W/X FoW Spider Farmer

[defy pain][cyclone axe][whirlwind attack][body blow][lion's comfort][asuran scan][flail][sprint]

13 Str
14 Axe

-3 Absorb somewhere with a -2/stance shield. It's what I use, I clear the whole thing in around 25 mins if I'm slow. For me, I never pull or anything, I rush straight at the dryders and don't stop killing things until everything in the cave is extinct (except me of course) Don't the spiders start using [melandrus resilience] when you hex them?
With proper pulling the run takes ~20 minutes.

wouldnt stalwarts insignia be better than knights for this? No, since I remember from 3 years ago that a +10 vs piercing shield was less effective than a -2 in stance shield.
When you take big damage, armor is better.. but for the small chunks of dmg the spiders do, absorbtion is better. (-10, -3, -3, -2)

Scythe build looks cool. AOE should reduce lap times a good bit.

Physical resistance is pointless now, with the Defy Pain buff. Flail = IAS, IAS = FTW. Knight's Insignias + Superior Absorption plus -2 stance shield + Defy Pain = 0 from all Driftwoods and Spiders. You can tank a group of Driftwoods while you have Dryders on your ass, and crippled, and survive very easily so long as you're quick to activate skills. Feel no Pain gives you a counter against degen and it can't be stripped or interrupted. Here's what I was running before I uninstalled:

16 Swordsmanship
13 Strength
3 Healing

[flail][vigorous spirit][feel no pain][defy pain][whirlwind attack][standing slash][sun and moon slash][sprint]

Furious sword is nice but not necessary. Cool to get the attack skills recharged a little faster, though. Energy is a total non-issue. The paltry heal from VS is there solely to top off the last remaining pip of degen from poison, and it lasts a long time and is quick to cast. Thing I love about this build is that once you get into the cave, you no longer have to pull the Dryders. You can run up and start the beatdown. You don't need your enchant right away anyway. Just keep using Flail and attack skills to negate [wastrel's worry], keep Defy Pain up, and the -1 from poison and 0 damage from attacks will be something to laugh at. Once the Dryder is dead, proceed to thwack the Spiders. Easier than ever. I feel like [vigorous spirit] and [feel no pain] are a slightly overkill for the healing.

I use:

strength 15
sword 14
healing 3

[flail][vigorous spirit][lions comfort][defy pain][power attack][standing slash][sun and moon slash][enraging charge]

i use lions comfort only for the first 3 dryders at the beggining of the cave. i cant have [vigorous spirit] up because the will strip it. so while im taking them down i heal every now and then just to keep my health above 50%.

also [power attack] instead of [whirlwind attack] because you were absolutely right. you NEVER have to worry about mana with the build. so i used a zealous sword and use power attack as something to dump my mana off into. whirlwind just seemed kinda pointless. i would whirlwind and it would recharge all my attack skills which was nice but as far as dmg went i didnt think it dmged everthing all that much. so i decided to tune the build for taking down a single target as fast as possible. which is why my strength is at 15 instead of sword.



i guess what im really trying to say is i feel like the build could be fine tuned a little better. mostly because [vigorous spirit] could outheal the -4 degen by itself. so with feel no pain on top of that i just think its overkill.

what about instead of w/mo doing another sec prof for more dmg?

suggestions?

[defy pain][cyclone axe][whirlwind attack][body blow][lion's comfort][asuran scan][flail][sprint]

13 Str
14 Axe

-3 Absorb somewhere with a -2/stance shield. It's what I use, I clear the whole thing in around 25 mins if I'm slow. For me, I never pull or anything, I rush straight at the dryders and don't stop killing things until everything in the cave is extinct (except me of course)
Build works great, i havn't did a spider run since the original W/Me build, it was way too slow, this build is faster. Best part is i dont even have to pull, just hack them down nice and quick.

I really don't know how you guys do 20-25 minute runs, I just did one and it took me 40 minutes T_T. Plus I didn't even get 1 shard =/

*edit : Alright, I guess I just need practice... I did a second one in 30 minutes and got 4 shards + a white dye. The more practice you get the better and easier it makes the run Just takes a little bit of getting used to thats all, congrats on the 30 minute run though

i took my monk fried with me and he had bonds like str and hounur etc.. Have fun. The question is, will it work without the monk? I am too lazy to try

good job ressing a 6 month old thread that is never seen anymore because fow manlyspike Good job posting about a team setup in a solo farming thread

Anyway, not had chance to test yet anyone else had any luck with the spooky spider cave?

good job ressing a 6 month old thread that is never seen anymore because fow manlyspike gj being a mainstream pve scrub (totally called for, inde *sparkling eyes*)

TheRemedy: yeah FoW run is still as easy as it always was, UW was always the challenge for wars =D I haven't tried Aatxes yet but I've been messing around with a few W/D and W/Me builds (I think one is on wiki) and they do work, it's just annoying getting past the Skeletons. I think 100b + Whirlwind is better than the Scythe, not sure about numbers though. I just prefer using swords, COOLAH!!

Hopefully Racthoh gets bored of farming Koreans in Aion and decides to come back and make builds for wars again. Z_Z

So sad how degenerate farming builds are these days when you compare them to 05/06.

Well done ANet!!

can warriors even farm UW anymore? Sure, you just have to be more careful, W/D still works fine..
spirit spammz0ring is so much easier tho, both in UW and in FOW. You can do a lot more as well.. I've never ever had runs with 8-9 ecto before (Sure, takes time, but w/e, you get to see all of UW). Same with Fow. Forest, Beach, towers, you name it