Nice Sephis Axe Farm. HM.

moshakirbyz

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2006

England

Destructors Of Jerusalem

N/

Other Peoples Builds:

Monk Builds

Arkain
Prot spirit
Shield of Absorption
Mystic Regeneration
Symbol of Wrath
Balthazar's Aura
Blessed aura
Balthazar's Spirit
3 healing
16 smiting
11 protection
10 divine
8 earth prayers

I've successfully SOLO VANQUISHED Nebo terrace with this build.
Ty for the idea moshakirbyz.

onerabbit

prot spirit
Shielding Hands
Shield of Absorption
Mystic Regen
SoJ
Sybol of Wrath
Blessed Aura
Balth Spirit

Sword with 20% enchants
-50hp thingy

16 Smitting
12 Prot
6 Divine
8 Earth Players

Enter Mission, cast ur enchants, ur see sum farmer running down, kill the grp behind em, this will spawn alot more foes later.

go behind the house and enjoy

Elementalist

frojack
Also doable with Elementalists for those without 55 monks. No extra equipment required (barring a 20% enchantment stave) and an average hp bar will do.

Earth Magic 8+1+3
E storage 7+1
Healing Prayers 8
Smiting Prayers12

Signet of Mystic Wrath
Reversal of Damage
Restful Breeze
GoLE
Shield of Judgement
Stoneflesh Aura
Kinetic Armour
Watchful spirit

This will basically take you up to The Black Curtain. Upon entering which you will find the opposition somewhat hard to kill.
The Signet is for moving things along faster (an easy 200 damage) also saves you from re-using SoJ on the mob left overs. Reversal of Damage is for keeping Kinetic alive (and avoiding spike damage from Desecrate Enchantments). Restful Breeze is far better than Breeze for this build surprisingly. Watchful spirit is there to counter degen. In all honest it's a free slot. Don't need energy management here (again a surprise) so no Essence Bond or Balthazar's,
but there is a lot of degen here (Mesmers, Rangers, Hell hounds).

Your only real danger here is the Necrid Horsemen. They use Desecrate which hurts if left unchecked. Kill them as the top priority. Second is the Worlock's. Not much trouble on a good day, but they can stick Death Nova on their minions so you gotta be careful. Also stay away from mobs with monks. Takes way too long to be worth the trouble. That's about it. Have fun. It's easier with a 55 monk but we aren't all so fond of them


My Original Build

First up let me just say I'm pretty damn awful at making builds almost as bad as i am writing about them, and I know that this build will probably be much betterd.

Here are the skills I use (Sorry, I don't know how to use skill icons):
Protective Spirit
Healing Breeze
Shield Of Judgement
Bane Signet
Blessed Signet
Mending
Balthazars Spirit
Watchfull Spirit

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This is a 55hp build if you could not tell.

It's the same place as the old elementalist farm, outside of bergen hot springs. The undead here seem to drop Sephis Axes alot. I have probably had about 7 sephis axes, and have only farmed here about 5 times (not all max damage of course). One of these sephis axes was a Gold max damage req 13.

This is an image of the very first propper run I did:


It's a very simple farm, simply set up your maintained enchantments, cast Protective Spirit and Healing Breeze, the cast Shield Of Judgement and watch them fall, keeping up healing breeze and protective spirit all the time. Because your enemies are undead they will take double damage from your SoJ, at 16 smiting prayers this is 106 damage.

I use bane signet for the sorcerers as they're can take a bit longer to kill as they aren't always wanding you. Also, mesmers here are very friendly in that they dont have any enchantment strips, but they do have some degen skills, so if you're going to agro a bunch of mesmers and rangers I reccomend dying and equipping a -20 hp Protective Icon giving you 13hp. This way you can survive their onslaught (Rangers have Poison and disease...I think.)

As you can see this is only really a good farm for sephis axes as nothing else nice really drops here, I've never had a gold rune, but I have had about 3 or 4 gold dead bows.

I think that's it, you should really try it for yourself, one last thing, gold dead bows seems to be quite common here I've had one nearly every run, so this could also be a nice source for Wisdom Title Track?

