My Mesmer/Monk, was originally a shutdown mesmer, even at low levels, when I made her, I asked for opinions on sucessful mesmer builds, someone said a fastcasting smiter was uber, I thought them pretty retarded. Not liking to take most secondary profession skills over my primary ones, but MAN was I wrong.
I tried to make my own Me/Mo FastSmiter build once I was 10, I went and capped Signet of Judgement first of all. I had on my skill bar the following: Smite, Banish, Holy Strike, Bane Signet, Signet of Judgement, Symbol of Wrath, Balthazar's Aura, and Hex Breaker. My attributes were 3 in Fast Casting(+1 from Sleek Mask, and an additional +3 from a Superior Rune of Fast Casting in the mask), 8 in Smiting Prayers, and 1 in Domination.
I thought the Fastcasting Smiter idea was a stupid one at first simply because the heavier damage dealing smiting spells/skills have a 3/4-1 second cast time to begin with, I thought, 'Hell, JUST a smiter could be just as good lol', "AHAHAHA" at myself now, lol.
I had on Enchanter's Armor from Droknar's Forge, and the Smiting Rod from Droknar's Forge from the Collector there, with a Vokur's Chakram (for the recharge/fastercasting), which brought my energy to a grand total of 40-45.
Which was definitely a good thing considering the cost of Balthazar's Aura. Anyways, I'd enter the arena, people thinking me either a stupid mesmer with crappy smiting skills/attributes and a crappy weapon. HAHAHA.. lol, I would run up to a caster, ranger, or other non-warrior (my personal preference), hit banish, signet of judgement, Holy Strike (doubles damage if target foe is knocked down), and then Smite (adds quite a bit of damage if they were attacking) Keep in bind that Holy Strike is actually a SKILL, but casts very fast anyway, so it really doesn't matter that Fast Casting doesn't affect it. You could also switch out the use of Signet of Judgement for Bane Signet, if they are attacked that is, and save SoJ (Signet of Judgement) for when someone tries the resurrect the person you just gangraped
.If someone notices you are this powerful already, and it's a warrior, or someone that uses melee as their primary, turn on Symbol of Wrath, if they don't stop attacking you, throw on Balthazar's Aura, and watch them take around 40 damage a second for 5 seconds and then about 20 damage a second for 5 more seconds. If they aren't dead, or have been healed, simply own them with the previous used FastSmiting skills. Oh yeah, Hex Breaker.. if you are Backfired by a 10 Mesmer (should have 9-13 Domination Magic if Sup. Rune) and you consecutively use the 3-4, or even 6 if multiple people/warriors are on you, you will undeniably get OWNED. Therefore, hold control before the start of game, if there's a Mesmer, you're lucky you brought Hex Breaker, if not, of well, there's other classes that cast Hexes out there right
? Stand your ground like most others do in the beginning of a match, and if you see Mesmer casting Backfire, instantly use the Hex Breaker stance WAY before they finish casting, and if they weren't casting it on YOU, better safe than sorry I always say. So not only do you repel the Backfire, but they take a little damage as well, (with 1 Domination+1 from a Minor Rune of Domination Magic) they take around 35 damage.With no maintained enchantments, and around 45 Energy, you have PLENTY to spam the FastSmites, keep Warriors at bay, and keep off those horrid, nasty Hexes.
Please try this out and/or leave notes/comments on my build, my first team I tried this build with consisted of a level 9 Pure Healer, and 2 Illusionary Weaponry Mesmer/Warriors with crap longswords+Flurry, one was level 6, and one was 8, I was 10 at the time. We faced a team that someone on our team said had about 15 wins and owned all, they had an 11 W/Mo, a 10 Mo/R, a 6 Me/E, and an 8 E/Mo, we owned them in.. oh, let's just give the exact time.. "Elapsed Time: 23 Seconds"
, they were amazed, and hell, frankly, so were we heh. We had 20 consecutive wins, we probably could have had over 100, but well, my damned food was here and was getting cold.. God damned food.. lol. Alright, I'm out P.S. also, tell me if you've ever seen anyone like this or seen another post like this. (keep in mind, mine is level TEN.. eleven now, not 20 with 200 attributes :P)
---Storme
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