Thirsty River Warrior/Monk runner?

derq

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Dec 2005

Gathering Of Destructive Souls

W/R

Ive seen multiple warriors do thirsty river single handedly, and charge 5k a person, thats 2k more then forge, and you get items, xp, and its shorter.


could anyone please tell me the build for one of these runners, since we never have favor to do UW or FoW anymore

commando91

commando91

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/

First thing you MUST do, is study the patrols... knowing the patrols is key to being successful. I myself have tried the run, but have never completed it.

Sab

Sab

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

A general build goes like:

W/Mo
Sever Artery
Gash
Galrath Slash
Savage Slash
Switch skill (e.g. Vigorous Spirit, Bonetti's Defense, Balthazar's Spirit)
Healing Breeze
Healing Hands (E)
Mending

Tweak as necessary. Don't forget you can always cough up 5k to see it in action.

PfakQue

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2006

MILF

W/Mo

Tried this awhile back with Watch Yourself and Dolyak Sig for tanking, was able to get to monk boss, but even with mend condition I kept getting blinded too often to deal enough damage. There is a way to lure the different teams to fight each other, that may be the key.

kvndoom

kvndoom

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Communistwealth of Virginia

Uninstalled

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by derq
Ive seen multiple warriors do thirsty river single handedly, and charge 5k a person, thats 2k more then forge, and you get items, xp, and its shorter.


could anyone please tell me the build for one of these runners, since we never have favor to do UW or FoW anymore
Have you SEEN them do it, as in paid and observed? I find it difficult to believe a single W/Mo could take down the priest and / or Monk boss in 2 minutes solo. Or at all, for that matter. But hey, what do I know?

Autumn_Leaf

Autumn_Leaf

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Taunton, Mass.

it can be done because i paid for a run a few months back from a guy in KOTR.
he was able to it with me at lev 10ish and the rest henchman.
if your looking for quick cash, its usually only for one person service as your are not able to solo it, so the droks run is still more profitable.

TheOneAndOnlyX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

The Last Sacrens

N/Me

I had a guy with fow solo it

Sab

Sab

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

It usually takes 20-30 minutes for the entire run, and yes, a W/Mo can do it solo (no henchies, no help from party members).

The idea is simple, since the different groups are hostile to each other, you get them to fight. That'll buy you enough time to take out the priests and the bosses. For the monk boss, lure him out of the cage (and out of spell-casting range of the priest), and keep him busy with the adjacent group while you whack away at the priest, one on one.

Mistical miss

Mistical miss

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

The Netherlands - Hattem

[RR]

yup, but very important, after killing the monk priest!
don't kill the other priests!

You will need one of the teams to kill off the monk boss
Otherwise he stays alive alone which is pretty stupid (no u cannot kill him alone!)

I have done this run 7 times succesfully now, I'll start asking for payment

Niosisw

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

Few Fallen Heros [FFH]

W/Mo

Post your build mistical!

Desires

Desires

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

A/

Its really not that hard if you put any thought into it. I run it onn both my war and MM. In some ways I perfer doing it on my war as I don't have to listen to people whine about having to help/die at the start for minnions.

Toll Booth Willie

Toll Booth Willie

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

tn, usa

E/Mo

If you are going to run it please make your runs free or solo until you get it perfected. The first time I had this run for my noob it took less than 20 min was super fast and wonderful. The second time the guy took almost an hour and a half and it cost the same both times
actually after an hour he said brb going to grab some dinner. I had wasted and hour and paid half so I wasn't gonna leave

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by LuxA
A general build goes like:

W/Mo
Sever Artery
Gash
Galrath Slash
Savage Slash
Switch skill (e.g. Vigorous Spirit, Bonetti's Defense, Balthazar's Spirit)
Healing Breeze
Healing Hands (E)
Mending

Tweak as necessary. Don't forget you can always cough up 5k to see it in action. Excellent build to do it with.

Yes, studing the patrolss is the key to success. The first ones easy, just run in kill priest, kill boss then kill each patrol. Second, get the 2 teams to kill eachother while killing priests, and I dont know about 3rd.

Da Caveman

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2006

Dynasty Warriors SHU

W/Mo

That build should work fine but it's very hard to get the second patrol to all attack eachother and survive because when you go to aggro one side it rapes you while your running. anybody else have any imput on this please anything will be helpful.

byteme!

byteme!

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

On Earth

W/P

W/MO
Sever Artery
Gash
Galrath Thrash
Savage Slash
Healing Breeze
Healing Hands (E)
Balthazar's Spirit
Mend Ailment

The first group just charge straight to the priest and take him out. Then you'll face...

Boss #1 Mesmer Type - A walk in the park. I bring Savage Slash to interupt his ether feast whenever possible to speed things up

During the second part aggro both groups of enemies and get them close together. The groups are hostile to each other so they'll start fighting each other leaving you time to get both priests and the bosses...

Boss #2 Elementalist Type - again not very difficult. If he pulls off Kinetic Armor back off for a bit and wait for him to stop casting spells on you and then count to 8 (that's how long Kinetic Armor lasts and it gets renewed each time he uses a spell within the 8 seconds it's up). You don't have to do this but I find it speeds up the process tremendously since he doesn't have that massive armor buff up and running. Kinetic has a long casting which makes it easily interuptable with Savage Slash.

Boss #3 Necro Type - The easiest and most pathetic boss for this mission. As long as he's in your aggro he'll continue to sacrifice himself to death. I usually just leave him alone and kill everything else around me first because by the time I get to him he's pretty much 2-3 hit kills.

This next and last stage of the mission pits you against 3 different hostile groups. I aggro the Ranger and Warrior's groups first and put them in battle against each other. Then I proceed to kill off the "WARRIOR'S PRIEST" first and slowly but surely I would also take down the Warrior boss as well. Now some of you are probably wondering why I killed off the Warrior boss and his priest first and left the Ranger's alone. The answer is simple. I want the Rangers group to stay alive and continue resurrecting. I'll explain why shortly. Since the warrior boss is dead my next target is the Monk boss. To kill the Monk and the priest is arguably the hardest part of the mission but totally doable. The trick is to lure the Monk boss out of the range of his priest and get the Ranger's army which you had strategicly allowed alive to come and not only distract the Monk boss but to help you slay him as well. Last but not least is the Ranger boss. Might be a good idea to bring Mend Ailment or something because being blinded all the time just makes the fight that much longer.


Boss #4 Warrior Type - Not much to say about this one. Just keep yourself healed and bash his face in.

Boss #5 Monk Type - A pain in the ass if you screwed up and killed off every other priest before the Monks. You can't fight him alone. Not as a W/MO.

Boss #6 Ranger Type - Besides being blinded the fight really isn't too difficult. Just like the Warrior keep yourself healed and bash his face in.

*TIP*
Keep an eye on the clock. Every 2 minutes any priest who is still alive will resurrect their army. It's a good idea to a)kill the priest asap or b)get out of the enemy base before this happens.

Katari

Katari

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Upstate

Me/

Evicerate
Sprint
Distracting Chop
Dolyak Sig
Watchful Spirit
Cyclone Axe
Healing Signet
Mend Ailment

Hurray for axes.

Jarryd999

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

House of The Rising Dead

W/E

how do you keep the ghost up? can you get him to stay at the door?

Demon Rebel

Demon Rebel

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Phoenix, Az

Kings of Chaos Knights (KoCK)

W/Me

All you need to do is click on the Ghost and he will stay there... I am going to have to give this a shot with my Sword and Axe Tanks.

4runner

4runner

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cali!!!

cdxx/the420th.com

Mo/N

this mission is so easy! why pay 5k to run we usually finish it in under 7mins, with the guild! WHy! But nice to know it can be soloed but it takes what 20-30 mins to complete, by that time you lose the bonus and why when with the guild it can be done in under 10!

????????????????

Despondency

Despondency

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

[kF]

W/E

You have to understand that not every guild does that.

byteme!

byteme!

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

On Earth

W/P

Quote:
Originally Posted by 4runner
this mission is so easy! why pay 5k to run we usually finish it in under 7mins, with the guild! WHy! But nice to know it can be soloed but it takes what 20-30 mins to complete, by that time you lose the bonus and why when with the guild it can be done in under 10!

???????????????? There's always a market for lazy people.

Lord Runner I

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

W/E

Ill stick to what that one guy said, but just keep in mind, the key is to stay alive and be able to kill things.. the easiest way to kill em all is let them kill each other.. just run back and forth, they wont get rezed

Spydergst1

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

Chicago

W/R

Can a W/r solo tirsty river? I have tried a few different builds but I can't kill the first grp fast enough. The priest rez's dead foe's before I can kill him. I believe I can do this if I can get past the first grp of monsters.
Any build suggestions for a W/r would be appreciated.

angel2046

angel2046

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mercury

The Esoteric Angels [SnaG]

http://files.filefront.com/EvilThirs.../fileinfo.html

With no music is absolutely boring. Someone freak me out with this copyright thingy. So play your fav songs and goes along with it. Enjoy!!!

