Godlike Satan's Solo Smite Runner

hardest part for me is getting to the smites. i do everything posted here and i catch some of the NMs, but alot of the time they finish their rend a split second before my last shot hits em. even when i run them aatxe are so close to me they always hit me as im running away.

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I've only managed to take down the first room so far (Aatxes, Nightmares and Graspings).

Got past my first 5 Smites last night, but then got Maelstrom'd about 20 seconds later.

Even so, I've had (and sold) around 12 ecto's in the last week, so have easily covered the 40k that I threw at it for very little return in the first couple of days.

Best run so far was last night. Got 4 Ecto's just out of the Aatxes. Be nice to see what I could get on a full run.

Thanks again to kcp.

Fabulous guide and videos. As easy as Kcp makes it look, I know i'll soon be broke trying to get it down.

2 problems - I'm in Vegas and can't try it until I get home... and I have to raid my son's account to use his fully-loaded necro.

All those abusive monks who mistreated SS/SV necros will now be left to team up with other monks (dual SB build) while necros, garbed in their shiny new Fissure Armor, take their rightful place as rulers of the landscape!

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Thanx For the Great Guide's to both Fow and Uw
but in UW I'am still having trouble with the Jellies
cant seem to stay alive when they come out i use ss as soon as they pop up on my radar and then PS maybe they interupt my ps im not sure
any comments would be usefull

and thx for not keeping these builds a secret
apreciate them alot!!

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I need to start taxing all you mofo's on them ecto's

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Ugh...

I'm having a problem. I cast SS on the grasping then ps followed by sb...but like half way into it's like sb just stops working. I have the shing jea armor and all and sb does seem to work at the beginning. But then quits right when I'm about to take them out it seems....I am refreshing it and ps btw.

I've beaten the grasping before and not had this problem. It's just a recent issue I've had. I can't even beat one group of them now though...in about 7 tries

Yeah, im wearing the 15 AL armor from shing jea, along with a 60 AL scar pattern (curses) and when i see graspings, i cast ss on the closest one, ps goes up, afterwards sb goes up, and sb isnt triggering. its not the problem that i cast sb too early, because i can easily recast it, but sb isnt triggering and im wearing the exact specified gear. any ideas?

Was triggering for me steadily earlier, unless they did some update w/o a download.

I'll check in the morning and post back.

Spirit bond only has to go off a few times, mending fills in the gaps. Against 2 squids you don't even have to use spirit bond, so you shouldnt have any problems staying alive vs 3 or 4 if spirit bond only triggers a few times.

@ krypt http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Fiery_Flame_Spitter
I think you can guess what to do

i use totem axe but i only have 9 prot, i don't know why....
i had ecto's so far and i almost paid all the practise back

Rook, and Krypt spirit bond triggers on squids np. Just tested it. You may have got your armor pieces mixed up? Or were using 105 health when fighting them.

Black you may have put 9 into healing thats why you only have 9 protect. You only need 8 heal for mending +3.

Hello kcp, have a question for you about the NMs.

Vids covered the scenario of NMs spawning on the first group of cows, after the first and before the second group, and everything else after.

I can do the first part fine, and the last part as well(mostly). It's the middle part which gets me most of the time when I try to combine both 1st and 2nd groups as in your NM clearing vid..

After clearing the NMs that spawn with the first group of 3 cows, I'm often stuck as to what to do with the 2nd group.

If the patroller is stuck, I KNOW there's a NM that's gonna spawn, but should I run it and target it, or lure the group back and somehow, dispatch the NM as it's running in?

And if he's not stuck, the same question applies, do I run in all the way to trigger the NMs to spawn and kill them at the same time, or do I aggro from extreme range to try to pick the 2nd group off without touching any NMs?

Minor question, if the aatxe normally stuck on staircase (with a NM above him) is patrolling instead, and you can get him as he comes in close to the main chamber, do you still bother clearing the top of the stairs for any suspected NMs?

