Lvl 6 Rit/Ele Advanced training help?

I cant seem to get the advanced training at the monastery done.

What build should I use for the 'chaining skills' and the 'Snaring' challenges? I seem to get nowhere, I was fighting the ranger in the chaining skills for a whole hour last night and the training didnt end

I use the skills they give me plus some restoration ones to keep me alive, but I just cant do enough damage even with putting all my attribute points to boost the skills they give me.

Do i need to be higher level?

Honestly what I did, was I would set out the spirits before I talked to the person to activate the quest. By this time, the spirits are already doing their thing and the npcs you have to fight give up in under 10 seconds.

That is what I did too. You dont necessarily have to do what they say to do to win. All you have to do is take the health of the opponent down to a certain point. However you choose to do that is up to you.

ah! thanks guys. I didnt think of that, I was trying to use the skills they told me to. That'll teach me to play by the rules

which spirits are good for this then? I've got the one that shoots fireballs, the one that soaks damage and the one that makes them blind i think..

Those 3 spirits should work just fine. Make sure you bring along some of the channelling attacks to.

cool, thanks for your help!

Don't forget you can buy skills in the Monastary that may give you that last little bit you need to get the NPC down to 50%.

for chaining i used the ashes that when yuou drop do X dmg, i cast that, i talk to the gut, i do spirit rift, chaneling strike ( at this point spirit rift will fire aswell) then i drop the ashes, thats 1 guy who gave up, atleast it was in my game, then another rift, and any dmg and the second will drop.

with the snaring it took me a long time aswell, because i didnt have any cheap snares at the time, but eventually it was about what skill chain you used once you got her to stop moving