Guide to the Zaishen Elite

07moj

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2008

N/A

25 May 2008 at 13:08 - 1

NOTE: Sorry if I am breaking the forum rules. On a more serious note though, this guide is to help people farm Balthazar faction from the Zaishen Elite.

Welcome to the Zaishen Elite! Need help? Or just wondering how to get there? Well this guide is for YOU!

What is the zaishen elite?
The zaishen elite is basically a pumped up version of Zaishen Challenge.

So how do I get there?
You need to complete 5 different team Zaishen challenges (which means killing 5 different Zaishen teams in Zaishen Challenge but it doesn't need to be consecutive).

What's the differences?
First of all, unlike Zaishen Challenge (which we will abbreiviate as ZC), the groups you fight are pretty much random. So we're going to assume they have rezzes, have powerful attacks and can coordinate spikes, right? So what we need is Frozen Soil (prophecies), some kind of spike heal and some kind of defensive enchant wall.

How hard is it?
It depends on if you can do enough damage to kill the healer AND the other enemies without Frozen Soil dying, withstand physical assaults (IWAY warriors) and heavy spike damage (Obsidian Flame elementalists)

Builds:

This is what I use:

Necro (myself)N/ME:
[skill]Signet of Lost Souls[/skill][skill]Spiteful Spirit[/skill]Insidious Parasite[skill]Mark of Pain[/skill] [skill]Parasitic Bond[/skill] [skill]Vampiric Gaze[/skill] [skill]Consume Corpse[/skill][skill]Arcane Echo[/skill]

Cleave PvE Soldiers Koss & Goren:
[skill]Cleave[/skill] [skill]Disrupting Chop[/skill] [skill]Penetrating Chop[/skill] [skill]"Watch Yourself!"[/skill] [skill]"For Great Justice!"[/skill] [skill]Soldier's Defense[/skill] [skill]Healing Signet[/skill] [skill]Frozen Soil[/skill]

Replace Frozen Soil with Signet of Strength for Goren

Last but not least, Dunkoro and his Glyph SoR!:
[skill]Protective Spirit[/skill] [skill]Dismiss Condition[/skill] [skill]Shield of Absorption[/skill] [skill]Glyph of Lesser Energy[/skill] [skill]Shield of Regeneration[/skill] [skill]Aegis[/skill] [skill]Blessed Aura[/skill] [skill]Remove Hex[/skill]

Watch this space for any new updates!

Minor contributions are appreciated.

Mr.Kotte

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Me/

25 May 2008 at 13:23 - 2

Quote:

Originally Posted by 07moj

Necro (myself) N/A:
[skill]Signet of Lost Souls[/skill][skill]Spiteful Spirit[/skill]Insidious Parasite[skill]Mark of Pain[/skill] [skill]Parasitic Bond[/skill] [skill]Vampiric Gaze[/skill] [skill]Consume Corpse[/skill][skill]Arcane Echo[/skill] Since when did Arcane Echo become an Assassin skill?
Looks good besides that.

joshuarodger

Unbanned

Join Date: Jan 2008

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] -- IGN: Swirly

Mo/

25 May 2008 at 13:27 - 3

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr.Kotte

Since when did Arcane Echo become an Assassin skill?
Looks good besides that. you didn't see the last update?? Arcane echo is a non profession specific skill now. like res sig. isn't it??? has to be.

Mr.Kotte

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Me/

25 May 2008 at 13:34 - 4

To the OP, I could suggest you to toss in a few orders into your bar for extra physical damage, possibly barbs, followed by a hero lock on that target.

Squishy ftw

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

Your backline

25 May 2008 at 13:41 - 5

Why the silly blood skills on the SS instead of splinter/ar ?

