I HATED capping order of undead. Those undead mobs are unbelievably cheap.
Any rotating spawn elites can also be classed as really annoying- I think I had to do 25 runs for one of the abaddon's mouth elites.
Elite Skill Capping: Xinrae's Weapon
CyberMesh0
I D E L E T E D I
I agree on RoF elites being the most annoying in the game to cap, but either way all elites are easy to cap, only difference is that some are more time consuming than others.
stretchs
Capping Healer's Boon the 1st time was a bear, the rest of the caps were really not difficult, some of them can be frustrating like the random spawns in tyria. Really the most difficult really has to be Maw the Mountainheart cap of Feast of Corruption. It takes a while, you can get yourself wiped along the way several times and then face him with some nasty dp. In the old days, you could do all that, do it right and if he died underground you couldnt cap him either.
Order of Undeath(d) was pretty nasty too, I can remember several party wipes and curse words involved while trying to get that.
Order of Undeath(d) was pretty nasty too, I can remember several party wipes and curse words involved while trying to get that.
Lyger
At least Feast of Corruption does have a guarunteed spawn point (even if it is a bit of a trek), unlike alot of the RoF elites.
I've have to go with the crowd on this one, and say anything that only spawns randomly at RoF is a complete pain to cap.
I've have to go with the crowd on this one, and say anything that only spawns randomly at RoF is a complete pain to cap.
Mr. G
[skill]Shield of Judgment[/skill]
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Would you say this is the most difficult elite skill to capture?
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Cale Roughstar
Almost all skills are easy to cap in NM, but most of the random spawns in Tyria just piss me off. I got down to 20 to go in Tyria about a year ago. I have 17 to go at the moment >.<
N1ghtstalker
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i didn't find it very troubling to cap that
I pwnd U
[skill]Sandstorm[/skill]
That one was a pain to cap on my warrior. The guy is surrounded by 2-3 other ele enemies with that. Stupid H/H's kept being overpowered. Even spreading them out still proved difficult.
That one was a pain to cap on my warrior. The guy is surrounded by 2-3 other ele enemies with that. Stupid H/H's kept being overpowered. Even spreading them out still proved difficult.
TaCktiX
I would have to say the hardest caps I had were the ones where the boss's mob was surrounded by lots of patrols, some of which weren't obviously there at first. Shining examples:
[skill]Stunning Strike[/skill] Only by sheer force of will did I kill this boss finally, after wiping several dozen times to patrols around the boss.
[skill]Boon Signet[/skill] The Gardeners in other groups support Mungri and vice versa, landing you with double aggro almost all the time.
[skill]Psychic Distraction[/skill] Shiro'ken in large mobs that are so close together they aggro together? Yup.
I didn't find any of the Prophecies elites that hard or that annoying to get. Maybe by multi-tasking (heck my Ranger got all 3 elites from Ring of Fire while doing mission and bonus) it was easier. I think Punishing Shot took the most attempts to get to, considering that Thul Boulderrain is one of the pickier spawns.
As for Xinrae's Weapon being hardest, no. It was my last cap for LSH, and getting to the Consort of Ruin and killing him was a breeze. Proof:
[skill]Stunning Strike[/skill] Only by sheer force of will did I kill this boss finally, after wiping several dozen times to patrols around the boss.
[skill]Boon Signet[/skill] The Gardeners in other groups support Mungri and vice versa, landing you with double aggro almost all the time.
[skill]Psychic Distraction[/skill] Shiro'ken in large mobs that are so close together they aggro together? Yup.
I didn't find any of the Prophecies elites that hard or that annoying to get. Maybe by multi-tasking (heck my Ranger got all 3 elites from Ring of Fire while doing mission and bonus) it was easier. I think Punishing Shot took the most attempts to get to, considering that Thul Boulderrain is one of the pickier spawns.
As for Xinrae's Weapon being hardest, no. It was my last cap for LSH, and getting to the Consort of Ruin and killing him was a breeze. Proof:
ReZDoGG
You can also use 3k Balthazar faction and unlock the elite, then use an Elite Tome.
