Rotscale + Hard Mode = Impossible

Deep Wound and Stunning Strike

Lowered health+Daze=FTW

Took a while and had to micro my heroes (and my buddy died right off so he just microed his three heroes too), but we did it.

LOL did it a long time ago (on HM surely), had some healers (one MM hybrid), me, nuker, SV interrupt N/Me, SS.

We were 3 Humans 3 heroes....steamrolled the bastard, no deaths from our side.

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600/Smite > all.. thats only u wanna stand there for like 30mins- 1 hour.. tanking him... but getting there take some time since the monsters in HM don't exactly do full damage...

When my alliance took Rotscale down, we had a very mixed group. Two warriors, two monks, a mesmer with SS, Splinter ranger, SV, and me (SY/TNTF Paragon).

my guild does a weekly vanquish area and this was are area last week. we had a balanced group and it seemed like we had less trouble with rotscale and his buddies then run to get to the area from toa. but we had monks stand outside the area and did a lot of pulling and the few resses we had to wait til frozen ground was gone to to that

Im trying to remember what I took, I just did this with a friend last night.

SS (me) with pain inverter and smooth criminal
SH ele (friend)
Heal monk
Prot monk
Sword Warrior with bleed, deep wound and maybe an interrupt/knockdown
N/Rt healer
Minion bomber
Interrupt Mesmer

We died once but its only because the interrupt mesmer died. Once that mesmer is on him, he can't do shit, and even if he can, pain inverter does a nice job. Deep wound takes 20% off of that 5600 life so thats a BIG help. Also if you can corner him and cast AoE like Meteor Shower and Savannah Heat he will just run around in the AoE and do nothing.

H/Hh-able:

1 Ursan
Heroes
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SabWay Necros, tho I changed the Minion Master to a Blood Spoil Victor

Hench
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1 Warrior
1 Monk
1 Mesmer
1 Ranger

It did cheat a little and used a Essence of Celerity and shrine bonus (as well as a few deaths and micro management issues) but got there:



It DOES depend on the spawn tho!

Ehm, I just recently used 3 smiting signet monks and pwned him very epicly... ¬.¬

When we did this we had a bunch of warriors, a ranger and a mesmer, and a monk human, and filled out the rest with heroes. We just pulled real careful, beat the hell out of his army, then rolled him little by little.

vanquished majesty's rest with ursan pug and we took him down with little trouble.
tons of health on that one D :

was a while back but i think we used 5 ursan 1 necro 2 monks

Ok i have a really good memory, and i remember this..

Gloria Vander Belt posted herself Vanquishing rotscale with no problem using hero and hench-(god i hate Gloria Vander Belt)

Using
Herself-Bleeding Gash sword war with good survival and energy management, and i think Skull crack elite wich leaves casters dazed
Hero healer, WoH, with heavy healing skills and protective spirit
Hero Nuker, Savannah heat/Arcane Echo/ and some other heavy nuking skills
Hero SV- Standard SV blood degen build
Henchmen=Healer/Nuker/Mesmer/Ranger

Me and my friend soloed him a few days agon in HM to get his nice bow
some modded 600hp/smite does the trick in about 10min

I'll add my 2 cents. I cleared him a few days ago when I was vanquishing tyria. He was hard to kill, but once you get the spawns near the shrine across the bridge, just flag the heros/henchies back and pull oldschool w/ a longbow, and take the flag off quickly so they come to heal you before you die.

I had 1 HB hero monk, the sabway MM, the sabway SS, alesia, orion, reyna, and stefan. In fact it was one of the easiest and fastest zones to clear in tyria in my opinion

PS: even though i was h/h'ing it, the bow still dropped for me, im one lucky dude (not)

I just vanquished Majesty's Rest with H and H. I was a BA ranger, and I took an SS N and an N/Rt, Jin as an R/P w/ shouts, Alesia, Orion, Reyna and Stefan... but the problem wasn't really Rottie. He just took a long time. It was me being stupid. I was trying to take out the clerics first, and they were impossible to pull. I finally went after the skeleton rangers and the necrotic horseman and once they were gone, the clerics were easy and so was the rest.

Worked for me, though I had to disable OOP and DF for the most part so I dont get insta gibbed by Desecrate Enchantments.

