WTF Ooze Pits in HM with h/h

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Nihilim Dhiamara
Lion's Arch Merchant
#21
if you want discord do something like [assasin's promise][you move like a dwarf][finish him][pain inverter]...
put 12 deadly arts,12expertise
with ap you should have enough energy to spam ymlad en finish him with ap on every target
Burst Cancel
Burst Cancel
Desert Nomad
#23
I don't know why you guys are even responding, the guy is clearly trolling.
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Jeydra
Forge Runner
#25
Buddy ...

Discordway may be strong and universal, but there is one definite time when it fails: a lack of bodies. Are there lots of bodies in Ooze Pit? I didn't think so! Run something else. The dungeon is not hard, the mobs have so much less staying power than the balanced Charr or Stone Summit teams in Rragar's and Vloxen's.
subarucar
subarucar
Desert Nomad
#26
Minions are a part of the D-way setup, without corpse exploitation, you have no meat shields, less energy management, and less damage.
Also with D-way, you need to be able to apply a condition and a hex, if running D-way on my ranger i use the generic AP caller.

Anyway, learn to play, if you spec your heroes to the required area, you can always beat it more easily/faster than D-way. D-way is just a generic setup that can manage MOST areas without to much trouble.
AtomicMew
AtomicMew
Jungle Guide
#27
Quote: Originally Posted by Chthon View Post
1. It can be done with H+H. I did it.

2. Discordway is far from the strongest build out there in general, and it's particularly poorly suited to this dungeon.

3. This dungeon is so easy in NM that you don't notice the features of the ooze "life cycle" that you need to know to manage HM. Let me help:
a. Volatile Oozes will kill you in HM unless you have serious damage-mitigation in place ahead of time. They are the biggest obstacle to survival.
b. Volatile Oozes pop up near normal ooze groups.
c. Volatile Oozes can usually be pulled away from normal oozes.
d. Ooze Devourers convert dead oozes into Volatile Oozes, and do so very rapidly in HM. Giving a Devourer a chance to do that is a very big mistake.

If the heroes-do-all-the-work mindlessness of discordway hasn't completely rotted your brain, you should be able devise a way of mitigating the damage from the volatile oozes, and the rest isn't so hard. Stop spewing BS when you haven't even tested it. Discordway DOES work for this dungeon. You're right, discord is not the best build for this and most dungeons (a build tailored to the dungeon is), but straight up discord works for MOST places and is simply the fastest in low to mid end VQs.

I did Ooze Pit in HM with straight up discordway with no problem at all. The only trouble I had was at the boss, but that's because I didn't bother to wiki. It's true, triple necro is not ideal here, because minions were not ideal here, but it does WORK. That's just a tribute to how strong the build is.
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nightcreeper
Pre-Searing Cadet
#29
Ooze Pit is one of the easiest dungeons. But I find out what were you doing wrong.

1. You think Discordway is the Omnipotent build when it doesn't.
2. Do some homework instead of going shopping builds at PVX.
3. If you did Ooze pit in Normal Mode you got first hand knowledge and got an idea what to wait in Hard Mode.
4. Your build honestly suck, my main is a Ranger and when i saw that build i almost die of a heart attack. What do you expect to interrupt so hard? kuunavang, glint, the great destroyer? to get 3 interupts plus Broad Head Arrow plus apply poison(no flesh foes), besides if you expect to kill foes with PI then why daze them or interupt them, plus no self healing. LOL P.S. (one last thing, How many times your energy drop to zero?)

Dude delete your ranger and switch to another profession before you hurt yourself and those around you and if not delete Guild Wars and move to another MMO according to your IQ.
Coney
Coney
Wilds Pathfinder
#31
L2Search the forums before asserting nonsense about impossibilities. There's a couple threads out there with suggestions - I got through it fine HM H/H. http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10213832

I think discord isn't the greatest for this dungeon as it requires taking targets down 1 at a time. However, you encounter lots of large mobs that grow larger (!), yet stay more-or-less balled up. Better to bring AOE damage and AOE interruption, [barrage] and [warmonger's weapon] works wonders (as do [splinter weapon] and [mark of pain]), along with [ward against elements]/[ward against harm]. How about something like [deep freeze][maelstrom] (sounds like an Ele hero might work here)? [ebon vanguard assassin support] as initial attack might help keep them immobilized while initiating massive AOE, followed perhaps (or replaced?) by [tryptophan signet].

It's been a while since I did this dungeon, but I remember it was very quick - semi-careful pulling, and the mobs were dead pretty fast. The hardest part was the end - I set up about 2 aggro circles away and tried pulling 1 by one and calling targets.
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UnChosen
Wilds Pathfinder
#32
Well....discordway AND sabway sucks in this dungeon because there's no corpse! No amount of modding will let those 2 builds get through the dungeon easily. Since I hate playing the "careful pulling" game, I did a fevered dream conditionway build...and just rush into a mob and AoE daze + blind + other conditions them all, then all I had to worry about are the volatile oozes.

Another option would be ROJway, although you'll probably die more often.

Just keep tweaking builds, eventually you'll find something that can blow through the dungeon quickly without pulling too much.
MercenaryKnight
MercenaryKnight
Forge Runner
#33
RoJway with someone spamming save yourselves should work wonders. Then again just about anything with save yourselves spammer works.
AtomicMew
AtomicMew
Jungle Guide
#34
Quote: Originally Posted by Ensign View Post
For almost every zone there's something better... I'm reading that for every area, there's a build tailored to that specific area which is faster than discordway. While that may be true (and may even be a discord variant), the time it takes to construct such a build more than offsets the time gained from the actual VQ.

If that's not what you're saying, please define "something better," which in context, is an H/H team build that is not only faster, but faster in more areas than discordway.
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Paul Dawg
Krytan Explorer
#35
I just did it with a three-hero combination of N/Rt resto, command para, and domination mes. (The henches were the two EotN monks, Devona, and Zho.) Wasn't even that hard. The only thing moderately annoying was the aggressive oozes' blocking ability, for which next time I'd probably bring a N/Rt curser with [defile defenses] instead of the domination mesmer.

Don't take on more oozes than you need to, and you'll be fine. Pull as needed. You'll deal with a whole army of little oozes at the end, as you kill the prismatic oozes one by one and they spawn their little offspring, but so what--they're not particularly difficult.
Marty Silverblade
Marty Silverblade
Administrator
#38
Did this full H/H, HM, no consumables at all. Just some decent pulling, aggro holding, and protting/spiriting and it isn't too hard.