New Age Farming! (life after desert griffon farming)

Tsunami Rain

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Join Date: Aug 2005

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 08:45 - 1

So Arena Net "nerfed" the desert griffons outside of Augury. SO? There are a lot of other locations that we can still farm

! We just have to put our minds together. Here are my contributions (among a few others).

Shiverpeak Griffon Farming:
Where: North Exit of Fort Rankor (Southern Shiverpeaks) aka. Snake Dance

Skills: Protective Spirit, Shield of Judgement, Healing Breeze, Bonetti's Defense, Holy Veil, Balthazar's Spirit, Blessed Aura, Mending

Breakdown: +9 Heal, Max Smite, +10 Prot, +12 Divine
(play around with your combo's for your best results)

How To Get There: As soon as you exit fort rankor, Go straight, Take a left at the fork in the road. Steer clear of the group of Dwarves and take a left into the Blessed Griffons (there may be a vew dolyak drarves around but im sure you can handle those).

How To Farm It: Normal Griffon Style...Just imagine the Dolyak's are sort of like large dev's in the desert (aka deal with them).

Gold Per Hour: [TBA]

Downsides: Dolyaks are hard to deal with...very hard (avoid if possible).
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Talus Chute Ice Imp Farming
Where: Outside the entrence to Ice Caves of Sorrow (aka Talus Chute)

Skills: Protective Spirit, Shield of Judgement, Healing Breeze, Bonetti's Defense, Holy Veil, Balthazar's Spirit, Blessed Aura, Mending
NOTE: For better results, you may want to switch out bonetti's defense with ballanced stance.

Breakdown: +9 Heal, Max Smite, +10 Prot, +12 Divine
(play around with your combo's for your best results)

How To Get There: As you step outside of Ice Caves of Sorrow, Proceed to the revive point. Take a right turn (as that is the only place you can go). Cross the bridge and you will notice a fairly large group (not as big as those up in mineral springs) of Ice Imps.

How To Farm It: I advise you watch this video-> http://files.filefront.com/idswmv/;4.../fileinfo.html of Remmeh soloing Ice Imps with a 55 monk. Once you have seen the video, you will notice two things.

1. Remmeh's life started at 8hp. (you dont need to get 8 hp. just lower your hp!. get the -20 offhand from presear (poor tenant quest) or any other -20 offhand. equip. die once or just use your -50 offhand (for 55 hp) if you dont have one.

NOTE: Buying or farming for a better -20 offhand would help A LOT since the only problem that I find very common is that I run out of Energy when I need it. Another might be that I cant seem to solve the interrupt problem well.

2. Remmeh casted SoJ BEFORE going into the pack of Ice Imps (so he has time to recast his Protective Spirit when the ice imps are knocked down)

Use this method to farm the Ice Imps (and beware not to aggro those siege golems!

)

Gold Per Hour: [TBA]
NOTE: Nice Drops

Downsides: VERY HARD. Interrupted a lot. For Experienced Farmers. No perfected build. No IDS.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Lord_Seafood's Ice Imp Build:
Quote:

Mo/Me

Inspiration 6
Healing 13
Smiting 16
Protection 7
Divine 7

Protective Spirit
Breeze
Shield of Judgement
Zealots Fire
Mantra of Resolve
Essence Bond
Mending
Balthazars Spirit

I find I can take about 5 or 6 Imps at a time. Just keep Mantra of Resolve up and watch for the drop in energy everytime you cast in a Malestrom thing. Its probably beneficial to stay in the Malestrom thingies as you'll be getting 2 energy every hit. So you'll find energy isn't a problem. Most of the time Zealots will be useless, however if you get one Imp on its own it makes it a hell of a lot quicker so I choose to bring it. I also run out and take out the Ice Golems in the frozen river thingie, theres more Imps further north. Probably wise to bring some keys too, I saw three chests on one run.

