Curse

Rieden Sindefy · Jun 21, 2009, 05:18 AM // 05:18

With the ritualist buff, this griffon is completely OP. As a warrior, the only viable way of killing the guy was to interupt all of his rituals. With the reduced cast times now, you'd have to be an NPC to do it.

Frankly, with buffed spirits and cast times, I have no idea how to take the guy down. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I've tried using Grenth's Balance/ minions, not even plausible with the Balance recharge time/ high energy costs. Knock-Lock doesn't work due to skill interupts from the spirits.
EDIT2: Where you used to be able to interupt Shadowsong, it's now impossible. This blocks almost all melee attacks.

Braxton619 · Jun 21, 2009, 05:26 AM // 05:26

Actually he is cake. I always did him without interrupting his spirits.

Burning arrow + poison + toxiety = epic (10 degen)

A warrior can go /R and bring Burning arrow, toxiety, and poison.

It only took me 1 try to beat him. He's easy as pie.

Saph · Jun 21, 2009, 05:34 AM // 05:34

Yep, degening him from the top of the hill is the easiest way to go. Takes less than 2 mins and the spirits cant reach you, so you should be good. Just use a longbow.

Sookie · Jun 21, 2009, 05:34 AM // 05:34

Tell me why Signet of Binding won't work.

It has a nice recharge time. Steal his spirits (don't forget to heal yourself) and make them work against him.

Helix Dreadlock · Jun 21, 2009, 05:51 AM // 05:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enolena Sedai

Tell me why Signet of Binding won't work.

It has a nice recharge time. Steal his spirits (don't forget to heal yourself) and make them work against him.

It won't steal his spirits, and only has 20 recharge.

Also, only 3 spirits wont work, because he has a lot more. Either use the minion aproach, and AotL, or use the ranger degen.

Rieden Sindefy · Jun 21, 2009, 05:59 AM // 05:59

i dont get it. Picture this

I'm at the bottom of the hill trying to hit him with poison. He's running all over the place making it impossible for me to hit him, but i eventually do and i get him about 1/8th down. In my head I'm thinking "ok, this is easy enough". Then out of nowhere he decides to run up to me and start meleeing, spawning spirits right next to me. I run up the freaking hill and he goes back. I wait for the spirits to die off and do the same thing.

This time when i go up the hill he chases me all the way up and finishes me off. WTF? Is his AI completely random? maybe I'm not understanding how degen can work when he doges arrows/melee you.

Saph · Jun 21, 2009, 06:29 AM // 06:29

I also brought Pin Down when I faced him. If he starts to run up the hill after you, hit him with Pin and move up the hill or down the hill away from his spirits. All while continuing to degen him. Also, you should start at the top of hill, not the bottom. Takes him longer to get to you.

Crassus Praetor · Jun 21, 2009, 08:28 AM // 08:28

I just moved away from the spirits...

miskav · Jun 21, 2009, 08:37 AM // 08:37

Same way you'd fight a spirit spammer in AB.
Degen him, run from spirits, cripple him, etc etc.
It's basic.

Potential Murder · Jun 21, 2009, 11:49 AM // 11:49

The way I did it is more risky, but it still works. Grab a W/E, pump tactics and earth magic and roll Glad's Defense, Sliver Armour, Healing Signet, Glyph of Lesser Energy and Wary Stance. Let him summon away, then hug tight to the griffin and do the following:

Either GoLE --> Glad's --> Sliver and healing signet when these are about to fade or Wary Stance --> Sliver --> Glad's if you're scared of being interrupted or need energy. Healing Signet to heal any lost health.

It takes a while and you'll have to kite during recharge, but the very basics are there. Dwarven Stability helps and any other non-intense energy alternatives to boost damage/enchantment duration such as "By Ural's Hammer" can help. Sure, it's cheap, it's glitchy, but it's a simple task who's only real requirement is Glad's Defense, which you can get in EotN anyways. Not the most efficient way, I guess, but Warriors do have more than one potential way to do this solo quest.

dusanyu · Jun 21, 2009, 09:16 PM // 21:16

Burning arrow 10e
Pin Down 15e
Toxicity 15e
apply Poison 15e (alternatively poison tip signet but not as Reliable)

Sure your going to use all of this with 20 energy and two pips of Regen

superraptors · Jun 22, 2009, 07:38 AM // 07:38

poison tip signet 0 energy
hunters shot 5 energy get rid of toxicity
incendiary arrows instead of ba 5 energy
pin down, there we go

alternatively u can just got poison tip with mel shot

all problems solved another 6 slots for degen or e manage what ever
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