Curse

mistress asuka · Oct 28, 2008, 07:38 PM // 19:38

Its probably been done already, but I was just playing around with skills and found a decent A/me Uw solo build. I havent gone as far as the smites, I usually just do the quest clear the chamber and then restart, but Im sure with AV and SV you could probably find a way to go through and kill the smites.

Note: I do NOT have GWEN so there are probably some useful skills in there I could have used but am unaware of, sorry for that. =S

Build

Shadow Form
Arcane Echo
Deadly Paradox
Empathy
Spirit of Failure

Smites

Sympathetic Visage
Ancestor Visage

Random

Spirit Shackles

Attribute Points

Domination - 11
Inspiration - 4
Deadly Arts - 7 (4+3)
Shadow Arts - 15 (11+4)

Its a pretty basic idea. Before aggro you cast Deadly Paradox, followed by Arcane Echo and Shadow Form. Then you aggro and cast Spirit of Failure to keep your energy up. You may only get +2 energy for each miss but it adds up pretty quick on HM. Then you cast empathy, recast Shadow Form and repeat.

The random skill I put in there is when Im really bored I bring a hero along with me and have it stand back and use Famine, it helps kill things pretty quickly, lol.

Equipment

All my armor has Radiant runes in it, and I use Superior Shadow and Superior Deadly, as long as mask with +1 shadow. For a weapon I just use a domination staff with +10 and +5 energy and 20% half recharge time of spells.

TheDragonmaster · Oct 28, 2008, 08:30 PM // 20:30

Why do you need that high an attribute in Deadly Arts? The sup rune takes off another chunk of health that the smites could drain with Zealot's Fire... and you only need Deadly Paradox to be able to cover the casting time of Shadow Form plus the aftercast from Arcane Echo (1.75s total, easily covered by Deadly Paradox at 0 Deadly Arts (5s))...

little vivi · Oct 28, 2008, 08:40 PM // 20:40

Do visages even activate under Shadow Form? Perhaps I am mistaken, but I believe they require you do be hit, and thus a miss or a block would fail to cause them to trigger.

Of course, wiki notes might need an update. I'd test it now, but I'm not at a place I can.

regards,
-vivi

<Blaze> · Oct 28, 2008, 09:14 PM // 21:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by little vivi

Do visages even activate under Shadow Form? Perhaps I am mistaken, but I believe they require you do be hit, and thus a miss or a block would fail to cause them to trigger.

Of course, wiki notes might need an update. I'd test it now, but I'm not at a place I can.

regards,
-vivi

no visages do not help if you have SF up you need to be hit for it to activate

Luminarus · Oct 28, 2008, 10:18 PM // 22:18

This has already been done before (or a varient of) using Deadly Paradox, Arcane Echo, Shadow Form, Channelling, Spirit Of Failure, Ether Nightmare, Cry Of Pain, Clumsiness. I think its 16 shadow, 10 illus, 8 insp. The clumsiness slot is really optional. I think its in the farming section of the forums, surprised u missed it.

ac1inferno · Oct 28, 2008, 10:33 PM // 22:33

[build prof=assass/mesme shadow=12+1+3 inspiration=12 deadly=3][Deadly Paradox][Arcane Echo][Shadow Form][Spirit Of Failure][Channeling][Ether Nightmare][Cry of Pain][Radiation Field][/build]

lord_shar · Oct 30, 2008, 02:23 AM // 02:23

Won't the smites just smite-hex any hexes you cast on them? Then there's Zealous Fire that punches through SF...

Dr Dimento · Oct 30, 2008, 03:28 AM // 03:28

Smites are a waste of time at the moment with any Perma Sin based build. It CAN be done, but not nearly as efficiently or reliably as the other smite farming builds.

Besides, the Chaos planes is more profitable to me.....