Some Examples of Drops

Hell Raiser:
"Over the past few days, more so during the weekend (not all drops)"


Aplha Moth:
"A few hours"


Snype:
Two hours Nebo Terrace

onerabbit

onerabbit

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Thanks to all the guru [mods]

i find GoK alot better and faster

Alien Bobster

Alien Bobster

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2006

Sverige

Running Rangers [RR]

R/N

Onerabbit, you're wrong, To bad you told everyone! Well, anyway, I've got much faster 2man build, can be done with hero, check !


600hp
13 Divine
14 Prot
Spirit Bond
Prot Spirit
Aura of Faith
Frenzy
Blessed Signet
Vital Blessing
Life Attunement
Essence Bond

Hero: (Since mine is only lvl 14)
16 smiting prayers
Holy Wrath
Retribution
Balthazars Spirit

Diddy bow

Diddy bow

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

Jawsome!!!!!!!!!!!

looking for one :p

A/D

nice build

methinks they will be the new dead swords

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

Prot spirit
Shield of Absorption
Mystic Regeneration
Symbol of Wrath
Balthazar's Aura
Blessed aura
Balthazar's Spirit
3 healing
16 smiting
11 protection
10 divine
8 earth prayers

I've successfully SOLO VANQUISHED Nebo terrace with this build.
Ty for the idea moshakirbyz.

onerabbit

onerabbit

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Thanks to all the guru [mods]

Has anyone tried Cursed Lands, that can be solo vanquished to.

Alien Bobster

Alien Bobster

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2006

Sverige

Running Rangers [RR]

R/N

Yes, Cursed Lands owns for this! It took me about 10 min to clean whole place and get vanquisher, btw, ive got vanquisher at nebo too, from doing this.

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

2 15^50 gold dead bows from nebo. one is req 10 =]

EDIT: Right after I posted this:

How goofy is that.
I hereby name this "The Dead Bow farming spot"

moshakirbyz

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2006

England

Destructors Of Jerusalem

N/

What's GoK, and thanks for your kind replies, I may try some of these out vastly improved builds out, but I rarley play.

ArKain, that means I have to take my monk to Nightfall now >_<

milan

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

BONE

N/

GoK = Gates of Kryta

Also not forgetting the undead quest from beetletun. Did four times today, the regular white drops are terrible but in total 9 gold max sephis axes, including a req 10 +5 energy.

JoJ

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2006

W/R

Yes, I've been doing both this run and GoK with my 55 monk. I use normally use:

[skill]Protective Spirit[/skill] [skill]Healing Breeze[/skill] [skill]Shield of Judgment[/skill] [skill]Blessed Signet[/skill] [skill]Mending[/skill] [skill]Watchful Spirit[/skill] [skill]Balthazar's Spirit[/skill] [skill]Essence Bond[/skill]

8 Heal
16 Smite
14 prot
rest in DF

Between my 3 regen skills you break even with skelly ranger+mesmer degen, and then alternate spamming HB and PS every 2 seconds to stay alive (you should have plenty of energy to spam with both Balth Spirit and Essense bond). It seems to work pretty well, but it's still not 100%

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by milan
GoK = Gates of Kryta

Also not forgetting the undead quest from beetletun. Did four times today, the regular white drops are terrible but in total 9 gold max sephis axes, including a req 10 +5 energy. I'm doing beetletun's quest by subbing balth's aura in my build with smite hexes, then keeping the mesmer alive.
180dmg "in the area" is good.

XvArchonvX

XvArchonvX

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by JoJ
Yes, I've been doing both this run and GoK with my 55 monk. I use normally use:

[skill]Protective Spirit[/skill] [skill]Healing Breeze[/skill] [skill]Shield of Judgment[/skill] [skill]Blessed Signet[/skill] [skill]Mending[/skill] [skill]Watchful Spirit[/skill] [skill]Balthazar's Spirit[/skill] [skill]Essence Bond[/skill]

8 Heal
16 Smite
14 prot
rest in DF

Between my 3 regen skills you break even with skelly ranger+mesmer degen, and then alternate spamming HB and PS every 2 seconds to stay alive (you should have plenty of energy to spam with both Balth Spirit and Essense bond). It seems to work pretty well, but it's still not 100% Bump your healing prayers up to 9 and drop Watchful Spirit for something more useful. Healing prayers at 9 will give you one more regen from Breeze than 8 will. Blessed Aura or another smite skill would be good substitutions for Watchful Spirit.

