Curse

Gony · Nov 14, 2008, 06:52 AM // 06:52

Luxon Adepts in Zos Shivros give 100 Lux faction a kill. They spawn alone, and stay that way for 60 seconds.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Image...hannel_map.jpg

Here they are. Kill them all, the team gets 600 faction. A rit with the build below has absolutely no trouble with it, the only problem is that rits that get too close together cancel each other's spirit.

So the challenge to you is to find a few more spiking builds that don't rely on spirits to get a really fast and easy 600 faction with 6 players.

The difficulties: They have wards. They have Maelstrom. Conditions and hexes expire very very quickly on them. They have natural regen. After 60 seconds waves of baddies start spawning between the adepts. If you can avoid the waves, the priest will die without support anyways.

The build I used:

[vampirism][anguish][bloodsong][wanderlust][summon spirits][painful bond]

A running skill makes the build faster, Agony is nice for a slightly quicker kill, arcane echo is good if you're worried about the hex expiring, and warmonger's weapon is good for getting rid of Maelstrom and Wards, but thie above template is all you really need.

We managed to kill 'em all with two rits with the build above, and an assassin and warrior who ran amok and took all the aggro away from us and the priest. It took us under 4 minutes. If 6 players could get spiking builds of some sort, I reckon it could be a 1.5 minute, 600 faction farm without need for aggro control or priest protection.

After revisiting, we might be able to get away with 3 rits without a'sploding spirits for at least the first kill each. I would still like to find a second killing build to make the farm as fast as possible. The awesome power of Guru forums is eagerly awaited.

cellardweller · Nov 14, 2008, 09:19 AM // 09:19

Or you could just use your your wayback machine and employ methods that were published 16 months ago.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10168941

With the doubling of blessing rewards that happened 2 weeks ago you'll get 20k/hr from it - probably more considering all the GWEN power creep from PVE SKills and PvE buffed normal skills (like FGJ) since then. Totally H/Hable too.

Edit: Just went through and read that thread and if dual person farm Batou's still works that would push the rate up to 36k/h

brightblade13 · Nov 14, 2008, 09:41 AM // 09:41

I'm pretty sure Gony was talking about lux faction, and that link appears to be for kurz faction.

This seems like it could be a viable farm, maybe there's something that could be worked out.

TurinPT · Nov 14, 2008, 04:38 PM // 16:38

Vanquishing Silent Surf = ~17k in 25-30 mins
much better IMO

DarkKnight · Nov 14, 2008, 04:43 PM // 16:43

First this is slower then the Arena Farm thats done now, Second there have always been slightly faster then the FFF quests but people chose to do them because buying the blessing costs 100 gold and trhe quests make you 150 gold.

4 min runs at 600 per run and spending 100 gold per run you get 9000 faction in an hours and spent 1.5k. Doing the arena farm you get 12k an hour and amke 3.75k so this faction farm is simply useless.

Nightow · Nov 14, 2008, 05:35 PM // 17:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkKnight

First this is slower then the Arena Farm thats done now, Second there have always been slightly faster then the FFF quests but people chose to do them because buying the blessing costs 100 gold and trhe quests make you 150 gold.

4 min runs at 600 per run and spending 100 gold per run you get 9000 faction in an hours and spent 1.5k. Doing the arena farm you get 12k an hour and amke 3.75k so this faction farm is simply useless.

I would agree except for the fact that Arena seems to love to go buggy and not cause the NPC's to go hostile. I don't know, maybe it's just me but when I see this happen more than 4 times in a row, it starts to get discouraging if you know what I mean.

Gony · Nov 14, 2008, 06:08 PM // 18:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkKnight

4 min runs at 600 per run and spending 100 gold per run you get 9000 faction in an hours and spent 1.5k.

You don't spend any gold for this run.

My reason for this post was to find a way to make it quicker. I think with another build or two on top of the rit build I posted, you could do the 600 faction run in about 1.5 minutes, which is about 24k faction per hour. Which is pretty good.

monolito · Nov 17, 2008, 12:56 PM // 12:56

How bout the standard Ele fire spiker?MS,Glyph Of Renewal/SF,Flame Djinn's Haste and all that.Blood based necro,Battle Rage warriors with swords/axes etc.

Gony · Nov 18, 2008, 03:24 AM // 03:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by monolito

How bout the standard Ele fire spiker?MS,Glyph Of Renewal/SF,Flame Djinn's Haste and all that.Blood based necro,Battle Rage warriors with swords/axes etc.

The wards take care of all of the above too well unfortunately. The blood necro does a pretty good effort though...(at least the builds I have tried)

Thank you for the input though!

Sethellington · Nov 18, 2008, 04:52 PM // 16:52

Vanquishing is (slightly) less repetitive, yields more money, more experience and, above all, more faction per hour. Unless the times for this can be reduced a lot a lot I'm not sure it's all too worth thinking about much longer

monolito · Nov 18, 2008, 05:50 PM // 17:50

Thought bout it and I'd say-go as a mesmer. Illusion and some interrupts may do the trick.Take some non-elemental dmg and 1-2 interrupts and You should be ok.Think E/Me could also do the trick.Some degen such as Conjure Phantasm and skills like it should degen the dudes quite fast.
2nd option-rangers with Broad Head Arrow.Simply shut the adepts down,slap on Lightning Reflexes+Dwarven Stability and let the arrows rain down on 'em.I'd advise Sloth Hunter's Shot.A good option would be Zojun's Shot and the other bow attack which is exactly the same(forgot the name :/).Tripple and double shots may also be a bit effective.
"Clean" eles could be a bit less efective, unless u got a nice dazing/interrupting skill.
They use Maelstrom?Use it as well

Combine water and air magic and there You have it:Lightning Orb(cracked armor)+Finish Him!+Lightning Hammer+Glyph of Lesser Energy.
You could also go as E/Me with interrupts (Power Spike,Power Lock,Power Return etc.).
Try it because I can't play GW for now.