Favorite Elite to Build a Bar Around?

jazilla

jazilla

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Guernsey Milking Coalition[MiLk]

E/Me

What's your favorite Elite Skill to build your bar around, and in what format do you use it in? Is it the flexibility of the Elite, or the damage, or something else?

My favorite is Master of Magic. I like using it with Prismatic Insignias to come up with off the wall stuff that combines well from all attributes. It opens up the options when I want to do something fun and different.

Thanks for sharing yours.

Alay

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2010

Enraged Lunge probably is my favorite elite for pet bars :] It allows pets to do a viable amount of damage in PvE to be a factor, and augment Ranger's rather meh single target damage.

Maya Cerestiez

Maya Cerestiez

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2009

Sweden

HYAHHHHH!

Signet of Illusions

StormDragonZ

StormDragonZ

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

New York

W/R

Mesmer: Signet of Illusions, Shared Burden
Necromancer: Life Transfer, Corrupt Enchantment, Weaken Knees
Elementalist: Thunderclap, Mind Freeze
Warrior: Whirling Axe, Crippling Slash, "Victory Is Mine!"
Assassin: Siphon Strength, Palm Strike
Ranger: Prepared Shot, Barrage, Incendiary Arrows

I haven't played the other four classes.

Andemius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2008

Vanguard's Last Stand [Hero]

W/

I'd probably say Restore Condition

bleh

bleh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

N.Z.

_

P/

Have to say

1) Master of Magic/ Elemental Attunement ( too much fun using water snares then big nukes with intensity)
2) Assasins Promise, works well, ummmm full stop .

Not New

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2012

Where the Occupation takes me

Occupy this [site]

Mo/D

Elite skills I find in which builds HAVE to be based around, usually cause nothing else in the line helps with what the elite is intended for.

1. ROJ
2. FoC
3. BiP
4. Signet of Illusions
5. Keystone
6.Spirit Strength

HanSolo

HanSolo

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2011

Tyria

Mighty Is Our Name[MioN]

Any Ranger preparations. Fun to find builds that can use em efficiently.

Voodoo Rage

Voodoo Rage

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2008

Sacramento, CA

Geezers

R/

Other than the typical meta stuff (SoS, Hundred Blades, AP etc...), a few elites that I like that might not be as popular:

Ranger - Incendiary Arrows; kind of a poor man's barrage the lets you add on the preparation that Barrage doesn't

Necro - Icy Veins; since they non-gimped elemental damage, this is a very underrated elite in that it effect foes "nearby" and not just adjacent

Elementalist - Elemental Attunement, lets you spam whatever you want AND +2 attributes. Sign me up.

epervier

epervier

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2009

Jersey

Oath of Fire [Oath]

E/

Glyph of Energy.
No durration, no exhaustion for the next three spells, possible energy RETURN, and +2 to all atributes, Sign me up. Works great with the new revamp rules for exhaustion.

WarcryOfTruth

WarcryOfTruth

Site Contributor

Join Date: Nov 2009

Atlanta

[LIFE]

P/

Glass Arrows - after capping this on my Ranger I decided I liked it.

Glimmer of Light - My all time favorite skill in the game, it's the only red bar one needs, and the rest of the bar can be filled with literally anything!

AlexaCocopuffs

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2011

Mine would have to be Vow of Silence in PvP....nothings more fun then killing some casters who cant do anything about it haha

Lanier

Lanier

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2010

[Pink]

P/

Assassin's Promise is incredibly fun to use in assassin builds to use all of those dagger attacks/deadly arts skills that have too long of a recharge to use normally. I currently have 3 different chains that use AP.

Illusionary Weaponry is also a fun elite to build a bar around

_Aphotic_

_Aphotic_

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2010

Muppets Versus Muppets [MvM]

P/A

Skull Crack.

legacyofkain85

legacyofkain85

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Lady Ainowa

assassin's promise+some pve only skills for a caster(because i eventually got bored and decided to c+space everything)

jazilla

jazilla

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Guernsey Milking Coalition[MiLk]

E/Me

Star Burst has been pretty fun in RA lately. There are quite a few different applications for it too. Using it with Glowing Gaze doesn't even require an Attunement.

Radigand

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2012

absolute destruction [ad]

Me/R

lol, Amity. The possibilities of use are limitless.

EPO Bot

EPO Bot

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Mo/N

I love to use Glimmer of light because of it's speed. Mostly in smaller groups tough.

Daddy

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2011

VSF

A/

Most of this convo is between PvP people, which I am def not, but I'm gonna go ahead and throw it out there... Ur all thinking it but don't want the consequences.... Shadowform

Loki Seiguro

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

IGN: Scarlet Test Ace

We play Isketch in [HoH]

E/

Illusunary Weapon...

yeah pvp..but also maybe used in pve lols.

Ran this back in the days of HA being in Tombz. 6 ME/W :P

jazilla

jazilla

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Guernsey Milking Coalition[MiLk]

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Daddy View Post
Most of this convo is between PvP people, which I am def not, but I'm gonna go ahead and throw it out there... Ur all thinking it but don't want the consequences.... Shadowform
Yeah it is a pretty fun skill to build a bar with. Lots of fun applications. Would have been nice to get a split with it for PvP that wasn't OP, and wasn't broken either.

LichReiit

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

N/Mo

I love to do the opposite of this. I'll have a build that is self-sufficient without the use of an elite and then I'll swap in whatever elite sounds fun at the time.

It means I get to do weird things like running RoJ on my Paragon ^^

Tarkin

Tarkin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

W/N

I use very flexible builds, but its all about the henchs support skills...
You ask for one skill... its barrage
Barrage for ranger + spliter weapow support hero
Barrage for sin with the right one skills, its fast no stop 5 critical strikes
but you can build good builds using barrage for another classes...
Barrage for rit...
Barrage for dervishs...
Barrage for paragorns...

Whatway

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2011

WTB Q11-13 Str -2e/-2s Eternal Shields

A/Me













100 Blades.

aspi

aspi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2010

eeew

N/Rt

Used to be wounding strike with my Scythe Sin. But now probably Warriors endurance.

Gill Halendt

Gill Halendt

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by Whatway View Post
100 Blades.
Second that. And also lol @ the picture above, wonder how many people here will get its meaning...

itiscurtains

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2010

Focused Anger.
With "GftE!" it's like Warrior's Endurance for paragons.

tealspikes

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2009

Elite?? During this flux?!?!

Lanier

Lanier

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2010

[Pink]

P/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gill Halendt View Post
Second that. And also lol @ the picture above, wonder how many people here will get its meaning...
...not me. Care to explain?

Gill Halendt

Gill Halendt

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lanier View Post
...not me. Care to explain?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_server

ValaOfTheFens

ValaOfTheFens

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2006

Warrior Nation[WN]

Spiteful Spirit. It was the first elite I ever capped and it remains a favorite. I know its terrible because it scatters clumps, thus defeating the point of running it, but I cast after I see "!" from the baddies and its fine. Spoil Victor is a close second because it reminds me of my epic battles again Shiro and the Lich.