Godlike Satan's Solo Smite Runner

Carboplatin

Carboplatin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

[PIG]

W/A

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheYangg
Is this doable with a monk too?
just 12 Curses... its doable, but i think u'll have trouble with the darknesses since one cast of SS at 12 curse won't be able to kill them. You'll have to keep up spiritbond, ps, and recast SS. Not a easy thing to do when u got them draining enregy and interrupting.

doable, but very risky imo.

Kcp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

OBF

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Oh a GW forum
What about smite hex? Won't the 85 armor-ignoring damage kill you instantly? Smite hex won't kill you. Take 27 smite hexes, thats 27 triggers of spirit bond.

Thats alot of life gain there. I say let the smite hexes keep coming, it's reliable damage and triggers Spiteful spirit

ahbuh

ahbuh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2006

Vamp

W/

All hail Kcp =)

Good Job!!

CounterBlow

CounterBlow

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Boston

Last Man Standing [LMS]

W/Mo

Awsome dude. I was skeptical of fully commiting myself to this build, as I figured it would take a lot lomger, and just be easier for me to duo with my 55. Now that I see this build even goes faster than duo, I will surely try this out. I'll be jacking up my necro this weekend, and will hopefully have it done soon.

Thanks again, man.

Xaero Gouki Kriegor

Xaero Gouki Kriegor

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Leather Rebels, (LR)

W/

i guess that proves that all the videos, screenshots, and soloing and every n/me and mo/w team at toa, and every other source of invinci builds are false when it comes to UW

Xxalon Tacotu

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

League of Friends [LoF]

N/Mo

Well I have to say that as a 55 monk normally, with very little experience of UW (only about 3 runs), I am struggling a little with this build.

I haven't even made it to the Grasping's yet, and have thrown 30k at it last night.

However. I would like to congratulate KCP on a fantastic build, description and video.

Although I haven't cleared all the Aatxes yet, I am getting better with every run and I have already had 2 ecto drops, so am only down about 17k atm. I have no doubt that with more practise, I will be able to do this.

It just seems to be a case of getting the "knack" of taking out the nightmares.

Thanks to KCP for giving us all the opportunity to run UW without the risk of getting scammed.

BTW - Can you still "hide" behind the ghost, as I haven't successfully managed it when I have had a long-distance or double nightmare spawn.

Mera Regila

Mera Regila

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

In The Deep

R/A

Holy damage doesn't ignore ps.... Only "damage" that ignores ps is Life Stealing which isn't technically classified as damage.

Vapor_Fighter

Vapor_Fighter

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2006

DRKN

W/

Very nice man very nice
gotta try this out

satomi

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kcp
You customized your wand right? And it's the one I told you to get in guide right?

Always select the last enemy in the group you are planning to aggro that way if a nightmare appears all you have to do is press your tab key 1x and press space, then you have a dead nightmare. You will know with experience if the 2nd wand hits is going to kill it. If you are uncertain as to the death of the nightmare with your second wand attack quickly press your run button AS soon as the second wand attack leaves your wand,( if you don't have a button designated on your keyboard to run you should make one, "R" is the normal key.) If the nightmare rends recast PS, SB as soon as possible. Then run to safe area and recast maintained enchants, then go about your business. heh, this is the hardest part i think, getting the nightmares before they get you. i tried clicking too (and wasted some k's...). i wish i had seen this before i had seen your vid. maybe you can add this info in your first post? and maybe a short video about getting around the first aatxes and nightmares, if not too much asked?

i hope i get the chance to try this asap.

which reminds me... i wanted to ask you if you use this sequence:
1) start with 20%enchant wep - prot spir, spir bond
2) switch to 20/20wand - aggro - kill nightmares
3) switch back to 20%enchant, manage & kill aggro
that any good?

btw, i seen you gone in today and requested you to take me with you, which you did. very kind of you, thanks, i might want to tag along for another run (IGN gretchen vermilion).

silent rabbit

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

Blood brother 4 Ever

R/

First i have to say awesome build Kcp!
the only thing i have trouble with is hiding behind ghost
can anyone post a movie of this?

Greetz

Kcp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

OBF

N/

I will upload the typical nightmare clearing in first room , after that you shouldn't really worry about them unless you spring one with some coldfires or something. It's just me leading the aatxe thru the chamber picking off nightmares as they appear, granted there was no 2 nightmare spawns but there was that nightmare at the top of the steps and it gives alot of people problems. I will upload a 2 Dn spawn at first steps once I get it to happen.

At the end I show you where the safe spot is for those wondering. Although I didn't use it

I will also post a short clip of the 3 packs of squids in case anyone questions how easy they are. Once you learn to relax against them they are a breeze.

