Dwarven Boxing and Gear

Aside from fire, thoes sup runes are dirt cheap. Even the fire one was pretty cheap when I bought it. I'm going for survivors so yeah its pretty sweet. I think I paid between 100-200g per rune. The most expensive part is the scoll of the lightbringer and the essence of celerity.

Phan: I don't know if it does make a difference or not but everything together gives me 1 full run in hard mode in under 10 minutes so its worthwhile to me. I could very likely do without the armor of salvation but eh why not. Though I'm not sure why you'd want to use the 5-5 daggers... I do more damage with my customized upgraded daggers to the point I'm doing between 2-8 damage per normal hit on all but the wolves, ogres and bosses. Anything to get my title quicker so I can actually do something else in the game with this guy is a good thing .


All in all I'm making 50k xp per run and I usually get at least 1 gold item. I've also gotten normal tomes, elite tomes, and all sorts of junk drops. Plus 2 beer at the end and dwarven points .

Running my Mesmer as a Me/A (@ 12 Dagger Mastery) and ThunderFist's
I figure I'll buy a set of 1k and use the Crown as an Armor set for this...

Damage Modifiers on Knuckles works right?


Since Health and Energy are pre-set...

What would be a good Rune?

Here's a (Noob) rune question anyway...
You only need one of any condition modifying rune to gain the effect, yes?
I am pretty sure the percentages won't stack on multiples, but will the chance of the percentage of bonus, consecutively run with multiples?
(I am sure someone can phrase that better...)

What about Brawlers on all pieces for armor bonus insig?

Or Would Progidy's or Virtuoso's work Better?
The Boxing skill ARE classified as skills, so they meet the worded requirements.
Or do those only work for Mesmer Skills?


LMK and THX

EDIT: Ok Didn't bother with Prodigy or Virtuoso as they were too conditional... Went with a full set of Brawler's and the same Condition Rune for crippling reduction...
The Knuckles were modded out for extra Damage, not customized, as I may want to loan 'em to my other characters til they get their own... lol

Went Easy as Pie... also reassigning 9 and 0 to 8 helps.

Only thing I would add is to try and pull groups near the end part to keep from being overwhelmed.

-T I can't comment on what would be good runes for you as a mesmer. I do know that the more armor the better and I believe there is a +10 armor vs physical so that might be a good idea.

As far as the weapon goes I would recommend customizing it if you are going to do hard mode. For normal mode it doesn't make much of a difference from the couple of times I tried it. Brawns over brains is an excellent inscription. I personally took an elemental handle and from my very limited testing it seems to do more damage.

For normal mode save up your adrenaline when you reach that last hallway before the giant ring event. Then when you go into the center hit 5 to ko the first guy. Then hit 6 + 4 to take out the second guy (only works with upgraded weapons) if needed hit 2 to finish him. Then start killing. You should easily be killing them faster than they come at you. One trick I've found is to charge in before kilroy in order to get them to always attack you first. This way kilroy is a nice addition to your dps. Once you get down to the last couple of dwarves save your adrenaline again. Now quickly take out the first 2 dwarves next to the lieutenant. After the lieutenant and his 2 sidekicks start attacking quickly take out the 2 normal dwarves. This makes taking on the boss alot easier as you can time blocking and knockdowns. Then for the final attack I just let kilroy tank one and I take the other.


For hardmode. IF you are going for a survivors title I highly recommend using an essence of celerity per run. You get +25% run speed, +25% skill recharge, and +25% attack speed. The run speed here is key. For that ring event at the end it helps you revive kilroy by running away far enough for him to respawn without taking a massive number of hits along the way. I also recommend customizing your weapon for the +20% damage. I was actually getting 2-8 damage on alot of the dwarves on my normal attacks. It adds up especially when you are trying to time a block because you are low on health. I have no clue how often crits happen but the armor of salvation might be useful. I used it but wasn't really bothering doing any tests at the time (just finishing survivors). All in all I got down to about an 8 minute run in hard mode. It took quite a bit of practice though.

Anyone know why Triple Exp scrolls are bugged in HM, I used a LB scroll and was only getting 700exp per kill on a dwarf, where a HM kill without a scroll gives 300exp, a HM kill with a double exp scroll gives 600exp so why doesn't a HM kill with a triple exp scroll give 900exp??

Bug or intentional? max xp/kill is capped (can't remember where i read that)

max xp/kill is capped (can't remember where i read that) If that were true then how come the first boss gives 1008exp?