Curse

BlueXIV · Feb 27, 2010, 06:32 AM // 06:32

Thanks to ANet, it's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK. I hope you sold your ectos

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Variants:
-Some kind of speed boost (dash/dark escape works great)
Note: this is necessary if you don't use a cupcake or some other kind of speed boost in order to lose agro.

-Death's Charge for a teleport/self heal.
-More damage (fire storm? dunno)

Shadow Arts: 12+4
Fire Magic: 7
Air Magic: 4
Earth Magic: 10

Note: adjust the attributes as needed to get 26 damage per wave of lava font. You really don't need that much earth magic.

Equipment:
-Full Blessed, Sup shadow headpiece (+4)
-Some kind of staff or high energy set with +20% enchant, Earth magic prefered for rod damage.
-Some kind of 1h Martial weapon (sword, Axe, spear) with +5e and 20% enchant.
-A shield with +45 health while enchanted and -2 while enchanted mod.
-A zealous scythe with 20% enchant.

You also might want to bring your heroes (well you don't NEED them, but it makes the run a bit faster :P). Equip them however you like. I personally suggest a prot bond monk with UA and essence bond, an SoS rit, and some kind of nuker that will expedite things. You can leave them in chamber dead so they wont take your drops.

For chambers, do the first pull like any other wastes farmer. If you don't know how, go watch a video or go to pvx, I'm too lazy to detail how here.

Synopsis:
1. Take quest
2. Put on Shadow form
3. Pull grasps and lose aatxe
4. kill the grasps with your skills
Note: use unseen fury to blind the grasps before you recast SF or your skills. Also it might be good to cancel cast something cheap like death's charge twice before actually casting to make SURE nothing goes wrong :P

After you clear chambers, run up the twin serpent mountains and into the chaos plains.

Some tips:
1. Equip your martial weapon and shield here and the behemoths wont attack you at all.
2. Use a speed boost to steer clear of and lose agro from the charged blacknesses.
3. Use Unseen fury to get out of chambers alive and to recast SF when grasps are around
4. Don't DC into traps. It's embarrassing.

Once you arrive in plains, you are home free. Go mob up some riders and mind blades and spam away. With armor and SF, you're invincible. Grats.

Some tips:
1. Use your scythe. It's a lot of energy.
2. Enemies only kite to THEIR left YOUR right (if you are facing them). If you block them on a right wall, they wont run away from you.
3. You can kill the skeletons by pulling them into an area where they don't have line of sight of you and kill them with firestorm. It's very slow. In general, just don't do it :P Better to lose agro with your speedboost.
4. If you have some pumpkin pie, it can speed things up a lot. Your choice on whether you want to pop one.

You can also easily farm the bone pits with this build, as well as pools if you avoid the charged blacknesses. You could probably clear wastes too, but I haven't tested it.

My first run took a bit under an hour to vanquish plains, sans the one dream rider + spawns right inside of all the skeletons, but that was mostly because of technical difficulties with the chambers part (I made it to plains around time = 20mins). I got 4 ectos in that run, dunno if that's average, low or high, so I wont comment on the efficiency of the build, other than it does work, and permas are not useless at all :P

A shout out here to Ungle Snut for working out the kinks in the build

Happy farming.

Zodiac Meteor · Feb 27, 2010, 07:37 AM // 07:37

1 day after the nerf and a ecto farming build.... NICE!

Any pictures?

Ferminator · Feb 27, 2010, 08:08 AM // 08:08

I reckon anet just buffed shadow form. Just use stoneflesh aura or even unseen fury. Heck it is even easier to maintain. After some calculations at 16 SA it is maintainable with a 20% enchant mod. Therefore you have more skill slots. It can be maintained at 12 shadow arts with a 20% enchant mod and glyph of swiftness. Therefore eles can use it too. I have not tested this though but the calculations should be correct.

ThomOfDeath · Feb 27, 2010, 08:25 AM // 08:25

Could be me, but can't find it on pvx? I was wondering how you kill skeles. Been a while I did plains solo

Life Bringing · Feb 27, 2010, 08:50 AM // 08:50

Took the liberty of putting it on pvx. Nice idea. Mark of Rodgort or Light of Deldrimor is probably one of the best options for the last spot.

SpiritBond · Feb 27, 2010, 08:55 AM // 08:55

Haha a day after the nerf

. Good job.

