Curse

jbwarrior · Feb 20, 2007, 09:55 AM // 09:55

N/A Solo Farmer Stygian Veil

Update 22/02/2007 --> Screenshots

Skills:
1. [skill]Awaken the Blood[/skill]
2. [skill]Suffering[/skill]
3. [skill]Feast of Corruption[/skill]
4. [skill]Desecrate Enchantments[/skill]
5. [skill]Defile Enchantments[/skill]
6. [skill]Well of Silence[/skill]
7. [skill]Shadow of Haste[/skill]
8. [skill]Dash[/skill]

Armour:
For this run you will be needing 2 armour sets, one normal set (runes are: best vigor you can afford, minor soul reaping, blood magic, attunement) and the other a 55 or 105 hp set. The best is the armor with + energy. The headpiece should be curses upgraded by a superior curses.

Attributes:
Curses: 12 + 4 = 16
Soul Reaping: 4 + 1 = 5
Blood Magic: 7 + 1 = 8
Shadow Arts: 10

You'll need both 2 attributes quest's for the 200 attributes.

Weapon:
A staff with at least +15 energy, no health modifiers. 20% half recharge all spells and 20% half cast on curses is best. I use The Stonereaper.

Use:
Head out of the Domain of Anguish into Stygian Veil. Head east. Avoid aggroing any enemies. Run up to the two whisper NPCs and talk to the one not offering a quest. Take the hunt. Take a look around down in the breaching if you see a chest. Then talk to the other, quest giving, NPC take the quest "Breaching the Stygian Veil".

Run North East, away from were you started and along the trench wall. Three groups of six Stygian Hungers will spawn and run towards the two NPCs, grouping here.

Before you cast Suffering on them cast Awaken the Blood (only when charged), to make Suffering last longer, after the escape use Feast of Corruption, you will do more damage with Awaken the Blood on

Shadow of Haste trick:
Note: You do not have to use this trick with the STYGIAN HUNGERS!!
Activate Shadow of Haste away from the mobs (at least 1 1/2 aggro bubble away from the mobs), start running to the mobs, when Shadow of Haste is recharged for almost 1/2 way ( little lower then number 7, in your skill pic) when ready to run you cast a spell (Suffering, Feast of Corruption) on the mob, and as soon it hits use Dash to end the stance, you will now be teleported to place where you activated Shadow of Haste. Make also sure that Awaken The Blood is on when you cast a spell on the mob, this will make things goes faster

. Keep using this trick untill the mobs are dead.

STYGIAN HUNGERS:
These resemble large Shambling Horrors, and being a necromancer you should be able to recognise them. Stygian Hungers are easy to kill, they are touch necromancers and use Dark Aura, so Desecrate Enchantments is useful for these. They use Grenth's Balance, so wear your 55 or 105hp armour set.

Target the nearest foe to you. Select to cast Suffering, you will now be run automatically to the edge of spell casting range and then cast the skill.

As soon as you finish casting RUN AWAY. Use Dash to do this. Turning the camera around while casting can make this easier. Keep running till aggro is broken (this will not take long) and then wait for the enemy to resettle. Then run in and cast Feast of Corruption. Then run away again. Run in again and use Desecrate Enchantments or Feast of Corruption if it is charged. Repeat this until the mob dies. When 1 foe dies, you can cast Wel of Silence so they suffer more. You want to keep Suffering on the foes at all times (when possible) so they do not regenerate health. Ideally, you want to finish them off with Feast of Corruption, because if the degen to death you may not receive the drops.

Don’t run in till you have the energy to cast, the energy needed to run away will regen before you have finished casting. This should not be needed as you have enough time to wait for your energy to regenerate in most situations.
After the mob is killed run away again. They will be replaced by another mob. The order of which these appear is shown in the table below. Once the entire sequence of mobs from the near side have been killed you can then repeat the process for the centre groups and then the group on the far side. After a far side mob is wiped out you have a few seconds that you can use to grab your most valuable drops.

