Umm as far as if your minions getting lightning damage i think not. You would still do damage when the auar flashes but your minion's attacks would not recieve the lightning/fire damage. Just think about it do you recieve cold damage from a holy freeze merc?
I don't usually use HF mercs with melee but its a good point and I'll assume by the tone of your post the answer is no. I suspect it probably wouldnt work then...too bad.
Well dont get me wrong it would still be a unique type of build and you would do a little bit of each elemental damage but overall your damage would suck because only the flashes from the auras would damage your opponent. More than likely the people you will be dueling will have good resist anyway so it would not do much damage at all. On top of that you would be missing alot of + skill points that would improve you skeletons by having on the aura gear. and with out tele your skeletons would not be able to kill many people because while your minions are walking toward someone they will be attacking you.
On the Flip side if you could post the items that give you auras since i have not played in a long time. And if they are rune words what type of items they can go in. I am thinking that it would be possible to make a decent aura barb.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Thats sooo my idea! I would have done it but I havent had the time or the expensies at the moment.
Kaneda said:
I was thinking about making a barb, and seeing how many total auras I can have w/ the aid of a merc(Doom,Dream,Bramble,Beast/Pheonix-switch, Merc-Infinity maybe Pride,Dragon ) that would be tight.
There are a few aurabarb guides out there already so Im sure if you did a search you'd come up with something. As far as it being a gay build? Heh 'sorb all you want you still have the same problems with dueling any summoner really. In the original idea I'd have just gone for holy fire (HoJ and a dragon Shield) and you still would wear enigma and whatever helm you want (shako probably) so you would only lose +skills from your weapon (but since many use Beast anyways..) and your shield. So yes you'd be weaker in some ways (about 3 levels) but your damage would probably be higher...also this is posted not in the pvp section but in the general section ...not everythings a dueler though Im sure if it worked itd be decent enough. The problem is the minions dont benifit from Holy Fire so its all a moot point.
If it's basically a summoner with a shitty aura, fuck the aura and just be summon... You'll still lose to everything that my summoner looses too + you'll look like an idiot for having an aura.
Trap assassins
WW barbs
WW sins
Wind Druids
Sorcs
Allt hsoe would have their ways with you. This build is useless and is only there for that pretty little aura damage animation.
If it's basically a summoner with a shitty aura, fuck the aura and just be summon... You'll still lose to everything that my summoner looses too + you'll look like an idiot for having an aura.
Trap assassins
WW barbs
WW sins
Wind Druids
Sorcs
Allt hsoe would have their ways with you. This build is useless and is only there for that pretty little aura damage animation.
Did I or tidus mispeak Sov? Is there some confusion about how it was said the minions don't get the aura? Of course its useless because the splash damage doesn't work well enough alone. If the minions got something out of it then well one could test it before making a snap judgement I suppose but frankly your reply is more useless than the build since you're stuck on the fact you think you have someone to convince of something about a build that we already decided wouldn't work due to the way the auras themselves work.
If I were playing a summoner though in pvp...which I'm not as again this would have been posted in the pvp forum not here...id frankly love it if I made someone change their gear to absorbing gear rather than their normal higher damage/better DR/higher life gear as that certainly gives me a better shot since the damage from losing 3 levels of the minions isn't all that much and the physical damage would still be the major factor. Anyways done..doesn't work and its already been said....next topic.
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