X/Me Sskai Solo Build, Any Primary Profession can do it.

masteroflife

masteroflife

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

Basically this build consists of 5 main skills.

11 Domination
6 Inspiration

Signet of Midnight [E]
Spirit of Failure
Ignorance
Empathy
Mantra of Resolve

Now, down to each profession
I am only listing the skills you need or might need on top of the main 5

W/Me,
Deadly Riposte
Healing Signet
Sprint (optional)

Mo/Me
Smite
Prot spirit/spirit bond
Reversal of fortune

N/Me
Price of Failure
Reckless Haste
Enfeebling Touch

A/Me
Shadow Refuge

Rit/Me
Pain/Bloodsong
Bloodsong/Ether Feast
Shelter

Ele/Me
Immolate
Aura of Restoration
Smoldering Embers

R/Me
Predatory Bond
Poisonous Bite
Scavenger Strike

Above are the build that allow every profession to solo sskai for his sword. What you do is hit mantra of resolve after you have pulled him. Then hit sig of midnight to blind him. Cast Spirit of failure imediately after sig of midnight. Then just keep ignorance and empathy on him and he should be dead. The 3 primary profession skills should be used whenever nessesary, but use sig of midnight as soon as it recharges and renewal mantra of resolve, ignorance, and spirit of failure as soon as it expires. Those 4 are very important.

The Credit goes to me.
IGN: Oblivion Beast

Turbo Wombat

Turbo Wombat

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

Centeral Texas

Heros of Titans Realm

Me/

Wow... that works way too well and is way too easy. Especially as a primary memsmer (16 Domination, 13 Inspiration, 4 Fast Casting). I didn't even need e-tap



Got it on my 3rd kill. Thanks!

Edit: Watch out for Oni, though... gotta re-zone if more than one spawns and you're a squishy.

masteroflife

masteroflife

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

the Oni can be avoided. If you go between the mod fighting on the left and the lone squid looking thing on the right. and take a right and run straight at the cliff, you will not spawn any Oni at all. For a primary mes, you can also use clumsiness to make the run faster.

Turbo Wombat

Turbo Wombat

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

Centeral Texas

Heros of Titans Realm

Me/

The Oni spawn points are random and you will still occationally trigger them regardless. While the path you mention minimizes your chance to run into them (by skating between their spawn zones), it does not eliminate it alltogether. Though rare, I've had Oni's spawn right on the edge of the beach where Sskai is. As far as using Clumsiness to make it go faster, I'm not so sure that would work since I would have to reduce attributes in other areas to bump up Illusion high enough to make it worth while. If anything, I think the time cut off per run would be negligable.

Canteen Master

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2006

R/

Hmm, target touched foe is blinded correct.. Then doesn't that kind of hinder you and your pet, I would have thought he's supposed to be taking the damage.

Ima Hob0

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

None

W/

for the three warrior skills, one of them is deadly riposte. how does that take into effect the fact that he'll be blinded? lol

masteroflife

masteroflife

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

Quote:
Hmm, target touched foe is blinded correct.. Then doesn't that kind of hinder you and your pet, I would have thought he's supposed to be taking the damage.
Sig of Midnight will blind you but not your pet, so your pet will still do damage.
You will have 16 in Beast Mastery and 0 in marksmanship.

Quote:
for the three warrior skills, one of them is deadly riposte. how does that take into effect the fact that he'll be blinded? lol Deadly Riposte still works disregarded that he's blind. All these builds have tested and works wonderfully. The fastest of these will be Necro and Warrior and Mesmur because Necro will have price of failure, warrior will have deadly riposte, and mesmur will simply make these skills more powerful.

lollaby

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2006

sweden

Mo/Me

where do u get this? where do u have to go? seems to be a very good build to me tho

Ima Hob0

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

None

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by masteroflife
Deadly Riposte still works disregarded that he's blind. All these builds have tested and works wonderfully. The fastest of these will be Necro and Warrior and Mesmur because Necro will have price of failure, warrior will have deadly riposte, and mesmur will simply make these skills more powerful. oh.......my bad

Mistical miss

Mistical miss

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

The Netherlands - Hattem

[RR]

blegh he luckied 4 hits through blinding... sucks...-.-

build works great otherwise though

sacrypheyes

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

as a monk, i rather use mending and protective bond along with mesmer skills, with :

domination 12
inspiration 10
healing 9 (for mending +3)
protection 6 (which is enough to only lose 5 energy per hit with prot bond)


this build is way safer as the original one mentioned as all energy can be freely spent on chain casting mesmer skills, all you got to pay attention to is not being interrupted when using signet of midnight, mending and prot bond being more than enough to stand blinded Sskai's lucky hits.

kippyieh

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

Flyin' Solo

R/

Might be a little off topic, but I was trying the posted build and luring didn't always seem to work out so well.

