W/Me Sskai Sword Farming

I know that there is a Grenth's Balance Build that works against this boss, but honestly I think it takes way too long, and for me I find it very hard since I have not used a grenths balance solo build before.

I basically took the same concept from farming assassin bosses with a warrior and applied it to this, and added a domination skill to shutdown his healing sig. Here are the skills and attributes.


Domination: 10
Strength: 9 (8+1)
Tactics: 14 (12+1+1) <-- Ascalon Helm

Nothing in Swordsmanship, +30 Health Sword and Shield (590 Health +)
Armor doesnt matter but would prefer gladiators for the +energy, just have 80+ armor per piece, Superior Absorbtion, Superior Vigor.

Here is where the boss is located:



Here is the sword he drops:




Tactics:

- Sprint your way to his location
- Check to see if he has sword, if not rezone and repeat(works for me)
- Pull him with a longbow from the group
- Put up Auspicious then Ignorance him as soon as he gets to you, then put up Dolyaks & Deadly, and keep repeating Riposte and Auspicious
- Heal only when you have a Ripose/Auspicious up as well as dolyaks
- Use Ignorance when you have 15 energy, so try only to use deadly riposte at beggining and near the end when he has little health to kill quick
- Keep dolyak up as much as possible
- Pick up your green item and repeat

Notes:
Like I said, looking at his hand to see which sword he has has helped me. Everytime he has wielded his sword he has dropped it for me. Usually he is wielding a katana I believe, and I will rezone and run out to his location again until I see him wielding his own sword.

I find this build to be much easier to run than grenths, and a hell of a lot quicker to kill him.

lol, looks like that other warrior build with the Necro secondary, must make this shite invalid jk jk good build!

nice idea with ignorance. Since you already have domination in there you can add empathy also for the extra 23 dmg each time he attacks. just drop sprint since you don't need that skill. with a zealous wep you should be ok with energy on this....i think. =) i'll have to try it out later today.

Looks like a nice build...gonna try it out soon.

Nice! Glad to see you can do it. I've been farting around with a similar build with no luck. Sounds like I have to give up on having any points in swords.

I seen a W/Me build that involved mesmer elite - signet of midnight

so I tried it out and added ingorance as well the skills i use are:

Signet of Midnight - Elite
Spirit of Failure -
Igorance
Empathy
Deadly Riposte
Ether Feast
Sprint
Heal Signet

Sprint to boss and pull him with longbow - i find this to be a pain half the time
first cast midnight and right before it ends cast again... you and boss will always be blinded but you arent attack anyways
cast spirit of failure to gain energy almost everytime he attacks...
then put empathy on him and cast deadly riposte when u have the energy.. always be aware of when signet of midnight will end... also once u start dealing damage you must continue to cast ignorance so he doesnt heal himself. spirit of failure will last 30 seconds but cannot run out or you'll be waiting for energy while he heals
heal signet and ether feast are just to gain health
he seems to hit me a bit while blind... and it hurts i like having full health

if u keep using deadly riposte... with empathy
he kills himself in a couple minutes

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