griffon farming build (axe,tactics)

BTW...not my build but I am also not sure where I picked it up either. I think the creator of the "ultimate Griffon farming Build" used to be a regular then a mod on the RPG Stars forums. I forget his name though so long ago, anyone know who I mean?

Edit: I was thinking of the Aura build pre AoE nurf. Not sure if he posted the Glads Def build.

undead, where do you cap healing hands? also, if you know where I can cap charge, that'd be useful as well, thanks in advance. ^^ both were at peredition rock

this is more of a starter build the defence is way too high and the damage is too low , sheild stance is not required , well its a nice guild though good job , now how many griff build threads have we had... hmm i think someone should make a realy realy fully detailed guide with lots of different diffucultly level builds for girffion farming and vids , then make that a sticky and we can stop having constant new griffion w/mo build threads with little difference in builds. ^ agree 100% but I am not writing the guide Well not yet at least.

Besides the war of "my build is better" would always follow in the thread.

I am going to start my own ban on posting in any more griffon farming builds.

welp. i have decided to show on here my effective farming build for farming at least 15 griffs at one time and lots of minotaurs too! i have went to aug rock and taught this build to people and they say they're amazed by it. so here goes.

First off my char that i'm using is of course a W/Mo20. i have gladiator armor for the energy. and the gladiators helm which gives you a +1 to tactics.

for runes i'm using:

1 minor axe mastery
1 minor tactics
1 minor vigor
1 major vigor
1 major absorption

doesnt matter where you put them.

for skills and attributes i am using axe, tactics and healing.

Healing prayers 10
Axe mastery 12 (11+1)
Tactics 12 (10+1+1)
stength 1 (your left over attribute point, cause you know you might get that 1% for a critical!

for Skills now (in order from left to right):

Live Vicarously (gains 10hp for each atk)
Vigorous spirit (gains 10hp for each atk)
Cyclone axe (+10 dmg)
Executioners strike (+32 dmg)
Gladiators defense (block melee atks and target takes 25dmg for each block)
Dismember (inflict deep wound for 16secs)
Shield Stance (for blocking melee atks)
Bonetti's defense (for blocking melee atks and gaining energy back)

the purpose of this build is to group ALOT of enemies together around you in your agro circle and to block ALOT so that you dont die but kill them all at the same time you block

activate your two healing enchanments, run around griffs and/or minotaurs and get as many as you can get. as soon as you do activate one of your stances (gladiators defense, shield stance or bons defense) cyclone axe all of them (watch the screen to see all the 10+hps gained back) keep using other atk skills like cyclone axe, exec strike, and dismember. keep using cyclone axe to bring up your adrenalin. Now by this time your stance (we'll use glads defense for example) will run out of time. just activate another stance blking skill like shield stance, keep going on the atk skills, by this time shield stance will run out, you'll run out of energy to use your cyclone axe. not to worry, use bons defense, to regen your energy BUT dont use a skill just keep atking normaly. now if bons defense runs out, and glads defense and shield stance is still recharging, and your vigorous spirit has run out, use cyclone axe to bring up your adrenal skills, activate vig spirit, and then activate bons defense again to keep blocking melee atks on you.
when bons defense runs out, just keep using another blk skill like glads defense or shield stance. wash, rinse and do it again! as long as you have one of your blocking skills on..your fine and your HP dont go down, i hardly ever have my hps go past a 1/4 of my hp bar.

I find it really helpful to keep my finger on the C key on the keyboard (targets closest foe) then hit space bar, with my thumb, to atk. and use my mouse to select skills and such.

now i have trouble on going against screaming claw, cause he activates gaurdian all the time. i find it really helpfull if i replace shield stance with disrupting chop to disrupt his gaurdian skill. it takes awile to kill the bosses, screaming claw is harder than featherfist cause he's a monk griff. featherfist you can kill with just the build i described above. i find this build really usefull and quite honestly people said it was flawless! and also get alot of comments like "holy cow i'm actually farming griffons!!!!" hehe

let me know what you think!

(please no flamming me) This built work perfect for me, The only thing i dont see why is in there i vigorous spirit. U do not have time to use this skill, ure finger should be on the Key "C" all the time for this to work. But it work really good, i was taking the mission from elona yesterday and farming the minotoure there i made over 10K in HR that is real good.