Mallyx how to kill him?

Crom The Pale

Crom The Pale

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

Ageis Ascending

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I find it hard to believe that the devs would make an area in Nightfall that a nightfall only char would be totaly useless...

There must be something that a Dervish could bring that would be of some use? Any ideas on that?

Note: Dervish Form skills are not enchantments, that open any options?

Zamochit

Zamochit

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/A

Monk necro with infuse health, contemplation of purity and grenths balance.


stack enchants on him the more the better even stuff like pS and Rof
Symbiosis to increase health to silly levels,
Monk spams infuse till health is really low then approach malyx and hit GB followed by contemplation of purity.

If there are enough enchants on you it might give you a nice headstart..maybe

could even be repeated I guess a few times with a couple of fast cast enchants and infuse health maybe twice before hitting GB and contemplation again.

lulu_at_sin

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

sin

Mo/

u cant use enchantements. so no symbiosis.

it is not the problem to get him down. well we got him down to 80%. the problem are that u cant really control the mobs, who spawns when u have him down to 80%. a margo which hits a monk without enchant does 200dmg or more wihtout having this big monkey around.

u probably need a way to reduce the damage wihtout enchaments. or to have enough hps that monk can heal a hit.

TheYangg

TheYangg

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2006

None

Mo/Me

You can, this build is not for a long duration, just for the beginning, and i think its a VERY NICE Idea!

You do NOT Aggro Mallyx, before you do this you Enchant some people as much as possible, they use Infuse Health until their Health are so low as possible, then they can run to Mallyx and use GB.
After this they try to loose Aggro (i'm not at Mallyx, i don't know its possible)
If this is possible they repeat this...

Zamochit

Zamochit

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/A

I know that malyx can remove all enchants
Infuse health is 1/4 second cast.
Grenths Balance is 1/4 second cast
Contemplation of purity removes all enchants on you and heals you for xx for each one removed. This is also 1/4 second cast

I do not by any means suggest that you maintain the enchants. That is what contemplation is for. The enchants themselves should be on you for a little over a second, just enough time to infuse twice use GB and then hit contemplation of purity, of course prior to the initial aggro you may be able to apply several more enchantments. They will all be removed when contemplation is used.

Scutilla

Scutilla

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Tyrian Explorers League

R/P

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheYangg
You can, this build is not for a long duration, just for the beginning, and i think its a VERY NICE Idea!

You do NOT Aggro Mallyx, before you do this you Enchant some people as much as possible, they use Infuse Health until their Health are so low as possible, then they can run to Mallyx and use GB.
After this they try to loose Aggro (i'm not at Mallyx, i don't know its possible)
If this is possible they repeat this... With enough enchantments you might be able to take out a significant portion of his health with such a gimmick build, but then that leaves your party unprepared to fight through the mobs you have to kill just to get to him.

lulu_at_sin

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

sin

Mo/

pls read the skills. u cant use enchantments cause if u have any enchant u loose ur skills. so u need either figure out a way to disable this skill or use no enchantment at all.

gimpy wimmer

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

texas...oooooyaaa

Shadow Knights [SK]

W/

fertile seaons might be nice 200ish health and 20 armor ftw

TheYangg

TheYangg

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2006

None

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by gimpy wimmer
fertile seaons might be nice 200ish health and 20 armor ftw Another 20 Armor could negate all damage dealt to Mallyx....

uberpwnage

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Craero
This part is a joke and a entirely random thought that I somehow got:

Warrior: Frenzy, Healing sig, Death's charge, Dark escape (In case of lost enchantments)
Monk 1: Prot spirit
Monk 2: Holy wrath, retribution

Mallyx one hit wonders himself. That's actually a pretty good idea, if you think about it. One other thing to note is giving the warrior Warmonger's weapon (One rit is able to keep it up 80% of the time), which would help stop enchant-removal or whatever. With good aggro-control, it's not too bad of an idea.

Now, figure out how to adapt all of this to the rest of the mission... and you might have victory.

ramma77

ramma77

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

South Shields, England

The Psycho Titans

R/

Has anyone actually TRIED having Razah in the party?

Maybe it's like the second last mission of Factions where certain hench did stuff to make it easier.

So unless someone takes razah and proves it i will continue to think that he is the key.

Good day

aohige

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

GoW

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zamochit
I know that malyx can remove all enchants
Infuse health is 1/4 second cast.
Grenths Balance is 1/4 second cast
Contemplation of purity removes all enchants on you and heals you for xx for each one removed. This is also 1/4 second cast

I do not by any means suggest that you maintain the enchants. That is what contemplation is for. The enchants themselves should be on you for a little over a second, just enough time to infuse twice use GB and then hit contemplation of purity, of course prior to the initial aggro you may be able to apply several more enchantments. They will all be removed when contemplation is used. Uh, you might wanna read the skill description.
He doesn't just remove enchantments, he DISABLEs EVERY PLAYERS SKILL for every enchantment removed.

If you stack an enchantment on someone, and he removes it, you know what happens? Every. Single. Player. loses ALL his skills.
Effectively, it means that ONE enchantment disables EIGHT skills.
Eight enchantment removed disables 64 skills. (every single skill that every single member has)

So yes, unless you want to suicide, stacking enchantments is a bad, bad, BAD idea.

