Greetings, all.
As some background, I'm currently considering acquiring a piece of 15K Canthan armour for my Ranger - however, I'm planning to wait until I've had a chance to see what's available in Nightfall before making this investment (it's going to be part of a set assembled from multiple sources, and there may well be something more appropriate - or similarly appropriate and just plain cheaper - available in Nightfall). This means that if I am to do so, I'll need to be able to take Shiro down after Nightfall has been released.
Now, from my experience with Prophecies after Factions was released, I don't think the Factions missions are going to be quite so ghost-towny as some people predict, but I would like to have the option of being able to take him down without a PUG if I need to. I already have a build that will do it as a Warrior (basically a lot of adrenal attacks and skills that increase the rate of adrenaline gain), but while that does help with converting previously-acquired amulets into greens, it doesn't help my other characters collect armour ;-).
So, with that in mind: Does anyone have any builds and strategies that have been successful in taking down Shiro as a non-Warrior without other human players? I'm especially interested in doing it with a Ranger for the reasons outlined above, but I am curious to see how other classes can do it as well.
Henching Shiro with non-Warriors
draxynnic
Yobz
Elementalist/Mesmer - Echo Chaining Celestial Skills
1. Arcane Echo
2. Echo {e}
3. Celestial skill
4. optional (meteor shower)
5. optional
6. optional
7. optional
8. optional
(I have never had the need to use skill slots 5-8 when using this build in a group)
Order of use
1 2 3 1 2 1 - then any other ready to use celestial skill, or use meteor shower instead.
This works best if Shiro can't run from it (ie get a team to body block him), but given that you can get many celestial storms onto Shiro this is probably the best damage you can do with an Elementalist in a very short period of time.
From my experience Shiro likes to banish the lowest armored person first. If you don't want to get banished first get somebody with lower armor in your party. This was based upon multiple tries in a 2 person team (Necro + Warrior) trying to get the Warrior banished so he could map the hill.
1. Arcane Echo
2. Echo {e}
3. Celestial skill
4. optional (meteor shower)
5. optional
6. optional
7. optional
8. optional
(I have never had the need to use skill slots 5-8 when using this build in a group)
Order of use
1 2 3 1 2 1 - then any other ready to use celestial skill, or use meteor shower instead.
This works best if Shiro can't run from it (ie get a team to body block him), but given that you can get many celestial storms onto Shiro this is probably the best damage you can do with an Elementalist in a very short period of time.
From my experience Shiro likes to banish the lowest armored person first. If you don't want to get banished first get somebody with lower armor in your party. This was based upon multiple tries in a 2 person team (Necro + Warrior) trying to get the Warrior banished so he could map the hill.
broodijzer
Shiro banishes the player with the lowest amount of life, this has been tested and confirmed.
Plus if you're in an all henchi team no one gets banished.
Plus if you're in an all henchi team no one gets banished.
Rathcail
Quote:
Originally Posted by broodijzer
Plus if you're in an all henchi team no one gets banished.
The player does not get banished but the henchies will.