User:Mechasoupx

I'll get around to this bit later.

IGN: The Zeitgeist

I've been toying with an IW warrior build (that I never use) for a while, finally have something that, at least on paper, makes it look like there might be a reason to go W/Me for IW

Useless IW Tank
Of course you gots to have the +5e 2% enchanting scythe, a similar sword with a +15/-1 and a not that illusion offhand, and an energy hiding set.

At peak output you've got 1144 health and are hopefully bonded, either scything for 34 armor-ignoring AoE damage every 1.32 seconds or swording every second with 64 energy.

I think it might be useful in high-level pve areas where everything has crazy armor but of course it's still not as good as so many other things. In the event that you're trying to absorb and deal damage to some foe (why are you?) I suppose take Dolyak and perhaps "I Will Survive!"

Mostly this is to annoy people in PUGs / RA / AB but really you need babysitters for all the counters- no real self heal (so all those attacks you absorb from touchers are wasted), no snare, no condition removal or hex removal (but who cares about that?), no real counter to e-denial aside from running away, and it's completely killed by enchant removal. I suppose if you're working with someone else you could throw in some Mimicry and grab a better elite for yourself, maybe Defy Pain or something.

But hey, it works great on those pesky blockfest people, blinders, and SS necros and such. The day ANet release an elite area where the only enemies are blind-inflicting SS N/W with all sorts of annoying stances, I will triumphantly be the first to be killed by over-using Flurry with SS on me.

Feel free to throw comments on the talk page. I might one day post this on PvX just to give them a good laugh but I'm fairly interested to see if there's a way to make W/Me IW a reasonable choice at all. Maybe if you had a whole pack of them...