Hello there after months of farming these places and skill balances, I have decided to post a build. Please take note this is my 1st build, and a large1 at that.
Ok lets get started. First the build, and yes this is another Shadow Form abuse build.
And the weapons
Most of the groups u should cast SoH to almost where they are off ur map.
K there is alot of places to use this build, 1st FoW.
And depending on how far u want to farm and do the quest this can also be a dual run. Also it might be a good idea to bring a monk hero incase u mess up. Just send him away after u clear the 1st group so he won't take ur items.
1st the run. Because of alot of bad spawns and not always being able to clear the 1st group w/o rastigan getting into trouble, it is safer to run to this spot than hving him die and wasting 1k. Just simply cast SF and Dark Escape once the 2 groups join together on the North part.
Ok after recharging SF time to go for the 1st group. Just target the monk 1st and just do the order of the skills 2-7 and use dark escape to end SoH. With practice u should be able to clear the group in 1 run, Note that once the monk dies the Warriors will use IWAY and the beast Consume Corpse to save their self.
After that there is 2 groups just to the east. If aggro the group with the 2monks and beast when they are right by each other, u should be able to clear it in one sweep. With the group to the left if u run to the caster in the back ,usually the mesmer, one of the ele's seems to be have a automatic path and combines right with the mesmer. Not always though.
After that just kill the group to the east of rastigan.
When clearing a group with more then 1 monk, wether they are patrolling or just standing, try to time it when they are right near each other or close, and position right by them or between them. IF u don't they will rez each other.
If u want to kill the abyssals I advise u to bring a 2nd person with u and either go in at the same time or trade off. If u do this I'd advise u to clear them clockwise starting with the north side of the building, because the 1st group to the south of the building will trigger rastigan to walk to the tower. If u decide to clear that group u should hv plenty time to recharge before he opens the gate. When he does, both people should run in front of him and the abbyssals should only aggro. After that just kill the Giant beast and either save ur reward if u hv a hero monk with u incase u die or accept it.
After that there is the Beach, Cave, Battlefield, Forest, and the Forge.
The beach is all soloable except the armored cave spiders. They are just like the abyssals.
And here is the video. Sorry it took so long to finish and load it. It follows mostly like the guid. Sorry if the video image is hard to see. Enjoi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8eYH7rVsA
I have more pics and guide coming up. Including Forest of the Wailing lord, Gloom, Tombs, Sorrows Furnace and Stygian Veil
Shards, Gems, and Golds Oh My!!! ele/A
Captain Jager
leeky baby
very nice ^^ how long did it take u 2 clear all of fow?
jbwarrior
Nice guide
Going to try this when europe has the favor
Going to try this when europe has the favor
Captain Jager
It took about 2-3hours minus all the breaks in between. But this build isn't just for FoW but many other places, including gates of madness mission for fun .
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LUCKY4261
shadow of haste makes this build pretty slow.therefore the 2-3hr run. nice guide anywayz!
but theres another guide for fow ele/ranger: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s....php?t=3063372
but theres another guide for fow ele/ranger: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s....php?t=3063372
Captain Jager
Its not reallly SoH that makes it slow but Shadow form and m.s. with the 60 second recharge. So if u mess up u hv to wait an extra minute. You can also, if u want to 2 man, take recall instead and add another aoe skill in but its harder to end.
Why_Me
Nice to see another ele FoW solo, I'll definitely try this. Can it clear the forest and the burning forest? Inferno and choking gas comes to mind, but it might be possible to get around them. Can't wait for video.
Captain Jager
yeah the Forest of the wailing lord is possible u just cast M.S. on the wurms before u aggro and go in for the kill.
Dark Tykane
I posted this build on the assasin shadow form abuse thread -_-
Neriandal Freit
Interesting, I'll be keeping this eyed and will be adding it to my massive pile of Elementalist soloing builds.
myst1k
this build doesnt work for the most of the ppl 10 ppl tried none arrived to successfully make it to the abyssals, too hard build to handle.
Captain Jager
Hmmm really, is it because SF ends early? Or if u can't kill them with this add lava font instead of glyphe of elemental power like Killer Force Ninja does. I will try to get this video out by tommorrow. There is plenty of other places to practice this such as bugs outside of Haven or the Kirin near matuu keep.
Xiaxhou of Trinity
heh kirin outside of maatu keep never thought of those. used to use the mist form build on those guys but they added dragon moss =/ I think this is build is too hard simply because not everyone can do the hit and run thing, or can't position themselves in time before SF ends. It's a bit easier imo than the silver armor farming with SF, since sometimes the 17 sec can be an annoyance, but SoH is a great skill in this build. Recall and Death's Charge all in one (except no teleporting lol) Great build, dont know if i'll be trying this anytime soon I'm not too good with using SF yet.
skinnydarn
great build! im sure me and my guild will have great fun trying this out. ill let u know what we make of it 
disarm76
well, I tried, but it takes 2-3 runs to kill a single group.
I do as the OP says, have the same gear and there's always 1-3 warriors who stay up.
I do as the OP says, have the same gear and there's always 1-3 warriors who stay up.
Captain Jager
Yeah sometimes the warriors are a pain if they get up Iway. Thats y i think sometimes it just better to 2man.
Dark Tykane
The build was originally posted as an alternative to solo tombs, but i saw it was great for so much else. It does work great and much better than the sliver armor version good job on posting some guidance to my build.
onerabbit
Been doing this for a few days now..managed to clear loads of Fow, all upto the fire forest, but the hydras use inferno -.-
also the stick things in the forest use Lightning Touch (goes through sf) for 100dmg +...how do i get around that?
also the stick things in the forest use Lightning Touch (goes through sf) for 100dmg +...how do i get around that?
