Order of The Legendary Heroes's Power

In my build, I have absolutely NO energy problems. W/ just OoB and Balthazar's spirit, my energy is always high, and I have a base pool of like 43. If i ever get into a tight situation, I focus switch, and quickly get back on track.
Signet of Devotion is still begging to be interrupted, and Rez Sig is really not good on monks.


Forgot to explain this one I guess.

In CA, I use protective spirit for precisely the reason you pointed out. Not many hexes, and not many conditions.

In TA, I take Prot Spirit FIRST, until I encounter several teams using lots of hexes and conditions. Then, when we lose, I switch to CoP.
The great thing about this build is when your facing lots of hexes/conditions is that Guardian, Reversal of Fortune, Balth Spirit, and Divine Boon are all enchants, so CoP will remove 4 hexes, and 4 conditions.



My bad on this one. I was thinking about Shield of Regeneration (15 energy)

The reason I say to still ditch it however is that with a Superior Absorbtion, 1 Knights piece of armor (it's global, you only need one piece of knights armor to have the bonus, having more than one doesnt stack), having the shield that adds 45 HP, 16 armor, and -2 damage reduction........your already looking at i believe 7 damage reduction, on top of having the highest armor in the game. Besides the fact, you won't be targetted first.

However, if you go to the Team Arenas, it would still be helpful to have your MONK put it on you. Its just a little bit inefficient to bring it yourself, even though Prot can get away with having 9 ranks in it.
Straight up damage will make you a LOT scarier than just not taking much damage.



Again, if you are in Team Arena, get an illusion Mesmer with maxed out fragility on your team. All of a sudden, your conditions matter a lot more. As sword warrior, you can get at least 6 conditions on the enemy, with 4 skills.
(BTW, I have done this before w/ mesmer, and it worked well)

Sever Artery (bleed)
Gash (deep wound)
Hamstring (cripple)
Virulence (poison, disease, weakness)
+ attack skills
Galrath
Final
+ 1 other
+ rez

If you don't or can't find an illusion mesmer who you could coordinate with, take out hamstring, but you will still have Maxed out degen on the enemy.
-bleeding (-3 pips)
-poison (-4 pips)
-disease (-4 pips)

+ you still have things like Galrath and Final, and whatever else you bring.
With deep wound, you won't need to do as much damage because it lowers max hp by 20% and lowers healing on the target by 20% AA if you did that our builds would be different

Dude, spikes are not over 4 seconds long. Hell, they shouldn't be over 2 seconds long, and that's if it's slow. You're not going to kill anyone with whatever amount of damage you can come up with if it's spread out over 4 or 5 seconds.



No it does not. Not by a long shot. with no IAS its better than not using it at all.

yes the spike is slower but don't think for a sec you can't kill with it. used it plenty of times myself and watch a target fall while they try to run away. if an evic + exec spike doesn't kill you have to wait another 8 seconds (at minimum) to spike and that's if they don't run. while you are chasing the BR warrior is hitting. once you hit low life people usually run to decease dmg done to give the healer time to heal. that is not an option vs BR. you run you are only hurting yourself.

its all dependant on your ablity to shut down healing. if you can't shut it down effectively you will have to rely on the 2 second spike from evic + exec and IAS. if you know how to shut down monks (its not very hard) you can kill anything easily even if it does take you 4-5 seconds to deliver the hit.

i'd focus on your deep wound. find out how you want to inflict it and build from there for your warriors. if you don't use sever + gash then reduce the swords to galrath + final.

yes the spike is slower but don't think for a sec you can't kill with it. used it plenty of times myself and watch a target fall while they try to run away. if an evic + exec spike doesn't kill you have to wait another 8 seconds (at minimum) to spike and that's if they don't run. while you are chasing the BR warrior is hitting. once you hit low life people usually run to decease dmg done to give the healer time to heal. that is not an option vs BR. you run you are only hurting yourself. Who says you have to wait eight seconds . There's really no room for Battle Rage in the current gvg metagame, at all.

its all dependant on your ablity to shut down healing. if you can't shut it down effectively you will have to rely on the 2 second spike from evic + exec and IAS. if you know how to shut down monks (its not very hard) you can kill anything easily even if it does take you 4-5 seconds to deliver the hit. If you need to shutdown the monks to make your 'spike' work -> than you are by definition not _spiking_.

It is also a way to kill your enemy by shutdown their healing, but that is something totally different

Who says you have to wait eight seconds . There's really no room for Battle Rage in the current gvg metagame, at all. the draw back is way more than what you get out of it, yes. saying its completely unusable or doesn't work is not a good idea. i never count any skill "out." they all have their pros and cons. i think that battle rage should be changed to the way it was when the "end" bug happened. it was never too overpowered in that state and put it on par with evis for a warrior elite.

since you never shutdown healing or prot monks i guess you never have a mes b/c that's about all you use them for (don't need a list of uses). you can kill w/o killing the monk but you have to use something that does shutdown the monk in some way or fashion. the most popular choice and probly best is lingering curse. when you calculate your spikes you have to take your dmg and what the monk can heal or prevent to get your accual dmg. you have to be faster than the monk or shut them down.