[NOTE: Resolve works WONDERS. Thanks

]

--edit--
I would like to also add that it is much easier to farm these Imps with 2 55 monks. One would run an echo spell breaker 55 monk (yes this one doesnt attack) while the other is a regular SoJ 55 monk (as seen above). The echo 55'er cast sb on the attacking 55 monk and maintains it. Don't know how effective this may be (since drops are spread out). Tested it with a friend only once before he had to go. More tests and a build later.
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After getting the Ice Imp farming down, I'll try and see if farming the Siege Golems that are near the Ice Imps are profitable as well.

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Sand Drake Farming:

Where: Outside of Elona's Reach (aka Salt Flats)

Skills: Protective Spirit, Shield of Judgement, Healing Breeze, Bonetti's Defense, Holy Veil, Balthazar's Spirit, Blessed Aura, Mending

Breakdown: +9 Heal, Max Smite, +10 Prot, +12 Divine
(play around with your combo's for your best results)

How To Get There: Walk outside and the Sand Drakes are scattered around that area.

How To Farm It: Same as Desert Griffons (including those loveable dev's)

Gold Per Hour: [TBA]
NOTE: most likely decent - low yield of gold/items compared to other areas listed on this thread. Other than that, THIS IS ONE OF THE EASIEST 55 FARMING LOCATIONS. Reccomended for training for new 55 monks.

Downsides: Decent - Low gold/item yield. Monster groups are spread out over a vast area.
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Desert Griffon Farming (elsewhere) by Linsys:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linsys

One thing I did notice is that the sand worms now go back underground when using AOE on them...

However this is one of my favorite runs because the Sand Giants drop gold items... and there are quite a few of griffons to farm.. about 15+ I think... and if you keep going you can farm some hydras as well.

The sand eles can be a bit of a pain, just try not to agro more then 3-4 of them.... when you need to cast something just run arround a bid, since they use shock which will knock you down. Gold Per Hour: [TBA] I haven't tried this build/run yet completely, but it should work without much of a problem.
NOTE: high yield of items, gold, etc. (since its so long)

Downsides: incorperating many different runs might make this run slow. Long run in general.
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Minotaur Farming (courtasy: AwesomeSauce)

Where: Outside Heroe's Audiance (aka prophet's path)

Skills: Protective Spirit, Shield of Judgement, Healing Breeze, Bonetti's Defense, Zealot's Fire, Balthazar's Spirit, Blessed Aura, Mending

OR any other 55 farming build you have (reletively easy farming spot)

Breakdown: +9 Heal, Max Smite, +10 Prot, +12 Divine
(play around with your combo's for your best results)

How To Get There: [See map above] Note: Yes you must use the teleporter to reach the mino's

How To Farm It: Same as you would desert griffons (with rockshot dev's around)

Gold Per Hour: [TBA]

Downsides: Not a lot of monsters to kill. There seems to be a lot of rockshot dev's around. Teleporting slows this run down.
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Sand Elemental Farming (quick and easy)

Note: As I was testing out the mino farming that Awesome Sauce posted, I spotted a decently large group of Sand Elementals to the left of Heroe's Audience.

Where: Outside Heroe's Audience (aka Prophet's Path)

Skills: Protective Spirit, Shield of Judgement, Healing Breeze, Ballanced Stance, Holy Veil, Balthazar's Spirit, Blessed Aura, Mending

Breakdown: +9 Heal, Max Smite, +10 Prot, +12 Divine, +3 Tactics
(play around with your combo's for your best results)

How To Get There: [see map above] Note: there are two main groups of sand elementals. The first group (the one I went to first) is on the right and contains usually less elementals. This group also contains a couple jade scarabs (so you decide if you want to farm that as well). The second group that I went to (the one on the left) is usually larger and usually never contains any scarabs.

How To Farm It: Use ballanced stance when casting/recasting SoJ. Use ballanced stance if you NEED to cast breeze or protective spirit (only if you are dieing and you keep getting knocked down). AND MAKE SURE you keep away from those nasty scarabs.

