Bar compression/Examples

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This page illustrates the most effective skills available for bar compression.

Warrior

• File:Earth Shaker.jpg Earth Shaker can substitute for any number of knockdowns against clumped mobs.

• File:Battle Rage.jpg Battle Rage = File:Berserker Stance.jpg Berserker Stance & File:Rush.jpg Rush

• File:Crippling Slash.jpg Crippling Slash = File:Hamstring.jpg Hamstring & Sever Artery

• File:Enraged Smash.jpg Enraged Smash = File:Bull's Strike.jpg Bull's Strike & File:Mokele Smash.jpg Mokele Smash

• Eviscerate = File:Executioner's Strike.jpg Executioner's Strike & File:Dismember.jpg Dismember

• File:Forceful Blow.jpg Forceful Blow = File:Staggering Blow.jpg Staggering Blow & File:Wild Blow.jpg Wild Blow

• File:Primal Rage.jpg Primal Rage = Sprint & File:Frenzy.jpg Frenzy

• File:Soldier's Stance.jpg Soldier's Stance = File:Frenzy.jpg Frenzy & File:Soldier's Defense.jpg Soldier's Defense

Ranger

Expertises' passive energy management is a key factor for bar compression in most ranger builds.

• File:Heal as One.jpg Heal as One = File:Charm Animal.jpg Charm Animal, File:Comfort Animal.jpg Comfort Animal & File:Companionship.jpg Companionship

Heal as One is an excellent bar compression skill. Because of its ability to resurrect pets, mandatory bar placement for pet usage, activation time, recharge time, pressure through lifesteal, pet heal and range.

• File:Rampage as One.jpg Rampage as One = File:Call of Haste.jpg Call of Haste, File:Run as One.jpg Run as One & File:Tiger's Fury.jpg Tiger's Fury

• File:Melandru's Shot.jpg Melandru's Shot = File:Pin Down.jpg Pin Down & File:Hunter's Shot.jpg Hunter's Shot

• File:Spike Trap.jpg Spike Trap = 2*File:Snare.jpg Snare & File:Tripwire.jpg Tripwire

Monk

• File:Light of Deliverance.jpg Light of Deliverance = File:Heal Party.jpg Heal Party, Glyph of Lesser Energy & File:Healer's Boon.jpg Healer's Boon

At Healing Prayers rank of 13, Light of Deliverance offers good party-wide healing at a reasonable cost. Heroes are also able to make better use of it than the HP/GoLE/HB skill chain, which is a better choice when you expect intermittent, but massive AoE damage.

• File:Life Sheath.jpg Life Sheath = File:Reversal of Fortune.jpg Reversal of Fortune & File:Mend Condition.jpg Mend Condition

• File:Unyielding Aura.jpg Unyielding Aura = File:Rebirth.jpg Rebirth (with 1/4s activation, full health and energy) & boost to healing.

• File:Healer's Boon.jpg Healer's Boon = File:Holy Haste.jpg Holy Haste & boost to healing

Necromancer

Soul Reapings' passive energy management is a key factor for bar compression in most necromancer builds.

• File:Aura of the Lich.jpg Aura of the Lich = multiple uses of File:Animate Bone Horror.jpg Animate Bone Horror
• File:Animate Flesh Golem.jpg Animate Flesh Golem = Acts as a "meat wagon"; reliable source of corps generation reduces or eliminates need for minion healing support skills.
• File:Order of the Vampire.jpg Order of the Vampire = File:Blood Bond.jpg Blood Bond & File:Order of Pain.jpg Order of Pain

Order of the Vampire may be used in place of the more expensive Order of Pain while also providing a small heal in the form of life steal, thus freeing up valuable skill-slots.

Mesmer

• File:Crippling Anguish.jpg Crippling Anguish = File:Faintheartedness.jpg Faintheartedness + File:Imagined Burden.jpg Imagined Burden

• File:Migraine.jpg Migraine = File:Conjure Nightmare.jpg Conjure Nightmare + File:Frustration.jpg Frustration

• File:Panic.jpg Panic = any number of interrupts against clumped groups. (Panic is useless for enemies that cannot be clumped or pulled into choke points.)

• File:Shared Burden.jpg Shared Burden = File:Arcane Conundrum.jpg Arcane Conundrum, File:Imagined Burden.jpg Imagined Burden + File:Faintheartedness.jpg Faintheartedness

Elementalist

• Elemental Attunement = Air Attunement & Earth Attunement & Fire Attunement & Water Attunement & Glyph of Elemental Power
• Thunderclap = Enervating Charge & Shell Shock. Is also AoE and grants interrupt

Assassin

• File:Palm Strike.jpg Palm Strike

Palm Strike is commonly used to skip lead attacks and apply the required condition(s) to chain dual attacks (such as with Trampling Ox).

Ritualist

• File:Signet of Spirits.jpg Signet of Spirits

Signet of Spirits can replace several attack spirits.

• File:Weapon of Remedy.jpg Weapon of Remedy = File:Vengeful Weapon.jpg Vengeful Weapon & File:Wielder's Remedy.jpg Wielder's Remedy

• File:Caretaker's Charge.jpg Caretaker's Charge = Damage, self-healing, and energy management

Paragon

• File:Soldier's Fury.jpg Soldier's Fury = File:Natural Temper.jpg Natural Temper & File:Aggressive Refrain.jpg Aggressive Refrain
• File:"It's Just a Flesh Wound.".jpg "It's Just a Flesh Wound." = File:Purge Conditions.jpg Purge Conditions & File:"Make Haste!".jpg "Make Haste!"

Dervish

Mysticism' passive energy management is a key factor for bar compression in most dervish builds.

• File:Avatar of Dwayna.jpg Avatar of Dwayna
• File:Avatar of Melandru.jpg Avatar of Melandru

Melandru & Dwayna both help with hexes and conditions respectively, allowing for excellent bar compression.

• File:Pious Renewal.jpg Pious Renewal

Pious Renewal is an excellent bar compression Teardown skill. It serves as a Feeder and cover enchantment and offers both Self-healing and Energy management

• File:Onslaught.jpg Onslaught = File:Heart of Fury.jpg Heart of Fury & File:Featherfoot Grace.jpg Featherfoot Grace . Also provides more adrenaline management

Other

• File:Asuran Scan.jpg Asuran Scan

Asuran Scan single-handedly does the job of several skills slots reserved to counter blind, misses hexes such as Blurred Vision, blocked from any source (enchantment, stances, wards)...

• File:"I Am Unstoppable!".jpg "I Am Unstoppable!"

"I Am Unstoppable!" single-handedly ignores the effects of knockdown, cripple and also grants 24 armor boost while being a shout (meaning instant effect and very few counters).

• File:"You Move Like a Dwarf!".jpg "You Move Like a Dwarf!"

"You Move Like a Dwarf!" is the only true instant cast interrupt and snare in the game, as well as the only interrupt that snares beyond a knockdown. It also deals damage.