W/X FoW Spider Farmer

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I wonder what his Monk skill is, that means you have to go Wa/Mo? Or is he so retarded that he automatically conflates "Warrior" and "Wa/Mo"?

Let's have a giggle and see how much of "his" build we can figure out from the pic, shall we?

1) He's at 278 health, and by rough pixel count that's 133/182. His full health count is therefore 375, possibly 380 allowing for slight error on my part. That's consistent with using two Superior skill runes plus a Superior Vigor, with no other health bonuses.

2) He definitely has 20 max energy, not 21, so he's not using Glad's armour with a 15/-5 sword. I'd guess he's using full Knight's armour with one piece of Ascalon - probably gloves.

3) The top edge of his active shield appears to be a Crimson Carapace Shield, though I could be wrong. It can't be the +60/-3 while hexed shield, though, as his health isn't buffed. So either it's a +45/-2 stance shield and he's not in a stance, or it's the +45/-2 enchanted shield from the Maguuma Jungle. The latter is very unlikely; firstly because he's taking zero damage, which means his armour is buffed by at least 40, and secondly if he were enchantment based he'd be killing the Dryders first, but instead he's ignoring them. I think it's safe to assume it's the + 45/-2 stance. An outside possibility is that I'm wrong and it's a -2/-3 shield, but as I say, I don't think so.

4) He has one blanked out buff - no point in blanking anything else out. Since he has several Dryders on him, it can't be an enchantment. Since his health isn't pumped and the only shield he could realistically be using is the stance shield, it can't be a stance. That makes it either a shout or Dolyak Signet. Since we know that his armour is buffed by way more than 20 to get zeros all the way with base AL95 and without -2 absorb from the shield, it can't be Watch Yourself. That leaves Dolyak Signet - at at least level 14, to reduce damage to 0 - or Shields Up. I think it's the Signet, because it can be kept up indefinitely.

5) He tells us that his weapon is a sword, and we can see that it's a Zealous sword because he's getting +1 energy from a strike. I think he's running the standard Zealous of Shelter +7 with 15% stance.

6) His elite skill is found about 3/4 of the way into the game. That's interesting, because it means it isn't Hundred Blades. It's also (obviously) found in either the Desert or the Southern Shiverpeaks, not the Ring of Fire. Leaving out non-relevant skills, that means it's one of Warrior's Endurance, Battle Rage, Victory Is Mine and Defy Pain. He just hit for 65 damage to an already damaged Spider; without a multiple-hit damage skill he must already have been attacking it, so it seems very unlikely that he wouldn't be keeping up Battle Rage or Defy Pain because he has the adrenaline.

Warrior's Endurance is consistent with his maximum energy of 21, his high Strength score and with him not being in stance in midcombat (as it has cooldown). It also implies that he is using a monk skill, as there aren't too many warrior skills that you can't use indefinitely with just the Zealous sword. However, all the appropriate monk skills are enchantments - and we already know he's not using enchantments.

If he is using Warrior's Endurance, his bar will look like this:

Warrior's Endurance {E}
Dolyak Signet
Healing Signet
Watch Yourself
Sprint
Power Attack
Desperation Blow
Wild Blow

ViM is more consistent with a Sever/Gash/Wild Blow combo, adding in Desperation Blow for extra boost, but if he's using this combo he won't be using a Monk skill - he'd need to be splitting his stats between Strength, Tactics, Weapons and monk skill tree.

His bar here would be:

ViM! {E}
Dolyak Signet
Sever Artery
Gash
Wild Blow
Desperation Blow
Power Attack (Hamstring?)
Sprint

In either event, his attributes should be:

Strength 11+3
Tactics 10+3
Sword Mastery 10+1

The only possibility I haven't covered is that he may use Healing Breeze as a permanent counter to poison - it gives +3 regen even at 0 Healing Prayers. The WE build could even switch to 11+3 Strength, 8+1 Tactics, 8+3+1 Sword Mastery and 9 HP for a near-permanent +4 pips of regen even when poisoned. The reason I haven't covered this possibility is that as I said, his not taking down Dryders as an A-1 priority means he isn't relying on enchantments for healing.

Thoughts?

Great build racthoh I'm sure my legs will stop shaking at the UW once i use this build ^_^. great vid Btw, (so cold by breaking benjamin :P).
0.o wow just noticed this, you live verrrrrrrrry close to me.

Not to rain on your parade, Jedit (good analysis by the way), it's just Ubermancer's screenshot from the link on the first post (at the bottom).

With this weapon/shield setup, I only need to use Physical Resistance (or Dolyak) to take -2 damage per hit and less.


(Thanks to kvndoom for his generosity in allowing me to borrow the shield)

I've been running these weapons with Mono's Build:
Sprint
Sever Artery
Gash
Galrath Slash
Wild Blow
Victory is Mine!
Healing Signet
Physical Resistance

Previously I was using the same build except Watch Yourself! in place of Galrath. The +9 armor from the +7 vs physical (instead of +5 armor) and the +7 on the shield really adds up, in fact it's almost half of what WY! gives you.

The advantage of this build is that you almost never need to use Healing Signet - which means you're saving yourself time by not using it on the 2 second "casting" time. Also if you kill a spider and have full adrenaline for the next, you can spike with SA, GS, Gash, WB and the next spider is almost immediatly down to 50% health.

I'm currently looking for a -2/+10 shield, as that would be optimal and might help to further damage reduction

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Question: Do i most have the + Armor sword Got none

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