*edit* nevermind, forgot that watchful gave 2 regen. However, putting 9 attributes into Earth Prayers can give a large regen using Mystic Regeneration and free up some space on your skill bar.

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

Mystic Regen > Healing Breeze

MrSlayer

MrSlayer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

United Kingdom

Quit Whining And [PLAY]

Mo/

Well might as well share what I've been doing.

Protective Spirit
Shield of Absorption
Shielding Hands
Shield of Judgment
Mystic Regeneration
Balthazar's Spirit
Essence Bond
Blessed Aura

I cleared GoK with it. The advantage of it is you can MASS aggro any number of groups, and SoA or SH will stop damage, whilst (at 3 earth prayers) Mystic Regeneration will stop ALL regen. I tanked Mesmers, Necros and Rangers at once and still had +1 regen.

But yeah...hadn't thought of trying Cursed Lands.

onerabbit

onerabbit

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Thanks to all the guru [mods]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Arkantos
Mystic Regen > Healing Breeze
Agreed .

Viet Spirit

Viet Spirit

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2007

R/

yeah Earth (Dervish) at 8 can replace Mending and Healing Breeze allowing u to have 1 more skill slot available.

BTW, I have tried around 10 runs outside Bergen Hotspring and no gold items at all. Just bunch of uselss purple deadbows

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Viet Spirit
yeah Earth (Dervish) at 8 can replace Mending and Healing Breeze allowing u to have 1 more skill slot available.

BTW, I have tried around 10 runs outside Bergen Hotspring and no gold items at all. Just bunch of uselss purple deadbows i'm making an SS with all the 12 pretty gold dead bows i got there today. They're all max 15^something(old the ones with bad/no dmg mod), but only one's req 9=

NME

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by milan
GoK = Gates of Kryta

Also not forgetting the undead quest from beetletun. Did four times today, the regular white drops are terrible but in total 9 gold max sephis axes, including a req 10 +5 energy. Wish to share the build your using?

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

I've gotten 2 req 9/10 dead bows. Req 9 is 20<50, req 10 has no dmg mod. Gonna hit up Undead Hordes after I try Nahpui.

onerabbit

onerabbit

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Thanks to all the guru [mods]

Quote:
Originally Posted by NME
Wish to share the build your using?
prot spirit
Shielding Hands
Shield of Absorption
Mystic Regen
SoJ
Sybol of Wrath
Blessed Aura
Balth Spirit

Sword with 20% enchants
-50hp thingy

16 Smitting
12 Prot
6 Divine
8 Earth Players

Enter Mission, cast ur enchants, ur see sum farmer running down, kill the grp behind em, this will spawn alot more foes later.

go behind the house and enjoy

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

onerabbit, how long does it take you to kill the big group of the ghouls? They always run off and heal, so I've never really tried to see how long it took.

onerabbit

onerabbit

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Thanks to all the guru [mods]

if you attack one, it wont run, so the one you attack dies pretty fast, once that 1 is dead, move onto the next, but it doesnt take long .. few mins to kill the lot.

and Symbol is good as is does 120-180dmg before they run, so can kill off the last lot, if there all low on HP.

Also, from the quest you do .. what are the drops like, i just did 2 runs and got 1 drop :S

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

Only the last 3 big mobs drop items. With the Bone Dragon in the last, it's really annoying, and I've found it's not worth it.

onerabbit

onerabbit

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Thanks to all the guru [mods]

Bone Dragon lol

i only managed 2 get to the 3rd grp, then floating things (Wraiths i think) dont die :P

Ole Man Bourbon

Ole Man Bourbon

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Atlanta

GONG

W/E

Yeah those assholes have like 26 in energy storage and get a big spike heal when they cast due to whatever that enchant is.

FWIW I run the Rangers and Sorcerers/Ghouls (meleers here must be taken no more than 3 at a time or they'll heal) outside of Bergen with a VWK Rt, for all you guys without monks there. Ridiculously easy to kill the rangers, I have so many gold Dead Bows I am sick of them. I've gone into Cursed Lands and had some success, but have gotten squat for drops for some reason.

