User:Gelbrekt/Heroic Refrain Team/Unsuccessful Brainstorms

[INFERIOR] Deadly Haste caster

SUMMARY

• Both Deadly Haste and Seeping wound are disproportionally empowered by BR. At the same time, massive attribute bonuses allows for simultaniously having high investment in Healing Prayers while having good energy management from high critical strikes.
• Seeping Wound only has a recharge time of 5 seconds, while dealing 288 damage per cast!
• Black Lotus Strike + Critical Strike provides extreme energy packets every 6 seconds, while Healing Whisper can be spammed like crazy due to reduced cast time

• Even with Deadly Haste, SW is quite obviously inferior to a mesmer spamming The Wastrel skills. Wastrels demise deals 195 damage for a lower energy cost, shorter recharge time, being non-elite and dealing AREA DAMAGE. Sure, The condition is harder to meet, but it's entirely doable using Psychic Instability.

BAR

• Critical Strikes
• Dagger Mastery
• Healing Prayers

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Optionals

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[Likely Inferior to the dagger attack skill spammer] Assassin - Locust's Fury super fast double striker

SUMMARY

• The idea is that with Locust's Fury (+50% double strike), plus 20 Dagger Mastery (40% base chance), plus attack speed from a Pumpkin cake, you end up with an IAS with 90% chance to double strike. This is then amplified by having the rest of the team use damage boosting skills, such as:
  • Great Dwarf Weapon (+20 damage per attack), Strength of Honor (maxed at +32 damage per attack), Conjure Lightning (+20 damage per attack), and potentially additional PvE skills such as Ebon Battle Standard of Honor (+15 damage per attack). Total: around 87 BONUS damage per attack.
  • ASSUMPTION: It seems to make sense that the more STANDARD dagger attack spammer above would be better, since he could STILL be affected by the damage boosting skills, while ACTUALLY dealing high attack damage with his attacks, including area damage.

• Dagger Mastery
• Critical Strikes
• Command

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• IAS is done with pumpkin Cake or Rock Candies.

Most important optionals

• "Go for the Eyes!" - EPIC if combined with many minions, since the extremely high attack speed allows you to spam this skill, causing all minions to nearly constantly crit
• Conjure Lightning - Convenient since it is a passive.
• "Dodge This!" - Normally trash, but can be good here since you have very high attack speed, allowing this skill to be triggered very frequently (though, on average, this only means like 4 extra damage per attack).
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Optionals

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