MM's in faction

suiraCLAW

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

16 Apr 2006 at 19:24 - 1

There are some new, interesting MM skills in faction, I'll try to list them...

for standard MM's (necro primary)
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Animate flesh golem 15/3/30
Exploit nearest corpse to animate a level 3..21..26 Flesh Golem. The Flesh Golem leaves an exploitable corpse. You can only have one Flesh Golem at a time.

My comment: the necro's new pet, you'll have it up at all time. Good spell cost for great damage at death magic level 16 (more then a level 20 warrior with a hammer, without skills). I don't see why a mm wants another elite...

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Animate Vampiric horror 25/3/5
Exploit nearest corpse to animate a level x (can somebody give the levels pls?) Vampiric Horror. Whenever a Vampiric Horror you control deals damage, you gain the same amount of Health.

My comment: If you want to laugh at somebody who tries to attack you while 10 vampiric horros transfer their health to you, then this is the spell you need.

Quote: Dwayne's sorrow 5/1/5: (healing prayers)
For 30 seconds, target ally and all nearby allies are Enchanted with Dwayna's Sorrow. If an ally dies while under the effects of Dwayna's Sorrow, your party is healed for 5..41..53. My comment: 5 Energy for a great party heal, why not?

For ritualist primary's:

Quote: Explosive growth 15/2/45
For 15..51..63 seconds, whenever you create a creature, up to 5 foes near that creature are struck for 20..56..68 lightning damage. My comment: all animate spells recieve a "putroid exploision effect" when you're under this enchantment, sounds good. This is a good reason to go for ritualist primary

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Boon of creation 10/2/45:
For 15..51..63 seconds, whenever you create a creature, you gain 5..41..53 Health and 3..7..8 Energy. My comment: in other words: you have 8 points of soul reaping if you put 16 in spawning power (with this enchantment on). Not much, but it's always better then nothing...

Now the bad side: Anet has added some skills perfect for destroying minions:

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Signet of creation 0/2/10: (spawing power)
All spirits and animated creatures in the area gain +1..6..7 Health regeneration. After 30 seconds, those spirits and creatures are destroyed. My comment: Hope that the mm didn't cast death nova or dwayne's sorrow on his baby's. Make sure there aren't any friendly minions/spirits in the area, and you should ruin the mm's work.

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Ray of judgement 15/2/30 (elite, smiting prayers):
All of your skills except Smiting Prayers are disabled for 10 seconds. Target foe and adjacent foes take 30..90..110 holy damage. Animated undead struck by Ray of Judgement are set on fire for 3..8..9 seconds. My comment: worst smiting elite ever, only good point about this: it deals more then 330 dmg to undead at lvl 16.

DarkZeal

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

N/Me

16 Apr 2006 at 21:40 - 2

Flesh Golem is fun to play around, but for all intents and purpouses it's not a big asset for MM. Glyph of Renewal is still the best MM elite.

kaldak

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

16 Apr 2006 at 23:24 - 3

bah, glyph of renewal doesnt give any significant advantage over heal area or healing spring + serpent's quickness. when i play N/Mo or N/R i ususally go without any elite, so i'm more than happy to give the flesh golem a chance. while it may not be able to compete with the mass production of other minions in some situations, it will be invaluable in areas where not many bodies are dropped (4v4, locations with lots of undead, etc)

vampiric horrors may make N/E more appealing, since up till now they've lacked a decent self heal

i do feel that signet of creation might be a little overpowered. i dont think it was intended to be a minion destroyer, but that seems to be what people are going to use it for

Shadow-Hunter

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Denmark

[HH] [Hax]

Mo/

16 Apr 2006 at 23:34 - 4

With signet of creation you can totally ruin the game for some players if you want xD.. Keep casting it in a party with a MM in just to get a good/cheap laugh... And if Signet of creation aint a elite skill then Bring along Unyeilding Aura, res some1 with it.. and kill while the dude least expect it... xD..
(Note i wouldent do this ofc

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But on a Non-funny note, That skill would make a hella Anti-spirit + anti MM skill... The enemys cant really rely on either spirits or minions of some sort becouse of this skill...

~Shadow

Raziel665

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Defenders of the Blackblade [DotB]

N/Mo

18 Apr 2006 at 07:25 - 5

Dwayna's Sorrow on minnions? I love it.

suiraCLAW

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

18 Apr 2006 at 17:09 - 6

Question to you guys: do you think that vamp horros will be usefull at all?