Vanquishing Ebon areas

I am just having a really hard time vanquishing the Ebon areas. I play a hybrid monk with some Asura skills and I take Sabway heroes. As henchmen I take a fire ele, a prot monk, a warrior and an interrupt. I have vanquished the Norn and Asura areas with this setup and have done most of the dungeons as well. Just can't seem to get through the Ebon areas in HM. Any hints?

I don't have a high Ebon rank yet by the way - only 5 or so.

IGN Tharg Of Delff

Use your Ebon Vanguard rank regardless, it helps. For starters, fire eles in HM don't usually do that well, i sometimes run a Mind Blast Hero with utility such as Heal Party and Cure/convert hex(s), but the damage isn't that great.

Try taking the heal hench, with you running Prot, as hench/heroes can't prot appropriate targets, you can (assuming you're not bad.)

SoA, Protective Spirit, both excellent skills to use (assuming you're not using an SY! gon because you're h/h'ing things.)

Try a WoH hybrid bar with the above skills and Seed of Life.

The main worry in Charr areas is that they use their attack skills simoulateously. (sp?), resulting in a form of spike, so just before you agro, ping a target, and prot Devona or whoever you are using up with PS and SoA, then proceed to engage.

Also, try bringing Ebon Battle Standard of Courage. it's +48 armor vs Charr, this is a helluva lot, especially combined with your Ebon Vanguard title.

Maybe:

Word of Healing
Patient Spirit
Dwayna's Kiss
Seed of Life
Protective Spirit
Shield of Absorption
Ebon Battle Standard of Courage
Res Chant. (Or Glyph of Lesser Energy)

Healing Prayers: 12+1+1
Protection Prayers: 9
Divine Favour: 9+1

Hope this helps.

Use the build above with the glyph of lesser energy version,and drop patient or SoA for Aegis.
Oh,and use an earth ele instead of fire.

With h/h I just ran a standard sabway setup for two of the three areas. Having a designated person (I used a ranger hench) to pull aggro can help against the balanced char groups. Prot them up and have them pull aggro to save yourself from having monk heart attacks hit your whole group.

For Grothmar, there is a seige devourer you can mount not too far from Longeye's. Head east across the little bridge and north a bit. The group surrounding it can be tough but getting this early on will make this area incredibly easy.

I believe there is another devourer in Dalada which is a bit tougher to obtain. It's somewhere near where Rocktail spawns and you may have to deal with him first if I remember correctly.

Sacnoth imo was the hardest of the three only because of the burning forest area. I had a guildie bring a winter ranger and lots of interupts. Frozen Soil can also help later with the Dark Priests in the large groups of grawl.

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