[Video/Tutorial] FoW 3 man farming build.

I liked your build better then my own 3 man (and 2 man) build, to be honest. How did you handle NR/Primal?

Build makes sense, not exactly prodigal :P but works nicely. Video is dling real slow I'll check it out when it's eventually dled.

nice build man, looks like fun. might actually get me going into FoW again *6man zzzzz*... probably will come to think of it.

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I'll try to mirror the video somewhere asap... the server i have hosted in became really slow for some reason =/
Seems to be a routing problem, I only get 40kb/s on my home connection, yet i get 1mb/s @ my university.

Update:
Added high-speed mirror link to OP.

Is their anyway to download the video, not just stream it?

another good variation on the many fow 3 man builds out there..

well we can thank factions for one thing....... spirit bond

good job dude ... keep it up

can u put the video on you tube or something? downloading never works for me

do you always let the groups in the battlefield fight each other cause your losing alot of drops that way

First of all, yes there is a way to download it - Just rightclick the link and select "Save Target As".

And no, i will not put it on youtube, because the quality of youtube is less than adequate for this video.

As for the battlefield, well, you don't have to let them fight eachother, but those 4 mesmers + 2 monks (or was it 5 mesmers) are pretty annoying, if you want to fight them the normal way, you'd have to modify the build for perma spellbreaker, or at least dual spellbreaker, which would imo slow other stuff down.

Also, if you think i am "Losing a lot of drops" by letting two groups kill eachother in FoW, then you must be quite greedy
Those two groups are perhaps 0,01% of FoW. Considering it's possible to clear 95% of fow with ease with this build, I don't see how I am losing "a lot of drops" by not killing two groups.

EDIT:
I checked both mirrors, both are available. The second one is on a standard :80 port, while the first one is on a non-standard :8080 port. If you can browse the web, you should be also easily able to download the movie (or stream it for that matter).

Very nice build. Makes killing faster than the usual 2 man build.

Just a note on the mesmer/monk groups (2 groups, one has 2 monks 2 mesmers and the other, right behind it, has 3 mesmers):

What you should do is take out the Skeleton patrol before it takes out the Warrior/Abyssal stationary group, or let them take those guys out (9 out of 10 times, the skeletons win) and then finish off the winner.

This way, when the Shadow Beasts pop-up and head for that spot, they won't engage the skeletons. Then you need to quickly take the shadow beasts to the monk-mesmer group (entering with Spell Breaker). This way you'll have the melee hitters you need to quickly take out the monks.

We tried it today and it worked even though I entered without spell breaker. They kep shattering spirit bond and I kep putting it it back.

However, if you don't time it right, the monk-mesmer group will come down the hill and scatter among the shadow beasts. This will make lining up the monks for SV/AV harder, but will have the added benefit of reducing the number of mesmers you have to deal with to 2 instead of 5.

Alternatively, you could (before the Abyssal/Warrior group is taken out) send one of your party up the ramp and have them try to aggro one of the three mesmers in the back. If the spacing is right, you will be able to get them to come down the ramp a bit (away from the range of the monks, otherwise they will come to heal them). Once they are far away, the SS can take them out with minimal healing and no tanking required even (assuming people don't attack through Empathy).

Once again, well done. At first I thought taking Divine Boon was a preposterous idea, but it turned out to be a brilliant one. GG guys.

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Oh, a final note: It's better if the monk goes Mo/W and bring Balanced Stance and let the Necro worry about his SV/AV. If nothing else, the necro can always drop Awaken or something. Balanced Stance would allow the monk to take on as many Abyssals as he wants/needs. This is crucial in the Tower of Strength area. Unlike a 55 monk, a spiritbonder will die pretty quick if he can't get off Spirit Bond (no passive regen from Mending/Watchful Spirit).

Getting balanced stance on the monk, would indeed help loads with abyssals. Might be a good idea

And we usually don't let the skeleton group kill the abyssals, it just came out that way when it got frapsed.... and we weren't bothered on going back just to refraps that one scene.

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Indeed, Balanced stance is much better, so swap Awaken for AV on the necro, and let monk take balanced stance.

We run a similiar build as a 3 and 4 man,(it's posted) this looks fun. I'm looking forward to trying divine boon in the slot that blessed aura currently occupies. Maintaining health is seldom a problem though so I'm not sure that the loss of Blessed Aura's 33% lengthening of enchantments (coupled with the additional 20% from the icy fs) will make sense.

Our tank uses and icy flamespitter and all have an icy weapon for use as the Nec uses shivers to help finish off pesky monk groups and the like. You might try that for variety.

Couple of questions I have -

Why do the abyssals create problems for anyone ? We never have any issues with them, i'd much rather take on 20 abyssals than 20 shadows, we have more issues with them.

Why doesn't the tank cast Vital on himself ? I'm guessing there is some logical reason that I am unaware of, but this is the method wehave been using without any know adverse effects or impact.

Thanks man, nice build.

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