Build:D/E Mirror of Ice Scythe

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1 Headline text
2 Attributes and Skills
3 Equipment
4 Usage
5 Counters
6 Variants
7 Notes
8 Templates

The Icy Fighter is a simple Dervish Build that uses Water Magic to add extra damage, increase armor, and provide protection from spells. This build is effective in most PvE.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Dervish / Elementalist	Attribute Rank
Mysticism	10 + 1 + 1
Scythe Mastery	11 + 1
Water Magic	10

[edit] Equipment

Armor with Windwalker's Insignias is perfect.
An Icy Scythe is necessary +15% while enchanted and an enchanting mod would be useful.

The Soulbreaker is perfect.

[edit] Usage

Cast and maintain Frigid Armor, Conjure Frost and Mirror of Ice

Note: It is usually a good idea to let them end before renewing them so you gain the Mysticism bonus.
Keep a close eye on Mirror of Ice since it is often difficult to notice when it ends.

Cast Mystic Vigor before a battle and refresh it as soon as it ends.
Use your attack skills when their bonuses will be useful.
For harder targets chain together Victorious Sweep, Eremite's Attack and Mystic Sweep in that order for a large spike attack.

[edit] Counters

Enchant removal is not a direct counter but will slow an Icy Fighter down for a few seconds while they re-apply their enchantments.
Skills that harm you based on your enchantments will hurt quite badly.(i.e. Defile Enchantments, Melandru's Arrows, ect.)
Blind, Weakness, Crippled, and other standard melee counters.

[edit] Variants

Unlike most builds, the elite skill here is the optional slot. Many other elites are better for certain situations and play styles.
Armor of Frost and Armor of Mist are usually less effective than Frigid Armor but could be used instead.
Frozen Burst can be a very effective damage/snaring skill if you don't need a resurrect or feel like taking out an attack skill.
Blurred Vision costs quite a bit of energy, but keeps you pretty well protected.
Most attack skills can replace Victorious Sweep, some useful attacks are, Rending Sweep, and Chilling Victory.
Many players prefer using Reaper's Sweep instead of Mirror of Ice and Victorious Sweep.
Crippling Sweep is also very useful(usually in PvP) for some extreme anti-kiting.
Consider bringing Mystic Regeneration(in place of a attack skill) for PvE play and moving some points from Mysticism to Earth Prayers(3 or 8 are cut off points for Mystic Regeneration).
Consider bringing Banishing Strike when fighting in an Alliance Battle. It will do 130 damage (with 11 in Scythe Mastery) to all nearby minions, pretty much killing all of them.