W/X FoW Spider Farmer

I got closer, I'm going to be gone for 4 days now so I won't be able to try again till next mondayish

I did this run for the first time today. I did it a total of 4 times: the first and the third time were perfect. The second and third however, all the skales seemed to want to join in the fun and would not leave me alone. They also seemed to want to spawn in the weirdest places...should have taken a screenshot but both times it was impossible to get to the cave. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to relocate groups of nusscance skales?

Kill 'em

Can you tel me the attributes for the healing hands build please i have currently been using the slower build but i would like to advance on to the faste build. THIS IS AWESOME thanks for posting these builds>

I run healing 10
Sword 15
strength 3
Tactics 10

On a side note what is your strategy on killing scales with wammo build i was thinking keep casting enchants and let them kill themselves?

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I suppose its time to start gathering a FAQ for this build...going through 75 pages(WOW) is proly getting a little tedious for those new to the build. Also to prevent people from randomly posting in OTHER forums about this build.

I'll start off, and hopefully Racthoh will update the front page with the FAQ, and tell people to read the whole post before posting questions

What is the best build for spider farming?
The best build for someone new to spider farming would probably be the W/Me Physical Resistance build as it provides good damage reduction and healing.This build consists of Physical Resistance Spint Doylak Signet Watch Yourself and Healing Signet with your choice of axe or sword damage skills. For the quickest build, at the moment it would be W/Mo Healing Hands build.

When I try to get to the spiders, the scales aggro me and I die, what can help me from wasting 1k?
Very common problem, usually an easy solution. First thing is you need to know where the scales are going to be when you want to take a break. Generally speaking, scales follow the same pattern constantly, a few minutes sitting there watching them on your minimap will save you a lot of aggrivation. Also you can get a Lueienants(Correct this spelling somebody) Helm from Henge of Denravi for really cheap, this cuts the hex time down. You may also want to swap out a -HP rune for another piece of armor so that you have more time to escape. You never want to aggro more then one mob of scales at a time. Also, make sure you sprint out of the scale aggro, not into it..It helps to get out quicker, not in quicker.

What is the best equipment setup for this build(W/Me)?
Weapon and Shield should be something like the following:
F1: Zealous (Axe or Sword) of Defense(Best is 15^50 inherent damage mod, but while stanced will do as well.) and a Max Armor Level +45 Health while in a Stance and -2 Health while in a stance(Or equivilent)
F2: (Axe or Sword) Of Fortitude And Shield mentioned above.(This helps in the running if your still having problems.
F3: Longbow(Anything really, as long as it has longbow in the name then you should be fine.)
F4: Gwens Broken Flute. (Just to be cool, not needed )
Your armor should be one piece of ascalon/knights armor on your feet arms or head with the rest being gladiators armor, this provides best damage reduction with good armor and energy. Apply runes as needed in specific build.

Ok, thats all for now, Racthoh generally gets more questions then I do...Racthoh post!

Well, I couldn't access the forums when I wanted to look up your build information Rac, and we were losing favor too fast for me to bother with Google, so I just went in with a build of my own (which you'll probably recognize... ).

Attributes
Swordsmanship 12+1+3 (16)
Strength 8+1 (9)
Tactics 10+1 (11)

Equipment
Duelist's Helm of Superior Swordsmanship
Dreadnought's Curiass (you may want to add a vigor rune here )
Beserker's Gauntlets of Minor Strength
Dreadnought's Leggings of Minor Tactics
Knight's Boots of Superior Absorption


Furious Fellblade of Warding
Slashing Damage: 15-22 (Requires 9 Sworsmanship)
Damage +15% (while health is above 50%)
Armor +7 (vs. elemental attacks) <-- useful for the run if Shadow Ele's decide to toss a Fireball your way
Double adrenaline on hit (Chance: 10%)

Any Longbow or Flatbow; stats do not matter as it is used simply for pulling.

Exalted Aegis
Armor: 16 (Requires 9 Strength)
Received damage -5 (Chance: 20%)
Health +30

Crimson Carapace Shield
Armor: 16 (Requires 9 Tactics)
Health +45 (while in a Stance)
Received damage -2 (while in a Stance)

Skills
Dragon Slash {E}
Silverwing Slash
Healing Signet
Flurry
Dolyak Signet
"Watch Yourself!"
"I Will Survive!"
Sprint


Explaining the run there would be pointless, as you went into the details with your original post. I will say that, for the run, I used the Crimson Carapace Shield, and switched to the Exalted Aegis for the actual fighting portion of the farm.