Gold Per Hour: 1-2k per run.
Runs are faster than griffon runs and a lot closer. Gold items DO drop (just not as much as old desert griffons used to). A lot of common items that can be salvaged into material. No word on runes yet.

Downsides: less golds than old desert griffon farming. Knockdown is irritating. Anti-Farming string might kick in.
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Questions? Comments? Leave A Message Here or PM Me In Game: Tsunami Rain

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

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Mo/Me

04 Mar 2006 at 08:51 - 2

I see you've been terribly overactive in the past hour!

Some very nice contributions and I guess i'll have to give those Imps a try.

Guess those bots will have to flood rankor >_>

As for me handling the Dolyaks in rankor. They're all..ZOMG IMA m35m3r j00. How I hate them so much.

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 08:59 - 3

Very active indeed. To tell you the truth...Last night I was on when the patch came out. I did try to griffon farm with no success. Then I went on GWG to figure out the situation. After figuring out that there was nothing I could do to farm desert griffons I went to bed (with a bad headache i must add). And guess what I was dreaming of? Thats right. Guild Wars Farming! I was farming in my sleep. By the next morning all that I could remember was farming Blessed Griffons in snake dance (no im not lieing). It's quite sad actually (to be dreaming about farming that is).

And yes...those Dolyaks are a bit tough to get by

I try to avoid them as much as possible or lure them away (which fails most of the time). And having those Dolyaks around would mean that botters would need to find a way to get around those Dolyaks without dieing

so i guess thats a plus.

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

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Mo/Me

04 Mar 2006 at 09:39 - 4

Now your mind is getting to intensive about Guild Wars. I reccomend a day's off -_-

May as well add that I got a bunch of azure remains and a -low and behold- a gold max damage req 8 spatha! *glow* Without much of a delay I indentified to find myself in disgust. No mods aside from an Ebon Hilt. T_T

As for bots. If they are anything like the Diablo bots I know, they would get away if anything got messy. Maybe there would be a scan around the field for those..dol...yaks..

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 09:50 - 5

lol a day off might be a good idea.

lambda the great

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W/N

04 Mar 2006 at 09:51 - 6

Don't forget about the other Desert griffon locations!

kc99

Frost Gate Guardian

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R/Mo

04 Mar 2006 at 15:30 - 7

Quote:

Originally Posted by lambda the great

Don't forget about the other Desert griffon locations! Where are they then?

awesome sauce

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

04 Mar 2006 at 15:36 - 8

Very nice, this should be stickied. You should also include the grawl farming outside port sledge, there's a lot to be farmed there too

Yanman.be

Banned

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04 Mar 2006 at 15:42 - 9

it's kinda hard with those necro's and warrior grawls..

btw , those blessed griffons just outside rankor, there's a lot avicara there :/ he's always tehre..doesn't attack ..noffin'

Seren!ty

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R/E

04 Mar 2006 at 15:57 - 10

take the exit into snake dance, not talus chute. There is no avicara in Snake.

Tyrent Frath

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Mo/W

04 Mar 2006 at 16:38 - 11

troll cave anyone?

cerb

Jungle Guide

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 16:40 - 12

Hey GJ. Remmeh had 8 hp because of the run to there, there's a place where he has to die else he's facing like 3 heretics and ice golems, so its pretty much impossible without SB. You don't really need 8 hp otherwise

Fred Kiwi

Wilds Pathfinder

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[cola]

04 Mar 2006 at 16:44 - 13

bah, trolls haven't dropped a gold in months for me

kosh

Krytan Explorer

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 17:12 - 14

just outside rankor. its ont easy,andu need to do where to go.
but took like 10 min to get this drops. sry for erase my build and my 2nd class.
still a biuld in the work

.
i can show in game how to get and where. whisper.

all im saying...there was life before the nerf. there is life after it,
think outside the box. woot.

