Halloween Farming ~ Decayed Orr Emblems: Gates of Kryta (BIG IMAGES)

hmmmm i may have to try this instead of the run out side of bergan hot springs, tho i think i'll do it in hardmode for the gold drops too..^^

Hard Mode takes a while, the rangers die quick , but the melee take a while because of scatter

When HM first came out I did that run hundereds of times, but not for emblems. I would take it a little further though and continue around the bend there and not stop until I got back to the boss that's across the gorge near where you start. Basically travelling in a big "U" shape. Got some pretty sweet dead bows and sephis axes from the run too. It's just too bad the prices on them spiraled into the toilet 'cuz every man and his dog was doing that run.

i dont know, but isnt smiting faster?
holy damage will do double damage
55 monk?

@Jade For normal drops this run sucks now, but it's still a good spot for emblems

@Ayame Ftw: Smiting is a bit faster, but the run to get there takes a bit longer, 55hp smiter is maybe 10-20 sec faster, but I think 55hp is a bit less fun, and it kills my drops

Lol you blacked out your character name (as well as the entire chat box) but it says your IGN in the very left column of this thread! ^^

has every halloween event has used decayed orr emblems? Is it possible there might be a different item to collect this year?

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Has there been an announcement or confirmation that there will be a Halloween event this year?

Last year for Halloween and Wintersday, I just farmed Termite Legs and those things the Plant guys drop for my holiday items. I just ran around with a ranger with run skills and one shot or two shot killed the monsters I needed to.

Well, I am not forcing you to farm this way, I am just telling everyone what's my best spot , this spot works for me.

Yet it isn't confirmed there will be a Halloween event, but I think there will be.

But there is a Halloween Art Contest, so probably there will be an event

You know you can just click the little arrow sign on the far end of chat box to close it up, instead of making yourself look like a ignorant asshole?

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I think Stealth's reply is rather harsh. Anyways if I find myself farming for holiday items and get bored, I may try this one out too.

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you can do this very easy with triple chop, cyclone axe and a heal too hehe.
might wanna shrink the pictures a bit btw, i'm sitting on a big screen monitor here and i find them a bit too big. try thumbnails

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Takes 3mins per run.

How many of these emblems do we need? I farm bergen all the time and I have merched at least 2000 of these

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Nolani ftw.

Also I have had some really good luck with hot springs about 40 per run.

Nice guide, but this warrior build I think is rather slow, I suggest running something to the tune of:

Axe Mastery: 12+3+1
Healing: 8
Strength: 8+1
Smiting: 2

Triple Chop{E}
Cyclone Axe
Whirling Attack
Bonetti's Defense
Sprint
Enraging Charge or Vigorous Spirit(if LV isn't keeping you alive)
Judge's Insight
Live Vicariously

With this you should be doing high 80s+ cause of their low AL seeing as they are between level 11-16 and you are dealing holy damage, AND the hellhounds use frenzy alot . I haven't done this run in awhile but I believe this is the fastest run out there cause you don't stop for knockdown(SoJ) and you deal Holy damage that they don't run from.

i do the run with the same build (with vigorous sprit...it helps any possible screw-ups) and u can get it done within 5 mins if u get the aggro right. The only problem is they all die pretty much at the same time, which reduces some of the drops.

i don't see the pics

The pics were removed due to size problems. They may or may not be put back up.

But anyway, these are nice builds. I had a Mist Form ele build for this at one point, but I lost it.

A plain Nuker build does this whole Mission plus the bonus.

Attunement, AoR, BoC, Immolate, MS, Rotgorts, Firestorm and Phoenix is what I use. Kills everything fast. Just make sure that most of the time you stand behind the rock walls to avoid the ranger poison.

Hell, been doing this since I GOT to Kryta over 2 years ago. LOL

KANE

Does anyone have the run? on vid or mapped?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...wars+f arming

EDIT: Pictures are working again, Dervish build added, will test W/Mo build.

EDIT 2: W/Mo tested and Added (Harder to play then w/rt , isn't faster

This works in hard mode with a hero bonder.

[skill]Conviction[/skill][skill]Mystic Regeneration[/skill][skill]Eremite's Attack[/skill][skill]Mystic Sweep[/skill][skill]Whirling Attack[/skill][skill]Mystic Vigor[/skill][skill]Eternal Aura[/skill][skill]Avatar of Melandru[/skill]

Just make sure you kill the Skeleton Mesmers before you spawn too many Grasping Ghouls; otherwise you get killed by Fragility.

A safer run is to loop around instead of going directly to the house, and taking out the ranged mob before you spawn the mob behind Oink's house. Takes longer but you also get to kill a necro boss on the way and hope for an elite tome.

Agreed. The W/Mo is definitely harder to use, and doesn't seem to be faster. Not to mention it has a bit of a problem with degen.

Bah sorry I haven't tested it in some time, it's just i personally hate the W/Rt builds that have a warrior's main damage source from a spell.... If you want that just play an ele. But I did run that type build pre factions, i think it used to be Gladiator's Defense + Cyclone Axe + Live Vicariously + Vigorous Spirit + Bonetti's Defense and mabye Healing Breeze... but I tried to adapt to include new expansions skills guess it just isn't as productive as it used to be when there were 6 classes and only 90 elites etc. Sorry about that

EDIT: Here are some builds for people who don't have a warrior/ele/monk/dervish at this mission in Tyria. All of these builds at 1 time or another have been posted somewhere but I'm trying to bring them all together so they can be seen in one place. The mesmer one is untested by me because I lack a slot for a PvE mesmer, but would love to hear if it works, looking at the enchantment durations and the degen facing you the Necro/Mesmer builds should provide an extra 3 pips of regen while at the max degen from the undead in the area.

