Hi, since a few weeks I have been busy creating a fast and reliable build to farm obsidian shards and golds in FOW at the beach. By now my build is finished and I have made over 30 succesfull runs with it doing it faster then ANY W/? build. So enough with the talking and enjoy the build!
Attribute Points:
Inspiration Magic: 5
Scythe Mastery: 12 + 3
Earth Prayers: 8
Mysticism: 9 + 1
Skills:
[skill]Avatar of Balthazar[/skill][skill]Physical Resistance[/skill][skill]Vital Boon[/skill][skill]Mystic Vigor[/skill][skill]Mystic Regeneration[/skill][skill]Victorious Sweep[/skill][skill]Mystic Sweep[/skill][skill]Pious Haste[/skill]*
*Pious Haste can be changed with another skill of choise, but I always bring it with me to have a back-up sprint when Avatar of Balthazar is still recharching and I need to sprint away.
Equipment:
* Armor:
Headgear with Mysticism +1.
Furthermore no specific armor is required, although I recommend you to have a max level armor with insignia and runes that boost your armor and/or energy and/or health.
* Runes/Insignia:
1 Minor Rune of Scythe Mastery.
Energy/Health/Armor boosting runes/insignia
* Weapons:
Just a random scythe would do, a suggestion is to use a zealous scythe with energy/health boost and/or armor penetration to make things easier.
Usage:
Start
*Cast Avatar of Balthazar and Vital Boon when you spawn in the FOW. Then you run through the mobs and circle around the rock where you eventually stop to let the patrols pass you. (You can use Mystic Regeneration to heal yourself when neccesary). Then when you meet the Snarling Driftwood, you must take them down quickly followed by the Doubter's Dryder that stands behind them because of the two shadow patrols that come by.
Killing
Important: Always keep away from the Ancient Skale!
*While fighting the Snarling Driftwood, keep up Physical Resistance, Vital Boon, Mystic Vigor and Avatar of Balthazar when possible. Then when health goes down, cast Mystic Regeneration to get/keep your health up. Because of the three enchantments on you, your health stays high. And even when your health drops (which it shouldn't anyway). The enchantments on you provide enough healing power to stay alive. Keep on spamming the attack skills and when their health is at 1/3 you will also gain health from Victorious Sweep. The mobs should die quickly and easily.
*The Doubter's Dryder are killed in a different way, first of all do not cast any enchantment on you because they will use Shatter Enchantment and Drain Enchantment which remove your enchantments and deal quite a lot of damage. Just lure them to a safe spot, again, away from the Ancient Skale. Just attack them with your two attack skills and they should die quickly without any problems. Use Mystic Vigor,Mystic Regeneration and/or Vital Boon when your health drops below the 250.
*The Armored Cave Spider are also very easy and fast to kill. First kill the three Doubter's Dryder that stand infront of the cave. Then make the Armored Cave Spider spawn and wait for them to spread out infront of the cave. Cast Vital Boon,Mystic Regeneration,Mystic Vigor and Physical Resistance before you proceed. Then Lure 1 of them and pull him away from all the others. Wait untill the three Armored Cave Spider are together and pull them back more. Then just keep your enchantments up and Mystic Regeneration will provide you with enough healing power to stay alive and counter the poisen. Spam your attack skills and they will die within 20-40 seconds.
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Video's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hins5BrXhb4 Armored Cave Spiders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16daNwlGyBA Doubter's Dryders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhgjylWAVIU Snarling Driftwoods
Also see my post on guildwiki:
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Build:D...olo_FoW_Farmer
D/Me: Fast Solo FOW Beach Farming
VirtualQ
pegasux
looks like a real nice build =)...whether it is faster then a warrior w/me running triple chop and cyclone may be up for debate since you can group ALL the cave spiders at the entrance and do dmg to ALL of em with cyclone and triple chop. you can also group the separate spawns of six in the cave into one group also. how long does 1 full spider cave run take?
bored-.-bored
nice 1 mate but isnt it similar to the build in the UW solo that can be found in the w/me solo build (bit confusing even for me..)
VirtualQ
@ Pegasux: Maybe you are right, It it possible that one of the W/? builds is faster in killing the cave part. But the dervish is no matter what "fast" in doing this run. time for completing beach + cave depends on your spawn but i'd say an avarge run would take about 30-50 min depending on how well trained you are at this run. I will try and time this run and post my best time here next week.
