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Arturo02

Arturo02

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

See that third planet from the sun?

Sacred Forge Knights

R/Me

all pet team

Algren Cole

Algren Cole

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Arturo02
all pet team
IWAY is essentially an all pet team - unless by all pet team you mean packign pet skills and not just everyone on the team having a pet. I tried an all pet R/Mo build using the pets to smite off of...didn't appear to work all that great...maybe it's more powerful in a team of 8 as opposed to solo.

Aracos79

Aracos79

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Great Southwest

Shadowstorm Mercenaries

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Algren Cole
IWAY is essentially an all pet team - unless by all pet team you mean packign pet skills and not just everyone on the team having a pet. I tried an all pet R/Mo build using the pets to smite off of...didn't appear to work all that great...maybe it's more powerful in a team of 8 as opposed to solo.
I've never tried that in PvP... but I have noticed that in PvE, when you stop targetting an enemy your pet has a tendency to wander. It stops attacking your target, or sometimes stops attacking at all. So getting the pet to stay close enough to enemies to smite could be difficult.

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

Cross hex's? as long as they have CONDITIONS there fine.
if they even get more than 1 hex on em that couse's it the better.

mm00re

mm00re

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

In a van down by the river :)

After Dark Club [REAL]

W/Mo

I say it will be the "double secret probation-badger minion master" with the evil and revered "well of the squirrel"



phear the badger!!!

Jack Lost

Jack Lost

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

forest of living nightmares

peacekeepers of tyria[PKOT]

4 smiting monk/warriors and 4 healing/protection monk/warriors

Arturo02

Arturo02

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

See that third planet from the sun?

Sacred Forge Knights

R/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Algren Cole
IWAY is essentially an all pet team - unless by all pet team you mean packign pet skills and not just everyone on the team having a pet. I tried an all pet R/Mo build using the pets to smite off of...didn't appear to work all that great...maybe it's more powerful in a team of 8 as opposed to solo.
yah Algren, I goofed and wasn't clear enough to make it a funny reply. I meant an all-pet skill build. I stink!

Jormund

Jormund

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2005

Michigan

An Otyugh's Cry build that uses Ether Lord for energy management.

Elythor

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2005

Elysium Protectorate [EP]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jormund
An Otyugh's Cry build that uses Ether Lord for energy management.
Considering there are actually people who uses Ether Lord in tombs....this is one scary probable build!! :P

Asplode

Asplode

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Chicago, IL

Rebel Rising [rawr]

You guys all got it wrong, the next FOTM is 8 bonder monks cross-bonding with mantra of resolve, interrupts, and 8 cover enchants each, enemies will be forced to suicide to create wells of the profane, it's the most genius plan EVAR!

Ollj

Ollj

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

8 Invinci-Paladins:

-16 swordsmanship
-16 strength
-2 Healing Prayers:
Mending
Vigorous Spirit
Healing Seed
-1 Smiting Prayers:
Holy Wrath
Retribution
-1 Protection Prayers:
Protective Spirit
Live Bond
Mark of Protection

maxdamage golden Fiery Dragon Sword (requires 13 swordsmanship)
purple Ethernal Shield (-5 Energy +3 Energy while Health is below 50%)
Full Platemail Armor

trelloskilos

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Guitarring Adventurers Society

R/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by Numa Pompilius
Invinci-necro.
That put a smile on my face! Thanks Numa!

t-kma89

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

Brisbane, AUSTRALIA

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Syno Nym
The next flavor of the month will be... Ranger spike !

Patient Relaxed People wins the Hoh everyday with this kind of build (spike and interrupt from what I heard), it's only a matter of time before someone copies their build...
I agree. Fought them today in HoH. We coudn't get the throne and they won?! They all attack the same target at once (Usually the E/Mo smiter (Me)) and they kill them off fast.

Actually we fought other teams like this but we won and god it was funny one wanted us to come to them in their starting point and so went our warriors in the the middle of them all and smite finished them in 15 secs how evil. I wonder what they were think. Now I'm off topic.

And then I think it was some Korean guild we fought who had quite a few mesmers except they were quite mixed, putting on a lot on conditions. They had warriors, mesmers, necros and monks.

Sagius Truthbarron

Sagius Truthbarron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Animal Factory [ZoO]

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ollj
8 Invinci-Paladins:

-16 swordsmanship
-16 strength
-2 Healing Prayers:
Mending
Vigorous Spirit
Healing Seed
-1 Smiting Prayers:
Holy Wrath
Retribution
-1 Protection Prayers:
Protective Spirit
Live Bond
Mark of Protection

maxdamage golden Fiery Dragon Sword (requires 13 swordsmanship)
purple Ethernal Shield (-5 Energy +3 Energy while Health is below 50%)
Full Platemail Armor
Replace Vigorous Spirit with Restore Life.

udaytonflyer

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

dayton ohio

University of Dayton Flyers

well idk about the earth bal damage...lol looks like some variation of the flareway build.....plus a hex heavy me/n would destroy that earth/flare fast cast build...ez...

and idk about the invica pally build....

me im personally into 4 r/me with kindle, duel/pene shot, savage, punishing, distracting, favorable/winioning, hex breaker and res.....a E/N with wards and rigor mortis and lingering.....and 2 healers and prot with the usual.........but even this can be owned......a friend is looking at a AoE damage build with barrage and some other skills

pet smiter.....been done before...smiting in general is ez stopped.....really no point in wasting a slot with a guywho can be ez shut down.....

Hanuman li Tosh

Hanuman li Tosh

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

garden of the gods, CO

Over Powered

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ollj
8 Invinci-Paladins:

-16 swordsmanship
-16 strength
-2 Healing Prayers:
Mending
Vigorous Spirit
Healing Seed
-1 Smiting Prayers:
Holy Wrath
Retribution
-1 Protection Prayers:
Protective Spirit
Live Bond
Mark of Protection

maxdamage golden Fiery Dragon Sword (requires 13 swordsmanship)
purple Ethernal Shield (-5 Energy +3 Energy while Health is below 50%)
Full Platemail Armor
how is that invincible? necro spike will OWN that build becasue the damage is split from each attack so prot spirit/prot bond wont stop it. not to mention the fact that you carry rend with that build. a group of 8 mesmers would embarass that group.

romO

romO

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

Chicago

Idiot Savants [iQ]

Mo/

just because these builds are popular, it doesnt mean they work and you really dont need to run counters to them. sure lots of people run smtie and iway, but any decent balanced team will easily take them down. sure its annoying to run into them so much but the fact that they dont do much makes it so much easier to just shrug them off.

User Name

Banned

Join Date: Sep 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ollj
maxdamage golden Fiery Dragon Sword (requires 13 swordsmanship)

does the build not work if your Fiery Dragon Sword isn't gold?

Farin

Farin

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Delta Formation [DF]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanuman li Tosh
how is that invincible? necro spike will OWN that build becasue the damage is split from each attack so prot spirit/prot bond wont stop it. not to mention the fact that you carry rend with that build. a group of 8 mesmers would embarass that group.
You missed the Sarcasm.

Anyways, yeah Ranger spiking build is the next FOTM. As a monk, I can tell you they really do own pretty much any player. Sure you can cast Aegis or Guardian but Rigor Mortis comes handy in there.. I go down quite fast.

Vusak

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

yah ofcourse ranger spike, how can you refuse the option of prot spirit circumventing packets of damage delivered in extremely short time. extremely simple to do, and offers the option of at least 9 interrupts for preventing enemy ghostly's capping. it also completely pwns iway if they spike the iway necro straight up and win complete corpse control.

whats funny about this is that whenever there is atleast 2 ranger spike teams in an altar match with any other team, that other team could almost guarantee a win by capping early and letting the ranger teams interrupt each other at the end. and that third team will prolly be some leftover iway team that hasnt caught up with the times yet hehe

Theus

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

W/Mo

FOTM is going to be Ranger spike?

"Shields Up!" For the win.Maybe warriors will be wanted for things other than IWAY.

Sereng Amaranth

Sereng Amaranth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Amazon Basin [AB]

I like the idea of balthazar's minions