Farming Reputation Points in HM: Varajar

I maxed it mainly by farming. Whilst the enemies you are talking about are a pain, I went with 2 interrupt hero/hench and I also equip knockdown (you move like a dwarf) myself to help especially for maelstrom on the imps. Even with that in mind, I developed a route to easily get 250 before the end of the quest whilst killing mainly anything other than the ele's (pain inverter ftw). I vanquished the area using mainly sabway modified to suit. Admittedly I generally use Assassin's promise nuker build for mulitple MS which comes in handy (finish him helps maintain it).
My ele changes but I usually go with something like finish him/fireball/pain inverter/assassinspromise/glphofsacrifice/MeteorStorm/fireattune/YouMoveLikeADwarf You can spam finish him and you move like a dwarf to help the MS which with practice is pretty cool.
Don't know if this helps

Have you tried turning in HM & NM Hero Book / Dungeon Book? I found this to be quicker then the farm you mention and does not involve pugs.

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I've been doing HM Varajar Fells with these heroes -

[Jagged Bones][animate bone minions][death nova][blood of the master][putrid bile][ancestors rage][splinter weapon][signet of lost souls]
[mantra of recovery][power lock][cry of frustration][power spike][drain enchantment][power drain][hex eater signet][vengeance]
[weapon of quickening][mend body and soul][spirit light][protective was kaolai][shadowsong][life][signet of lost souls][death pact signet]

There's plenty of party protection with the minion meatshield, melee hate with Shadowsong and caster hate with the Rezmer. Weapon of Quickening's 33% recharge boosts the Mesmer's recharge to 50% plus it'll beef the Monk henchies and your own spells.

I take the Barrage, Interrupt and both Monk henchies. If you're an Ele toon, give the Promise Nuker a shot for chained MS knockdowns. Pain Inverter + Minions = insta-death for AoE casters if Maelstrom, Deep Freeze etc sneaks through.

I farmed all but one run for r10 there as a resto rit (WOR, GDW) with modified sabway. Two N/Rs, curse and MM, with pets and , and one N/Me with Icy veins, BR, well of blood, one or two signet interrupts, and empathy. Zho, Herta, Mhenlo and Lina. As a rit using standard rit party heal spririts and spells, was able to heal off most of the damage and take pressure off the hench, but could definitely see it would be tough with some professions. I would do the "imp shuffle" i.e. station the party, then about two seconds after engagement, dash off the left or right. This would usually get all the hench out of maelstrom quickly. With the centaurs, you have to pull carefully, focus on the healers and above all, have lots of trample interrupts (god i hate trample).

Make sure to kill every single "easy" cow/wendigo, and you can skip some imps. Pull the jotun far out of the cave makes them easier, engaging them all at the cave door can be tough. With elementals, stretch out your engagement path, lots of times they will kill minions or pets if those come into aggro first... good, pets don't get DP hehe, mins get remade.

In the two big patches west of the final area, it's best to work around the edges and then inside carefully. plowing a straight line into either of those areas will get you overwhelmed frequently.

During the bonus weekend with the facet quest active, was able to do from r5 to 10 in two long play sessions. The BIG KEY is to save the 50 mobs around the final area for last hoping for a rampage if you don't already have one. This will dramatically increase the boss rep from the facets. By careful rampage planning, was able to get several 18-20k runs during the bonus weekend when getting the party rank up early. Lots of this was very lucky/early bonus hunt rank increase and rampage maintenance.

As others have said, Pain Inverter is useful, as is Zho and some interrupts squeezed onto a hero's bar. Spamming GDW onto the N/R pets was very useful also.

I am developing a speed build to farm this with my warr who is going through GWEN now. It will be a rage of ntouka W/P human build that fuels high cost adrenal shouts with FGJ and rage of ntouka to increase damage with GFTE and anthem of envy applied to 18 physical dmg dealers (Zho, Aidan, me, 3 N/R heroes, 9 minions and 3 pets), and provide support. It will use three N/Rs, a MM, a curse and a Icy Veins/blood hybrid. The novelty of this build will be to put volley and savage shot on each of the necros armed with recurve bows in addition to the pet. I find that there are three slots on the standard necro bars where charm animal, volley and savage shot fit nicely.

Preliminary testing in NM and some HM is very impressive. GFTE and anthem of envy applied to 4 volleyers/barragers (and the necros volley really nicely, 1 volley - then cast- volley- then cast) really melts the mobs. GFTE seems to affect the three pets and 9 minions also but haven't tested. Soul Reaping of course generates lots of energy for frequent interrupts via savage shot, nothing lovelier than a scourge vaettir that dies without completing a single cast, hehe. Will post the build in a formal format in the hero/ai section once I've done more testing.

I'm sure someone has used shout enhanced triple N/R heroes with pets, volley and savage shots to squeeze more damage out of barbs and para dmg shouts and get lots of interrupts, but can't find it posted. If someone knows of where it is, please let me know and I won't bother with posting the formal build. You get the idea though, hopefully, from what I've posted here. Hope this helps some. Happy rep farming!

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@ Antithesis I'd swap in Wielder's Boon in that particular build instead of Spirit Light.

@ OP: Your problem is you're an E. E are weak in HM using their inherent skills. If you want to go with a purely offensive build I'd suggest the Assassin's Promise/Meteor Shower build on Wiki. 1xUrsan is weak, you want more of those carebears to ensure KD-chain. Have you tried Great Dwarf Weapon on your physicals?

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I have a plan, untested as of yet, but a great way to fill in Hero's handbook pages to receive the greatest amount of faction possible. I repeat, untested, not sure if it's legal. but if this works you can max out all the titles almost in one time, 2 times, one NM, one HM. the idea is to take not one handbook, but up to 16. I have already determined that it is possible to hold 16 at the same time. You only have to put the one you have in your inventory into your storage, then get a new one, repeat until you have 16, or more if you don't want to fill in the entire book. if you fill in 8 pages and turn in all 16 that is 32000 reputation points. if you fill in all 16 pages and turn in 4 to each reputation person, that's 80000 reputation, instant rank 8, (160000x4) experience points, and (4x16000) gold. and that's just NM. the only problem is having to take all the handbooks with you when you do the quests. which means you get less inventory space.

If anyone tries this system, please tell me, i'd be happy to here how it turns out. IGN is Advid Alucard

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Only 1 skill needed: [skill]Ursan Blessing[/skill]
Its easy to find a group. If you have the quest most of the time they dont' care about your rank. America of course.

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as some of you have already found out, yes the handbook only fills in the page to the first book, not all of them. it was a good try though

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