W/Mo Darkwish Solo farm

This is pretty much the basic W/Mo Build. Nothing special.

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Profession: W/Mo
Name: Darkwish Farmer
Type: Darkwish Solo Farmer

Attributes:
Healing Prayers 11
Strength 14 + 3 rune
Swordsmanship 11 +1 rune

Skills:
Sever Artery
Galrath Slash
Final Thrust
Tiger Stance Helps to kill quickly
Doylak
Healing Hands
Mending or live vicarously works as well
Sprint Only for the run. You don't need but it makes the run easier

Weapons:
I use a shield with -2 health + 45 while enchanted.
Victo's is always nice but not required. Life stealing is always a plus.

Summary:
Basically, I have been looking for boss to solo in Cantha that I haven't found in the forum yet. I have got alot of great farms from the forums and thought I would give one small cheesy one back.
Should be able to farm it quickly and frequently.

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You leave out of Amatz Basin and its just a quick run down the hill to the North West. Sprint down the hill through the first groups. After you get out of the first two groups you will have to stop and let the Mantis's move out of the way. Stay to the left next to the wall. Once they move you out of the way just cross the stream and Darkwish and a couple of others are at the top of the hill.
There are only 4 Foes that spawn with a couple of different possiblilities. You will get Darkwish and a Earth Warden every time. The other two will be a Forester/ Wind Warden and Warden of Seasons/ Summer. The forester makes it a little tougher to do and is why the build requires Doylak. Without Doylak you will get knocked down all the time. If the Wind spawns then you don't really need Doylak.
You should always kill the Seasons/ Summer first. They seem to help heal if you don't. Darkwish constantly Casts Live Siphon and Spoil Victor on you. Life Siphon is easily negated by the mending (for an added bonus to +health regen you can get a blessing from the kurzick priest), but Spoil Victor can be a pain when you try to finish any of them. Spoil Victor Is an Elite hex that whenever target foe attacks or casts a spell on a creature with less health, that foe losses 5-50 health. So when you are trying to finish him you are taking health from yourself. With the forester beating on you at the same time you can die very easily. The only foe you want to kill before Darkwish is the Seasons/ Summer. Having the rest beat on you helps when you use healing hands.
Notes & Concerns:
If you are low on heath ( less than 100) and you just about have him beat dont go for the kill. It will kill you to. You just turn to the Forester (or other) and start beating on him and cast healing hands. Build your health and when it gets up to 300 or above turn back onto Darkwish or Season/Summer.
With 3 attacks and Tiger Stance you can kill the Season/ Summer very quickly but you can die as well. Spoil victor can hurt you bad when you increase your attack speed since every hit deals damage back on you. Just pay attention to your health and you will be fine.
If you pull them down the hill before you attack it will group them together so you can beat on another to save yourself. You will not need to beat on another everytime. Just when things don't go as well as you anticipated.

I haven't had a Necro character so I am not sure if the staff is that great or not. But you can solo it. I have gotten five in the last 2 days. Sold one for 25k and gave one to a friend.

I hope this doesn't waste space on the forum.
*edit *Update*
Since the last update Darkwish carries the staff all the time now. He doesn't drop it all the time, just carries it. Anet appears to have done this with all the bosses now. We will just have to fight them all the time now.
5 out of the 6 times he had the staff, he dropped it. The one time he didn't I had already gotten two and I was on my 20+ trip in a row.

*Edit*
Here is a video.
http://files.filefront.com/Gw_1avi/;.../fileinfo.html

this is not a waste of space :P

good job, i'll be sure to try it when i can be bothered to quest on my war

You can probrably farm it with your other characters as well. If you can make it on the run and the Forester doesn't spawn.

Hm, tried this out, and I can't really heal myself well. Healing Hands is the only real heal, since Mending is negated, and it has a long downtime.

Quote: Originally Posted by chrislee149

I sold two of my three for 25k.....i guess its not that bad of a farm...

Interesting, will try this out since my 55 is still in Tyria

Could you maybe make a movie from it ?

Im trying to and so far i found the degen killing me more....

Sure I will see what I can do.. Once you get the hang of it, you will be fine.

I will have a video done late tonight early morning.

I made a video per request. Hopefully it will help those who are having trouble. I almost die it in the video but I recovered in time. Didn't get the staff though.

Thats the same thing as a Fleshweaver from Tyria, just different skin.

I'll give it a shot. Thanks

I think you will find it is not the same stats as the fleshweaver. This is 20/20 casting/recharge, where the fleshweaver is 20 recharge/reduce deep wound, although the HP bonus is the same. As a necro user, I find the darkwish is much more desirable.

Having said that, I find I can only kill him on certain spawns. Forester is no real bother, but for the life of me I can never kill the warden of seasons no matter what I do. Spirit Light seems to heal quicker than I can damage it. Warden of summer is no problem at all. I literally sat there in a stalemate for over 5 minutes hacking away at seasons with no real effect.

Anyway nice build again Stee, love your work and keep it up

Thank you.

When your dealing with the seasons, you must remember to get him away from his spirit. As soon as you agro them he will cast the spirit. If you pull him away from it you will not have the problems with him eliminating him.

double post >.<

Problem is if a forester spawns, he'll weaken you and you'll do very little dmg if at all.

It is harder with the forester because of weakening but you should be able to do it. It just take alot longer. You will also have to be careful at the end when your about take out darkwish since you will not be doing as much damage. Its all about the timing with Spoil Victor.

well it's impossible for me to beat him if there's a warden of the forest in there, other then that i can.

i cant kill him for the life of me! the season is imposible to beat, and the summer i beat ONCE then i died! i have gotten drakwish to about 20% health then i turned to another foe and died! ARGGGGHHHHHH

Quote: Originally Posted by Ultimate Sacrifice