Originally Posted by Arlan

Try this - someone with same problem decided to map out all the elites.

http://www.mappingout.com/?page_id=11

Originally Posted by Golganneth

What I did was go on wiki and look at elite skills by each chapter, and just go around capping them. I'd cap all of Tyria for a few days, all of Cantha, and so on. Just focus on one chapter and capture all the elites, then move onto the next is what I did. Pretty nice and consistent for me. Just make sure you have the money for each campaign, so you don't have to worry about going back and forth buying cap sigs.

Originally Posted by Arlan

Try this - someone with same problem decided to map out all the elites.

http://www.mappingout.com/?page_id=11

Originally Posted by Arlan

Try this - someone with same problem decided to map out all the elites.

http://www.mappingout.com/?page_id=11

Originally Posted by Dograzor

Hey, ive just done my leg Skill hunter title, i did it in a week or so. Make sure you have enough cash beforehand .

EDIT: Actually I'm making a kinda guide out of it. All things here are to my copyright. If wanted, i could make this in a seperate thread, give me feedback.

Oki, woo... First introduction, this became a 4 page monster. I am going into details for Tyria capping only, since it is the most annoying. All rights reserved to Elanor The Highelf for writing this. =)

First, a note on Core skills. Do NOT cap most of these in Tyria. Big pain, waste of time. Include them in the first area you are capping, Cantha or Elona. For the Core skills, just follow my usual setup below, just take a look at the specific skill and compare where it is most easy to cap. Imo the Core skills in the desert are the easiest in the missions, compared to other locations. Just look around, your call, compare.

If you have a skill that is cappable in more then 1 location, COMPARE! It might save you lots of time, especially since we are talking about 290 Elite skills and many hours of capping, if you can save 5 minutes by looking up 1 skill for 30 seconds longer, you got time gain, and that is nice, if ya dont want to spend weeks doing this. Think in the longer run. I did about 1 week to get this title, and I dont grind hardcore.

The Setup:

Factions
First i did cantha, used this link: http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Elit...tion_(Factions)

I worked down from Bukdek to Raisu, then went to http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Elite_skills_list -> factions section - run Gw in windowed mode - check skills by prof if you have missed one out. Fairly easy, short runs, only a few in raisu that might take some time. I might go into this later, tonight im only writing pages about Tyria.

Nightfall
Same for NF - http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Elit...ion_(Nightfall) - Work from cliffs of Dhojok to Depth of Madness. and check back at elite list if you missed one out. Easy runs, only Realm of Torment can be annoying, use holy title to speed up killing. Nf has the most skills to cap, apart from the 30 core skills that you got in Cantha, you need to cap 110 skills here, but it is quite easy, 5 min per run is easily done, exept the harder once. Got that title in 2-3 days.

Tyria
Now do Tyria, and only use this: http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Elite_skills_list - Tyria Section - and go by profession. It is easier that way, since you have already capped the core skills with Elona or Canthan skill capping, leaving Tyrian locations behind. The reason WHY i kept tyria till last and WHY i went by it by profession, and not cap all the skills per area, is that Tyrian skillcapping is a big pain imo. So by going per profession you have a variation per run, and its less painfull. You wouldn't want to do capping of 5-6 skills in Hell's Precipice in a row would ya? Mindnumbing...

Another note - Compare - Quite a few Tyrian Elite's can be capped in GW: Eye of the North. This may, or may not be easier, depending where it is. Or what friends you have. If you have a friend who is a 600/smite, let him help ya cap Powerblock off the Magekiller in lvl 1 in CoF. Easy. Saves you time running around like a headless chicken flagging your lobotomized heroes out of Meteor Showers.

Specific Area's
For the capping of skills in Snake Dance, the bosses seem a long walk, but it can be relatively eased in a few ways.

There are 3 bosses: Raptorhawk, Old Red Claw and Featherclaw, and if you look good on http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Featherclaw you see that there is a spawning point adjecent to camp rankor. Exit in/out and rush to half down the hill outside rankor, kill the griffins, if ya want and if you're lucky, aggro the +15 griffins to the nearby dwarven patrol for some support in the north. Anyways, one of the three bosses spawns there, it saves time to cap them here instead of walking north. Reexit if your boss is not there.

Second way - for the other bosses in snake dance that spawn north near Dreadnaughts drift - Go to Deldrimor warcamp - exit - go west - take portal there to Snake dance, go up north. Any of the bosses you can cap can be reached that way faster then starting from Camp Rankor. If the boss is not there, go north into Dreadnaughts Drift and rezone.

For Lornar's Pass, there are 3 bosses have unique elite's, they can't be capped somewhere else. There are 2 spawn locations outside Beacon's Perch, easily capped with a 6 man team if you have decent heroes. Exit in out if specific boss is not there.

For the Mursaat Bosses in Ice Floe - I found it easier to run North - West from Marhan's Grotto then to exit Thunderhead keep and go west. It does look longer, but many Mursaat Patrols can be avoided, while exiting THK you must cut your way through 5-6 patrols in a row. No fun.

For the bosses in Mineral Springs:

It is easy to run through Tasca's Demise, when exiting The Granite Citadel, keep running when the Stone Summit spawn, they will be immobile for a while, and can be avoided. This will save you an annoying battle in the start. In Mineral springs, you will get jumped by a patrol, but all birdies here are easy to kill. Where o where is tat pwussycat... After that you can make a choice for those who want variation and try their luck: Go north, or take the split East. Good luck finding the right boss =) It may seem that Mineral Spring is the most annoying skills to cap, but believe me, it is not.

Talus Chute - Exit in/out Camp rankor, run around the S shaped bend, kill the different Azure bosses there. Easy, 2 min run. Troll bosses spawn in south-west cave, easy run droks. For Grawl bosses, stick to the north border of Talus Chute when exiting Camp Rankor, try avoiding Grawl patrols there, 4 spawn points North with regular intervals. I recommend to try the first 2, and if you want, go on till the last one. Last spot is in a Grawl camp, may be overcrowded there.

For the bosses in Perdition Rock - The drakes spawn north - Run out of Ember Camp - Try to avoid the annoying patrol when exiting, if timed right you can run north and flag your group somewhere there. Again, it might take you maybe 5 mins more killing those patrols, but you're gonna do this lots, and lots of times, so in the longer run it is best doing things as fast as possible.

For the Golem and Phantom bosses - there is a spot east of Ember Camp - run by the patrols outside ember camp to the east - kill the 2 hyrdra's there - check if your boss is there. You can even go on and see if it is the next one you want, they are close together. For the panthom bosses, they spawn close to the Golems - If you cant see one, come closer, chance he is nearby.

When capping in Hell's Precipice - Take a few heroes with Protective Spirit or such and manually ps. then when facing sparks. Or they will toast you with Rodgords Invocation. They will. They have BBQ dip too. You can run the first part untill after the bridge without fighting, if lucky. Then, cross the second bridge, wait for the spark shopping rush to pass by, they will disappear somewhere later, and see if your boss is around patrolling there. If he is, you can cap. You can either rezone if he is not the right boss, or go on a short bit to see the 2nd boss south west, or go to the portal area. I suggest not to talk to the seer, since he will spawn the Armageddon Lords, waste of time killing them. In the portal area, there can be 1 boss patrolling, and the other 2 cannot be seen. Kill the popping hands and run ahead, ignoring the portal area's. When reaching the hill, run up and turn around, and the 2 other bosses have spawned. Happy pulling towards the hill/hunting. A run to the portal can be done in av. 18 mins, as i did, with some hero protting micromanagement.

For another note in tyria... save 10k, buy an elite necro tome, and get Feast of Corruption. You would NOT want to go look for mr. Maw.

Tyrian Mission Elite's
Tyria is the only continent where the Elite non-Core Skills cannot be capped outside a mission. This can be a pain, escp. if you have to get halfway through a mission to cap a skill. Again, i ask you, compare!! Many elite skills in Tyria can also be capped inEye of the North. Apart from the Wind Rider ones in Abbadon's mouth and the Titan Bosses in Hell's Precipice, most skills can be capped on alternate locations. Check!!!!

Build Setup
For some general advise, my main is ele, i used an airspike build that is easy usable on 1 target, fast recharges, good spikes. You might more then once run in and target a boss only while your monks keep your team alive long enough to get the boss killed and capped. If any other profession, i suggest you use single target build if ya want to do it the rush way. For longer runs AoE support may come in handy dispatching large mods in your area's. Think about Warcamp - Snake Dance.

For running skillcapping in the Mursaat and Ring of Fire area's, take an extra healer - and a good prot does miracles.

Well, goodluck, if you want more, I will write a full guide covering Factions and Elona, please, give me feedback. Again, if you want more info, i will write a full guide.

Originally Posted by daze

very nice and very helpful.. if you created a thread for this i would /sign for sticky.. One suggestion. Lets say hypothetically that i have 2 elite tomes of every profession. What skills would be the best to use these tomes on? It might be a good idea to list maybe 1-2 skills per profession that using a tome would be a great option.

I think the reason i just got severely frustrated is because i decided to begin my trek to leg skillhunter in fire islands Tyra. (ill follow your advice and do tyra last)

First i did perdition rock until my eyes started bleeding.. I started as E/N then went out with 3 signets and a discord team capped the necro skills, then moved on to E/Me then E/R then you get the picture. I must have rezoned over a dozen times because it seems that the Boss who holds [echo] is a random spawner.
Then i moved to ring of fire made it through once to get the [oath shot][spike trap][ether prodigy]. Then on my next run i spent 20 damn minutes trying to kill one Mursat monk. I got frustrated and just turned the game off after getting wiped in lava by 6 fire imps.