Curse

Stee Janz · Jul 07, 2006, 04:51 PM // 16:51

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Originally Posted by Tricky Star

Tested this build on Royen, but wont work. You cant do enough damage, and Royen uses Troll Unguent the whole time.
2nd time i changed Tiger Stance with Distraction Blow. Didnt work either. Troll Unguent has 10 sec recharge time, Distraction 20 sec.
So i dont know how you did it then. I might try to switch to axe and use Dusrupting Blow.

Anyways, thanks for the build. Its pretty easy to get Ghial down.

I have solo'ed Royen many times with this build and as a matter of fact I escorted someone else that was having a little trouble with him to show him how it was done. The only difference is that you take out all the foes in the area first, then his pet, then Royen. His pet helps heal him. You shouldn't have any trouble taking him down. When ever a ranger uses Troll Unguent you counter with Tiger Stance.

Captain Robo · Jul 07, 2006, 04:55 PM // 16:55

You can kill ghial even if he has 3 rits around him. After killing whatever you can without pulling his group (usually the two knights and a rit), you pull ghial and his group onto the bridge, then sprint away and break aggro. When they stop aggro, ghial should still be closest to you. Pull out your longbow and plink him, then sprint away. After a bit, you'll get him far away enough from the group where you can kill him.

Captain Robo · Jul 07, 2006, 06:19 PM // 18:19

You can also get to ghial much more quickly if you go through Bukdek Byway from Wajuun Bazaar

Mr.H.Mishima · Jul 08, 2006, 01:49 AM // 01:49

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Originally Posted by Captain Robo

You can also get to ghial much more quickly if you go through Bukdek Byway from Wajuun Bazaar

If you can make that run, more power to you. I just don't see how it's possible. With the crippling, poison, and whatever elite the necros use, good luck. At least -8 degen if not more.

Captain Robo · Jul 08, 2006, 04:16 PM // 16:16

As long as you can avoid the spike traps, you'll be fine. Just put healing hands on before you go in, and then sprint through. Normally you'll survive. It helps if you take your sup rune off too.

Also, if you really want to be cautious, you can aggro the group, and pull them over the bridge so they fight the Canthan Guard, then you just sprint past them scott-free.

Captain Robo · Jul 08, 2006, 10:51 PM // 22:51

Well, at the very least, you can rezone through there and fight ghial again, with morale boost

Sparhawk Ashaman · Jul 11, 2006, 04:49 AM // 04:49

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Originally Posted by mrcake

Build also works on lian dragons petal outside market place in waijun bazzare, who drops lians lantern.
Need to kill the group of 3 knights first, then try and make lians group chase you all the way back to the portal for market place, as when you get close enough to it they will stop chasing and leave you alone, which leaves a nice bit of safety if you are getting in trouble.
Try to get the knight in the group to come to the bottom of the steps, then run upto the side wall of the steps by one of the pillars so you are shielded from the casters so they cant hit you.
If you have been lucky you can sometimes make the ritualist not follow the group but if he did run up steps and kill him first, then the other 2 casters, then finally lian.
I find on quite a lot of the runs sometimes after killing the knight the rest of the group dont bother attacking so you can just kill them at leisure.

Where to get the knight

Lian

she seems to drop just as bad as ghial though, havent had it once yet

I farmed that item alot, got it about 3 times in 2 days, made about 90k off it, then it had a big price drop so i stopped farming it

And yes your right, that same build could easily farm that. Mine was similar to this one, only I didnt use Tigers Stance or Sprint.

Captain Robo · Jul 11, 2006, 06:14 PM // 18:14

This is pissing me off to no end. I've done about thirty farming runs over the past four days, and he's dropped one staff.

Not only that, but every time I go to fight him, HE'S HOLDING HIS WEAPON. The silver-dyed bone staff that I want so very much. When he dies, he's still gripping it, taunting me, laughing at me.

I'm wondering why the hell I can't just take it when he's sitting there dead, holding it. But the game is being stupid. I rotate farming between Stonereaper, Baubao's Shell, and Ghial, but so far, nothing has dropped for the past four days.

wtf is going on.

Ghull Ka · Jul 11, 2006, 08:01 PM // 20:01

I've been doing this by starting at Tanakai Temple. You just have to run through one group of Am Fah, which isn't that bad. Put on healing hands, walk thru 'em, sprint to break aggro, and you're golden. No enemies all the way to the Skyway Zone.

There's a Statue of Balthazar just inside Skyway, too, :-)

From there, three groups of Jade Brotherhood between you and the Tengu. One group between the Tengu and Ghial's Bridge. I think it's an easier approach than going from Senji's. At the very least, it's a less stressful approach. The terrain is much easier to negotiate and the groups are much easier to run through.

Captain Robo · Jul 12, 2006, 12:47 AM // 00:47

The fastest way to get there is to run from senji's.

