only have 7 into soul reaping, but, this is quite significant enough to keep minions popping and 100 damage when dying with death nova on them not to mention the poison spread it leaves as well. It doesn't matter which hero necro I use they all do very well with this build. I also do not bring anything to keep the minions alive it is just a waste of hit points because if you're bringing an MM there are usually multitudes of corpses to use in each battle and my hero necros are most often up to 9 minions anyway. I myself am a necro and I run blood magic and I run a spam dark pact & Soul of the aggressor build with mashochism as my energy management skill. I also run Blood Ritual to keep my heroes in energy. I also bring the PVE only skill Necrosis it's just like Discord really with not all the requirements. My other must bring hero is a blind bot elementalist, usually blinding surge coupled with steam from water. It's a spread of the numbers, but, it gets the job done since the majority of stuff you encounter in PVE is melee of some sort. The 3rd position depends on the powers of the encounter I'm going into. Sometimes I need more healing and will bring a WOH monk, sometimes I need interupters and will bring Gwen or a Ranger. Henchies are usually the healing types when/if I bring them. I most always bring Eve for fire support and occassionally one of the warrior types although these end up usually getting me into more trouble than it is worth with their agro circle bringing in another group that if I had brought all casters or ranged wouldn't have aggroed another group. Of course I fully expect laughter and judgement of my builds. But, yah know what I don't care My builds work and they are quite sufficient and it is rare that I ever wipe since I am such an excellent player both myself and using my heroes and henchies.

Healing Prayers Tahlkora.

I dont want to blame no one...

Funny, ppls waste a hero spot with a monk... less damage > chance of dead, how more damage less healing you will need. Lots of times ppls ask for help, and when i look for the heros they have a monk or two... i kown hench monks sometimes suck, but sometimes if you dont have damage output to kill a single murssat monk...

And lots of ppls take a mesmer for interrupts, i like, a Broadarrow ranger + [skill]Epidemic[/skill] + [skill]Arcane Conundrum[/skill]...

option 1) discordway

option 2) my 2 para, buff nec/rt build I made specifically for buffing physical cahracters

option 3) 2 SH ele's w/ splinter, 1 hybrid woh monk

Aura of the Lich is great in PvE. But hero AI can't use it very well so... Jagged still owns it on heroes :P

Yeah I found that out about Aura of Lich also. I tried to set them up with Arcane Echo and AoL lol they wouldn't even summon the minions when AoL was up let alone use AE with it. Though they do use glyph of immolation pretty well before casting other spells when I set them up with that.

Discordway or Sabway if I can.

For NM I take a SH Ele, Smiter/buff mes and MM. Rocks the socks.

On my eles or the necro, when I take them in HM:
one always brings the rit spell Sundering Weapon; one always brings Epidemic.
Depending on my own bar on the ranger, I can get poison, dazed, burning, and cracked armor all spread into the mob. Scads of fun.