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A build using energy denial to shut down opponents, while
dealing damage in the process.
Attributes and Skills
Equipment
Usage
- Choose a Target.
- Cast Wither -> Malaise -> Mind Wrack -> Parasitic
Bond.
- Cast Wither on other Casters.
- Cast Ether Phantom -> Drain Delusions.
- Spam Wastrel's Worry.
- Repeat as energy levels permit.
Variants
- Shatter Delusions for more damage instead
of energy drain.
- Power Leak
can be used to expedite energy denial.
- Signet of Humility and Shame can be used to counter enemy
hex removal.
- Diversion could
be taken to shut down an opponent further, and synergizes well with
Wastrel's Worry.
- Signet of Lost Souls could be used if
you run into problems with health/energy management, or other
skills from the Inspiration Magic line.
Depravity Variant
For greater e-denial, but less pressure
Counters
- Dazed.
- Melee attention.
- Ironically, energy denial can weaken this build.
Notes
- Hex removal does not pose as much of a threat to this build as
it may at first seem. Many of the hexes in the skillbar trigger
negative effects when they end on target foe.
- Focus
swapping can be used to end Wither and Malaise; however, it will incur a great penalty on
the target of those hexes.
- This build is particularly adept at supporting other e-denial
builds since it helps negate focus swapping and because it adds a
little punch to builds which are normally somewhat passive.
Necromancer / Mesmer 