How they will apear:

Set:
1
Near Side: Stygian Hungers
Centre: Stygian Hungers
Far Side: Stygian Hungers

2
Near Side: Stygian Brutes
Centre: Stygian Horrors
Far Side: Stygian Hungers

3
Near Side: Stygian Golems
Centre: Stygian Fiends
Far Side: Stygian Brutes

4
Near Side: Stygian Hungers
Centre: Stygian Golems
Far Side: Stygian Fiends

5
Near Side: Stygian Hungers
Centre: Stygian Hungers
Far Side: Stygian Hungers

6
Near Side: Mixed
Centre: Mixed
Far Side: Mixed

All groups consist of 6 mobs, all but the mixed groups consist of mobs of all the same type.
Mixed groups consist of:
2 Stygian Hungers
1 Stygian Horror
1 Stygian Golem
1 Stygian Fiend
1 Stygian Brute

How To deal with them:

STYGIAN BRUTES:
These are warriors who resemble Jagged Horrors. These are also easy to kill. Only use Desecrate Enchantments / Defile Enchantments if you have plenty of energy. Only Suffering and Feast of Corruption are practical. Also here you can cast Well of Silence when 1 foe dies. Use Dash to escape from them.

STYGIAN GOLEMS:
These are dervishes that resemble large Flesh Golems. These are impossible to run away from as they use Harrier’s Haste to catch up with you. However, the Shadow of Haste trick still works against these perfectly. U can use Desecrate Enchantments / Defile Enchantments of these if you wish as they use enchantments, also use Suffering and Feast Of Corruption. Also here you can cast Well of Silence when 1 foe dies. Use the Shadow of Haste trick to escape.

STYGIAN FIENDS:
These are rangers that resemble large Bone Fiends. They use Crippling Shot, four interrupt skills including one that causes dazed. These are caster killers. Use suffering and Feast of Corruption. Also here you can cast Well of Silence when 1 foe dies. Use the Shadow of Haste trick to escape.

STYGIAN HORRORS:
These are warriors that resemble large bone horrors. They use Bull’s Charge meaning u can't escape from them with Dash. Use Suffering and Feast of Corruption. Also here you can cast Well of Silence when 1 foe dies. Use the Shadow of Haste trick to escape.

MIXED MOBS:
Treat these as any other mob. Use the Shadow of Haste trick with these. You can use Desecrate Enchantments / Defile Enchantments if you wish, but it will have a weaker impact on half the mob. The Hungers are most likely going to survive longer than the others because they will use Grenth’s Balance to heal themselves if they get the chance while on low health. Also here you can cast Well of Silence when 1 foe dies. Once these are all that remain you can switch to your 55 or 105hp armour set and kill them as you would a mob of Hungers normally.

Damage with FoC:

http://img480.imageshack.us/my.php?image=focdmghk7.jpg

Conclusion:
Doing this run will take a little while. Selling drops to the merchant will make you at least 2k, not much to be honest. However, there is a chance of getting a Stygian Gemstone (or other rare items) as a drop. In my first run I had 4 Stygian gemstones

. But some other runs I only had 1 or nothing at all

. You can also sell your stones for about 2k each, but that's up to you.
You will gain alot of experience and well over 100 lightbringer points from one run. So happy LB farming points.

I is advised to bring along a key if chest hunting is your thing.

The experience points you get:

http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?i...epointsdk6.jpg

The drops you get:

http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dropsbw1.jpg

The most credits for this build go to "Soqed Hozi", he made the original build I only take credit for the restyl of the build and the changes I made in explaining how to use this build and the changing of the skills.

