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Old Mar 18, 2006, 12:11 AM // 00:11   #1
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What is the best elem build for Ettins farming
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Old Mar 18, 2006, 01:55 AM // 01:55   #2
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well, from what I can tell, a player on the gwonline forums named powercozmic (not sure if I can post any links to another gw site ) posted this:

water magic 16 (12+1+3)
energy storage 13 (12+1)

armor of mist
aura of restoration
water att.
mist form (E)
ice spear (this is enough for killing any ettin with rust on VERY fast)
frozen burst (finish up spell)
ice spikes (you can swap this spell for anything really)
rust

yep, its the fastest thing to kill ettins I have seen around, and it works charm. it's like racing through them all XD

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Old Mar 18, 2006, 08:16 AM // 08:16   #3
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I just ettin farmed for the first time. My first five ettin drops (except for a few I'd had henching it on quests before) included a Sup Soul Reaping and Sup Death Magic. So much for beginners luck!!

That said, killing Ettins is EASY. Harder is getting to them. Any intelligent build will kill the ettins (I've been going with earth-based armors and Ether Renewal, with the damage being fire). But some of those builds are really vulnerable to mesmers, so that a single Caromi Wild with ranger backup can be a problem if you're not careful.

Compromise your build-- make it good against ettins and good against the caromi, rather than focusing on being ueber-great against ettins.
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Old Mar 18, 2006, 04:46 PM // 16:46   #4
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It's not my build, like I said

Also, I would rather focus on the ettins rather than attemp to make it a little better on the 4 caromi that stand between beetletun and the ettins. Which die fast enough anyway. And thats IF I try to kill them. Usually I just run along
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Old Mar 18, 2006, 06:20 PM // 18:20   #5
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I use full earth earth, starting out of bergen. If careful, you'll get to ettins without agroing a single thing and completely avoids tengu. It's the shortest and most direct path from bergen to beettletun, except you only go as far as to ettins. Out of bergen, hug the right wall and circle around to rangers. Do not go through the first opening to the right towards N, but proceed along the wall, past the unded. Turn towards N at next opening, and go NW, past the scales, continue N towards nebo terrace village (you'll come out close to the NPCs). After you get to ettins, you oviously just port to ascalon settlement and back.

The build I usually take is stone dag., aura of restoration, armor of earth, kin armor, ether renewal, crystal wave, aftershock, earth attunment. It's possible to tackle even tengu with this build, but usually not necessary.
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Old Mar 19, 2006, 10:57 AM // 10:57   #6
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the build Inari posted is great for Ettins, never seen one better, Rust is great to use against them since they get -40 armor when theyre trying to heal.

getting there is easy as well with Armor of Mist (33% faster) best place to start from is Hot Springs and run past the undead through the hills.
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Old Mar 20, 2006, 09:29 AM // 09:29   #7
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i tryed this, this morning and it certainly gets my sesl of approval fro some who ha never farmed etiitns before
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Old Mar 20, 2006, 10:20 AM // 10:20   #8
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the easiest and fasted ettin build by a long way is all out fire.

flare
fireball
rodgorts invocation
pheonix
meteor shower
aura of restoration

obviously this build has no problems whatsover getting through the mergoyles and tengu on the way to the ettins

before you aggro any ettins cast aura. then initiate aggro as they run towards you start casting meteor shower it should go off after you have taken maybe 3 hits. you gain that health back from aura. then cast pheonix and rodgorts and by the time meteor shower has ended there are a lot of dead ettins around you.

essential to this build are meteor shower for the high damage and the knockdowns to interrupt their healing signets. and aura of restoration to keep you alive.

i have taken on 6 at a time with this build quite comfortably

the only downside is the long recharge on meteor shower
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Old Mar 20, 2006, 07:18 PM // 19:18   #9
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I've been using a standard earth/Ether Renewal build and just heading straight out from Beetletun.

The main way to screw up is forgetting to kill the bird mesmers BEFORE you kill the bird ranger. Otherwise you could have an embarrassing death to a Level 13 mesmer who's disabled your enchantments and is degenning you.
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Old Mar 20, 2006, 08:57 PM // 20:57   #10
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I found this build off of GameAmp from some guy called SirShaitan. It works pretty damn well.

Fire Magic: 16
Water Magic: 11
Energy Storage: 11

1. Mist Form [E]
2. Meteor Shower
3. Phoenix
4. FireBall
5. Armor of Mist
6. Fire Attunement
7. Aura of Restoration
8. Conjure Flame

Use Armor of Mist to haul ass to your targets. Mist Form will last long enough to cast Shower, Phoenix and Fireball. Poof, dead Ettins. Don't take on more than that 4 at at time and you'll be fine (the fat little buggers can't crowd you close enough).

The build I use has only 7 Energy Storage and I swear I could drop Attunement and Aura...I barely ever use them. Tossing Inferno in there might be nice...

Anyway, enjoy.
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Old Mar 21, 2006, 06:13 AM // 06:13   #11
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Ok ok, this is for experienced ele's only, i do this and i can kill ettin groups faster with fast recharge times, u just gotta make sure u keep kinetic armor up, your all so focused on specialized elementalists, well heres sumthing that i do and i rotate ettins from both ascalon settlement and the area by beetleton

1.Fireball
2.Flame Burst
3.Inferno
4.Phoenix
5.Kinetic Armor
6.Aura of Restoration
7.Fire attunement
8.Elemental Attunement

16 Fire
10 Earth
9 Energy Storage
(cant remember exact stats, but kinetic armor will give like 64 armor)

Pretty much attune b4 battle, then when u aggro 2 groups, throw on kinetic armor, its enough to allow you to take some punishment until they start fleeing like little girls, time your inferno right and when they heal sig, they take an ass load of dmg, when fighting the tengu on the way, make sure you use the aura and elemental attune first, then when you first nuke, use fireball, due to its fast recharge and i kno they will cry of frustration you, when your past the 2 tengu groups, you can rotate between the zones killing ettins, be sure to salvage all those ettin armors, you can sit out here and rotate for hours getting hundreds of tanned hides, and runes, without having to stop in town every run. Just get in a pattern that kills the ettins with their healing signets or b4 they run and its a piece of cake, ive made 100k in one day ez, superior vigor, sup healing, etc, one of these days i will get a sup absorb. BTW make sure you spam aura of restoration too because you need all the health you can get while fighting that many ettins.
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