This is not my best run. You can do better.

Open for limited download only. Yeah, [email protected] Lolx.

Trying to download other files but are restricted? Yea, too bad those have very nice songs in it & I don't intend to do it all over. Not my fault. Hehehe ...

Katari

Katari

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Upstate

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Spydergst1
Can a W/r solo tirsty river? I have tried a few different builds but I can't kill the first grp fast enough. The priest rez's dead foe's before I can kill him. I believe I can do this if I can get past the first grp of monsters.
Any build suggestions for a W/r would be appreciated. I used my /Mo secondary for condition removal, and a very minor amount of healing. You might be able to take /R, but you'd have to bring Antidote Signet, and an aditional defensive skill.

Jarryd999

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

House of The Rising Dead

W/E

What do you set your attributes for with the sword build and can someone post a video of themselves doing this please. that other video doesnt let me download.

Despondency

Despondency

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

[kF]

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by angel2046
http://files.filefront.com/EvilThirs.../fileinfo.html

With no music is absolutely boring. Someone freak me out with this copyright thingy. So play your fav songs and goes along with it. Enjoy!!!

This is not my best run. You can do better.

Open for limited download only. Yeah,
[email protected] Lolx.

Trying to download other files but are restricted? Yea, too bad those have very nice songs in it & I don't intend to do it all over. Not my fault. Hehehe ... Are you just trying to piss us off? That download is restricted. This is the second time you've done this. No one cares if there is music there either... We just want to see how the run is done, unless you're shallow. So overall, you get 0 stars for have stupid reasons to not allow people to download your files. If I'm not understanding this right, it's because of your english, in which case it's my bad.

Jarryd999

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

House of The Rising Dead

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Despondency
Are you just trying to piss us off? That download is restricted. This is the second time you've done this. No one cares if there is music there either... We just want to see how the run is done, unless you're shallow. So overall, you get 0 stars for have stupid reasons to not allow people to download your files. If I'm not understanding this right, it's because of your english, in which case it's my bad. word :P. can you just send me it on like aim, msn, yim, or icq?

Despondency

Despondency

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

[kF]

W/E

I don't have it... O_o

Evilsod

Evilsod

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

England

Lievs Death Squad [LDS]

Meh, i did the last 2 bosses (Warrior and Ranger) solo in about 5-6 minutes.

I really couldn't be arsed to try and do the whole thing solo, specially as i relied on IWAY (W/N using Plague Touch).
Why pay for it anyway? If your too low level to do it your frigging self then ascension is a total waste of time because you'll be even worse off after an underleved 50k exp. Besides it takes 30 minutes at least to solo the entire thing as said earlier, if your guild has a single minion master online then you can pretty much storm the place. Hell if it was a single decent player online to help its not hard to do for free in less time.

I once did this with my lvl20 W/N, 3 Necros (non lvl20), Alesia and Orion. Not a single person died, even the lvl8 necro...

Jarryd999

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

House of The Rising Dead

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Evilsod
Meh, i did the last 2 bosses (Warrior and Ranger) solo in about 5-6 minutes.

I really couldn't be arsed to try and do the whole thing solo, specially as i relied on IWAY (W/N using Plague Touch).
Why pay for it anyway? If your too low level to do it your frigging self then ascension is a total waste of time because you'll be even worse off after an underleved 50k exp. Besides it takes 30 minutes at least to solo the entire thing as said earlier, if your guild has a single minion master online then you can pretty much storm the place. Hell if it was a single decent player online to help its not hard to do for free in less time.

I once did this with my lvl20 W/N, 3 Necros (non lvl20), Alesia and Orion. Not a single person died, even the lvl8 necro... wow thanks for that....back to the matter at hand. What attributes should i use as w/mo sword build and does ANYBODY have a video the mission being run that they can send to me?

Iraqalypse Now

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Seattle, Wa

Nuclear Babies

E/Mo

There are two issues with thirsty river; concussion shot and a 2 monk group. If your softies are positioning themselves correctly, concussion shot isn't and issue. For the 2 monk group, the best bet is to try to grab a ranger interrupt spammer.

Other than that, its just take _damage_ warriors and apply buffs, and things get dead. Necro order spammer works, as does a SoH/Judge's Insight monk. Along with 1 monk and 1 ranger, that leaves 3 warrior slots. If you have guildies that can help its easy with a similar group - the mobs here really are paper tigers that disintegrate when you apply buffed warriors.

