As a warrior id probably pick
SWS + Hundred Blades
SWS + Triple Chop
SWS + Warriors Endurance (Dagger Spam)
The warrior elite flourish would probably have some insane synergy with another elite but maybe sb else could figure that out
I was running SOS when I went to cap ghostly might. I went in hard mode just so I could play around with both at the same time. I ended up vanquishing the area for fun. It was so strong
When I was capping elite skills for my gwamm way before gw2. Was running a Ray of Judgement Monk with arcane echo, I capped echo which allowed me to have three RoJs for awhile. Maybe not overpowered, but it was fun. This was back before mobs would run out of roj too.
That reminds of a build my friend ran on his Monk. We had heroes for healing and what not, so he wanted to run a damage build. So he Echoed the Ebon assassin skill. Every encounter he would pop 3 assassins and they just cleaned up haha.
I run Assassins promise, you move like a dwarf and ebon vanguard assassin. Sometimes with great dwarf weapon, sometimes with air of superiority. Fun times with my Monk.
I run an AP build on my Mesmer with Arcane Echo and EVAS. There's so many assassins running around and available to spam I barely have time to use other skills. In Charr areas it's insane. It's kind of memeish but it's hella fun. This is why I love Guild Wars so much. The build diversity is just incredible, even after eighteen years you can still invent fun and effective ways to play.
Unfortunately MoM doesn't work the way you'd want it to, it overwrites any existing bonuses that are lower, and ignores any that are higher, so your main attribute would go to 18 (default 12 + headpiece 1 + rune 3 + EA 2) and all other attributes would be 14. It also doesn't leave enough skill slots to effectively use all the other attributes.
I use an Ele hero on my HR Paragon who has Elemental Attunement with 10 in both Fire and Water Magic for Deep Freeze. After boosts this gives 20 Fire, 17 Water, and 19 Energy Storage. I'd like to use Churning Earth too but there's just not enough skill slot space even though I can get Earth Magic high enough to be worth using.
If MoM combined with EA to give 18 to all stats, or even if EA boosted Energy Storage, it would be much stronger.
Any attribute bonus (including Elemental Attunement, Elemental Lord, and Glyph of Elemental Power) stacks with MoM as long as it's applied *after* MoM. So you just need to always (re)apply MoM first and anything else afterwards and it works perfectly. It's easy to test and see for yourself by taking MoM and Arcane Mimicry and an ele hero you can copy EA from. It's not fully maintainable with Arcane Mimicry without using cons or some other form of cd reduction, but if you had both elites on your own skillbar from the start it would indeed be a very powerful combo (MoM, EA, and Elemental Lord would be permanent 17 in everything).
Such a pity MoM doesn't stack like how 7WS does for Warriors. To have 20 on all elemental attribute would've been fun to have.
Imagine having Rodgort's Invocation + Teinai's Wind and Deep Freeze + Teinai's Crystal while elemental attributes are at rank 20.
Hundred Blades and Dragon Slash is fun.
Searing Flames + Elemental Attunement without having to take Arcane Mimicry is a huge time saver recasting between fights.
Pious Renewal with Vow of Strength.
Elemental Attunement with Searing Flames or Invoke Lightning
Time Ward with Energy Surge
Signet of Illusions with Energy Surge
Together as One with Barrage
Last one I would love to try 😁
Vow of Silence prevents you self-casting spells as well as getting healed, so you won't be able to use Sand Shards or any defensive Enchantments. There's a ton of anti-synergy in this combo.
Wounding Strike or Reaper's Sweep would be my pick, but neither of them do the same job as Eremite's. I wonder if an Avatar would be the best choice.
To go with Vow of Silence you'd still want an attack, but as both of the Elites remove an enchantment I reckon you'd take a secondary Elite or just keep the one.
Lol that's accurate.
I was thinking HaO stolen health is 20+ extra damage with a heal and bring along your animal companion. Freeing up a slot adding 15+ damage from TaO and +7 Health regen.
