Curse

bdsmokie · May 08, 2007, 07:58 PM // 19:58

In a recent post by Witte Was (hats off to the solo king,) Various people replied wanting Hard Mode spots and builds for Warriors. I ahve yet to see those areas, so I thought I'd give a little back to the Community. I tried several areas using the VwK W/Rt build, with slight variations in some cases, and here's some results.

Hulking Stone Elementals, from Ascalon City to the Breach: Safe run, the elementals and the devourers all go down easy, steer clear of the Gargoyles and the Crown of Thorns. The bosses also outheal the build's damage output. I get a few golds and several grapes per run.

Jade Brotherhood south of the Marketplace in Factions: another easy run, make sure Dolyak's stays up to keep from getting spiked to death.

Bugs south of Sunspear Great Hall: Easy and fast, drops are not all that great though. I usually get about 500g per run on this one.

Griffons east of Destiny's Gorge: These guys go down fairly easy with this build, just watch out for the Devourers. These guys pack interrupts and heavy degen.

Mergoyle Wavebreakers outside of Gates of Kryta: Take it slow, these drop caster weapons and Elementalist tomes. Don't over-aggro.

Areas that I can't do well with the VwK build:
Ice Cave Minos - they run away and regen
Gate of Kryta, behind Oink's House - I can tank this all day long, but once again, the grasping ghouls run away and regen.

If any of you have other builds or areas for Hard Mode Warrior Farming, feel free to offer suggestions. Also, please keep flames on this post to a minimum, all I'm trying to do is give a little back to the Community.

Smokie

HariTec · May 09, 2007, 12:02 AM // 00:02

I have done a couple of areas in hard mode with a SoR build on W/mo. Not both of these are slow as they kill one at a time.

Shield of Regeneration
mending
live Vicariously
Balthazars spirit
4 attacks (I use axe - cyclone, dismember, penetrating, executioners)

Attrib
8 healing
4 smiting
8 Protection
12+3+1 axe
rest in strength

Put up Balthazars, recharge, mending, then live vic right before the battle begins.

Farmed Minos outside of Ice Tooth and the Frostfire dryders - can't take out the centaurs though.

infinite energy from balth lets you keep up Shield of Regen all the time

Similar build but remove cyclone and add in Dolyak Sig - farmed Ice imps and golems outside of copperhammer? the path that leads up to granite citadel. Full Sentinels with a +10 armor vs cold and a +7 vs elemental helps

Similarly can farm gargoyles and stone elementals outide of ascalon - bosses are hard or impossible.

I have had limitted success Farming gates of kryta and Bergen using one hero monk as bonder/smiter - they just hold bonds on me and cast SOJ once in a while. Can still get overwhelmed and sometimes they scatter and kill the bonder - ouch.
Used W/Me with Bonder and Illusionary Weaponry to deal with sorcerers and blinding flash as well.
Might be better being warrior /dervish for this build and using Mystic regeneration rather than SoR to keep health up.

Absinth187 · May 09, 2007, 04:06 PM // 16:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by bdsmokie

Areas that I can't do well with the VwK build:
Ice Cave Minos - they run away and regen
Gate of Kryta, behind Oink's House - I can tank this all day long, but once again, the grasping ghouls run away and regen.

Try taking a bow or wand to switch to. Hit them and they come back to fight.

clawofcrimson · May 09, 2007, 07:29 PM // 19:29

Kryta Mino Farm

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/8064/minofarmdn1.jpg

red = running path
yellow = pop up mob that gives you trouble
green = farming area

what drops? (this is what I have dropped there)
-Superiour runes
-lots of warrior tomes
-gold warrior weapons (not anything really spectacular..but good mods)
-lockpicks

Build= VwK with some ripostes

Make sure not to agro too many at a time or they will scatter.