I said that Star Burst is overpowered because it does huge damage, has massive AoE and returns Energy.

Frostway used DwG to blow up mobs in DoA at ridiculous speeds. I don't know how well that worked after the Hard Mode health changes and slight DwG nerf, but I can't see many reasons why something like this wouldn't be comparable?

Inferno

Admittedly, that might not handle too well on the energy side of things but hopefully it illustrates a point.

However, Star Burst is semi-effectively used by heroes, unlike DwG (they cast it when enemies are nearby, and won't spamdrop). With the HM armour changes introduced in the aformentioned update, it seemed to me that it could be a viable way to cause damage.

After a little experimentation, I pulled together this. I get the feeling that without some sort of additional protection, multiple starbursting eles would just die too easily in HM when shelter drops. It could still use a lot more refinement, but hopefully it's a start to something playable.

I've only tried this in easy vanquishes so far. If you're planning on running a damage build, I'd strongly suggest swapping out one of the starbursters with something more defensive like this:

Player[edit]

Ideally, you'd play an ST rit and run something like this (and switch the other ST out with whatever you feel like running).

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Shelter

Winter

Summon Spirits (Kurzick)

Then you could throw Mantra of Frost onto the mesmer in place of that dodgy Waste Not, Want Not and replace all the starbursters' Earths with Frosts too.

Starbursters[edit]

/ 10 Fire Magic, 9 Earth Magic, 9 Energy Storage, 8 Inspiration Magic

Inferno

The energy management definitely looks very excessive. I'll probably tone that down later. They definitely do better with martial weapons: otherwise they sometimes back away out of melee. Oh, and it also means they recieve splinter too. Attributes probably also need attention.