Well I hated the idea of having an invinci monk or building a SS/SV necro for this job of soloing/dualing the aataxes and smites. I just dont want to have 55 Hitpoints. Now I will have to tell the story of how I came about this build.
I have a friend who has a SS/SV necro. Fine so I needed to provide the tank so to speak.
So first of all I tried to up my AL to ridiculous heights via Defy Pain, Watch yourself and Dolyak Signet. Didnt work I died from ripostes and the damage outdid my healing signet even though I was in a stance. This might have been timing for me as well, but at the same time we managed to kill two of them. The third one got me.
Then I tried to use elementalist armour spells as well as the signet and stances, a bloody shadow messed me up. My friend and I then agreed that we needed to cause weakness to the aataxes and avoid the ripostes.
I tried to get my partner in crime to cast enfeebling but he said it would mess up the echoed cast, so I said ok. Back to the drawing board.
For a whole week it never occured to me that the warrior could be the enfeebler. Damn it, I cannot claim that I am solely responsible for the build. Which sucks. I can claim to have had the fundamental idea in my head just not the complete one.
So I claim inspiration from Racthoh on this board, he unwittingly and unknowingly gave me the two key ideas for the build.
1. The warrior can cast enfeebling blood and be the necro. I dont know why this didnt occur to me. Maybe I am slow.
2. The warrior can use a wand to build up adrenaline for watch yourself. Nice one. There is no way in hell I could have thought of that. GENIUS!! Whats Riposte again?
Skillset
SS/SV Necro
Doesnt matter just do what you would normally do if you were accompnied by an invinci monk. Stay back, as normal and dont get noticed. Keep an eye on me, there is a possibility that my enfeebling blood will get interrupted, thankfully not often.
Wa/Necro
Skills.
Gladiators Defence Shield Stance Bonnettis Defence Disciplined Stance/Plague touch - after a while you can choose the second skill, but if you need to end bonnettis early to heal you have a reserve stance. If a sever artery gets through just say "you like bleeding, don't ya?" Watch Yourself Dolyak Signet Enfeebling Blood
Attributes.
Curses 10
Strength 12 (11+1)
Tactics 14 (10+1+3)
Equipment.
I use 15K Glads set for the armour bonus against physical and the energy bonus. I use an Ascalon helm for the damage bonus. I use Superior vigor and minor absorbtion as well. My shield is the crimson carapace one in the desert.The wand guess what is the one recommended by Racthoh outside of Nolani, follow his advice and dont get the one with the chance to miss.
Some key Information.
Shield Stance will last 18 seconds while the other Tactics skills excepting healing will last for 11. Dolyak signet will last for 18 seconds, which leaves a 2 second gap without it. Enfeebling blood will sacrifice health and will cause weakness to all aataxes in its area of effect. Its recharge is ten seconds.
Sequence.
Well the good thing about this build is no enchants so the shadows with their little rend enchants can do little.
Run up to the first set of three, or two. Watch out for th elone aataxe patrolling. Cast enfeebling blood on one of them. Then straight away hit healing signet. By the time signet has finished its cast, the aataxes will be up on you so sit in glad defence followed by Dolyak signet.
Hit on one of them with your wand, and wait for watch yourself to charge up. Then hit it and as Enfeebling is recharged get ready to cast it again. Cast Enfeebling and by now Glads should have finished and sit into bonettis defence. You should still have Dolyak and watch yourself on. You will take some damage during this set of 11 seconds dont panic. If for some reason your health is starting to dip a bit, perhaps a sever artery got through then go straight into shield stance.
Hit Shield Stance, Dolyak signet followed by Enfeebling Blood. Then heal signet followed by watch yourself. Then heal signet again and again untill you ar eback at full health. You should not have to cast enfeebling a fourth time but if you do keep both dolyak and watch yourself up. Be ready to heal up afterwards. When Shield Stance finishes Glads Defence wil be ready for use again, but the aataxes should be dead from spiteful by now.
This can also survive very easy against the smite crawlers if you don't attack them, and only depends on SV to help kill them via spiteful.
Well there we go, and I hope you guys will enjoy the guide.(Its my first on Guru). Thanks to Racthoh for giving me the inspiration, I don't even know you but well done and I enjoyed your video.
Paul
(Sorry, I'm really tired as I'm writing this and it seemed like a good idea at the time)