Eater of the Dead W/N updated for patch

Yukito Kunisaki

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

Chicago, IL

W/N

15 Nov 2005 at 17:59 - 1

Seems I won't have much choice now then to go Death Knight route. [gah, don't want to use a sword ;_;]

PvE theme. PvP will be a Death Executioner, somehow I'll make it work.

16 Swordsmanship
9 tactics
10 death magic

Sever Artery
Gash
Riposte
Deadly Riposte
Bonetti's Defense
Virulence {E}
Soul Feast
Plague Touch / Res Sig

The armor piercing damage this build is capable of doing will allow you to drop single foes quickly, in a mob, you want to use bonetti's to feed your corpse eating power. Why eat the corpses? To keep you alive of course. In a party, you can use it to spike heal yourself for quite a lot, if you have a monk, then save the corpse for a teammate who summons. If the enemy is well happy, you can anti-well them with Soul Feast. Virulence has an AoE massive degen which is multiplied by your sever artery for 10pips ON TOP of riposte/deadly spiking in other directions. It doesn't pack the sheer efficiency my old ViM! farm build does but it does quite well to stay alive. Key is timing the ripostes just as bonetti's ends. Since I'm not AoE weakness anymore, coming up with more efficient forms of dmg output/defense tanks is harder.

I like a challenge.

Your thoughts? (and hopefully, suggestions to improve)

edit*

I'll try and formulate an axe spike dmg pvp version of this. It's an armor ignoring style build so it's crazy like that.

pagansaint

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

15 Nov 2005 at 20:04 - 2

If for PvE there is no need for 16 Sword, you can get by VERY well with 14/13 Sword and Drop more points into Tactics/Death.

I would also Personally, swap out Gash for either Shield Stance or maybe even Watch Yourself! if you feel the need for a bit of extra armor without really losing any damage. Since the deep wound isn't really doing your main damage, conditions are, you would want to up the survivability and retain your main damage sources, bleed/poison/disease.

Yukito Kunisaki

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

Chicago, IL

W/N

16 Nov 2005 at 06:37 - 3

hmm, good suggestion.

8+1+3 Swordsmanship
9+1 Strength
9+1 Tactics
10 Death Magic. yowza

Arathorn5000

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Xen of Onslaught Ladder [XoO]

16 Nov 2005 at 09:03 - 4

I wouldn't exactly call virulence massive aoe degen...

pagansaint

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

16 Nov 2005 at 09:05 - 5

It would if Epidemic was a Necro skill... Which would make more sense.

Manfred

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

16 Nov 2005 at 13:28 - 6

Achem, it makes the diseased too. so you're surrounded by diseased griffons, i just hope you can plague touch it off fast enough.

Sharpe_116

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Adventurers Society

Mo/W

16 Nov 2005 at 14:00 - 7

i like it, now since they ruined the whole idea of a smiter monk, i think ill make my warrior a death knight

Yukito Kunisaki

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

Chicago, IL

W/N

16 Nov 2005 at 16:27 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by Manfred

Achem, it makes the diseased too. so you're surrounded by diseased griffons, i just hope you can plague touch it off fast enough. Disease spreads between same species, I've used this and you WON'T get diseased using virulence on anything except 'human' pve monsters. If you use disease on say, White Mantle, then you'd need plague touch, but for this scenario [and most scenarios really], Disease isn't something to care for...

The real stretch is that the Ripostes can really save your behind in a pinch. The faster you can drop an enemy [which is quite swift thanks to bleed/poison/disease/deep wound], the faster you can eat their carcass and continue the rampage...

Vincent Ritz

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2005

Masters of the Realms

W/Mo

16 Nov 2005 at 16:36 - 9

Yukito, did the update do something to your old ViM, Enfeebling Blood, Cyclone, Bonnetti's, Mark of Pain build?

I used to love that build...