Flavor of the Month

The term Flavor of the Month (FotM) refers to the currently most popular choice of PvP character builds, mainly used for builds in Hero's Ascent, but also in the Team Arenas. Most FotM builds are many of the same types of characters.

Current Flavor of the Month builds include:
 * IWAY
 * Blood Spike
 * Touch rangers
 * ViM Trapping
 * FoC spike
 * Triple Smite team, using three Air of Enchantment Smiters, three Bunny Thumpers, Snare Water E/Mo, and a Utility.

Past Flavor of the Month builds include:
 * Illusionary Weaponry (IW) builds.
 * Air Spike, which required 5 Air Elementalists sporting Lightning Orb, Chain Lightning, Lightning Strike, and Enervating Charge or slight variations. This allowed people to make a character using those skills and quickly find a group.
 * Spirit spamming builds: Teams consisted of primarily rangers and three monks that used a combination of ranged attacks, traps, and especially spirits such as Fertile Season, Frozen Soil, Nature's Renewal, and Quickening Zephyr. Spirit builds were used primarily to counter Air Spike builds.
 * (Old) Smiting builds: Usually consisted of a few primary monks and elementalist/monks for the rest of the group. Secondary monks used smiting prayers to smite of single warrior or pets. The main skills were Balthazar's Aura and Zealot's Fire, triggered by cheap, spammable monk skills. The build fell into disuse after the monk skills triggering it had their recharge increased.
 * Minion Factory builds.
 * Dual smite, which used two Air of Enchantment Smiters in conjuction with either Bunny Thumpers or Shock Warriors.
 * Choking Gas rangers.
 * EoE Bomb
 * Soul Barbs Spike, which used Soul Barbs, Recurring Insecurity, and many spammable hexes.