Underworld Smite run Guide

For the Necro’s:
http://rapidshare.de/files/16667881/...W_run.wmv.html
For the Monk’s:
http://rapidshare.de/files/16731698/...orld2.wmv.html
For the Monks (After you become a bit more skilled):
http://rapidshare.de/files/16663179/...world.wmv.html
http://files.filefront.com/The_under.../fileinfo.html (alternate link)
Uw Solo (Mo/W)
http://rapidshare.de/files/17105590/UW_solo.wmv.html

The necro’s video and the “advanced” monks video is a recording of the same run, from different perspectives – in case you didn’t notice

Okay this guide is in two parts, one for the monk and one for the Necro. I'll start with the monk:

Skills:

Prot spirit
Healing Breeze
Spell Breaker
Bonetti's Defence
Essence Bond
Balthazar’s spirit
Mending (+4)
Blessed Aura

Attributes:

13 Healing, 15 divine favour, 11 Protection, 8 Smiting, 4 tactics (Actual attributes differ from that in video)

Runes:

Superior; Healing, Divine favour, Protection, Smiting and one other rune are required (EG another smiting rune).

These runes will give you a total of 105 health, and then adding the -50 hp grim cesta from the "cities of ascalon" quest will give you 55.

As for your weapon I would recommend a Fiery flame spitter with a 20% enchanting mod. More info about the fiery flame spitter can be found here:

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Fiery_Flame_Spitter

As your weapon slot 2 you need a wand which you meet the requirement for (a holy rod with divine favour requirement works well for this build.

Weapon slots 3 and 4 are not necessary, they’re just in case you die - using a -20 hp focus item gives you 13 max hp with 15% DP, again using a fiery flame spitter for slot 3 and a wand for slot 4 (with the -20 hp focus)

So far all this information is included in the video.

To gain entry to the Underworld kneel in front of the statue of grenth and pay 1 platinum to the voice of grenth that appears.

Cast your enchantments (Balthazars spirit, Essence bond, Mending and Divine spirit) making sure you have 25 energy left over.
Move to your left and (before you agro the aatxes) cast protective spirit and spell breaker, Once you have cast these spells lure the first group of aatxes. If any "Dying nightmares" spawn you must switch to your second weapon slot and attack them with your wand. These nightmares use "rend enchantments" which will remove all your enchantments and make you vulnerable to attack.
After the nightmare is dead (or if you find yourself losing too much health while killing the nightmare) cast Healing Breeze. After the nightmare(s) are dead your job is to "tank" the aatxes and wait for the necromancer to kill them.

A few things to note while "tanking" the aatxes:

- Spiteful spirit (SS) has a limited Area of effect it will make the run a lot faster if you can "group" the enemies attacking you. This means getting them to stand close together so that SS effects as many of them as possible.

- Aatxes use skills - the ones were interested in are Riposte and Deadly Riposte - if you attack the Aatxes with your melee weapon it will cause them to use these skills more often which causes SS to be triggered more often, Killing them faster.

- Dying nightmares spawn when your agro bubble moves over the area which they are "hiding" in, if you don’t move - they won’t spawn. Watch your map whenever you move and kill them as soon as they pop up. As a note, there are some groups which have a nightmare spawn linked to an aggro of an aatxe, the group of aatxes on the right stairs for example - again try to be aware of any which pop-up


Using the same method clear the entire chamber of aatxes, all the time watching for Dying nightmares, Whenever you move to a new area cast spell breaker first otherwise your likely to be “rended” by the nightmares. Once the chamber is clear you need to move to the point shown by the green blob in the diagram:



Once there, the necromancer will get the quest from the "Lost soul" this will cause 3 groups of "Grasping Darkness’s" to spawn, at your location one group will spawn - the same method as with the Aatxes is employed to tank these monsters however they have interruption skills so caution is required. After a few seconds the second group of Darkness’s will move to your location, if you find 2 groups too hard to handle move back a bit once you lure the first group and the second will no attack you. Finish off the rest of the darkness’s the same way,

Once the chamber has been cleared of darkness’s and aatxes follow the path to the smite crawlers (see video for directions)


http://rapidshare.de/files/16663179/...world.wmv.html


For Necro’s:

Skills:

Spiteful Spirit
Arcane Echo
Sympathetic Visage
Awaken the Blood (Not Vital)
Desecrate Enchantments (Not Vital)
Suffering (Not Vital)
Blood Ritual
Resurrection Signet.

