Fastest way to use candycanes? - Guild Wars Forums

Chasing Squirrels · Feb 14, 2011, 05:13 PM // 17:13

Anyone know what is the fastest way to use these?

MisterB · Feb 14, 2011, 05:27 PM // 17:27

Bring fast cast mesmer heroes with a res, and sacrifice skills(Blood is Power) on you. Suicide, heroes res you, use a cane, repeat.

chessyang · Feb 14, 2011, 05:27 PM // 17:27

death leveling a pet maybe or some (aggro) fast near a shrine? trade for normal sweet points?

but no i have no clue besides what i suggest.

Chasing Squirrels · Feb 14, 2011, 05:37 PM // 17:37

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Originally Posted by MisterB

Bring fast cast mesmer heroes with a res, and sacrifice skills(Blood is Power) on you. Suicide, heroes res you, use a cane, repeat.

I tried blood is power before but i am not sure how it works because i just kept insta dying when my heroes tried to ress me.

chessyang · Feb 14, 2011, 05:40 PM // 17:40

slam (click) on the CC icon till your DP is gone or back to normal health.

Kosar The Cruel · Feb 14, 2011, 05:41 PM // 17:41

You have to make sure not to drop to -30% DP or else you insta-die after res.

I had the same problem.

MisterB · Feb 14, 2011, 05:42 PM // 17:42

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Originally Posted by Chasing Squirrels

I tried blood is power before but i am not sure how it works because i just kept insta dying when my heroes tried to ress me.

Equip your heroes with a resurrection skill that restores more than 50% of maximum health. If your modified health is negative for whatever reason, resurrection skills will have that effect (You immediately die again after a res.).

Chasing Squirrels · Feb 14, 2011, 05:52 PM // 17:52

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Originally Posted by MisterB

Equip your heroes with a resurrection skill that restores more than 50% of maximum health. If your modified health is negative for whatever reason, resurrection skills will have that effect (You immediately die again after a res.).

hmm thanks works like a charm

**Marty Silverblade** · Feb 14, 2011, 09:58 PM // 21:58

A less fast but easier way:

*Go to Ember Light Camp.
*Take off all your armor and kick all your heroes.
*Head outside in normal mode, aggro some Flesh Golems, and run back to the rez shrine.
*Let them kill you, get rezzed, etc. They'll create some minions so they keep aggro most of the time.
*Alt-Tab between GW and whatever else interests you (putting GW in windowed mode helps) every few minutes to chew some candy.

End · Feb 15, 2011, 12:11 AM // 00:11

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Originally Posted by MisterB

Equip your heroes with a resurrection skill that restores more than 50% of maximum health. If your modified health is negative for whatever reason, resurrection skills will have that effect (You immediately die again after a res.).

Also, don't use a low health armor set. If your using bip you will die in 4 hits if you have 15000 or 55 health

zelgadissan · Feb 15, 2011, 12:19 AM // 00:19

I personally preferred using the three monk heroes with Unyielding Aura, but I suppose to each their own.

However, BiP is pretty much the undisputed fastest way - whether you want to use Gwen/Norgu or Dunkoro/Tahlkora/Ogden is up to you.

dsielschott · Feb 15, 2011, 02:31 AM // 02:31

best way I did it was in domain of anguish if you go to the top left town on the map and then go out in NM by the shrine just outide.... you will die and rez with the people still on you.... very efficient if you are doing other things around the house while using candy canes

Quaker · Feb 15, 2011, 03:16 PM // 15:16

I'd say, do it the same way I did Pumpkin Cookies. Which was ....
2 (or 3) heroes equipped with Unyielding Aura (and no heals other than self heals) - they don't need to be monks, they can just have Monk secondary. UA gives the fastest rez.
Equip a Vampiric weapon - then use BiP to sac yourself - UA rez - CC - repeat.
It doesn't matter what armor you wear or what your max health is, BiP takes a percentage of your health so it always takes 4 BiPs - or only 3 if you equip a Vamp weapon.

You could probably use Blood Ritual instead of BIP, it would just take a bit longer.

A11Eur0 · Feb 16, 2011, 06:12 AM // 06:12

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Originally Posted by zelgadissan

I personally preferred using the three monk heroes with Unyielding Aura, but I suppose to each their own.

However, BiP is pretty much the undisputed fastest way - whether you want to use Gwen/Norgu or Dunkoro/Tahlkora/Ogden is up to you.

Jin/Margrid/Pyre with serpent's quickness and QZ. Cuts recharge of UA down to minimal. even better is to go into the menagerie, spawn a pet at Wynn and aggro it. It'll keep attacking so the heroes will use SQ automatically. flag them to the center of the corral so you don't migrate out and lose aggro from the heroes running away from the pet.

You don't need to pump divine favor to use UA, so sup wilderness and pump expertise, constant UA when needed. You can use this while leveling up various pets, too...it's a good afk 12-20 tool with a vamp weapon and low health armor set.

lvd333 · Apr 20, 2011, 05:29 PM // 17:29

I think the best way to do it is get a mesmer/ritualist hero with fast casting+flesh of my flesh (as it gives you half of the users hp; and it reduces their health by half every time they use it), and begin using BiP! :]
P.S. It's a very tedious job btw, I get through 1 stack of wintergreens in like 21 mins. Very Boring!

Ghull Ka · Apr 20, 2011, 06:25 PM // 18:25

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Originally Posted by Chasing Squirrels

I tried blood is power before but i am not sure how it works because i just kept insta dying when my heroes tried to ress me.

MisterB's answer is definitely the right answer.

