sgtclarity
07-10-2006, 11:16 PM
Hello and welcome to my first build submission.
Yes, I know the first thing you want to say is "WTF WARRIRO WIT DAGGERS?!?!? U R NOOB"
However, I have tried this build and tweaked it accordingly very vigorously so that it will be acceptable to the general public!
Without further ado, I present the Watch Your Throat build.
*********DISCLAIMER**********
This is an RA/TA Novelty build.
****************************
Professions: Warrior / Assassin
Attributes:
Strength - 12+x
Dagger Mastery - 12
Deadly Arts - 0-3 **
Shadow Arts - 0-3 **
** you may pick either or, depending on what you'd like your wild card skill slot to be. Additionally, you can remove 1-2 level(s) of Strength to boost up whichever third attribute you choose.
Skills:
1. Jagged Strike
2. Fox Fangs
3. Horns of the Ox
4. Falling Spider
5. Blades of Steel
6. Signet of Malice
7. Warrior's Endurance {E}
8. Ressurection Signet
Here, your wildcard slot is Signet of Malice, if you want extra "oomph" in your build or perhaps a little defense this is where you switch it in. Also, Blades of Steel can be substituted for an alternative Dual Attack, but I found BoS most to my liking due it it's high power finishing ability. A quick note, do not try to Jagged Strike before Blades of Steel as it will botch your finisher. As noted in the description, BoS MUST follow an offhand attack. (Falling Spider)
Armaments:
Vampiric PvP Daggers of Fortitude
3/-1
15^50 (or 15% in stance if you prefer)
+30 hp (or whatever you've got is fine)
&
Zealous PvP Daggers of Fortitude
1/-1
15^50 (Probably 15% stance for this one as you'll see why later)
+30 hp (same as above)
-Armor-
Dragon Helm + Strength Rune (Preferably Minor or Major, Sup is kinda pushing it)
Gladiator's Breastplate
Gladiator's Leggings
Stoneskin Gauntlets + Vigor Rune (Best you have)
Knight's Boots + Absorbtion rune (Best you have)
These are the only runes you need, anything else is just extra.
The armor choices are optimal to help not only the build but your survivability in combat as well. Your Knight's boots will give a minimum of 1-4 damage reduction depending on your rune. Your glad's will give you 25 energy to work with for chaining your skills making miscalculations with Warrior's Endurance a bit more forgiving. And of course, the Dragon helm makes you look bad ass (horns of the ox :P) along with the +strength attribute. ^_^
Strategy:
The first thing you may or may not notice about this build is the lack of survivability. This is a DPS build, it lacks all utterances of the word defense. Well, except maybe Signet of Malice, but that's more for offense since it's there to get rid of weakness or blind or any other nasty conditions that might disable you. Another thing it realize as this is a build for picking off not only casters, but sometimes even melee and ranged. The key however to killing whatever it is you want to kill, is to get them alone. Horns of the Ox is a powerful tool in this build, but it requires your target to not be adjacent to any allies for it to work. (Careful, this applies to spirits as well.) Once you get your target seperated from his/her allies however, the rest is clockwork depending on how the opponent is skilled up.
Your chain combo will in most cases look like this:
Jagged>FoxFangs>Horns>FallingSpider>Blades of Steel>Jagged *wait for recharge* foxfangs>horns>falling>(BoS isn't recharged yet)Jagged>Fox>BoS
THAT however, is only IF your target is still alive (or you are)
In many cases, your target won't live to see the second Fox Fangs. There are always stubborn ones though, so be ready to keep chaining if necessary.
-Energy&Recharge-
Ah yes, the big problems, how to fuel these devastating combos and at a fairly spammable rate?
Well, when creating this build I immediately saw several problems.
1. Recharge. Some of the dagger skills have large cooldowns that are usually taken care of by Moebius Strike or something equivalent.
2. Energy. Assassins have Critical Strikes to fuel their skills, as such their skills don't come cheap.
3. Damage. Can this build do enough to make itself atleast equivalent if not better than other warrior builds?
Here are the answers as I found them:
1. Simple, find skills that pack a punch and recharge fast.
2. Find the cheapest skill chain possible, hopefully all with 5 energy costs.
3. In addition to the above, find the most powerful skills availiable.
And with these answers, you see how I chose the skills used in the build. They're each perfectly tailored and suited for death-dealing in the guise of a energy weak Warrior. :[
To recharge energy, you have Warrior's Endurance and Zealous Daggers, with these, you gain 4 energy per HIT. With daggers this means fast energy, and with high strength, there's a very minimal gap between WE's duration and cooldown. In essence, these two things allow you to spit your combo out at the cost of 1 energy per skill, or regain energy lost from your combo at an amazing rate.
In addition, each skill's cooldown (besides Blades of Steel, which is meant to be a finisher) is very short and so multiple skill chains are possible.
-Targetting-
This is the most important part, basically you are sacrificng damage to gain MUCH better armor and a little more tanking ability. You are not inconspicuous however, and if you lack a monk you should be wary of charging into battle where everyone shoots you first. Instead, play the slickster, waiting to slip into battle virtually unnoticed only to emerge with a bang and gank the unsuspecting target. Because you are playing an assassin role, targetting the most frail enemies first is a very viable tactic. But if that annoying wammo really just won't leave you alone, it's ok to lure him off to a dark corner and cut his throat for him. Assists are always vital as well, let your team know who's about to die, just in case you need a little back up.
Well, I think I've covered all the bases and I hope you enjoy trying this build out. Because it certainly has been extremely fun for me to be able play the class I love as a class that gets NO love :D
OH! I almost forgot. Here's a little short of me demonstrating the build. I hope you enjoy it!