Basic idea is to use Flurry when you need to get adrenaline built up quick for "Watch Yourself!" or a finishing slash; Flurry is also a very good way to prematurely end Wastrel's Worry and save yourself a bit of hassle when fighting those blasted Dryder's.

The real pricks of the run are the Spiders themselves. All that Poison spamming really bothered me when I was running my Plague Touch build, so I switched out Touch for "I Will Survive!". Not only was Touch more of a help to the Spiders than to me, but "I Will Survive!" is a much better use of the skill slot, as it serves to decrease the amount of DoT I take from the Poison.

What I really like about this build is that, when timed right, you can fire off "Watch Yourself!", Dragon Slash, Silverwing Slash, Dragon Slash, "Watch Yourself!", and another Silverwing Slash in a reasonably quick succession. This makes quick work of the Dryders and does a good deal of damage to the Driftwoods.

^ The only problems I have with the above build is that it would be alot slower to kill all the spiders in the cave in a decent time, and as well as the driftwoods at the beginning where the shadow patrol comes back.
The only problem i have is Dolyak Signet, it may be great for farming but if a lone skale comes wandering out while in the midst of fighting your screwed.

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Nice for you on your first try :P. God knows it took me a few days to be able to do it.

1500 post!!!

Did this yesterday but i got two shards but i accidently aggroed the skales over to the right (as you can see one of them is close to me) so i picked it up. I use the W/Me Build .

Avaith, did you go completely through the cave of dryders/spiders on your run? Because doing a run every 15 minutes is nearly 15-20 minutes faster than most can do at their best.

I use mending in the build, with 8 points, i just change 1 attack skill (i use the axe build). Its easier with the armored spiders, you only get -1 regen and you can tank longer without using healing signet. Just put mending when you are going to fight those groups, and remove to pull and kill the dryders (ther shatter the enchant).

Later

Most of these builds seem to be pretty conservative, so I thought I would throw in mine:

Axe Mastery, 10 + 3 + 1
Strength 11 + 3
Tactics 11 + 3

and yes thats 3 superior runes, leaving you with 335 health, but its worth it

skill setup:
ive tried all of the factions elites and ive found that triple chop is the most efficient

dolyak signet-with 14 strength it will last 19, 1 second of downtime
frenzy- yes, frenzy
cyclone axe- helps with the larger groups of spiders
triple chop- same as above, more damage, longer recharge
executioners strike- when youre fighting groups of 6 spiders with aoe attacks, this charges up quick not much more to say
healing signet- 137 health with 14 tactics
watch yourself!
sprint

ideally you will be using all 5 superior runes, vigor isnt really required, but everyone should have superior abs. now that its so cheap

weapon doesn't really matter, zealous mod makes things go faster though
shield, all you need is -2 while in a stance

with this build you should try to pull the spiders together, so that they are all being hit by cyclone and triple chop. The best way to do this is using the walls, outside of the cave pull them around the corner, and on the inside of the cave use the small alcoves where they cannot hit you. Most ive killed at once is 3 groups (9 spiders). They die faster than most other builds that ive tried as well.

hey guys,

I've been trying this run and have attempted it 3 times so far, however i am not able to get past the skales and to the cave.

Would anyone be willing to take me along and show me the ropes, especially getting to the cave? (you keep drops [not chests], and i pay for entrance)

i tried this today. It took a while to do, longer than you said >.>, but it worked ok.

Well when your new to it it will take longer for obvious reasons. After you practice so much you could farm in your sleep, thats when you try to lower the time down :-D Congrats though..

sorry...whats the attributes for the live vicariously/HH build?

Added by Racthoh: I'll abuse my forum powers because I don't want to add another post on here: Post #1495

A guildie showed me this run just a couple weeks ago. We cleared the beach and had lots of fun doing it. Today I finally got around to trying it by myself. It is quite the rush! I made it to the beach, but a scale got me while I was in the process of taking down a Dryder. I didn't start to run away quite soon enough sadly. I have a feeling with a bit more practice it will be loads of fun with a bit less death. At least I got a shard out of it this time!

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