Baaaa Ha ha ha...
gaaaaaaahhhhh
yet another reason to get prophecies...(no ms)
yet another reason to get prophecies...(no ms)
Sprites
you'd better got all trhree
can this work for rotscale? :d
can this work for rotscale? :d
RebelHero
If Inferno is a problem, and you are certain of your capabilities of nuking all the hydra's at once, dont use shadow of Haste. And activate Dark Escape while tanking, causing you to take two times more hits.
djanubis2005
first off, thank you very much for the build. works really nice.
if people trying it could post places where they were successful/unsuccessful, that would be really cool.
thanks again!
if people trying it could post places where they were successful/unsuccessful, that would be really cool.
thanks again!
Sprites
works but pretty long with lv 17 mantids
that all-caster scatter
that all-caster scatter
skinnydarn
well i said id let u know how i got on and here it is..me and a guildie have had success in both tombs and fow with this however we have been struggling in both stygian veil and gloom...maybe anyone has any tips on how we can farm these 2 places i dunno. we are both lb rank 4.
Captain Jager
yeah for Stygian veil just use SoH near where all the stygian horrors group if u accept the quest. Kill the scourage of darkness 1st a.k.a. the monk. You should both go in at the same time to kill him. Then for the rest of the group its better to switch off. Now for gloom u'll need feigned nuterality because of the bleeding from the earth tormentors. Just cast it after u teleport out and SF is about to end. Just replace instead of using lava font or glyphe. Gloom is a little of a pain cause the tormentors use call of darkness i they don't die from the spike. Which just makes a worthless clone that doesn't drop anything.
skinnydarn
jst 2 let every1 know ive found this much easier to kill things using lava font instead of glyph...works much better for those struggling...know this has alrdy been said but jst thought id let u know
Arkantos
Currently farming ToPK with this, switching out glyph for font. You need a +20e staff with 20% ench on it to have enough energy for your whole combo. First run I got an ecto, so I'm happy.
code1101
Hi.
First of all this is one of the few farming builds that I loved so good job there.
in your first post the build uses a glyph which isn't that useful and in the vid you use lava font insted of the glyph, so if you can please update the post to reflect this (you have a good build here so please maintain it and why not post it on the wiki?).
Anyone had any success with this build in the UW?
my attepmts didn't go well but I think it can be done .. so what do you think?
one other question which is not entirely related to this thread. If a foe dies from burnning (health degen in general) do they drop things if you were away from them? you know sometimes you use dark escape and the foe starts burnning to death so in that case do you get loot from him or not?
Thats all for now and thanks for the build.
First of all this is one of the few farming builds that I loved so good job there.
in your first post the build uses a glyph which isn't that useful and in the vid you use lava font insted of the glyph, so if you can please update the post to reflect this (you have a good build here so please maintain it and why not post it on the wiki?).
Anyone had any success with this build in the UW?
my attepmts didn't go well but I think it can be done .. so what do you think?
one other question which is not entirely related to this thread. If a foe dies from burnning (health degen in general) do they drop things if you were away from them? you know sometimes you use dark escape and the foe starts burnning to death so in that case do you get loot from him or not?
Thats all for now and thanks for the build.
jbwarrior
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Originally Posted by code1101
You know sometimes you use dark escape and the foe starts burnning to death so in that case do you get loot from him or not?
No you do not get it, because you are to far away...
Cya,
Mr Jorgen
Cya,
Mr Jorgen
Captain Jager
Sorry have been busy lately but i will change the pics, shortly. As for your quest about the UW. You cannot solo the ataxes but you can kill them dual running. Or if you wish to solo there you can use the same idea as the E/me or W/rit and skip the ataxes all together. For the burnning to death question: No you cannot get the drop if you're to far away, but if your positive u broke aggro you can run pretty close up to them and you'll get the drop usually.
skinnydarn
The e/me version or w/rit would be much quicker than this so if u dont plan on killing the aatxe u may as well use one of those
Captain Jager
E/me yes, W/rit...not unless u can kill mass aggro in less than a 16 seconds including the grasping, but it is definetly not as safe and ez. I'm just trying to say that it is doable.
DAS Achilles
great build but i wasnt able to kill anything but the monks (mabey afew more)..... oh wait i was using glyph not lava font! plz change that so one else make my mistake ill try again tonight though with lava font (ps i didnt even realize the change in the vid until now)
Captain Jager
K fixed the build picture. will update the others l8er. Right now have been trying to find people to 4man the forgemaster quest. If any1 would want to try pm me, not American servers though sry.
Sprites
i think you need 2-man for forest and cave , can't kill the armored cave spiders alone , and need to be very lucky to kill a abyssal
makosi
Superb. Do you think the same build would work with EQ, Aftershock and Sandstorm and be more effective? I'm not criticizing, just broadening horizons
Captain Jager
Yeah u'll need to 2-man the spiders, and the abyssals mostly just die off from burning degen. Sandstorm is an elite isn't it?
RebelHero
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Captain Jager
yeah would not recommend even bothering with the ataxes. Might try the other areas later though.
judgedread33
well just to let u no i love this build me and my guildie have been using it in fow for the past few days and we are thinking of trying uw (the forgoten vale) 2 man spider capping run? hmmm... could it be possible?