UW Solo Mo/W Build and Tutorial
Dragou Du Porzan
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Originally Posted by stumpy
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Originally Posted by Ka RaTae
So how about telling us how you got past all the recasts of Natures Renewal by the Obsidian Behemoths.....you know that strips enchants also right...?
Since the spirits last so long after they're cast (141 seconds, I believe), it's possible to dart in after they're thrown up, take down 1 or 2 behemoths, then run back out of range and wait for the next round to go up. I've been able to go up against mobs of 2 and 3 behemoths; I haven't tried against a mob of 4 yet. Here's my system for taking them down (assuming a mob of 2 behemoths):
1. Stand patiently outside of NR range waiting for spirit to die. Helps to have a book to read during this part! 2. As soon as spirit dies and is recast, run in and start firing your wand (I use 11-22 collector's smiting rod) at 1st behemoth. 3. As soon as you see 1 of the behemoths starting to cast Healing Spring, target and disrupt him. 4. As soon as you've disrupted the 1st behemoth casting Healing Spring, target the 2nd. He will almost immediately begin to cast his own Healing Spring, which you should be able to disrupt. 5. As soon as you've disrupted the 2nd behemoth's Healing Spring, cast SoJ and resume attacking the 1st behemoth. 6. The behemoths will continue to attempt casting Healing Spring every 10 seconds in the order established at the beginning of the fight, so keep switching your target after disrupting an attempt. 7. Unfortunately the behemoths have a stance they occasionally use to block attacks. If this stance keeps you from disrupting Healing Spring it will set you back. 8. Remember you only have 141 seconds to work with! I use a watch to keep track of time and book out of range when the spirits are getting ready to go down. If all this seems like a lot of effort for minimal gain... well, it is. I'll be honest; there really isn't any profit in it. The behemoths mostly drop worthless collector's items. The most excitement I've had going through them drop-wise is getting a glob of ecto from one of the Charged Blackness in the area. But I'm not doing it for the profit... I'm doing it for the adventure! dajg
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Originally Posted by Dragou Du Porzan
Oh no... I'm scared to ask... what happens when you kill one of them?
Well first you get a few of those mesmer spirit guys like from the escort of souls quest, nothing too bad - you should survive with a group. When you kill them you rest to regen when all of a sudden a bigger group of them appear - you lose a couple of you party and start to res them when a group of about 8 appear and if you are lucky one of you survives to res the rest. Repeat about 6 times to get to the monument.
Age
Start posting it here so jelly can their thread back as i would like to see more screenies.thanks
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/n...newthread&f=31
Dazzler
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Originally Posted by Ka RaTae
Know what might work alot better for you here. Take out protective spirit and use Ether Renewal. Then spam divine boon to gain health...energy..and do damage.
E Renewal only lasts 10s which is not long enough to kill everything--you will die roughly 2s after it runs out. I am running with a variation of this build which has E Renewal along Prot. Spirit. Works well, but I got owned by the grasping darknesses. I will try again after I go pickup that -50hp item from that quest. Luckily I have another lowlevel char that is about to complete that quest so I can swipe it tonite maybe.
fireburnerr
this involves a lot of effort, or I think it does...
invovles a lot of swapping and re-casting... and patiences lol!!! so people who aren't patient will get frustrated from doing all of this... so hopefully they wont nerf the monk skills lol... I was thinking of trying to do this, but I guess all the runes are jacked up haha.. so oh well lol! I should make a diff build that involves cheapy runes lol! get those all jacked up LOL!!! saphir
someone was asking for screen shots?
here are some of mine:
Accolon Pendragon
I was checking the Scribe who was supposed to have the quest with the -50 HP item in Ascalon but none of the 2 Quests I saw there had the Item I've heard so much about.
Legendary Dryder
Very Very Sweet... Hope I Can Try it Before the Devs get a swing at it with there nerf bat.
notwist
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Originally Posted by saphir
someone was asking for screen shots?
here are some of mine: you can solo FoW? can you explain exactly how you do it?
Age
What weapons are you useing there?thanks.
Ka RaTae
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Originally Posted by tanwarv
Hmm... Has anyone tried switching out "Live Vicariously" instead of mending? That, combined with a sword/axe, should produce better healing. At 13 healing, that should generate 12hp/attack divided by 1.25 attacks per second = 9.6 hp per second.
If interrupts weren't such a pain, I'd think "Vigorous Spirit" would be even better, since it doesn't require upkeep. I'll try this tonight and let you all know how this works. Sword or Axe...especilly using Cycone Axe is not good against Aataxes. They put up reposet and Deadly Reposte. You Kill yourself quickly even with a bond. Ka RaTae
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Originally Posted by Serpreme
Ok i have a issue.... I have level 16 Protection prayer. level 10 Divine and level 14 Smite. I put on the +1 offhander and cast about 20 times. Never says 1 energy. (I have a total of about 40 casts...none said 1 energy) Now i have essence bond and balth aura on myself. I cant sustain anything at all.