PS : Thanks for making this guide, great great info and detail

And an easy way I've used of timing your first SS on the smites after your shadow of fear, is to PS immediately after SoF, refresh spirit bond while it's recharging, and just as PS is recharged, cast SB once, wait for it to recharge, cast it again, then start casting SS + Reckless Haste. That counts out 7-8 seconds, which is about the time that the smites all need to use up their Smite Hexes. I think. Plus you get to renew SB just before chain casting SS/Reckless Haste/SOF, which is equal to, or longer than the duration of SB on the 105 health swap.

Sounds like you're pretty up to speed in terms of figuring out how the nightmares spawn based on the aatxe.

Sometimes you can't just run right in and wand them, or wait for them to come to you because alot of times you will attack too late and not be able to get that second wand hit in to drop the nightmare.

If the second group above the lost soul is stationary 99% of the time a nightmare will spawn you can either run towards him and get the nightmare kill by rend enchantment suicide or run back downstairs and hide behind the ghost and wand/or let rend.

If there is a patrolling aatxe in the above mentioned group, instead of them all being stationary, you are usually cool to pull them by wand or bow. It "usually" will not make a nightmare appear and you can just clear the nightmares before getting your second group of cows together after dispatching the first group.

Pretty much the same deal for the bottom aatxe on the long staircase, if he gets stuck you know there's a nightmare at the top and you can either bum rush the DN and attempt to wand it ( risky), run up stairs with the aatxe in tow and let the nightmare rend then immediately recast PS,sb then run back downstairs and re-enchant or tank the 1 aatxe and re-enchant if energy permits. There's sweet spots that the aatxe wont run past as well for the last group of 5. You can run to edge of the spot once you get familiar with it and wait for the DN to catch up and start casting rend, then run, the aatxe will turn around and rend will complete , the DN dies and you just re-enchant. The aatxe won't even make it back up the staircase before you get re-enchanted and are back after them.

The sweet spot is above the lost soul running towards the first set of aatxe you cleared upon entering. You should be familiar with the turn around point there being as observant as you are.

Ya that's pretty much how I time when the smite hexes are done, by the refreshes of PS and SB. 9 times out of 10 I'm in process of casting as the last smite hex is coming. It's fairly easy to get the hang of it. But if you miss the perfect window it sucks and you're usually better off waiting for all their smite hexes to recharge and restart the process. Sometimes they just dig SS out so fast if you screw up on your initial cast.

Cut my teeth on the UW soloing it with the monk so I'm not a total newbie

But it's REALLY different to kill NMs with a wand, used to take them out with a PS triggered Zealot's Fire.. still getting used to the shift, as well as shortened enchant times due to not having Blessed Aura. All worth it though, as this build beats the Mo/W solo build so far down into the ground in terms of time taken, that I'd be willing to blow 50-100k on learning it. That is, if ANet doesn't nerf SS sometime in the near future

Another interesting thing I noted bout the NM at the top of the stairs you rush, is that the possibility of a 2 hit kill goes down the further you are from him. AKA, if you target him, and just press spacebar at maximum range, your shots do pathetic damage.

But if you run forward a few more steps, and THEN spacebar him, chances of a 2 hit kill go up pretty significantly. Delicate balance though, run forward too far and you don't have enough time to get off 2 shots before he rends, don't run forward enough, and you won't kill him in 2 shots most of the time. Definitely understand why you call bum rushing it risky.

But hey, that NM's been the bane of all solo characters since the day it's been introduced What REALLY messes my day up is a double spawn there, sucks to the max, which is why I normally make a habit of counting how many nightmares there are in the first room, as well as the adjacent one. VERY rare to have more than 5, so at least if I trigger too little in the beginning, my mind will do a little 'uhoh' before the stairs.

