7H Team for Foundry (and maybe more)

I don't really care if you think RHG is easy. A lot of my friends who has good heroes still can't do it. Thats why I put the info up. No offense intended! Note I said 'relatively'. Compared to the Foundry, it's a cakewalk. Compared to the rest of NF, it's a pain in the.. yeah. Just working on Foundry in particular; the rest of them are easier to handle. Gloom is easiest with a tank to hold aggro at the front, or minions. Something such as 'Stand Your Ground!', SY, 'They're on Fire!', bonds of any kinds, will mitigate the damage long enough as long as you have some control of where the enemies are going.

Ideally, with the builds I put up, in the gloom; let the Order of the Whispers take the brunt of the first enemies, and use Shared Burden mercilessly to keep them in one spot. For extra safety, have the SoS put spirits up a bit ahead. Generally, all the casters/rangers will ball up together and go down fast. Once they're down, the rest goes down shortly.

Outside of the cave, clear the patrols before doing too much else. There's several strategies for the boss, too, that are effective.

It's just the first four rooms. The entire area in 10 minutes is probably impossible.



Lol, I thought the logical conclusion from "my style of play is very aggressive" would be "I love to run highly offensive builds".

I admit, running almost unadulterated offense like this one is very risky. Shove the build a little too hard and you'll see the red bars fall precipitously. Shove it just a little harder and you'll cause the Death Pact chain wipes that happened to me. The player who uses such a build must be prepared to concentrate, micro and aggro, because a small mistake can mean the end. In areas like DoA that's rather distressing, although it doesn't stop the build from returning fast times like this one.

I want to say I do this all the time, but to be honest, I usually do not play at this level. I often prefer to Leeroy straight from one group to the next. Someday I hope to find a build that can output as much (or nearly as much) damage as this one and still have everything else that I want. It might not be possible sadly, but I'll keep trying to fine-tune things.

In the meantime, I'll say that if two semi-healers, one Panic, one Aegis and one Prot Spirit suffice, then certainly combinations like two semi-healers, one Panic, one PI, one Aegis, one Prot Spirit and one "Stand Your Ground!" should be more than enough to allow some leeway to make mistakes and still live to tell the tale. 7 defensive characters, especially with one ER Ele maintaining Protective Bond, is simply way overkill. I don't mind micro; in fact, I've found it extremely useful. There's just a limit to how much I'll do, and how careful I'll be. I'm not entirely sure.. And I'm perfectly fine with accepting that you're more talented, but then again, most people (you know guru's an exception because only players really into the game will come here >_>) can't even get through the DoA with heroes anyways at all, so I'm content with myself and how well I play.

How did you complete the second room? That's where I see issues.. The Terrorwebs don't get interrupted, and when they get lower on health, the team goes down fast.

Greenough has a similar style, two healers, ER prot, and SY, instead of my two healers, ST Rit, and bonds. Same effect. I'll try and beat my own time, it seems like maybe I just play a bit slower. I wonder if foundry <30mins is possible.

I also wish I had access to multiple mesmers; and what is that necro build there?

I'm glad to see a lot of input and thought into this.