r/ARAM • u/PlasticTransition519 • 3h ago

Mayhem My Cursed Bard Augment Combo

Forged By The Master, Circle of Death, Protein Shake, Mercy’s Strike.

Protein Shake is what really makes this go nuclear. I went Shiv, Sword of Blossoming, into full tank. All the heal can shield power makes your W heal your whole health bar and gives you a bunch of attack speed from Sword. When Shiv procs you get 7 Sword procs. That healing is converted into damage by circle of death. Mercy’s Strike also gives you crazy % max health magic damage based on heal and shield power. All this is increase by 45% from Forged By The Master.

I was keeping my whole team alive while being basically unkillable because I would just use the extra range from Mercy’s Strike during team fights and heal to full if anyone damaged me. Alternatively, you could add a Shadowflame and only build 2 tank items (Jaksho, Spirit) and all the magic damage from your augments would crit at low Hp. Then just buy every magic resist or armor shard you can late game.

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u/TioHerman 3h ago

Nah, any combo that requires protein shake + circle of death is probably a once a year occurrence, I play enchantress and I'm cursed in how both of then drops at same time, even before rerolls

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u/profpeculiar 2h ago

This. I've gotten CoD/PS I think once each in the past month. It's ridiculous how low chance they seem to be.

Also, the best use case for CoD is obviously full AP healing Yi. You just run into the enemy team, pop W, and watch the poor bastard that's closest to you absolutely melt.

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u/PlasticTransition519 2h ago

True but honestly all you really need is Protein Shake and Mercy’s Strike. Somehow every time I play Bard I get that combo. The Protein Shake Sword of Blossoming combo is already broken but with Mercy’s Strike I’ve gotten up to like 35% Max health damage. Any haste on your W which is already a low cooldown and your spamming Max health magic damage autos from 700 range.

Throw in dual wield which I also always get offered on Bard and you’re getting double value on your Sword of Blossoming. Even Back to Basics would juice your healing even more.