Friday, April 22, 2011

Guild Wars Build of the Week: Grenth's Vampire

Build of the Week time! This week is one for the Dervish amongst us, and it's all about leeching life.

Grenth's Vampire

Skills from 1-8:
 Attributes: Scythe Mastery 11, Mysticism 10 & Wind Prayers 10

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This build leeches life, and doing that is mainly with Avatar of Grenth and Grenth's Aura. Dealing the damage is done with Zealous Sweep, Whirlwind Attack and Eremite's Attack. Zealous Sweep is also energy management and adrenaline management. Whirlwind Attack and Eremite's Attack work great together, use Whirlwind Attack first, follow up with Eremite's Attack and Whirlwind Attack should be good to go again. Heart of Fury increases attack speed, and Zealous Renewel is the enchantment to fuel Eremite's Attack. Zealous Renewel can be swithed with any flash enchantment, depending on what enemies you're facing.
And finally, Resurrection Signet is for emergency resurrection.

What I think is great here is the fact that the life stealing works in 2 ways. 1st of all, it keeps you alive, and in return also removes the need to have a healer on you all the time. 2nd part about it is that it ignores armor and some protection enchantments. This build also works best if you attack enemies close to each other.

With all good comes a bad, and here it's ofcourse that you are depending on your enchantments. Removing Grenth's Aura cuts your damage significant. And most attack skills are not that good when fighting 1 on 1.

Overal, I love this build, just because somewhere it makes me feel like my character is suddenly a vampire/reaper type, and that's just cool to play with. Other than that, I feel this build is a good 'save bet' build when you are in a group of random people, because of it's survivability as a melee fighter.

Try it out, and don't be afraid to comment if you like it or have a variant/improvement.

Until next time!

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