130 HP Boss Farming Dervish

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the avicara and trolls outside droks kill me eventually. they use interrupting skills and every so often hit prot spirit with them resulting in my death. any ways for avoiding interruption of key skills? mebee an enchant that means u cant be interrupted or a short lasting evasion stance?

interruption shouldn't be a problem with 1/4sec skills. the problem is that the health is way to high.

There's nothing wrong with 130 Health. Position your foes properly so your aways nailing 3 enemies to get the heal. That means when they scatter, back up so the remaining enemies ball up on you, then continue attacking. Also as stated multiple times get DP if need be.

Enchantment removal isn't that scary unless your facing multiple copies of the same skill, mass removal, or 2+ enchant removals on their bar. Learn your recharge times and protect vital enchants accordingly. Protecting against enchantment removal should be common knowledge into the 3rd campaign.

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If you decide to run this build at the full 130 hps then you need to know WHEN to use your attacks. Mystic Vigor becomes very important then. You need to know how to line up your attackers to get the most benefit from Mystic Sweep. You need to know how to pull mobs so that they'll line up for you. If you're being mobbed by more than 3, then you should already know that they will scatter, you need to keep moving to line them up.

I guess it takes more work than a 55 monk. But I'm bored with my 55 farmer, so I'll stick with this one until something else catches my attention.

do we need starter/low level armor for this build?

No. I'm just cheap. :P

Some people will say that using armor with higher ac helps you survive a few hits when you fail to cast your enchantments.

I prefer dying and getting dp.

A key factor to keep in mind, even though some people have already mentioned it, is not just keeping your enchantments up. If you have a ton of aggro on you (I'll take one entire side of the first room in Hidden city), you're getting hit a LOT. Mystic Regen can't keep up with that, and Protective Spirit guarantees that 10 hits would kill you (10% of your health X 10).

Maintaining Mystic Vigor and hitting as many mobs as possible at once will be what keeps you alive. If you cast PS, MR, and MV as often as you can, you're taking a few seconds of what you could have spent attacking/healing. When you're not getting the direct healing from MV, all those mobs will take you down very quickly. Try (once you've cast them the first time before you go in) to stagger your recast of them. I believe PS is a 16 second enchantment, MR is 20 seconds, and MV is 25(?). With a scythe of enchanting (I just use the pre-order bonus one) these last a good deal of time, and you'll be able to get your attacks in between these with no problem at all.

Along with the idea of constantly attacking, you've gotta keep in mind your two non-elite attack skills. They weren't chosen just because they're fast-recharging, low energy attacks. They have a brief activation time, which means no matter what you will swing your scythe when you cast it: thus ignoring the slow swing speed of a scythe. If you're in such a large group of enemies, you need to time these appropriately. For instance, many times, the damage spikes come in waves. If you're chugging along at close to full health, then are dropped quickly and recover, and at full health for a few seconds, then are dropped low again, pay attention to the timing of their spikes. Don't use your attack skills when you're staying at full, use them to spike your own healing when they are spiking you.

Learning this has made me a much more successful farmer on my Dervish. It's not always fool-proof, but very few things are. It all goes back to knowing your character and your enemies, and how your skills work.

I have been running this build for about 1 month now and I love it....I have even taken it UW a few times and can do fairly well until I lose all DP....it can probably be counteracted with the -50 cesta to get me down to 80 HP (80 is alot more managble than 130) and Totem axe or Razajan's Ferver subbing out Reapers for Vow Of Silence..and of course a trusty SS necro.

As far as farming in NF the one thing you need to remember is that DP is your best friend..try to keep it at anywhere between 15-30 and you can take out most mobs with out a hitch. I have taken out all the Djinn in the Hidden City, the best way to get rid of the ethers is to aggro about 3-4 Djinn stack them behind you and take out the same ether until the rest (assuming there are more around) have used their Res Sig. Diamond Djinn all you have to do is stack everything around them like you do with monks they will bond anything around them taking damage and will go do very quick....in groups with more than 1 Diamond stack both of them together they will bond with each other and negate the damage reduction. I have cleared out Marga Coast, troll farm with 16 health piece of cake. And like Bob said it is important that you stack enemies in front of you to be able to strike 3 at time and heal your self for 75 with each swing. If you do that and keep track of your enchantments you shouldn't have any problems taking out large mobs of course the only exception to that rule is enchantment shattering or rending in which case we are all screwed no matter what we do.

@discound bob: prot spirit makes 11 hits kill you, not 10.

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OK..I admit I am a farming noob, but how do you ever kill a monk beetle thingy? I get in place to where I am hitting it and the termites and all the termites die and the monk remains then we are at a stalemate. Can anyone take me on a run with them so I can watch or something cause I can't figure it out (granted I only just got the build made and tried it for about an hour with same result, killed everything but monks)

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I'm having macho problems with this build.
I'm farming in The Floodplain of Mahnkelon, BTW.

Anyways, I find myself spontaneously dying with all my enchants up. It takes me like 10 minutes to kill a group of Heket, so I run up to a group of 3 Beast Sword Heket and die in like 5 seconds, with every enchant on me. I can't even get to the bosses!

So, I tried farming in Marga Coast. I make it past the first groups of insects, and, after 30 mins of 130'ing my way through, I make it to Admiral Chiggen. Okay, some more Skale pop up, no biggie, I can take em. Admiral Chiggen's group comes over too...All enchants up, BAM I'm dead.

Finally, I often find myself without energy by the time Mystic Regen and Prot Spirit are recharged and need recasting. I'm using Radiant Insignias.

Please help?

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