Attributes:

16 Curses, 11 Illusion Magic, 5 Blood Magic, 8 Soul Reaping. (Attributes shown in video may differ.)

Runes:

Superior; Curses, Soul reaping and Minor Blood Magic Runes are required.

For Weapon slot 1 I would recommend a Fiery Flame Spitter of enchanting and a Gordacs Hook-Blood. (Any weapon with a 20% enchanting modifier works fine, i just like FFS because it gives you more recharge on your Awaken the blood)

More information on the Fiery Flame Spitter can be found here:

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Fiery_Flame_Spitter

For weapon slot 2 I would recommend a 20% Skill recharge (Curses) Truncheon and a Villnars Glove

To gain entry to the Underworld kneel in front of the statue of grenth and pay 1 platinum to the voice of grenth that appears.

The actual method shown in the video is not the same as that which I will describe - the method shown in the video is for more experienced players, I’ll add another video if requested showing the method outlined in this description.

Once in the Underworld the Monk will cast his enchantments, it will speed up the process if you cast blood ritual on him to increase his energy regeneration.

After the monk casts his enchantments he will lure a group of enemies; it’s fairly simple to kill them – just cast Spiteful Spirit on them (using arcane echo so that you can cast twice). If you take Awaken the blood with you switch to weapon slot 1, cast awaken (so you get the bonus 20% duration) then switch back to weapon slot 2. A few things to note when choosing your target:

- Aatxes have more health that grasping darkness’s and so is more effective to cast on them first.
- Spiteful spirit is only triggered off targets that are attacking or using skills, Aatxes use a lot of skills while attacking and so it’s easy to see which targets to cast on. (Don’t cast SS on targets who aren’t using skills)

Once all of the Aatxes have been killed the monk will stand in the position shown in the picture by the green blob:



Once he is there, ask if he is ready – once he is get the quest from the lost soul, this will cause a number of groups of grasping darkness’s to spawn, again use the same method as with the aatxes to kill these monsters.

Once the chamber has been cleared of darkness’s and aatxes follow the path to the smite crawlers (see video for directions)

Smite crawlers are a bit more difficult to kill as they use smite hex, to counteract this switch to weapon slot 1 and cast sympathetic visage on the monk, after about 1 – 5 seconds (depending on the size of the group lured) the smites will be drained of energy, at this point switch to weapon slot 2 and echo spiteful spirit on 2 different smite crawlers, they should die in under 15 seconds. The only other thing to worry about is the Coldfire nights, however as long as you don’t get too close they can be easily beaten using spiteful spirit.

Clear the rest of the smites and Coldfires the same way (see video for directions).

I can’t think of anything else that needs to be mentioned, though I’m sure someone else will, feel free to ask any questions or tell me where I need to elaborate or even tell me where I can improve .

Hope the guide is useful.

I'd like to thank Dark The Egregorian for your help in creating this guide.

Other Quest Video's of interest:
Clear the chamber:
http://rapidshare.de/files/17052885/...amber.wmv.html
Servents of Grenth:
http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ms0...renth.wmv.html
5 Quests UW Challenge:
http://files.filefront.com/Underworl.../fileinfo.html

Edit:
- Added Alternate Link for two of the underworld videos.
- Added "Clear the Chamber" Video
- Added Solo Video for the Mo/W Class.
- Added "Servents of Grenth" Video (Aka the Ice King)
- Eddited attribute alocation to get optimum use of Balth spirit (thanks to Cerb for this)
- Added the 5 quest UW challenge video.