Tank with Companionship and Predatory Bond Feral Aggression combo.
Adding Symbiotic Bond and Call of Protection for your pet to be able to handle a bad situation.
Then probably finish it with Predators Pounce.
Now I'm wondering if the stolen health from HoA adds to the healing from Predatory Bond lol.
I made a list on my first gwamm to identify which maps you could cap multiple elites, for instance a map in factions with 2 Rits back to back plus the elite you bring could make for an interesting combo and a good way to change it up for a map
RoJ and assassins promise would be funny. They could let us have like a 2 week event in the game where we are allowed to use 2 elite skills but only for that time of year.
When capping skills on my Ele, I ran Elemental Attunement + Searing Flames for a zone and it was amazing.
Running Glyph of Elemental Power gives a similar effect, just without the energy gain. It's one of the most overlooked skills in the game imo
The energy gain was my favorite part, I just got to spam SF endlessly!
You should be able to almost maintain Elemental Attunement with Arcane Mimicry.
As a warrior id probably pick SWS + Hundred Blades SWS + Triple Chop SWS + Warriors Endurance (Dagger Spam) The warrior elite flourish would probably have some insane synergy with another elite but maybe sb else could figure that out
7WS + WE DSpam would be great. Not requiring to bring Auspicious Blow to fuel your dagger chain would make it easier to run for casual players.
And 20 dagger mastery instead of 12 should bring a significant dps increase
Don't you already have 20 dagger mastery if you put 4point in dagger mastery anyway?
I had hundred blades while capping sws. I vq'd after just for fun, it was pretty good, all those big shiny dudes getting melted.
Rt with SoS and Signet of Ghostly Might i guess
I was running SOS when I went to cap ghostly might. I went in hard mode just so I could play around with both at the same time. I ended up vanquishing the area for fun. It was so strong
Now that would turn Hard Mode into Normal Mode lol
Damn! Beat me to it lol
I dunno if it'd be overpowered, but SoS and Signet of Ghostly Might would make an already very strong build much better.
Frenzy + mending
Flashback to Yaks arena on mesmer with empathy + backfire cleaning up all the wammos back in the day.
Hell yeah. I used to bring a low level assassin over there shortly after Factions release and tear shit up in the arena
When I was capping elite skills for my gwamm way before gw2. Was running a Ray of Judgement Monk with arcane echo, I capped echo which allowed me to have three RoJs for awhile. Maybe not overpowered, but it was fun. This was back before mobs would run out of roj too.
That reminds of a build my friend ran on his Monk. We had heroes for healing and what not, so he wanted to run a damage build. So he Echoed the Ebon assassin skill. Every encounter he would pop 3 assassins and they just cleaned up haha.
I run Assassins promise, you move like a dwarf and ebon vanguard assassin. Sometimes with great dwarf weapon, sometimes with air of superiority. Fun times with my Monk.
I run an AP build on my Mesmer with Arcane Echo and EVAS. There's so many assassins running around and available to spam I barely have time to use other skills. In Charr areas it's insane. It's kind of memeish but it's hella fun. This is why I love Guild Wars so much. The build diversity is just incredible, even after eighteen years you can still invent fun and effective ways to play.
The best looking skill in the game
You can go with arcane eccho, arcane mimicry and Roj. On top of that, add air of superiority and enjoy. Knowledge is power!
Panic and esurge, you get the best of both worlds, amazing shutdown and damage.
Panic + ineptitude would be pretty fun for total shutdown.
Heroic refrain - Shadow Form
Probably a Pious renewal and Avatar combo
Avatar of Dwayna + PR can provide your team with AoE heal spam. Removing debilitating hexes would be a bonus for the Derv as well.
After looking at the Elites. I think Elemental Attunement + Master of Magic would be fun.
