Ritualist Solo UW NM

I only do a Lab clear, and kill the mindblades that spawn over at the vale along with the few skeles there. If I get that far I usually resign or get very aggressive with mobs/pulling to the point of death. Don't really like Smites takes too long, though I've tried some experimentation with them by bringing extra disenchantment such as mirror of disenchantment along with the disenchant spirit but there are often slot issues and the like.

I don't do chaos planes...Not only do you have to get through the mountains which is a pain you also have the very slow killing process of the mindblade groups...And if one decides to put migraine on you thats often half your hp which pulls them to you even more, so you have to be careful with your placement and so on.

I really like Pbond on my bar, which is also another reason I don't like those two areas because its mostly a wasted slot at this point.

Consider: Dropping blind spirit for blackpowder mine. If you are good, it does the job far better. Alternatively you could use both, but its abit overkill.

Also consider dropping spiritleech aura for extra stat points and a free slot. Summon spirits is a waste of a slot if you're soloing IMO.

I also use a superior channeling rune, but it doesnt really matter that much if you do or not.

Well, I might be underestimating the Spirit's range, but the behemoth on the third level gets free shots at me while I place spirits. I use superior runes so I can't last that many hits. I can get the first 6 (atleast I think its 6) but when you have to travel up the winding road I always die. I've tried youtubing it but couldn't find a video.

My bar is:
Pain-Bloodsong-Vampirism-Signet of Spirits-Shadowsong-Painful Bond-Armor of Unfeeling-Spirit Leech Aura.

Attributes:

Communing-8+1+3
Restoration-10
Channeling-10+3
Spawning- 8+1

Maybe I built myself wrong, or maybe the process of which I eliminate Behemoths is wrong, but either way I'm stuck.

I recently made a video for Rit UW farm, you can watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHs5f_nsyTk

Kills everything except smites - could be but takes too much time -.

Timing and luring is important. Don't take risks, know when to retreat.

just wondering, is spirit leech aura necessary for this build, as i'm yet to purchase eotn
( roll on pay day lol)

Im sure SLA is not needed, but it helps I guess. As for behemoths, get behind a hill or something, lay down spirits, then run out, summon spirits into there range. go back, hide.

I've come back from a long hiatus from GW, used to mainly PvP but would solo UW and FoW in between offnights and thought the Vengeful was Kinai ashes build for UW was SUPER easy and could clear smites from the chamber in around half an hour.

Well a lot has changed since then and it still works but its a pain in the ass so I tried this spirit spam build...and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but sometimes it just seems like mobs die so quick and easy and othertimes its just not working the way it should be. Has anything changed recently?

You're referring to the smites with the last statement? They're tricky because they can heal themselves a little, can remove hexes (Painful Bond, if you're running it), and can kill your spirits with their smiting skills. What you can do is spread your spirits out so Zealot's Fire will only hit one spirit at a time and then recast it once they move onto the next one. It's a bit fiddly and may take an attempt or two but it's definitely possible to kill them.

More generally though it could depend on things like how the spirits target (all attacking one target or attacking different targets).

Well at first I just had an issue with the overall execution. I think I understand what I was doing wrong, getting mobs(aataxes specifically) to attack certain spirits firsts. In my 2nd attempt at this I was able to clear everything up to the vale, up to the behemoths, and some smites.

Issue are with the smites now...they seem so buggy and glitchy. The first 2 groups I was able to make a line with my spirits and it worked great. They would kill them quickly but I could keep spawning spirits in a row or a semi circle and they kept following. The groups in the deeper part of that region however did not like my strat and would leash their aggro and go back to their spawn point too soon.

where do i get vampirism ive been to the hero trainers in kamadan and the great hall and I cant find it

Vampirism is listed under 'Sunspear skills' from the trainer in the Great Hall.

Although I'm sure it's common knowledge, for those new to this build. Instead of multiple entries to the UW, you can always lug a hero along for res duties while you practice should something go badly. You can flag them far enough back to not affect the drops.

Personally to me, if you're doing this for straight farm profits, I would take the Rt on a few feather runs and sell the stack for 8or 9k a pop. Far less time consuming, and much easier. Then you can barter for the ecto. Granted this as long as consets are the rage.