W/Mo Solo Troll Farming Guide with Video!

I realized that there is already one but I felt like posting this anyway since I'm bored. I've been on Guild Wars all day today, did Troll runs for the first time (52 runs) and worked with windows movie maker for the first time, decided to type, and came up with this.

Why farm mountain trolls:
It's EASY.
Your looking for money.
Your looking for max Fellblades/Axes/etc.
Your looking to unlock various weapon upgrades.
Does not require expensive equipment.
You want to do short runs yet make a profit at the same time.
Because you can.

Requirements:
Droknar's Forge
W/Mo Level 20
An Axe
Drok's Armor
Attention span
Skills listed

The Outfit:
An axe with preferably max damage. Mods doesn't matter much for this build, although it DOES help.
Shield doesn't matter, but the better...the better. If you don't have an uber shield (which probably explains why your reading this), I recommend the Crimson Carapace Shield, which can be acquired from Lord Dorn Lendrigen, north of Thirsty River for 2 Bleached Shells. (will cost you 2k max from other players.)
Full Drok's Armor. Preferably Full Gladiators (energy boost) along with Ascalon OR Knight's Boot. Socket everything with runes if you can,

Budget
- Major Vigor
- Major Absorption
- Minor Tactics
- Minor Strength
- Minor Swordsmanship

Rich (why are you farming? XD)
- Superior Vigor
- Superior Absorption
- Minor Tactics
- Minor Strength
- Minor Swordsmanship

You can sup. every rune although I don't know how the HPs will work out.

The Outfit [Further Testing]:

Socket a Superior Tactics rune for max tactics.

Skills:

- Cyclone Axe - Your main farming/damaging/leeching skill, hitting everything at once is the point of this build.
- Executioner's Strike - To pick off single targets should you need to, and as a skill you can use while Cyclone is charging.
- Bonetti's Defense - Use when Gladiator is recharging, used to replenish energy. Keep in mind that if you use a skill, this ends.
- Gladiator's Defense [E] - Keep this up ALWAYS when avaliable, your main damage source.
- Sprint - To aggro and run to location, not really necessary.
- Vigorous Spirit - Cast this whenever you cast Gladiator's, the recharge on Glads and this both ends at the same time.
- Live Vicariously - Keep up at all times, with Vig Spirit and the stats listed below, your gaining 20HP PER hit, and Cyclone hits 6-12 times...most of the time.
- Defensive Stance - Back-up, used when your Cyclone Axe gets interupted and neither of your 2 defense skills is ready.

*Shield Stance/Wary Stance/Disciplined Stance can work as well in place of Defensive Stance.
*To the Limit can take place of something as well, helps charge up Bonetti's.
*You can replace Executioner's with another offensive spell if you like.
*Mending works nicely as well.

Skills [Further Testing]:
Defensive Stance --> Shield Stance - You can cyclone while this is up and this will now be incorporated into the build for main use.

Vigorous Spirit --> Balthazar's Spirit - Adrenaline AND Energy so you can use Shield Stance instead of Bonetti's. The extra healing helps but can be neglected, with this, you have less chance of being interupted and more chance of Cyclone-ing without getting killed.

Stats:
- 9 Healing Prayers
- 10 Axe Mastery
- 10 Tactics

The 30 Pts. from the two attribute quests were NOT included. Those can be placed at where ever your heart desires.



Stats [Further Testing]:
- 8 Healing Prayers
- 8 Strength
- 8 Axe Mastery
- 12 Tactics

This includes the points from the attribute quests, less healing but more damage. With equipment, tactics should be maxed out, allowing max damage and time from Gladiator's Defense.



To Get There:
1. Get out of Droknar's Forge and into Talus Chute.
2. Cast Live Vicariously. (you can cast it later, doesn't really make a difference.)
3. Sprint
4. Hug the left wall, keep going until you see an opening on the left to the cave.
5. Ignore the monsters on your way. You can lead the trolls outside inside with you if they are seperate, but make sure you lose the Avicaras. Use Sprint if necessary.
6. Run into the cave, aggro the huge group (generally 6-12) and go all the way to the top until you gather all the trolls together (not the bosses), you should now have a group of ~10-16 trolls depending on how it spawned.



To Get There [Further Testing]:
Cast Balthazar's Spirit when you leave town, cast Live Vicariously when your at the entrance of the cave or while your slap Gladiator's Defense on.

To Kill Them:

1. Cast Live Vicariously if you haven't already.
2. Cast Gladiator's Defense right when everything is starting to surround you.
3. Vigorous Spirit.
4. Target the closest troll (Hit C)
5. Cyclone Axe, your Adrenaline should have instantly maxed out (if there is more than 6 trolls.)
6. Hit the targeted troll with your offensive skill (Executioner's)
7. Gladiator's should be blinking now, cast Bonetti's Defense.
8. Cyclone Axe, doing so will end Bonetti's.
9. Re-Cast Bonetti's.
10. Cyclone, repeat Cyclone -> Bonetti's -> Cyclone until Gladiator's Defense is ready.
11. Repeat step 2 and up until all of them are dead.

*Never cast anything else during Bonetti's besides Cyclone unless your 100% positive you can survive.
*Have a defense up at ALL time! (Glads/Bonettis/Defensive)

To Kill Them [Further Testing]:

[Baltazar's Spirit should be up already]

1. Gladiator's Defense
2. Live Vicariously if you didn't before you aggro.
3. Cyclone Axe
4. Cyclone Axe
5. Shield Stance
6. Cyclone Axe
7. Cyclone Axe
8. Cyclone Axe
9. Gladiator's Defense
10. Cyclone Axe
11. Cyclone Axe
12. Bonetti's Defense
13. Cyclone Axe
14. Bonetti's Defense
15. Cyclone Axe
16. Bonetti's Defense
17. Cyclone Axe
18. Gladiator's Defense
19. Cyclone Axe/Executioner's Strike the rest

The End:
- Pick up all items
- ID everything
- Salvage all Raven Staffs EXCEPT for:
>Good mods/rune
>Precious mod
- Salvage everything else that you do not wish to keep for Iron Ingots and Wood Planks, occasionally Steel Ingots and various crap.
- Sell Wood Planks and Iron Ingots to others for 10G per.
- Sell all Mountain Troll Tusks to others for AT LEAST 20G per, if you feel like running to the collectors and make it 25G per, be my guest, but the time spent doing so, you would have made much more farming trolls.

Conclusion:

~Roughly 3 minutes a run.
~About 600G MINIMUM per run from profit after salvaging and selling to others.
~168XP per troll meaning a good 2000XP or so per run, alot more with scroll.
~Bring someone along and powerlevel them for 1.5k-2k per skill point. Tell them you get drops and they provide scrolls.
~Have Fun!



More Pictures:

Before
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In Between
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End
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Don't try this!
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Video
http://www.filefactory.com/?088342

Video [Further Testing]

http://www.filefactory.com/?19d55c

Enjoy, or not.