I will put the links in the guide, updated the nightmare targeting as well since it's helped so many people.

satomi

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

hehe, looking forward to this, and many thanks ^_^

RadeonDJ9600

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Texas

I'm a pretty experienced UW farmer, but for some reason I seem to be having trouble dropping the graspings. I can drop the 2 groups of 3 graspings but whenever I try to tackle the group of 4 that spawns on the left...I die. I SS them before I aggro cast PS right before they're in range to use Distracting Blow followed by SB before they use Fear Me!. They'll sit there and attack me with Flurry up which causes my health to sit around the 20 health range or lower. Then with 2-3 hits left before they die I'll die due to lack of SB being triggered.

So, do you swap to your 105 health set in case of emergency or am I just doing something wrong here? (I didn't notice if you used RH on the graspings)

Kcp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

OBF

N/

If one or two lag behind in the initial attack you can hex another one with SS that has the higher life out of the group. And you really shouldn't be running out of energy. I'm almost always at full energy after a battle with them due to only casting 3 spells , tanking all the hits, and soul reaping at the end.

If I add in a second cast of Spiteful, i'm still pretty close to full when it all ends too. You can cast 1 or 2 it's up to you, I'm just trying to make everything simple. Feel free to wand them after your initial cast of PS and SB with your enchant weapon if you notice one has more health then the rest.

RadeonDJ9600

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Texas

oh btw, where did you pick up your 20/20 Curses wand. I've checked GuildWiki and I can't seem to find any collectors/crafters with one in Tyria or Canthan.

Kcp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

OBF

N/

Either side's 15k armory has them.

Dark Tykane

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Cult Unseen

N/Me

Is there a real need for mending?

satomi

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

the safety bout this build is being 55 & sbond. you could go sbond only but that's tricky with the squiddies, since they do not always trigger sbond.

mending also cancels out the bleed done by aatxes.

Kcp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

OBF

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Tykane
Is there a real need for mending? To prove I'm not such a bad person I will reply,

Squids with no aatxe
Accidental coldfires without smites
Bleeding
Less healing involved, meaning more pulling, faster runs

Low health covers all of the above with mending at +3.

Again all of this was covered in the guide.

Also mentioned in the guide,

You don't need mending with higher life.

*Updated links to the videos in the guide check them out if need be for those people interested.

Black Destroyer

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Belgium

W/

you can't have 10 prot, it shuld be 9 (you said 10)
btw, how did you get all the aatxa in the room without facing dyings?

Koning

Koning

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

you can have 10

i play with 16 curse, 10 prot, 8 healing, 5 blood + 4 sr

ofcourse you will need sup runes for it

Anarion Silverhand

Anarion Silverhand

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Denmark

None

Quote:
Originally Posted by Black Destroyer
you can't have 10 prot, it shuld be 9 (you said 10)
btw, how did you get all the aatxa in the room without facing dyings? You like.... Kill the dying nightmares...

Kcp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

OBF

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Black Destroyer
you can't have 10 prot, it shuld be 9 (you said 10)
btw, how did you get all the aatxa in the room without facing dyings?
Yes it's 10 in protection, and yes I cleared all the nightmares, the videos show this. Thats really the only time consuming part of the run after the nightmares are removed it's really a breeze.

Red-Tide

Red-Tide

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Edmonton, Canada

[Liar]

Mo/

Is there a prophecies equivalent to the armor the OP used? Is the Shing Jea armor any different from the 15AL of Ascalon City?

Bloodied Blade

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

I don't think there is any 15AL +energy armor in ascalon city...either way, I'm working on a necro/monk for this type of thing and keeping her 5AL pre-sear armor.

ImNoKid

ImNoKid

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

Godlike Satan: All yr time, efforts, money spent experimenting & made it so successful; plus, yr unselfish attitude of sharing with us, you have all my respect. Great job!!

This solo INecro thingy, made me feel like I'm a retard. I've spent 30k today going in/out, I only managed to kill a grp of 3. Most of the time, I have 2 nightmares pop, by the time I killed one, the other Rend Enchant me, dang!
And when there's only 1 nightmares pop, no matter how fast I react to it, it Rend Enchant me before I can kill it. Dang!!

And this whole thing seem like a joke to me. I rather run dual with an I-Monk, at least we cleared everything & do all quests & is guranteed.

Not to discourage anyone, but be mentally prepared before you attempt this.

And Godlike Satan, just curious how many 1k have u dumped before u successfully managed the whole run?

Bloodied Blade

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

@ImNoKid- Hide behind the ghosts, the aataxes can't attack you behind them.

