User:Ruine Eternelle/Overpoweredskills

The following skills are the best skills that can be used in PvE. Any efficient PvE skill bar has at least one of them, often more.

If you have played a lot to the game, you probably know of them. If you don't have much experience with Guild Wars, these are the skills you should know about (and choose to use or not) :

1) Shadow Form (SF) :

For as long as you want you are immune to spells and you take less damage. Great synergy with Shroud of Distress to also block attacks and get health regeneration.

2) Pain Inverter (PI) :

The next time target foe casts an AoE damaging spell, he dies. A staple skill.

3) Signet of Spirits (SoS) :

For 0 energy, you have three spirits ready to do whatever you want. A SoS rit can kill almost any group of foes on its own (and provided it has enough room).

4) "You Move Like a Dwarf!" (YMLAD):

Your foe is instantly knocked down (and therefore interrupted) and takes damage. You laugh at melee foes. Another staple skill.

5) Spiteful Spirit (SS) :

Your foe can't do anything without all of his group taking damage.

6) Wastrel's Worry (WW) :

Your foe can't do nothing without all of his group taking damage.

7) Assassin's Promise :

High energy gain and recharge of all of your skills (including Assassin's Promise itself).

8) Echo :

You can copy any non-elite skill

9) Great Dwarf Weapon (GDW) :

You can knock down with your bow, your spear, your staff, your rod, or with any other weapon you want. And you deal more damage of course. Only bad point is that you can't target yourself.

10) "Save Yourselves!" (SY) :

For 6 seconds, your team is almost immune to armor-respecting damage. A staple skill if you are an attacker.

11) Unyielding Aura (UA) :

You can res almost instantly. You also heal more when you heal.

12) Protective Spirit :

Now you can kill foes who normally one-shot you.

13) Arcane Echo/ Glyph of Renewal:

You can copy any spell (instant recharge of non-elite spell for glyph of renewal, which is a bit less good). Arcane Echo is a staple skill for casters.

14) Word of Healing (WH) :

Over 200 spammable healing.

15) Shockwave (SW) :

Unconditionaly inflicts three AoE conditions among which blindness. Also deal enough AoE damage to severely weaken/kill the foes on which you inflicted those conditions. I love this skill.

16) Whirling Defense  :

You can take out any foe provided you can get enough fans (foes hitting you with ranged attacks).

17) Panic :

Any group of foes can be considered as one foe as far as the use of skills is concerned.

18) Blinding Surge :

Foes are permanently blinded and take damage.

19) Hundred Blades (100b) / Vow of Strength (VoS) :

The more the group of foes looks like a ball, the more damage you deal. You also don't care about blindness.

20) Backfire :

Each spell your foe cast removes a big chunk of his life.

21) Summon Spirits  :

Help your spirits escape AoE damage while also being healed. Great synergy with Signet of Spirits mentionned before at n°2.

22) Necrosis  :

If having too much energy (especially necromancers), you can now convert it into good damage thanks to this non-elite skill which is better than an infamous similar elite skill. A staple skill if you use hexes and have too much energy.

23) Obsidian Flesh  :

For as long as you want, you become an equivalent of a paragon with 0 leadership who can't attack, but you're immune to spells.

24) "I Am Unstoppable!" (IAU) :

You have more armor. You are immune to cripple and knockdown. Staple skill for physicals.

25) Cry of Pain :

Rupt, damage, and degeneration that cannot be removed.

26) Energy Surge (E-Surge) :

Target foe and all adjacent foes take around 100 armor-ignoring damage. Also denies energy.

27) Psychic Instability (PI or PsI) :

Knocks down target group of foes for 4s.

28) Ebon Vanguard Assassin Support (EVAS) :

One more team member. A staple skill especially for casters.

29) Dwarven Stability  :

You can now maintain stances. You are also immune to knockdown if drunk.

30) "Finish Him!" :

Effectively finishes target foe. A staple skill.

31) Visions of Regret (VoR) :

Find another target for your other hexes, this one is already dead.

32) Ether Renewal (ER) :

For as long as you want, spells don't cost energy : they GIVE you energy (and health !). See Emo.

33) Pious Renewal (PR) :

Permanent dervish enchantment.

34) Ebon Vanguard Sniper Support :

If you are lucky, target foe dies. If not, he still takes damage and bleeding for 25s

35) Stoneflesh Aura  :

Minor PvE foes do not damage you anymore.

36) Vow of Silence (another VoS) :

For as long as you want you are immune to spells. Only "small" downside : your healers cannot heal you and you cannot cast any spell (but you are a dervish so you do not really care).

37) Ebon Battle Standard of Honor (EBSoH) :

Your team strikes harder. A staple skill if using armor-respecting damage.

38) Ray of Judgment (RoJ) :

Over 200 Armor-ignoring damage and 7s burning.

39) Life Bond :

Your allies take half damage. Great Synergy with Seed of Life

40) Destructive Was Glaive (DwG) :

Spammable and cheap AoE 75 lightning damage with 20% armor penetration

41) Mystic Regeneration  :

You have unlimited health regeneration

42) Barrage  :

Deal physical damage to a group of foes without getting in melee. Spammable and also deal more damage

43) Edge of Extinction (EoE) :

If foes are not human, they die quicker.

