The shadow step skill that makes it so you can't cast enchantments used to just cancel them, instead of preventing them from being cast, so you could activate enchantments as fast as you can hit the button, cultists fervor took away the energy cost, replacing it with health sac, which was actually treated as damage for the last hit, dark aura made health sac deal AoE damage, and seed/Mark of Prot kept you alive.
if you didnt find out yet: its mark of protection. some kind of underused elite monk skill, which pretty much sucks in any other build, which turns all damage taken into heal for a few seconds (incuding dark aura dmg).
One of the best builds I have ever seen. Apart from Ele Ball and the golemway, it's fantastic. Ele Ball is generally looked down on, when run properly by a good leader (adam the hero) it can take halls for the whole holidays. It only sucks when its shrine capping.
The thing was, you couldn't cast enchants under shadow step, but it actually let you cast and cancel them. They changed it so it just doesn't activate at all now
It's been nerfed, so don't bother. For posterity: Death's Charge / Cultist's Fervor / Dark Aura / Death Nova / Dark Prison / Strip Enchantment / Res Sig / Shadow Walk
there is some kind of new dark aoura spike ... thats contagion ... i guess it deals even more(!) damage, but it needs a lot of timing and teamplay but it also shares conditions on a lot of enemys , means half the team has about 7-10 conditions including blindd dazed and cracked armor
its a new Contagion spike in HA used only by mid-high tier players in HA. It's definitely not as good as this pre-nerf N/A, but it's pretty dangerous when used by the right people. It's pretty much two N/Mo on a team with Foul Feast and Draw Conditions stacked with Contagion+Dark Aura. The N/Mo trade conditions, and whenever they do, they deal damage and spread the condition to enemies.
Upon googling what you said, I see you're talking about the Logitech G15 macro keyboard, which I don't own. I happen to be able to press buttons extremely fast. Note: in early damage tests I did write out macros using auto-hotkey to see the max amount of damage output possible. I did not, however, use them in actual pvp play.
it used to "meant" to be only cast on allies, they do like +20something damage but they die after 10 seconds but the thing was, it was bugged and you could cast it on enemy guild lords. so basically it used to be...cast signet of ghostly might on enemy guild lord...wait 10 seconds VICTORY. couldnt be removed or protted against. LAME. they had to reset the ladder because of it.
Which part of the video? Sometimes it's Poisoned Heart, sometimes Death Nova. Later on it's some shadow-step skill (dark prison?). Poisoned heart didn't have a place in the build, because we misunderstood how it worked at first. It was removed later.
The bug was that Cultists Fervor was triggering Mark of Protection (and Healing Seed, for that matter), it was counting the last HP sac as damage instead of as a sacrifice. I've been using the name Yaks in online games forever, I'm #7 in this group (Yaks on Fire), and I even have my TH-cam channel threaded into the credits at the end. If you want to think I stole the video or something, keep being deluded.
Its such a shame I couldn't have pulled that off! Well at the time i didn't have factions anyway but it would've been so nice to just kill every1 like that. Sigh*. Nice music btw, it fits the scenes. How much damage tho, i am curious, did u do when the wooden things calculated it. As in "U did x amount of dmg. over y seconds averaging x/y damage per second." Is it like 700 lol.
+nazra7 I wish I knew about this. and to think any ol' spike build seems incredibly powerful with a good team...let alone this shit lol. Halls was the most epic battles man
Brian Henry I tried doing this glitch back when it was popular, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to work. lol. I can't begin to tell you how many times I lost RA because of necros who were able to do this hahaha
Not really, there's only one bug here, and that's the health sac being treated as damage. It was terribly imba, however, which is what I think you meant.
@JackSebat Because it was ridiculously OP? I think it should be rather obvious, people shouldn't be doing 800 DPS in a game where people's HP pools go up to like 600.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at Anet when they discovered this was on the live servers :) lol @ P.O.D. epic fail :) New tune is nice anyway, great vid :D Hey if you still care they're bringing in "sealed deck" at some point, but otherwise they're still breaking the meta every update in new and exciting ways xD
i laughed my ass off... I ran this build a few times in HA and also works nice with farming as well.... espcially DoA :) Very nicely done... sucks it got nerfed ehhe
Oh okay.. And yeah.. I just forgot that the elite does sac whenever you cast a spell.. And dark aura deals dmg whenever you sac. My fault ;) I forgot what the skills really do :P
It's not possible to do more damage than this build did. With fast fingers or a macro, you could drop everyone around you in less than a quarter second. Show me a build that can do that now.
i watch this altest once a year
The shadow step skill that makes it so you can't cast enchantments used to just cancel them, instead of preventing them from being cast, so you could activate enchantments as fast as you can hit the button, cultists fervor took away the energy cost, replacing it with health sac, which was actually treated as damage for the last hit, dark aura made health sac deal AoE damage, and seed/Mark of Prot kept you alive.
if you didnt find out yet: its mark of protection. some kind of underused elite monk skill, which pretty much sucks in any other build, which turns all damage taken into heal for a few seconds (incuding dark aura dmg).