This actually worked much faster, just agro the bunch and target Sskai

No drops yet though

Former Ruling

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cedartown, Georgia

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by kippyieh
Might be a little off topic, but I was trying the posted build and luring didn't always seem to work out so well.

This actually worked much faster, just agro the bunch and target Sskai

No drops yet though

IW works, but that requires you do invinci builds like 55 or Spirit Bond. which requires part monk and part mesmer.

This way might not be so too the point, but it gets the job done while only requiring part mesmer.

Former Ruling

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cedartown, Georgia

R/

On your ranger one, you dont list Charm Animal, making the three you did list useless lol.

kippyieh

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

Flyin' Solo

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Former Ruling
IW works, but that requires you do invinci builds like 55 or Spirit Bond. which requires part monk and part mesmer.

This way might not be so too the point, but it gets the job done while only requiring part mesmer. The post is about ability to do the farm with a part mes, not about how 'easy' it is.

Point taken =)

Nentisys

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Finland

W/

Thanks!

I have been trying this with

- Signet of Midnight
- Illusion of Haste (to get away from Oni and bad pulls)
- Empathy
- Spirit of Failure
- Mantra of Resolve
- Ether Feast (he allways gets way too many LUCKY blinded hits on me)
- Ignorance
- Conjure Phantasm (to make it go faster)

and it works pretty well. I have died a couple of times (stupid Oni) and only killed him 6 times, no sword for me yet though.

Will keep trying so I can get another sword for my warriors collection. Thanks again

masteroflife

masteroflife

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

About the ranger build, charm animal was assumed and you can pick one of the attack skills to take. sry for the misconception.

Bucephalus

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2006

It is similar to a build I posted on another site a few months ago

I actually used it on my Warrior for a laugh and got the Sword, but it works better on a Mesmer primary becaue of the extra damage.

All attribute points in Domination and Inspiration.

Mesmer build

Signet of Midnight
Empathy
Ignorance
Wastrels Worry
Mind Wrack
Spirit Shackles
Spirit of Failure
Physical Resistance (for the hits he manages to get while blind)

Warrior build

Diversion instead of Ignorance because of energy issues.

Funny thing was he got more hits on my Warrior than he did on my Mesmer while blind!!

blackice8r

blackice8r

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

W/Mo

I just tried the build - N/Me, I killed him like 11-12 times in 45 mins, got two swords...
The build is great...works like a charm..and indeed seems too easy :P
Thx alot man, great build.

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

I've been using this build for awhile now, much faster then W/N.

speedy21589

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

If you are really bored you can go N/Me and kill those annoying Oni. Kind of difficult, and I haven't done it in awhile so certain skill changes/AI changes might make it nearly impossible now. But its funny to watch them double strike like crazy and do no damage :-P

Mystr

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2007

The Mighty Shadow Templar

E/Me

I tried the build using only the skills mentioned by the poster, but being a clothy, I died quickly whenever he would get through the blindness. Plus, Signet of Midnight lasts the exact duration of its recharge time, which lead to him hitting me every time i was recasting SoM.

So I got around this by using Blinding Flash whenever the blindness icon on my effects pain began flashing. This allows for another cast of SoM, without Sskai coming unblind for even a second.

Also, I used Aura of Regen to restore health from the few hits that do get through.

Great Framework for a build though. Soloed him three times already before I had to leave for work.

Build
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Signet of Midnight
Empathy
Ignorance
Blinding Flash
Spirit of Failure
Mantra of Resolve (not really needed with the build though)
Ennervating Charge (for extra dmg when I have no other spells to cast)
Aura of Restoration

lennymon

lennymon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Seattle

Odin's Hammer [OH] - Servant's of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

slight mod on ranger build: you can swap ignorance out for spirit shackles and just bring primal echoes by the way. It's much less energy and timing critical. Just recast spirit when it recharges. Also keeps the spam attack skills to a minimum so he's just swinging.
@ Mystyr likely you can replace mantra of resolve with mantra of inscriptions? that way the sig recharges a little faster even at minimal inspiration.... Just a thought.

Mystr

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2007

The Mighty Shadow Templar

E/Me

^^ Good Idea. I'll give it a try. Maybe save a little Energy that way