Yet another farming movie.

https://home.comcast.net/~croal/griffonfarm.WMV

A bit sucky on quality but i can't go over 6mb enjoy.

skills use in order as movie:
1. balthazar's aura
2. symbol of wrath (this can be replaced for shield of judgment of you can get ahold of it.. if not this will do)
3. healing breeze
4. bonetti's defence
5. protective bond
6. essence bond
7. balthazar's spirit
8. mending

attributes:
9 healing prayers
14 smiting prayers
14 protection (this must be 14 for protective bond to work right)
9 divine favor
4 tactics

gear:
As for weapon i use the collectors smiting staff 20/20 upgraded with an insightful 5 energy and enchanting 20%.

armor is not needed much for this build you can get the ascalon city armor and upgrade with runes, altho you might wanna get the Ascetic's armor for the extra energy but it is not required.

credits:
song used- Go with the flow by Queens Of the Stoneage

Not bad, and you know your comcast account has 25mb storage, not 6. I have comcast also. And if you open up your additional email accounts, you get another 25 mb each account of storage.

Use that extra space to improve the video quality. Besides that and it seems like the same as the other farming video, not too shabby.

Great song btw as a choice. QSA rock!

WOW ur amazing i have never seen anything like that >_> ima monk to can u tell me what ur skills were and what ur attributes were and stuff

If I'm not mistaken, they were:

balthazar's aura
symbol of wrath
healing breeze
bonetti's defense
protective bond
essence bond
balthazar's spirit
mending

I'm pretty sure he used a lot of superior runes to bring his health down to double digits, then mending and healing breeze alone can keep him alive forever while protective bond is active. I personally prefer mo/me with channeling, zealots, and divine boon (instead of bonettis, mending and breeze). Much faster killing.

After the last farming vid topic here, you'll forgive me if I just pass on this one >_>;

skills are as said above.

attributes: 9healing 14smite 14protection 9divine 5tactics.
and 5 superior runes to armor to bring health to 105.
I would imagine that to be more of a hastle without any heals overtime such as mending.. with all the running youl be doing.

I must say, impressive.

Wow I agree impressive. (being the jealous N/W)

this will be nerfed within the week.

That is what I am afraid of as well, even though it is a legitimate build and doesn't fall in the category of 'exploit'. For all that are doing the griffon run, or any other type of farming, it would be wise to keep it on the down low.

Or the next thing you know, they will put a mana-draining squid like they did for Ember Light Camp, near the Flesh Golems. Yeah it's probably too late since most people know about the Griffon Run beacuse of that other topic, which was very inspiring, but for future reference, when ever you find a good farming spot, and feel the need to express your "awesomeness" to everyone, it might be better to surpress it.

No offense meant to anyone.

This man is correct.

enjoy this area while you can everyone ...

Yes, because I'm sure ANet, despite being able to pinpoint and ban individuals exploiting certain bugs and going through the same zones over and over again without hesitation, need to read these forums to figure out what areas are being farmed the most.

:|

maybe. maybe not. i hope not. this is how i farm too.

My main problem with this sort of farming is using protective bond on artificially low max health. I don't believe the skills (protective bond/protective spirit) were intended to be used in that fashion - double digit (or even single digit) max health is just unnatural. I wouldn't mind a nerf on those two skills to include a minimum damage cap to prevent them reducing damage too much.

The enchantment-heavy farming builds already caused ArenaNet to increase the amount of enchantment removers: adding removals on existing enemies, adding many necro/mesmer monsters with removal capabilities to the spawn. This tends to dumb down PvE for non-farmers: enchantment removal is no longer a possibility, but something you have to count on, and PvE is shallow enough as it is - this sort of farming might cause every encounter to eventually be exactly the same. Fun.

Right now it makes farming far less of a challenge for Monks than for other classes, which is somewhat expectable due to the naturally stronger self-preservation capabilities of a monk, but barring enchantment removal Protective Spirit/Bond skew the balance of ease too far towards monks.

Superior Runes bringing Health to 105? That must be a bug, no?

There's more ways of reducing your maximum health than superior runes, it's just the combination of all those things that suddenly makes Protective Spirit/Protective Bond very potent. People use the negative aspect of a balancing mechanic (reduced maximum health) to their advantage in a way that appears to defy the intention of the developers, for the sole purpose of accomodating playing the game in a way it was not designed around.

I think he used the same superior rune twice, it doesnt stack skill wise, but I believe it still reduces his life by 75

5 superior runes x -75 each = -375hp 480hp - 375hp=105hp

Now that is clever, protective bond, low max hp, haha and here i thought hydra runs with protective bond was just a novelty trick to freak out the team.....

Btw: Is that a DP i see there in the beginning ? [i.e lowering HP even more or was that due to failed attempts???]

Btw2: Shouldnt it possible to farm Hydras with Balanced Stance like that too? Considering there are so many these days and they are nicely outside outposts too.....

I hope I get credit!

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...t=25815&page=1