Well I've had trouble with Rotscale he seams to be my kryptonite, I couldn't even kill him in normal mode before there was a hard mode and now I have to kill him to be able to advance my vanquisher title, I've tried everything in this thread that doesn't require real people too no avail, in the past I tried with fall 8 man teams and failed.

It's obviously doable by the undeniable fact of screen shots, but one thing that is missing is a screen shots of this so called good spawn points, every time I've gone there he is standing right in the middle of the stairs at the doors.

Anyway help would be appeachated indeed, further more I've put a post on Smokey & Co's thread to pay to have it done, if anyone can do it without me I'd gladly pay to have him murdered, Majesty's Rest 25k is the going rate for Smokey & Co. and I'll throw in the bow if it drops for myself to whom ever the party leader is.

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Myself
[build prof=M/Me hea=12 pro=3+1 div=12+1][Healers Boon][Dwayna's Kiss][Ethereal Light][Heal Party][Cure Hex][Protective Spirit][Dismiss Condition][Selfless Spirit][/build]
Uhmm Selfless Spirit has the wrong icon anyway moving on.

[build prof=N/Mo death=12+1+3 sou=9+1 pro=9][Jagged Bones][Animate Shambling Horror][Animate Bone Fiend][Death Nova][Protective Spirit][Cure Hex][Signet of Lost Souls][Extinguish][/build]

These 2 have nothing to do with me I didn't create them, one of them I think is part of sabway.

[build prof=N/Rt sou=10+1 cur=12+1+1 res=8][Spiteful Spirit][Insidious Parasite][Enfeeble][Barbs][Rip Enchantment][Weapon of Warding][Signet of Lost Souls][Death Pact Signet][/build]

[build prof=N/Rt sou=12+1+1 res=12][Weapon Of Remedy][Weapon of Warding][Mend Body and Soul][Spirit Light][Protective Was Kaolai][Vengeful Weapon][Signet of Lost Souls][Death Pact Signet][/build]

Then added Dunham / Orion / Claude / Alesia, the only part I am slightly ashamed of is I used a conset but if it gets the job done why complain.

The tactical data I was missing to all my plans was (drum roll) he has to be on the right side of the mountain, not in the middle.

Started off all fine and well, pined the SS at the end of the bridge maintained [Protective Spirit] [Dwayna's Kiss] & [Dismiss Condition], disabled Extinguish because it was messing up my grove I was in, because it would remove conditions I was using to remove to heal him up, killed off the 3 rangers at the top, had a couple of party clears but no matter still have a conset and a power stone to use, killed of the crelics before the necred horsemen because I was sick of them healing the horsemen, then polished him off and still have yet to use the conset.

The rest of the team was still on the other end of the bridge safe as can be for the time being, Rotting Scale same way [Spiteful Spirt].

Rotscale, ran up to up him started beating on him with my sword doing -1 -2 dmg, while the rest of the H/H did the dmg, [Protective Spirit][Dismiss Condition] on myself and maintained [Healers Boon] and [Heal Party] when required, you might need to [Dismiss Condition] on yourself from time to time, had 1 party death while I was taking him down (due to me being dazed and not noticing it), that's when I activated the conset, because he was half health and I'll be damned if he was going to beat me this time, took about 12mins to kill him.

It was also a run of firsts my first scalp of Rotscale (not even killed him in normal mode yet), Elite Ranger Tome, and first time I've ever used a conset.

It can indeed by done with Sabway; I can vouch for it because I just did it by more or less the same method. The key is that you don't have to be afraid of party wipes for two reasons: first, there's a statue of Balthazar right at the entrance of the island, so if you're willing to pay 100g per 2% of DP, you can wipe it off easily; and second, once you get rid of Rotscale's annoying friends, you can keep pressuring him, without taking tons of damage, until he dies. So DP isn't a disaster anyway.

I'm not saying it was easy, but all I had to do was change some skills on MY bar. The Sabway heroes were fine, though I'm sure [spoil victor] would have helped on one of the necros. Anyway, I swapped my elite for [skull crack], and also added [plague touch], as many on here have recommended. Both worked great once I finally got there. (They were hardly ideal for Talmark Wilderness and all the other places you have to slog through first.) Getting rid of the other rotting dragons wasn't much fun, but they did die one by one with concentrated fire, and then after a wipe on my part Rotscale was left by his lonesome. ... Resurrected and came back for the final kill. Interrupting him constantly and always sending him back his dazed condition with [plague touch], I made him lose health slowly but steadily until he finally croaked.

