Nerf pets pls

cool. do you need to be pve to have a pet? nope you can an elder wolf with a pvp char

How can you get all those pets killed???????? With so many teams running smite they prolly drop from aoe damage i would assume.

Our general strategy was pretty simple: smash faces.

Seriously.

I actually wish most builds we're that simple -_-

I think the problem with the build may be all these points of failure. What happens with wards. I know with guardian and aegis you can use irresistable blow, but what about evasion, as with wards or evading stances? What about shielding hands or healing seed, builds using bonds, or someone dropping a frozen soil after you allow some allies to die? Well, for the most part, those things were never really a problem, however:

Bonders definitely could be a problem for this build. You'd either just have to maintain pressure on them and hope the bonders fall over, or add some sort of enchant removal to the build (pretty unlikely).

Shielding hands and healing seed, if spread across the whole party, would be an issue. However, the amount of damage we're doing with our attacks means that even if they had both seed and hands up, you'd probably still be able to do consistent damage on a single target or pair of targets.

Wards weren't a huge deal - Irresistable Blow still causes knockdown and a little damage, so if a few people keep spamming it on the warder eventually the ward is going to drop. Also, in most cases you can simply go away from the ward and they'll have to leave it, since you don't have any soft targets. Evading stances are fairly easy to deal with - just bring Wild Blow.

Frozen Soil can be pretty tough, but it really only takes two or three melee attacks to destroy it, so it never really killed us. A very well coordinated party could probably keep Frozen Soil up long enough to easily stop this build, though.

However, the REAL solution to this build is Soothing Images. Drop that on enough of the warriors and they're pretty much useless, because this build is almost entirely built on adrenaline. Sympathetic Visage is also quite effective. An enemy party spiking single warriors one at a time with lightning or something equivalently deadly would probably also work. Empathy and Price of Failure and Spirit of Failure would probably go a long way towards weakening the build as well.

This build *really* shouldn't work, but it does. I'm honestly not quite sure why, but neither I or Third Quarter are the original creators, so maybe the guy who made it up has some ideas. In general, it seemed that the only parties that really presented a problem to us once we got going were ones with flexible builds played by competent players. A smiting-only party was pretty much at a disadvantage, because unless one of us screwed up they couldn't put a dent in us. We encountered a couple parties using Soothing Images and they nearly murdered us, and we only won against them because they made mistakes.

I Will Avenge You runs on Strength (the health regen), and with a Ranger that means a lot of damage taken. Who ever said I was going ot use I will avenge you? 7x healing springs is good enough for me. Predatory season as well. 2 R/W cyclone apply poison, vim. 5 r/me, mantra of resolve, healing spring, pet attacks. You dont even need mantra if you dont want to take it/put points into that line.