Earth Farmer

I used this build to farm The Great Northern Wall to get my 15k armor. Granted, that place isn't very hard to farm, but I'd like to make this farming build as good as possible. Here goes.
12+3+1 Earth Magic
8+3 Energy Storage
7 Healing Prayers
8 Protection Prayers

Armor of Earth
Earthquake
Aftershock
Eruption
Crystal Wave
Shield of Regeneration
Healing Breeze
Balthazar's Spirit
Crystal Wave

Basically, it comes down to keeping up armor of earth, wait for all the melee charr, cast eruption on the casters, earthquake aftershock crystal wave, then finish off the casters. Would this or some modification of this be good for anything else? Ettins maybe? Who knows...

no comment?

well, i assume all farming is solo so...

well, there are only so much earth spells that is offensive... and on lower lv mob, non-armor ignoring damage is better.

Since you are not using any elite yet, perhaps give some thought to replace crystal wave with maybe glyph of renewal or something else that can speed up your earth skills.

Shield of Regen is elite, but killing faster generally > healing.

I'm looking your build, but primor i have a few question:

Are caster not supposed to flee from eruption?

It look like your build isnt stuck with 'have to cast a spell under 8s to pump up kinetic'.
Essence bond is your only way to regen energy while you have a huge health regen so (I'm using aura of restauration, essence bond and ether renewal, making 2 ways for regenerating health and 2 ways also for energy).
Do you have any healing/energy issue with very large number of mobs ?

Is there any reason that you aren't using Balthazar's Spirit instead of Essence Bond? The flares and whatnot from the charr will give you energy with BS, not so with Essence Bond. As for soloing low level areas, I think fire would be a better choice because it's cheaper, and there's a lot of pboes that no one runs from. (flame burst, inferno, pheonix) Plus, you'll do more damage if you don't ignore armor. As for shield of regen.. well.. that certainly is unique. Has a rather long recharge though, doesn't it? Spreading attributes that thin certainly isn't too common.

Shield of Regen at that level is 8sec up, 20 recharge. I'll switch to Balth's Spirit. Problem with fire is you don't have any armor boosts of any sort. At least for TGNW, with that HUGE number of enemies, you NEED Armor of Earth or else you're totally screwed.

I have an idea for you, it is a slight change to your build, but this build works against griffins, (augury rock), so ultimutly you will enjoy it more. Seeing as you seem to have worked hard on your ele build i will tell you the skills i use, you can tweak it yourself and post what you find out
I use a earth build, only earth and energy storage.
skills:
1:Stone daggers
2:Earthquake
3:Aftershock
4:Crystal wave
5:Armour of earth
6:Kinetic armour
7:Ether renewal {E}
8:Aura of restoration

Try it out. When you are low on energy put on ether renewal and spam stone daggers to gain energy ^^ there are other builds very similar to this, try it out, mess around with combos, you will like soloing augury rock instead of the great northern wall, much more rewarding

Awesome! I had always wondered about a build like this, use stone daggers to trigger Distracting Shot?

For hydras i use

Earth 16
Smiting 9
Rest in Energy

Skills
Retribution
Essence Bond
Obsidian Flesh
Armour of Earth
AfterShock
Crystal Wave
Obsidian Flame
Aura of Restoration.