I am the Highway! - 7 hero balanced team build

Isn't 451 over 180 around 2.5 DPS?

Obviously you can bring a couple of resses on you rangers - and I would remove the ones from your healers. Its been said about a billion times over the years, but if you bring a res on a healer, when someone dies they will stop healing to res the player and more people will die. You might be alright leaving FomF on the necro, but definately take it off the monk.

Didn't know 3 Ranger is considerate Balance. Dang, I ran Balance 3 necro for a while without realizing.

I would take Enfeeble blood over Rigor mortis.
Unless you micro Death Nova, might as well take Age of extinction away -_-'' Your minion will die be4 you even cast Death Nova on it.

Any reason for Healing Ribbon on the monk? It's 10 energy and you have an AOE heal via Healing Burst. Heaven's delight is also pretty lame when you consider that Healing Burst gives more or less the same effect. It only shines when you have UA.

Yea healing burst pretty much makes healing ribbon useless. Monks are hardly ever going to have enough energy to cast 10e spells, particularly not one with such a low recharge.

The only 10e skill I put on monks anymore is Aegis. Anything else like prot spirit / sprit bond goes on necros or ellys because they have the energy to handle those skills.

And the 6s cast hard res on the monk is a terrible choice. Its never a good idea to have a res on your primary healers unless its UA.

Also with all those spirits in the party, you would be better off going monkless with an N/Rt healer instead.

As for the 3 rangers, they will probably be putting out half the amount of damage with all three combined compared to a pair of mesmers.

Pretty valid point, to be honest im not 100% sure about the entire monk at all. I had a panic mes in it's position but with the amount of KD and rupts going around it's pretty much pointless. That said I do find having a AoE focused healer leaves all characters doing a better job.

Ran a modified version of this last night as was able to clear FoW nm without any trouble.

Not particularly fast, but was pretty safe since everything got kd'd over and over.

WHats the point of HaO over barrage?

Res Chant is crap.

Renew Life is better even with its touch range. 6s cast time res spells are horrible to use, especially in HM and elite areas.

If your party starts dying, and your primary healers start casting a 6s res spell, the rest of your party is going to die within the next 3-4 seconds.

Even better is to take Unyielding Aura if you feel like you must have a monk with a res skill. It resses with full health + energy, and its immediate.

If you put Res Chant on a Mesmer @ reasonable Fast casting, it would cast faster than Renew Life. So would Res Chant on a HB Monk.

Res Chant has big advantages over Death Pact, UA and Flesh of my Flesh, as should be obvious. So although it is usually inferior to Death Pact, I wouldn't call it crap. Of course you don't put it on a primary healer, or if you do, you micro it ...

I was trying out something similar to this last night...

SoGM rits are laughably horrible without Summon spirits. Heroes doubly so, since they don't use SoGM well. I would just go with a ST rit bringing Earth Bind. Very good defensively, good to free up other heroes from needing to spam heals/prots.

Bring FW and Winnowing on the other rangers for more damage. Since everything is physical thats a +4 damage to every hit and a +10 for the rangers. Granted, actually having them up at all times is unlikely, but its still nice.

Since you are running EBSoH, best off bringing Bone Fiends as they gain the + damage. Go OoU as well if you want to abuse it to the max. Almost +40 damage per hit from them when combined with Winnowing, you can get a good 25-35 DPS or so from each one depending on armor levels. Might end up dropping the MB stuff altogether even, knocked down enemies don't kill minions much...

The Curse Necro's elite is pretty much bunk outside of a few specialized areas, and well of ruin is going to be completely random in its usefulness while stealing corpses that would be always useful to your MB. Might want to check out going with some blood spells, specifically OoP. Rigor Mortis is really nice, but possibly not all that useful considering your pets are already unblockable.

Heal as One is meh. Barrage or Enraged Lunge, pick one of them. A self heal does not deserve an elite spot. More AoE and +damage on your ranger turrets or 200 damage pet attacks do. Feral Aggression > Predatory bond, higher IAS AND +Damage. I'm not sure on hero usage of throw dirt. If they use it like enemies (i.e. run into melee as soon as battle starts to use it on something), then ditch it

As for using SoH, I would recommend the following build:
Me/Mo
Keystone Signet
Symbolic Celerity
Mantra of Inscriptions
Signet Of Clumsiness
Unnatural Signet
Blessed Signet
Hex Eater Signet
Strength of Honor

Its probably one of the better ways to have a hero maintain more than 2 maintained enchants without failing disastrously. Haven't spent too much time seeing how they use it, there may be further changes that would help. You could probably also easily swap Keystone + some of the other signets to run a RoJ nuker if you felt like it. The only problem is when Symbolic Celerity goes down and the hero doesn't have energy to recast it (and without it Blessed Signet won't work to regain the energy). Its not that hard to micro past this, just make sure they stay at about 20 energy or greater, which they almost always do on their own unless you are pushing 5 or more maintained enchants.