Avatar of Melandru

I was playing around with the new derv skills trying to find something that would work for PvE and I eventully came up with this build

Mysticism: 12+1+1
Scythe: 10+1
Earth: 10+1

Avatar of Melandru {E}
Feel No Pain
Intimidating Aura
Drunken Master
Mystic Regeneration
Aura Slicer
Reap Impurities
Victorious Swipe

With this build, when drunk, you will have a constant 1000+ health and -9 dmg reduction from foes with less health than you, plus a constant +8-9 health regen depending on your norn rank. AoM also gives +30 elemental armor which is very useful when facing eles and rits on HM. The damage from Aura Slicer/Reap Impurities combo is decent and easily spammable.

12/9/9 or 11/10/10

might i also recommend eternal aura for your 3rd pve skill for even more +health fun.

if this build is specifically for hm, you may want to reconsider since -9 damage redux doesn't help as much as +armor stuff.

Just a note: Direct HP gain is always better than Health regen unless you're hexed with stuff like scourge healing. Mystic Vigor will heal more than 12.5regen (22.222HP/sec if you have IAS,25/sec with your 33% IAS, or 16.67/sec without IAS) if you have 2 other enchantments and HP regen/degen is capped at 10, so 20HP/s.


Mysticism: 10+1
Scythe: 11+1+1
Earth: 10+1

Avatar of Melandru [Elite]
Mystic Vigor
Intimidating Aura
Drunken Master
Mirage Cloak/Armor of Sanctity
Aura Slicer
Reap Impurities
Victorious Sweep

+30 armor to elemental is really marginal when you could just slap on Vow of Piety (+24). You're not triggering the end condition removal anyway. Armor doesn't stack after all (save for "I am unstoppable!"). If you have a SY! spammer in the team, the build absolutely is pointless: you're pulling a condition every time your Intimidating Aura & Mystic Regeneration end, which is once every 60s and 16s for a total of once every 12.63sec, or even less if you run an Enchanting modifier. It also converts your damage into earth damage, which is unfavorable in hard mode.

If it were up to me I'd ditch Melandru for Veil of Thorns if spell damage is really killing you that badly. I'd rather have Mirage Cloak to trigger the Avatar and also because it has block chance which is beneficial to you due to having 96-105 armor (70+15 windwalker+11 Mysticism+5 from scythe if applicable).


Mysticism: 10+1
Scythe: 11+1+1
Earth: 10+1

Vow of Piety
Mystic Vigor
Intimidating Aura
Drunken Master
Vow of Strength [Elite] (21 slashing)/Ebon Dust Aura [Elite] (+16)
Aura Slicer
Reap Impurities
Victorious Sweep