Kassad's IDS Ranger/Mes Farmer
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Originally Posted by David Lionmaster
how do you do it? i cant keep imps out of my aggro bubble, just a couple get in, but i have trouble with them.
So do I. In fact, I died because I got too close to a couple. But I managed to kill them before I went down and one dropped the sword.
Narutoscryed
how do you get past the avacara boss and his mobs at the bridge in mineral? usually there is a small mob of avacara and you storm chaser past those.. but how do you get past the next group at the mouth of the bridge? because the boss on that bridge will slow you down and then comes the killing of yourself by a ton of pissed off bird men.
Kassad
Use distracting shot on Iron Mist from the Elemental boss, easy running.
Valerius
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how do you do it? i cant keep imps out of my aggro bubble, just a couple get in, but i have trouble with them.
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yeah sometimes u'll have a bad spawn like that where u have no chance in getting by... just die... u'll respawn right next to the tp to MS... u can work off some of the dp when u kill the Ice Imps ( if u go the north route )|
how do you get past the avacara boss and his mobs at the bridge in mineral?
either interupt it like Kassad said... or else u'll have to rezone or go the alternate route
Narutoscryed
OK there are two seperate bosses with huge mobs on two different bridges... someone told me to interupt when the boss casts his slowdown spell...ya thats a great idea exept for one major problem....even before you reach the bridge of the first boss you have enimies on your ass from the small group before.. now no problem right? just use storm chaster and once you reach the main group with the boss fire frost whatever up and then intreupt his slowdown spell.. then cast dodge and bail..in a perfect world ya it would work.. but unfortunatly the damage you have taken from the first encounter is about 100 then you finnally get to the part where your supposed to interupt the boSS. well good luck cause you wont live long enough to see him cast the spell your supposed to interupt..and ya if you do then your at like 40 health and fading fast with spells on you like fragility and whatever crap they throw on ya.so heal right?? ya thats a good idea.. wait all day for troll ungent to kick in and even if it does the damage your taking is far greater than your healing..i know when i have frost whatever on me the physical attacks dont do any damage..but unfortunatly direct attack is not the only thing enimies do. i can kick the shit outa ice imps.. problem is getting there
Asrial
Christ these guys are fricking annoying. The imps just LOVE to come into range.
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King's Spectre
Nice build. I like to go with R/W and farm my IDS with a FDS.
Valerius
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OK there are two seperate bosses with huge mobs on two different bridges... someone told me to interupt when the boss casts his slowdown spell...ya thats a great idea exept for one major problem....even before you reach the bridge of the first boss you have enimies on your ass from the small group before.. now no problem right? just use storm chaster and once you reach the main group with the boss fire frost whatever up and then intreupt his slowdown spell.. then cast dodge and bail..in a perfect world ya it would work.. but unfortunatly the damage you have taken from the first encounter is about 100 then you finnally get to the part where your supposed to interupt the boSS. well good luck cause you wont live long enough to see him cast the spell your supposed to interupt..and ya if you do then your at like 40 health and fading fast with spells on you like fragility and whatever crap they throw on ya.so heal right?? ya thats a good idea.. wait all day for troll ungent to kick in and even if it does the damage your taking is far greater than your healing..i know when i have frost whatever on me the physical attacks dont do any damage..but unfortunatly direct attack is not the only thing enimies do. i can kick the shit outa ice imps.. problem is getting there
u just had a really bad spawn... rezone and try again
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Asrial
I managed 1 successful solo hunt with my ranger, very frustrating but it was because the imps kept coming into aggro range. No IDS'.
I decided to try an invinci-monk solo and snagged 3 IDS on the first run. Go figure. I will say this though, the invinci-monk is VERY low maintenance but can be EXTREMELY frustrating because of bad guile spawns.
LightningHell
Am i seeing something?
Icy Dragon Sword? I must be missing out.
Beqxter
Invincimonking takes me a lot longer (no speed boosts, and I like killing the brave/fierce mobs for the occasional decent drops), but is SO at the mercy of guile spawns - nothing like taking 40 minutes to get to the cave mouth to find the guile spawn mixed in with the imps right at the mouth of the cave (ARGH!). I'm just not clever enough to take out a mob with a guile or an ardent in it, I know some are. I like the ranger build for getting there a lot faster, and once you get the hang of it soloing the imps is pretty easy - but I can't take out the azures so it bugs that there's a mob or two I can't reach. It's a tossup, but lately I'm preferring the ranger.
Wish I had a warrior - that seems to be the simplest solution for solo farming. David Lionmaster
yay i finally soloed the cave with my ranger! i was with one other person, but they died in the first small imp group, so i continued and cleared the cave myself. i did die once, but i went back and finished it (my parnter died at the giants that time). there were some imps that spawned after the ice beast, so i wasnt able to kill those.
Valerius
yeah... u have to try and kill the shadows one by one... if more the one pops up... it's kinda hard...