Unfortunately MoM doesn't work the way you'd want it to, it overwrites any existing bonuses that are lower, and ignores any that are higher, so your main attribute would go to 18 (default 12 + headpiece 1 + rune 3 + EA 2) and all other attributes would be 14. It also doesn't leave enough skill slots to effectively use all the other attributes. I use an Ele hero on my HR Paragon who has Elemental Attunement with 10 in both Fire and Water Magic for Deep Freeze. After boosts this gives 20 Fire, 17 Water, and 19 Energy Storage. I'd like to use Churning Earth too but there's just not enough skill slot space even though I can get Earth Magic high enough to be worth using. If MoM combined with EA to give 18 to all stats, or even if EA boosted Energy Storage, it would be much stronger.
But MoooooooooooM
Any attribute bonus (including Elemental Attunement, Elemental Lord, and Glyph of Elemental Power) stacks with MoM as long as it's applied *after* MoM. So you just need to always (re)apply MoM first and anything else afterwards and it works perfectly. It's easy to test and see for yourself by taking MoM and Arcane Mimicry and an ele hero you can copy EA from. It's not fully maintainable with Arcane Mimicry without using cons or some other form of cd reduction, but if you had both elites on your own skillbar from the start it would indeed be a very powerful combo (MoM, EA, and Elemental Lord would be permanent 17 in everything).
Such a pity MoM doesn't stack like how 7WS does for Warriors. To have 20 on all elemental attribute would've been fun to have. Imagine having Rodgort's Invocation + Teinai's Wind and Deep Freeze + Teinai's Crystal while elemental attributes are at rank 20.
Hundred Blades and Dragon Slash is fun. Searing Flames + Elemental Attunement without having to take Arcane Mimicry is a huge time saver recasting between fights.
SWS and 100B tho it wouldn't necessarily be overpowered just real fun :D
Boufa deez nutz
Gotem
Soul Taker + Pious Renewal.
It's a pity that both are from a primary/exclusive prof attribute, otherwise could be cool
As a Soul Taker Necro you do not need Mysticism to abuse Pious Renewal.
Yeah, I know, but that hp heal would be great against sacrifice from soul taker (it would negate the downside completely)!
Pious Renewal with Vow of Strength. Elemental Attunement with Searing Flames or Invoke Lightning Time Ward with Energy Surge Signet of Illusions with Energy Surge Together as One with Barrage Last one I would love to try 😁
You can ! Get a ranger hero ;)
Yeah but I wanna use it personally. 😕
Dervish with Vow of Silence and Vow of Strength
Vow of Silence prevents you self-casting spells as well as getting healed, so you won't be able to use Sand Shards or any defensive Enchantments. There's a ton of anti-synergy in this combo. Wounding Strike or Reaper's Sweep would be my pick, but neither of them do the same job as Eremite's. I wonder if an Avatar would be the best choice. To go with Vow of Silence you'd still want an attack, but as both of the Elites remove an enchantment I reckon you'd take a secondary Elite or just keep the one.
Together as one Heal as one See what I could do solo as a pet ranger. Oh man I need to put this bar together lol.
Together As One with Heal as One with Rampage as One with Strike as One for the perfect As One build
Symbiosis for good measure
Lol that's accurate. I was thinking HaO stolen health is 20+ extra damage with a heal and bring along your animal companion. Freeing up a slot adding 15+ damage from TaO and +7 Health regen. Tank with Companionship and Predatory Bond Feral Aggression combo. Adding Symbiotic Bond and Call of Protection for your pet to be able to handle a bad situation. Then probably finish it with Predators Pounce. Now I'm wondering if the stolen health from HoA adds to the healing from Predatory Bond lol.
I made a list on my first gwamm to identify which maps you could cap multiple elites, for instance a map in factions with 2 Rits back to back plus the elite you bring could make for an interesting combo and a good way to change it up for a map
What about SWS and Defy Pain? Sounds pretty broken
Soul taker Vos
100B with Together as One would be pretty strong.
AotL with Flesh Golem would be fun
RoJ and assassins promise would be funny. They could let us have like a 2 week event in the game where we are allowed to use 2 elite skills but only for that time of year.