A/me Uw Solo

mistress asuka

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2007

A/D

Its probably been done already, but I was just playing around with skills and found a decent A/me Uw solo build. I havent gone as far as the smites, I usually just do the quest clear the chamber and then restart, but Im sure with AV and SV you could probably find a way to go through and kill the smites.

Note: I do NOT have GWEN so there are probably some useful skills in there I could have used but am unaware of, sorry for that. =S

Build

Shadow Form
Arcane Echo
Deadly Paradox
Empathy
Spirit of Failure


Smites

Sympathetic Visage
Ancestor Visage


Random

Spirit Shackles



Attribute Points

Domination - 11
Inspiration - 4
Deadly Arts - 7 (4+3)
Shadow Arts - 15 (11+4)


Its a pretty basic idea. Before aggro you cast Deadly Paradox, followed by Arcane Echo and Shadow Form. Then you aggro and cast Spirit of Failure to keep your energy up. You may only get +2 energy for each miss but it adds up pretty quick on HM. Then you cast empathy, recast Shadow Form and repeat.

The random skill I put in there is when Im really bored I bring a hero along with me and have it stand back and use Famine, it helps kill things pretty quickly, lol.


Equipment

All my armor has Radiant runes in it, and I use Superior Shadow and Superior Deadly, as long as mask with +1 shadow. For a weapon I just use a domination staff with +10 and +5 energy and 20% half recharge time of spells.

TheDragonmaster

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2008

R/

Why do you need that high an attribute in Deadly Arts? The sup rune takes off another chunk of health that the smites could drain with Zealot's Fire... and you only need Deadly Paradox to be able to cover the casting time of Shadow Form plus the aftercast from Arcane Echo (1.75s total, easily covered by Deadly Paradox at 0 Deadly Arts (5s))...

little vivi

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2008

Mo/

Do visages even activate under Shadow Form? Perhaps I am mistaken, but I believe they require you do be hit, and thus a miss or a block would fail to cause them to trigger.

Of course, wiki notes might need an update. I'd test it now, but I'm not at a place I can.

regards,
-vivi

Luminarus

Luminarus

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2007

Sydney, Australia

Haze of Light [pure]

R/

This has already been done before (or a varient of) using Deadly Paradox, Arcane Echo, Shadow Form, Channelling, Spirit Of Failure, Ether Nightmare, Cry Of Pain, Clumsiness. I think its 16 shadow, 10 illus, 8 insp. The clumsiness slot is really optional. I think its in the farming section of the forums, surprised u missed it.

ac1inferno

ac1inferno

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

Boston

We D Shot Your Stances [GODS]

A/W

[build prof=assass/mesme shadow=12+1+3 inspiration=12 deadly=3][Deadly Paradox][Arcane Echo][Shadow Form][Spirit Of Failure][Channeling][Ether Nightmare][Cry of Pain][Radiation Field][/build]

lord_shar

lord_shar

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2005

near SF, CA

Won't the smites just smite-hex any hexes you cast on them? Then there's Zealous Fire that punches through SF...

Dr Dimento

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2007

E/Me

Smites are a waste of time at the moment with any Perma Sin based build. It CAN be done, but not nearly as efficiently or reliably as the other smite farming builds.

Besides, the Chaos planes is more profitable to me.....