A simple guide to destroying hard mode charr

I've heard a number of complaints from a number of different sources about the charr in hard mode. The charr are not that dangerous due to mediocre healing and their behaviors. The key is recognizing the threats and dealing with them appropriately. Hit the charr hard and fast.

Follow these tips:
#1) Focus on blocked based defense. Don't take bad defensive skills. Use skills like aegis, defensive anthem, guardian, and shield's up to mitigate the charrs damage. Their most consistent damage is physical based.

#2) Don't worry too much about agro and tank. Focus more and engaging and killing as many charr as quickly as possible. Your monks are there to keep you alive. The best way to help them is reduce the number of charr present as quickly as possible.

#3) Take interrupts. Interrputing Rez chant, the fire eles, aegis, and rez sigs goes a long way. Interrupts hurt charr. Their greatest threat is meteor shower, but it can very easily be interrupted (you have 5 freaking seconds.) Choking gas, savage shot, distracting shot, power return, power spike, cry of frustration, distracting strike, and distracting blow are all very good vs charr.

#4) Only use combat rezzes in combat, if you rebirth you die. Use rez chant, death pact signet, flesh of my flesh, signet of return, and rez sigs in battle. Save everything else for picking up the pieces afterwards.

#5) Apply instant AoE liberally. The charr tend to ball, but will scatter if you drop skills like Savannah heat. Splinter weapon, rodgort's invocation, searing flames, and other similar skills rip the charr up.

#6) If you still seem to be taking a lot of damage with blocks grab a bsurge. All charr enchant themselves and you can blind all their melees with a single bsurge usually.

Good advice there, the only thing's i would add are that all warriors should run SY! it reduces the incoming dmg considerably. Also paragon's make the charr missions(and every misison tbh) a cakewalk.

Actually, you don't have 5 seconds to interrupt MS in HM. They cast faster.

HM critters get half cast, so it's 2.5 seconds.

also consider you cannot interrupt the charr dominator res chant or avenger flesh of my flesh either. both are almost instant. if you have perfect ping and quick reflexes---or just get lucky---well, good luck on that interrupting.

if you have problems with them ressing, focus on 1 target, and take frozen soil---but put it out of their reach, but in range so they cannot res. this way you can kill whatever you want. it is kinda fun watching them and elite stone summit scramble around when one of their buddies dies and they can't hard res it
use it wisely, though, it can hurt your party. bring lively was naomei in case of a wipe. hopefully whoever has that won't get interrupted...or...youll just wipe and have to run back to wherever you were ._.

pain inverter works really well on the charr flameshielders. if you cannot interrupt them, use that, and they die instantly especially if your h/h are balled up. there is enough time to cast pain inverter while they are casting meteor shower/firestorm, so you don't waste extra precious seconds on assuming when they will cast an aoe next.

BHA + Epidemic.

They ball up, spread the conditions around.

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I usually just stab them with a sword until they bleed and die, but most of your suggestions should help those who are trying out new strategies.

Do you think Mantra of Flame would be worthwhile (the physicals use Conjure Flame and the casters use fire spells) when vanquishing Charr areas, or is that just a waste of time or overkill?

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