Furious Shouter - PvE

Check this out, I just made an adjustment to my main PvE Build and I will explain how to work it:


[Furious Shouter; OQGjUumKqSKYzgDZxgWYtbAh1YA]

My Set Up: 1. Superior Vigor for Health 2. Leadership headgear with Superior Leadership 3. All armor pieces with Centurion 4. An Attunement on my chest 5. And Minor Spear Mastery on boots

This puts my Attributes at: 14 Leadership, 12 Spear Mastery, 10 Command

I am wielding Hidesplitter's Spear and Aureate Aegis of Fortitude.

How this Build Adds to a Team: Basically, this build's purpose is to put a whole lot of pressure on the other team with fast and furious spears, but also the overarching reason for this build is to assist the monks. How? I will tell you! The way you assist monks is by reducing the amount of damage that their team mates take with damage reducing, armor boosting, and 60 pt health heals after TNtF is gone, thus making sure that the Monks have more than enough energy to handle any big spikes.

When Charging into Battle: The first skills you play when charging into a battle are 6 and 7 or [soldier's fury] and ["there's nothing to fear!"]. Reasoning: Because most enemy teams throw most of their damage in the first few seconds so playing TNtF over ["Stand your ground!"] is the better first skill in a battle.
Then, you build up your adrenaline and as soon as [blazing spear] is set up, you throw that at your target, followed by [Spear of Fury] to give 3-6 strikes of adrenaline to shout ["Save Yourselve's!"]. Next, by this time, ["There's nothing to fear!"] has run out and you must cast ["Stand your ground!"]. By doing this, you will ensure that [Soldier's Fury] is rocking the other team's world while fueling you with some Rageful Adrenaline! You want to stagger TNtF and SYG, so that one is not in duration with the other to keep a shout on your character 100% of the time.
Then, while TNtF is recharging and SYG is in force, by this time your target should be below 50% so you should wound that thug with [merciless spear] ! Also during this time you are spamming ["go for the eyes!"].
Now, once TNtF is fulling charged and ready to roll, you press 6 and 7 (SF and TNtF) and Save Yourselve's should be ready to be played at this time with TNtF. That way, the armor bonus is not stacking with SYG because the armor bonus will cap at +25 with multiple skills. Then you rinse and repeat.

Summary: When running into battle the button pressing goes something like 6-7-1-2-4-8-...( up to the imagination at this point 1-2-3-5 or 3-2-5)...then 7-6-4 then 8 when TNtF runes out and the fun continues.

Again, I cannot stress this enough, you must stagger TNtF and SYG, As Well As Save Yourselve's and SYG in order to make sure that SF is working at all times and your build is not running into itself.

I believe this build is > than any Focused Anger build, but I have some ideas of what I might take out and replace, such as Merciless Spear for a Sunspear Signet or GFTE for something else like ["Never Surrender!"]. Any thoughts, comments, positive feedback, and constructive criticism are welcome

You might want to use [[Go for the Eyes] in conjunction with [[Vicious Attack] instead of [[Merciless Spear].

That is a great idea! As the Adrenaline fuels Energy and Energy fuels the high costing Shouts the Shouts sustain Soldier's Fury. My only fear is that with all there is to think about with this build, is adding another dynamic like that the needle that broke the camels back?

Then again, a person using this build could just associate 1 with 2, 3 with 5, 4 with 7, and then what's left is 6 with 8. If that change is made then I would consider changing the order of the build to look something like

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in order to help make it easy to think when in the midst of a battle.

You've basically made an Imbagon that is personally stronger through an armor boost and not having Cracked Armor, but won't have a permanent IAS, or at least an easily maintainable one, and will do a worse job of keeping up SY! because of your use of other adrenal skills.

What "other team" half your skills are PvE so you cannot use it in PvP...

Consider replacing [Blazing Spear] with [Anthem of Flame]. [Anthem of Flame] is partywide, does not take away adrenaline from [Save Yourselves], and also can be casted before a battle then followed up with [Spear of Fury] for an instantly charged [Save Yourselves].

In addition, [Anthem of Envy] seems like a better choice than [Go for the eyes]. Criticals aren't that good with a spear, and +damage is more useful in many situations. [Vicious Attack] can then be replaced with some utility, such as [Spear Swipe].

Finally, if you can find room in your attributes to spec into tactics, [Watch Yourself] instead of [Stand Your Ground]. The reason for this is that monks, who are often targeted by enemy groups, tend to kite a lot, meaning [Stand your ground] is wasted on them. [Watch Yourself] is unconditional and while it does cost adrenaline, if you replace [Go for the eyes] you end up with about the same adrenaline/energy usage.

Faye, thanks for your input! I have since updated my bar to look like

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because Anthem of Flame was too obvious a choice over Blazing Spear. Also, I am going to try out the Anthem of Envy and Spear Swipe suggestions as well as mess around with my attributes to see what I can do for increasing Tactics for "Watch Yourself!"

I have been playing around with this in HM and it is a lot simpler to play than I thought it was going to be in the beginning. I simply press 6 and 7 together, 1 and 2, followed by 5, 3 and 4 together and 8 is for when TNtF is charging. Basically, there is either +100 or +25 armor on at all times, as well as 35% less damage for 11 out of 20 seconds.

Considering your ideas though, which make a lot of sense, it comes down to Command Vs. Tactics. If we moved 10 points from Command to Tactics, there would be no need for GFTE and SYG. But I think Anthem of Envy shouldn't be on the bar of a 10 Tactics attribute...so another skill would have to be used perhaps [blazing finale] for more burn or [remedy signet] to remove blind or any other skill in Tactics ?? For example : ["For great justice!"] except PvE version is 20 seconds.
Pros of Tactics: can cause daze, and can boost armor of kiters.
Pros of Command: You get a critical hit, a decent attack with a chance to deep wound, and a 5 second more boost to armor than WY with 6 more armor

I've edited this like 5 times, but I just came up with this as a possible Tactics leaning build:

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and you can variate the 8th skill with Spear Swipe.

Is anybody leaning one way more than the other?