Dragon's Throat: From Defeat to Triumph

I found this challenge mission incredibly hard when tried it initially. I think a lot of other people have had the same impression as well. It's difficult to find a group because a lot of people are close minded about builds/classes.

I was beginning to think that it wasn't possible to win with a PuG but today I had to change my mind.

I just finished it with a great team of two MMs, myself as SS/MoP necro, a Barrage ranger, Elementalist Fire Nuker and a Ritualist.

We brought henchman monks because it's very hard to find any monks willing to join a PuG for the mission.

I think that massive damage is key in this mission. If you're a tank/assassin and want to do this mission it's worth noting that a prot monk on your team makes life much much easier for you. Melee characters suffer a lot due to the Death Nova like damage the mutants do when they die. A bonder could really help with that.

Here's an SS with my bar showing my skill setup. (16 curse/10 SR/10 Blood)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ens/winner.jpg

SS + MoP works so well against assassin mob when you have a decent amount of minions up. Our two MM's did a masterful job of always having 20 up throughout the encounter. With MoP and SS most groups died within 2 - 5 seconds. AoE from the Ele and Barrage from the ranger complimented this.

I honestly think that a score near 400 would be possible if a warrior brought a group sprint so you could run from one encounter to the next very quickly.

Any of my PuG team members could probably add a lot more to this.

Anyways, Factions is a turning out to be quite a fun game for this formerly jaded Prophecies player.

Great job ANet!