One of the best builds I have ever seen. Apart from Ele Ball and the golemway, it's fantastic. Ele Ball is generally looked down on, when run properly by a good leader (adam the hero) it can take halls for the whole holidays. It only sucks when its shrine capping.
Thanks, I appreciate the time you took to make a well thought out response, it's such a nice break from what you usually get on here.
It was during a glitch, Dark Aura couldn't kill you whil you had certain skills active, so you activated it as often as you pressed the button..
@Ostelesia That's kinda cool that there's a page made for this build. I'll include your info in the description.
The thing was, you couldn't cast enchants under shadow step, but it actually let you cast and cancel them. They changed it so it just doesn't activate at all now
It never changed lol, we ran it because it was a 1/4 sec enchantment, before we figured out that the cast time didn't matter.
It's been nerfed, so don't bother.
For posterity:
Death's Charge / Cultist's Fervor / Dark Aura / Death Nova / Dark Prison / Strip Enchantment / Res Sig / Shadow Walk
Damn it why'd they nerf it??
@@taznixx1126 Probably because it killed people in like half a second. Also this was fourteen years agooooooo
Thanks for the heads up, just found the song in my playlist one day, not sure where I got it from.
there is some kind of new dark aoura spike ... thats contagion ... i guess it deals even more(!) damage, but it needs a lot of timing and teamplay
but it also shares conditions on a lot of enemys , means half the team has about 7-10 conditions including blindd dazed and cracked armor
so yeah, i have no clue what was really going on there, but you looked like a bad ass doing it.
its a new Contagion spike in HA used only by mid-high tier players in HA. It's definitely not as good as this pre-nerf N/A, but it's pretty dangerous when used by the right people. It's pretty much two N/Mo on a team with Foul Feast and Draw Conditions stacked with Contagion+Dark Aura. The N/Mo trade conditions, and whenever they do, they deal damage and spread the condition to enemies.
its that time of the year
You obviously didn't try reading the video description.
This video and the song is pure Nostlagia!
Healing seed and Mark of Protection triggered on the life sacrifice, which was reading as damage.
Rofl at the ranger putting down Favorable Winds while is team is getting shredded to pieces :DDD
Their bars didn't really matter, we had a Spellbreaker/Arcane Echo monk, a Mark Of Prot/Arcane Echo, and some healing monks.
Upon googling what you said, I see you're talking about the Logitech G15 macro keyboard, which I don't own. I happen to be able to press buttons extremely fast.
Note: in early damage tests I did write out macros using auto-hotkey to see the max amount of damage output possible. I did not, however, use them in actual pvp play.
it used to "meant" to be only cast on allies, they do like +20something damage but they die after 10 seconds but the thing was, it was bugged and you could cast it on enemy guild lords. so basically it used to be...cast signet of ghostly might on enemy guild lord...wait 10 seconds VICTORY. couldnt be removed or protted against. LAME. they had to reset the ladder because of it.
Which part of the video?
Sometimes it's Poisoned Heart, sometimes Death Nova. Later on it's some shadow-step skill (dark prison?).
Poisoned heart didn't have a place in the build, because we misunderstood how it worked at first. It was removed later.
The bug was that Cultists Fervor was triggering Mark of Protection (and Healing Seed, for that matter), it was counting the last HP sac as damage instead of as a sacrifice.
I've been using the name Yaks in online games forever, I'm #7 in this group (Yaks on Fire), and I even have my TH-cam channel threaded into the credits at the end. If you want to think I stole the video or something, keep being deluded.
This is sick lolo
Dam Anet Nerfing :P lol
P.S how you find this Glitch lol?
I did some DPS testing with macros, but didn't use them for the actual fights because using 3rd party programs can get you banned.
When I find the cure for stupidity, I will be the richest man alive.
We played against GANK a few times that night IIRC
Defensive with wards, Earthquake and Aftershock if I recall correctly.
wow wtf.
isnt there still a working contagion way ? just not as much damage.
Its such a shame I couldn't have pulled that off! Well at the time i didn't have factions anyway but it would've been so nice to just kill every1 like that. Sigh*. Nice music btw, it fits the scenes. How much damage tho, i am curious, did u do when the wooden things calculated it. As in "U did x amount of dmg. over y seconds averaging x/y damage per second." Is it like 700 lol.