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 18:31 - 15

oh sorry for the mix up. 8 hp was just a reminder to lower your hp (sinc its easier). I'll update.

--edit--
Updated: rephrased lower hp and added Linsys's desert griffon farming.

Lord Mendes

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

Derka-Derka Land

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04 Mar 2006 at 18:44 - 16

shame they removed lost strongbox from DD.
I used to farm all snakes dance (well most of it, normally avoided the stone summits in the beginning) all the way to DD and farm DD for chests...

Still all good, but for snakes dance i would recomend just running from those random stone summit heretics and start fighting ur way to DD when u get to the huge group of trolls.
BTW dont forget balanced stance. (the build Ubermancer posted is perfect for this... thanks uber)

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 18:58 - 17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Mendes

Age

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 19:39 - 18

You could always leave from Heros Audience instead of Dunes to avoid the enchanted bows or swords.

UBERNUBLET

Pre-Searing Cadet

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Mo/E

04 Mar 2006 at 19:50 - 19

i watched the video, and it looked like he/she/it was constantly dealing damage instaed of the one click dmg SOJ does.

and is it possible for a ids to drop here?

remmeh

Wilds Pathfinder

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R/Mo

04 Mar 2006 at 19:52 - 20

Quote:

Originally Posted by UBERNUBLET

i watched the video, and it looked like he/she/it was constantly dealing damage instaed of the one click dmg SOJ does. soj deals damage every hit

and thanks for mentioning me

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 19:54 - 21

i <3 you too remmeh. keep up the good work

awesome sauce

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04 Mar 2006 at 20:21 - 22

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 22:07 - 23

Quote:

Originally Posted by awesome sauce

I found another one. If you go straight out of heroes audience there's a porter. Go through that, go straight again for a bit and you'll find a giant pack of Minatoaurs ripe for the picking. They drop a lot of money. I'll check this out in a bit and add a map then add it.

--edit--
Many small mino groups scattered around (groups of 3 or so). Decent farming i guess.

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 22:36 - 24

-updated-
Added Mino Farming! (thanks Awesome Sauce for the heads up)
Added Fast Sand Elemental Farming!

Spook_Cell

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04 Mar 2006 at 23:34 - 25

A gold per hour ratio would be nice as well, sure you can farm pretty much anywhere that is rather obvious but if the gold is no good why bother. But good job so far.

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

04 Mar 2006 at 23:45 - 26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spook_Cell

A gold per hour ratio would be nice as well, sure you can farm pretty much anywhere that is rather obvious but if the gold is no good why bother. But good job so far. lol. be back in a few hours

j/k. I'll add things gradually.

-update-
Added in switchout skill for Ice Imp Farming.

Nadine

Frost Gate Guardian

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W/E

05 Mar 2006 at 00:02 - 27

I used to farm sand giants and griffons between thirsty and destiny. Just start from destiny and go as right as u can (in big map). Then proceed to thirsty. Lots of golden giant slayer hammers.

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

05 Mar 2006 at 00:08 - 28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nadine

I used to farm sand giants and griffons between thirsty and destiny. Just start from destiny and go as right as u can (in big map). Then proceed to thirsty. Lots of golden giant slayer hammers. I think Linsys covered that in his desert farming run.

-updated-
Added Gold Per Hour for Sand Elementals. [note: still in progress]

-updated-
Added Gold Per Hour for all runs.
Added Downsides for all runs.

Kasissia

Frost Gate Guardian

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R/Mo

05 Mar 2006 at 02:15 - 29

You should really, really add UW.

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

05 Mar 2006 at 02:23 - 30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kasissia

You should really, really add UW. You mean the "new tombs"? or the old UW in ToA? This thread is mostly about new farming alternatives. Besides, I believe there are others on this forum that are more qualified than me to talk about the UW

Tsunami Rain

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Mo/

05 Mar 2006 at 08:53 - 31

Just want to make it known that if anyone has any other areas/builds/guides that they want to post, please post it and I will check it out and add it.

