Is Watchful Spirit needed in UW?

Echowinds

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15 Jan 2006 at 02:35 - 1

Hi guys, I just started farming in UW wit my 55. I only go with a ss/sv.

I just don't see why watchful spirit is useful when my Breeze and mending combined to 12pips of healing, canceling the effect of bleeding. Yet many people have told me to use WS instead of Blessed Aura.

This is what i'm using:

Mending, Prot Spirit, Breeze, Bonetti, SB{E}, Balth Spirit, Blessed Signet, Blessed Aura

Also, I don't find the bonetti useful unless i'm dealing with alot of smites, and i'm looking for an alternative. Any suggestions?

Thanks a million.

Murder In China

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15 Jan 2006 at 02:46 - 2

Watchful spirit(2 pips) + Mending(4 pips) = 6 pips of regen, no need for Healing breeze.

Echowinds

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15 Jan 2006 at 03:13 - 3

With just 6 pips is not enough to take smites

cerb

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Mo/

15 Jan 2006 at 03:25 - 4

Nope, it's really not needed. 13 pts in healing and Breeze&Mending is more than enough

Masochistic Maniac

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KAAW

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15 Jan 2006 at 04:39 - 5

Quote:

Originally Posted by Echowinds

Mending, Prot Spirit, Breeze, Bonetti, SB{E}, Balth Spirit, Blessed Signet, Blessed Aura With this setup I'm assuming you're using bonetties right before every use of healing breeze, right? Just wondering how you'd keep from getting interupted so much.

EF2NYD

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15 Jan 2006 at 05:01 - 6

They could rely on healing from divine favor, but I personally prefer Blessed Aura over 2 extra pips of regen.

Linsys

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15 Jan 2006 at 12:57 - 7

Again, this is such a general question, there is no real answer... are you just doing smite runs?

Are you and your SS necro taking on Dryers? What about Coldfires? How about other areas of UW? Are you going to Bonepits? Chaos Planes?

Is bonettis usefull, I think so, but I like to take on 4 ataxes, and 6 darknesses... If you use bonettis properly which means you let it stay on you and DONT use skill till it expires then you should be fully recharged with energy by the time it ends.. (if just doing a smite run, I like to make it quick as possible, this makes blessed aura useless, so I pack watchfull spirit, and bonetti so I can take on as many enemys as possible)

As far as your statment about 6 pips not enough for smites.. yes it is, while using bonettis def... this was my old build for solo smite runs before AoE nerf.. I NEVER used Healing Bresse..

I have also done smites LAST after doing the first 3 quests.. for some reason about 15 smites are standing at the entrance to the smite area... there is no way you are gonna kill 15+ smites with out bonettis....

If I am going into other areas including BonePits, and Chaos Planes... then I use Mesmer as my secondary and pack echo (for spell breaker) and use "Mantra of Resolve"... I also don't take Blessed Signet or Blessed Aura.. I take essence bond and make sure my Necro has br so he/she can give me energy while I put on my prots..

Echowinds

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15 Jan 2006 at 15:10 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masochistic Maniac

With this setup I'm assuming you're using bonetties right before every use of healing breeze, right? Just wondering how you'd keep from getting interupted so much.

Actually I hardly get inturrpted. If you're talking about axtes, I usually have so much mana that I constantly cast even when the icon isn't flashing. When they do interrupt me, I just cast again no problem.

When dealing with coldfire, I just cast SB when aggro and the duration of sb is usually enough for the necro to kill them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linsys

As far as your statment about 6 pips not enough for smites.. yes it is, while using bonettis def... this was my old build for solo smite runs before AoE nerf.. I NEVER used Healing Bresse.. I see, but all the necro complain about making their sv useless when 55s turn on bonetti. With bonetti it is certainly possible to to tank lots of them at the same time but it's still risky.

cerb

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Mo/

15 Jan 2006 at 16:42 - 9

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linsys

As far as your statment about 6 pips not enough for smites.. yes it is, while using bonettis def... this was my old build for solo smite runs before AoE nerf.. I NEVER used Healing Bresse.. I have yet to see someone with 6 pips of regen take on a 12 Smites group before I believe it.

RobotMULE

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16 Jan 2006 at 01:11 - 10

Why use bonettis and spread out your attribute pts more when guardian will do?

Maiyn

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16 Jan 2006 at 03:09 - 11

Quote:

Originally Posted by cerb

Nope, it's really not needed. 13 pts in healing and Breeze&Mending is more than enough Bump healing down to 9. No real need for more than that.

Echowinds

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16 Jan 2006 at 04:01 - 12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maiyn

Bump healing down to 9. No real need for more than that. With 9 healing it's hard when you have bleeding from the axtes

Edit: On a second thought, you might be right, I'm going to try that, thanks.

Rc The Mad

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16 Jan 2006 at 10:06 - 13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Murder In China

Watchful spirit(2 pips) + Mending(4 pips) = 6 pips of regen, no need for Healing breeze. Exactly. I don't use Breeze on less than about five Aatxes. Also if breeze is inturrupted when I have both Darknesses and Aatxes aggrod and have bleeding on me (room before the smites) I'm not absolutely screwed with still three pips of regen left. If you have four aatxes and three darknesses on you and get inturrupted with just mending on, one pip of regen will probably get you killed before you can recast.

I don't see why people take all of these energy gain skills and worry so much about it. I've run three enchants in UW all the way back to when I used to solo it, and most of the time my energy is pinned at full while I wait to cast my next spell. Six second Bonetti's Defense in a mob of 15 smites = about 200 energy gained in six seconds.

Echowinds

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16 Jan 2006 at 15:24 - 14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rc The Mad

Exactly. I don't use Breeze on less than about five Aatxes. Also if breeze is inturrupted when I have both Darknesses and Aatxes aggrod and have bleeding on me (room before the smites) I'm not absolutely screwed with still three pips of regen left. If you have four aatxes and three darknesses on you and get inturrupted with just mending on, one pip of regen will probably get you killed before you can recast.

Honestly, I never get interrupted because I keep recasting like every 5-8 second even before the icon starts flashing. And still have time to cast a blessed signet in between to keep my energy up. As for darknesses, If the necro is not lazy and cast sv on you, you should never get inturrupted at all.

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Originally Posted by Rc The Mad

I don't see why people take all of these energy gain skills and worry so much about it. I've run three enchants in UW all the way back to when I used to solo it, and most of the time my energy is pinned at full while I wait to cast my next spell. Six second Bonetti's Defense in a mob of 15 smites = about 200 energy gained in six seconds. I agree that energy management is hardly a problem though, with blessed signet and blath aura, bonetti is not even need for energy. That's why I'm looking for a blocking alternative.