Asrial
I'm lucky. I have an invinci-monk, a ranger, AND access to a warrior. I get the best of all IDS worlds
Sab
Kassad: Thanks a lot for that tutorial - I got my first IDS based on your technique. My build was a bit different, I had Conjure Phantasm and Phantom Pain instead of Antidote Signet and Point Blank Shot. It just seemed easier killing Imps and Avicara with Damage over Time spells. The problem is that Maelstrom from the Imps will keep on interrupting the spells, so that's one thing I have to watch out for, but otherwise it works very well. Thanks again.
David Lionmaster
yay! i finally had a successfull solo run, and i found an ids!
the build i used poison arrow dual shot distracting shot kindle arrows troll storm chaser dodge elemental resistance the trolls were tricky, i just poisoned and ran, the imps slowed me, but it wore off pretty quickly, and they got out of range. i almost gave up on the trolls, but i managed to kill them. towards the end of the cave one of the imps dropped an ids. my hard work finally paid off. Asrial
Usually what happens is that I'll get a bunch of imps plinking away from long distance but one will be a brave little punk and get up close and start using ice spears, mind freezes, and maelstroms.
Here's my skillbar (not the best of the best but I bammed it out pretty quick and it seemed to work okay) and here's what I do: Savage Shot, Distracting Shot, Apply Poison, Troll Unguent, Throw Dirt, Whirling Dervish, Dodge, Storm Chaser I get it to where only 1 imp is doing ice spears and maelstroms. I Savage Shot the maelstroms and Distracting Shot the ice spears (very important to Distracting Shot the spears so that you can disable them for 20 seconds). I use Savage Shot just to give extra insurance that I don't get hit by a maelstrom while Distracting Shot is recharging. When a troll is coming at me, I hit it with a poison arrow and hit Whirling Dervish. When Whirling Dervish runs out, I hit it with another poison arrow and hit Dodge (at which point I stop attacking). When Dodge runs out, I use Throw Dirt on it. Usually, by this time, the troll is dead and I can focus on the imps. 1) If you're patient, damage is not important. DOT is what will kill things. 2) Using Amnoon Oasis Druid's armor, I never really had a problem with damage unless I was getting spiked by ice spears and maelstrom was taking out Troll Unguent. David Lionmaster
im pretty sure its whirling defense.
yeah, i never needed it when fighting a troll, i just poisoned and ran. furious fellblade
doesnt seem to work.......i keep getting pwned by those devastating health degeneration and knocked down by golems
Asrial
Whirling Defense, yah. Was posting from work and the picture makes me think of Whirling Dervish from Magic: The Gathering
Furious, there's a specific path that if taken, and if you get a proper creature spawn, you only encounter one group of creatures in Tasca's Demise.
Yolanda Kai
I didn't have the problem before, but tonight it seems like the Heretics cast Crippling Anguish way more than they used to, which usually results in me getting squished by their backup... no way you're gonna escape with 50% speed instead of 125%.
Initial reaction was to swap out a skill for Shatter Hex because it casts really quickly, but if they layer a few on you then this doesn't do any good either. Ice prison form the Titans is a bitch too. Any ideas? <edit> Duh! Turned off the Titan quests. Much better  Only thing I'm still having a bit of trouble with is the Imps just in side the mouth of the cave... they always seem to spawn like 5+ in extremely tight packs and when I fling an arrow from outside the bubble, a few always run up close and use the good spells. Any advice for singling them out better? </edit> f0s
thx
im using a bit different skills ang go the southern way .. it works fine just one question.. how to beat the Azure Shadows in the cave? and whats the sense of the statue?
Yolanda Kai
f0s: Going the south way, how do you deal w/ the Worms in the mountain passage? Anything that knocks you down that rapidly can't be good
For those that go the normal route (as in the original map) how do you deal with the group of Avicara on the last bridge w/ the Elemental boss? One of the Wise hit me with the slowdown spell and I'm lucky to escape with 50 health. There's got to be an easier way! Oh, and I'm using a build most similar to Valerius. Dual Shot / Poison Arrow / Kindle Arrows / Dodge / Storm Chaser / Troll Unguent / Mantra of Frost / Power Leak f0s
this way i go ..
there arent any worms ..
Yolanda Kai
That's strange, I had somebody show me that route and twice in a row the mountain pass was full of worms. Went back to the tried and true... but if this is easier then I'm all for it
Anyway I seem to have figured out most of the little glitches in my planning, I got the dreaded mixed spawn and killed all but 2 of the imps outside... and like the third one dropped an IDS There was an absolute wall of them though, at the top of the hill. Like 12 Imps plus the Avicara. Not easy to agro a couple Imps and not take the entire lot with me when they had that bad a height advantage. The rest were a waste of time but that's okay!
Valerius
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but tonight it seems like the Heretics cast Crippling Anguish way more than they used to, which usually results in me getting squished by their backup
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how to beat the Azure Shadows in the cave? and whats the sense of the statue?
take out the shadows one by one... anymore then 2 and ur screwed :P ... the statue gives special powers when we have favor... try kneeling in front of it to make the avatar appear when ur region has favor  Quote:
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