Oh, and I left from Temple of Ages and took an eight-man team, including Claude, Alesia, and two other henchies. Claude and Alesia were crucial. And I rezoned a couple of times because I didn't like Rotscale's spawn points. It makes a huge difference if he's at the back end of the island, allowing you to pick off the skeleton bowmasters and necrid horsemen and damned clerics without aggroing the real nasty guys.

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i did this yesterday with a few alliance mates, this was the team:

3x necro heroes (sabs), the mm had ps to spam
1x hb monk
1x mimic ursan monk who was in monk for rotscale
1x barrage
2x ursan, both casted PI then charged in

it wasnt a team where we spent a lot of time on thinking what we needed as u can see, i just said anyone up for rotscale vq in alliance channel, 3 mins later we were off

we boosted to +10dp when we entered the area and didnt have a single death... we took down the minions pretty fast, then rotscale died slow but steady, we didnt have trouble at all

Me and my brother did it with just randomly setup heroes
we vanquished area with only 1 full team death(enemys spawn behind and came behind us .... )

just take some cash with u and get morale boost from the statue before bridge to rotscale

try pull the enemys down the steps and let ranged eles kill

both me and my brother were ursan at the time i was r5 and my brother r3

I just killed rotscale using the Duo monk rotscale build on PvXwiki

Me as Mo/N and a Hero as Mo/R

I took 2 other heroes and 4 hench to vanquish the rest of the area.

A standard, unmodified 600/smite duo can do it as well, and vanquish the rest of the area. Even if you're not a monk, you can have a pair of heroes do it with some micro.

I took him out two days ago with an SV nec hero, healing from a monk hero and PS from an E/Mo hero (PS from anyone will do, i just stuffed it on my earth nuker hero)....kindof like the Duncan The Black method in Slavers Exile.

I respawned a few times to get Rotscales group away from the rangers, etc... then used PI to clear up the rangers one by one, pull the clerics down (as they seem to like to get right in your face), then kill them and take out the necrid with whatever you have. I was being a bit careful to avoid accidental aggro.

When it was just Rotscales group i used PI, and splinter barraging to take down the Rotting Dragons making sure i had PS, Life Bond and guardian on me at all times (and even then i nearly died a couple of times). Once Rotscale was left i ran like a girl to break aggro then sent in the SV nec to do the business. Once he got to his last 500HP or so i just took everyone into range, hit PI again and let him nuke my group. Job done.

The hardest part was getting past the imps in Talmark Wilderness with that setup. It wasn't pretty......nasty little buggers

can be hero henchies, My Son have improved since then and can be done with no deaths(propper flagging of heroes.......required for that)

plus better Monk hero build(HB), Better SS set-up, and take a SV instead of MM, he acctually forgot rotscale was there while doing this Vanquish(very lucky to get it done he said-the Heroes and henchies took alot of the DP from Tahl Mark wilderness,due to crap monk build at the time), he took me back on my ranger(BHA) and i took 2 echo nukers, plus my healer monk(WoH at the time)


NO Micro manage needed either

A cheer up to people afraid of Rottie: just got him with hero/henchmen, so you can do it too.

Adapted my team to a Protective Bond build based on info of Wiki's talkpage, bought blessings at shrine, overall VERY effective. Hardest part was getting to Majesty's Rest, the Fire Imps are really nasty.

It was pretty gimmicky because as an Ele I ran mostly Necro spells. That's because I needed one Monk hero for Prot Bond, one Necro hero for SS and another Necro for Spoil Victor. As I decided to go add a BHA Ranger for extra safety, I played the SV myself (Hex with SV, roll face on keyboard to spam the rest, refresh SV, repeat). Attributes are all pretty straigthforward, mine being 12+1+1 E. Storage and 12 Blood Magic.

Basically bonded myself, Jin and Livia, the three of us did all damage. Talkhora stood back to keep bonds up, and the henchies helped with healing and Blood is Power.

Screenie including builds and flagging: