Slaver's Exile H/H?

Kentz

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Join Date: Sep 2008

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Well I've been doing slavers lately, I finished it once and I've been thinking about which builds are most effective.

I am an imbagon, I ran it with a fire ele her, SS and monk. (+ healer hench, interrupt, cynn & devona/talon).

I also tried it with discord heroes, but it didn't work very well.


Any suggestions?

chuckles79

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Join Date: Mar 2009

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One thing for sure, you'd want your hero monk to be heavy anti-hex protter. You want a tank but you'd have to micro him/her. Personally the third spot should be either SoS Razah or MM.

That being said, I wouldn't try H/H ing it. I tried and while you can get a ways in on some of them, you should realistically at least bring a 2nd human with good heroes.

Slasher of Darkness

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Join Date: Aug 2008

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I H/H'ed Slaver's as a melee char, just brought prots, an offensive bar with some defence, and tanked, then I brought nukers, they nuked, one had Frozen Soil too, that was the way I won that dungeon.

chuckles79

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2009

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good point Slasher. Dwarfslaying mods and EoE would help as well. The rezzing in advanced areas is always the real challenge.

I've noticed that careful pulling is the key to SE, more than anything else.

Eragon Zarroc

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u doing it in NM or HM?

luwe80

luwe80

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I HH'ed every dungeon in NM and HM on me ele. HM Forgeweight was the worst dungeon in the game for me. I think I ran fairly generic builds for Thommis and Selvetarm, with Frozen Soil ofc. Duncan isn't too bad if you move the spirits and use the corner necro trick. Forgeweight I don't know what to tell you. I did bring Gwen with a heavy interrupt build. I used cons and took a lot of time.

Ginger Hunter

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Join Date: Jun 2008

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Ive just h/h NM and HM slavers on my assassin, personally I ran 2 MM's with prots and heals and 1 SoS rit with hex removal. Then took mhenlo, herta, cynn and zho.

Myself I ran a soldiers stance assassin with save yourselves. I agree, forgeweight was definitely the most difficult, I used cons for that part.

tcratty

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Join Date: Aug 2008

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as chuckles said carefull pulling is the key overaggro=death in most cases in slavers

Sam6555

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Join Date: Jun 2008

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When I did it NM for the book and title, I did the first 4 bosses with sabway heros (exactly as PvX's builds) both monk and both ele henchies. I was a Barrage critbow A/R with Frozen Soil.

When it came to Duncan, I was AFKing in Grotto and saw a N/A spamming for Duncan NM (he was swap/SV) so we teamed up and he had Discord heros, we didn't get a single death in the dungeon.

godis

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You only need to kill Duncan in HM and the the whole dungeon will count as HM.

HellScreamS

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totally true, just do everything in normal mode and only do duncan in hard mode, for that, I'd suggest can't touch this for those nasty popups, and swap to get all the spirits away from him, + a load of interrupts, that's in case you can't afford to get some sin to help you. A sliver perma should still be able to kill duncan in a matter of seconds.

Dre

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http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/p...tml?t=10434178

try reading this, you might find something there

MrWint

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2008

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Completely agree with HellScreams, I did this recently with my N/A MoP nuker and the PVX Spiritway team http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Build%3ATeam_-_Hero_Spiritway with Lo Sha, Mhenlo, Herta and one of the Warriors. Put Can't Touch This on one of the rits and micro'ed it when the Restless Dead showed up and Frozen Soil on the other rit. Swapped out the spirits around Duncan ( and there's a double crap load of them in HM ) and took Duncan down without too much trouble. Some careful pulling and the dungeon wasn't nearly as hard as I was anticipating.

timbo_3101

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Join Date: Jan 2010

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I recently did Vloxen HM then Duncan HM on solo H/H, because they are similiar in principle (except the swapping aspect of Duncan). That is, large heterogenous groups of dwarves with rez, summons, nuking, healers and protters (

I ran R/A build (AP spamming with FS) with triple necro heroes (discord-curses, discord-channel and discord-prot). Henchmen included earth nuking, mesmer and both monks.

Both dungeons were extremely challenging, duration 2-3h each, and requiring conservative tactics, heavy micromanagement and DP removals to protect heroes (but no consets), and lots of luck ...

Duncan was challenging too because my team was not the recommended SV or SigSorrow necro, so I had to flag around heroes and absorb massive Spirit Rift damage.

At chuckles69:
Yes I also prefer the earth nuker to the henchman fire nuker, due to team defence and knockdowns.

Good luck Kentz with your Duncan farming factory!

Jeydra

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2008

Standard spiritway thumps NM Slaver's on its head, HM as well actually but it takes more finesse (and you should bring a copy of Frozen Soil on one of the Rits).

See this thread: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/1...t10431929.html

I might write a guide to H/H'ing for Elementalist primaries someday, it should apply reasonably well to all caster primaries as well, and possibly Paragons.

kanuks

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Panic mesmer hero for the forgewight dungeon HM. Finished it in 37 mins (whiped once). Surprisingly easy.

Rumi The Poet

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I've been doing Slavers NM with h/h. In NM i dont use FS often as my team has rupts and they die so fast its not really necessary. HM is a different story, still tweeking builds for H/H HM Duncan. FS seems to be required for HM though. If anyone knows builds for H/H HM Duncan only, id be interested.

Crassus Praetor

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The spirit builds work fine for Duncan h/h HM.

I did Slaver's in NM and Duncan in HM on my assassin using those builds, using FS only in Duncan.

I basically used the builds in Jeydra's thread, swapping the MM for a Panic mes, if I'm really honest even with just Mhenlo for heals it was all fairly easy.

I suggest taking a look at the threads mentioned above, the spirit builds may be best suited to aggressive casters types but they still wipe the floor with Duncan HM on any profession.