Riftway - A team build for 2 people or Merc users

Edited with suggestions.

Hello all,

I wanted to make a build for myself and my girlfriend that was fun and (to us) new. I followed the plan of BIG DOMAGES! = more fun and faster battles.

In short you get active (not passive) large aoe damage, fast movement, high protection, healing, hex and condition removal, all in one. The humans don't have to micro anything apart from the disabled aggressive refrains when you first map in, the hero with AoF maintains them thereafter.

The builds were not only designed with skill interaction in mind, but we also watched as the heroes used the bars, changing out skills (eg dark fury, love it, but it had to go) that caused other skills not to be used effectively.

It's not just theory craft either, we went out and have so far ran through Bogroots, Frostmaws and Rragnars dungeons in HM. Pretty simple places, but we found them quick and straight forward. Died once in Rragnars due to fallbacking into the 2 necro bosses thinking it was a standard group, and once in Frostmaws due to a bad idea of mine.

Having already done UW in nm and hm with other builds, we'll be trying this one out there as soon as we get round to it, and I'll update this post; it'll probably require 2 copies of SY and TNTF for the 4 H quest so you can split.

FoW is too easy to comment on or be bothered to test out, so I assume it'll be as easy as it is with more standard meta teams.



What you get

It's based around spirit rift, ancestors rage and splinter weapon, with solid para based protection and damage.

SR - Doesn't matter how many copies you have, cracked armour included so increasing subsequent damage. 2 sec cast is bad, but the heroes have HCT/HRT staffs and they deal with it, not me.

AR - Awesome. Cheap, fast casting and AoE.

3 copies of Splinter - All spear users and some minions/allies get it too, armour ignoring multi-target damage.

Other stuff included:

1. Party wide hex removal and an elite hex/condition remover.
2. Stacked condition removal
3. Party wide damage reduction, high armour, blocking
4. Cracked armour flying around willy nilly, so the paras do some serious damage too, and other non-armour ignoring damage is increased.
5. Enemy party wide enchant removal, ie raptor groups; strips all their critical defences for 5e.
6. Interrupts
7. Minion wall, large ones too.
8. Party damage split between casters and attackers, so party wide blind wont gimp you, neither will party wide daze.
9. Deep wound if target's not already destroyed.
10. Constant burning applied
11. A party build 2/3rds non-meta
12. Mobile damage - No spirit armies stuck just out of attack range.
13. No long cast times on human bars (AR doesn't count as single cast), and only a few long-cast skills on hero bars, the MM-prot, but why change what is so good.
14. Near permanent +33% movement speed.
15. Abuse the wonder-finales

Have fun, post suggestions to improve, and if I thought of it already I'll try and explain why I didn't use it. If I like them, I'll adjust the build.

Hope all the couples enjoy it as much as we are right now.

owk let me give u my thoughts about it :

- looks like a very solid build , you got enough hex/condition removal and with 2 imba's damage will pretty much be non-existing so the healing from the 2 rit's will definetly do

-also , if u put 15 channeling on the rit's instead of 14 then u get that sweet 50 damage point for splinter weapon wich is just to fun to ignore , at least it is for me ^^


also ps : there is 1 thing that is bugging me .... and its pretty much the sole reason is posted anything on this build even though its solid enough and u know it .

11. A party build 2/3rds non-meta

0.o ...? what ?
if i recall rit's are a huge part of the meta , your bars may not be 100% meta-barrs but change like 2 skills and they are.
imbagon is pretty much the only build in meta for the paragorn's.

the only non meta thing i see is the para hero build at the bottem ....
so its more like 1/8 non meta ..

at least thats how i see it ^^"

The only adrenal skill on the first human is GftE.Maybe replacing AR + FA with Soldier's Fury and ToF.Do those rt/me have energy problems because my heroes tend not to use leech signet,power drain and hex eater signet?

Your main dds are 'mages' and you don't have Blood Ritual or Blood is Power ...why?Put one of those on your MM and replace Offering of Spirit with Clamor of Souls.Animate Vampiric Horror instead of Animate Shambling Horror so your MM could regain health.("Consider using Splinter Weapon on this creature as the damage caused by Splinter Weapon will also heal you").

I will choose Recuperation over Rejuvenation but it may cause some energy problems.Agony sux.

Thanks for the replies, you've given me some knowledge about the vamp summon I never knew, I think I'll change that.

@nightschroud

Thanks for the compliments, I'm ok with only minor runes, so 14 is enough for me The two humans aren't quite full imbas, as I split the two stapled skills so we could both do a little more damage. The defence isn't as high as it could be, but it's still plenty for 95% of GW.

The comment about 2/3rds non meta was said tongue in cheek, yes rits are meta, but people seem to post spirit spam builds, that I've seen anyway. I can't say I've caught every team build posted though.

@Demon's Dance

I toyed with Soldiers Fury and the tactics one too, as 33% IAS is always better. The reason I went with the usual FA/AR combo was ease of use, FA has no activation time and lasts 45 secs, AR is one cast only when you map in. I like a personal build that doesn't require too much casting time, the ebon standard skill is the only spell I can stand to use, and that's only because it's so powerful.

Only one add. skill as it's mainly for my own energy management, and to trigger finales/refrains/deep wound.

The resto rits are generally ok with energy, even in frostmaws with all the QZ spirits. I have swapped leech sig for WNWN when there's not many casters in an area, the elite skill pays for it self too. The para hero has Energizing finale, not sure if you saw that, it's as OP as the other finales, he likes to throw it about, I find with 3 paras it's all the energy top-up the party needs.

There's a reason I chose the spirits I did, you may have noticed there's no bloodsong, and it's the same reason: they live too long.

When I had BS in there, the heroes would not recast it, even on recharge, if the old one is "in spirit range". That's longer range than earshot, so OoS/Spirit Light etc becomes a sac skill or others don't work as well. Most of the spirits I chose are cheap and kill themselves, so the hero AI will recast on recharge, keeping more spirits in earshot, hence chosing Agony etc.

Thanks for the vamp suggestion, I'm going to check (not that I don't trust you ) and will update the team build in the OP.

Edit: You're correct, OP updated, swapped in WNWN too for more energy gain when not many casters in a map. Though I might change it back when I've
tested it.

Edit 2: Swapped power drain back in as I prefer the interrupts and energy is ok on those rits. Changed dodge this for Asuran Scan so more reliable add. gain for SY.

You could take out one of the rits and put a curses necro in for weakness/shadow of fear/barbs. The healer would probably be best as curses doesn't require too much investment (9+1 should be fine) and as a necro they'll have superior energy management. Also swapping putrid bile for summon bone minions would be a good idea as then you'd have more bombs/ex[endable meatshields.

I demand that you rename your build "Togoway"

In honor of the "Orion of Cantha", who made sure that a pretty blue ball exploded over EVERY enemy corpse he saw.

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