HM skale farming!

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

As promised
This isn't a guide, really, more of a 'what would YOU do?'
This is what I tried, but I'm gonna see if my ele can make more of an impact.
[skill]Shield Of Judgment[/skill][skill]Protective Spirit[/skill][skill]Shielding Hands[/skill][skill]Shield Of Absorption[/skill][skill]Arcane Echo[/skill][skill]Blessed Aura[/skill][skill]Balthazar's Spirit[/skill][skill]essence bond[/skill]
That's what I used, which is basically a mutilation of the build I used for jade farming. Just pass the first scale group and get the second and third together, start killing. Go to the big mob (make sure you keep enchants up when getting slowed by all those eles) and slowly (it's a 1-2 minute process) aggro the entire area. Keep up your enchants, and cast echo+SoJ so you have a constant SoJ going. Energy shouldn't be a problem. Make sure you slice one skale at a time, so that they stay there attacking you.

Epic fun, gonna see if a skill set works to kill thema ll at once with my ele.

T N Player

T N Player

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

The Bay Area

W/

a mo/d can farm them easily and the undead in the first city too

tuna-fish_sushi

tuna-fish_sushi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

California

E/A

build is so old it hurts my eyes and it is much easier going monk/necro and dragging the scale to the top right corner of the upside down U shape. They get stuck and die before even 1 SS wears out which on my monk/necro is about 18 seconds.

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

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Well it's new to me. So I'll do it and you can just watch while I get all my gold drops.

lol

Vexed

Vexed

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2006

Mo/

Yeah, it's a well known farm spot, I make quite a lot of money there myself. There are lots of builds that can handle this area... nothing really new here.

Try the build out in Issnur Isles for a lot more mobs to kill and a change of pace from first city

ph0bolus

ph0bolus

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

TN

W/Mo

Thanks for the build..time to make some money before GW: EN comes out.

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ph0bolus
Thanks for the build..time to make some money before GW: EN comes out. Make a better build for it, it's not that hard.

These things do crap damage, I could probably one hit nuke them all if I figured out a way to get past all the ele and necro skale.

raps4life

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

where is this?

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

The First City (Night fall, on noob island)

Goldfish

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2007

I thought Essence Bond doesn't give energy if you aren't taking damage?

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

All those little '0's are considered damage.

DarkEnzanArikado

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2007

Essence Bond triggers when SoA reduces the damage to zero, not when SH reduces it to Zero.

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

erm, I always get energy from essence bond with hands. Maybe not, and I just think I am from balths spirit.

Ares Ainia

Ares Ainia

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2007

Edinbugger, Scotland

New Order Of Blackhearts [NooB]

Rt/Me

yeh, i tried using Essence bond with my 55 necro (with SH's and SOA) i only ever got the energy from Balth =(

I still need to complete NF before i can do any of this

gutted

>.<

Casie

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2007

were is this

ekamdu

ekamdu

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Holland

Legion of Sacred Light

Mo/

oh yeah srry about reviving a 9month old thread XD lol
anyway i find this a quite nice farm... about 5 mins and on average, always 1 or 2 golds...
good for my wisdom title

Mister Mentalist

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2007

hmm how do i go about doing this build with monk or necro is it a 55 build ? where is this place ? map please

Abonai Laguna

Abonai Laguna

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Isle of the Dead [CoC] GH

Company Of Corpses [CoC]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mister Mentalist
hmm how do i go about doing this build with monk or necro is it a 55 build ? where is this place ? map please From Jokanur Diggings, go into the left to Fahranur

Mister Mentalist

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2007

is that in nightfall or factions ?

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

Hey! my beautiful thread is back!

acerbity

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2007

don't suppose you found an ele alternative yet? ^^

??Ripskin

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

Well now that we have eotn I could possibly do swiftness+mist form.. but no, I'm kinda bored of farming at the moment.

Mister Mentalist

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2007

where is this place

AleBuzzi

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

Tyria

Guildless | Looking for GvG one.

Mo/E

Damn, i been reading a lot of guides

Actually, farmed a lot b4 but now everymonsters go away from my SoJ or SS or Whatever i try -_-

Doubefoot

Doubefoot

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2007

In a cardboard box

Guild of Drunken Masters [Lush]

W/

Hey, could someone post a map up the run for me if its not too much to ask? Thanks.

roninuta

roninuta

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2007

Texas

Army of Lightness [AoL]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by AleBuzzi
Actually, farmed a lot b4 but now everymonsters go away from my SoJ or SS or Whatever i try -_- That was the NF update, they kite.

I have found that using my 55 in the same area, I stuck with Healing Breeze, especially since Mystic Reg got nerfed. I also use shielding hands, which gives energy, damage goes to zero, and HB can be used to counter the bleeding and deep wound, which thanks to EotN, I smite, giving that extra 60 points of damage to the guys already taking 50 per hit with SoJ. Which is in the area, so you can get them as they kite.

Just my 2 cents.

Also - try this out, die once, then clear out your DP, the drops have been better for me, of course I also rotate out my farming areas, never farm the same place twice in a row.

My Lipgloss is Cool

My Lipgloss is Cool

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2007

My Computer

Band Of The H A W K

P/Mo

That was HM too...Only three monsters will stay attacking you while damaged...the others will run away and heal.

With SS though, there is a wide V shape of two fallen bricks. If you get it right, they won't be able to run out while SS is hitting all of them. For some reason, they won't turn right to run out of it...Just keep attacking the one with SS or he'll stop and your damage stops

Mr. Undisclosed

Mr. Undisclosed

I phail

Join Date: Mar 2007

Phailville

D/

330 rits>this and the actual city in HM

ekamdu

ekamdu

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Holland

Legion of Sacred Light

Mo/

come on.. you ppl dont know how to handle kiting?

My Lipgloss is Cool

My Lipgloss is Cool

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2007

My Computer

Band Of The H A W K

P/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by ekamdu
come on.. you ppl dont know how to handle kiting?
Quote:
Originally Posted by My Lipgloss is Cool
With SS though, there is a wide V shape of two fallen bricks. If you get it right, they won't be able to run out while SS is hitting all of them. Hmmmm...Did 'ja READ the posts before yours?

ekamdu

ekamdu

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Holland

Legion of Sacred Light

Mo/

no not really... why?

btw no need really to get into the V shaped thingy...

My Lipgloss is Cool

My Lipgloss is Cool

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2007

My Computer

Band Of The H A W K

P/Mo

Why? Because you made a comment about people's abilities to deal with kiting, when just a few posts earlier I talked about bodyblocking them.

Also, I mention the V thing because it's the easiest spot that I've been able to find in that little spot

MoreArrows

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2008

R/

If this is purely for the Skales, getting the skales stuck in the rocks beside the enclosement and then casting SS is the fastest way to go.

weretoad

weretoad

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2007

league of the elite

Me/

lol i was trying this but my build would scatter them and they would wait off to the side until they were health was back up. i wasn't able to kill them so i ran to the smashing anvil waited underneath it til it killed us all lol, easy sunspear farm. over 40 points.