farming dwayna's grace

RainwalkerC

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

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Mo/

hey guys, i've been thinking very hard to try to farm dwayna, ive tried many builds, but so far i've been only successful farming her w/ 2 other heroes... i was hoping if any1 could get me some hints about a solo farming build, dont need details (tho it wont hurt), just some ideas. thx

Corinthian

Corinthian

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Ritualist Spirit Spammer. Grab heroes & henchies, fight until she's alone, flee and flag heroes far away, put the spirits up, hex her with Painful Bond and lure towards spirits... Should drop in seconds!

Gaia_Hunter

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

Well you can solo dwaynas with W/Mo, although u need the henchies/heroes to clear the way then send them back.

The build goes like this:

[card]Distracting Blow[/card][card]Gash[/card][card]Auspicious Parry[/card][card]Riposte[/card][card]Deadly Riposte[/card][card]scourge healing[/card][card]healing signet[/card]

Basicly while the acolyte is in avatar form you use Auspicious Parry+ Riposte to protect yourself, with the ocasionaly deadly riposte. Use healing signet as required and remember that you can use the stances while casting the healing sig.

When the avatar is down immediatly use scourge healing, and gash. Keep riposting.
When the scourge healing ends, you will have something like 5-10 seconds before the acolyte activates the avatar again. Cast healing scourge again.

Then be ready to distracting blow the avatar cast. Keep spamming ripostes+gash. You might still need to distract the avatar cast once more.

Then the acolyte is dead.

Very boring run, if u miscalculate the interrupt (the boss dont uses 2 seconds, more like 1), the fight will take time.

A succesfull run is done in 10 minutes. If you fail it can take 15 or more.

I got 3 dwaynas graces in something like 20 runs.

Marverick

Marverick

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

R/

Domination Magic 12+3+1
Inspiration 10+2 (I think that's the break for +3e, not sure with the new update)
Wind Prayers 8

Mantra of Inscriptions
Signet of Midnight {e}
Mind Wrack
Spirit Shackles
Spirit of Failure
Natural Healing
Empathy
Signet of Humility

Just blind her and disable the Avatar with SoH, use Spirit Shackles to drain all her energy so she can't heal, and kill her with Empathy/Mind Wrack. Use Natural Healing to get any damage that goes through.

boarderx

boarderx

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2007

[PIG]

the mesmer or necro build is the fastest but the trickiest, there is a 55 version that can do it but it takes longer to kill but it is a easy kill

RainwalkerC

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

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Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Corinthian
Ritualist Spirit Spammer. Grab heroes & henchies, fight until she's alone, flee and flag heroes far away, put the spirits up, hex her with Painful Bond and lure towards spirits... Should drop in seconds! wut spirits should i spam?

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Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

Croatia

Precko Boys [PREX]

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I was wondering... HM or NM for dwayna? or any green farming

ACreator

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2006

Mo/

I think it can be done as a sin too. When i can im gonna test it

but something with disrupting stab, heal, critical defences, and scourge healing shall do the trick, or spirit shacles..

Marverick

Marverick

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

R/

Critical Defenses, Way of Perfection, and Moebius -> DB *might* do it, although doubtful in Hard Mode.

boybe

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

DreamCatcher[DC]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Corinthian
Ritualist Spirit Spammer. Grab heroes & henchies, fight until she's alone, flee and flag heroes far away, put the spirits up, hex her with Painful Bond and lure towards spirits... Should drop in seconds! Yes,i guess RT is the best farmer, if i found a boss what cannot solo down by my job am playing,i will think try to use Rt,....
OKay,Rt can easy down this mob and i try it again and again,use many different build,it is not so interesting use Rt for farm,but it is so easy!

RainwalkerC

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

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Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by boybe
Yes,i guess RT is the best farmer, if i found a boss what cannot solo down by my job am playing,i will think try to use Rt,....
OKay,Rt can easy down this mob and i try it again and again,use many different build,it is not so interesting use Rt for farm,but it is so easy! really really interested on how to kill dwayna w/ Rt, could any1 give some hints on wut spirits to bring? i was thinkin wanderlust w/ earthbind and shadowsong and maybe dissonance dont no if they will last long enough

boybe

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

DreamCatcher[DC]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by RainwalkerC
really really interested on how to kill dwayna w/ Rt, could any1 give some hints on wut spirits to bring? i was thinkin wanderlust w/ earthbind and shadowsong and maybe dissonance dont no if they will last long enough [skill]Wanderlust[/skill][skill]pain[/skill][skill]Anguish[/skill][skill]Shadowsong[/skill][skill]Earthbind[/skill][skill]painful bond[/skill][skill]bloodsong[/skill]
clean the litte mobs what around AoD with your heroes and henc, build sprits as scatter as possible,hex her and kill him....her form will dispel your hex,but we have wanderlust knockdown her....
wait and she will down

