User:NuclearVII/Theorycraft

PvE
Trying to make something out of master of magic. Ugghhhhh it fails hard. May work in Halls, lol AoE amirite?

Deeeeeeeaaaaaaaathhhhh

Even moar deaaaaaaaaaaaaaaathhhhhhhh.

Gogogo, Asplodan PvE!

Lol Pve.

Custom and Brave water bar
Why Mind Freeze, you may ask. Why the hell would you take something so silly as mind freeze when Icy Shackles is just better?

Icy is better, simply because it doesn't cause exhaustion and doesn't rely on energy (which is a consideration, even if just a minor one). You can just subst Icy in the bar and be fine, but why bother with a longer recharge and have no damage? Besides, I'm strong and brave.

This is my take on the water/curses hybrid defensive midliners (although Mind Freeze works just as well against warriors and dervishes). You can cover your hexes with Parasitic and Chilling. For massive lulz, cover a chilled mind freeze with parasitic and shadow of fear *and* chilling when it recharges. Warriors will hate you for that. Not even shadowsteps will allow them to pull off their spike.

Hex removal usually happens in stacks of 3 these days, so either spread the water hexes around and piss off concentrated removals (divert, deny) or press 123456 on a warrior and laugh, just like a curses necro!

I highly suggest Rend for the optional, but if you aren't that good at energy management, you may want to use Aura of Resto, just to be safe. In fact, that's probably be better.

Gust makes me sad
This is me trying to make something that works out of something that is quite apt to not work. The idea is to be a hybrid midliner, not true spike support, but not true defense, either. Echo'd gust is pretty nasty, especially during spiking, and deals quite a bit of damage on it's own (though nowhere near, say, Lsurge, which says a lot).

This actually looks like a feasable factionsish bar. Gust is pretty lol terrible compared to anything else, obviously, but there's some nice spike support and decent (if not mediocre) midlining possibilities. The only problem is Gust. Getting the primer on and actually chaining Gust-Echo'd-Gust-Gale (lolz 8 seconds of KD) would be pretty difficult, I imagine. I mean, water trident does a better job of KD spamman. If only gust had a 6-5 second recharge... Dream skill: elite gale.

The beauty of this bar (if there is any) is the mighty flexibility (yeah, since water never was flexible). You can probably go for shard storm instead of Winter's (though winter's makes me hard), remove Attune if you're good@energy, jam chilling winds in there somewhere, even go as far as to remove Bflash (which, on second thought, is probably too unreliable in the lolconditions meta) and glyph lesser. Jam a few water hexes in there, pair up with another water ele (or mesmer), and laugh at infusers.

In fact, I'd even imagine that two copies of Arcane Echo and Gust on the stand (so sad that EVERYTHING is on the stand these days) would be pretty nasty ( + gale, always gale). You just have to that water or earth hex, which is what makes the whole idea so clunky. Maybe brave warriors with Grasping? 3 Water midliners (lol mesmer food, I know, but you can never have enough water. Chaining Deep Freeze, amirite)? I dunno, gust is pretty hard.

Very old and aged dual warrior split
This is very, very old. I made my guild leader run something like this once (we had like 4 warriors, shit was so cash), and we kept running it until Factions made warrior splits like this obsolete. Two warriors are nearly undying in this form, holy veil was sometimes ran in the place of Counter to deal with hexes, but usually people sent prodigy flaggers to deal with splits, which we owned with two bashes. It was very manly, but when you sent back a cripshot or collapsed on the slipt, shit went down south really fast. Still, we owned quite a large number of bodyguards simply because most of the opposing guilds didn't take the 2 paladins very seriously.

This might be a modern version, but splitting today isn't really in the cards.

VoS is terrible
Dash is your terribad speed boost and Aura is your terribad snare. I dunno, go kill archers or something.

Midline DW'ing
I ran this one, I'm truly sorry to say. We were running a variant of Eurospike after the first round of nerfs. It was decent, and ranged DW on demand was very lulzy, but wasn't that useful, in the longer run.

The signeteer
Whole buncha signets. May (may) work better with Scribe's insight, but boon signet is like lolfreehealing amirite? Maybe on heroes.

I fucking love linebacking/training
Gogogo, train!

I hate MoI. There, I said it.
Snare shit. Water trident is awesome, fuck you.

I can has 20 fire magika?
Torch shit

Sheath is fucking broken
Massive party heals, lol hex stacks, lol sheath y/n?

Warding makes melee cry
Gogogo, Melee Hate!

falling shocker y/n?
Gogogo, Eurospike/Assassin Split!

Splitting very bravely
Brave splitter is brave and splits very bravely.

The new SP
New SP sin is new. Does whatever the old SP sin used to do. Plus a KD, minus some domoges and recharges.

Dagger spamman
Wheeeeeeeeeee dagger spamman. Modified for moar DW and Domoges.

Abusing Zealot's Fire
X 6

Usage: Smiters ball around the bip, who has 55 health. Smiters maintain Prot bond on anyone and everyone. Yeah. It's gay. But it's also a 720 damage spike that cuts through prots and blasts anything adjacent to target. With a 10 sec recharge. And retarded pressure. Would be massive hard to pull it off, though.