Jarryd999

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

House of The Rising Dead

W/E

WTF does that have to do with running it? What attributes should i use as w/mo sword build and does ANYBODY have a video the mission being run that they can send to me?

Weeping Wind

Weeping Wind

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Ordinis Draconis

W/Mo

Quote:
Why pay for it anyway? If your too low level to do it your frigging self then ascension is a total waste of time because you'll be even worse off after an underleved 50k exp. Besides it takes 30 minutes at least to solo the entire thing as said earlier, if your guild has a single minion master online then you can pretty much storm the place. Hell if it was a single decent player online to help its not hard to do for free in less time.
The same very thing could be said for the Forge run. Or any other run. Why would you pay 3k for a Forge run when you can get a group of guildies to run for you...? There is money to be had out of running because there are people that want things done and dont want to have to do it themselves.

Take 55 Monks for example. You wont want to complete the whole game with that. You only want to run through the game so you can start exploiting Under World for Ecto's and Troll's for whatever people find good about them.

Quote:
if your guild has a single minion master online then you can pretty much storm the place. Isnt that "running" the mission in the same way that the W/Mo's are "running" this? You are getting one person to do the mission for you (The Minion Master) and you sit back and enjoy the ride. The same way people are taking advantage of W/Mo doing this.

You'd pay money to do this so you can go away and do something else while the runner has the fun doing the mission. The same way you'd pay for a Forge run or any other run.

Weeping

Weeping Wind

Weeping Wind

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Ordinis Draconis

W/Mo

Quote:
To kill the Monk and the priest is arguably the hardest part of the mission but totally doable. The trick is to lure the Monk boss out of the range of his priest and get the Ranger's army which you had strategicly allowed alive to come and not only distract the Monk boss but to help you slay him as well. Ive yet to try this but wont the Ranger's attack you instead of the Monk? And, how easy is it to pull the Monk boss out of his Base away from his Preist? I cant try this yet as im not at Home so I thought I'd ask away.
Also, how about some Attribute points

Weeping

Jarryd999

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

House of The Rising Dead

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Weeping Wind
Ive yet to try this but wont the Ranger's attack you instead of the Monk? And, how easy is it to pull the Monk boss out of his Base away from his Preist? I cant try this yet as im not at Home so I thought I'd ask away.
Also, how about some Attribute points

Weeping the rangers will attack you if you get in their aggro range but they will start fighting the monk team after they get close. Its really hard (for me) to lure the monk boss out and kill the priest w/i the 2 min period you have b4 the whole monk team respawns and starts attacking you.

for the third time: What attributes should i use as w/mo sword build and does ANYBODY have a video the mission being run that they can send to me?

angel2046

angel2046

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mercury

The Esoteric Angels [SnaG]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Despondency
Are you just trying to piss us off? That download is restricted. This is the second time you've done this. No one cares if there is music there either... We just want to see how the run is done, unless you're shallow. So overall, you get 0 stars for have stupid reasons to not allow people to download your files. If I'm not understanding this right, it's because of your english, in which case it's my bad. Ooo...ic, so you are soooo ... pissed huh? So ... let me guess, are you the one that wisp me in game while I'm running mission & expected me to put everything aside & get that file delivered to ya?

And why are you so desperate to see how this is done? Put the built aside which is kinda standard. This takes time to practise and the efforts in making the video, etc. And, now I'm called stupid, shallow & I need English lessons. Hmmm ... interesting. 0 star huh? Shall I paste all the ty notes I rec'd so far here to let you see?

I'm just wondering why so many ppl managed to d/l it & some still able to later even though it is restricted but not you ....

Yeah and who cares about the music? The adults do. And you don't care of course, I can understand.

And I don't care what the bad guys said cause after playing GW for a year, I'm now bulletproof. Hehheee ..

yamero

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

i can almost solo it(as in i need a monk to remove blind)but even so i can wait to rub off
i just cast mending and watchful spirit
use dolyak signet and watch urself
cant kill the 2 monks alone at the end though

all desert missions are so damn easy sigh.....

Im Perfect U Aint

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

salisbury

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by LuxA
A general build goes like:

W/Mo
Sever Artery
Gash
Galrath Slash
Savage Slash
Switch skill (e.g. Vigorous Spirit, Bonetti's Defense, Balthazar's Spirit)
Healing Breeze
Healing Hands (E)
Mending

Tweak as necessary. Don't forget you can always cough up 5k to see it in action.

u have to use bals spirit for energy regen or u cant use mend so either take mend out or bals spirit required