Griffon Run

Im hard to satisfy so i really didnt like that quality.

Nah, I'm still gitty over 60k experience in 30 minutes with my one man army. The perks of every drop being mine will always appeal to me.

i think it has gotten nerfed, cause i only get a rare every 1 out of 3 runs

Yeah, it's been nerfed.

As a Wa/Mo I've run this pretty easily without healing hands. Really all you need is Vigorous Spirit, Live Vicariously, Mending, Bonnetti's Defense and Cyclone Axe.

Cast Mending and wait until you have at least 15 energy. Then put up Live Vicariously. You should have 5 energy left. Now gather everything to ya and when you have them all there hit cyclone axe and bonnetti's defense immediately. This should bring your energy back up to full. When cyclone axe is recharged, throw up vigorous spirit and hit cyclone axe again. Re-cast Vigorous Spirit as needed and repeat until they're all dead. This way is pretty straight forward and needs no hard to find skills.

Personally I use Gladiator's Defense as well which makes the thing easier. Throw up Gladiators defense and immediately throw up vigorous spirit after that. Then spam Cyclone/Bonnetti's. The nice thing is that right as gladiators is recharged it'll be time to re-cast Vigorous Spirit. That still leaves 2 slots open (I have blessed signet in one since I dont like waiting for energy at the start). I dont find I need these slots though.

Stats:
Healing Prayers 9
Strength 8 + 1
Axe 12+1+3
Tactics 5+1

Droknars Armor with the appropriate runes for the stats, Major Vigor and Major Absobtion.
Collectors Axe with +15% while enchanted, shocking and +6 armor vs physical.
Tower Shield 16 def -2 Dmg received while enchanted.

Edit:
It didnt seem nerfed to me. My first run I got 1 Gold, 2 Purple and a couple of blues. Second run still got 1 gold, 1 purple, 1 blue. Its not the best drops but along with the whites it gives an easy 1.5k per run without taking into account selling of the good items (I may be lucky but whenever I seem to get a gold or purple its almost always max damage).

For the people asking, the band is Tool and the song is Forty Six and Two

Hunh. My typical haul was not much better than that traditionally. I am just happy they left it possible. I was dreading logging in and finding about 200 more rockshots spread through the area or a couple of worms It is a fun run and it is worth loads of XP and even without the rare (which I only got every 2-3 runs anyway) it still generates alot of income.

Same, it could've been because I was doing these runs A LOT as of late (About 1/3 of my exp has come from this area). Sometimes I'd get 2 rares a run, along with some blues and purples, other times it was just gold and collectors. Still, the haul is always good. The gold alone is well over 500 and selling what you get averages out to over a platinum a run for me. 3000+ exp, 1 platinum in 5 minutes (not even counting how much you get off the rares)? Yeah, worth it.

That's also good to hear it hasn't been infested with wurms and such. Seeing the numbers spread across the screen will never bore me.

Thank you so much Kalgareth! For the video and the strategy.

I switched from Mo/Me to Mo/W and only bought Bonnetti's Defense and Cyclone Axe. I don't have Healing Hands, or the armor you do, so I improvised and I can handle that run, but I have to do it a piece at a time.

Anyhow, the skills I use:
Mending
Live Vicariously
Retribution
Aura of Faith
Vigorous Spirit
Healing Breeze
Bonetti's Defense
Cyclone Axe

I can handle major mobs through Kryta, handle big mobs in Maguuma, and can handle the groups in the desert and some groups past that. Once again, thanks for the idea man. I can finally put 'rez plz!' behind me now!

You could be doing a hell of a lot more damage while still surviving the same.

Thanks alot mate for sharing your strats

To whom are you referring? If it's the Mo/W build, I'd appreciate your thoughts on how to increase the damage. Perhaps bumping up smite and throwing balt's aura, zealot's fire, or something similar in there?

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...chum/gw027.jpg

A show of hands from anyone who thinks this is "nerfed"? Anyone?

It's not nerfed apparantly, but it's still unbalanced that a W/Mo can earn that much with little effort while I'm left in the dust.

It's not THAT good of a place anyway. I haven't gotten a big bucks 20k+ item here in days nor have I found a whole lot of salable quality upgrades like high ratio vamp or sundering stuff. Most of the weapons are vs. hexed and you get a TON of useless purple and gold shields. And it still takes like 5 minutes a run and if for some reason the mobs get lucky you're out 5 minutes.

I don't know about other classes, but E/Mo's can do it almost as well. It is not "easy" though. It requires good timing of the skills and significant effort to shake off pursuit of the rockshots so they don't fubar you and also a little luck as sometimes it all just does not go as planned and my corpse is left rotting in the dry sun.

Edit: It takes me just over 3 minutes from leaving the Rock to re-entering the Rock. And I can do quite a few runs before my backpack is full, forcing me to salvage or sell off the goods. If I *do* get killed, it is usually after I have taken out alot of griffons so I have to trudge back out there to collect it, costing me another 3 minutes or so.

Maybe I have good luck because my first run today was two purples and two blues, along with a silver dye. Second run, a purple and two blues.

All I was getting before, still more than a platinum after selling.

Edit: My max damage rare firey dragon sword thinks otherwise.

Yes we've all gotten nice items - no need to showcase them. No one likes a bragger.

Lady Dazzler and everyone else selling minotaur horns and griffon wings for outrageous prices, don't be so greedy. I know money is tight at the moment, but that is pretty absurd pricing. Stay around 50g or I will advertise a lower price to undercut you. And yes you can easily switch districts and continue to sell, but if I see an outrageous price in my current dist, well you know what I will do.

And dont send me a whisper then log off GW (-_-)

I feel so useless now after seeing that picture i never found anny decent weapons and whenever a gold weapon dropped it whas so bad that i just trew it trough the window if you knw what i mean.

really if i could find that in 1 day i would be so happy i kissed my little brother.

Is this run possible without the use of runes? Im tried running the same sort of build but i was getting killed before i got them down beow 3/4 health.