Shards of Orr

I feel embarrassed about this.

I'm having the hardest time getting though Shards of Orr in Normal Mode in order to get to the Sparkfly Swamp with my Paragon.

I don't have SY! yet with her, but I was going to the Sparkfly Swamp to grab the other Paragon hero.

About half-way though, I get nuked by the group of undead wizards and priests, and it's not pretty. Even while keeping up TNTF and They're On Fire, it's just not working.

I've been using Olias as an MM bomber (running with Barbs and Mark of Pain, though I guess I could run the Sabway MM instead), Acolyte Jin as a Barrage ranger (Attack skills synergy with some of the paragon shouts), and Talkhora as a fairly standard WoH Hybred monk build. I don't have a second necro, so I can't run an SS or N/RT healer (I could try an RT/? healer build, but not sure if that'd be as effective as a well built monk), I've tried replacing Talkhora with Vekk as a Rodgorts dual attunement spammer and running the 2 hench monks, but that worked out painfully worse.

Been running with Zho, Cynn, Menlho, and either Devona, Aiden, or Lina as henchies.

I don't have my build at the moment, but I believe it's something along the lines of [Spear of Lightning][holy spear][cruel spear][go for the eyes][anthem of flame][they're on fire][There's nothing to fear][aggressive refrain].

Any tips? I've had no problems getting though this part with my Mesmer and my Monk.

Run with people. Ursan always pwns in shards, or just bring a lot of condition removal, cuz thats wat shards is known for.

If you're having a hard time with Shards, there's a back way you can go.

Enter Heart of the Shiverpeaks, and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay at the bottom is a portal to Bogroot Growths. Just go into Bogroot, then there is a portal to Sparkfly.

It's longer, but it's easier.

Another option is to drop Olias for a smiter hero-something along the lines of:

[signet of judgment][signet of rage][castigation signet][mantra of inscriptions][judge's insight]


And then add Judge's onto your Barrager and you should be good to go.

I know you're not doing the dungeon as a whole, but when I WAS doing the whole dungeon, I remember that I set up my three monk heros as smiters with [Ray Of Judgment], and then manually ordered them to cast in the middle of groups while I ran in and used [Light Of Deldrimor] and [Eternal Aura] along w/ the hero monks having some other random smiting stuff to clean up anything left. As I remember, the first floor was cleared blazingly fast, so if you just do that, you should be fine. [Eternal Aura] and [Light Of Deldrimor] aren't even necessary, but they definitely made things easier.

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If you (or anyone else) is having that much trouble getting through there (it's a pain, I know), message me in game and I can run you through.

2 barrage rangers + judges insight pwns that dung

Cause I forgot about bane signet

Basically with the build I posted, you just stock up on smiting signets, max both smiting and inspiration and they're able to spam those sigs pretty nicely.

Don't put [[Judge's Insight] on the rangers; use [[Heart of Holy Flame] instead. It does the Holy damage conversion much cheaper, lasts longer, casts much faster, and the armor penetration from Judge's isn't worth the expense.

You can take [[Sight Beyond Sight] on your bar as well, and/or [[Spear of Redemption] instead of [[Holy Spear]. [[Sight Beyond Sight] will remove blind as well as making you immune for long enough to kill whoever is blinding you.

Using 3 smiting monks makes it a breeze.

No one's blinding me.

I swaped from Spear of Redeption to Holy Spear thinking Holy was Holy damage. It wasn't, so I should probably swap back. Holy Spear is godly vs spirit summoners though

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