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5/5 Demonic Leech: More mana back from BaSW is a ‘yes’ for PvE mostly. The mana gain is huge, shouldn’t be ignored, and provides more bang for your buck than anything else you can pick.

-It’s an AoE. Yes, and AoE. If 10 guys are hitting you, then 10 guys gt hit age of conan gold back for each person who attacked. So, in their 1 attack, assuming Molten Flesh retaliates every hit, and I haven’t confirmed this, you’re looking at them getting hit 10 times each. (It’s more like 7-8, I’m pretty sure.) But basically, they fall over and die.

This is all I’m going to cover for now, I’ll be posting about the HoX in raids as soon as I’m able to do them, hopfully have a good rotation down, but I can guess my Rotation is going to follow a fairly simple pattern: MSS -> HS -> BaSW, while spamming HFB. Perhaps I’ll be able to fit in BtD as well. Since I have points in Butcher, I want to maximize it’s use.

I’ve been solo farming the East ruins in Keshatta aoc gold since level 72. I’ve died a lot, I’m not going to lie, but I’ve been leveling like crazy. Yeas, the Herald can effectively handle large groups of mobs. And, I’ll tell you how. Keep in mind this is more focused around level 74, where you can have Aox, HVoX and Molten Flesh. You can probably get them sooner, I think, but this is how I specced.

3/3 Demonic Link: Another stunning feat near doubling the damage dealt in Demon and Avatar forms. There is no reason not to have this.

-It gets +Fire Damage from Demon Form. Avatared Molten Flesh hits for about 200.

You don’t take a ton of damage, but sometimes you might get KDed before you get WoC off, if this happens, spam potion and WoC and hope for the best. Mobs can chain KD, and it sucks, you’ll die. Oh well. It’s a short run. Shorter if you have UGoX up. One of the reasons this is so effective at farming is because of Molten Flesh. This ability is fairly lackluster by itself, except for a few things:

5/5 Butcher: Again, PvE.

UPDATE, Raid Build: http://www.conanarmory.com/feat.aspx…2e2fef13efef14

5/5 Flame Tongue: This feat is crap. Horrible. At my level 5 stacks gives about +30 Fire damage to melee. It lasts about 8 seconds, so you basically hav to spam HFB to keep it up. We have it for one reason.

UPDATE: New Proposed Feat build: http://www.conanarmory.com/feat.aspx…fefe3f3ef9ef16

5/5 Desecration: A minute and a half CD on DE? Yes. Yes. YES.

1/1 Fire Lance: Even if it got nerfed, I’ll still use it. It still serves a purpose as a high burst damage attack. The reduction to 3 attack combo means I can EoX bfore the final hit more reliably.

3/3 Mindless Brute: Large gain at little cost, a must have.

2/2 Molten Flesh: Many people will tell you this sucks, and I disagree, so much. I’ll explain why in my ‘PvE’ section of playing a Herald.

1/1 Blood Pit: I got this because of my current grinding spot, and I’ll probably kep it. 200+ Health regen at my level is very good, and it spawns quite often.

But, on to the Herald.

5/5 Fiery Weapons: A suprisingly good feat, procs do more damage than my normal white hits, and probably increase my damage substantially.

Hi, I’m Lashkor, the Self proclaimed Demon King of Bluesteel. You may remember from such threads as, ‘Concerns about the Herald,’ and ‘My Demon Form is a Soccer playing Swamp Predator.’

So, having said all this, HoXs are one of the best solo AoE grinders in the game. I actually got paid for allowing a ranger to group with me since they XP so slowly. As soon as you can learn to AoE grind. I was getting 9-10 chain kills by myself with this strat. ven with DE and AoX down you can still effectively take smaller groups with HFB, HS, whatever. I use WoC a lot in PvE as well to set up combos outside of combat to maximize my damage deal and minimize mine taken.

2/2 Reaching Flames: The reason I got this is because to be PoF has a really wonky hitbox. Taking this helps to insure I actually hit the person and has great PvE functionality as well.

If you take a good look at the feats you’ll notice it’s a very PvP oriented spec, however it also performs well in PvE. Lets go over the feats, and why we have them:

The Herald in PvE

Step 4: Cast Exultation of Xotli. The moment HVoX wears off, cast Molten Flesh. Everything dies, white swings and HFBs finish the group off quickly.

3/3 Roots in Hell: Da plane boss, da plane! (Sorry, I was tyring to distract you from how much this feat needs fixing.)

1/1 Renewed Exultation of Xotli: Some people say this sucks, I disagree. As it is now I use EoX a ton. At my level it’s a +30% damage increase! The downfall is only -20%, and I can kill a pull in 10 seconds, easy.

Step 2: Root them all. There may be some fly aways, let them beat on you while you cast HFB for initial damage.

Possesion

3/3 Flame of Xotli: You’ll read a lot of posts from 80s telling you that BtD sucks at later levels and I can assure this is not the case. Ys, the casting animation is slow, I won’t lie, but the DoT ticks for 400-500. To me, this combo is my opener against tanks and healers. See ‘PvP’ for details.

A few things to notice: I did not take any general mage feats, after much thinking I decided they really aren’t worth the cost, and the survivability return is low. Having more damage and more options in the end gives you far more survivability. Now onto playing your HoX:

Explanation: http://forums.ageofconan.com/showpos…0&postcount=90

My end Feat build: http://www.conanarmory.com/feat.aspx…fefe3f3e2fef23

Avatar

1/1 Thundering Flames: It’ll get fixed, I swear!

Step 1: Sprint along the edge of mob groups until you have the size of the group you want. Usually I pull about 10-12, and sometimes 20 mobs. Get them as close together as you can.

2/2 Wrath of Xotli: A 50% damage increaser to Demons form DoT that works on Avatars insanely high damage already is a must have. Great for PvE and PvP, get damage where you can.

2/2 Improved WoC: Amazing feat to be honest, and also I don’t know if it’s the feat or the fact that I’ve leveled up but WoC rarely ever breaks on damage anymore, making this an amazing thing to have, and WoC and amazing CC for us.

5/5 Imp Fiery Weapons: More damage for your procs, another no brainer to have, and far better than Spreading Flames.

1/1 Avatar of Xotli: Avatar makes dead babies cry. Some people will tell you not to get it, it’s cookie cutter! So what, the other 70 feats suck, and so do the feats leading up to them. This line is really the best for PvP and PvE, hands down. If you wanted an IWIN button, Avatar is this button.

5/5 Hellfire: This one’s really a no brainer, I’m pretty sure that every HoX can agree it’s imperatitve you have this feat.

3/3 Burning Words: DoT to root? I think so! Mostly I couldn’t find anything better to put my points into.

3/3 Horrible Visage of Xotli: The bread and butter of a PvP build, and amazing for PvE as well. If I had a silver for the amount of times HVoX has saved my life I could buy my own guild city. The stun lasts a good 5 seconds. Enough time for most combos.

1/5 Spitfire: I picked this up because I heard report of it increasing the damage of your next attack by something like 25%. I haven’t seen this, but I had no where else to put this point, so I have it, sometimes I use it, but mostly filler.

Step 3: Cast DE to activate HVoX (Or Avatar, your choice.) and stun the group. Cast HFB again for more damage.

Explanation: http://forums.ageofconan.com/showpos…&postcount=125

So, the Herald is very susceptible to CC and you’ll die a lot from getting chain KDed in this area, and probably any other area with large groups that KD. But if you execute perfectly these manuvers, you will survive.

3/3 Fury of Xotli: A PvE wonderchild, really helps out your mana bar by removing the cost of at least 50% of the HFBs you do. Helps sometimes in PvP too, where I go through my mana very fast.

3/3 Rage of Xotli: Personally, I’m a big fan of Hell Strikes. It’s really mostly all I use in PvE, so I wanted this build to implement some of teh good things of PvE while having the best of PvP, and I’m not a huge fan of Pillar of Flame, because to me it’s hitbox seems to suck. So I went Hellstrikes instead, I think it provides more utility, while also holding it’s own in PvP.

The Herald is a power class at high levels. Early in the game it suffers from some issues though, in that it has very limited ability to control anything, and without upgrades to skills its damage flounders. Many people quit their Heralds before getting past this point, but some don’t. Now, on with the show!

1/1 Undying Glory of Xotli: While I wish I didn’t have to cast the buff because it’s annoying, it’s still helpful in soem situations so you don’t have to run back to your grind spots. Just sit dead until your potion/De cds are up so you can insure you survive if you’re around mobs.

5/5 Demon Within: 37 seconds of Demon Form even if it isn’t AoX (Even though not bing in AoX makes me want to cry a little inside.) is amazing. Get it. Why? Because you have to.

- .5 second cast, NO MANA COST. It’s totally free for you to use. I am all about free fast casting spells. Especially effective ones.

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