Is there a way to nuke an aataxe?

Is there a way to nuke an aataxe? I don't care if I die in the end as long as I can kill an aataxe.

The Bladed or Vengeful ones? If you're talking the Bladed ones and you're having trouble getting around Savage Slash, then Mantra of Concentration or Glyph of Concentration/Sacrifice. For the Vengeful's, can't cast on them until you kill their Keeper of Souls.

This is of course assuming Mr. Aatxe doesn't turn you into Elementalist flavoured Meat Paste in about 2 hits.

During the Free FoW/UW access weekend, I tried the 'solo troll cave in 15 seconds' build on an aatxe. Not only is it insanely hard to get it going, considering the pull required to get them away from other aatxes, savage slash, triple digit damage numbers, etc, but the whole build, with them not running away once, only took 1/3 off their health bars! I declare that it's not possible to nuke an aatxe.

55 E/Mo? you can do it, but i dont know why...

They have way too much health, armour and natural regen to be nuked. Its like trying to nuke a Mursaat Boss... (ok maybe not... nothing is that bad... stupid 21 damage Meteor Showers).

Closest you'll get to a nuke is killing them with SS/Empathy/Insideous/SV... a cool 200-250 damage a hit would make them commit suicide in about 8 seconds.

2 people can do it, just. But not solo.

Oh we're talking solo? Ugh,...n/m...

They can get stuck behind stationary spirits. I have had it happen a couple times while monking. After getting enchantments stripped and running for my life. So I assume if you get one stuck behind a spirit you can nuke him. But it is not worth the loss of 1k to kill only one.

By nuking, what do you mean?
-Using any elementalist skills to kill.
-Using only fire.
-Using fire in a quick spike before they can run.

Quote: Originally Posted by gaiaplay

Quote: Originally Posted by Zeph

What about a 55 E/Mo? Bring aura of restoration and prot spirit. Get some AoE spells ( fire preferably ) + MoR and fire attunement and glowing gaze for energy management. U might be able to burn em to death tho. Very slowly but u can kill em long as ur enchants stay up. Idk if it works since I haven't made an ele PvE before tho.

55HP N/Mo spoil victor build can handle up to 3 bladed aatxe at a time if no nightmare pops up. ( btw 3 is a hard run). But ectos flow slightly nowadays ...

Sandstorm
Archance echo
Tenai's wind
Whirlwind
Ward of melee ( or a heal. I think ward will work better. Maybe another type of block or blind. Eruption any1? )
Stoneflesh aura
Stone striker
Mantra of earth

I don't go into UW often but I think this might work. Cast stone striker to change all dmg to earth. Then stoneflesh to reduce dmg. Aggro 2 at a time. Mantra of Earth to reduce earth dmg by around 38% at 8 inspiration. Archance echo-> sandstorm-> tenai's wind->whirlwind- w/e blocking u brought ( if u brought 1 ). Use your knockdown skills as often as you can. You should be able to have up to 3 sandstorms if u time it right. Mantra of Earth will help defend and manage energy. Stoneflesh will reduce dmg. Blocking well... blocks... Sandstorm lasts for 10 seconds right? If not then ur second sandstorm should be able to kill them. Let them be right next to u so they can't run when u knock them down. I think this would work. Any damage u receive is reduced by around 50% and higher and u keep them knocked down with some good dmg going. If u don't bring blocking then bring eruption to blind them. Ash blast works to I'd geuss. Idk if this build works tho so good luck if u try it.

If my assassin can nuke aataxes, so can your ele shadowformftw!

i believe most of you guys aren't aware what "nuking" actually means.

Quote: They have way too much health, armour and natural regen to be nuked. meh, agreed.

hmmmm, well i think ele skills cant kill a aatxe, only skill that can come close is silver armor i think, but it takes way to long to do so.
but a ele can stay alive vs a aatxe with ease and you not have to be a monk secondairy for it. as for damage i would say go with spoil victor and bring a cover hex if you wanna kill smites.


what i do sometimes when i am bored is just do a smite run, but b4 going there i kill aatxes with heroes, takes longer and sometimes i get a ecto. take koss with glads def, dolyak,riposte, deadly riposte, and some stances, dunkoro as a necro secondairy, just bring healing seed for koss and some other cheap healing and spoil victor and enfeeble blood,

I can burn them to death with my paragon so I would think that something similar can be done with a ele. As for actually nuking...I don't think the op cared about how they died, as long as one dies.

I think you could take damge reduction of your choice (55, stoneflesh, they're on fire+other, whatever) and mark of rodgort + flare-spam (or the obvious choice of searing+glowing). Like I said, my Para can kill them with burning refrain+weak spear hits (generally less than 20 dmg per) so I would think that something along those lines would work, albeit slowly<--also the reason why I can, but don't with my Para...sloooooow

MoR + Savannah heat + gale + deep freeze? Add some defencove stuff in there and I think ur good to go. Idk just some random stuff. I'd go deeper into it but I'm to tired to. Those skills in a different order of course. Oh archane echo Savannah heat btw.