Wow, bigger reaction than I thought, would like to thank everyone who took the time to comment on the build, just going to address and elaborate on some points made. Not saying this is the only way to do this because that's completely asinine.
As always, questions and comments are always welcome.
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Originally Posted by Life Bringing
A simple Aegis on your standard hero MM does so much more than this build ever could.
1/3 of the time 50% chance to block on party members in earshot vs a maintainable, spammable AoE 90% chance to miss. I don't want to play a meta game here, but thats just the numbers.
In gameplay, Aegis can be stripped and has a long recharge. Aegis chaining is expensive, annoying to do with heros.
If they remove the blindness, it's easily reapplied. Also there are a lot of areas where foes use skills that are unblockable or have effects if blocked.
And you're comparing a minion wall vs. blindness. Minions can't be directed and even if positioned correctly there is no way to guarantee proper targeting, meanwhile blindness can.
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Originally Posted by Life Bringing
Tbh, why are you running a Bsurge? A dead enemy does a lot less damage than a blinded one, and air magic is bad in PvE.
Because it's a spammable, easy to maintain AoE blindness that effectively shuts down half of the professions in the game, which must mean it's just terrible.
Sorry, just couldn't resist sarcasm. It helps take pressure of your monks, it saves them energy in spells they don't need to cast - and last but not least - it's an idiotproof hero build. Heroes aren't great at judging which skills to use when, and this build is easy for them to manage.
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Originally Posted by Arkantos
Bsurge isn't the greatest skill to take if you want anti-melee. Ward against melee is going to end up being more helpful (AoE block vs. single target blind). Not to mention it frees up your elite slot, and can be run on any caster without too much speccing into earth.
It's effective vs. Rangers and Paragons as well when the ward is not, and while they don't necessarily do large amounts of damage but it prevents interupts, conditions, slows down adrenaline gain on the paragons. Also wards are stationairy, and if there are casters that have DoT AoE spells it doesn't help to stand in one spot. And hero's are jittery crack heads who, even flagged, eventually start moving around, chasing their own tails.
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Originally Posted by Xenomortis
Single target cracked armour and weakness leaves something to be desired and damage clearly isn't the goal of this build
The build is designed combine well with the 7 (or 5, or 11, early ascalon HM it's not as useful) other party members. Fevered Dreams, Extend Condtions on a Mesmer, Virulence (it's not great I know) but it works well with it. Even just Epidemic, although heroes manage it poorly by spamming. It's more a utility, party support build that is brutally effective at stopping physical damage from most sources.
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Originally Posted by Xenomortis
Stick those attribute points into E Storage and replace the Radiant/Attunement stuff with Survivor/Vitae+Vigor stuff.
I find it works fine the way it is, and putting an excessive amount of attribute points into E.S. just to get 6 more energy out of it seems like more of a waste than putting it into Earth. More health is always a bonus, but at the same time it's an ele hero and it *shouldn't* be out front. Also I find heroes are idiots when using glyphs, and glyph of elemental power seems to be the only one they really don't mess up. 9/10 I have BR in my party so I don't really worry too much about it, the energy management during battle seems to hold it up enough, they use shock arrow fantasticly. In extended battles GoLE would be a better choice, but micro managing it to make sure it's effective can be difficult or problematic depending on your profession choice.
In the end when you rune it's really personal choice, (assuming with the runes on this build) which do you want - +12 e or +100 hp? I just prefer energy over health. | |