(Apologies for the horrible quality, I promise to encode better next time)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2345406285728654289
Yes, I know the first thing you want to say is "WTF WARRIRO WIT DAGGERS?!?!? U R NOOB"
However, I have tried this build and tweaked it accordingly very vigorously so that it will be acceptable to the general public!
Without further ado, I present the Watch Your Throat build.
*********DISCLAIMER**********
This is an RA/TA Novelty build.
****************************
Professions: Warrior / Assassin
Attributes:
Strength - 12+x
Dagger Mastery - 12
Deadly Arts - 0-3 **
Shadow Arts - 0-3 **
** you may pick either or, depending on what you'd like your wild card skill slot to be. Additionally, you can remove 1-2 level(s) of Strength to boost up whichever third attribute you choose.
Skills:
1. Jagged Strike
2. Fox Fangs
3. Horns of the Ox
4. Falling Spider
5. Blades of Steel
6. Signet of Malice
7. Warrior's Endurance {E}
8. Ressurection Signet
Here, your wildcard slot is Signet of Malice, if you want extra "oomph" in your build or perhaps a little defense this is where you switch it in. Also, Blades of Steel can be substituted for an alternative Dual Attack, but I found BoS most to my liking due it it's high power finishing ability. A quick note, do not try to Jagged Strike before Blades of Steel as it will botch your finisher. As noted in the description, BoS MUST follow an offhand attack. (Falling Spider)
Armaments:
Vampiric PvP Daggers of Fortitude
3/-1
15^50 (or 15% in stance if you prefer)
+30 hp (or whatever you've got is fine)
&
Zealous PvP Daggers of Fortitude
1/-1
15^50 (Probably 15% stance for this one as you'll see why later)
+30 hp (same as above)
-Armor-
Dragon Helm + Strength Rune (Preferably Minor or Major, Sup is kinda pushing it)
Gladiator's Breastplate
Gladiator's Leggings
Stoneskin Gauntlets + Vigor Rune (Best you have)
Knight's Boots + Absorbtion rune (Best you have)
These are the only runes you need, anything else is just extra.
The armor choices are optimal to help not only the build but your survivability in combat as well. Your Knight's boots will give a minimum of 1-4 damage reduction depending on your rune. Your glad's will give you 25 energy to work with for chaining your skills making miscalculations with Warrior's Endurance a bit more forgiving. And of course, the Dragon helm makes you look bad ass (horns of the ox :P) along with the +strength attribute. ^_^
Strategy:
The first thing you may or may not notice about this build is the lack of survivability. This is a DPS build, it lacks all utterances of the word defense. Well, except maybe Signet of Malice, but that's more for offense since it's there to get rid of weakness or blind or any other nasty conditions that might disable you. Another thing it realize as this is a build for picking off not only casters, but sometimes even melee and ranged. The key however to killing whatever it is you want to kill, is to get them alone. Horns of the Ox is a powerful tool in this build, but it requires your target to not be adjacent to any allies for it to work. (Careful, this applies to spirits as well.) Once you get your target seperated from his/her allies however, the rest is clockwork depending on how the opponent is skilled up.
Your chain combo will in most cases look like this:
Jagged>FoxFangs>Horns>FallingSpider>Blades of Steel>Jagged *wait for recharge* foxfangs>horns>falling>(BoS isn't recharged yet)Jagged>Fox>BoS
THAT however, is only IF your target is still alive (or you are)
In many cases, your target won't live to see the second Fox Fangs. There are always stubborn ones though, so be ready to keep chaining if necessary.
-Energy&Recharge-
Ah yes, the big problems, how to fuel these devastating combos and at a fairly spammable rate?
Well, when creating this build I immediately saw several problems.
1. Recharge. Some of the dagger skills have large cooldowns that are usually taken care of by Moebius Strike or something equivalent.
2. Energy. Assassins have Critical Strikes to fuel their skills, as such their skills don't come cheap.
3. Damage. Can this build do enough to make itself atleast equivalent if not better than other warrior builds?
Here are the answers as I found them:
1. Simple, find skills that pack a punch and recharge fast.
2. Find the cheapest skill chain possible, hopefully all with 5 energy costs.
3. In addition to the above, find the most powerful skills availiable.
And with these answers, you see how I chose the skills used in the build. They're each perfectly tailored and suited for death-dealing in the guise of a energy weak Warrior. :[
To recharge energy, you have Warrior's Endurance and Zealous Daggers, with these, you gain 4 energy per HIT. With daggers this means fast energy, and with high strength, there's a very minimal gap between WE's duration and cooldown. In essence, these two things allow you to spit your combo out at the cost of 1 energy per skill, or regain energy lost from your combo at an amazing rate.
In addition, each skill's cooldown (besides Blades of Steel, which is meant to be a finisher) is very short and so multiple skill chains are possible.
-Targetting-
This is the most important part, basically you are sacrificng damage to gain MUCH better armor and a little more tanking ability. You are not inconspicuous however, and if you lack a monk you should be wary of charging into battle where everyone shoots you first. Instead, play the slickster, waiting to slip into battle virtually unnoticed only to emerge with a bang and gank the unsuspecting target. Because you are playing an assassin role, targetting the most frail enemies first is a very viable tactic. But if that annoying wammo really just won't leave you alone, it's ok to lure him off to a dark corner and cut his throat for him. Assists are always vital as well, let your team know who's about to die, just in case you need a little back up.
Well, I think I've covered all the bases and I hope you enjoy trying this build out. Because it certainly has been extremely fun for me to be able play the class I love as a class that gets NO love :D
OH! I almost forgot. Here's a little short of me demonstrating the build. I hope you enjoy it!
(Apologies for the horrible quality, I promise to encode better next time)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2345406285728654289