Cold as Ice: need some help on a quest please

For me, all the solo missions of EotN were easily completed by turning myself into a spirit casting ritualist. The tournament, the griffon, the bear club, it always worked for me.

Switch secondary to ritualist, all attributes go into communing and channeling. Use a +energy staff. Skillset:

Skills 1,2 and 3: Attack spirits Pain, Bloodsong, Vampirism. Long durations, long range, lots of damage.

Skill 4: Painful bond: double the damage from the spirits.

Skill 5: Summon spirits: mostly used for the tournament (so you can cast the spirits first and get them all in range at the same time)

Skill 6&7: Shadowsong and Disenchantment: these are primarily used in the tournament to deal with enchant tanks and heavy melee. With painful bond, they become a secondary source of damage.

Skill 8: Ursan blessing. Optional, really, but once you've put up all the spirits, you might as well get this for added survivability, extra ranged damage, knockdown and some added speed for dodging.

Set up the 3 main spirits, add a conditional spirit or painful bond, turn on Ursan blessing, then keep knocking the griffon down and damaging it.

^ Please note that the quest has obviously been changed.

Has anyone tried Consume Soul with this after the new update? How about Gaze of Fury?

PvE skill Dwarven Stability help extend your stance skill.Also bring a shutdown/interupt skill like disrupting chop for some of those annoying spirit like shadow song and dissonace.Just intteurpt the binding ritual skill is not enough since this guy got Ritual lord.

Maybe tired the Unlimit KD build Brawling Headbutt(Another PvE skill)+
Dragon slash + Fail.This should prevent Grffon to spawn any spirits.

Trying the spirit method as a warrior is well and good, but once you are able to summon 3-5 spirits you are toast on energy and your regen is so slow that you are neutered for a good while, during which the stupid griffon does his thing. I even went so far as to do a +27 -1 and a totem axe in order to get 50ish energy and then had to switch into debt to do anything about regen. In the end, it is definately not a good deal for a warrior, and interupts really dont help much with him having rit lord. One of the things i did was Ursan Blessing which helped considerably because you are able to not worry about blind while using the "melee" skill. as well as being able to interupt him

not sure if htis will work for you but what i did was hit him with interrupts and crippled him then used an energy degen..he cant cast spirts without energy

ok, got him this time, ty for the stance tank idea Kale. took 1 try.
i used -- Grenths balance, Defensive stance, Shield stance, Bonettis defence, Deadly riposte, Riposte, Final thrust, Heal sig.
time your heal sig around half health, while in shield stance or under bonettis defense. it did a good jub blocking the spirits with enough time for me to move from their range while keeping the griffin on me.
if u get really low on health and look in danger of dying, hit grenths balance, then bonettis, then heal sig, then your ripostes. gl all and thx again.

I would like to note that I did this today on my new Rt (duh) but anyone should be able to with the same build tho of course 2regen classes will have more problem.

Wanderlust - Dissonance - Anguish - Pain - Gaze of Fury - Painful Bond - Summon Spirits - <Signet of Capture ;p>

Summon Spirits and Gaze of Fury is key. He can't kite from spirits if the spirits move.

2 skill kill...

Toxicity
Poison Arrow (elite)

use a longbow and run a little if he starts to move towards you.

ok, so it's boring, but it's guaranteed to work.

I was able to do it with the d/rt spirit spike finally.

Dissonance is the key and maybe Move Like a Dwarf.

Vampirism, Bloodsong, Shadowsong, Pain, Dissonance, Summon Spirits, Painful Bond, Move Like a Dwarf.

Cast all your spirits outside his range. Get up to him, get his agro and hit summon spirits. Dissonance will keep him interrupted on the initial set while you do painful bond. A bit of luck will help. Move like a dwarf to help keep him from moving while trying to spike him, either that or use "Finish Him" instead.

I beat him as a warrior with a pretty standard grenths riposte warrior build.

Grenths Balance, Both Ripostes, Dolyaks, Healsig, Necrosis, Bonnettis , Final thrust ~ at least thats what I think I used.

Just stay out of the way of dissonance and its gg

This is another one of those quests that silly easy for some professions and much harder for others.

My Rit tore him apart converting his own spirits with Gaze of Fury and dropped a few of my own spirits.

My war had an easy time to, just crippled and interupted him. Gaze of Fury was good to have on him too, took out the shadowsong spirit then just interupted him from recasting it.

Yeah, unfortunately it's a lot harder for a Derv to take him down now. This is what I run, and I've gotten him to barely a sliver of life before he Ritual Lords and drops the more annoying spirits first.

Earth Prayers 12
Tactics 12


1. Auspicious Parry
2. Riposte
3. Deadly Riposte
4. Mirage Cloak
5. Vital Boon
6. Mystic Regeneration
7. Faithful Intervention
8. Thrill of Victory

It's just a matter of luck mostly. I've tinkered around with a lot of other builds but this is the most reliable thus far. Oh, and don't even try to 130 him. Stupid Dissonance.....;_;

Why you hate us Dervs Anet? Why?

Don't tell me I have to go and cap Grenth's Balance for this as I am having a hard time with my Warrior and Ranger tried with apply an interrupts and used cripshot.The thing is these spirits just keep interrupting me asand I used decent build on my warrior with savage slash,disrupting blow,sever,gash,galrath slash and skull crack and my Ranger dshot.savage shot.cripshot and apply poison as well as lighting reflexes.I can understand why most HAers complain about Rit Spikes.

I really get interrupted when using my healing signet.This thing as way to many spirits on it.

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