Flashing Blades farmer

Risus

Risus

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

56min UW HM post-2/25 I win

FDR

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I have an idea, I think this could work:
[build prof=assassin/elementalist earth=12 dagger=12+3+1][Flashing Blades][Sliver Armor][/build]

with a 20% dagger. What other skills would help?

Damian979

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2008

Interesting...

I hadn't thought about this skill much since the update and don't know much about "stackable" blocking effects. The new wiki description says if an attack is blocked in this way the attacker takes damage so I wonder how it would separate unconditional blocking and blocking while attacking. Worth looking into.

Dwragon82995

Dwragon82995

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2008

California

D/W

An IAS i guess. Maybe Way of perfection too.

ReZDoGG

ReZDoGG

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

Indian Township, ME

Nativ War Party (NWP)

Rt/Mo

I actually put a few Flashing Blade builds together myself last night.


One of them was using Flashing Blades with Splinter Weapon, Critical Defense/Agility, and 4 dagger skills (without any kind of healing)... I was able to take out some Melee enemies like Jade Brotherhood Knights in HM pretty fast, and it only took me a minute to take out those 2 groups outside Marketplace.

I also put together a Flashing Blades Sliver build, which dishes out some major damage. I tried it on Raptors with some success, but not always successful. It is able to take out the boss along with all raptors in about 3 min (HM of course) and that is also without heals.

Although both of the builds are cool to try out, they probably won't have a whole lot of uses compared to other builds.

Cebe

Cebe

The 5th Celestial Boss

Join Date: Jul 2006

Inverness, Scotland

The Cult of Scaro [WHO]

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Would [Mental Block] work at all for augmenting the blocking?

...or is it really just the blocking that comes from Flashing Blades?

Joe Fierce

Joe Fierce

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2007

Disconnect the fascination

LF High End PvE Guild that's not filled with elitists.

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Id you're already putting some atts into earth why not [magnetic aura]? I realize it doesn't last as long as the cool down but, hey, AoS can fix that yes?

ReZDoGG

ReZDoGG

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

Indian Township, ME

Nativ War Party (NWP)

Rt/Mo

Two blocking enchants will stack... I used Magnetic Auro for the build I tried against Raptors. Mental Block is good, but only 50% blocking and more hits seem to get through it, and it also don't last that long and can run out if you don't take any hits. I tried Mental Block instead of Magenetic Aura, but seemed I was dying alot...

Magikarp

Magikarp

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2007

[HAWK]

Flashing Blades, Sliver Armor, Armor of Earth, Golden Phoenix, Death Blossom, Mindbender, and maybe something else? idk, just tossing out ideas..

Dr Dimento

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2007

E/Me

Specifically concerning raptor farming....

Doesn't Rekoff remove stances? With no interrupt prevention other than blocking, coupled with the fact that you can't be "while attacking" at the same time you are casting sliver armor, you would need another blocking skill to have even a snowball's chance in hell of getting sliver armor cast. Magnetic Aura and/or Mental Block would be almost a necessity.........however, if Flashing Blades doesn't do damage for the blocks caused by sliver/mentalblock/magnetic, the usefullness of flashing blades comes into question.

Magikarp

Magikarp

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2007

[HAWK]

its just a half second with Mindbender isnt it? idk.. that to me seems like it would be fast enough if you timed it right. also, im not positive, but i think this thread is about farming with FB in general, not just Raps

-Makai-

-Makai-

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2007

WA

DH

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I used to do low-level HM Farming on my R/A with Flashing Blades. Granted it was very slow compared to, say, a Moebius spammer, but it was my first farming attempt. With the new buff to Flashing Blades, I could see it working very well in certain situations--clumps of Rangers and Paragons that don't line up perfectly for Moebius Spam come to mind.

If you've got a slot to spare, give [dwarven stability] a shot.

Edit: Oops...just noticed that your Flashing Blades has a 2 second over-duration.

craigrs84

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2007

A/

I tried A/Mo 105 hp with protective spirit lol... works ok, but can't kill mobs with healing. also need more hp regen. any ideas?

Marverick

Marverick

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Dimento
Specifically concerning raptor farming....

Doesn't Rekoff remove stances? With no interrupt prevention other than blocking, coupled with the fact that you can't be "while attacking" at the same time you are casting sliver armor, you would need another blocking skill to have even a snowball's chance in hell of getting sliver armor cast. Magnetic Aura and/or Mental Block would be almost a necessity.........however, if Flashing Blades doesn't do damage for the blocks caused by sliver/mentalblock/magnetic, the usefullness of flashing blades comes into question. She has to hit you with Unsuspecting Strike first before she can use Wild Strike.

deluxe

deluxe

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Monkeyball Z

S.K.A.T. [Ban]

Mo/

[minister cho farmer;OwRj0xfzITOMEfHMSQ6P1gEQhBA]

This is what i'm using for Minister Cho's Estate HM, swap targets after each combo to make em all die at the same time.

major dagger mastery.

oh_oh_joe

oh_oh_joe

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

Power Surge [pS]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by deluxe
[minister cho farmer;OwRj0xfzITOMEfHMSQ6P1gEQhBA]

This is what i'm using for Minister Cho's Estate HM, swap targets after each combo to make em all die at the same time.

major dagger mastery. Tried that build, how far are you supposed to go in the mission?

I replaced crit eye with blinding powder(they wont take dmg but u wont die) for the times when im about to die, I get past the animals and thats about it, the caster always kills me. also shove hurts

deluxe

deluxe

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Monkeyball Z

S.K.A.T. [Ban]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by oh_oh_joe
Tried that build, how far are you supposed to go in the mission?

I replaced crit eye with blinding powder(they wont take dmg but u wont die) for the times when im about to die, I get past the animals and thats about it, the caster always kills me. also shove hurts To farm that mission, you kill everything up to the animals. Animals don't drop anything.