Mouth of Torment Hero's

As said before, smiting is the way to go here.

Whenever possible, pull the awakened alongside a wall/rock/whatever and block their path with your spirits. Pre-cast FS before pulling and when they ball up against the spirits -> 3x RoJ and BOOM, awakened gone.

The point is, discord is sub par now since the 7 hero update. I'm not saying it doesn't work, there's just so many better options that are now availible, but I guess these are not on PvX (yet?) so a lot of people won't accept them.

I did this VQ long before the 7 hero update and ended up finding a build using 3 smite monks in one of the forums. The build is as follows.

Castignation Signet > Signet of Judjment > Smite Condition > Smite Hex > Reversal of Damage > Smiter's Boon > Divine Boon > Divine Spirit

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Set up all three of your monk heroes with this build. I ended up taking the two monk henchies, the earth ele, and I think the derv. The groups of awakened just blew up, and I didn't even bring fs. They died so fast even their rezing couldn't help them.

I started from Basalt Grotto so that I could take on the first awakened group with the para boss early to save time if it didn't work. You can use the terrain to pull them around the corner of the mountain so they ball up nicely. Most of the large groups can be balled up on the terrain with proper pulling.

Now with 7 heroes it should be even easier. I have been using these smite monks with the 2 RT from spiritway, and 2 N/RT healers to do SoO in HM and even when getting aggro from 2 groups they handle the pressure just fine.

Bring 3 ROJ monks with heals (You can have additional supoort heals too), If your party gets in trouble damage wise, put the monks on don't attack...how many of the monks you command is depending on how bad the situation is.

I guess we had a communication problem, then. When I see the words "massive fail", I think they mean "unsuccessful". When something does not succeed, I consider that "not working". Apparently we are not using the same dictionary and "massive fail" actually means "somewhat underperforming in comparison to alternatives".

I had more written, but MY point is that flippant, inflamatory hyperbole only serves to derail yet another thread into a pro/anti-Discord debate. There are already plenty of threads where that is more appropriate. A simple "Discord is not your best choice in dealing with undead" would have sufficed, since this is unquestionably true and not particularly judgemental about the general merits of that team build.

A simple "Discord is not your best choice in dealing with undead" would have sufficed, since this is unquestionably true and not particularly judgemental about the general merits of that team build.


/signed

So you think AoE skills with Big Numbers are all that is required to make a build optimal? No need to consider cost, cast time, or cooldown? No need to consider that heroes will gladly use those skills on single targets that do not have any other foes within the required range for the AoE effect, using them to do single-target damage that is inferior to the single-target damage of Discord?

There are a lot of factors to consider in making a build optimal, and AoE damage is not always optimal even if it has big damage numbers attached to it. (And you have to be a bit careful in judging those big numbers. Take FoC, for example. You are aware, are you not, that Shadow Damage is not armor ignoring? It is non-elemental/non-physical damage that does not ignore base armor.)