Any clues? Edit: Didnt know you had to break the enchantment to get it done. GOD...THIS IS GETTING OLD.. IT Works. Make sure you kill the PBond if it is at 2 before recasting. Or read the forum to see where this has been answered 10 times. SamuraiX
Is there a elem/monk build to solo UW?
Shayul
I was wondering if the negative health penalty of a Major rune stacked with the negative health penalty of a Superior rune...without affecting the +skill. Anyone know?
Grigori Sokolov
this sucks, I really wanted to try this build (couldnt sleep last night coming up with altercations) I wake up this morning, get the items I need, go to rune trader and bam, all the sup monk runes are at least 30k. why do I always get screwed over by one thing or another?
Fye Duron
The worse part is the runes doubled in price over night!
Wardog
Is it really worth it???
I have been farming UW for a coupla days now and i don't get anything that great. Sure ecto is worth around 10K, but I get them sooooo rarely; besides with all the people farming there, ectos must go down in price soon. Overall farming in UW takes a lot of time. There are places where I can kill much more mobs much faster. All I am saying is that UW was fun to try, definetely fun, but it ain't the best place to make money. Although, this place will never get nerfed, I am pretty sure of that. ************************************************** ************** sup monk runes had been going up about 5K everyday, wow, this is great !!!!!!!! *gone to farm runes* Zenos
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Originally Posted by Wardog
*gone to farm runes*
Now that's thinkin.
capitalist
Now if there was only a place that you could consistently get gold armor drops...
stumpy
saphir ... you never cease to amaze me ... thanks for the pm ... I was working on making a FoW solo movie ... but need more exp under. thanks for your help on the terrorwebs. ... and btw ... nice armor.
i got a 14 minute UW smite run but its about 96MB so I just watch it myself. kleps
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Originally Posted by capitalist
Now if there was only a place that you could consistently get gold armor drops...
there is
shadowlestat
Well Hi i read all of this thread and i'm Lost
spiritofcat
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Originally Posted by Ka RaTae
Know what might work alot better for you here. Take out protective spirit and use Ether Renewal. Then spam divine boon to gain health...energy..and do damage.
No, if I take out the spirit I die. My protective spirit is what keeps me taking only 4 damage.
What I did do though was take out boon and replace it with Ether Renewal and that seems to be working well. What's even better is if I take a friend who casts Mending and Balthazar's Spirit on me, then I can bring Aftershock and rebirth and have two more energy regen. If they also bring succor, I'm up to the normal energy regen, plus energy from being hit. I know this thread is about soloing, but for me, duo is by far more worthwhile. As long as I can find a friend who will do those things for me. [edit] I just completed my most successful solo E/Mo smite run so far. You can see the photos here: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...305#post356305 miteethor
lol i just checked the rune trader prices as of 2:46 am on American Servers:
Sup Healing: 65443 Sup Smiting: 45985 Sup Protection: 68878 Sup Divine: 44434 That means a full set for 105hp and at least 1 of each will run you $269174!! If you have that much money why are you still farming??? The best part is I was doing Sanctum Cay and a Sup Protection run just fell on the ground with my name on it. I made more selling that than I ever did with an ecto!! MiteeThoR bigbubbacotton
can someone please tell me exactly where or post a pic of the map of where the collector is for the protective icon with +1 prot prayers i spent the last 2 hours running around outside of lions arch looking for this fuker and i cant find him.
spiritofcat
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Originally Posted by miteethor
Sup Healing: 65443 Sup Smiting: 45985 Sup Protection: 68878 Sup Divine: 44434 That means a full set for 105hp and at least 1 of each will run you $269174!! If you have that much money why are you still farming??? The best part is I was doing Sanctum Cay and a Sup Protection run just fell on the ground with my name on it. I made more selling that than I ever did with an ecto!! MiteeThoR |
My elementalist superior runes cost me less than 1k each and I can solo the UW almost as well as a monk. I did a full smite run today.
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Originally Posted by bigbubbacotton
can someone please tell me exactly where or post a pic of the map of where the collector is for the protective icon with +1 prot prayers i spent the last 2 hours running around outside of lions arch looking for this fuker and i cant find him.
The +1 prot icon comes from the collector outside Bloodstone Fen.
Just go to Bloodstone Fen and step outside. You'll need some Jungle Troll Tusks to buy it, but they're easily available from the Jungle Trolls just down the road. jelly samwich
hahahahaah oh man superior monk runes up to ~~ 70k hahahahahaha
i wish i had the foresight to buy more before i posted this.. salvaged one of my droknar armors and sole the rune for bank
bigbubbacotton
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Originally Posted by spiritofcat
The +1 prot icon comes from the collector outside Bloodstone Fen.