Bob Slydell · Feb 27, 2010, 09:30 AM // 09:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zodiac Meteor

1 day after the nerf and a ecto farming build.... NICE!

Any pictures?

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpiritBond

Haha a day after the nerf

. Good job.

Lmao.

Anet was celebrating carrying on and such, then, the laughter and cheers just slowly stopped as someone refreshed guru and saw this, then ....silence followed by slow facepalms. Guess we got another 6+ months to abuse the hell outta this.

Age · Feb 27, 2010, 09:39 AM // 09:39

It is this one probably old.

http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Build:A/E_UW_Plains_Farmer

BlueXIV · Feb 27, 2010, 10:13 AM // 10:13

I was too lazy to pvx the whole thing, thanks for putting it up there.

I can make pictures if you want, but it's really pretty basic :\ Maybe tomorrow :P

And mark really wont do much, since you can't hex mindblades post nerf. They no long cast 2391738291 things and drain their own energy. LoD is nice, but really it doesn't add much since you damage is limited to 26 a hit. I personally just bring a speed boost for making the run there faster and to lose agro from the aatxes.

Revolutionen · Feb 27, 2010, 10:48 AM // 10:48

build sucks imo, just get interrupted and killed by the ghosty things in the beginning, cant even remember what there named xD may work but its not as imba as it was before and I dont think this is as revolutionary as u guys think

Sierraa · Feb 27, 2010, 11:03 AM // 11:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Revolutionen

build sucks imo, just get interrupted and killed by the ghosty things in the beginning, cant even remember what there named xD may work but its not as imba as it was before and I dont think this is as revolutionary as u guys think

You're a bowl full of happiness!

Shroud gives you 75% chance to block and health regen and Unseen Fury blinds adjacent foes. The Graspings (which I assume is what you're talking about) are melee. Block/Blind + Melee = lol. You're right about it not being as imba as before. Original Chaos planes farm you could clear in ~15 mins and get 5+ ecto. SF still works though and it's still a viable way of farming for ectos.

YunSooJin · Feb 27, 2010, 11:28 AM // 11:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Revolutionen

build sucks imo, just get interrupted and killed by the ghosty things in the beginning, cant even remember what there named xD may work but its not as imba as it was before and I dont think this is as revolutionary as u guys think

This might be more along the lines of PEBCAK than anything else

Xsiriss · Feb 27, 2010, 11:39 AM // 11:39

Tried it and I got hit to death, with a lifebond hero backing me up...what the hell?

SkekSister · Feb 27, 2010, 12:27 PM // 12:27

Getting out of the chamber is the toughest bit, I take 3 heroes n clear most of the way to the mountain entry, then run from there. Adds 5 mins or so to the run but makes it a lot more reliable. With ecto at 9k each its worth the few mins extra.

c1team · Feb 27, 2010, 12:50 PM // 12:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueXIV

3. Pull grasps and lose aatxe

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkekSister

Getting out of the chamber is the toughest bit, I take 3 heroes n clear most of the way to the mountain entry, then run from there. Adds 5 mins or so to the run but makes it a lot more reliable. With ecto at 9k each its worth the few mins extra.

Please enlighten us.

SpiritBond · Feb 27, 2010, 01:03 PM // 13:03

Just btw, i did it with a friend like this:

He was a Ritualist spirit spammer - 1. Easier to kill grasps at the start.

I was perma with a little changed build - Plains Way

The Ritualist after he cleared the chamber, went the wastes way, i did the plains, at the end ~40 mins of farming he had 5 and i had 7e.

It's just an easier way to do it

.

-Spirit

Levothar Kingdom · Feb 27, 2010, 01:30 PM // 13:30

A video would be nice please

own age myname · Feb 27, 2010, 01:52 PM // 13:52

Lmao. I personally think the new SF is more OPed. How long is it going to take this time?

OT:

Would it be a bad idea to take Glyph of Lesser Energy if you bring some kind of con speed boost?

der derwius · Feb 27, 2010, 02:59 PM // 14:59

Hi

The build is nice but a video would be great because I always die at the running part.

Nice reaction to the "big" nerf

Derwius

Tom Swift · Feb 27, 2010, 04:19 PM // 16:19

lol

I have not farmed ectos in 2 months because I didn't need anything and was bored of the old build.

But...I...can't...resist...trying....new...build.

So the only affect the nerf will have on me is getting me farming pink globs again.

woot