Bar compression/Examples

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This page illustrates the most effective skills available for bar compression.

Warrior

• Earth Shaker can substitute for any number of knockdowns against clumped mobs.

• Battle Rage = Berserker Stance & Rush

• Crippling Slash = Hamstring & Sever Artery

• Enraged Smash = Bull's Strike & Mokele Smash

• Eviscerate = Executioner's Strike & Dismember

• Forceful Blow = Staggering Blow & Wild Blow

• Primal Rage = Sprint & Frenzy

• Soldier's Stance = Frenzy & Soldier's Defense

Ranger

Expertises' passive energy management is a key factor for bar compression in most ranger builds.

• Heal as One = Charm Animal, Comfort Animal & Companionship

Heal as One is an excellent bar compression skill. Because of its ability to resurrect pets, mandatory bar placement for pet usage, activation time, recharge time, pressure through lifesteal, pet heal and range.

• Rampage as One = Call of Haste, Run as One & Tiger's Fury

• Melandru's Shot = Pin Down & Hunter's Shot

• Spike Trap = 2* Snare & Tripwire

Monk

• Light of Deliverance = Heal Party, Glyph of Lesser Energy & Healer's Boon

At Healing Prayers rank of 13, Light of Deliverance offers good party-wide healing at a reasonable cost. Heroes are also able to make better use of it than the HP/GoLE/HB skill chain, which is a better choice when you expect intermittent, but massive AoE damage.

• Life Sheath = Reversal of Fortune & Mend Condition

• Unyielding Aura = Rebirth (with 1/4s activation, full health and energy) & boost to healing.

• Healer's Boon = Holy Haste & boost to healing

Necromancer

Soul Reapings' passive energy management is a key factor for bar compression in most necromancer builds.

• Aura of the Lich = multiple uses of Animate Bone Horror

• Order of the Vampire = Blood Bond & Order of Pain

Order of the Vampire may be used in place of the more expensive Order of Pain while also providing a small heal in the form of life steal, thus freeing up valuable skill-slots.

Mesmer

• Crippling Anguish = Faintheartedness + Imagined Burden

• Migraine = Conjure Nightmare + Frustration

• Panic = any number of interrupts against clumped groups. (Panic is useless for enemies that cannot be clumped or pulled into choke points.)

• Shared Burden = Arcane Conundrum, Imagined Burden + Faintheartedness

Elementalist

• Elemental Attunement = Air Attunement & Earth Attunement & Fire Attunement & Water Attunement & Glyph of Elemental Power
• Thunderclap = Enervating Charge & Shell Shock. Is also AoE and grants interrupt

Assassin

• Palm Strike

Palm Strike is commonly used to skip lead attacks and apply the required condition(s) to chain dual attacks (such as with Trampling Ox).

Ritualist

• Signet of Spirits

Signet of Spirits can replace several attack spirits.

• Weapon of Remedy = Vengeful Weapon & Wielder's Remedy

Paragon

• Soldier's Fury = Natural Temper & Aggressive Refrain
• "It's Just a Flesh Wound." = Purge Conditions & "Make Haste!"

Dervish

Mysticism' passive energy management is a key factor for bar compression in most dervish builds.

• Avatar of Dwayna
• Avatar of Melandru

Melandru & Dwayna both help with hexes and conditions respectively, allowing for excellent bar compression.

• Pious Renewal

Pious Renewal is an excellent bar compression Teardown skill. It serves as a Feeder and cover enchantment and offers both Self-healing and Energy management

• Onslaught = Heart of Fury & Featherfoot Grace . Also provides more adrenaline management

Other

• Asuran Scan

Asuran Scan single-handedly does the job of several skills slots reserved to counter blind, misses hexes such as Blurred Vision, blocked from any source (enchantment, stances, wards)...

• "I Am Unstoppable!"

"I Am Unstoppable!" single-handedly ignores the effects of knockdown, cripple and also grants 24 armor boost while being a shout (meaning instant effect and very few counters).

• "You Move Like a Dwarf!"

"You Move Like a Dwarf!" is the only true instant cast interrupt and snare in the game, as well as the only interrupt that snares beyond a knockdown. It also deals damage.