@bored: Mmm, not really, and as far as I know I was already building this build before he even posted his UW build on guru
@bored: Mmm, not really, and as far as I know I was already building this build before he even posted his UW build on guru
Milan-V
When will ANERF finally wake up and do something about Dervishes .__.
They make me sick...look I can do that...big deal.
Nice it works thou you weren't being very creative tbh: I find it to basic.
They make me sick...look I can do that...big deal.
Nice it works thou you weren't being very creative tbh: I find it to basic.
VirtualQ
@ Milan-V: Thanks for your reaction, i am just here to share this build with people, I put alot of time in creating this build. It works perfectly for FOW so why are you saying it is "to basic"... If it works, it works and then you dont make it more complicated just because otherwise it isn't original.
Arkantos
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When will ANERF finally wake up and do something about Dervishes .__. They make me sick...look I can do that...big deal. Nice it works thou you weren't being very creative tbh: I find it to basic. Why does it matter if it's creative? If it works, it works. Grats on the build, seems fun. I knew Dervishes would be able to solo the spiders.
Evilsod
Looks like a strong build for this sorta thing. I can't see how its faster than a warrior though... Once your Avatar goes down you lose your holy damage and take twice the damage leaving you with a good 50-60seconds for it to recharge before you can get upto speed again.
Would've thought an accidental Skale agro to be alot more dangerous for a Dervish too. Rend + Massive degen... VirtualQ
@Evilsod: Without avatar of balthazar you can attack everything just fine at same speed, and as for the skales, just don't lure them and everything will be just fine
and even when you are running through them with avatar of balthazar you wont die that quick, trust me  (You will see it when I post the video)
Zipster
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Originally Posted by Milan-V
When will ANERF finally wake up and do something about Dervishes .__.
They make me sick...look I can do that...big deal. Nice it works thou you weren't being very creative tbh: I find it to basic. Someone piss in your cornflakes this morning? Don't answer as I really don't care. The /me could be considered "basic", but spending 1K a pop to test the build is not. Good job on the build and thanks for sharing. VirtualQ
Added three movies, enjoy!
Big_Iron
Nice job VirtualQ. I've been wanting to try out my Derv in FoW. Now I just need for America to get favor while I'm awake.
ubermancer
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Originally Posted by Evilsod
Looks like a strong build for this sorta thing. I can't see how its faster than a warrior though... Once your Avatar goes down you lose your holy damage and take twice the damage leaving you with a good 50-60seconds for it to recharge before you can get upto speed again.
Would've thought an accidental Skale agro to be alot more dangerous for a Dervish too. Rend + Massive degen... Holy damage does basically nothing for you here, except against the silly Protector's Strike spammers, who have never been anything but fodder. I agree that the 'half the time, half the damage' approach of Balth isnt that hot here... seems like you could take another, better elite. How well does Mystic Sandstorm + Mirage Cloak (with maybe a preceeding whirlwind / aftershock) spike work when trying to spike down an aoe of foes? I know that the interupts and +30 elemental armor here all but prohibits this approach, but it seems like you could get a large group of foes together, maybe work them down with degen / chilling victory / whatever, then just before they scatter, BAM. Oh, and Skales cast Rend Enchantments first. This means that if you put an enchant up, then run by a bad spawn, they will NOT open with degen (giving you a good leadway).
Evilsod
Since you say that Avatar of Balthazaar basically isn't needed... why not bring Avatar of Lyssa? Spiders spam called shot, have to keep Apply Poison up and use Healing Spring. +40-50 damage on every hit if you catch em like that and they'd drop alot quicker surely. I'm sure you can get to the cave without Balth for running.
pegasux
Lyssa sounds good...or you could take Dwayna so you can kill the skales possibly. A heal of +35 every 2 seconds from spamming your 2 attacks will fight off the -10 degen + the hex will be constantly removed every 2 seconds.
t3dw4rd0
any chance you could post a video on how to do the run to the beach?
drupal
This video shows the run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citjz7dhtYI
ubermancer
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Originally Posted by pegasux
Lyssa sounds good...or you could take Dwayna so you can kill the skales possibly. A heal of +35 every 2 seconds from spamming your 2 attacks will fight off the -10 degen + the hex will be constantly removed every 2 seconds.
