Dagger Build

Energy can (rarely) get tight at the beginning of a fight because of crit eye (5e), WotA (5e), crit agility (5e), and asuran scan (5e) so by the time I'm actually done precasting everything I'm down to about 7-8 energy from regen. So if that first hit isn't a crit, even with zealous daggers energy can be tight. Just have to give it a few seconds though and it's pretty much full though I find if I stagger the use of my skills that prep me up for dealing 1337 damage I can maintain my energy during the initial spurt of skill use.
IE: Holding off on, lets say, A scan until I get 1-2 skills off, since I will be waiting ~1-2 seconds for Fox Fangs to recharge anyway I might as well make the rotation sustainable to reduce the risk that I won't have enough energy to use FF when it pops up.

I apologize before hand if no one understands wtf I am trying to say .

I enjoy Critical Agility, but it seems to be getting stripped a good amount for me. Especially in HM and in the WiK. Sometimes the second I reapply it, it's gone. I've been running WotA for a bit to see how it is, been going pretty good. Along with critical eye, SY, dash and critical defense since I couldn't think of anything else. I know CD is another enchantment, but even though it does get stripped it doesn't seem like that I'm at that much of a disadvantage then when CA gets stripped. I guess I could bring both CA and WotA but would it be worth it? Assuming your h/hing bring cover enchants, sometimes there is just too much Enchant hate and your SoL (use order heroes/ rapid end / reapplying chants since Critical Agility reapplies itself to the top of the stack EVERY time you crit)

I enjoy Critical Agility, but it seems to be getting stripped a good amount for me. Especially in HM and in the WiK. Sometimes the second I reapply it, it's gone. I've been running WotA for a bit to see how it is, been going pretty good. Along with critical eye, SY, dash and critical defense since I couldn't think of anything else. I know CD is another enchantment, but even though it does get stripped it doesn't seem like that I'm at that much of a disadvantage then when CA gets stripped. I guess I could bring both CA and WotA but would it be worth it? I'm not having huge problems with Crit Agility getting stripped, but we may just be playing different parts of the game. What I do is I bring both WotA and CA, and if CA keeps getting stripped I just don't reapply it because WotA is still giving me an 18% IAS. Not a huge loss really. If you see it getting stripped a lot, just pay attention to what you're currently fighting so you know when to expect to see it stripped later on.

So would you guys run a defensive skill while running CA and Wota or no? I always get the feeling that I'm only getting half the benefit of the skill when running CA and Wota together. I don't run any defensive skills on my bar. I took out Shadow Refuge and Crit Defenses for SY! and Asuran Scan. Leave the job of keeping you alive to heroes or other players that are set up for that role. If you find yourself needing a skill, look at what your heroes are doing and see what you can do about it.

I was using a monk hero and I noticed that sometimes I would die, not because I was taking too much damage but because I wasn't being healed. Turned out that even though every skill in my hero's bar cost 5 energy and he had GoLE, he was almost always at 5 or below energy. Tried switching him from UA to HB so he wouldn't have the degen from UA, he was better at keeping people alive but he still had energy problems. Finally got tired of him and switched him for N/Rt healer. Energy management and decent heals. If you find that the heals aren't enough, you can try to take out another hero for another healer (assuming you're also using a henchman healer) or you can try taking a Prot with you.

Just try to identify what the problem is and play around with your party until you get something that works. Currently I'm farming Secret Lair of the Snowmen on my sin, and I'll die (not wipe) 1-3 times per run because of their spikes. Having 10+ snowballs doing 50 damage each is not fun. I'm considering taking a prot if microing my heroes doesn't work. If for whatever reason that doesn't work (stupid henchmen ) I'll probably just run perma and tank the snowballs.

I just realized it's freakin snowballs that are killing me... what kind of snowballs are those snowmen using?

Anyways I guess the bottom line is that you should leave your heroes with the job of keeping you alive, and if you're having trouble staying alive without a defensive skill, it's probably your heroes. They aren't smart like humans. Take my monk hero for example; he's using a build that would be easy for me to manage energy with for an extended amount of time without waiting for energy between fights, but he runs out of energy after like 10 seconds.