Build talk:Mo/W Hundred Blades

I'm pretty sure that note under the HB usage is wrong otherwise you wouldn't need to ball tightly in raptor farming (or with the VoS vaettir farmer) to kill everything. If it works like that note says, then everything would die regardless of how you position (and unless there's been a stealth game update, that is not what happens if you let the mobs fan out and surround you). -Toraen (talk) 19:00, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Check this demonstration video I quickly made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsrYAo-KIVQ
 * You'll see that A) the damage of hundred blades is dealt to the attacked foe and targets adjacent to the player, as depending on your positioning none, one or both of the dummies are hit; B) that scythes are weird and seem to only hit targets which are both adjacent to you and less-than-adjacent (edit: the official wiki calls this range adjacent to target in difference to just adjacent, but I'll call it less-than-adjacent to make the difference clear and identification easy) to the master of damage, as depending on your positioning you can hit or avoid hitting the left dummy, but no matter how you position yourself you'll never hit the right one which is slightly off-position; C) that both dummies are indeed adjacent to the master of damage, as both get hit by Alkar's alchemical acid when used on him.
 * So: I guess the raptor farmers are either doing it wrong or using mark of pain. --Krschkr (talk) 21:19, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * They do use MoP, it's just that if you let the raptors fan out too much the broodmother will not die (the nestlings always die several times over though) and it seemed like the skill behavior listed on the build would prevent that. I actually think I get why now but I'll need to look at this again when I'm less tired (the perils of trying to understand game mechanics at 4:30 AM after work I guess). -Toraen (talk) 10:20, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Wild guess: If MoP is intended to kill the brood mother it should suffice to use it on a raptor (or two, you have about 9 seconds of dual MoP) next to her, even if you end up surrounded by spread-out raptors. --Krschkr (talk) 13:32, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Raptor farming is a solved problem really, I was just needlessly confused about HB's AoE effect. -Toraen (talk) 10:35, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

vs dagger spam
If used in situations as the description describes ("Monk build for organized player teams with too many backline players"), I think this build has legitimate merit, as in pugs it's not uncommon to have one player serve as a pseudo-tank and ball foes, making this build far superior in terms of spikes than a dagger-spam monk in terms of melee damage. Devil's Advocate just run RoJ lol. Another point is that compared to Mo/A, this build is not energy intensive and can easily afford powerful utility skills such as EBSoH or Judge's Insight. Willarddog (talk) 14:47, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I gotta say, I used to run a similar bar, but it was only in hero comps. I don't play in PuG's or other player groups very often, so don't have the best experience from this angle. Build worked fine for me in hero comps though Us3r1OO425457 (talk) 13:48, 26 April 2021 (UTC)