My Lipgloss is Cool

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2007

My Computer

Band Of The H A W K

P/Mo

25 May 2008 at 13:45 - 6

Or even [Enfeeble] or [Enfeebling Blood] to make any of the scary physicals a joke

TrippieHippie89

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2008

Saegertown, PA

High by Nine [Bong]

Me/W

25 May 2008 at 15:35 - 7

this seems to be way to slow i run myself with the triple echo dust trap build, then 3 SF ele's each with thier own spirit (FS, Brambles, Predatory Season, etc, etc) drops the teams in 3-5 seconds

Sjeng

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

in my GH

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

25 May 2008 at 15:49 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by TrippieHippie89

this seems to be way to slow i run myself with the triple echo dust trap build, then 3 SF ele's each with thier own spirit (FS, Brambles, Predatory Season, etc, etc) drops the teams in 3-5 seconds Well, as the OP said: any contribution is appreciated, so could you post the complete builds perhaps? The more triple hero builds, the better. All I do now is join Ranger trapper parties, which can get a tad boring after a while.

Adult

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2008

South Texas

Paper St Fight Club [Soap]

Mo/

25 May 2008 at 16:08 - 9

I have a much easier and much faster build for you in the Zaishen Elite.
You - Ele/Ran - [frozen soil][deep freeze][fire attunement][savannah heat][searing heat][teinai's heat][fireball][serpents quickness]
1 hero - Ele/Ran - [deep freeze][fire attunement][savannah heat][searing heat][teinai's heat][fireball][serpents quickness][liquid flame]
2 hero - Ele/Ran - [serpents quickness][fire attunement][savannah heat][searing heat][teinai's heat][fireball][liquid flame][fire storm]

Sup fire + head and Sup Energy w/ Radiant on all armors. Max fire @ 16 / 11+3 energy with remainder into Wilderness (whatever that ends up equalling) + Staff with +5E / +5E / +30H for max energy. Sup Vigor on all as well if you care.

This is too easy. Attune up at the start. Gates open, drop Frozen Soil and then hit everyones SQ when the other team appears on Mini-Map. Set hero with Deep Freeze to target the closest with it. Right as he casts DF, space bar attack that target to have the team drop their AOE. (set all heros to attack btw)

This usually kills within 15 seconds or better. I've gone 8 and 9 flawless before I start to just not get anymore faction so I quit. Resses are really pointless here. If you have a death then you are pretty much screwed anyways as your snare-AOE trap didn't work too well, or you screwed up Frozen.

The teams to strategize on are mainly the IWAY and the mixed team. The IWAY groups you just need to be careful that you are targeting the warriors and not the pets by accident. The Mixed Team (wars / rans / necros / and messies) are the hardest because the do not all ball up. You need to ignore the warriors and go after the mesmers and necros first, then work toward the rangers and warriors. The second DF on your bar is for them since they like to split up. All the other teams (trappers and ele spikers mainly) are cake. The eles should never even get off a spike and the trappers should all just blow up in the snare.

This build will farm you your 6k faction in about 15 minutes or less if you're paying attention. Have fun.

-rightuos-

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

25 May 2008 at 17:11 - 10

best ive used so far is this
http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:Te...ng_Zaishen_FFF

I take searing flames in the optional, and replace the mark of rodgort on myself with cry of frustration for the ranger group.

Adult lose the res sigs for something with dmg

Avatar Exico

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Way to Cold at Home:Illnois and School:Iowa.

We Trip Hard On [AcID]

25 May 2008 at 22:57 - 11

Best for Challenge get all Trapper Grp. Trap the hell out of the other team works every time. If you die so what you can just go again until you get 6k Faction.

psycore

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

26 May 2008 at 07:53 - 12

Best group is 1 trapper (you), 2 nukers and a prot monk.

Knock stuff over very fast - only guys who may give you a bit of grief are large groups of the ele's since they spike quite well.

07moj

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2008

N/A

26 May 2008 at 09:58 - 13

I can't be bothered to micro my heroes, so yeah... thanks guys

me_mini

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2008

26 May 2008 at 13:09 - 14

just run massive aoe or trappers, here u go no need of particular builds, its pretty match a waste of time trying other builds, they will get owned sooner or later , if u run massive aoe take something that inflicts cracked armor and then epidemic that is for rangers that have more armor against elemental damage or warriors that have alrdy lot of armor