NECROMANCER-55Necro:

Curses: 12+3+1
Healing Prayers: 9
Protection Prayers: 9
Soul Reaping: 3+3
Death Magic: 0+3
Blood Magic 0+3

Protective Spirit
Healing Breeze
Shield of Absorption
Shielding Hands
Spiteful Spirit{E}
Mending
Balthazar's Spirit
Essence Bond(Haven't tested but drop this for Reckless haste for faster kills if you can hold your energy fine with this build)

RANGER-Holy Barrager:

Marksmanship: 12+3+1
Expertise: 9+1
Healing Prayers: 9
Smiting Prayers: 3

Barrage{E}
Judge's Insight
Lightning Reflexes
Whirling Defense
Vigorous Spirit
Healing Breeze
Mending
Live Vicariously

You will only have 1 pip of energy regen so a Zealous Bowstring would be extremely helpful. When starting this run grab Oink(by clicking on him) and run to the location behind the house and start shooting the Hellhound, Oink should run down and attack the hellhound in doing so he will most likely trigger the grasping ghouls, if not you will trigger them when you run down later. If done correctly oink should body block and cause the undead to focus on him, and him being invincible you could stay at this all day(provided you are attacking something otherwise i believe he looses interest). If any spawn behind Oink or get past him use Vigorous Spirit, then Lightning Reflexes then Whirling then Lightning again when it recharges... If you do not get aggro HB/VS will not be necesarry to cast just spam Barrage. A Zealous Bow of Enchanting with 15% while enchanting would be superb for this build. After saying all this ranger is probably one of the slower farms because they dont have any major AoE skills other than barrage but if this is your only PvE character at GoK you have the ability to farm!

MESMER-55IW Mesmer:

Illusion Magic: 12+3+1
Healing Magic: 9
Protection Magic: 9
Fast Casting: 3+3
Inspiration Magic: 1+3
Domination Magic: 0+3

Protective Spirit
Healing Breeze
Shield of Absorption
Shielding Hands
Illusionary Weaponry{E}
Mending
Balthazar's Spirit
Essence Bond or Channeling(As with the necro build if your energy is fine with just balthazar's Spirit bring Ancestral/Sympathetic Visage or Soothing Images)

I suggest carrying a Scythe of Enchanting for this build so you may hit 3 mobs at once. Other than that I would love to hear feedback about this and whether it works in this setting.

RITUALIST-55Rit:

Channeling Magic: 12+3+1
Healing Magic: 9
Protection Magic: 9
Spawning Power: 3+3

Protective Spirit
Healing Breeze
Shield of Absorption
Shielding Hands
Splinter Weapon
Mending
Balthazar's Spirit
Essence Bond(As with the above builds drop this for Ancestor's Rage)

Wield a Scythe of Enchanting and this should take down all things quickly because you should be dealing around 150 damage via splinter weapon x3(for scythe attack).

Another build that could be run is dropping Splinter weapon for Vengeful was Khanhei{E} and moving all your attribute points to Restoration from Channeling.

Another build for ritualist that works in hard mode is RezDoGG's 330 Rit found at this post: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10175262

ASSASSIN-SF/Sliver Armor:

Shadow Arts: 12+3+1
Earth Magic: 12
Deadly Arts: 3+1

Shadow Form{E}
Death's Charge
Deadly Paradox
Shadow of Haste
Glyph of Elemental Power
Sliver Armor
Aftershock
Tenai's Crystals

This build is probably the worst of all of them up there and if you can come up with a better one for those out there with only an Assassin post it please... but the concept behind this is the exact same as the Elemental Sword farm run, trigger Deadly Paradox, followed by Shadow Form, followed by Shadow of Haste( at the very top of the hill ), then run down to the Hellhound and cast Death's Charge, then Glyph of Elemental Power, Sliver Armor, Aftershock, Tenai's Crystals and wait for the first 4 ghouls and hellhound to die, this should happen around when SF is ending so you trigger deadly paradox. Rinse and repeat, I do understand this is a very slow build but it should work.

PARAGON-I'm comming up blank here atm I will think up a build(this is another profession I do not have)

This is a ridiculously easy run in HM with my 55 monk. Ran it twice this morning. Didn't get any golds, but a few norm tomes did drop. I'm going to be running it a few dozen more times after I get out of work. Bergen has paid me well in the past few days(100k+). I think this could pay better as there are larger groups of mobs, and no monks(from what I saw).

Problem is, with mobs this size, there is a lot of scatter. Not to mention the Grasping Ghouls spam ViM, so if you don't remove your conditions at the right points...

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I did this last year...nothing new. I actually use Oink as a tank and then just nuke the undead.

More info on how old this is:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10095959

Oh, we know it's old. I did it during the first ever Wintersday :P

anyone have a paragon build?

How about this:

PARAGON:

Spear Mastery: 12+3+1
Earth Prayers: 10
Leadership: 8+1

Holy Spear
Blazing Spear
Barbed Spear
Focused Anger{E}
Mystic Regeneration
Conviction
Armor of Sanctity
Veil of Thorns

Target undead minions with holy spear and it might work dunno though, don't have a Paragon myself

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