Just go to Bloodstone Fen and step outside. You'll need some Jungle Troll Tusks to buy it, but they're easily available from the Jungle Trolls just down the road. what i dont understand is if i get 5 sup runes and use that item, im still at 135 hp. how did u get your hp to 105 with that +30hp item on you?
Akilles
I honestly think ArenaNet will stop this somehow very soon, I am sooooo happy i got my superiors when i did, but not for the monk build shown here, for me being a more potent healer for people. What bothers me the most is i just want the female monk pants for my character, that would still cost me like 400k
oh, I paid 9k per rune when i got em
Age
I would say at this rate it will be in 3rd chapter untill i get my superior runes.
Age
Here is Mine make her way up the Shiverpeaks.http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/4919/gw0359bf.jpg
kleps
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Originally Posted by bigbubbacotton
what i dont understand is if i get 5 sup runes and use that item, im still at 135 hp. how did u get your hp to 105 with that +30hp item on you?
you use a switch to a staff or rod/icon offhand.
saphir
i use mostly a sword, sometimes a smite rod.
couldn't even get a fissure farming group to nuke w/ tonight, so i went myself. not even worth the drops though! (especially not the crummy purple prot icon from the chest) N0MaD
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Originally Posted by saphir
i use mostly a sword, sometimes a smite rod.
couldn't even get a fissure farming group to nuke w/ tonight, so i went myself. not even worth the drops though! (especially not the crummy purple prot icon from the chest) I done this build even before it was posted here but I think soloing fissure all the way up to the FoW armour is amazing, can you tell what al quests did you do? and how much time did it take you and how did you get past those skeleton messmers who shatter enchnts? I know easy way is to keep healing breeze on you all ties..thats what i do usually so they shatter breeze instead of my enchnts but if there are more then 2 messmers it kind of gets hard. thanks
Pandora's box
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Originally Posted by Akilles
I honestly think ArenaNet will stop this somehow very soon, I am sooooo happy i got my superiors when i did, but not for the monk build shown here, for me being a more potent healer for people. What bothers me the most is i just want the female monk pants for my character, that would still cost me like 400k
Or did you mean the trading system where prices are growing with demand?
spiritofcat
Wow, Monk superiors are rediculous in price now. I don't know if my monk will ever be able to do this now.
Luckily my elementalist can do it well, and I have a full set of armour with sup ele runes on it. Tonight I bought 4 Superior Soul Reaping runes at about 800g each in preperation for when people find out how to do it with Necromancers. My necro is only up to Nolani though, so I've got a while before I can try that. Since it is clearly possible to do it with any class, I suggest you buy up a full set of the cheapest sup runes for your class now before it's too late 
Darksci
i dont think ANet will nerf this. Since this skillset takes skill.
Anyone can just buy the runes and kill the Aaxte's and other critters. But when it comes to dryders, grasping darknesses, and the shadow mesmers, and the ether bond breakers. THAT takes skill to beat. I've worked out a way to effectively tank all those without getting my bonds removed. Yestaday, i was with a FoW group, only myself and another monk survived after some idiot lured 2 groups of skeletons on us. I managed to tank all of them, even against the mesmers, and the other monk ressed everyone else, so they would kill them. Also another bit of skill involved is a solo smite run. I never kill the colds, i just try to avoid them altogether. I've worked out the routes of the colds, and i know where their blind spots are so i don't get detected. Your trying to tell me, that doesn't take skill? If ANet nerfs this, they are really contradicting themselves. BUT if Anet nerfs the drops, then yes, thats fine. BUT not the actual build. Since the build = Skill. Anyone who says this doesn't take skill. Then try to tank a group of skeletons, with 2 ether bond breakers. Then afterwards, try to kill them. If you found that easy, come back here.
spiritofcat
The drops in UW are already nerfed.
If you go and try soloing your way towards Galrath instead of soloing the UW you'll see what I mean. I usually have a full inventory by the time I reach Kessex Peak. Easily make 1 or 2k from a run like that. UW? Far less drops. It only really pays off when you get Ecto. As to further nurfing the UW, what if ANet decided to change the paths of the Coldfires so that you couldn't avoid them so easily? Darksci
Well for me, it doesn't seem nerfed. I usually get at least one ecto every 2 runs.
At best, 3 ecto in one run. The only cost i need to do is 1K per entering, which pays off if i get a single ecto. Mind you i store the ecto in bulk and sell them for 12K each, so thats more money to be made. But i dont do many solo runs unless i need the money. As for changing the paths, well i'm still confident ill beable to avoid them. The only way ANet could dent it, is for placing twice as many colds, or if the paths are random. Twice as many colds will also increase the chance of the smites and colds fighting anyway. Since often when i enter the smite and cold area i see lots of smites. Then a minute later, only colds left. Mormegil
Protective Bond will get nerfed....it wasn't supposed to work like this. Runes' prices will be normal again.
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