I just perfected this build. Yes, cleanses are a problem- but not even remotely a big deal. The problem is necros reflecting, other than that if someone stops paying attention for more than 2 seconds you can win. Just posting this to raise awareness of the most rude build ever (I won a 1v3).
Not claiming its op, just wanting people to know what happens if you see a burn stack hit 10 before you even know someone exists. Then you get ticked for 2k for each of the following ticks. I personally got mine up to 19 at one point (tanky tanky war, survived long enough) and iirc the damage was 5k or something stupid. Again, awareness. Tried to warn peeps- this is brutal. Also- thoughts? Made this build then saw WoodenPotatoes make similar.
lol so basically you hit someone with fire auto 5 times and the burn ticks for like 4k. lol its interesting concept if you can live with that over a traditional zerker.
This is pretty funny.
I did something similar pre-patch once for the hell of it, which let you stack 45 seconds of burning instantly, but I have to assume it would be better now. Now if only scepter fire auto wasn’t awful…
You could try casting Elemental Power in fire, then swapping to earth, double casting earth 2, swapping back immediately and then casting arcane power before the first hit goes off. If you did it right you could get all five hits off in about a second. That’s a projectile finisher too, so you could get an additional 5 1s stacks of burning if you dropped flamewall on yourself first.
My rotation (and these were LoS ganks in Skyhammer and Forest of Nifhel (uh, is that right? The svanir/chieftain one)): Arcane/Glyph/Signet (basically instant cast)- Auto, Phoenix, Fire wall, Fire Aura/Dragon’s Tooth, Auto (usually herding them to the fire wall) and then walking away. The other fun one to do is Fire Aura + Magnetic Aura when a ranger does there barrage. The burning/reflect damage is immense and usually one shots them. =D I do wish they would speed up Scepter Fire Auto a bit, but then this build would become meta instead of simple hilarity. On the fence if I want it nerfed or not….on the one side its fun, on the other I won a 1v3 and only lost because they respawn ran to the point that I killed them at when I had popped Earth 5 during my stomp…so it was gone >.<
Looks fun, I will give it a try. It looks like an offensive build I have been looking for.
I have had tons of fun playing a bunker ele to much success in spvp (surviving 1v3s and even 1v4s for longer than should be legal), but nice to have an offensive build to play with as well and burning is what I have been wanting to use. Thanks!
I tried it out with a couple of modifications: I switched out Undead for Balthaazar, and rage sigil for smoldering.
At one point I got 21 stacks of burning on someone, which would have probably been higher if they didn’t immediately die. They stood in firewall for the full duration, I set off all my utilities, and had flame shield on and got off a Dragon’s tooth somehow.
This would probably actually be a good burst build if I didn’t suck monstrously at s/f, as is I basically camped fire and switched to earth if anyone tried to kill me. Even so, I was able to 1v1 a number of people (notably a rampage warrior with berserker stance, which was funny) and even put out some damage in teamfights.
I’ve been playing with this build all day and have had a ton of fun. I find meditation guardians and engineers are an absolute nightmare to fight with this though. Guard just kept cleansing burning stacks so couldn’t do any damage to them.
