Bogroot Growths 20 Min Hero Build/Tac's/Video

I love the video, 1080 is fantastic quality. I would suggest replacing the emo with an ST rit. Enemies don't really hit hard and biggest threat is pressure, which is covered by two copies of PwK, fall back, and never surrender. You could be more aggressive with that change as to heroes with heals is more than sufficient. An ST rit makes incubi trivial so you don't have to rely on minions to soak up damage. I'd suggest a second copy of fall back to relieve pressure and break aggro one of the esurge mesmers. You could also stick CTT somewhere to avoid lightning touch. You can put inspired hex on the illusion mesmer to copy crippling anguish and to help keep yourself clean of hexes while pulling. Drain delusions is far better energy management than wnwn with fragility on the bar.

I would also use major or sup runes on the mesmers, but that's completely up to the player. Lower health would also attract aggro from enemies to burn of hexes with hex breaker, just a thought. I support the use of dual MM because there are plenty of bodies, enemies ball easy and die fast, and it provides an opportunity to run past groups. It also prevents your group from eating splinter weapon (which isn't really a problem unless you're slow).

On the second level in the spread out group before the res shrine and door, you can easily run past because the allied group will distract enemies from your team and you won't come under pressure.

Bogroots is one of the easy and fast dungeons, but this is a pretty flexible setup. I'm a fan of the e/mo, have gone threw the entire game with it. although the st rit is good its not good for me since i love to c space threw things and the infuse on the e/mo is what i need.

As far as relying on minions to soak up damage, thats not the case at all, their there to get hit with splinter so they die with death nova on.

The dual fallback's i've tried and it didn't work as good as this and the inspired idea i don't like because of the 20 second recharge. I said at the top this is for the average player, the average player isn't going to micro manage inspired on crippling and then cast it.

Speaking of which xD Did another run now since a friend asked me what I was doing, said I just did this and then he said he needed it.

Anyhow, as soon as we enter second floor, he goes AFK. When he comes back his CPU is bugged up bla bla bla. Long story short, I ended up doing the second floor, all the way up until the boss, with 6 heroes and without the Shared Burden hero (aka only the 2 heals on SoS and no hex removal). Arrived at the boss room lock at 13 minutes xD Wiped at boss room and he arrived shortly after then we cleaned up. Completed in 17 mins again ;p

In other words, heals are overrated xD ST and ER prot even more so! I dropped the hex breakers for spiritual pain and it helped breeze threw the beetles. Also dropped one of the esurge for a panic. Went 6-13 again but felt like it was on the lower side of both numbers. pretty sure i can get 6-12 with it, got doubled by the storm clouds and slowed me down.

Try drop the E/Mo for a smitemonk as well.

Reversal of Damage | Smite Cond | Smite Hex | Castigation | Judge's Insight | Strength of Honor | GoLE or whatever energy management you prefer. With either UA or RoJ this build would be very strong, massively boosts your own damage and does decent healing too. dropped the healer nec for a smite monk with empathic removal and managed to get 6-12 first try. Can't go without the ER. Never knew that SOH would trigger on all foes when i used Death Blossom.






After doing 4-5 more runs i have to say the smite monk is a lot better. just did a 6-13 without trying really, didn't even run threw the first part on the second level i was talking to the girlfriend and c spaced threw that part and still got 13 so the smite monk is defiantly better. Gonna have to redo the whole post now

Seriously, drop the ER Prot a few runs and see how it goes Take your old nec back, 20 minions is pretty darn win

PS, IAU stacks with all other armor bonuses so you can grab Critical Agility instead for IAS, more crit and more armor. Thats also win ;p SY! is extremely overrated as a skill. Just tried with no emo, wiped at the first part of the first level. Also IAU is used for the poison/cripple traps. Only hits me so im able to run right threw all 4 of them on the second level without having to stop, drop spirits and then mend out the cripple.

Managed to do the second part in 14 without the e/mo but it was really sketchy and ROJ just made them scatter slowing the run down even more.

lol /12chars SY! isn't reliable enough unless you stack heavy hex and condition removal and powerprot the character you got it on. And even if you do, you still have to worry about and account for the possibility of degen/armor ignoring damage/your main character dying or getting shut down by say Ulcerus lungs.

That means you're already bringing more then enough defence to reliably keep an entire team alive just to make sure you keep a single character alive so that he can keep the rest alive.

And on a melee you should already to some degree be balling and tanking your foes in order to kill them efficiently. Which means that by bringing SY! you're generally wasting a slot that would be better spendt increasing the defence of your primary character.


All in all you prot up massively in order to get a near guranteed success. Which is not a bad thing, but unless the average foe hits for 150-300ish damage per hit the way they do in UW HM or DoA HM. Or you loose all progress if you die the way you do in some WoC HM missions. You're massively overshooting your target by bringing SY! because you're increasing your defencive capabilities by sacreficing your offence without actually needing to do so.

Between rupts, minions, spirits, a couple of heals (2-5 skills) and a few prots on MM is already more then enough defence for all EOTN Dungeons, vanquishes and NM / HM missions. Add in a smite monk if you're melee and voila.