Curse

Kalgareth · Jul 05, 2005, 01:35 PM // 13:35

http://www.stashfile.com/uploads/gwgriffon_run.wmv

I am glad you guys enjoyed the video.

The exact skill setup is as psycore said...
1- Bonnetti's
2- Cyclone Axe
3- Vigorous Spirit
4- Zealot's Fire
5- Healing Breeze
6- Healing Hands
7- Live Vicariously
8- Mending

Skill setup... I am not 100% sure on this but I believe this is a fair approximation. Will have to check when I get home.
9 Healing
8 Smiting
12 Strength
12 Axe Mastery
4 Tactics

Gear
I have a total of neg 5 damage received while enchanted, from Sup Absorb and my Shield, as well as quite a bit of health, +67 I think, from my axe grip and shield for the initial run/gather. I switch up my axe right before engaging which has a 3:1 vampiric haft for the added cyclone regen.

The Run
This build took me a lot of tweaking to finally get perfected and I still sometimes fail when attempting to take the 25-30 Minos/Griffons from a full spawn run. The timing of the skills is absolutely paramount as is their setup in conjuction with the mobbing you receive when you have finally gathered them.

I throw up mending early just so I can get around and stay alive. The constant regen is absolutely essential. On a troll run you don't need it as much and can use a substitute like Balthazar's but the energy gain it gives is fairly useless since you should never really need any once you actually engage.

The key to this entire build is healing hands. The weapons I use are a little grainy and I apologize, couldn't find a compression utility that preserved the image well enough to display what I wanted to show without it being a huge file. I have a 14% while enchanted axe with a 20% enchanting grip that really makes things a whole lot easier. Once you engage you immediately throw up Healing Hands and then in quick succession Zealot's Fire and Vigorous Spirit. By this time your Bonnetti's should be ready and after you throw it up, being careful not to let it be overwritten by a spell, your energy should be instantly 20. Then you throw up your second enchantment, Live Vicariously, immediately followed by Healing Breeze and Bonnetti's again. Now you have to survive purely from the Cyclone Axe regen, which is HUGE btw, and Bonnetti's , until Healing Hands is up again and you can throw up your safety net and rebuff.

Again, this takes a LOT of patience to get down exactly and I am sure there are alternate methods that could be used. Live Vicariously was a very late addition to this build and you could possibly substitute another spell that suits you better. I would be very interested to see if a Monk could do this run. The damage early on would seem to me to be too much for the Monk armor and they don't have a insta cast AE skill like Cyclone either. I am sure something could be figured out though.

The Rockshot Devourers, the crabs, can be very annoying with their distracting shot and if they are lucky enough to take out an essential skill like Cyclone or Healing Hands then you are sunk. However, if you time the skills correctly you shouldn't have too much of an issue. They only fire their Distraction shot when/if you cast a spell and most of the ones I was using are pretty nearly instant cast. As with Trolls, just be careful and pace you skills.

I have tried different variants of this build with the trolls near Droknar's and it works very well. I just find them to be far less fun. You just run into the cave, kill em all in about 30 seconds, grab the chests, and then rinse and repeat. There is hardly any "danger" really unless they get luck with Distracting Chop. Oh and did I mention that their drops are absolutely terrible? I don't like swimming in Raven Staffs and Mountain Troll Tusks.

As for the drops, well it used to be a lot better, but gold items do drop and like Trolls the vast quantity of white items is a good enough cash flow for most anyone. Be careful though, killing that many things at once with a Full Screen Text Explosion like you see in the video is HIGHLY addicting. It takes a very long time to get old.

Again, I am glad you guys like the video.

chalt2 · Jul 05, 2005, 01:43 PM // 13:43

Nice, how did you have the build set up?

BezoomnyDroog · Jul 05, 2005, 01:43 PM // 13:43

Is that the summit axe i sold you for 25k?

arnansnow · Jul 05, 2005, 01:44 PM // 13:44

Wow, just wow. I love when the damage/healing numbers would cross the entire screen.

I noticed that only 2 blues dropped.

Sekkira · Jul 05, 2005, 01:54 PM // 13:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by arnansnow

Wow, just wow. I love when the damage/healing numbers would cross the entire screen.

I noticed that only 2 blues dropped.

Actually I saw three and I think two yellows.

arnansnow · Jul 05, 2005, 01:55 PM // 13:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sekkira

Actually I saw three and I think two yellows.

Oh, with the blurring from full-screen, and all the sand it is hard to see.

Dria El · Jul 05, 2005, 02:00 PM // 14:00

That was great! lol Do it again!

Balrad Baptiste · Jul 05, 2005, 02:18 PM // 14:18

Its a very níce run i think. I have been Griffon farming too but at a much slower pace. One thing that really made it difficult is the scorpions messing up my casting (monk primary). The video is kind of blurred for me so its hard to tell the skills i dont use myself. Besides Zealots fire i cant see where you get your damage from for example. Are you killing with your axe? Please Explain your genius to me in depth

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free4all · Jul 05, 2005, 02:33 PM // 14:33

I believe he has a spell like Retribution (or it might be the better version of it) that deals damage back to the attacker, which is nice. The only thing I'm worried about is anet nerfing this now :/

Mumblyfish · Jul 05, 2005, 02:41 PM // 14:41

Seems t'me his damage is coming from Cyclone Axe and the old favourite, Zealot's Fire. Nice.

arnansnow · Jul 05, 2005, 02:41 PM // 14:41

He also has live vacariously, which in conjuction with cyclone axe, heals a lot.

There is also Healing hands in his bar.

Vhayr · Jul 05, 2005, 02:53 PM // 14:53

I was watching that and, after every group of enemies that you ran into, I thought to myself "he's gonna stop now". And you kept going. A great watch, well done.

Algren Cole · Jul 05, 2005, 03:06 PM // 15:06

that was the coolest thing I've seen in a long time...

makes me wish I could think of an effective way to use a ranger for this

Dumachum · Jul 05, 2005, 03:30 PM // 15:30

You mispelled "to".

dbgtboy · Jul 05, 2005, 04:06 PM // 16:06

im confused, how is he getting all that energy with 0 energy regen and none of those skills can give energy @.@ its impossible!

ZigZag Rollmeister · Jul 05, 2005, 04:09 PM // 16:09

That was truly awesome.

Thank god for your toon there were no spell casters in there.

Dumachum · Jul 05, 2005, 04:11 PM // 16:11

Bonettis defense, click it, instant max energy.

Kind of interested in the attribute distribution.

Darksci · Jul 05, 2005, 04:17 PM // 16:17

balazars aura or spirit? one of those enchantments gives u energy with every hit u take.

blood raven · Jul 05, 2005, 05:48 PM // 17:48

very nice

i was just wondering...
if i change my warrior secondary from necromancer to monk will i be able to do the same quests that i allready did for skills?
if not how can i aquire the monk skills?

my character is through with all missions and is only used for farming now so i believe monk secondary will be a little more affiecient.

BTW
i see 1 gold 2 blue and all the whites you may ever need.

toastgodsupreme · Jul 05, 2005, 05:58 PM // 17:58

I'm impressed.

Very nicely done. I miss farming videos. They have become a lot less popular since anet has been carrying the nerf bat.