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by boybe
[skill]Wanderlust[/skill][skill]pain[/skill][skill]Anguish[/skill][skill]Shadowsong[/skill][skill]Earthbind[/skill][skill]painful bond[/skill][skill]bloodsong[/skill]
clean the litte mobs what around AoD with your heroes and henc, build sprits as scatter as possible,hex her and kill him....her form will dispel your hex,but we have wanderlust knockdown her....
wait and she will down Take out earthbind and put in Dissonance. Earthbind does basically nothing (bosses are knocked down 1/2 of the usual time)
The skill missing is [skill]Signet of Humility[/skill], with attribute 6.
Clear the mob, wait for the acolyte to turn back into human form, lay spirits, Humility, painful bond. There's a 1/20 chance aprox. that she'll still be able to use the elite after humility wears off, even under wanderlust+dissonance, but then you just run back and do it again.
I used this a lot while the scythe was an easy sell at 45k. I must have sold at least 10 of them.

Gaia_Hunter

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by shogun avatar
I was wondering... HM or NM for dwayna? or any green farming I dont see any advantage in HM for green farming.
Only the gold items drop rate was increased, not the greens.

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaia_Hunter
I dont see any advantage in HM for green farming.
Only the gold items drop rate was increased, not the greens. Possibility of an elite rit tome dropping is a good enough reason.

boybe

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

DreamCatcher[DC]

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someone told me there are BUG point can dodge AoD's all attack
maybe someone here knows that?

RainwalkerC

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

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Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ArKaiN
Take out earthbind and put in Dissonance. Earthbind does basically nothing (bosses are knocked down 1/2 of the usual time)
The skill missing is [skill]Signet of Humility[/skill], with attribute 6.
Clear the mob, wait for the acolyte to turn back into human form, lay spirits, Humility, painful bond. There's a 1/20 chance aprox. that she'll still be able to use the elite after humility wears off, even under wanderlust+dissonance, but then you just run back and do it again.
I used this a lot while the scythe was an easy sell at 45k. I must have sold at least 10 of them. thx alot, ill try that out once i get my rit overthere

RainwalkerC

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

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Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ArKaiN
Take out earthbind and put in Dissonance. Earthbind does basically nothing (bosses are knocked down 1/2 of the usual time)
The skill missing is [skill]Signet of Humility[/skill], with attribute 6.
Clear the mob, wait for the acolyte to turn back into human form, lay spirits, Humility, painful bond. There's a 1/20 chance aprox. that she'll still be able to use the elite after humility wears off, even under wanderlust+dissonance, but then you just run back and do it again.
I used this a lot while the scythe was an easy sell at 45k. I must have sold at least 10 of them. thx alot, ill try that out once i get my rit overthere

Gaia_Hunter

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by ArKaiN
Possibility of an elite rit tome dropping is a good enough reason. If u get a rit elite tome from dwaynas acolyte, my kudos to u.

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaia_Hunter
If u get a rit elite tome from dwaynas acolyte, my kudos to u. Dervish tome -_-

Oh btw It can't be done with my build in HM. I'm not sure it can be done solo at all, because apparently hard mode bosses also have 1/2 cast time on all skills. She activates her form in about 1/2 second, and the casts touch in 1/4.
Tried it 5 times just now, and failed in every single one.
Btw once she goes into form, she will do nothing but heal until she's at 100% life.

Wolfy371

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2007

Mo/

Dont mean to hijack this thread but why isnt it possible to lower the boss HP with hero's/henchies and when low enough, then flag them away.

Gaia_Hunter

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfy371
Dont mean to hijack this thread but why isnt it possible to lower the boss HP with hero's/henchies and when low enough, then flag them away. It is, but if you can solo a boss, is preferable to kill it alone, cause timing can ruining a run, and so the time u saved by killing the boss faster is gone when he dies and the henchies are still in rangr and gets the drops.

I use to sliver bosses that i cant kill alone though, the concept is simple you only need something to survive while henchies are going away and some large spike.

Dwaynas on the other hand heals so fast, that I dunno if you can really gain much time by slivering his life.

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

No. She heals from 10% to 100% in something like 10 seconds.
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Acolyte_of_dwayna
Check out those skills, then think how they'd be on attribute 25 for all of them

RainwalkerC

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

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Mo/

still haven't tried the rt build, any1 else?