The Farm Report: Melandru's Hope

Nice build, works nicely Of course I havent made it to the assassin boss yet....damn overlapping patrols Use a bow to pull them to a safe location where you can finish them off without accidentally aggroing those patrols ;o

You can make a shield in Kaineng Center. It requires iron and steel. The mods are +30 health -5 damage received (20% chance). You can get either a strength or tactics shield. Strength Shield correct?
1) If this is an assassin boss and he blinds like the others do, I would use...
Tanzit Defender, which is 16 Armor, 9 Str Req. and reduces blind by 20%
2) If he dosnt blind I'd go with the Bronze Shield 9 str req. -5 (20% Chance) at Keieng Center trader.
3) If your using stance moves, Use a Victo Bulwark, it has been proven that bulwark with -2 (stance) is better than -5 (20% Chance).

I tried the posted build but has some troubles with it, especially the dream weavers.

I would be doing fine against the dw and a hunter and then pop, be spiked to death. This was because of Fragility. A solution I found was to bring dun dun dun, one of the crappiest skills ever! Shield Bash. Through that up and the assasins are screwed, the can't do anything but normal attack. If you catch their lead attack with it you are golden, they are smart enough not to use another attack.

I also replaced galrath (or silverwing) with final thrust , it finishes enemies off really quickly.

I've been farming yesterday and today and so far I've got 6 greens, ~8 golds (mostly crap except a PERFECT!!!! Sundering Gothic axe of Fortitude ) and I've collected about 80k gold by selling the crap and only selling one set of the green daggers for 30k.

It is a GREAT run and VERY challenging and best of all, the loot is definatly worth it.


PS: Anet plz don't nerf it!!!!! I heart Mantises! Final Thrust is a good move, though the double Galrath has always worked fine for me as well. The Dreamweavers are a rough when you have deep wound, bleeding, and -11 from hex conditions on you, but even then I find that I rarely die. I always dip into the 100 health range, but I find that I can survive when healing hands is down with flurry+live vicariously until hands comes back online. This might be a good reason to use something other than a 15^50 sword here as your health is frequently below that. +15 enchanted is the best since, well, you are always enchanted.

I've made 100k from these runs off the greens alone. Not to mention all the mantis pincers, occasional gold drops, money drops, and other random good things like black dye and rare materials. Also, always bring some keys along for the chests you run into.

Melendru's is a big place, and I find you can also take this build across the river and beat up on the dredge. You can take groups of 4 or 5 easily. Kill the gardeners first if the are any and after that it doesn't really matter though killing the archers might be useful to end the poison.

Thanks for the input!