What are good spiker skills?

Holy Arch

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

[IV]

Mo/

I have been told that a spiker is an air ele (please correct me if im wrong) and i would liek to know the best skills to use with one

Munk Masta

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Beetletuns Finest

Mo/E

I dunno about in role playing but in Tomb of Primeval Kings aka Tombs or HoH people use chain and orb all at once to make an immediate kill on an opponent.

seraphite86

seraphite86

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Florida

Talk Less More [Sekz]

Rt/E

Yes. A spiker is an air elementalist.

Some basic skills are: Lightning Strike, Chain Lightning, Lighting Orb, Enervating Charge, and Air Attunment.

Keep in mind though. Having that power, there are drawbacks. I've used air, water, and fire types and found air to be somewhat difficult to get used to. You can run out of energy very quickly if your not careful.

Onito

Onito

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Death Boring Sweden

Clan Plus

Mo/Me

Best Air ele build (dmg) for PvP

Ele attune
Air attune
Enervating CHarge
LIghtning Strike
Lightning Orb
Chain Lightning
BLinding Flash
Rez Sig

This is really the best build for Dmg dealing Air ele, and YES Javelin SUX REALL much, blind the enemy with Flash instead, MUCH better!

PS! Blinding might be not so good in Pve but its really good in PvP. DS

Zenny

Zenny

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Moa Birds [MB]

Mo/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by Onito
Best Air ele build (dmg) for PvP

Ele attune
Air attune
Enervating CHarge
LIghtning Strike
Lightning Orb
Chain Lightning
BLinding Flash
Rez Sig

This is really the best build for Dmg dealing Air ele, and YES Javelin SUX REALL much, blind the enemy with Flash instead, MUCH better!

PS! Blinding might be not so good in Pve but its really good in PvP. DS I prefer to have "Lightning Surge" over "Elemental Attenument" for an elite. With this you can pull off a nasty combo.
Lightning Surge (3 second Delay) - > Chain Lightning (2 second Cast Time) - > Lightning Strike (Quick Follow Up).

And a quick description of Lightning Surge:
Lightning Surge (Elite) - After 3 seconds, target foe is knocked down and struck for 14-83 lightning damage. This spell causes exhaustion.

Paine

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Clan Plus [Plus]

Zenny, that's what I first thought and I've tried the lightning surge over, over and over again thinking it would be an ownage build but I actually found the problem.

Don't use more than 1 exhaustion skill. Sure, it's a good skill but after some Chain Lightnings and Surges, your energy will be 0 of 5. And it takes 30 seconds to recover back to normal after exhaustion. That's why many ppl use Elemental Attunement instead of Lightning Surge.


Believe it or not, try it for yourself one day.

Zenny

Zenny

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Moa Birds [MB]

Mo/N

Ya, it's a nasty trade off. You can partly counter it with a "Glyphy of Lesser Energy" to remove the exhaustion of one cast.

That or hope you're in a good spike group and kill the other team fast lol. I usually find the enemy team dead before I'm fully exhausted, but there are those time where I have no energy...

So ya, be cautious of your exhaustion level, it'll really put a stop to yourself.

Kyle

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Legends Of Teh Industry [XXX]

thats what made me switch back to fire. In PvE air is tuff to get around with. With only 1 AoE ur kinda stuck. Fire is what. All AoE's and 1 single target. But for PvP air is the way to go. Take ele att. its a nice nice elite. and stack that with air att. u get 80% energy back

Vermilion Okeanos

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2005

Lightning surge -> lightning orb / chain lightning -> lightning strike / lightning orb / chain lightning / aftershock

Fragility -> phantom pain -> shatter delusion -> virulence (0 attribute for virulence)

High hill + Kindle arrow + Conjur flame / judge's insight / weaken armor, Dual shot -> quickshot

Death nova -> putrid explosion

Summon death minion -> death nova x2 -> taste of death x2

all I can think of for now...

Schorny

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

spiking has nothing to do with air eles.

Spiking is just the term for very high damage on one guy within a very short period of time.

you can spike with an air ele pretty good. But you can also use some other profession like a necro with vampiric gaze.


If someone says he has the best build - just ignore him. there can't be 'the' best build. There can be quite some good builds but nothing uber

and for pvp air is not the only way to go. A good earth or water ele can often be very usefull to the team. and big AoE can be the key to take the altar...

Volarian

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Texas

NOT-Nomads Of Turmoil

In GW - Nuker does refer to Fire Ele, Spike does refer to Air ele, Spike group refers to Air ele's with specific support builds to enhance the Spiking.

Ender Ward

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zenny
Ya, it's a nasty trade off. You can partly counter it with a "Glyphy of Lesser Energy" to remove the exhaustion of one cast. No, you can't. Glyph of Energy (elite) removes exhaustion from your next spell. Glyph of Lesser Energy does not.

zehly

zehly

Sunshine

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Wired

Daughters of Ananke

Mo/E

I'd use the Elemental Attunement... it's absolutely sick. Elemental Attune + Air Attune = theoretical infinite energy. Even exhaustion doesn't matter to me with Ele Attune. I would recommend having some of your guys using the surge and the rest using the Attune... atleast this way you can have your cake and eat it too.

(On another note: not to discourage you from trying out this rather has-been-successful build, but spikers are like hookers in Vegas.. everytime you turn a corner you got one begging to hook up with you.)

Dzan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

The Black Dye Cartel

He said, "pvp." If you bring Attunement to pvp rather than Surge you don't know what you are doing.

Francis

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

When people see Surge, any decent player will put Protective Spirit on the target right away since they know that they will be spiked. In both PvP and PvE, Surge is absolute crap.

d4nowar

d4nowar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Volarian
In GW - Nuker does refer to Fire Ele, Spike does refer to Air ele, Spike group refers to Air ele's with specific support builds to enhance the Spiking.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Schorny
spiking has nothing to do with air eles.

Spiking is just the term for very high damage on one guy within a very short period of time.

you can spike with an air ele pretty good. But you can also use some other profession like a necro with vampiric gaze.


If someone says he has the best build - just ignore him. there can't be 'the' best build. There can be quite some good builds but nothing uber

and for pvp air is not the only way to go. A good earth or water ele can often be very usefull to the team. and big AoE can be the key to take the altar... When I think of a spike team. I think of a team doing a SPIKE of damage. Whenever the health of a team goes down in a cliff, then I consider it a spike. Earth Ele spikers ftw!.

Oh. And I quoted both of your posts because the first one needs to read the second one.