Another fun trip for VWK, while we're on the topic of Undead Hordes, is the quest you run from Zos Shivros Channel, The Halcyon Job. I used to farm it to stock up on cloth for my anticipated surge in material demand for Nightfall armor (which turned out to be a total waste of time, godammit ). Now, on HM, you can hit the 3 Oni spawns on the way, as well as some Squids, and then the quest where you can currently loot gold armors and various weapons, including Platinum stuff. The Oni and Squids drop Monstrous rare materials, which is nice. Lots of XP in the trip. Probably not the most profitable run evar, but it's a fun one, particularly to see all the Luxon Assasins kill themselves in a few seconds when you get to the quest. Oh yeah and collector drops have some use as well (used to get zillions of Luxon Pendants which are traded for scrolls, but no longer while doing HM).

Hell Raiser

Hell Raiser

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

[PHNX]

Mo/

Over the past few days (more so during the weekend), I farmed outside bergen. Whenever I remembered to, I would take a pic of the gold drops (this is not all of them):

The ones that only say "You pick up ..." are from Locked Chests.
Among these drops is a 15^50 dead bow req 13 and a 15^50 sephis axe req 12 (both of which I still have). And I promise none of these are repeats.

I use PS/Mystic R/Shielding hands OR SoA/Smiting Skill (most work)/SoJ/Balth Spirit/Essence Bond/ Blessed Aura. I've been farming these guys ever since the first Halloween collectors showed up (Decayed Orr Emblems). ArenaNet reduced my Orr Emblem drops, which made this a good holiday farming spot (for me), but increased it's everyday farmability. I like it.

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

I got 5 dead bows and a brute sword in Bergen in < 30 minutes. All have crappy mods though.

Shuuda

Shuuda

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Guildless

Me/

Is there any none 55/VWK build for any of these spots, it's dissapointing to see how it all seems to be 55s.

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shuuda
Is there any none 55/VWK build for any of these spots, it's dissapointing to see how it all seems to be 55s. SoJ deals holy damage, meaning these undeads all take 106 dmg a hit while you calmly stroll around. They just die all around you.
VwK could work, but it would be much, much slower, and much harder.

uxxmall

uxxmall

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

Romania

The Notorious Luna

Mo/Me

no coment ....first few runs a 15^50 dead bow req 9
now I just need a sephis axe

Alpha Moth

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Where is this^^ nebo?

Shuuda

Shuuda

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Guildless

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ArKaiN
SoJ deals holy damage, meaning these undeads all take 106 dmg a hit while you calmly stroll around. They just die all around you.
VwK could work, but it would be much, much slower, and much harder. Yeah I figures that. But I don't care, I don't have a monk or Rt, nor will I make one just for farming. Plus them skills are boring. Why quote me if you didn't attempt to answer the question?

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shuuda
Yeah I figures that. But I don't care, I don't have a monk or Rt, nor will I make one just for farming. Plus them skills are boring. Why quote me if you didn't attempt to answer the question? Farming is often boring and profitable.
You could do a shadow form/haste build and kill the skellie rangers one by one with combos: it just seems like a huge waste of time to me.

Shuuda

Shuuda

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Guildless

Me/

Oh oh oh Judge's Insight/HoHF and Death Blossom, sounds more fun than that SoJ junk.

Alpha Moth

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

this works nice 30k in 30 minutes a few tomes anda dead bow

Alpha Moth

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

What drops the sephis axes beside the gasping things...i ahven't got one gold sephis yet cept around 9 dead bows

kielus

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

MU-Tants [MU]

5 gold dead bows + around 25 purples in 2 runs and a half... nothing more to say but omfg... thx alot for sharing the build, it goes fast, easy and comfortable and what is the most important - profitable, as they still drop lots of random stuff

Red-Tide

Red-Tide

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Edmonton, Canada

[Liar]

Mo/

got 7 Dead Bows in an hour farming Nebo. 2 Req 9 with decent mods that netted me about 120K. Thx for the tips, now I just need a req 9 Sephis to drop

clawofcrimson

clawofcrimson

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Crimson Claw

W/

Is there a warrior build for them??