Warrior's best friend

Basically it is a N/Mo that helps a warrior deal a ton more damage than normal, as well as, somewhat keeping a heal monk from healing itself.

The attibute points and skills are as follows:
Curses : 12 + 1 + 3 = 16
Soul : 3 + 1 (just leftover points)
Smiting: 9
Healing: 9

Spiteful Spirit (Curses Elite)
Barbs (Curses)
Parasitic Bond (Curses)
Weaken Armor (Curses)
Rigor Mortis(Curses)
Scourge Healing (Smiting)
Healing Breeze (Healing)
Rez Sig.

Basically, you pick out a target, and then cast:

Spiteful Spirit
Parasitic Bond (to cover, or Scourge Healing if a monk, then Bond)
Barbs
Weaken Armor
Rigor Mortis(if using a stance or a prot. spell)

Spiteful Spirit and Scourge Healing will negate most of the hp gained by a self-heal by a monk. Rigor Mortis gets rid of the problem of prot. monks guarding everyone and really ruins their day when it is cast on them. It is a really fun build, as long as you have a warrior that will attack the same target you cast everything on.

Multiple hex removers kills this build, but when they can only remove one at a time, Bond keeps everything safe.

Is there anyway to make this better, or is it even a good build, let me know what you think

I don't think the monk secondary is doing you any favors at all. Spiteful Spirit i+ Scourge healing is like a ghetto Backfire and pretty inefficient. Spiteful Spirit is much better off cast on a warrior than a monk. You are much better off going Mesmer secondary and adding Inspire Hex and Drain Enchantment.

Also, Weaken Armor is horrible due to a very long casting time, which is sorta the opposite of what this build wants. You should bring Enfeeble so that the warrior with SS on him doesn't kill anybody while Spiteful is killing him. Rigor Mortis is decent in 8v8 but weak in 4v4. If you are in 4v4 I would bring Faintheartedness so you can slow Rangers who will be trying to interrupt you.

I played around with a mesmer secondary, but I still like the Spiteful and Scourge healing. Yes it is a poor mans Backfire, but it last alot longer and much harder to remove. I agree that weaken armor isn't the best, and I find myself rarely casting it b/c of its long cast time. I know spiteful works much better when cast on a warrior or ranger, but the faster you can take down a monk it will be that much easier to take down the warrior when his time comes. I still like Rigor Mortis in 4v4, but it is much more effective in 8v8, but as I stated earlier, the faster the monk goes down, the easier the fight is going to be. And since with the build the monk will almost have to constantly cast on himself, you can bring a heavy damage dealer, air spike or something of that nature, to deal with the others.

As for the drain enchantment, which is very VERY useful especially against protective spirit, you can bring a Mo/Me and have them carry it or the other damage dealer. I will prob. start to carry Faintheartedness, which I use to carry, in the place of Weaken Armor for the reasons you stated.

Thanks for your reply.

Here's a random few thoughts...

Would defile flesh be helpful? Then aside from having scourge messing up their healing, they also only get 2/3 of the effectiveness? That might be a bit overkill, I don't know.

You're putting on so many curses, it seems like a real shame that you can't drop Soul Barbs at the start or feast of corruption at the end of your setup. If you dropped spiteful for FoC, you could be looking at about ~200 damage I think at the end of your set.

Anyway, that's just my random ramblings, I haven't played a build like this before, so I don't know how much it will necessarily help.

Rico

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