Note:

~ Do not mention the skillbar in the screenshots --> I was tweaking

Mr Jorgen / Necrofiel Of Death

jase the warrior · Feb 20, 2007, 10:17 AM // 10:17

Very Nice Guide.....i give this a try once my necro has finished nightfall

Arkantos · Feb 20, 2007, 11:03 AM // 11:03

Very nice guide. If only my necro was here

novawhiz · Feb 20, 2007, 04:18 PM // 16:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arkantos

Very nice guide. If only my necro was here

Lol, same here.

onerabbit · Feb 20, 2007, 04:22 PM // 16:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arkantos

Very nice guide. If only my necro was here

same here

Very good guide

sentinel tank · Feb 20, 2007, 05:29 PM // 17:29

same here

VitisVinifera · Feb 20, 2007, 06:17 PM // 18:17

im tempted but i dont really have room for another suit of armor

woe, the storage issue

i see some people struggling with capping FoC (fortunately I did get it)

Senrath · Feb 20, 2007, 06:26 PM // 18:26

I see a major issue. Deadly Paradox does not work that way. It only works on skills you activate while it is active. Not only that, but Shadow of Haste is a stance, and Deadly Paradox no longer affects stances.

vespertine · Feb 20, 2007, 06:53 PM // 18:53

nice guide, though i preffer the N/R build.. --> http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Build:N...an_Solo_Farmer

T N Player · Feb 20, 2007, 07:29 PM // 19:29

yeh, im so happy i finished nf with 3 characters (working on 2 more) and one just happened to be a necro

Avatar Exico · Feb 21, 2007, 12:59 AM // 00:59

Man you are Crazy.

HeHe. Awsome Guide.

m4rk6 · Feb 21, 2007, 02:10 AM // 02:10

Good guide.

Quote:

advised to bring along a key if chest hunting is your thing.

Where are the chests in Stygian?

jbwarrior · Feb 21, 2007, 04:15 AM // 04:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by m4rk6

Good guide.

Where are the chests in Stygian?

The chest can be found (if spawned) in the red area, at the back of the 2 NPC's

jbwarrior · Feb 21, 2007, 04:21 AM // 04:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Senrath

I see a major issue. Deadly Paradox does not work that way. It only works on skills you activate while it is active. Not only that, but Shadow of Haste is a stance, and Deadly Paradox no longer affects stances.

From GuildWiki

Deadly Paradox

Campaign: Nightfall
Profession: Assassin
Attribute: Deadly Arts
Type: Stance

All of your attack Skills are disabled for 10 seconds. For 5...13 seconds, your Assassin Skills activate and recharge 50% faster.

Deadly Ards on 6: Deadly Paradox will last 9 seconds.

So sorry m8 there is no major issue here

-.- · Feb 21, 2007, 07:07 AM // 07:07

Umm there is an issue there. A recent update made Shadow of Haste not effected by Deadly Haste. Also, you need to activate the skills while Deadly Haste is active.

arqueek · Feb 21, 2007, 06:15 PM // 18:15

Can someone put some video? Please?

warui111 · Feb 21, 2007, 11:40 PM // 23:40

I'm sorry but you have a great post here but 1 question for you, what is the 55 gear needed for if you are constantly running away? As I see it, 1 hit and you are dead anyway even if you have your high health gear so I'm just curious if anyone can help me.

ign: fiftyfive girl

Senrath · Feb 22, 2007, 12:02 AM // 00:02

its to prevent the Hungers from regaining health with Grenth's Balance. I dunno does this still works, though, since you have to wait for full recharge of Shadow of Haste.

Devonas Pimp · Feb 22, 2007, 12:10 AM // 00:10

some of the toucher enemies there use grenths balance, if ur using the 55 set they wont be able to use it effectively. ive tried this with 105 health and it worked fine.

edit: beaten

jbwarrior · Feb 22, 2007, 12:10 PM // 12:10

About Deadly Paradox, maybe you guys are wright about it, but in the skill description it dos not say, that you have to activate a skill

,
anyway the build still works, so if you want u can cancel Deadly Paradox, for another damage skill.

I posted 3 screenshots, so you guys can see that it still works, I was half way doing the quest. I hope you guys like it, Next week I will post a video.

Greetz,

Mr Jorgen / Necrofiel Of Death