User:Flash in the pan/Incenary-spiker

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This build has been successfully vetted by the GuildWiki community according to the vetting procedure. This build has been designed for the following use: PvP RA PvP TA PvP AB PvP CM

Contents 1 Attributes and Skills 2 Equipment 3 Usage 4 Counters 5 Variants

The Incendiary Spiker is built for RA and TA, where the short length of battles allows for more energy intensive builds. With slightly more conservative play, it can easily be adapted to Alliance Battles. It uses Incendiary Bonds in combination with Smoldering Embers to set up a delayed spike. Augury of Death then shadow steps them to the target so they can finish off with Star Burst.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Elementalist / Assassin	Attribute Rank
Fire Magic	12 + 1 + 3
Energy Storage	11 + 1
Deadly Arts	6

Fire Attunement

Augury of Death

Incendiary Bonds

Smoldering Embers

Liquid Flame

Flame Djinn's Haste

Star Burst

Resurrection Signet

[edit] Equipment

• Blessed Insignias, With Rune of Superior Vigor and 2 Runes of Attunement
• Weapons
  • A 20/20 Adept Fire Staff of Mastery

[edit] Usage

• Maintain Fire Attunement.
• Pick a squishy or overextended target for your spike.
• Cast Augury of Death on the target, but beware of it only having half the normal casting range.
• Next, cast Incendiary Bonds and queue up Smoldering Embers. Due to aftercast delay, these two spells will hit at nearly the same time.
• Follow up with Liquid Flame to bring your target under 50% health. This activates Augury of Death, which causes a deep wound and teleports you to the foe.
• Cast Flame Djinn's Haste and if they still aren't dead, finish them off with Star Burst.
• While waiting between spikes, you can use Star Burst and Smoldering Embers to help finish off other targets.

[edit] Counters

• Standard spellcaster counters such as:

• Interrupts (Savage Shot, Power Spike, etc.)
• Cast-punishing skills (Backfire, Spoil Victor, etc.)
• Cast prevention skills (Guilt etc.)
• Dazed

• Anti-hexes (Hex Breaker, Holy Veil, etc.)

[edit] Variants

• Replace Smoldering Embers with Fireball for AoE damage.
• Replace Flame Djinn's Haste with Glowing Gaze and use it right after Smoldering Embers for additional energy management.
• For Alliance Battles, replace Resurrection Signet with Immolate and replace Flame Djinn's Haste with Flame Burst.

This build can be run with Air Magic or Water Magic, keeping everything else the same. The skill bars would be the following: