Curse

MrGuru101 · Jan 11, 2006, 07:47 AM // 07:47

So far I've only ascended with 3 characters since I've been playing. I started with a warrior, then a ranger, and today my necromancer. The first time I did it, I expected it to be really hard because I heard a lot of hype about how hard it was, but it was really easy and fast. I think I just brought my regular skills and I killed him in about 20 seconds. My ranger one was funny; I decided to bring spirits to see if he would use them. I brought Symbiosis, favorable winds, and winter. The funny thing was I think he only shot me three times in total, from beginning to end. Right off the bat he used favorable winds, then winter, and then he was dead. Now those 2 were easy, but my necromancer took me 3 times to win, and just barely. The first time I tried using death magic, but my computer was lagging so by the time I got control I was under 50% health and he was fresh. The second time I tried hexing him to death, and that didnt work at all. The final time I just brought a bunch of sacrificing skills and to my suprise he killed himself. I watched as he sacrificed 25%, then 10% three times in a row, he somehow was doing a considerable amount of damage to me, and right at the end, we both died instantaneously...I still got the xp though.

If you guys have any interesting stories about your doppleganger fights, share them.

Vilaptca · Jan 11, 2006, 08:06 AM // 08:06

First time going up against my doppleganger. Heard a lot about how hard it was supposed to be. Had no idea why. Had no idea what to bring, so just went in with the build I had. Was a N/E, first thing I cast was Meteor Shower and it was over. He stood right there and just kept getting knocked over and died. Was fast enough to even get the bonus...

Then with my Ranger and my Monk, I couldn't do it so fast and had to look for advice, I was kind of surprised when it killed me... Just goes to show how stupid it was that mobs stayed in AoEs before the update. I can't imagine beating my doppleganger again with the build I used then.

nirhan shadowmauler · Jan 11, 2006, 08:44 AM // 08:44

first time i did it was on a monk. it was so freaking hard for me that first time. i tried using my ele secondary skills. finally i killed it with retribution. after almost 5 minutes.

Rc The Mad · Jan 11, 2006, 08:44 AM // 08:44

I recently went back to see how fast I could beat my Doppelganger now using an invinci-monk. I probably killed him over 30 times out of boredom, and my best so far has been about 13 seconds. It helps that you can pre-cast enchantments in the room before the doppelganger.

Kaguya · Jan 11, 2006, 08:52 AM // 08:52

Doing it on a Warrior is way too easy. Just run in and whack the sense out of him.

Was more of a challenge on my monk, but using /Me on that helped a lot, empathy+backfire 4tw

Deadlyjunk · Jan 11, 2006, 08:59 AM // 08:59

I've ascended four characters: a warrior (too easy, just run in and bash away), an ele/me (dual meteor shower ftw), a necro/mo (this was tough, though I got him in the end with my life transfer build) and a mesmer/r (the funniest by far, I brought 7 spirits and conjure phantasm. He died without attacking me once). I'm having problems with my monk though, seeing as he uses healing breeze these days.

Dograzor · Jan 11, 2006, 09:30 AM // 09:30

I beat the doppleganger without using any skills... just make sure u have good armor and a good weapon

Rico Carridan · Jan 11, 2006, 09:35 AM // 09:35

My favourite was my Mo/N. I brought 4 persistent enchantments, guardian, aegis, and rend enchantments. I think I went in with 7 enchantments on (you get light of whatever for free)... he rended himself to death in about 20 seconds.

Rico

hilkos · Jan 11, 2006, 09:36 AM // 09:36

The mesmer doppleganger was very funny. I read the strategy before i had a mesmer on these boards and in practice it is a killer.

I brought backfire and empathy and a bunch of energystealing skills and useless stuff like that (useless only in this case)
I casted backfire on him immediately, then empathy and then i did....nothing.
type /sit and the doppleganger is dead well under 50 seconds

My charactres i did it with before were elementalist, necromancer and warrior.

TheLordOfBlah · Jan 11, 2006, 09:55 AM // 09:55

Yea, with a warrior you can kill it in about 5 seconds. now with the update that made it EASIER it is impossible to fail

The Herbalizer · Jan 11, 2006, 10:17 AM // 10:17

Beating him with a mo/war using a swamp club (hammer) as i knew his axe will cause less dmg. I beat him with something like 10 health left.

kais · Jan 11, 2006, 10:38 AM // 10:38

i beat dopple with warrior, necro(sacrificed to death...), monk( a bit hard but smiting did the trick... although i think i was like 20 hps from death when he died ^_^), and ranger( since i had necro as secondary prof i had him sacrifice himself while i was shooting him

didnt use any spirits )

Evil Hypnotist · Jan 11, 2006, 12:29 PM // 12:29

I have ascended 3 chars, my healing monk was first and I must have tried and died at least a dozen times before checking out other peoples builds. Repeat a thousand times "I WILL NOT TAKE HEALING SKILLS". Did it and the bonus when using smiting. My Warrior practically killed him in 2 hits as far as I remember and my Ranger was as easy as MrGuru101's, just stick pointy wooden things in him at a distance while hes busy conjuring all the spirits he can muster. Unfortunately for the Doppelganger the spirits don't attack like pets do

Pompeyfan · Jan 11, 2006, 12:57 PM // 12:57

I've ascended 4 characters - War/Ran, Ran/Ele, Ele/Nec, Nec/Mes and the necro/mesmer was by far the quickest and easiest - I just loaded up with the health sacrifice skills and watched him kill himself.

generik · Jan 11, 2006, 01:00 PM // 13:00

I went up against it with a lvl 12 WaMo, then I died.. and seconds later it bled to death and I received 50k XP.

Just as I started cheering, I realised I got ported back to Augury... Noooo!!

Swampgirl Inez · Jan 11, 2006, 02:08 PM // 14:08

The first time, I wanted to try and figure it out for myself, so I just went in with my current build (W/E). In PvE, I use immolate a lot as a first volley. It took my two tries to figure out why I kept burning to death.

The third time, after I figured it out, I went in with warrior only skills and it went so fast, I barely remember the fight. I don't think I hit my doppleganger more than 3 or 4 times.

leeky baby · Jan 11, 2006, 02:13 PM // 14:13

just take healing breeze he doesnt use it ^^
my ranger i stood close to him and used troll uget and dispurtive shot but he could use distruptive shot cause was using an axe

Angel Develin · Jan 11, 2006, 02:38 PM // 14:38

kiled the Doppleganger with my desert collector armour and vampiric gaze only (blood magic 13)

Yichi · Jan 11, 2006, 03:02 PM // 15:02

I went in when i had to redo yichi and for some reason he glitched and didnt move. i wanded him to death

Mavrik · Jan 11, 2006, 05:14 PM // 17:14

took me a few tries with my ele to beat him and I didn't get the bonus. Also took me a few tries with my warrior despite how "easy" its suppose to be. But when I did beat him, I got the bonus to.