FengShuiDove
Torment caps are long if anything. Factions and Nightfall were both easy to cap in my opinion. Haven't done Tyria yet, though.
At any rate, Xinrae's was not the most difficult cap from those two continents.
At any rate, Xinrae's was not the most difficult cap from those two continents.
wanmoke
Boon Signet... hated, HATED capping that one. Double aggro, trying to kill 3 monks that supported eachother...
Xinrae's was an alright cap. I'll have to agree with everyone else and say random bosses spawning in Tyria were the most frustrating to cap. It took me 30 or so runs of Perdition Rock before I got Quick Shot.
Xinrae's was an alright cap. I'll have to agree with everyone else and say random bosses spawning in Tyria were the most frustrating to cap. It took me 30 or so runs of Perdition Rock before I got Quick Shot.
HawkofStorms
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Boon Signet... hated, HATED capping that one. Double aggro, trying to kill 3 monks that supported eachother...
Xinrae's was an alright cap. I'll have to agree with everyone else and say random bosses spawning in Tyria were the most frustrating to cap. It took me 30 or so runs of Perdition Rock before I got Quick Shot. |
Phaern Majes
I don't think any of them are "hard" just some of them are pretty time consuming.
nbajammer
FoC is the hardest imo, although everyone who says RoF is the hardest forgets that aside from Incendiary Arrows, Backbreaker, Mist Form and Spike Trap the other 6 elites are guaranteed spawns in the Abaddon's Mouth mission (although the spawn point is randomized).
FoC on the other hand is the hardest for me because 1) You had to trek all the way there; 2) You had to watch the aggro in the mobs in Dreadnought's; and 3) You had to make sure Maw dies above ground, otherwise you cant cap him.
FoC on the other hand is the hardest for me because 1) You had to trek all the way there; 2) You had to watch the aggro in the mobs in Dreadnought's; and 3) You had to make sure Maw dies above ground, otherwise you cant cap him.
wanmoke
RoF could refer to the mission itself or the entire chain of islands, including Perdition Rock and the three missions. The spawns on Perdition are not guaranteed, so you have to do a lot of runs. Plus, there are some in Hell's Precipice that aren't guaranteed spawns. Aura of the Lich and Greater Conflagration come to mind.
Brian Fellow
Maxine Coldstone in RoF for Quick Shot before Factions. The fact she randomly spawns AND has a gigantic circular patrol route would make me add her to the ignore list along with her companion Harn Coldstone.
Sir Pandra Pierva
RoF by far.
sup21char
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TaCktiX
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RoF could refer to the mission itself or the entire chain of islands, including Perdition Rock and the three missions. The spawns on Perdition are not guaranteed, so you have to do a lot of runs. Plus, there are some in Hell's Precipice that aren't guaranteed spawns. Aura of the Lich and Greater Conflagration come to mind.
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Savage Thinking
I remember having trouble capping Aura of the Lich. The boss wouldn't spawn after going through Hell's Precipice for two hours. And when he finally spawned, hench managed to aggro nearby Sparks and ended up in a party wipe with the exception of two heroes. At this point, I was frustrated beyond all belief. So due to my stubborn nature, I refused to just head back to the outpost.
Spend another 2 hours just trying to rez the group and retreating. After I managed to kill the boss and cap the elite, I realized that it was called Hell's Precipice for a damn good reason..
Spend another 2 hours just trying to rez the group and retreating. After I managed to kill the boss and cap the elite, I realized that it was called Hell's Precipice for a damn good reason..
Sir Pandra Pierva
i had no problem capping that skill at all.
wanmoke
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Um, both of those caps are guaranteed to show up in the mission. All 5 of the bosses spawn, but one of them is beyond that large large group of Titans that you like to avoid because of all the Sparks.
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Accursed
I can't really say much, but I say that NO Elite skill is very hard.
englitdaudelin
The elite Spear attack..Stunning Strike? In Realm of Torment. I had NO fun trying and failing to cap that, with various builds, over and over and over.
Just kept getting terrible aggros, since some of those mobs have huge patrol patterns.
Just kept getting terrible aggros, since some of those mobs have huge patrol patterns.