Thanks again KCP, you rock for doing this guide AND answering the questions we raise. Time to get back in soloing mode and get my 5th set of fissure XD

PS : For the timing, I cheated actually I was thinking, no way he can time it so well everytime without some form of aid, so I looked at what you did with PS and SB after you casted SOF, and voila! Helped that I used to use PS and HB for the same reason to not trigger Zealot's too rapidly

Oops, before I forget, what about that very very rare scenario, where one of the NM/Darkness group in the 2nd room, gets stuck on one of the aatxes, and the remainder is in the passage leading to the smites? Even if you do wand the NM (which I did), it's still VERY dangerous trying to lure interrupts with the squiddies having Skull Crack. Just leave and restart the run?

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Hi KCP, I tried the build last night, spent a bit of cash getting to the UW before finally taking down my first group of 8 aatxe's (well 3 groups really), and that only because no NM's spawned! Im sure Ill get the hang of it, for me atm the NM's are the problem, I had a few runs where my enchants were rendered while an aatxe was beating on me, and death was immediate!

So one of my questions to anyone, are ALL your enchants nuked by NM's if they succeed? (ie PS and SB in addition to the 3 maintainables?) I managed to make it to the safe spot twice after been rendered, so that was quite handy to know. Guess I just need to get used to dealing with NM's fast!

The other problem I had was timing SS, almost every time I thought the cancels were complete, and tried to cast SS, I had it canceled. I guess this just comes down exp. but if you can add any extra insight here I'd appreciate it!

I think killing NM with your wand is all about selecting the last target, and if a NM pops up, quickly press tab+space (attack next target) and start wanding it. (picking NM with mouse is too slow)

but kcp, now i know this (I practised picking last targets and switching to pop ups outside amnoon oasis and it went well) i went down to UW again a couple of times, but everytime i thought i selected the last target, a NM popped up and then i pressed tab+space but it didn't select the NM but ANOTHER aatxe. (so i died )

Am I doing something wrong or am I not selecting last targets? (if so, what are the last targets )

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Yes, Rend Enchantments removes ALL of your enchantments. Downside to normal chars using it, is that you take a significant amount of damage per monk enchantment you remove. For the nightmares, that means that if they remove 4 or more enchantments off you, they puff into smoke and die.

I'd suggest you play with your sound at max, or use headphones. Nightmares make a distinctive sound whenever they spawn, and it really gives you an advantage, because they'll make the sound BEFORE they jump out of the ground. That equates to about a 1-2s lag time between the sound and when they start casting Rend.

As for what you said bout getting rended while fighting aatxes, always be on the lookout for Nightmares whenever you aggro a new group of aatxes. Look particularly for any new spots on your radar that weren't there a second ago, or hold control and manually look for any Nightmares.

Interrupts wise.. you have to observe how many aatxes are hitting you, then look for the popup of damage from savage slash '-5(Savage Slash)'. Just count those and you should be fine.

Thanks, that helps loads!

Am I right in thinking the 5 blood is the rq for -50 offhand allowing you to get max energy?

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Another thing I've noted, is that Kcp is able to get away with stuff that I never could

In his video, he is able to hit with the 2nd wand attack when the NM is at about 90% of spell done, and it dies immediately. For me though, even if I hit him then, he will die, but the spell will be cast and I'll get rended.

Lag maybe?

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Quick question: why the 60 AL scar pattern? Why not use a lower AL curses scar?

Thanks for the great build and all the time answering our questions!

M

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Ok, so if I understand right you first need to target closest aatxe with 'c', than tab through till the last aatxe to make sure you have the last and than aggro, and if a NM pops up you quickly press tab+space again to target the next target (and that's the NM).

i was always manually targeting the last one (so i thought i had the right one just by the look) so I might have been wrong all the time.

Ya possibly my mistake, I assumed everyone always targeted closest first, it's just so much easier

Anyways updated guide again, clarified the targeting, and curved running pattern I employ to get enough time to recast enchants.

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