Brothers of Arms

[Atkara]

Any "caster" HoX will end up swinging the sword. Also, any "melee" HoX will end up spewing fire. So, I decided to re-think about the Hybrid build solution, based mostly on what I would like to have handy in all cases.

The result, is this build:

Going deep into possession to reach:
Tongue of Xotli: An AoE attack I can't just leave out.
Phoenix Wings: Phoenix Cloak is good, but when you move at a turtle's pace, it's...
Horrible Visage of Xotli: Augments Desecrating Essence with Stun.
Molten Flesh: Dance inside Kharon's Living Firestorm for 10 secs, while his fire damage heals you and makes him look like a sucker to everyone around . There's also another function in this feat: while it's active, whoever attacks you suffers from fire damage as well.

Then, going as deep as possible into Avatar, to reach:
Demonic Fortitude, Demonic Leech & Ether Thirst. I've got 3 reasons to feat Body & Spirit Wrack (B&SW) with them, and they're all equally good:

• You'll run out of mana/stamina sooner or later.
• If you don't take all 3 of them, don't take any at all.
• I've been hearing about how much appreciated mana damage is, in T3 raids. And B&SW does a lot of it, if feated with these.

Butcher: 20% permanent increase to melee damage.
Flaming Hatred: 15secs decrease to all ranks of Pillar of Infernal Flame (PoIF), a combo mostly used, in conjunction with Exultation of Xotli. Scratch that one. I ran some tests on Test Live, before heading into last night's wing3 run. In the end, I replaced Flaming Hatred with Damning Eloquence and Wrath of Xotli, essentially modifying it into this form, then headed for the run. Went good.

Is it the best build out there? I don't think so. But it's the build with the stuff I find most useful out there.

[Delyos]

Wonderfull, Thanks alot Atkara <3

[Atkara]

Delyos, I've gone through the following builds:

Possession/General. I Initially decided to go this way, mainly for T3, but, I can't say I like it very much.

Possession/Avatar Hybrid which is basically a B&SW modified version of a good friend's build and focuses mainly on Desecrating Essence. Been using that one in the recent past and it's equally good.

The build I described (which I tested & modified shortly later) in the first post, is basically an attempt to get all the goodies I like to have & use out there.