On the other hand, you have to heavily focus your houndmaster on stress healing, which mitigate the benefits of having the strong transformed abomination a lot.Īlso this party is very vulnerable to shuffling, which is a decisive handicap on higher difficulties for what I now see. Houndmaster is the key element I missed, as the stress heal and the very good combo with arbalest including a bonus but very handy prot debuff are quite usefull. This party seems to work quite well even if highway man isn't optimized and I'd probably have sloted a Hellion instead if I had one avalaible. You can't get a Vestal with an abomination, unless it became possible with crimson court that I don't own yet.įor now I went with Houndmaster / Arbalest / Abomination / Highway man. I could even go through champion dungeons in the weald (as everbody knows, the weald is seriously rage inducing on champion difficulty). Originally posted by Nightsail:Vestal / Arbalest / ABM / Man at Armsīoth of these parties are extremely good. Meanwhile, when not transformed, the abomination works well as a stunner and can self heal when not doing that. This makes the abomination great as a high damage AOE character when transformed. The abomination also has a camping skill that self buffs for +25% DMG and his skill rake gives an additional +15% DMG buff when it's used. I recommend the occultist for an abomination group, not only as a healer, but also because, on medium and long quests, he has a +20% DMG buff that he can use for the abomination. The vestal and flagellant are obviously out because both are religious, so that leaves the occultist as a strong healer (with the arballest, plague doctor and antiquarian as possible options for secondary healers). Either the jester or houndmaster would work for this, but the houndmaster might work a little better because his stress heal targets the whole party and he's, IMO, a stronger class overall compared to the jester. Because the abomination also stress out the rest of the party when transforming, it's a good idea to have a stress healer for the rest of the party.

There are three stress healer's available to the abomination: the houndmaster, the jester, and the abomination himself. Remember that religious characters can't team up with the abomination, so crusader won't work in this case.

Originally posted by Valmar:I agree, I use this when I can, or with other tank (Crusader can also stress relief).

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