I was able to put in some time on Friday to be able to charm my new pet.  Meet Skyler!  Yeah I know….for those of you who know me it is the name of my dog.  Yes my dog is black and my pet is white but my original plan was to charm the Snow Wolf and name it “White Lightning” but the game wouldn’t allow it due to character length.  So I chose Skyler anyways.

So right now I am in the leveling phase.  When I charmed Skyler he was level 5 and right now he sits at level 11, so I have some work to do before I can really test any of my build ideas.

DOTA (Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne):

I figured I would take a break from Guild Wars until my pet is to the point to where I can really talk about it.  So this Monday  I will probably hit up a game of DOTA with my friends from Illinois.

Now when I play I usually pick my character Razor, who eventually over time becomes pretty insane due to his ability to increase his attack speed.  I usually focus on items that give him a lot of agility and speed.  At later points in the game when I use his berserk ability he can almost seem like a Warcraft machine gun due to his attack speed being insanely high.  But unfortunately berserk comes with a draw back being that you take more damage when you use it.  So to counter that I also use the level 5 shield that gives me a greater chance of blocking incoming attacks.

My other character  I like to play as is the Chimaera.  This character can get pretty insane too later in the game if you mix your items correctly.  I focus mainly on speed, attack and intelligence for this character seeing that the bulk of his dmg comes from you timing his combo precisely.  A ability that really helps this character is his ability to shoot twice randomly.  With the burning breath it can cause some major dmg later on in the match.

So the way I play it is wait until I have a hero in my sights and then I hit Freeze, Dual Breath and then the fire breath, depending on how well you timed it you should of hit that hero pretty hard.  This tactic obviously works out better later in the game due to better items and higher level skills, but use the early part of the game to work on your timing.

The last character I usually play as is the Lord of Olympia.  This character, like Razor, can get extremely ridiculous later on in the game.  With a special skill that will randomly strike a hero any where on the map, makes this character very deadly.  If timed well and coordinated with your team mates you can pretty much kill any hero that is low on health and running away.  With the planning of the right items also this character can do lots of damage quick.

Welp for now that will do.  I will update on how the game goes after Monday.  Till then…

I have taken it upon myself to do something in Guild Wars that really doesn’t seem that popular.  I am converting my Ritualist/Mesmer to a Ritualist/Ranger so that I can get a pet and have yet another creature to annoy people.  I have been looking into the Ranger pets skills and figure that I can sacrifice at least 2 of my ritualist skills for pet skills and then I can add in either my Spirit Spamming build or I could do my Channeling energy maintenance build.

The only trouble I am having is thinking if I should really bring a 2nd pet skill or just let the pet do what it does, because if I bring my spirit spamming build I would bring Wanderlust for knockdown and then I could time my animal attacks with Beastial Mauling (Your animal companion attempts a Bestial Mauling that deals +5-20 damage. If the attack strikes a knocked-down foe, that foe is interrupted and Dazed for 4-10 seconds.), so if timed correctly I would get a knock down with added dmg from pet with added dazed on top of that.  So I could then add a 3rd pet spell, Scavenger Strike for extra energy added to help with the energy issue that might arise.

To make all this happen with my other build I would need 2 of my energy replenishing spells with a spirit and then my 3 ranger pet spells…now I could either bring some ashes for added bonuses and a res or add more channeling dmg.  The way I see it, AB battles I would bring more channeling dmg and PVE I would probably bring ashes and res.  Though I won’t get in game until Friday so a lot of this is just me thinking in my head until I can actually test this stuff out.  I figured I would give this a try since I was really only able to find 1 Ranger/Rit build that was meant for Tombs and all it did was really support other rangers so they could bring other spirits .

So if you have any ideas how I might be able to get some good performance out of a Rit/Ranger, leave me a comment.

I will be in game Friday testing…so hit me up in game: Felicity Leonhart