W/N Witman's Folly Grawl Farmer

Tired of my old build, tried something new and fun.

Tainted Flesh {E}
Frenzy
Riposte
Watch Yourself
Galrath Slash
Final Thrust
Healing Signet
Dolyak Signet

Death Magic: 2 (leftovers)
Strength: 10 + 1
Sword: 12 + 3 + 1
Tactics: 8 + 1

Grawls have either a resistance to slashing, or a weakness to lightning. In either case, using a shocking sword can net upwards of 156 damage with a 35% ideal sword's Final Thrust against the necromancers. Stance equipment, or enchanted is ideal, I've used both a +45/-2 stance shield and a -2/-2 and haven't noticed a difference in speed. Gladiator's gear, along with one piece of knight's/ascalon as always.

First thing you do is take down the hammer grawls with Tainted Flesh, and Dolyak Signet on (and Watch Yourself just in case). The -4 degen, along with the occasional 56 from Riposte, and 100+ damage from Galrath and Final drops them very quickly. Once they've all dropped, engage the necromancer grawls without Tainted Flesh in effect. They will remove it with Chilblains, and transfer the poison onto you if it is still enchanting you. And since they aren't affected by Tainted Flesh anyway (don't attack in melee) there is no point in having it on. Just don't try to engage too many at once if you're just learning it at first.

The necromancer and ranger bosses drop a lot faster than my previous tactics heavy build. Warrior boss is also faster, ele can't be done still, and I wouldn't bother with the monk.

Drops are nothing special, occasional gold but don't expect to make a lot of gold extremely fast. You can pretty much clear all the grawl in under 10 minutes, so using one of the 10 minutes scroll is an easy way to get some good experience as well. On average, I would say each go nets 2.5k-3k just by IDing and selling everything to the merchant, and exchaning the grawl necklaces to the collector. Each necklace is 8 gold, 5 gets you a collector item that sells for 125 gold. For some reason, I find that vigor and absorption runes drop with some frequency from any armours that may contain runes.

Have fun.

Looks like a nice build, I used to farm there with a Troll farming W/Mo build, so 'id massacre all the melee grawls but leave all the spellcasters. Might be a night change of pace from FoW I guess.

when do you use Frenzy? agains all or melee grawls only, or the casters only?
cant seem to find it in your post.. other than that then im gonna try this so much

~Shadow

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lose Frenzy, and switch in Necrotic traversal. As soon as the first grawl goes down, use Traversal to cause an additional -4 degen to all adjacent enemies, for a total of -8...works much faster in my opinion. I've been doing a build similar to this for a long time.

You said Grawl are succeptable to lightning dmg, Racthoh. How do you know this?

I am thinking Racthoh has enough money for every Sword for every Element.

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