Build:Team - 55 IW/Famine Team

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The PvXwiki community finds this to be an excellent build. Through the PvX vetting system, it has reached an overall rating in the range from 4.75 to 5.0 and thus qualifies for the highest category of working builds: Great. This build has been designed for the following use: PvE team PvE farming PvE hero

• This build is specified to clear bigger parts of the Underworld.
• It's much like the standard Famine/55 build but easier and less stressful for the tank.
• It also gives you the opportunity to duofarm more then just the Aatxes and the Smite Crawlers.
• There were too many changes to add it to the variants so I started a new article.

[edit] Build Concept

• Compared with the regular 55/Famine team build this is more relaxed.
• This build makes Fighting Obsidian Behemoths, Terrorweb Dryders and Coldfire Nights Possible.
• It's handy if you want to clear more of The Underworld than just the Crawlers.
• The idea of using a Mesmer as tank is the advantage of Fast Casting so you can cast between the Maelstroms and Meteor Showers.

[edit] Team Composition

[edit] Tanking/Fighting Mesmer

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Mesmer / Monk 6 + 3 Fast Casting 12 + 3 + 1 Illusion Magic 7 Healing Prayers 9 Protection Prayers Protective Spirit Core Monk. Protection Prayers 9 Protective Spirit Enchantment Spell For 16 seconds, target ally cannot lose more than 10% max Health due to damage from a single attack or Spell. 5 0.2 10 Healing Breeze Core Monk. Healing Prayers 7 Healing Breeze Enchantment Spell For 15 seconds, target ally gains +6 Health regeneration. 2 0.7 10 Illusionary Weaponry Prophecies Mesmer. Illusion Magic 16 Illusionary Weaponry Elite Enchantment Spell For 30 seconds, you deal no damage in melee, but whenever you attack in melee, target foe takes 42 damage. 25 0.7 5 Power Return Factions Mesmer. Fast Casting 9 Power Return Spell If target foe is casting a Spell or Chant, that Skill is interrupted and target foe gains 7 Energy. 5 0.2 5 Optional Core No Profession. Unlinked Optional Optional Optional. Ancestor's Visage Factions Mesmer. Illusion Magic 16 Ancestor's Visage Enchantment Spell For 10 seconds, whenever target ally is hit by a melee attack, all adjacent foes lose all adrenaline and 3 Energy. 20 0.7 10 Sympathetic Visage Prophecies Mesmer. Illusion Magic 16 Sympathetic Visage Enchantment Spell For 10 seconds, whenever target ally is hit by a melee attack, all adjacent foes lose all adrenaline and 3 Energy. 20 0.7 10 Balthazar's Spirit Prophecies Monk. Smiting Prayers Balthazar's Spirit Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains adrenaline and Energy after taking damage. (The amount of adrenaline gained increases depending on your rank in Smiting Prayers.) 1.3 10 -1 Template code

• Optional Skill is Images of Remorse. Good to take out the Coldfire Nights.
• Another option is Persistence of Memory to counter the interrupts.
• Another option is Shield of Absorption if you plan to tank a lot of mobs at once!

[edit] Equipment

• Any Armorset with Superior Runes to take your HP down to 105.
• An extra (unruned) armorset to puzzle with. If you die two or three times in a row, you'll have insufficient hp to go on. That's why you might need to take another piece of armor.
• A melee weapon with +5 energy bonus and an enchantment mod. e.g. Totem Axe
• A wand to wand Dying Nightmares to death.
• The -50HP Cesta.

[edit] Usage

• Before engaging into combat cast Prot Spirit and Sympathetic Visage.
• If fighting Coldfire Nights or Obsidian Behemoths, cast Illusionary Weaponry.
• When a Dying Nightmare pops up. Use Power Return if it casts Rend Enchantments and kill it with your wand.
• When fighting a lot of mobs at once use Healing Breeze.

[edit] Bond Monk

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Monk / Ranger 9 + 3 + 1 Healing Prayers 12 Wilderness Survival 9 Marksmanship Watchful Spirit Prophecies Monk. Divine Favor Watchful Spirit Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains +2 Health regeneration. That ally is healed for 30..150..190 Health when Watchful Spirit ends. 5 1 15 -1 Mending Core Monk. Healing Prayers 13 Mending Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains +4 Health regeneration. 2 10 -1 Essence Bond Prophecies Monk. Unlinked Essence Bond Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, whenever target ally takes physical or elemental damage, you gain 1 Energy. 2 10 -1 Succor Prophecies Monk. Unlinked Succor Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, target other ally gains +1 Health and +1 Energy regeneration, but you lose 1 Energy each time that ally casts a Spell. 10 1 5 -1 Resurrection Chant Factions Monk. Healing Prayers 13 Resurrection Chant Spell Resurrect target party member with up to your current Health and 31% Energy. This spell has half the normal range. 15 6 10 Rebirth Core Monk. Protection Prayers Rebirth Spell Resurrect target party member. Target party member is returned to life with 25% Health and zero Energy, and is teleported to your current location. All of target's skills are disabled for 10..4..3 seconds. This Spell consumes all of your remaining Energy. 5 10 Choking Gas Core Ranger. Wilderness Survival 12 Choking Gas Preparation For 10 seconds, your arrows deal 7 more damage and spread Choking Gas to all adjacent foes on impact. Choking Gas interrupts foes attempting to cast Spells. 24 2 15 Famine Factions Ranger. Wilderness Survival 12 Famine Elite Nature Ritual Create a level 8 Spirit with 160 Health and 50 armor. Whenever a non-Spirit creature in its range reaches 0 Energy, that creature takes 30 damage. This Spirit dies after 78 seconds. 15 3 10 Template code

• You could switch Choking Gas for Savage Shot if you feel more comfortable with that.

[edit] Equipment

• Any monk armor. Radiant Insignia Preferred.
• A Longbow. Preferred Req. 8 so you can change Healing Prayers to 10.

[edit] Usage

• When entering UW, cast Mending, Succor, Watchful Spirit and Essence Bond on the tank.
• From the moment the tank engages into combat, stay in a safe zone.
• Use Famine. Put it at 66% of radar distance from the tank. If you put it too close, the mobs will attack it when they scatter. If you put it too far, it won't work at all.
• When meeting Coldfire Nights, Terrorweb Dryders or Obsidian Behemoths, use Savage Shot/Choking Gas to interrupt respectively Maelstrom, Meteor Shower or Healing Spring.
• For the rest. Have a glass of whiskey on the rocks.

[edit] Counters

• Dying Nightmares (if more than two).
• Monk Death.

[edit] See also

Build:Team - 55/Famine Redux

[edit] Notes

• This is Do-able with a Hero Monk. Suggest Disabling all skills and placing in passive mode, also swap out the interrupt - perhaps hex or condition removal.
• In the time using this build I have never needed to swap my armor, but I have needed to swap out the -50 Cesta, I take The Rockmolder to replace it.