Forget what I said before about running from marketplace, its not faster.

If you know what you're doing, you'll never die on your way there, unless you get bodyblocked (and even then, you might be able to fight out of it).

Just takes practice.

Stee Janz · Jul 12, 2006, 05:53 AM // 05:53

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Originally Posted by Captain Robo

The fastest way to get there is to run from senji's.

Forget what I said before about running from marketplace, its not faster.

If you know what you're doing, you'll never die on your way there, unless you get bodyblocked (and even then, you might be able to fight out of it).

Just takes practice.

You are correct. Senji's is as straight a shot as you can get. If you die in this run with a warrior then... you might want to start another character.

Šiljo · Jul 12, 2006, 08:00 AM // 08:00

@captain robo

FYI,all bosses are holding the green weapons in Cantha,so u must kill them to see if they drop.

Arangja · Jul 12, 2006, 08:48 AM // 08:48

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Originally Posted by Captain Robo

This is pissing me off to no end. I've done about thirty farming runs over the past four days, and he's dropped one staff.

Not only that, but every time I go to fight him, HE'S HOLDING HIS WEAPON. The silver-dyed bone staff that I want so very much. When he dies, he's still gripping it, taunting me, laughing at me.

I'm wondering why the hell I can't just take it when he's sitting there dead, holding it. But the game is being stupid. I rotate farming between Stonereaper, Baubao's Shell, and Ghial, but so far, nothing has dropped for the past four days.

wtf is going on.

Captain Robo, persistance is the name of the game

that is why the staff is still selling for 50 - 60K. As we all know it is not hard to get to him and then even to kill him is not that hard either, so the only way that the staff is maintaining the price is because it is glued to his hand lol.

Also Captain try throwing a mission into your rotation movements, that usually resets the farming nerf they have active. I used to rotate too and nothing happened, then a guildy asked me to help him with a mission and I did, then whent back to Ghail, two runs later I had the staff.

He doesn't drop very good as Stee said right in the beginning. The running part, well I have never had any problems getting to Ghial, the first group I encounter is easy too.
What I do there is run over the bridge, wait for the Rit boss to start running towards me, then I run back to the beginning of the bridge where there are always two guards there. They attack the Rit boss and his buddies attack them so you run through them without taking 1 single hit

The rest is easy straight running, like Stee said if you can't make this run maybe you should be playing another character lol

I will go there again to see if I can get him to drop it for me again haven't been there in ages

Happy hunting guys

N8DOGG · Jul 12, 2006, 02:21 PM // 14:21

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Originally Posted by Tricky Star

Tested this build on Royen, but wont work. You cant do enough damage, and Royen uses Troll Unguent the whole time.
2nd time i changed Tiger Stance with Distraction Blow. Didnt work either. Troll Unguent has 10 sec recharge time, Distraction 20 sec.
So i dont know how you did it then. I might try to switch to axe and use Dusrupting Blow.

Anyways, thanks for the build. Its pretty easy to get Ghial down.

SURE YOU CAN

UFO · Jul 12, 2006, 08:59 PM // 20:59

This is patetic...killed 38 times ghial= 0 drops....0 ghial staffs 4 me by 38 kills.

Ultimate Sacrifice · Jul 12, 2006, 09:35 PM // 21:35

Hm, about a month or so I tried farming Ghial about 11 times, no drops. So I quit for awhile tested out one of my other Ghial's Staffs on my MM for a bit, went back, got it. Did another run, nothing. Did some random arenas went back to farming him got it.

Captain Robo · Jul 14, 2006, 03:57 PM // 15:57

I do believe the recent Armor Nerf has made Ghial unfarmable.

I died twice while trying to run to him, and when I finally got there on the third try, I was killed by Jade Brotherhood Mages, of all things.

I killed the knights no problem, and the group was four Mages and a Rit, which normally would have been a piece of cake, but since I no longer get -4 reduction on ALL DAMAGE, their wand damage, combined with Conjure Flame added up. Its quite ridiculous now. But I can't be too upset at the nerf... after all, I'm primarily an Ele, and that's good news for PVP.

Captain Robo · Jul 14, 2006, 04:04 PM // 16:04

Quite frankly, I also don't ever remember Jade Brotherhood Mesmers being that keen on the interrupt either. The reason I die on the runs is because they manage to interrupt Healing Hands. This has happened in the past, but it wasn't that common (I really don't know how they do it. This is one case of AI being TOO good).

But now its happening like every time.

Stee Janz · Jul 14, 2006, 05:46 PM // 17:46

Interesting. I will have to solo it tonight to see whats going on. I will see if its different for me and if it is I will make the necessary adjustments.

The Last Cruzader · Jul 14, 2006, 11:01 PM // 23:01

I dunno I got 2 staves in 2 days from about 10-15 runs in all must be luck.