new ritualist UW soloing

zeramoth

zeramoth

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

The Machine Tediz

W/N

Hello, thought that its time to post my solo Aatxe build

The Armor:
Full Halycon armor(max enrg)

The Weapon:
A wand with 5 enrg
A focus 12 enrg 30 hp
u could also use a staff with similar stats
A longbow for pulling

The Skills:
1.Signet of Midnight[E]
You and target touched foe become Blinded for 15 seconds.
2.Mantra of inscirption
For 30...78 seconds, your Signet skills recharge 25...45% faster.
3.Epidemic
Transfer all negative Conditions and their remaining durations from target foe to all foes adjacent to your target.
4.Painfull bond
For 10...18 seconds, target foe and all nearby foes are hexed with Painful Bond and take 8...18 damage whenever hit by a Spirit's attack.
5.Bloodsong
[Create a level 1...7 Spirit who dies after 30...126 seconds. Attacks by that Spirit steal up to 5...21 Health.
6.Pain
Create a level 1...7 Spirit. This Spirit's attacks deal 5...25 damage. This Spirit dies after 30...126 seconds.
7.Displacement
Create a level 1...8 Spirit. Attacks made by all non-Spirit foes within its range are "evaded." Every time an attack is evaded in this way, this Spirit takes 60 damage. This Spirit dies after 30...54 seconds.
8.Shelter
Create a Level 1...7 Spirit. Non-Spirit allies within its range cannot lose more than 10% maximum Health from a single attack. When this Spirit prevents damage, it loses 75...51 Health. This spirit lasts 30...54 seconds.

The Attribute Points:
communing: 14
channeling: 10
spawning: 12(so that ur spirits will have more hp)
inspiration: the remaining points

Killing The Aatxes:
Take out the group to the right first, cast pain/bloodsong/displacment, at benton is a good place, u can put them on other places to if u want. After u cast the spirits use mantra of insciption and use a longbow for pulling only 2 Aatxes, if there is a patroling Aatxes wait for him pass. When u have fired of a arrow with ur bow back of a bit and stay next the wall of the stairs, cast Signet of Midnight on the first Aatxe who reach u, then use epidemic.
And cast painfullbond for more dmg. Watch out the hp on ur displacment if its about to reach 0, cast shelter or recast displacment if it has recharged. recast signet of midnight/epidemic if neccesary. 2 Aatxes should be dead in a min.Use the same tactics against the rest of the Aatxes
If there is 3 Aatxes in a group, cast pain/bloodsong/displacment pretty far away, and aproach the group then only 1 of them should be running towards u then kill him. If anything goes wrong u can run and use Benton as cover, then cast pain and as soon as pain attack the Aatxes will run away.

Killing The Nightmares:
If it spawns a nightmare when u are killing the Aatxes make ur spirits attack, by attacking it urself.
Always kill Nightmares first

Killing Grasping Darkness:
Same Tactics as Aatxes, no need of shelter
kill nightmares first if there is one in the group

Killing Obsidian Behemoths:
Very easy to kill
Cast Displacement, then enter agrorange and the Behemoths start to attack u,cast pain/bloodsong and exit agrorange behemoths dont attack ur spirits if u have exit agrorange, cast painfull bond for extra dmg. Ur spirits will interupt healing spring.

bleh

bleh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

N.Z.

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P/

wow.
nice use of spirits spirits are almost perfect for the uw because there effects can't be striped.
um as all uw solo-ers know are there any rather desperate situations to look out for? like casting wrong skills at the wrong time? any specific thing i should look out for i mean ?
otherwise i like the constant blindness of the aataxe .
have you thought of using blindsong spirit or w/e its called?
i thought of using blindsong and fragility e management would suffer tho

Lucifer PVP

Lucifer PVP

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Refuge From Exile [RFE] Refuge-From-Exile.com

W/Mo

AYRCZCqi5AOVzyZ48ba9eAOBdA is the build template
http://gw.gamependium.com/tools/buil...zyZ48ba9eAOBdA

King Kong

King Kong

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucifer PVP
AYRCZCqi5AOVzyZ48ba9eAOBdA is the build template
http://gw.gamependium.com/tools/buil...zyZ48ba9eAOBdA Thanks for that!

DirteeRice

DirteeRice

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

All The Ectos Are [GoNe]

N/Mo

This makes me REALLY want to level up my Ritualist.
But I have no doubt that the day I get the build up and running Anet will nerf it.

chicks boy

chicks boy

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

No guild

A/E

Nice, is this build more effective than the VwK rit?

ricnavgo

ricnavgo

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

BOD

W/

Looks great!

Works with smiting crawlers?

Bloodied Blade

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by chicks boy
Nice, is this build more effective than the VwK rit? It can't be by a long shot. VwK goes directly to the smites, doesn't need to summon spirits, and does a lot more dps to a mob of smites. I think the only advantage of this build is that it can probably kill aataxes.

Covah

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Ontario, Canada

Catching Jellyfish With [소N트T ]

Me/Rt

so yeah, does this work on smites?

tuna-fish_sushi

tuna-fish_sushi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

California

E/A

Nice build smites might be a little hard since they have a 90% chance to hit you if displacement falls and also painful bond will not work on them so it will be slower.

