Acolyte of Dwayna in 10 minutes - W/Mo

Hi!

First of all: This involves henching your way to the acolyte, killing all things around her and then sending your henchies away. Don't be afraid, that she's killed in the process by your henchies. She's really durable .

As the thread I wanted to post this build in is called "Mes/any Acolyte Farmer" (or somthing like that) I decided to create this new thread as I'm going to show you how to kill Dwayna's Acolyte with my W/Mo.

Thinking about what was said in the original thread about her efficient way of survival using her many selfheals i realized, that there are other bosses with whom i had a similar problem (Wing and Aahrashh (spelling?)).

The only way I could beat those guys was with either disrupting/disabling their HS or punishing them for using it. As the acolyte does not have a signet i could disable AND has many selfheals, the only way i could think of was to punish her for healing herself… The build may seem familiar, perhaps someone else posted somthing like this for the referred bosses, but the usage is a little… different.

So i came to this:

Skills:Vigorous Spirit (your selfheal) Scourge Healing (the punishment for her annoying selfhealing) Riposte Deadly Riposte (Prerequisite for Gash and superb dmg) Gash (give her a Deep Wound so her heals are even less effective) Flail Dolyak Lions Comfort (another selfheal, i barely use it)
Attributes:
Tactics as high as you can (I have 14 or 15)
Sword 9 (more would be ok)
Strength 8? (makes your Dolyak last longer)
Smiting 8?
Healing a litte bit (3? won't need much healing because she will barely hit you if you do it right)

Weaponry & Armor:
Any max sword with Req. 9 should do, it is much easier if you use a zealous sword because you will use a lot of energy.
Any max Shield should be ok.
Max armor recommended, perhaps use one with radiant insignias for the energy, but you can do it without it.

How to:
Leave with your full party from Kodonur Crossing, then fight your way to her location. (A good thing which really speeds up the run is when you have favor, you can pay balthasar right in front of the door for the warrior enhancements.)

I suggest going over the two bridges, up the stairs then right to the next rez-shrine. Kill all the soldiers around and in the fort (there are two other bosses there, too: Osric and Luluh).

When done with the soldiers send your henchies away. I pin them near the Melandru-rez-shrine. You can now start fighting the acolyte. If she is in form just use every skill on the bar except for the hex. Keep Flail up all the time and try to keep VS up. Chain your ripostes in a way so she can't hit you (do not spam, watch if it was already triggered or not). Use VS when you have a Ripose active and use Rispostes to cover your Dolyak downtime. If she is near 50% when she changes back to non-form she's as good as dead. Watch her closely. The moment she changes back hex her with Scourge Healing and rip and hack the hell out of her. Count 25 seconds from when you activated Scourge, the hex her again. If she manages to NOT die, just repeat the process… next time you'll get her.

Got her scythe on the 7th or 8th kill. Man, this truly looks beautiful on my dervish.

Hope this brings the Dwayna's Grace-prices down a bit… it's IMHO the best scythe for most dervish-builds.

Have fun!
MH.

P.S.: Perhaps someone could test if the hex "Scourge Enchantment" will optimize this build even more.

is Dolyak a must ?

How abt 55 with scourge healing and SOJ ? or 55 with spoil victor and scourge healing ?

Hi!

@powercosmic: You could try it with Spoil Victor, but I think it won't do enough damage in the time she's out of her form. Somehow she can switch to her form again earlier then a player and because when she's hurt she will rather heal then attack you... As you would have a higher Smiting Attribute as a monk it could work... The moment she switches to form though and uses a skill Spoil and/or Scourge are removed...
When you have max tactics you will do between 80 (rip) and 170 (rip&d.rip) damage to her when she swings at you and you'll give her a deep wound when you use gash, which makes her heal for less.
I don't think SOJ will work because of her rather low attack rate. Perhaps you could use a 55 Mo/W using Ripostes and Scourge, but then Energy will become and issue. D.Rip costs 5e and should be spammed when she's out of form, Scourge:10e has to be renewed one time, all your maintained enchantments and the fact, that she does not swing too often...

@irishone: Perhaps you can do it without Dolyak, instead use Watch Yourself but why would one NOT use Dolyak (Ripostes are Phrophecies only, too). She does some damage you know...

Have fun!
MH.

i understand that she does damage and lots of it, its you were talking about using another skill (scorge enchantment) what skill would u replace ?

As I don't use Lion's Comfort, I'd use that slot. But be careful that you chain the ripostes the right way then. If she hit's you, your only way to selfheal is VS. Perhaps also use a vampiric sword hilt but watch your energy.

I will continue to use the build I posted above... When you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy to use. If you fail to kill her, at least you won't die either.

Have fun!

she can't block can she? if so tiger stance is the same as flail right. None of the skills listed under her in wiki mentions blocking

anyways yeah hitting myself over the head for not thinking of scourge healing when that's what I used to kill Incetol

Well she can't block, but Flail is an adrenalin-skill and you can just spam it. Tigerstance has a recharge time and costs energy. You will use most of your energy for Scourge and D.Riposte, so Flail is better. It's the best IAS to combine with Dolyak IMHO.

Hope this helps...

MH.

You do realize Scourge Healing is gone the second Acolyte of Dwayna uses ANY skill right? Read: Avatar of Dwayna

The form allows her to remove 1 hex every time she uses a skill.

Thank you MadHamish for this build! I acutally got a Dwayna's Grace on my first run.

I actually died first time I fought her, couldn't get the timing of the various skills right, but I still managed to do it with 11dp, so that just shows you how good the build is

Vexed: you're only supposed to use scourge healing after her avatar wears off (read the how-to!).

nice 1 sounds good..

Hi!
Nice to hear that other people use this with success too!

@Vexed: You're absolutely right that the moment she uses a skill while in her form she loses one hex. This is why i wrote: Quote: