Hello everyone,
This is a build to kill the boss Zarnas Stonewrath. I have searched the forum and tried some builds. It seems there isn't a very efficient build to kill this boss. I came up with this build after a few deaths.
First, about Zarnas Stonewrath, his green item, and how to find him:
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Zarnas_Stonewrath
With this build, soloing Zarnas Stonewrath is quite simple once you get used to it.
Profession: Monk/Mesmer
Skills and attributes:
Protective Spirit, Spell breaker[E], Empathy, Mend Ailment, Backfire, Mending, Essense Bond, Balthazar's Spirit.
Domination magic : 11
Healing prayer: 9 + 4 = 13
Protection prayer: 9 + 3 = 12
The rest into Divine favor
You need to have a 55 Monk with Mesmer as scondary profession. If you are not familiar with it, please do some research on how to make one.
The equipments are just standard 55 Hp monk equipments. I used totem axe in the video.
Similar to all other boss farming builds, this build also kills the boss by beating its AI.
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The Process
=================The whole run takes about 4-7 minutes.
You start in Altrumm Ruins, and go north in Arborstone according to the map in the previous link.
You will need to run past:
1. a group of wardens 2. Craw Stonereap
Cast mending(4 arrow reg rate at 13 healing prayer), Essense Bond, Balthazar's spirit on you at the beginning. Cast protective spirit before you aggro the group of wardens, and use Mend Ailment when you step on their trap, or knocked down to remove cripple/bleeding, and to heal yourself.
You might have a little trouble on this part, but it gets easy after a few tries.
After you run past the group, you will encouter Craw Stonereap, while some wardens are still bashing, and shooting you(which is good, since it keeps your energy up). Right before you aggro Craw Stonereap, cast protective spirit and spell breaker. Now, you aggro him, and he will not be able to cast any spells on your. But be careful still! Do not get too close to him, since he will cast Chilblains which will stripe your enchantment(protective spirit & spell breaker) if you are too close. With that in mind, run past him, and you will see Zarnas Stonewrath.
Cast protective spirit again, and aggro Zarnas. But do not stop running till you get rid off Craw Stonereap and the wardens following you.
Now to kill Zarnas:
You can first relax... for just a little bit. Zarnas does not have any dereg or enchantment removal skills.
What you do first is to keep protective spirit on you. Your essense bond, and balthazar's spirit will keep your energy up. Cast protective spirit as soon as your energy reaches the max, and DO NOT WAIT TILL THE ICON IS BLINKING. The reason for that is Zarnas likes to cast Gale a lot, which will knock you down for 3 seconds. If you are unlucky, you will get knocked down and unable to cast protective spirit in time.
Other than that, mending will keep you alive, so you are pretty safe.
So, you just wait there and till Zarnas casts 4-5 Gale and acculmulated enough exhaustion. Now he will cast Gale a lot less frequent. You can start casting backfire on Zarnas.
Keep doing it, until his HP gets really low, and here comes the tricky part.
Obviously, the AI is not too stupid. Zarnas will stop casting spells with backfire on him once his HP is really low, so you cannot kill him by bringing only backfire.
What you do is cast backfire, and when his HP gets low, cast Empathy, since he will attack you when he stops casting.
At the same time, cast spell breaker after you cast empathy!!!
This is important, since he will again cast spells once backfire is gone, and your backfire is not charged yet. He will again heal himself with the aura of resotration on.
So you cast spell breaker, and he has empathy, he cannot cast spell. Keep empathy on him when you have your spell breaker on, he will keep attacking you till he dies.
(I have tried to bring shatter enchantment, and some other combination, but they do not do enough damage to kill him at the end. Empathy + spell breaker are quite reliable to give the final push.)
That's it. I have tried with Mesmer as main, but it is a little bit tricker to run past the wardens since now you do not have the healing from divine favor. You can try bringing healing breeze as a mesmer/monk to replace mend ailment, but it makes the run slower since you will have to wait till the cripple condition is gone.
Oh by the way, Comments, suggestions are good.
The Process
=================The whole run takes about 4-7 minutes.
You start in Altrumm Ruins, and go north in Arborstone according to the map in the previous link.
You will need to run past:
1. a group of wardens 2. Craw Stonereap
Cast mending(4 arrow reg rate at 13 healing prayer), Essense Bond, Balthazar's spirit on you at the beginning. Cast protective spirit before you aggro the group of wardens, and use Mend Ailment when you step on their trap, or knocked down to remove cripple/bleeding, and to heal yourself.
You might have a little trouble on this part, but it gets easy after a few tries.
After you run past the group, you will encouter Craw Stonereap, while some wardens are still bashing, and shooting you(which is good, since it keeps your energy up). Right before you aggro Craw Stonereap, cast protective spirit and spell breaker. Now, you aggro him, and he will not be able to cast any spells on your. But be careful still! Do not get too close to him, since he will cast Chilblains which will stripe your enchantment(protective spirit & spell breaker) if you are too close. With that in mind, run past him, and you will see Zarnas Stonewrath.
Cast protective spirit again, and aggro Zarnas. But do not stop running till you get rid off Craw Stonereap and the wardens following you.
Now to kill Zarnas:
You can first relax... for just a little bit. Zarnas does not have any dereg or enchantment removal skills.
What you do first is to keep protective spirit on you. Your essense bond, and balthazar's spirit will keep your energy up. Cast protective spirit as soon as your energy reaches the max, and DO NOT WAIT TILL THE ICON IS BLINKING. The reason for that is Zarnas likes to cast Gale a lot, which will knock you down for 3 seconds. If you are unlucky, you will get knocked down and unable to cast protective spirit in time.
Other than that, mending will keep you alive, so you are pretty safe.
So, you just wait there and till Zarnas casts 4-5 Gale and acculmulated enough exhaustion. Now he will cast Gale a lot less frequent. You can start casting backfire on Zarnas.
Keep doing it, until his HP gets really low, and here comes the tricky part.
Obviously, the AI is not too stupid. Zarnas will stop casting spells with backfire on him once his HP is really low, so you cannot kill him by bringing only backfire.
What you do is cast backfire, and when his HP gets low, cast Empathy, since he will attack you when he stops casting.
At the same time, cast spell breaker after you cast empathy!!!
This is important, since he will again cast spells once backfire is gone, and your backfire is not charged yet. He will again heal himself with the aura of resotration on.
So you cast spell breaker, and he has empathy, he cannot cast spell. Keep empathy on him when you have your spell breaker on, he will keep attacking you till he dies.
(I have tried to bring shatter enchantment, and some other combination, but they do not do enough damage to kill him at the end. Empathy + spell breaker are quite reliable to give the final push.)
That's it. I have tried with Mesmer as main, but it is a little bit tricker to run past the wardens since now you do not have the healing from divine favor. You can try bringing healing breeze as a mesmer/monk to replace mend ailment, but it makes the run slower since you will have to wait till the cripple condition is gone.
Oh by the way, Comments, suggestions are good.
