Arwens Gloom teambuild

Hi there.

I was tierd of spamming spirits for monks in foundry so i found a new way to farm, not solo tho.
AND its a all ranger teambuild.

Since there are alot of unemployed rangers in DoA I figured I might as well share the fun, and maybe make things intresting again for my fellow rangers in the Domains of Anguish.

You need a team of 4 rangers to pull this off smoothly. With high lightbringer ranks (6 or higher) maybe just a team of 3.

As you know, the enemy groups in Ravenheart Gloom are gathered up tightly, so it sometimes looks just like 1 red dot on your radar.
These are the groups you want to hit.

R/A
Skills in order of usage:

1. Shadow of Haste Stance (Agro-breakage)
2. ShadowForm (E) Enchantment (All spells against you fail and all attacks agains you miss)
3. Deaths Charge Spell (Used for agro-control)
4. Barbed Trap Trap (Damage + cripple)
5. Dust Trap Trap (Damage)
6. Tripwire Trap (Damage + Knockdown to crippled foes)
7. Lightbringers Gaze Skill (Damage)
8. Natural Stride Stance (Cancel stance for Shadow of Haste)


You might want to reorder individual builds so Tripwire is located in slot #5 on ranger1, in slot #6 for ranger2, slot #7 for ranger3 to get a higher chance to inflict a series of knockdowns.
This to increase the damage you inflict with one of you main damage-sorces, Dust trap.
And to keep your foes from scattering to fast from Dust traps AoE effect.


Attributes
Wilderness Survival: 11+1+3 = 15
Shadow Arts: 12
Expertise: the rest


Armor:
Druids (radiant) armor of whatever.
A WS mask with a sup WS rune helps.
You want lots of HP since the dervish enemies uses some AoE skill that hits you and cause bleeding on you.
Advisable to stay away from these groups, but its not imposible to take them out aswell.


Equipment:
Something with 20% longer enchantments and energy will work. (totem axe + offhand)
Not critical, just makes Shadowform last longer.
I strongly recommend to have alot of energy in store, since the build is a kinda energy-heavy.


Usage:
There Should be ONE designated leader in your team.
The leaders job is to Call target (a softie preferably), check if team is ready, and call activation of Shadow of Haste.


The group of rangers should gather about a agro-bubble or further away from the targeted group.
Make sure you Start Shadow of Haste in a safe spot, where there are no enemies around, bechause when you teleport back, and Shadowform ends you will have only 41 hp left, making you a 1-hit-kill.


Step-by-step for how to do it:
1. Leader Calls target. (Others follow hes call. DONT attack yet.)
2. Leader makes sure if everyone is ready. (skills/hp/energy recharged)
3. Leader Calls Shadow of Haste (Starting que for the rest of the team to hit Shadow of Haste).
4. All rangers run untill they are just outside of agro of ther target and hits Shadowform.
5. Then hit Deaths Charge (makes you teleport to you targeted foe)
6. Lay traps in order and gaze them.
7. When you have used all traps once, your shadowform should be blinking, hit Natural Stride to teleport back to the location where you activated Shadow of Haste, and safety.
8. Recharge skills and hp/energy.

If done correctly all you have to do now is go and pick up the loot dropped.

Running this build leaves not much room for errors. Death = Resign
Dont expect to be a pro the first run, it takes some coordenation and team effort to make this work propperly.
Its a fun build to run, and if lucky you get a gem or two worth 6-7k.
The build drops mobs fast, in about 8 seconds.

This might work in other areas as well, havnt tested it everywhere yet.


Thanks to my guildies for the help testing this out.
And thanks to every Ele/Sin ingame for inspiration.

I wish you good luck and lots of fun trying this out.

Greets Arwen.

This looks really interesting and fun! What is your success rate?

This works pretty well imho. If everyone does things right; everything goes down, everything dies. However, I do suggest you save mobs with Earth tormentors last, as they spread conditions like mad. If you get bleeding, your pretty much done for.

On a sidenote, we only tested this in Gloom so far. But being one of the hardest areas in the game (level of mobs etc), this build should prove very successful in other areas, possibly with even less rangers.


Anyway, it's a new, fun way of trapping. I'd suggest anyone who loves rangers tries this one out.

The success rate is pretty high if you have a good team, and the average run dont take forever, like if your echotrapping.
I havn't tested this with PUGs, but me and my guildies had gl and a great time running this. LOLing alot.

As RazorEdge wrights, you might wanna to stay clear for Earth Tormentors, since you dont have any healing at all.

Wouldn't Flame Trap be better on the other rangers? No point having 4 sets of Barbed Trap, once they're bleeding they'll be bleeding for a while whereas you could keep them burning constantly instead.

That is true. Even more so, when some enemies don't get affected by bleeding/poison. However, the leader needs Barbed Trap to give crippled, otherwise the Trip wires won't work.

this is a really fun way to trap

You don't have screenie's

Looks nice anyhow

Nah, dont have any screens, sry.. :\
Cant play GW ATM, so i wont be able to post any eighter.. :\

Interesting, looks like it would work... i should try it out. But i was really hoping for something that could be in a party for the Overlords... I WANNA KILL MALLYX =P.

Well done!,
But many people forget about the fact that u could use Snare instead of barbed trap.