This was so broken back in the day xD
+nazra7 I wish I knew about this. and to think any ol' spike build seems incredibly powerful with a good team...let alone this shit lol. Halls was the most epic battles man
Brian Henry I tried doing this glitch back when it was popular, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to work. lol. I can't begin to tell you how many times I lost RA because of necros who were able to do this hahaha
gentlemen... u are the reason why i seriously like Guild Wars. not noobish metagame build. very good game and good video :) 6/5
You could use it on the enemy guild master npc, causing it to just die in like 10 seconds.
Every round :D
"play lame, get fame" was another good one.
The death of something so epic made me so sad. :(
Agreed. Dear ANET: More grind =\= more fun.
Welcome to 3 months ago. I heard proper sentence structure makes for easily readable and understandable communications. Also, it's "you're".
Mark of Protection negated the life sacrifice from Dark Aura. It was a bug.
Not really, there's only one bug here, and that's the health sac being treated as damage.
It was terribly imba, however, which is what I think you meant.
holy sweet jesus mary and josef!
@bagettin I dunno, something I found on audioswap a long time ago.
... i never won halls before but I'm r5 -_- can't seem to get to HoH unless i run my own builds =/
tbh the build isn't nerfed you just dont use shadow walk
Ah good old doomspike, nerfed the day it was invented, good days good days ^^
@ifuckandhatenaruto It doesn't work anymore, why would you want the skills? Several of them have probably changed, this was over 2 years ago.
Awesome!! That was fast! XD Thex died sooner then I thought they would! Nice job, freaking awesome! Seru~
Cultists Fervor
Why do you want a template code for a build that doesn't work?
It changes several times... which part of the video?
Cuz healing seed doesn't exist, rite?
Why do you want it? It doesn't work.
Friend of mine got roflpwned by it in TA, so we adapted it for halls.
Given that this build doesn't use contagion, and no build nowadays can put out this kind of dps, I doubt it.
Awesome, I heard war PVP was kinda bad, although I've not tried it myself.
You got MSN?
A friend of mine showed me the idea (it had been used on him in team arenas) I adapted it for HoH.
i remember this well.
@JackSebat Because it was ridiculously OP? I think it should be rather obvious, people shouldn't be doing 800 DPS in a game where people's HP pools go up to like 600.
Lack of fun is killing guildwars.
can anyone tell me what skill hes using, i know its prolly nerfed now but i just want to see what he is doing..
omg thats sick xD gz with the fame :P
btw, which elte do you have? ^^
Hey man, I'm doing ok, don't play Guild Wars anymore, mostly playing L4D, waiting for Aion to come out >_>
You?
Howcome your life stays at 1hp?
i dont think this comes close to the signetof ghostly might rits in gvg speed nerf and ladder reset.
what are you spamming in the first skill slot
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at Anet when they discovered this was on the live servers :)
lol @ P.O.D. epic fail :) New tune is nice anyway, great vid :D
Hey if you still care they're bringing in "sealed deck" at some point, but otherwise they're still breaking the meta every update in new and exciting ways xD
Vampiric Spirit
Elite Enchantment Spell. Steal 5...41...50 Health from target foe. You have +5...9...10 Health regeneration (10 seconds).
Great video !
thats frkn amazing!
Amazing stuff :D
+1 internet to you sir.
we rolled through many many sway groups :)
how did u discovered the glitch?
I don't play guild wars anymore.
i laughed my ass off... I ran this build a few times in HA and also works nice with farming as well.... espcially DoA :) Very nicely done... sucks it got nerfed ehhe
Oh okay..
And yeah.. I just forgot that the elite does sac whenever you cast a spell.. And dark aura deals dmg whenever you sac. My fault ;)
I forgot what the skills really do :P
It being nerfed means it doesn't work anymore.
Wiki it.
@JusticeRetroHunter Wouldn't know, don't play GW anymore.
Omg those poor people getting pwned. :(
@omnidragon42 It has been nerfed.
what rank your at now?
why the builds are archived?
You can't do 700-1000 DPS anymore. NERFED.
So u figured out how to use dark aura the smart way like me :) dude 5/5+sub
It was fixed before I uploaded the video ;)
That's calling farm!
Ready the video description.
hm why its nerfed?^^
2 Necro, Para, Ele, 4 Monks.
You didn't need 4 of the necros lol, 2 was enough.
can you ping your build please ?
@bagettin wave of sound. :)
what build pls ? :(
Totally agreed!
@FluggleBubble Damn right, non-ranked pugs ftw!
Yes they are.
All hail the yelow number XD
very nice
Mate this was 11 years ago.
It's not possible to do more damage than this build did. With fast fingers or a macro, you could drop everyone around you in less than a quarter second. Show me a build that can do that now.