new migraine build

Tempting...

Hey since when do jade armors use skills anywho? Same goes for Murzaat peoples and the towers...Rawr.

WW is also less prone to interrupts; is great for mind games; and with said mind games can be used as a shutdown skill-which is fun. All the while outdamaging degen, stacking with degen, and still allowing the mesmer to cast interrupts at will ^_^ (wait...why will? Cause he owes me money.)

Quote: Originally Posted by Eaimirth Etaivella

Not kidding about jade armors-only crital blow from my experience.
WW is good if you interrupt the target; since we will be doing this anyway, I find it a powerful skill.
-Cry of frustration
-Power spike
-Power Block

Jade armors have devastating hammer, wild blow. Some other skills I think

Spectral Agony...

And Power Return works wonderfully.

Too bad power return doesn't work wonderfully on spectral agony, or we'd have a more fun use for arcane thievery on that misson

Never seen them use hammer; but I know they have it (due to boss guy) guess we killed them before they got the adrin. They only use wild if they are attacking a target under a stance; or so in my experience anyways. Spectral agony is used WAY before you can even cast WW if you tried >.> (or should be casting it...lord knows you should be casting empathy)

Arcane theft...the only way (that is actually obtainable) to long term disable a boon prot's rof-if you think you can diversion it you are an idiot.

I've diversioned boonprot RoF many many many many many times, but then again that was TA

Quote: Originally Posted by Eaimirth Etaivella

Quote: Originally Posted by Avarre

...guess other people who "fall for a diversion" on their spells are either extremely unlucky (I mean I can cancel a spell before an interrupt hits it (if watching the mesmer that is) so getting a 3 second spell to land (and trigger) the monk must not be watching, and it must be within under a 1/4second of error...or less than, I know there are a lot of players better than me.) or dumb >.> seriously I set "cancel" to the c button just for cases like this! Fake out interrupts etc. less down time than moving as well, plus you don't move (which is good in most cases).

Of course this ignores my entire flame/rant on diversion of the whole "I don't fuggin care I'm going to cast this spell to save my teammate/kill your teammate" standpoint on it...waaaaay too many a mesmer die because they don't realize that sometimes me casting through diversion is bad for them.

Try cancelling a 1 second to cast about half way through. It's really quite hard.

Quote: Originally Posted by Dragannia

Its also a tad hard to land a diversion so precisely that you don't see it until mid way through casting said 3 second cast. Given that; canceling the 1/4 second cast seems very very easy, and its actually doable with enough practice.

4 second cast? From a mesmer diversion is <2 seconds. I assume you meant the 1/4 of rof.

Nope ment 3 seconds; keyboard slip >.>

You don't have to be precise at all! All you need to do is cast it on them when they have a warrior on their tail. Your guarenteed a diversion on either guardian or RoF. Granted there's always a way around but I mean.... Come on!

And even if your Diversion doesn't catch any skills, you still come out on top as you've effectively shut down the monk for six seconds.

Which is exactly what blackout would have done, except it would have done it better and for longer...but lets not get this into a diversion vs blackout thread.
Also if the monk was running from a tank; that is what he should be dedicating his time to, and letting the other monk worry about RoF or guardian.