Figured out how to use 55mo to Solo UW

Hi there guys. I realize using 55mo to solo UW is horribly inefficient, but I'm pretty cheap and don't want to buy EoTN to be able to perma, so that's what I run with. That, and I'm old school and have only been getting back into GW for the past month or two, so I'm going with what I have.

Anyway, this thread is mainly directed at those who, like me, don't have EoTN or are just getting back into the game and have a 55mo.

So, you can do this alone or with a Hero (MOX in my case, since you don't need to do anything to get him).

Solo, I ran the same build I run to do most other farms - Prot Spir, Healing Breeze, Arcane Echo, Ray of Judge, Essence Bond, Balths Aura, Mending, and Mantra of Resolve.

With MOX, I just gave him SB and Resurrect. I'm going to try giving him Zealots Fire in the morning. I'm pretty sure other smiting spells cause scatter, so that's about it.

Now, I realize I didn't figure out something special or anything, and what I do is pretty obvious... Simply cast your 3 maintained's and go to the first group of Aatxe (2 + the 1 that paces, =3) on the left. So far, of my 8 runs to get the system worked out, there's only been an NM there 4 of the 8. However, I'm pretty sure the NM's don't spawn if you're not running any enchants, so you can't just run over there and expect them to pop up. It could happen, but it could not, so cast your 3 maintaineds.

Once the NM spawns, use prot spir right away. Chances are you've already aggroed the Aatxe. I think there's a way to get them to drop aggro, but I forget, so I just use my ninja-like reflexes to recast prot spir before I get hit. Cast Prot Spir before the aatxe gets you, then wand the NM. Recast all your spells (keeping up PS and HB, and cast BA and EB first). Once you get everything setup, it's just the simple AE+RoJ+RoJ+RoJ+AE+RoJ+RoJ. Takes about a minute to kill each group of Aatxe.

After the first group, you can usually aggro NM without Aatxe. If you can't, same procedure. I basically did this, then clear the chamber (Grasping only take 2 RoJ's to kill, so they can be taken out in ~10 secs). I made my way to the smites, and cleared nearly all of the smites before I accidently aggroed Coldfires and got ownt.

If you go with MOX, basically use him to cast SB on yourself. Speeds up the process quite a bit, and I'll probably be experimenting with using him for mending/BA/EB/etc, as well as... well, everything. The only problem I had in my 2 test runs with him was that I'd forget to target myself, so he'd cast SB on himself and I'd get FUBARed.

Also, on another note... I cleared aatxe and 90% of smites and didn't get any ectos at all yesterday. Wtf? Did they lower drop rates epically?

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