Koning

Koning

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by ImNoKid
And this whole thing seem like a joke to me. I rather run dual with an I-Monk, at least we cleared everything & do all quests & is guranteed. me too, I'm almost always too late with killing the nightmares. I haven't even been to graspings yet! I stop wasting my money on it because i'm simply not fast enough I think. Also the target the last enemy and press tab+space doesn't seem to work for me. when i press tab+space i seem always to target other aatxes. also, running away from them after they rended me doesn't seem to work, they always chase me and im death b4 i can reach the ghost. I know i need to cast prot spirit immediatly after rending, but somehow this goes wrong most of the times and when I've succesfully casted it once in 10 runs I still get killed due to bleeding or something....

I can solo UW with my warrior, mesmer (have interrupt for nm) and monk (have interrupt for nm) but with this build the nightmares are just too much for me....

Bloodied Blade

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

If mark of subversion would work on spells targetted at you this would be a lot easier...just MoS the nightmare and wand it if it's still alive.

EDIT: Anyone know what happened to Kcp's FoW post? It looks like it was incinerated off of the face of the boards.

Kcp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

OBF

N/

You only have to take the aatxe in groups of 3's at a time, when you get more experienced try to bite into more then 3 at a time. Use the ghost on the first pull, kill nightmares, then slaughter your first 3. Then kill off the rest 3 by 3 until you get to the squids.

Once you get experienced you wont have any problems.

If I find my mad dash through the first chamber popping every nightmare to be found and catching several rends while dodging aatxe I'll upload it for the people having difficulties.

Hell, I'll even upload a pic of benton since noone seems to be able to find him.


Could have saved your 30k by reading the guide first =p, Shouldn't take more then a few runs to make it all back now that you have the above pic now should it?

Rookwood

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

N/

Why do you have 2 points in Blood Magic? Shouldn't they be in SR...

I mean I know that extra 1 energy when everything is dead will make no difference, but seeing as blood magic has absolutely no purpose and SR at least has some theoretical value and all...

Just wondering basically if I could change that around without screwing with the build?

Anarion Silverhand

Anarion Silverhand

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Denmark

None

The -50 HP Grim Cesta has a req of 5 blood magic... With 2 points in Blood + a sup rune, that gives a total of : 5 Blood magic..

Bloodied Blade

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

@Rookwood- it wouldn't affect the build much if you put the blood points into SR, but you wouldn't get the energy from meeting the blood req of the cesta anymore.

Rookwood

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

N/

Yep I see it now...My bad

Oznog

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

ND-USA

W/Me

First off, thanks for the build and follow up tips. It definitely takes some practice but I'm to the point now where I can reach the smites more or less consistantly.

Second, I just realized I'm an idiot. I never noticed the blood req for the -50 cesta and had added the extra points into soul reaping. Ugh. This might explain why I would occasionally find myself short energy...

Ah well. Live and learn.

Oz

nutzizme

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

now, my necro is from prophecies. i dont have access to the shing jai armor, ive done everything in this guide and i have about 10 less energy. (41). is this still doable?

RadeonDJ9600

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Texas

If you have factions, then talk to First Mate Xiang in Kaineng Docks (right outside of The Marketplace) and that will take you to Seitung Harbor, from there just walk to Shing Jea Monastery and pick up your armor...but it is possible with 41 energy, Graspings might be a bit tricky, but it's still very possible.

nutzizme

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

i just tried it and wow...
first few times i died off right away due to getting PS interupted by aatxe. but i was persistent and kept trying. and 3rd time in i made it through aatxe and grasps. (got killed on last NM) but so far i can see how this is gonna work great. thanks for the tip radeon im on my way to get it now, and thx kcp for this wonderful build.

DeathByAmor

DeathByAmor

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2006

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ImNoKid
Godlike Satan: All yr time, efforts, money spent experimenting & made it so successful; plus, yr unselfish attitude of sharing with us, you have all my respect. Great job!!

This solo INecro thingy, made me feel like I'm a retard. I've spent 30k today going in/out, I only managed to kill a grp of 3. Most of the time, I have 2 nightmares pop, by the time I killed one, the other Rend Enchant me, dang!
And when there's only 1 nightmares pop, no matter how fast I react to it, it Rend Enchant me before I can kill it. Dang!!

And this whole thing seem like a joke to me. I rather run dual with an I-Monk, at least we cleared everything & do all quests & is guranteed.

Not to discourage anyone, but be mentally prepared before you attempt this.

And Godlike Satan, just curious how many 1k have u dumped before u successfully managed the whole run? It cost me 15k before I successfully did a whole run and now I can consistently do the runs without dying using this guide and my own strategy I have learned on my own. Made 120ish ectos since the 7th when I read about this build.