Frostmaw/Vloxen HM with H/H & No Tangibles

Engage

Indeed

Join Date: Sep 2007

05 Sep 2008 at 01:33 - 1

Well, finished vanquishing EOTN with Jaga Moraine and thought to give Frostmaw a try. It went better than I thought, with the difficulty on par with NM. Once you know where the pop-ups are, and how to aggro them, it goes quite smoothly.

I am posting this because I know others are holding back from doing it, thinking it is rather difficult. In the end though, it really is not bad at all.

Well, I hope this helps a few people out there, and it would be even better if others would post some additional advice of their own.

joshuarodger

Unbanned

Join Date: Jan 2008

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

Mo/

05 Sep 2008 at 02:00 - 2

very nice. gg.

how long did it take?

zeth006

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

N/A

05 Sep 2008 at 05:28 - 3

Nice.

10 characters.

_June

Guest

Join Date: Sep 2007

Denmark

{MM}

Mo/

05 Sep 2008 at 08:23 - 4

Another little tip for this is, it is a good idea to bring pain inverter, it totally violates the wurms, makes it a ton easier.

I think it took 20 seconds to kill boss with Pain Inverter lol

*edit* I forgot to add that I did not have maxed asuran at the time that I did this, think it was around rank 6-7.

Shasgaliel

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2008

[bomb]

05 Sep 2008 at 12:20 - 5

First time I did it with H/H on HM it took me 4 hours. Last time about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Actually the most important improvement for me was to take hero mesmer to deal with all those wurm spawns. Probably there are other possibilities but mesmer for me in this dungeon just did wonders. My squad (professions) was almost the same as OP, I used paragon instead of SS necro. Build of other two heroes were very similar (exactly the same MM but my mesmer did not use VoR - it was before update of VoR, now I would use it for sure) . There are also several deadly mobs which can be avoided like mobs of 10 drakes on the 2nd level (player needs to observe their patrol pattern - there is one mob of ice eles which needs to be pulled first).

Sacratus Ignis

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2007

SCAR

05 Sep 2008 at 15:08 - 6

avoid the ice drakes on floor 2 - it is faster and easier to take the stormclouds if you have spirit bond on one of your heroes for the puller.

aleaf92

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2007

New York City, New York

Mo/

06 Sep 2008 at 00:11 - 7

No SY!?
gg nonetheless

L|S >+>+G+<+<

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

06 Sep 2008 at 01:54 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by _June

payne

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

england (currently located on the south coast)

06 Sep 2008 at 15:13 - 9

my setup for beating it HM no cons

HeV mes
VoR mes
jagged bones MM
hench: 2monk 1 ranger 1 mes
me barrage + warmongers = picture once uploaded:-

Engage

Indeed

Join Date: Sep 2007

06 Sep 2008 at 15:14 - 10

Here's Vloxen Excavations. It wasn't that bad other than a few groups. I found Bellok's group to be among the easiest, especially with that wall right there to stick most of the group into a nice little ball.

Again, if you have any additional info. on how to do this, or where to improve, please feel free to add.

Good luck to you all. If a mod could change the title to notify users of this additional info, that would be awesome.

payne

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

england (currently located on the south coast)

06 Sep 2008 at 15:29 - 11

good job...mes build was good....

got anything for duncan HM? xD last bit for my HM book and cba to work out a strat for his dungeon ^^

_June

Guest

Join Date: Sep 2007

Denmark

{MM}

Mo/

06 Sep 2008 at 19:09 - 12

Quote:

Originally Posted by L|S >+>+G+<+<

lies....pain inverter is needed a few times to kill the boss at the end and thats with max asuran Must've had the hex on a number of people in my case then, I speak the truth though lol.

Kushiels_Scion

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Ohio

Dragon Warrriors

W/P

13 Sep 2008 at 05:25 - 13

Awesome stuff, i looked at the skills for the mesmer and i am setting up the hero for it, but i ask OP, what are the atributes for your mesmer?

payne

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

england (currently located on the south coast)

13 Sep 2008 at 11:26 - 14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kushiels_Scion

Awesome stuff, i looked at the skills for the mesmer and i am setting up the hero for it, but i ask OP, what are the atributes for your mesmer? should be able to figure that out for yourself lol

but: I ran, well on the VoR anyway - FC 10+1+1; dom 10+1; insp 11+1
that worked for me...

AND PI IS NOT NEEDED LOL....it isn't needed, frostmaw fell in about 30secs just from the hexes in my team not PI....I found it pretty worthless really...good tanking is better IMO....hex-way ftw lol....

/sign petition to add a third mes hero plz ^^

legendel

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

League of Friends (LOF)

14 Sep 2008 at 13:34 - 15

thanks for that, tried it, worked a treat

fenix

Major-General Awesome

Join Date: Aug 2005

Aussie Trolling Crew HQ - Event Organiser and IRC Tiger

Ex Talionis [Law], Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] ????????????????&#

14 Sep 2008 at 14:43 - 16

You sir, are my hero.

Note the lack of 2 people. Also, no cons. The DP on Livia and Gwen is entirely from Frostmaw and the couple of wurms that spawn with it.

Also have vanq'd 2 zones with it so far. Excellent build.

beserk

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2008

16 Sep 2008 at 00:10 - 17

Pretty impressive ^^

tox_169

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2007

Auckland, New Zealand

07 Oct 2008 at 00:45 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by payne