--edit--
-updated-
Added 55 echo sb 2 man farming idea for Ice Imps.

Condemnation

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2006

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05 Mar 2006 at 18:31 - 32

Quote:

Originally Posted by awesome sauce

You should also include the grawl farming outside port sledge, there's a lot to be farmed there too

It is a very nice spot, plenty of armor drops.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yanman.be

it's kinda hard with those necro's and warrior grawls.. All the warrior grawls have is a knockdown, not terribly difficult, doyak sig or balanced stance FTW. The necro grawl do have chiblains, but they ussually dont use it unless ur suicidal enough to stand next to them. The necro boss likes to use chiblains then plague sig., and the ranger boss has poison, so there is some degen.

If you really want alot of ice imps, go north outside of marhan's grotto.
Just my opinion on things.

remmeh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

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R/Mo

05 Mar 2006 at 22:08 - 33

also, i'll throw in 2 more potential farms that i do sometimes:

Ice Floe (ice imps/pinesouls)
Talus Chute (trolls/giants/avicara) - i use dolyak signet.

kosh

Krytan Explorer

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Mo/

05 Mar 2006 at 22:44 - 34

ok 1st of all i'd like to say, i think this therd is agood idea, not just bcz of the nerf, maybe to add to sticky later on with some order in this.

about rankor to beacons.
i fell like i have somehow mislead ppl. its a great place to farm (last run got blk dye and about 3k after selling items). but u need to consider this:
and let me quote some ppl,

Originally Posted by ubermancer:

Before I begin, let me say it another way - this is not for everyone. Farming this area is hard to do effectively, and you are unlikely to do it efficiently your first try. If you like big challanges and rewards though, this is the spot for you! (I, of course, cannot guarantee your drop quality)

not even close to titans rune farming(alot easier i mean), but same idea,this is not your 55 walk in the Prophet's Path park.

Originally Posted by ubermancer:

It should be noted that it seems that Anti-Farm has a disproportionatly heavy influence on rune farming spots, or any place where you are making more a gamble with your time. This is to say, you could get 10 Gold armors, that all ID to Majors, or 1 Gold that turns out to be a Superior Vigor. The first is more likely to happen if you are suffering the effects of Anti-Farm. This is what I have observed in my tests, at least. I use strict controls, too, so it is unlikely my results are contaminated. In order to defeat Anti-Farm I switch where I farm after every run, and often change secondaries/characters as well. I rush a mission or two every rotation through all the spots I farm, and I very rarely suffer from Anti-Farm.

same idea, dont except nice gold drops each and every time.

some other things ive noted to myself:
there is sometimes an Heretic right outside in the 1st group of Blessed Griffons you see. imo just ozne in again and out. just bad luck i guees to start a run with that,btw if i rezone.. ni the path north i never see antoher one on the way. if u dont want to zone cover up your prot and your fine.

life begin at 13. (maybe a new moto for myself). yes u die in this run.

oh better off:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...d.php?t=108450
ty ubermancer. owe you alot.
anyhow the whole idea but the Lost Strongbox etc.

have fun and good luck.

Manic Smile

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

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05 Mar 2006 at 23:07 - 35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsunami Rain

I used to Dread's chest farm (before it got removed

) I also used Ubermancers build for it <3. However, it didnt occur to me that maybe I should farm snakedance untill after the patch.

Those trolls also might be a bit hard to get to for a lot of farmers.
Run in from Warcamp to DD and farm the giants(tons of em) and the 4 or so griffions from that portal...then move on to the giants up near the Armor DD Chest(if they are still there after the update) and repeat over and over. Lost of good drops, unfortunaly mostly hammers.

Age

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Mo/

05 Mar 2006 at 23:15 - 36

The only thing I can say is let it cool down for awhile and then wait untill factions comes out and see what happens.You mean you can use the doylak signet?

