User:Immora/buildarchive/Pious Renewal-Mystic Sandstorm

This build takes advantage of Pious Renewal's energy and health gain when removing multiple enchantments with Mystic Sandstorm, resulting in spike damage and bringing you back to near full health and energy to remove downtime.

Equipment

 * Radiant armor.
 * Insightful Staff of Enchanting
 * +2 Earth Prayers rune, +3 Mysticism rune, Superior Vigor rune, and two Runes of Attunement.

Usage
Before engaging, cast in order of Enchantment duration:
 * Aura of Thorns --> Heart of Holy Flame --> Vital Boon --> Armor of Sanctity --> Mirage Cloak --> Pious Renewal then get near an enemy or a group of enemies and hit Mystic Sandstorm. This will result in:


 * 130 damage from Mystic Sandstorm to nearby enemies.
 * 75 damage from Mirage Cloak to nearby enemies.
 * +30 energy from Mysticism.
 * +12 energy and +60 health from Pious Renewal
 * +200 health from Vital Boon
 * 4 seconds of burning from Heart of Holy Flame
 * 15 seconds of bleeding from Aura of Thorns.

Casting Armor of Sanctity shortly after sandstorm can help reduce damage against those you inflicted bleeding and/or burning on.

The health and energy gain should leave you enough energy to repeat the process.

Counters

 * Massive enchantment removal before Mystic Sandstorm is launched.
 * Anything preventing the casting of enchantments on you.
 * Repetitive knockdowns and interrupts to fail enchantment spells.
 * Kiting.

Variants

 * Pious Renewal can be replaced with Arcane Zeal. This reduces your health gain after using Mystic Sandstorm, but it allows for more costly, more powerful enchantments to be used instead. For example:


 * By sacrificing a few points in Earth Prayers and placing them instead in Scythe Mastery, you can provide yourself with an acceptable alternative should you find yourself up against an enchantment-remvoing or interrupting foe.
 * Despite the health spike after casting Mystic Sandstorm, it's very easy to get killed while casting the enchantments. For this reason, Mystic Regeneration works very well when used as your first enchantment.