44) Fevered Dreams  :

You only have to spike conditions on one foe.

45) Melandru's Resilience  :

Hexes and conditions don't affect you anymore

46) Spike Trap  :

Damages, knocks down and cripples foes so that they stay longer in your other traps

47) Critical Agility  :

Assassins now have an IAS that also grants more armor and can renew itself easily.

48) Mark of Pain (MoP) :

If you have a physical attacker, foes are balled and don't scatter quickly, they die in one hit.

49) Aura of the Lich (AotL) :

You get one minion for each corpse within earshot. Also, you have one more minion, +1 in death magic.

50) Blood is Power (BiP) :

Your allies are never low on energy. You, however, are always low on health.

51) Death Nova  :

Target ally becomes a bomb.

52) Enfeebling Blood  :

Cheap AoE long-lasting weakness.

53) Signet of Lost Souls (SoLS) :

If you're already winning, you win more.

54) Cautery Signet  :

Cure your allies for 0 energy.

55) "For Great Justice!" :

For 20s, your warrior or paragon is twice less pitiful.

56) Warrior's Endurance :

Your warrior is not pitiful anymore.

57) Whirlwind Attack / Eremite's Attack :

You strike all adjacent foes with your next attack. And you deal more damage. Great combo with Hundred Blades and Vow of Strength

58) Armor of Sanctity :

For 15s, you laugh at physical opponents.

59) Glimmering Mark :

2/3 of the time, target foe and his friends cannot use attack skills AND take damage.

60) Obsidian Flame :

Armor-ignoring spammable cheap damage

61) "We Shall Return!" :

If you have been defeated, you haven't been defeated.

62) "It's Just a Flesh Wound." :

Spammable cure at 0 motivation

63) "There's Nothing to Fear!" :

Reduces damage to your team by 35% during 3/4 of the time.

64) Spear of Fury :

If you have a spear, you don't need to worry about damage and adrenaline management anymore.

65) Grenth's Aura  :

You can efficiently use a scythe at 0 scythe mastery.

66) Serpent's Quickness :

All your skills recharge 33% faster except for stances.

67) Quickening Zephyr :

All skills used by all party members in spirit range recharge 50% faster.

68) Vengeful Was Khanhei :

Foes hitting you heal you instead and lose health.

69) Spoil Victor

If foe has too much health, he will lose it.

70) Fragility :

Your main source of damage if your team is based around conditions.

70+) Honorable mentions :

Mark of Insecurity ~ For 20s (maintainable with 4 deadly arts), enchantments and stances don't protect target foe.

Frustration (PvP) ~ Non-elite Migraine (PvP)

Palm Strike ~ fast, cheap, low recharge, skip your lead attack, damage, cripple, hit through blind and block.

Moebius Strike ~ off-hand following a dual attack. Also, deals damage and can recharge skills (including the dual attack it just followed). Cheap, low recharge. What else ?

Blades of Steel ~ 120 damage in one hit without deep wound.

Splinter Weapon ~ AoE damage even when you can't do AoE. If striking several foes, yellow number explosion.

Painful Bond ~ as if spirit spam wasn't enough overpowered already

Shelter ~ a (extremely expensive, high recharge) party-wide Protective Spirit.

Ineptitude ~blinds permanently a group of foes

Signet of Illusions ~ choose your 3 next spells in any attribute you like

Sympathetic Visage/Ancestor's Visage ~ great anti-spike

Resilient Weapon ~ armor and health regeneration which cannot be removed

Crippling Anguish ~ this skill was overnerfed in its PvP version for a reason

Foul Feast ~ one of the best cures of the game

Diversion ~ target cannot use its favorite skills

Stolen Speed ~ target group of foe permanently cast spells twice as slow and your team permanently cast spells on them twice as fast.

Healer's Boon ~ heal faster and more

Patient Spirit ~ over 100 cheap spammable healing

Strength of Honor ~ target melee deal 25 more damage. Doesn't need to have any investment in your weapon attribute to deal damage

Dismiss Condition

Aura of Faith

Life Sheath ~ counters next damage/life steal AND remove conditions. Cheap, fast and spammable.

Holy Veil ~ best skill to counter hexes

Shield of Absorption/Shielding Hands/Spirit Bond ~great anti-spike skills in protection prayers

Zealous Benediction ~Word of Healing for protection prayers

Glyph of Lesser Energy ~ great energy management skill even at 0 energy storage

Gale ~ spammable knockdown

Shell Shock ~ AoE cracked armor and damage

Thunderclap ~AoE cracked armor, weakness, damage, and interrupt

Churning Earth ~ area over time AoE damage and knockdown in Hard Mode

Double Dragon ~ the most annoying doublecast skill

Fire Storm ~ area over time AoE damage for 350 total damage. Especially in pre-Searing.

Glowing Gaze ~ one of the best energy management skills for nuker eles

Mark of Rodgort ~ permanent AoE burning if nuker ele

Meteor ~ Cheap AoE knockdown and damage

Slippery Ground ~ Cheap knockdown with condition easy to meet

Steam ~Cheap blind with condition easy to meet

Mind Freeze ~ Permanent 90% snare

Water Trident ~ Kiting foes are knockdowned

Wail of Doom ~ because Shard said so.

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