Contempt

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2006

N/

excellent idea

daraaksii

daraaksii

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Angel Develin
LOL, I make a team to go outside and try this new areas not 30 min after the area's were open,
I make the team, we enter the zone and 1 dude goes:
Have you guys ever been here before?
another dude from our team:
lol, no
so he goes:
OMG you noobs, (and quit on us)

this must be some elite area with some elite ppl in it

I like it now that is hard and that is not posible to solo
TNX for the great update and i must say that i had tears in my eye's when i saw the new weapons.
?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?! maybe wrong topic?

btw, nice build!

I??aki

I??aki

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

Bilbao

Looking for guild

Mo/

looks like a very solid build. I will try it out and post more comments later on. the only problem for me is to get my rit to the ring of fire islands to get sig of midnight

Hyprodimus Prime

Hyprodimus Prime

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Vancouver BC

Sorrow Masters

E/

I havent tried a primary rit yet, but how long does this build take to kill one aatxe? From a laman's point of view lt look like a while.

zeramoth

zeramoth

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

The Machine Tediz

W/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hyprodimus Prime
I havent tried a primary rit yet, but how long does this build take to kill one aatxe? From a laman's point of view lt look like a while. it takes about 1 min to kill 2 aatxes

DvM

DvM

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Vlaardingen, The Netherlands

Survivor Squad[SS]

uhm, the smites just remove the blind right?

daraaksii

daraaksii

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

and you cant lure them 1 by 1 (i mean, you cant hide..)

Crazyvietguy

Crazyvietguy

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

[Njk]

Rt/

This must take painfully long, however, i love the idea. I currently run a VwK. I'll give this a shot when i can. Props for finding a Rit Build to kill the ataxes.

Angel Develin

Angel Develin

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Lions Arch

Minions of Kronos

N/Me

Nice build I think I make a ritulist again to try this out.

About the other post of myn, i realy do not know how it got here, I know for sure (200%) i was posting in another topic and i had no other window open or any other topic (weird). anyway sorry about that.

Bloodied Blade

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Angel Develin
Nice build I think I make a ritulist again to try this out.

About the other post of myn, i realy do not know how it got here, I know for sure (200%) i was posting in another topic and i had no other window open or any other topic (weird). anyway sorry about that. If you edit that post, there is a small button towards the bottom that says "Delete". Click it, and make sure the bubble for "delete this post" is filled, and just don't add a reason for deletion...poof, post gone.

I've been thinking about making a ritualist anyway for VwK and this, but it's gonna have to wait until the ranger stuff I'm working on right now is done (I had no idea it was this annoying to find time to write a decent guide).

Lavindathar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Manchester, England

The Monstrous Fangs (fang)

N/Mo

So, which is better, VWK or this?

I run VWK.

Dementiak

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2006

I run the vwk build too... fast,sweet and rich!

but this gave me an idea.... can you say hero RIT/mes or mes/RIT?


the hero Rit slays the aatxes (more drops!)... then you flag him off and solo the smites with your vwk build.
you can even run back where you left him and say.... hmm finish clearing the chamber quest.



edit :: a plus is not having to take your rit all the way to perdition just to cap "Signet of Midnight
"... coz once you unlock it with any char your heroes have it.

edit 2 :: lol, now my problem is getting that mesmer hero... forget abt the RIT hero! (DOA! - the most aptly named area so far)

BoondockSaint

BoondockSaint

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

R/Me

[QUOTE=Dementiak]I run the vwk build too... fast,sweet and rich!

but this gave me an idea.... can you say hero RIT/mes or mes/RIT?


the hero Rit slays the aatxes (more drops!)... then you flag him off and solo the smites with your vwk build.
you can even run back where you left him and say.... hmm finish clearing the chamber quest.



edit :: a plus is not having to take your rit all the way to perdition just to cap "Signet of Midnight
"... coz once you unlock it with any char your heroes have it.



that is not a bad idea at all... humm, i think its almost necessary to have a rit though, damn still need 2 more stones to get the rit hero but when i do ill try this out. Also if you could clear the area before the smites you would no longer need the running skill, so maybe another healpful could fit there. just guessing.

La mustache

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2006

the killers of god

W/Mo

i dont think that will work, if you're hero slays the aatxes you have to be in his radar to get some drops too otherwise all drops go to him

Evilsod

Evilsod

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

England

Lievs Death Squad [LDS]

Now heres something, a build purely to farm Aatxe and ignore the Smites

Its a good build... but over farming the Smites, due to larger numbers, i'd take a Smite solo buld.

zeramoth

zeramoth

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

The Machine Tediz

W/N

just edited this guide

Iscana

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

Nice build, althought the GW skill update messed it up now. Bloodsong has been changed to attribute channeling, but the energy cost is now very low. I think channeling spikers do have a nice battery now which is now for a good use instead of standing somewhere and don't do anything.

Btw, still going to try this build.

King's Spectre

King's Spectre

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Syracuse, NY, USA

The Amazon Basin (AB)

W/

Nice build! Do Obsidian Behemoths drop ectos?

MMSDome

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

will try this with my mesmer