Soul Taker MCway

Originally templated and tweaked from this PvX build page

Run into the fray surrounded by an undead army and slay your foes with extreme prejudice, while your heroes support you from afar.

Features:

• Mercenary-free team build for general HM PvE

• Ludicrous player damage protected by Spell Breaker
• Lvl 21 MINIONS
• Adrenaline support through Dark Fury and Inspirational Speech
• Blood is Power, Soul Twisting, and Spell Breaker for a resilient, protective backline
• R16 Splinter Weapon, R15 Strength of Honor
• 3 x Shatter Hexes
• 2 x Shatter Enchantment
• 2 × 8s “Fall Back!”
• Replaceable ESurge Dom hero. Either for mission specific heroes, or if you want to bring a friend. (The SoH Mesmer hero can easily support two melees when properly geared)

Downsides:

• Requires Anniversary Scythe “Sufferer” to unlock full potential.

• Click intensive
• Expensive to gear
  (The Spell Breaker hero cannot function without the +5 SR weapon mod. If unavailable, bring the E/Mo hero instead and use the player variant with “IAU!”)

SETUP

Disable:

• Dark Aura (Otherwise it will be used on the BiP hero)
• Spell Breaker (Save it for the player)
• Strength of Honor, Arcane Mimicry (Hero will maintain SoH indefinitely this way)

Hotkey:

• Target self (It helps a lot when needing to rebuff Dark Aura mid-combat)

• Dark Aura
• Splinter Weapon
• Spell Breaker (If you don’t want to micro Spell Breaker, bring the E/Mo hero instead and use the player variant with “IAU!”)
• 3 x Inspirational Speech (7 adrenaline, enough for Twin Moon Sweep)

HOW TO PLAY

• Micro the Arcane Mimicry for Signet of Illusions, cast Signet of Illusions, and cast Strength of Honor on player. Repeat out of combat whenever SoH is lost.
• (Optional) Consume Alcohol.
• (Optional) Precast Shelter on dangerous pulls.
• Prebuff Drunken Master, Masochism, Soul Taker, Sand Shards, Dark Aura, Splinter Weapon, Spell Breaker, and 3x Inspirational Speech on player.
• Either ball up foes or target groups of 2-3.
• Repeatedly teardown with Staggering Force/Twin Moon Sweep, and Dust Cloak/Wearying Strike.
• Rebuff Drunken Master, Masochism, Soul Taker, Sand Shards, and Dark Aura as needed.