Teth wrote on Jan 23
rd, 2015 at 3:34pm:
Well I think the split im gonna use is 8 wiz 6 fighter 6 barb. Death aura is enough if you play the build red alert style. You may not have the 4-5 strike whirlwind, but with this split you can still get 2-3 hits on whirlwind and 2-3 on supreme cleave. In the long run its just as many swings at a bit less base damage. However, you get the crit rage for 10% more threat and a substantial amount of melee power/doublestrike. You can use the shield mastery feats and twist for 10 melee power and 15% xtra doublestrike, not to mention the fact you can easily get 250 prr in tree form with near 100 mrr as well. So while you may not have the 1 fancy whirlwind, supreme cleave def makes up for the build.
As for the spirit, that's much harder to pull off with death aura than cleric for sure, but it can be done with experience.
In case death aura had a way to work properly so that you can sustain it, and manage your sp bar in that regard /which is purely impossible trust me, try doing wgu and you wont make it til shrine without abusing eross bauble and stacks of sp pots/ i would prolly stick to some kind Monk/wiz/palie build, the dps loss from whirlwind at least to me is a bit to much, once you stack up dstrike the off hand procs with the possilbe 8 hit straight out beats sup cleave.
Big issue is that you need a full time enemy surround from aura to get spirit so you go into fight with 0 spirit unless you spam heal pots scrolls and whatever, i mean you could be in zomb form and get spirit while in non tree, but that just seems plainly stupid imo
Also that way you could pick violent beg violence which would be far more synergetic with selfdisplace super high ac from eldritch mage armor and maxed dodge imo.
But again, issue is the sp bar and the short buffs so it becomes more annoying then anything to play it.
And no matter the play experience, you cant bypass the fact that sp bar is to low and that its not that good as the initial build monk cleri palie.
I tried and tried really hard to make it work on that test build.
I managed to solo ee vons and some high tier ees totally underleveld, but the sp bar and buff handling was to annoying and requires to many resources to be pulled off.
If you are ok with sp pot spam in longer quests then the freedom of picking a better t5 is handy, i personally would go for monk one since its extremely good on tree in case violent works at i think it does