E/A Raptor Cave - clear under 1 min

Ok, there are a lot of E/A Raptor Cave variants, but this one I've build on my own and to me it works the easiest and fastest.

Skills:
[skill]Storm Djinn's Haste[/skill][skill]Glyph of Sacrifice[/skill][skill]Shadow Form[/skill][skill]Glyph of Elemental Power[/skill][skill]Sliver Armor[/skill][skill]Air of Superiority[/skill][skill]Crystal Wave[/skill][skill]Aftershock[/skill]
Cast from left to right

Attributes:
12 Earth, 12 Shadow, 3 Air

Runes:
+3 Earth, +3 Air, (+3 Energy if you need that)

Equipment:
Headpiece with +1 Earth of, rest of armor with +hp and/or + ene stuff w/e u want
+5 energy weapon with enchanting mod, earth offhand with +12 energy

Place: Riven Earth, just outside Rata Sum

The Run:
Enter Riven Earth from Rata Sum in HM, take the Asuran Rep Bounty if you want. Use Storm Djinn's to get to the cave faster, stick along the wall along the righthand to reach it.
Inside the cave, BEFORE aggroing, cast 1 and 2. (DO NOT use Shadow Form yet) The Glyph will make u cast SF instant when you need it. No go to the leftside of the cave and aggro all, but stay out of their range. Keep running out of their range, back the way you came and do the same on the right side, including the boss.
At this point you might be getting tight with the 30+ foes aggro, so you can cast SF if needed.
Now sweep back to the entrance of the cave, along the wall, making sure the Raptors are behind you and not in front. This should make them all clutter up tightly, plus as long as the wall is on THEIR LEFT hand side, they wont run away from aggro.
Whenever you stop running along the wall, make sure you have triggered SF with the Glyph already, also make sure the Glyph is still up (dont cast any other spells afterwards, and watch the 15 secs timer).
Cast 4 + 5 for a strong Sliver armor which will do massive damage. Immediately cast Air of Superiority (6) afterwards, followed by the two AoE spells (7 and 8).
Be sure to recast SF (no need for the glyph now), Sliver armor and Air of Superiorty when it is running low.

The AoE spells will soften up the targets, so you only need 8 hits instead of 12 per Raptor or w/e. However, they can be replaced by something you think will be more usefull.

i#'ve tried a few runs, it's not as reliable and it's not as fast as the E/A fire version, I'll stick to that :/

just the fact that you cast sf again means it is slower.. i agro cast sf kill and pick up drops before it runs out..

But you get more drops thx to sliver armor, and if it kills the boss its better

Similar build that my alliance mate and I made

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbMRVdusg1Q
Added: 2 weeks ago

I knew I should had put that screeshot in my ipod before I went away.

53 Seconds with a timer near the screen, 41 Raptors dead with the patrol that do the triangle thing.

The trick ?

Sliver + Intensity+ Ebon Battle Of Honnor. It will get you +10-15 Dmg net to you Sliver which is at least 35%.

Try it, it does not scatter or do anything else and no one seem to implant that bad ass skill here.

Only thing I which would be that no one would still know this back 1-2 week after HM was introduced. Little secret...they used to drop gold lol alot more Not talking here of weapons but pure $$. even with the codes. Our guild has Screen of that 2-3 weel launch from HM with 3 Balck Dyes in a run, 5-6 Golds items too.

Don't trust me ? Ask any1 who was doing this waaaay before it was popular.

P.S. Dont forget Ebon Honnor thing

Peace and X mas Ya All

Hmm yeh, the Ebon Honor is a good add, ty. Good to replace the AoE with. And yes, you can kill the 5-7 Raptor patrol with this build.

As opposed to the Fire build, this build can probably kill 2x more Raptors including the boss. But that would require you to recast SF. Still the drops are better with Sliver then with AoE. Plus getting them not to run with AoE is more tricky then it is with Sliver.

What could i replace air of superiority with?, cause its a pain to get that skill, i actualy got the skill with my war but it aint transferable to my ele like the regular skills.

thks

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I forget who originally posted the E/Me build, but it also works great here, and you dont have to "run away". Been using it for a while, it's great.