Definatly agreed, thats worth a test run.
Arkantos
Avatar of Dwayna + Mystic Vigor = gg
With Dwayna you'd probably be able to solo the beach and the cave.
ubermancer
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Originally Posted by Arkantos
Avatar of Dwayna + Mystic Vigor = gg
With Dwayna you'd probably be able to solo the beach and the cave. Rend Enchantments vs Mystic Vigor = gg
Ecksor
Well, I just capped Avatar of Dwayna. I will try this build with Avatar of Dwayna when America gets favor.
fenix
Melandru would allow you to get rid of Mystic Regen vs spiders, and put in some other attack or heal. Apply wouldn't degen at all, so you'd be able to do it that way, plus you have +200hp, which would make Victorious Sweep trigger the +hp almost right away.
ubermancer
Failing an Avatar, you could always consider Vow of Strength =P (or Zealous Vow or Onslaught)
VirtualQ
Will try Melandru and Dwayna 2night and run them a couple of times to see if i can also clear skales, that would be nice indeed
[BtL] poke
I tried it yesterday with Dwayna.. The skales use Grenth's Balance and I died..
I don't know if it's possible to heal this loss of Health but I will try with Signet of Pious Light - maybe it works
pegasux
dang didn't know they had grenths balance.
Vexed
I am 99% sure the Skales use Life Transfer as their elite. Are you sure it was Grenth's Balance?
[BtL] poke
They have both.. http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Ancient_Skale
slimreb
Indeed as poke pointed out the Ancient Skales use both Life Transfer and Grenth's Balance. There are a couple different monsters in the game that use more than one Elite. One of the other monsters are the Obsidian Guardians in UW, as they use Obsidian Flesh and Ward against Harm.
Congrats on the build and I will have to try it out once my Dervish has all those skills. I am just wanting to use something different from my warrior down there. Raj Ironheart
With the recent changes to Dwayna (60 health per skill used now - about 40% increase) I'd think it'd be pretty viable. I would also like to see how melandru works out and about drop rates - what do you get on average per run? Profitable? I'm new to FoW so.. ;/
Steve-Oooooo
think you could replace physical resistance with conviction for players who don't have the first guild wars?
Crazyvietguy
Well first off this is 2 months old, so its not a horrible ressurection.
But i do give you props for the conviction comment. However, Physical Resistance is the overall better skill. Steve-Oooooo
PR is definitely a better skill, with +16 armor and twice the duration, I was just wondering how 'bad' it would be to the build, also considering the point that you free up for another mastery
Baaaa Ha ha ha...
is there a good replacement for phys resisitance?
cuz i only have factions +nf...
Crazyvietguy
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Originally Posted by Baaaa Ha ha ha...
is there a good replacement for phys resisitance?
cuz i only have factions +nf... You're joking right? look 3 posts up from your post. Brain Power FTW Melpomene
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Build:D...olo_FoW_Farmer
Just compare both, haha. I made this account just to say that. Melpomene
Haha, nevermind. Should have looked at the rest of the post? Lol, now I look foolish.
Anarion Silverhand
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Originally Posted by ArKaiN
Best post ever
This build is awesome, and I've been running it a lot. Once you get good at it, you might want to try Vow of Silence and kill the groups with 3 ancient skales that don't patrol (they just sit there, all crumpled in a little ball.) Cast all enchants, cast vow and go to town on them. Don't worry about Vow running out and the hexes hitting you while you cast: recasting vow takes one second, their curses take more. Takes a little getting used to, but yeah, it works(Vow is useful for running up to the beach too, since you can get mys. regen under it and the shadowmesmers/elementalists can't do anything but wand you). Is Vow is baing inconvenient at any point, just go pious haste-phys resist and it'll be removed
Vow of Silence seems like a very poor elite for this run. It doesn't seem efficient to use your elite skill only when running. You shouldn't need it as you should be able to run past the shadow army without taking too much damage. VoS isn't needed for that.
Marverick
Is Avatar of Balthazar necessary? The ~60s downtime would slow down the run alot... full windwalker's and PR for 125 armor should be enough? Spiders don't do that much damage by themselves...
Also how do you pull the Doubter's Dryders at the start of the cave? If I rush in, cave spiders start to spawn. But if I try to pull them out they just run back in when I try to get them far enough. |
