03 Jun 2006 at 22:52 - 4
Ettin farming with an ele isn't hard, especially with fire. Load up:
1. Elemental attunement
2. Fire attunement
3. Flame burst
4. Phoenix
5. Rodgorts Invocation
6. Inferno
7. meteor(for knockdown, if not dmg)
8. Aura of Restoration
due to the recharge times of all of those skills, you will never run out of skills to use, you will never run out of energy, and you will never die due to aura of restoration. Ettins don't hit hard as long as you hit hard back at em. Also, use meteor, instead of meteor shower, because ettins will run from meteor shower and make flame burst and inferno, the two hardest hitting/quickest spells useless.
All you have to do is make sure you keep up the enchants, or they'll smear you, and you'll have no energy. With the enchants, with lvl 15 energy storage, you should get 400% of the energy you spend turned into hp, and have 80% of energy returned to you, count in the 80 energy you have, and that there is one spell costing 25 energy, you will never run out of energy with the enchants on. Ettins don't strip them either, so you just have to have a high lvl of fire magic to make sure fire attunement is up all the time.
And ettins, btw, have dropped everything from stuff that sells for 12 gold up to sup vigor runes, and i always get one rare in each run, no exceptions to that to date. Even if it isnt a sup vigor, you might get a sup monk run, sup absorp, and if those dont come out, then you can sell it for 200+ gold and do it again. the run takes 10 minutes tops, if youre going slow and not trying to do it as fast as possible, and there is a route that allows you to hit up 2 bosses for morale boost just in case you need it. And, even if you dont care about the gold earned from the rare, then you can atleast be one step closer to the wisdom title right?