Dragons Right Arm

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2006

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W/Mo

05 Mar 2006 at 23:26 - 37

Elona reach has a good minotar solo farm, its the same skill set as griffons(just without the devours yay!) You can pull in about 15 minotars and this only takes about 3 minutes per run. They are all at the start of the mission so its super easy for farming and *cough* power leveling.

kosh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

hydrponic agriculture society [Herb]

Mo/

06 Mar 2006 at 00:03 - 38

Quote:
Originally Posted by cerb:

Anyhow, let's keep going on. Past that first point with Aviacara and Pinesouls, there will be three Pinesoul groups, where three Azure Shadows will pop up whenever you come close (or 2 if there's a Blessed Griffon around). They use Signet of Judgement which knocks you down, but no worries. If you need to cast Protective Spirit, cast it while you are knocked down to secure the cast. Count the Azure Shadows, and count the times you are knocked down. After they all used their Signet of Judgement, sprint/rush away.

same here.u can even kill them.count time u get Kd. and cast your soj after (a max smite rod like like the droks collector one with Halves skill recharge of Smiting Prayers spells (Chance: 20%)
with customize should do the trick to finish them off.

Next is the hard part, where the heretic is with a bunch of guiles on the road. Cast PS and SB before starting to run, they'll make you bleed so just cast Breeze on the road, then sprint, rush, try to outrun them. At all times you want to have your PS covered with breeze. That means everytime you need to cast Breeze, cast PS first then cover it with breeze. If you need to recast PS, cast it then cover with breeze. Try to monitor the Guile(s) like I did in the video to make it easier

again...same as here.cover your port with w/e til yuor far away.

good idead is gen. to read cerb thred.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...d.php?t=130072

ty cerb. great work.

blakecraw

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

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06 Mar 2006 at 01:54 - 39

You can leave granite citadel like ur goin on an ids run, then kill the stone summit in that place, i forget the name, then go on to mineral springs (watch out for heretics) and then die once, respawn w/ 13 hp (-20 offhand) and round up a big group of avicara, kill em, w/ mantra of resolve for the avicara brave savage slash (u should be fine even w/ the new energy loss increase) and echo soj and after that u can kill the rest at 55 hp, then rezone when u hit the end of the line of fierces, becuase those are the most effective kills here, and then start over. quite the sentence huh. u get armor and weapons, but i warn u now it'll kill u to see all the fellblades the braves carry when very few drop. seriously like half of em have fells in their hands. ><
one thing is be ready to switch to ur -50 offhand after u kill some avicara, as they dont all drop at the same time and at 85 hp u'll get whipped real quick from dual shot and ignite (4 separate chunks of dmg, not pretty). just wait till it's around 40 and swap.

Edit: sorry for the lack of info/organization earlier
Attributes:
16 smiting
13 healing -i like to run this one at 13 cuz u get degen from bleeding and life siphon at the same time
9 prot
9 divine
i think this works, if i have too many points just drop divine or prot

Skills:
Protective Spirit, Healing Breeze, Shield of Judgement, Arcane Echo, Mantra of Resolve, Essence Bond, Balthazar's Spirit, Mending

Tools: I use a weapon w/ a 20% enchantment mod, and switch to a wand if there's one ice golem lingering somewhere (fire dmg whips em real bad), which there often is, because one of em waits around while the others attack
-50hp offhand (durr)
-20hp offhand -this makes it easy to suicide once and then come back w/ 13 hp to kill a large group of avicara that would otherwise overwhelm u

mantra at 0 inspiration magic isn't a problem, u gain lots of energy and rarely have to rely on it to prevent interrupt anyway.

Age

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Mo/

06 Mar 2006 at 01:57 - 40

Very nice.It would be nice if I could do that and get all that loot anyway I use signet not shield as well as touch instead of breeze.I did mange to kill 5 griffons before the scrarabs came along I wasn't fineshed the game now I am.