Vanquishing Cantha

I'm at 23/33 so far using just henchies. Still a third to go but I've cleared Mourning Veil Falls, Tahnakai and Rhea's Crater so I feel like I'm on the home straight

Only ones I'm worried about is Raisu and Sunjang. Not sure how H/H will hold up against mixed Shiro'ken groups. Any tips?

Oh and for Wavecrest in Rhea's I found starting from Seafarer's Rest meant he was walking towards you. So you can choose where and when to fight him. Just watch he doesen't sneak up at you.

I henched Raisu Palace hard mode mission with 10 minutes to spare. The explorable wasn't too bad either. I believe that is the other area that I went to with a geotank build. Lots of corners to bodyblock at, so holding aggro isn't too tough. I slipped in an enchant removal too to remove sliver armour when necessary. It was slow, but quite fun. Nice drops there too.

Sunjiang was a beast. Oddly, some of the non-boss groups are harder than the boss groups due to positioning and group composition. One group of 2 rits, 1 warrior, 3 assassins and 1 elementalist nearly stopped my group completing it. Take it slow, and don't take any chances when luring. Try to vanquish it when you have favour, so you can use blessings, and it'll probably be okay.

Silent Surf is easy. The hardest part is the Saltspray/Jade Kirin mobs who are particularly deadly to henchman. Amadis... i don't even know what happened to him when i vanquished it. We saw him fighting, killed a mob, he ran off into the distance and we never saw him or his corpse ever again. 2 bosses in the northern section have a nice scrap so you can just sit back and watch, the victor was the Warrior boss... and 1 other Outcast... so he was fragbait.

If your going with real people try to get a Trapper for anything involving Shiro'ken and Afflicted. If theres 1 thing that completely owns them its traps, AoE Dazed/Blind and other mass conditions usually makes damn sure they can't scratch you, also makes the Shiro'ken Eles into kittens when they can't get a single spell off. They're normally in places that you can easily lure into choke points or along walls/corners so they're very easy to group up.

Thanks for the tips guys, my vanquisher is a mesmer so I could potentially go make a pseudo-earth tank. I think I'll try and use my mesmer-iffic skills first though.

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I vanquished all of Cantha with heroes and hench playing as an ele (Blinding Surge air). For me, the hardest areas were Tahnnakai Temple, Mourning Veil Falls, and Morostav Trail (because of the warrior boss who lurks in that alcove with a really nasty mob of earth, summer, and spirit wardens). I described how I managed Tahnnakai Temple in the "Jade Brotherhood" thread in this forum (sorry, I don't know how to link it here). For Mourning Veil Falls and Morostav Trail, the biggest problem that I had with heroes/hench is that they stand around in Churning Earth and die quickly. So I took Dunkoro as a Life Barrier bonder, along with Danika and Prof. Gai, MoW as SS, Olias as MM, and finally Devona and Lukas. The bonding helps with the Churning Earth damage, but mostly I just ran around a lot and tried to keep them out of the damage areas.

Raisu Palace I found not too much harder than normal mode. I had been worried that the monks, rits, and monk boss would outheal any damage I could do, but it turned out not so. The monk boss's group can be lured from him and even broken apart. I did not use any bonding there, and only the two hench monks, along with SS, MM, and Dom Mes heroes, with Devona and Lukas. The Shiroken eles often can be dispatched before they get a chance to do too much damage to Devona/Lukas with Sliver Armor.

For Sunjiang, I did use Dunkoro as a bonder, along with Tai and Gai. I found the hardest part to be the Mesmer boss and his gang - there are two or three groups there that sometimes just will not separate. I went there as directly as I could, died a few times, but ultimately took care of that whole mob. I basically then worked off DP throughout the rest of the map. The ele boss's group can be pulled two at a time with a bow - very easy. As others have said, the terrain can be used for creative pulling (although I did that to separate mobs, rather than for traditional tanking).

For Silent Surf, the same basic story - Dunkoro as a bonder, two hench monks, SS and MM heroes, Talon and Daeman. The main thing that I had to worry about was again the H/H standing around in the Saltsprays' AOE spells (I forget what it is now, but it can take the hench down quickly if they stand around). So with me as the puller, I got them to waste those skills on me away from the group, then ran back to my team and the Saltsprays fell easily. I gave MoW an enchant removal for Miella, which made her no threat (I took out her group first, saved her till they were gone). Kenrii's group can be pulled apart. Watch for his group using Backfire on you or your casters. Also, for the eastern side in the Rit Lord's area, the fish groups will follow you for a long, long way, so they can be pulled far out of the patrol paths of other groups, which could be a problem if multiple groups are aggroed.

In Rhea's Crater, same exact setup. I started at the Mines and took out Milthuran first, then ran directly to Wavecrest before he got to any other groups. Again, enchant removal to take out his Aura of Restoration or whatever that is that keeps him alive so well. Once that dropped, he went down fairly easily, as well. The rest of the area was no problem. Blinding and weakness make the oni and the carp a breeze.

Outcast Rits who use VwK present a problem. I mostly ran into them in Unwaking Waters, but there are a few in Rhea's Crater, too, I think. The H/H will kill themselves on it. I don't really have a good solution, except to run around a lot while VwK is active (so that the H/H won't suicide on it), and then hit hard and hope to take them out before they can reactivate it.

Panjiang Peninsula I was able to get on my second try. The first try I failed in the Crimson Skull camp at the southern tip - just too many rits and monks in the spawn. The next time I tried it, there might have been one or two fewer rits/monks in that mob, and I was sure to go in there with a full complement of healthy minions. We were able to sweep through the area much more easily. My team was me as B-Surge air ele, Dunkoro as a basic healing build, nothing special, MoW as SS, and Olias as MM.

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oops, double post. I realize this is a smiting monk, but it doesn't look like he using any offense spelsl, unless he casts reversal of damage on himself, but I'm not sure if that counters the effects of Peace and Harmony.

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i had elonas vanquisher only with heros, but in chanta i have some problems the jade brotherhood is pretty hard...big aoe dmg ...
btw i suggest one build for all who hasn't team m8s
heros:
razah:spirit spammer(full protective with shadowsong and lord ritual)
Ele: sf and a ward for melee attack
MM: with fg and deathnova

you: u must be a tank, whatever u are i'm playing as ranger (board head/wirling/dryders defense)

Bot: 2 monks(with the help of razahzah do their job)
1mesmer (interrupter) o Daeman
1dervish/1 war guardian

only try to find place where u can tank a bit (with the minions and u) and pull small groups
(for any suggestion contact me ingame , even if u need team m8s...)
p.s. im sorry for my bad engl..

I finally finished Panjiang Peninsula. I feel like a total noob after having spent over 2 hours trying to vanquish this area. Jesus.

I had one protector monk, one healer monk and Razah for spirits, some healing, and also Diversion.

Diversion is really for crucial Panjiang Peninsula. It can disable monks easily, and the area has a lot of spell/skill spammers.

I did die and so did my heroes. A few times. But that was because of bad aggro.