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Originally Posted by Summarizing MisterB's answer

Put 1 or 2 Me/Rt heroes in your party.
- Max out their fast casting.
- Nothing in any other attribute.
- 7 empty slots on skill bar + Flesh of My Flesh. Seriously.

Put Blood is Power on your own bar. No other skills required.
- A vampiric weapon is not required, and not reccomended.
- Just wear your normal armor.

Go outside of town. Target one of your mesmers. Cast BiP on the hero, repeatedly, until you die. Hero rezzes you quickly. Use candy canes to remove your Death Penalty.

The "it looks like I'm insta-dying" thing is a result of neither BiP or FomF having a cooldown. The game is keeping track of deaths vs rezzes, but visually it looks like things get out of synch.

Don't worry. It's fine. Just keep on cutting yourself and eating sugary snacks. You'll be OK.

Edit: for clarification, there is a common glitch that makes you actually fall down dead after you've been rezzed. To produce this, you need to have:
- Lower than normal max HP
- Death Penalty
- A rez that is NOT Flesh of My Flesh or Resurrection Chant

As we can see, a low max HP + a high DP = your newly-calculated max HP is less than 0. If you are rezzed with a skill that doesn't rez you with {hp as a factor of the rezzer's own hp}, then you can't be rezzed.

If you just wear your normal gear, and bring Me/Rt's with FoMF, as described above, you will not encounter this glitch, and will be able to BiP your way through a whole stack of sweets.

Feb 14, 2011, 05:13 PM // 17:13	#1
Chasing Squirrels Krytan Explorer Join Date: Jan 2008	Fastest way to use candycanes? Anyone know what is the fastest way to use these?

Feb 14, 2011, 05:27 PM // 17:27	#2
MisterB Furnace Stoker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Planet Earth, Sol system, Milky Way galaxy Guild: [ban] Profession: W/	Bring fast cast mesmer heroes with a res, and sacrifice skills(Blood is Power) on you. Suicide, heroes res you, use a cane, repeat. Last edited by MisterB; Feb 14, 2011 at 05:29 PM // 17:29..

Feb 14, 2011, 05:27 PM // 17:27	#3
chessyang Not far from Elite Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Florida Profession: W/	death leveling a pet maybe or some (aggro) fast near a shrine? trade for normal sweet points? but no i have no clue besides what i suggest. __________________ Let's use our Voices! The Chapter Selection Screen GW Wiki or Guru Thank You

Feb 14, 2011, 05:40 PM // 17:40	#5
chessyang Not far from Elite Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Florida Profession: W/	slam (click) on the CC icon till your DP is gone or back to normal health. __________________ Let's use our Voices! The Chapter Selection Screen GW Wiki or Guru Thank You

Feb 14, 2011, 09:58 PM // 21:58	#9
Marty Silverblade Administrator Join Date: Jun 2006	A less fast but easier way: Go to Ember Light Camp. Take off all your armor and kick all your heroes. Head outside in normal mode, aggro some Flesh Golems, and run back to the rez shrine. Let them kill you, get rezzed, etc. They'll create some minions so they keep aggro most of the time. *Alt-Tab between GW and whatever else interests you (putting GW in windowed mode helps) every few minutes to chew some candy. __________________

Feb 14, 2011, 05:41 PM // 17:41	#6
Kosar The Cruel Krytan Explorer Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Ontario, Canada Profession: D/	You have to make sure not to drop to -30% DP or else you insta-die after res. I had the same problem.

Feb 15, 2011, 12:19 AM // 00:19	#11
zelgadissan Forge Runner Join Date: Feb 2008 Guild: The Warrior Priests [WP] Profession: Me/Rt	I personally preferred using the three monk heroes with Unyielding Aura, but I suppose to each their own. However, BiP is pretty much the undisputed fastest way - whether you want to use Gwen/Norgu or Dunkoro/Tahlkora/Ogden is up to you.

Feb 15, 2011, 02:31 AM // 02:31	#12
dsielschott Krytan Explorer Join Date: Jan 2007 Guild: KURZ Profession: W/Mo	best way I did it was in domain of anguish if you go to the top left town on the map and then go out in NM by the shrine just outide.... you will die and rez with the people still on you.... very efficient if you are doing other things around the house while using candy canes

Feb 15, 2011, 03:16 PM // 15:16	#13
Quaker Hell's Protector Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Canada Guild: Brothers Disgruntled	I'd say, do it the same way I did Pumpkin Cookies. Which was .... 2 (or 3) heroes equipped with Unyielding Aura (and no heals other than self heals) - they don't need to be monks, they can just have Monk secondary. UA gives the fastest rez. Equip a Vampiric weapon - then use BiP to sac yourself - UA rez - CC - repeat. It doesn't matter what armor you wear or what your max health is, BiP takes a percentage of your health so it always takes 4 BiPs - or only 3 if you equip a Vamp weapon. You could probably use Blood Ritual instead of BIP, it would just take a bit longer. Last edited by Quaker; Feb 15, 2011 at 03:24 PM // 15:24..

Apr 20, 2011, 05:29 PM // 17:29	#15
lvd333 Academy Page Join Date: Mar 2011 Profession: A/	I think the best way to do it is get a mesmer/ritualist hero with fast casting+flesh of my flesh (as it gives you half of the users hp; and it reduces their health by half every time they use it), and begin using BiP! :] P.S. It's a very tedious job btw, I get through 1 stack of wintergreens in like 21 mins. Very Boring! Last edited by lvd333; Apr 20, 2011 at 05:40 PM // 17:40..