Untested Urgoz's Warren Team Build

that is very interesting way to measure time in Urgoz mission
I bet it takes you twice as long to get past wardens and popup room... no wonder you are bored. Yes it is.

I refuse to take more then one (or occasionally, two) trappers in my team in PVE, anywhere. I believe traps should be used to apply their conditions, not to exploit the mob AI into killing itself with moderate damage stacked a hundred-fold.

Its a stupid, lame way to play the game. Hit button 1, button 2, button 3, button 4, button 5. Hit them again when the picture comes back. After a minute, pull things to you. Pick up loot. Rinse, repeat.

I two man Tower of Strength for XP not because its the most expediant way to do it, but because its fun, and quite simply my eyes would bleed out if I tried to farm 100k+ xp from trolls in one sitting, even using scrolls. I can, however run Urgoz three times in a row with a good group.

I may not PVP all that much, but that doesnt mean Im utterly dead to the concept of innovation. I may not have split second reflexes (why I never play an interupter) but I do like to plan and think things through.

Anyways I tested my team build for Urgoz, and it went quite well, granted that many of the people there had never killed Urgoz before. Ill post about it later, but for now I wanted to discuss the usefulness of an Earth Ele tank for the Warden rooms.

In the last room, you can simply armor stack (Armor of Earth, Kinetic Armorment, Obsidian Flesh) with an anti KD skill (Ward of Stability) and a spam to fuel OFlesh, under the effects of Quickening Zephyr in order to tank. With a bond on you, you should have no problem tanking the Wardens, but energy might be a proble, so have a teammate bring Balthazar's Spirit. And with them all attacking you, Sliver Armor should have no problem creating quite a good few corpses in a manner of seconds. And what do alot of warden corpses do? Fuel Putrid Explosion. Drop Edge of Extinction right before you do this, and you should be able to plow through Wardens like all the 'super-leet hyper-experienced trappers' do to Thorn Wolves.

Speaking of which, the Earth Ele tank has another use - Thorn Wolves. I just took a couple of hits from Thorn Wolves on my ele, whos armor was pumped up to 226. Wild Strike hit me for 77 damage... ie, enough to trigger Spirit Bond. With an Earth Ele tank and a Spirit Bond monk it should be a fairly easy matter to actually TANK the Thorn Wolves rather then noob each group of them with traps.

Again, I have nothing against applying a Dust Trap before you lure a group (especially when combo'd with Displacement), thats a sensible use of the skill, but putting down a dozen+ traps is something else entirely.

Now, the problem comes in the exhaustion/weakness room. Your main approach to killing the Wardens relies on spell casting, which is heavily penalized. Theres a couple of ways to solve this, you can either use a Sin teleport to go up to the Bark and gank it, or you can have the Earth ele equip a 15/-1 energy set, precast outside the effect while someone else pulls, and move in, casting Kinetic only at the last possible moment, then using only the bare minimum number of skills to keep it up while you generate corpses for Putrid/EoE. You wont be able to survive for long, but should have over a hundred energy and able to afford quite a bit of exhaustion.

There, itd be far more important to have your team help you out. Song Wardens use Air of Enchantment and full enchantments, so Soul Barbs might be nice. Anything to help bring down a single target under pressure so you can get the ball rolling, such as Defile Flesh/Deep Wound and to a lesser extent Lingering Curse/Malign Intervention, or even Scourge Healing (though the Ritualists will still pose a problem as they dont 'heal' quite so much).

The person pulling them back to you should probably be a Warrior, as they are simply the obviously choice. Bull's Charge would be very nice for him, as their elite defensive skills are not quite as needed down here (you can stance tank thorn wolves with ripostes, sure, but all in all you will be relying on your team to help back you up), and your teammates should always be kiting whenever they have something you need to chase down... thus, a constantly moving target. And it acts as a speed boost, to reset mob AI, if needed.

In general, hexes seem to do quite nicely down there, as you run up against nothing which removes them - very nice.

Of course, if you wanted to try to make things interesting, you could bring a couple of Beast Masters. Hey, EOE is the easiest way to kill Urgoz, why not have it at 16 BM? Pets actually make rather nice tanks, though against Thorn Wolves I have my doubts. Thats whatd make it fun, though. And of course, if your ever having too hard of a time with something, like say the wardens, you could death nova a pet up, let it die, then putrid it, rez it, and chain it again. Its a mere ~200 armor ignoring aoe damage per cycle per pet repeatable every 10 seconds or so, with 15 seconds of 6 damage per second...

Again, if you want to talk about how I need more trappers in the build, dont post. Im not interested, not even vaguely.