Solo Ranger Melee Farmer

Recently i saw a friend of mine use thier spirit bonder monk to completely annihilate the shiro'ken outside harvest temple. This build was an addaptation to try and use the same methods in places where then enemies DON'T use the elite spirit FAMINE for you.

I'm still tinkering with the build, so if u have any suggestions I'd be glad to consider them

Skills:
-Famine {Elite}
-sypathetic visage
-ancestors visage
-physical resistance
-troll ungent
-whirling defense
-barbed trap
-throw dirt

Attributes:
-wilderness survival - 12+1+1 (might use a major or superior wilderness but not sure if it would be worth losing the health)
-illusion magic - 10
-inspiration magic - 9
-expertise - Rest of your points (2+1 i think)

As for equipment, ive been able to kill groups of up to 4 or 5 trolls at a time (outside droks) with full druids and the wrong mask ( I have a +1 expertise mask with sup expertise in it). i think Explorers would work best for health bonus though. right now im using villinars staff for the health and energy and because it was all i had on hand, but a + health and - damage shield while in enchant as well as a +health and armor sword/axe would work better. im not sure if youd need it but a +5 energy sword wouldn't hurt either.

The basic strategy is to go close to the group of whatever your farming; trolls, minos, etc..., and put up your famine spirit. While I'm casting, or before i cast famine, i generally put up physical resistance. After this you can just move in a little closer, and put up a trap as your aggroeing. this should provide some basic damage but the trap is only there because i couldnt think of any other skill to use. while waiting for all the enemies to get in melee range, put up troll ungent, and put it back up as soon as it recharges. once everything is in range, use sympathetic and ancestors visage at same time. These spells will stack for major energy loss and triger the damage from famine. Against higher health monsters you may want to delay using the second visage spell, so as to continue the energy loss over a longer period of time. If you get in trouble with your health, just put up whirling or throw dirt and let troll ungent do the rest.

I'm not the best at writing guides for anything so sorry bout that. Any and all suggestions are welcome and have fun with the build .

Dust Trap would be better to use than Barbed, because it will give everyone blind, saving you from using Throw Dirt on enemies.

Does it work or is it just one of those maybe itll work i dunno kind of things?

dust instead of throw and flame for instead of barb for blind and good degen would prolly work really well....idk thats sumthing to try

this is just a sort of variation of the famine dual ranger build for Underworld :/

Dust trap doesn work in this build. If u blind enemies they don't hit u and Visage doesn't work^^
Btw i tryed it against ettins and other. My impressions are very positive because when enemies finish its energy, they die in 3-4 seconds.

APPROVED^^

Sorry to have copied the UW version of this build, actually didnt know that build was already up until thismorening. otherwise, the fire trap idea seems good, i guess i just didnt want them to run away from it so i used barbed. Throw dirt was also there because i could blind MOST of the enemies while still letting the un-blinded ones do samage through visage. Thanks for the input so far, and if u where wondering, the shiro'ken farmer thing is just a 600 + hp spirit bonder monk with distortion and mantra of concentration to prevent interupt while they use the visages. can take dow 20 some shiro'ken in 5-10 seconds. really nice actually.

Thx for the idea of the spirit monk farm outside harvest temple >P
Im gonna try the ranger Build to

Has anyone tried the Elona reach mino's? I would but my Ranger just started going through prophecies now that its been to all the cities in factions.

Will it work? Yes... will it be extremely slow in comparison to other builds? Most likely. Since you have Famine as elite you can't bring Greater Conflag... so you still end up with a limit to what you can agro.

I would try it out in Elona... but smooth internet connections are something i lack atm.