Creating a good farmer

I am confused about whether to choose W/Mo and Mo/W. I am still fairly new to the game and would be very appreciative if someone could explain the pros and cons of choosing one over the other when it comes to farming. I'm thinking of starting a new farming char as well, and am also debating on which profession combo to choose. as far as I know,

W/mo
-generally have more health
-have better armor
-can take a lot more damage (for the above reasons) and can also dish out more melee damage

Mo/W
-do not have as much health or armor as strong as warriors
-but they have more powerful healing spells (divine favor lets their healing spells heal much more than a character without divine favor)



So it all really evens out in the end I guess. I would choose a monk just because it would be faster to accelerate through all the missions since everybody is always looking for a monk

Hey!
Im a level 20 necro/(doesnt matter i can change) and i was wondering if you guys knew any good farmbuild for a necro.

Oh.. and while we're at it.. where do you guys farm? and if its a sensitive issue give me a PM! please

thx! I don't know much about necro's but myself from seeing necro's pve I would go with a Minion Master Build make sure to get death nova so that when ur minions die they go boom and inflict more pain. only problem I see is getting your minions started w/o sum1 helping u kill a few things to allow you to grab minions. And remember I am a noob when it comes to necros thus If I stated something that was wrong plz plz dont shoot me.

Zealot Channeler [Mo/Me] I decided to give this a try this afternoon with my mesmer. No divine favor. Still works pretty well. I don't have anything to compare it to, but I take down 6-mantle groups pretty quickly. Seems faster than the videos, but I'm not sure. I have no downtime beyond running from one group to the next.

I've found that any two of Shielding Hands, Mark of Protection, and Life Attunement work fine for keeping me alive. Currently I'm using Shielding Hands and Mark of Protection because I hate losing pips (also, those two should be able to keep me alive against way more than 6 if I ever find a decent way to get more than 6 together at a time), but if I ever get around to grabbing Shield of Judgment, I might try replacing Aura with it and replacing Mark with Attunement.

At the moment, I'm running

Smiting 12
Protection 11 (12 if I weren't too lazy to do Hero's Challenge)
Inspiration 4 + 1 (a rune, +2 if I weren't too cheap to buy another mask)

Divine Boon
Mark of Protection
Balthazar's Aura
Shielding Hands
Channeling
Physical Resistance
Zealot's Fire
Balthazar's Spirit

It's been a fun change from my standard PvE domination/inspiration spec. I can only imagine what it would be like with some points in divine favor. I'm just way too lazy to level another character right now.

I use a Mo/W myself for farming, but It's not quite the same as the ones posted previously in this thread.

My attributes are:
12+2 Smiting (Will be +3 once I put my major rune in)
9+2 Protection
3 Divine Favour

Still need to do Attribute quests to get my protection to 12, but it works as is.

My skill setup is as follows:

1) Reversal of Fortune
2) Sheilding Hands
3) Symbol of Wrath
4) Mark of Protection {Elite}
5) Balthazar's Aura
6) Zealot's Fire
7) Retribution
8) Balthazar's Spirit

Mark of Protection pretty much assures that you WILL NOT be killed by almost any mob you are fighting due to the fact that you will kill pretty much any mob in under the 10 second duration of the spell. I find also that this spell is FAR better than Healing Hands simply because of the amount of healing you receive when using it. When I go farming in my spot, I can usually get about 3 Gold, 3 Blue, and 6 Purple (sometimes more) salvage items per run, which takes about 20 minutes. Why are you running a scalp and a major for +3, then another major for +2, when you could instead get a superior and a scalp+minor for the same effect with 25 more health?

i scrapped my w/mo and changed the secondary of my elementalist to monk, but im having serious problems, i went to farm some jade scarb in prophets path and when i went up to them i got totally owned, i have a smiting rod 11-22 damage. my attributes are set like this

smiting 10
healing 9
energy storage 10

my skills on the skill bar go as such-

balthazar's aura
symbol of wrath
zealots fire
healing seed
healing touch
orison of healing
reversal of fortune
ressurection signet (i always carry it)

in the battle i lured them in, when they got to me i immediately casted balthazar's aura which didnt seem to do nothing, then i casted symbol of wrath which hit them for 24 dmg each sec but wasnt nearly enough, then i had cast orison of healing on my self to keep me from getting killed which didnt work.

where did i go wrong? First, you have no elite skills on that list, and the 2 skills that make for a very elite soloing run for monks are Shield of Judgement and Mark of Protection. Take your pick which one you should use (damage versus healing).

The objective is to maximize your ability to damage mobs. First buff you should be casting is Zealot's Fire, prior to even gathering the mobs. Keep the target on you. Once you get them collected and they just start beating on you, cast Healing Breeze to bump up your regen. As a side-effect, this will also damage all mobs around you because of Zealot's Fire. Then quickly cast Balthazar's Aura. This, at your smiting prayers level, should do 20 damage per second to all mobs around you. It will also do additional damage to the mobs around you because of Zealot's Fire. Then cast Symbol of Wrath.

Unfortunately the rest of your skills are somewhat weak in order to counter the damage the mobs are doing. Orison can't outheal them, and you have no points in Divine Favor in order to get decent results from Healing Touch. Healing Seed is going to do very little for you in this particular setup as well. Reversal of Fortune is worthless (imho) against gangs of mobs. It negates a single hit when you're getting hit by 4 or 6 mobs.

You really need to capture either Shield of Judgement or Mark of Protection in order to negate the DPS from the mobs. Either that or pull out one of the elementalist protection spells and use it. I haven't played enough with my elementalist to understand what's available at higher levels yet, so I can't answer that for you.

With your setup above, I can't imagine you'd be able to outlast the scarabs and do enough damage to be effective. You could try the Divine Boon trick and take that as your direct heal and just keep spamming it. It's a 3/4 second cast with immediate recharge. You could possibly get enough of those hits in to spam them with Zealot's Fire hits. But you'd probably want to improve your Divine Favor levels in order for that scenario to work well.