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I'm really confused about the difference between the smiting enchantment Balthazars Spirit and the no attribute skill Essence Bond. The description is different, but everytime i read it, the way it is worded, makes it seem like they would do the exact same thing(besides gaining adrenaline). Also why do you want to cast Balthazars Spirit on yourself? Can someone please explain this to me.
Balthazars Spirit: While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains Adrenaline and Energy after taking damage.(The amount of adrenaline gained increases depending on your rank in Smiting Prayers)
Essence Bond: While you maintain this Enchantment, whenever target ally takes physical or elemental damage, you gain 1 energy
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| 12/30/06 21:21 |
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ijumpoffthings20
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Balthazar: your target gets energy and andrenalin whenever he/she is hit
Essence: you get energy everytime target gets hit
So basicly with Balthazar, you are giving energy to whoever you cast it on, and with esscense YOU are getting energy...
and you cast it on yourself since you get hit ( i assume you are talking about 55ing) and that powers your bonetti's defense
Hope that helps :D
EDIT: i really suck at typing....
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| 12/30/06 21:24 |
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aznese guy
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so the only real difference is adrenaline, other than that if i 55 i could use essence bond? thx for the quick reply.
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| 12/30/06 21:27 |
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flipfly2006
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| QUOTE | I'm really confused about the difference between the smiting enchantment Balthazars Spirit and the no attribute skill Essence Bond. The description is different, but everytime i read it, the way it is worded, makes it seem like they would do the exact same thing(besides gaining adrenaline). Also why do you want to cast Balthazars Spirit on yourself? Can someone please explain this to me.
Balthazars Spirit: While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains Adrenaline and Energy after taking damage.(The amount of adrenaline gained increases depending on your rank in Smiting Prayers)
Essence Bond: While you maintain this Enchantment, whenever target ally takes physical or elemental damage, you gain 1 energy
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if u cast balth spirit on "other" ally, that ally gains energy... if u cast balth spirit on u, "u" get energy gain...
casting balth spirit on urself is good if ur a life-bond bonder. its the best way to gain energy while ur bonded ally takes dmg ebcause u take damage too even though u get "0" dmg so u gain 1 energy for every hit the "bonded" ally gets
essence bond... nomatter whom u cast it - u get the energy gain once "the one u casted essence bond on" gets dmg
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| 12/30/06 21:29 |
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ijumpoffthings20
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| QUOTE | | so the only real difference is adrenaline, other than that if i 55 i could use essence bond? thx for the quick reply. |
Not quite, Balth gives energy to the person it is cast on, where as Essence gives energy to the caster
and for 55ing you should use Balth, because you need the adrenalin for bonnettis
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| 12/30/06 21:32 |
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flipfly2006
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| QUOTE | | so the only real difference is adrenaline, other than that if i 55 i could use essence bond? thx for the quick reply. |
if ur using 55er build it doesnt matter which 1 u choose (i recomend both tho) if ur soloing
*edited* if ur mo/w 55er using bonnetis... balth spirit is better
but if ur dualing... ur partner can take balth spirit and cast it to "U" so u get the energy gain.... if he casts it to him he wont get anything since he doesnt get dmg at all if ur tanking...
if he casts essence bond on u he will get the energy gain - not u!
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| 12/30/06 21:33 |
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aznese guy
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omg, Thx guys. I finally get it. +cred to both of ya and thanks for such speedy responses!
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| 12/30/06 21:35 |
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cswella
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Also, Balthazar's Spirit gives energy every time target receives damage.
Essence Bond only works on physical or elemental damage.
So, Essence Bond won't work if you're getting hit with chaos/holy/etc damage.
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| 12/30/06 21:48 |
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NecroRebel
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There's another difference as well. Balth's Spirit triggers whenever the enchanted person takes damage; Essence Bond triggers whenever the enchanted person takes physical or elemental damage. In other words, if you take damage that is neither physical nor elemental, Essence Bond will not provide energy.
Incidentally, damage taken through Life Bond loses elemental and physical damage properties, so if you have Life Bond on someone else and Essence Bond on yourself, you won't gain energy if the other person gets attacked. The same is not true of Balth's Spirit; you'll gain energy whenever the bonded person gets attacked.
For a fully-bonded tank, the bonder will usually put Essence Bond on the tank and Balth's Spirit on themself. This way, they gain 1 energy whenever the tank tankes physical or elemental damage and 1 energy whenever the tank gets attacked (since Life Bond only channels attacks through to the bonder), allowing the bonder to gain up to 2 energy per hit on the tank.
As far as most uses are concerned, Balth's Spirit is the superior skill, but there are cases, such as if you want to avoid being enchanted yourself for instance, that Essence Bond is a better option.
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| 12/30/06 21:49 |
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I fine balth is more common with Wammoa and essance more common with 55's. not sure why.... but yea. Yes they are very similar
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| 12/30/06 22:00 |
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| QUOTE | | QUOTE | | so the only real difference is adrenaline, other than that if i 55 i could use essence bond? thx for the quick reply. |
Not quite, Balth gives energy to the person it is cast on, where as Essence gives energy to the caster
and for 55ing you should use Balth, because you need the adrenalin for bonnettis
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Oh... now I get it, thanks for the clear explanation, I was quiet confused as well XD
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| 01/20/07 12:58 |
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