Darcryed
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Onslaught (dervish elite) in the nightfallen jahai that is quite difficult because of the numerous roaming mobs you MUST fight when fighting the boss mob because the roamings roam into the aggro of the para boss.
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Today I went to Depths of Madness to try to capture Hundred Blades, a core Warrior elite skill. It took me half an hour to get to the damn boss, and I was unable to kill him so I ended up with -60% DP. I had to resign.
Molock
Skill caping is generaly pretty easy.. although some skills are a real pain to find (mainly the Prophecies elites) they aren't hard.
Hikan Trilear
Skills are generally far easier to cap now that pain inverter is in the game...
CyberMesh0
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I captured Onslaught yesterday but I don't remember it being so difficult..
Today I went to Depths of Madness to try to capture Hundred Blades, a core Warrior elite skill. It took me half an hour to get to the damn boss, and I was unable to kill him so I ended up with -60% DP. I had to resign. |
...and why go into the RoT to cap hundred blades? even Hell's Precipice is easier than that.
Dark-NighT
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You can also use 3k Balthazar faction and unlock the elite, then use an Elite Tome.
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Craer Delnbone
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The elite Spear attack..Stunning Strike? In Realm of Torment. I had NO fun trying and failing to cap that, with various builds, over and over and over.
Just kept getting terrible aggros, since some of those mobs have huge patrol patterns. |
Message me if you still need to cap that.
IGN: Lord Yuppa
llsektorll
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Meh elite tomes are useless if you go for the legendary skill hunter, one tome is about 10 k, some cheaper but id rather buy 10 signets of cap and have my way with the bosses then throwing away 9k on one skill.
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N1ghtstalker
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Meh elite tomes are useless if you go for the legendary skill hunter, one tome is about 10 k, some cheaper but id rather buy 10 signets of cap and have my way with the bosses then throwing away 9k on one skill.
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at some skills for Tyria i was like "omg not again in THAT area!"
so yea i was about 20 times through snake dance and other areas to cap my elites and i got sick of it with those random spawns
instead of 90k for the signets i spent about 150k for a total of about 80 sigs of capture and 70k on elite tomes
wanmoke
I can safely say I spent 290k on cap sigs. I wanted the experience. But I did also get all the Tyrian elites before tomes came out. Even then, it'd be more worth it to cap rather than use a tome, unless the tome dropped for me while doing HM.
MStarfire
Nothing beats being a Ritualist capping skills in Tyria. One skill (sometimes two) PER TRIP and often random boss spawns in RoF and Shivs. But:
It's a great feeling when you're done.
My heart also goes out to all the Dervishes and Paragons capping skills in Cantha AND Tyria.
It's a great feeling when you're done.
My heart also goes out to all the Dervishes and Paragons capping skills in Cantha AND Tyria.
Ace2001
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Nothing beats being a Ritualist capping skills in Tyria. One skill (sometimes two) PER TRIP and often random boss spawns in RoF and Shivs. But:
*image here* It's a great feeling when you're done. My heart also goes out to all the Dervishes and Paragons capping skills in Cantha AND Tyria. |
What Rit skills are there exactly in Tyria? I swear I don't remember there being any there. But I may have taken one to many hits to the head from a titan, as well.
Karel
ther's this one rit skill at the end of tahnakai temple that seems uncappable cuz of a f*cking lame party that keeps attacking warriors instead of monks... grr
MithranArkanere
[skill]Feast of Corruption[/skill]
That thing is where Jesus lost his sandal.
That thing is where Jesus lost his sandal.
cosyfiep
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Ah, Starfire. Haven't seen you in a long, long time. Not since whatshisname kept kicking me out of guild. :P
What Rit skills are there exactly in Tyria? I swear I don't remember there being any there. But I may have taken one to many hits to the head from a titan, as well. |
there are none that is why she feels for the dervishes paragons etc...
If you started a character in tyria in all likelihood you capped elites for both your professions then----doing all 6 professions now is just a pain.
Darcryed
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Originally Posted by CyberMesh0
I forgot about onslaught... oh that one made me so mad. you peeps with EotN have it easy :-p
...and why go into the RoT to cap hundred blades? even Hell's Precipice is easier than that. |
