Glacial Stone Farming

If the build works, great. I may try it.

What if I use the hourglass for the +15 energy? Shouldn't that be enough? I don't have a blood wand or Shelboh's Gaze right now.


~Works like a charm! Best to fight them one at a time. I got a Glacial Stone and Top Left Map Piece lol. And I just killed my third Spectral.

~Two more glacial stones in a row! hey if you need the map piece, you can have it.

~Another stone! Seriously! This rules! And I'm using an Hour Glass staff.

~I got a gold drop! Also when doing this, remember to keep Melandru's Resistance up. Don't be tempted to use a run skill to run to a Spectral cause that will cancel out Melandru's. Just take the time to jog. With Melandru's up, you'll see the cap where your health will be at its lowest and you won't die. Take on the Spectral's one at a time. They're easy to pull away from others.

~18 stones and i think 6 in storage. I have about 1/5 of what I need for the Glacial Gauntlets. I just have to do the amount I did about 4 more times.

Grats on coming up with the build! I use a variation of that myself, picked up from a build posted by a helpful member of The Ranger's Beacon, forum name Being

15 exp
11 ws
10 blood

melandru's resilience
vamp touch
vamp bite
awaken the blood
signet of agony
angorodon' gaze
dodge
zojun's haste

- Awaken The Blood raises your blood (and curse) magic to 12, and the only life sac skill you have is Sig of Agony anyway. As Awaken... is an enchantment, it also benefits from you using a Totem Axe/ Razajan's Fervor main weapon.
- Sig of Agony for free AoE damage, plus the bleeding helps fuel MR.
- Angorodon's Gaze for a free life steal every 5 seconds Useful too for pulling faraway vaettirs to come and join the fun.

This build can take on 6 or 7, maybe more vaettirs at once. I usually take them in two or three batches (jogging with MR on, just like Linksys' advice), the group near the entrance from Bjora Marches and the other group near where you enter from your run.

You'd want them to hex you and give you conditions for MR. Sig of Agony and Angorodon's Gaze can help if you have energy issues spamming Vamp Bite and Vamp Touch.

Weapons used are a caster weapon and the +27e / -1 e collector blood knife. The Hourglass Staff will do fine.

Before I found this build I was using the standard toucher build with Offering of Blood as its elite. That went well too, but you can only take on no more than 2 with its build. The MR toucher helped me zoom to 100 stones, and I now have the gloves on my ranger And yes, the occasional gold drop for me too.

Hmm I wonder if people will trade me a Destroyer core for a Glacial Stone...

I have been farming those with a soul leech necro, works wonders i have gotten four pairs of glacial gauntlets. I just like to farm them cause it's different to the other farm builds nowa days

Grats on copy pasting from GW Online.

http://guildwars.incgamers.com/forum...d.php?t=464979

Edit: If you didn't see that guide before, I guess GJ

That thread started with the same build but it would be easy to think of that one. Melandrus is common to deal with hexes and the rest is run skills and the touch skills. Avanger added two more that makes energy management easier.

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oo time to get my gloves.

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is the run possible on hard mode????

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I got there with my 330hp build, and there is just waaay to many in HM. There has got to be around 50 of them suckahz just in one lil area, not to mention the ones in the rest of the area I didn't get to see... I ended up dying from too much aggro... although I was able to tank them for a bit, but my lag killed me.

A couple of questions...

That area is the only area with the Spectral Vaettirs, yes?

And maybe it is me but I can't seem to get more than one per pass through them.
As a side note does it make a difference if you go out with a full party or not?
I never understood that.

LMK and THX

-Todd

If you go out with a full party you'll be fine, just flag the henchies out of your radar range (make sure their names are grayed out) and you'll get all the drops, but you still split gold. Of course, it's easy to run there without agro from Sifhalla.

Also, if you farm them with anything considered "AoE damage" (SoJ, SS, VwK - basically anything that can hit multiple targets at once), it lowers the drop rate. The touchie ranger build seems to get me 3-5 stones per pass, as you're only damaging one enemy at a time. Little tedious if you're used to mass farming, but you can tell the difference in drops right away.

Still if you just aggro all 15 and wipe them out together with Vengeful Was Kanhei, you can complete your run 10x faster than touching them to death. So even if it's 10x lower drops it's still worth it.

Ranger/Mesmer works great for me heres the code and find a nice staf 20/20 and dont hit em

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enjoy have fun

How much is a glacial stone nowadays ?

i have been getting 600-700 gold per a stone easy

anyone had luck with hm yet?

The Obsidian Flesh Elementalist core farmer works in HM, although the vaettir have a rather ridiculous resistance to earth damage (vastly reducing the effectiveness of sliver armor).

Glyph of Swiftness
Obsidian Flesh
Sliver Armor
Aura of Restoration
Stoneflesh Aura
Balthazar's Spirit
Optional (Crystal Wave is nice)
Optional (Usually a run skill, but another damage skill would be fine too)

Just max earth and put the rest in ES.

Clearing the area takes a bit because of the ridiculous earth resistance, but I typically pick up 5-6 stones per clearing.

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600-smite also works for HM.

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A really simple build to use is just Backfire and Energy Burn @12 Dom. The rest is up to you but a running skill and a self heal work well to speed things up. Very much doubt this would work in HM but in NM it's easy. Also, some kind of energy management helps to speed things up aswell.

Just take them on one at a time and hit them with Backfire, ideally staying out of their aggro until it's finished casting. Wait until they have cast 4 spells, or 5 spells if they use Ether Feast then finish them off with Energy Burn when their health is almost gone (they won't cast again to trigger BF). All you gotta do is stay alive which isn't hard 1 v 1 because they only use degen and apply DW so long as you don't attack them.

One run takes about 7 mins once you get the timing right and you'll get 4-7 stones per run easy. Not the fastest build to use but pretty much anyone can use it....no elite required.

As an ele i take Storm Djinns Haste, AoR, Glyph of Restoration and GoLE as the optional skills for running, healing and e-management but really any skills available that do the same job will work. You don't even need any other skills, they just make the farm a bit faster and safer.

I'm using E/Me build same as for Wind Raiders outside Rata Sum , works very good in HM i pull them all at once and finish , usually get 5-9 stones per run + 3-4 golds.

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Hmm, im now doing all 60 in 5mins, getting ana average of 1 gold a run and 10 stones.