New DoA teambuild help

Hey! I'm looking forward to some DoA events with my guild. Now my problem is that most of us are unexperienced with Domain of Anguish, so Trenchway, mes spike etc wouldn't work, and I don't really like Glaiveway. What I thought is combining FoW's Manly Spike VoS, and some Trenchway builds along a solo tank. Not that much skipping, just same balling everywhere, with tank pinging honor, and MoP calling. We know physway is working here, so why wouldn't two dervs work? I know it wouldn't be so fast, but this is good for unexperienced parties I think, with a good tank.

Tank A/Me
Shadow Arts 12+3+1
Inspiration Magic 12

Shroud of Distress
Shadow Form
Mantra of Resolve
"I am Unstoppable!"
Shadow of Haste
Recall
Ebon Battle Standard of Honor
Death's Charge

2x VoS D/A
Earth Prayers 12+1+3
Scythe Mastery 11
Mysticism 6

Vow of Strength
Sand Shards
Staggering Force
Heart of Holy Flame
Eremite's Attack
"I am Unstoppable!"
"I am the Strongest!"
Death's Charge

VoR Me/R

Fast Casting 8
Beast Mastery 10
Domination Magic 12+1+3

Air of Superiority
Visions of Regret
Unnatural Signet
Overload
Shatter Delusions
Cry of Pain
Mistrust
Edge of Extinction

Esurge Me/N
Domination Magic 12
Fast Casting 12

Arcane Echo
Energy Surge
Unnatural Signet
Mistrust
Backfire
Necrosis
Lightbringer Signet
Arcane Mimicry

SS/MoP N/Me
Curses 12+1+3
Soul Reaping 8+3
Domination Magic 10

Spiteful Spirit
Mark of Pain
Unnatural Signet
Cry of Pain
Defile Enchantments
Insidious Parasite
"Finish Him!"
Necrosis

UA Mo/E
Divine Favor 12+1+3
Protection Prayers 12
Water Magic 3

Deep Freeze
Seed of Life
Ebon Escape
Blessed Signet
Life Attunement
Blessed Aura
Life Bond
Unyielding Aura

EMo E/Mo
Energy Storage 12+1+3
Protection Prayers 12
Healing Prayers 3

Spirit Bond
Burning Speed
Infuse Health
Ether Renewal
Ebon Escape
Balthazar's Spirit
Protective Bond
Life Bond


However there are some concerns(and more of course):
-Could the two VoS survive?
-Would this tank be able to do whole DoA, or should we switch it to A/N(which would be rupted)
-What are the counters for these builds?
-What could we do at Mallyx?

Please help me correcting builds, and point out what problems there are. As I said, don't be hard, I'm bad at DoA.
Thanks in advance!

I don't really get why you would want to replace the regular spikers with VoS.

Some kind of physway can work there yes, but it's way harder than a casterspike, due to the need of perfect balls (else you'll have a huge problem with the clean-up) and high risk of melee dying quickly (and basically any mob in DoA being loaded with melee-hate).

Since you are quite new to the area, taking the safest path would be wise, so I'd stick with the regular mesmer spikers.

For Mallyx, I don't think SC teams work there (it seems hard to ball everything), but I never tried this way, so don't take it for granted.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lyv

I don't really get why you would want to replace the regular spikers with VoS.

Some kind of physway can work there yes, but it's way harder than a casterspike, due to the need of perfect balls (else you'll have a huge problem with the clean-up) and high risk of melee dying quickly (and basically any mob in DoA being loaded with melee-hate).

Since you are quite new to the area, taking the safest path would be wise, so I'd stick with the regular mesmer spikers.

For Mallyx, I don't think SC teams work there (it seems hard to ball everything), but I never tried this way, so don't take it for granted. Well, as I said most of us are unexperienced, and I have to work with we have aswell. There are a couple of dervishes, but not much mesmers, so I tried to make it familiar for them.

There is no reason why this shouldn't work, but you will need a very experienced tank, emo and preferably 1 other in the team for it to work. You won't be able to spike the foundry big room, so the tank will have to hold it while the me/a (with recall and iau) takes the snakes and tanks the black beast. For the fury you will need spell breaker, so one of the spikers needs UA, probably the necro. Manlyway doa is possible but it needs much better coordination than mesmer spikes, i would recommend just taking the time to get mesmers to doa rather than spending time on manly.

Quote: Originally Posted by paranon

There is no reason why this shouldn't work, but you will need a very experienced tank, emo and preferably 1 other in the team for it to work. You won't be able to spike the foundry big room, so the tank will have to hold it while the me/a (with recall and iau) takes the snakes and tanks the black beast. For the fury you will need spell breaker, so one of the spikers needs UA, probably the necro. Manlyway doa is possible but it needs much better coordination than mesmer spikes, i would recommend just taking the time to get mesmers to doa rather than spending time on manly. Thanks for your response too. Well, will try Glaiveway first it seems, though I don't really like it. We'll see.