A challenge for people who find the game too easy now :)

Now that we have 7 heroes and mercenaries, PVE is really really easy. Some people dont like this and might want to make it more challenging for fun.

I've had an idea for a long time now that I have been wanting to try out for fun, and having 7 heroes and mercenaries has made it possible.

Play the game with nothing other than core skills and professions. No prophecies skills, nothing from factions, nothing from nightfall, and nothing from EOTN.

Feel free to play whatever you want doing this, whether its a mission or a vanq in any of the chapters, and try to do it in HM.

And to make it more fun, try doing it without any consumables. Not even pumpkin cookies.

If you want to take this challenge to the extreme and since the survivor title resets now, try and get survivor as well from only using core skills. I strongly suggest NOT attempting this in hard mode

If anyone wants to do any of this, then feel free to post your builds, what part of the game you are playing, screenshots and anything else you want to share in this thread. You can play whatever part of the game you want from prophecies to EOTN, even DOA if you want to get a real whooping, or something a bit easier but still challenging like sorrows furnace.

Or you could always try like what people used to do for Final Fantasy.

Single Class Only.
With Merc Heroes you can pretty much create a team of 8 with the same profession. The limit would be that you couldn't use skills from a secondary.

There would be some professions that would get through it pretty easy (Like 8 monks) but the rest might have a slightly harder time.

I just did my first vanq using core skills and a balanced team, it was actually easier than I thought it would be, but I died once, and my heroes died a few times:



A few build errors I made:

- No hard res. The only core hard resses are rebirth and resurrect. I hardly ever use my res sig so I will take rebirth instead.

- No prot spirit. The monks are already under very heavy pressure and wouldnt be able to cope with prot spirit. However, both me + vekk had plenty of energy to spare with elemental attunement. I also took flare on vekk which is pretty pointless because he has enough attacks skills, so I can change flare to prot spirit.

- I forgot to put Empathy on my mesmer. Empathy would have really been a lot more useful in bigger fights.

- I never needed to use GOLE with my elite, and my damage was lame. I should try switching to a Lightning Surge build instead of earth, I was having to heavily rely on obsidian flame for damage which left me far too exhausted.

HM is very manageable with 7 heroes using core skills, and the team balance is a very nice change from always running gimicky builds like spiritway, discordway and other stuff.

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