Zamochit

Zamochit

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/A

Contemplation of purity will remove all the enchantments straight after Grenths Balance is used. The skill that Malyx uses is directed at the person who malyx has targeted at that time as such I think it is distinctly possible that you might be able to 'get away' with the use of a couple of low cost fast cast enchants two quick infuses GB and contemplation of purity before you are hit with banish enchantment(overall this should take a little over a second), especially if malyx has been aggroed by another player. The initial "Stacking" I was talking about was prior to aggroing malyx for the first time you could stack enchants use infuse several times send in someone to aggro and then send in the monk to use Grenths balance (1/4 second cast time) and then contemplation of purity (1/4 second cast time). Malyx banish enchantment skill is 3/4 second cast. If you time this right it should be ok.

Heh It might not work, but I have actually thought about it and read the skills descriptions...before you flame my idea maybe you should too?

TheYangg

TheYangg

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2006

None

Mo/Me

I'm just realising you could indeed Bond somebody to tank him...
As long you have a constant Spell-Breaker/Obsidian Flesh...

Maybe you need 2 Tanks with constant SB + OF the second for the time the first gets teleported...

Quickening Zephyr would be nice

Or you just have everyone with PS, one disabled skill shouldn't be that worse...

Apok Omen

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Commence Aggro [BaMf]

Mo/E

Seeing as how kiting does diddly squat against Mallyx, it would be wise to have some DoT spells, such has Savannah Heat, Sandstorm, Unsteady Ground. Or, perhaps some strong , short recharge spells such as Word of Censor and Renewing Surge and Mind Blast.

Please, let's not start any ''I'm smarter than you so stfu'' arguments in the very thread that is trying to think up ways to beat Mallyx yet still survive.

lulu_at_sin

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

sin

Mo/

mallyx is down to 50%.. i think we got him. i keep posting.

/edit: as we though there are spawns at 50%- pic is coming

lavenbb

lavenbb

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

Rt/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ramma77
Has anyone actually TRIED having Razah in the party?

Maybe it's like the second last mission of Factions where certain hench did stuff to make it easier.

So unless someone takes razah and proves it i will continue to think that he is the key.

Good day I think people deduced by logic that Razah will not be helpful because most ritualist builds, especially the ones mentioned in this thread, require judgement, and continual, consistent maintainence. (keeping a disrupting weapon spell on one particular person, etc) These are qualities that GW AI has not been able to mimic. While it could be possible that someone could disable all skills on Razah and manuelly activate them, it is ultimately still unreliable, since it looks like Mallyx can spawn monsters like Kanaxai, and these aren't the gimmicky nightmares, either.

TheYangg

TheYangg

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Join Date: Aug 2006

None

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by lulu_at_sin
mallyx is down to 50%.. i think we got him. i keep posting.

/edit: as we thoughed there are spawns at 50% GL!

But honestly, i think there will be something incredibly worse at ~10%....

But we'll see...

Screen as hell! Any new Skills or anything!


Lulu at sin, this was too fast, I don't believe you until you post serious screens...

lulu_at_sin

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

sin

Mo/

mallyx is down. MUHA

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by lulu_at_sin
mallyx is down. MUHA Screenshot or it didn't happen.

Also, screenshots of items.

aohige

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

GoW

Mo/

Grats lulu. I knew if any team was going to own him first, it would be you guys.

Now, you must spill the beans, so the rest of us can stop getting owned by that gorilla.

lulu_at_sin

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

sin

Mo/

here we go

lulu_at_sin

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

sin

Mo/

come int dis 1

wostl

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

ich

W/

The beast is done !

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

What's that item? It appears to be the same item, and everyone appears to get one.

Is it a weapon?

lulu_at_sin

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

sin

Mo/

let me farm this guy for a day or two, then i ll post the skills.

lulu_at_sin

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

sin

Mo/

crap u can only do this ones.

foo

foo

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Scars Meadows [SMS]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by lulu_at_sin
crap u can only do this ones. Cant you even do it with someone who hasn't?

TheYangg

TheYangg

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Join Date: Aug 2006

None

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wostl

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

ich

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by foo
Cant you even do it with someone who hasn't? no - tried

but u can repeat the whole mallyx quest...

aohige

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

GoW

Mo/

Apparantly, once you beat Mallyx, the quest ends....
and to fight him again, you have to do the ENTIRE quest from scratch.

OUCH >_<

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

Verified the weapons in-game. And i'm incredibly dissappointed.

REUSED SKINS?!

You kill perhaps the most difficult enemy in the game, and the weapons you get aren't unique. I'm quite annoyed.

What happened to the Urgoz/Kanaxai weapon designers?

foo

foo

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Scars Meadows [SMS]

N/

so what's that green item which everybody gets? a kind of a box? weapons "coffer" ?

TheYangg

TheYangg

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2006

None

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by aohige
Apparantly, once you beat Mallyx, the quest ends....
and to fight him again, you have to do the ENTIRE quest from scratch.

OUCH >_< No Elite Mission?
No Quest after this?

You're just done?

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheYangg
No Elite Mission?
No Quest after this?

You're just done? No, you get to do it again. And again. And again.

According to Gaile, this is "progress." You get your Armbraces, then you are happy.

This is BS. Thumbs down for ArenaNet.

-.-

-.-

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2006

Haha, what a terrible timesink.

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

I knew ANet would screw up on DoA. gg killing mallyx btw.

foo

foo

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Scars Meadows [SMS]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
No, you get to do it again. And again. And again.

According to Gaile, this is "progress." You get your Armbraces, then you are happy.

This is BS. Thumbs down for ArenaNet.
So if those are the Armbraces that drop, where are the green weapons from? dropped together with it?

fripple

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

Isn't that just German for Primeval Armor Remnant?

lulu_at_sin

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

sin

Mo/

german