City of Torc'qua 3-8 man tele team

Zeph

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Wales, UK

Expect Extreme Violence [EEV]

02 Apr 2007 at 01:40 - 1

Firstly I'd like to thank Captain Jager for the build which inspired this thread and my good mates Pothead monk & Mistress Sulaco for helping to crack this run.

Team Tele Ele

So, how about a modular build that can clear and complete City of Torc'qua with a minimum of 3 players but which can be expanded up to 8 to make things faster?

Everyone runs one of 2 builds, making finding a pug easier, and no one needs a monk to heal?

Sounds too good to be true? Nah, not really

The builds.

Tele ele - Elementalist/Assassin

Energy Storage: 6 (3+3) [variable, superior rune could be removed for safety in places with 2 dervish]
Fire Magic: 16 (12+1+3)
Shadow Arts: 12

Shadow of Haste (Shadow Arts)
For 34 seconds you move 15% faster than normal. When Shadow of Haste ends, you return to the location where you activated this skill.
Energy:5 Cast:0 Recharge:30

Shadow Form [Elite] (Shadow Arts)
For 17 seconds, all hostile spells that target you fail and all attacks against you miss. When Shadow Form ends, lose all but 41 health.
Energy:5 Cast:1 Recharge:60

Death's Charge (Shadow Arts)
Shadow Step to target foe. If that foe has more Health than you, you are healed for 112.
Energy:5 Cast:0.25 Recharge:45

Meteor Shower (Fire Magic)
Create a Meteor Shower at target foe's location. For 9 seconds, foes adjacent to that location are struck for 119 fire damage and knocked down every 3 seconds. This Spell causes Exhaustion.
Energy:25 Cast:5 Recharge:60

Lava Font (Fire Magic)
For 5 seconds, foes adjacent to the location where this Spell was cast are struck for 53 fire damage
Energy:10 Cast:2 Recharge:4

Bed of Coals (Fire Magic)
Create a Bed of Coals at your location. For 10 seconds, foes standing still near this location are struck for 31 fire damage each second. Any foe knocked down on the Bed of Coals is set on fire for 7 seconds.
Energy:15 Cast:1 Recharge:30

Inferno (Fire Magic)
All adjacent foes are struck for 142 fire damage.
Energy:10 Cast:0.75 Recharge:10

Dark Escape (Shadow Arts)
For 13 seconds, you move 25% faster and take half damage. Dark Escape ends if you successfully hit with an attack.
Energy:5 Cast:0 Recharge:30

Build code: Code:

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Shadow Smiter - Monk/Assassin

Smiting Prayers: 16 (12+1+3)
Shadow Arts: 12

Shadow of Haste (Shadow Arts)
For 34 seconds you move 15% faster than normal. When Shadow of Haste ends, you return to the location where you activated this skill.
Energy:5 Cast:0 Recharge:30

Shadow Form [Elite] (Shadow Arts)
For 17 seconds, all hostile spells that target you fail and all attacks against you miss. When Shadow Form ends, lose all but 41 health.
Energy:5 Cast:1 Recharge:60

Death's Charge (Shadow Arts)
Shadow Step to target foe. If that foe has more Health than you, you are healed for 112.
Energy:5 Cast:0.25 Recharge:45

Balthazar's Aura (Smiting Prayers)
For 10 seconds, foes adjacent to target ally take 26 holy damage each second.
Energy:25 Cast:2 Recharge:25

Symbol of Wrath (Smiting Prayers)
For 5 seconds, foes adjacent to the location in which the Spell was cast take 34 holy damage each second.
Energy:5 Cast:2 Recharge:30

Kirin's Wrath (Smiting Prayers)
For 5 seconds, foes adjacent to the location in which the spell was cast take 34 holy damage each second.
Energy:5 Cast:2 Recharge:30

Dark Escape (Shadow Arts)
For 13 seconds, you move 25% faster and take half damage. Dark Escape ends if you successfully hit with an attack.
Energy:5 Cast:0 Recharge:30

Rebirth (Protection Prayers)
Resurrect target party member. Target party member is returned to life with 25% Health and zero Energy, and is teleported to your current location. All of target's skills are disabled for 10..4 seconds. This Spell consumes all of your remaining Energy.
Energy:10 Cast:6 Recharge:0

Build code:

Code:

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All members use one of either of these builds. If your not running on a full team of 8 you can also bring a hero monk incase of any needed emergency res which you leave flagged at the start of the zone.

Equipment

Ele - Energy armour, 20% recharge/casting fire spells offhand, Axe/sword +5 energy & +20% enchantments.

Monk - Energy armour, 20% recharge/casting smitting spells offhand, Axe/sword +5 energy & +20% enchantments.

The plan

I'll explain this as a team of 3, which is how we run the build, with a hero monk just for resing. I'm also taking for granted you know how to use the build which I linked above from Captain Jager.

Once your in and have the hero monk flagged as far away as possible, take the quest and watch your first packs. Decide on a leader and get them to call targets because the members need to focus their attacks. Target the monk (Ki) first and tele in and nuke the monk. With 3 players you can form a triangle around your target and body block them so they can't run. If you don't do this you will find a lot of enemies run out of your MS. Once your in, the ele's must cast their MS before the monk casts his smiting spells. If you make sure you keep the target locked in the triangle you will kill the target almost every time. Once the monk is done, it's best to take out the ranger (Tuk) next to get rid of his spirits.

If your running with more players it's best to stagger the attacks so the initial 3 players lead and the remaining players follow in just before those tele out.

Once you have your rhythm, keep clearing until you clear all in front of the city and on the ramparts (when hitting them be sure your directly underneath the enemy your attacking and your spells will work the same as normal). Once the gates open you then move on and clear those packs in the same way until the quest updates. Then make sure everyone is inside the city before taking the reward. Once you take the reward a few small packs and 3 big packs will spawn, each big pack will have a boss in it. Clear the small packs and move on to the boss packs, but be sure to watch out for the dervish (Ruk) because their mystic twister will hit through Shadow form. You can normally take a pack with 2 dervish in and take 1 hit from each, this will do around 200dmg per hit. So if there are 2 packs with a total of 3+ dervish in, pull one pack first or you will die.

Just keep doing this until everyone except Lord Jadoth is dead. Then against him you must hit him constantly every time you recharge and chip away at him, he doesn't regen fast so you can take him down bit by bit. It takes about 5 runs against him to finish him off. Then you can collect your gems from the chest and it's job done.

This is a really fun build and a enjoyable way of doing a otherwise quite hard quest. I hope everyone has as much fun with this build as we did while doing the run shown here.

Boss packs remain...

Your turn Jadoth...

Do the dead boss dance!

/Roar - job done!

GL & HF >:-]