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Lethorn Maeran · May 03, 2008, 10:34 AM // 10:34

finally made it past the grasps....was almost at chaos plane and to my dismay, there was a mob of 4 charged blackness right outside the gate to the planes....I waited to see if they moved but they didn't, any tips?

Scarn · May 03, 2008, 11:16 AM // 11:16

You should already be in the Chaos Planes before that patrol sets up camp outside the entrance.

Resident · May 03, 2008, 12:47 PM // 12:47

Outside their aggro, stoneflesh, flamedjinn, meteorshower on them. and if you're lucky they'll be knocked down when you get there.

Ecto-Runner · May 03, 2008, 03:59 PM // 15:59

any help for charged blacknesses+ dryder?

MisterT69 · May 03, 2008, 05:46 PM // 17:46

Ok so far I've been using this build with relative ease. Plains are no problem, and neither are the bone pits. The only problem is the spawning pools. I can kill the first mob of webs with no problem, but once I try to go and nuke the group with the two blacknesses, they shock, whirlwind, shock, whirlwind, and I eventually die. I have no idea how to get through that.

Yobs · May 04, 2008, 02:25 AM // 02:25

You can kill the blackness but need to take hero's for the graspings, SF or dervishes or whatever works really.

You take ward of stability instead of GoC and cast OBF then aggro and cast stoneflesh then the ward and wait till they get into melee and nuke as normal. It will kill them but you must wait until they close to melee...basically as soon as you see one run up cast met shower. It requires good timing but can be done with the above build. The terror webs are push overs.

Yobs

okashii · May 04, 2008, 11:48 AM // 11:48

YaY finally made a full Chaos Planes run, took 50minutes but Im sure thats slow

got 7 ectos

taking heroes to kill Grasping Darkness is a great tip and lets you take different skills than the original build (which is still very good)

I used: [build=OgNDksy8QrlSfaDfV5iDD7iyDA]

max Asura, max Vanguard

max armor with Prysmatic Insygnia

16earth, 12-15fire(on one set of gloves+normal gloves without a sup. rune for the run) 4-3 energy storage

weapons:

set1 (I just like the skin way better than the Droknar Earth Staff, its from a collector in Altrumm Ruins)

set2 (for the run)

this gives me 380hp & 58energy for Chaos Planes and 485hp & 51 energy for the run

Assasin Support is a very good tactical tool :

- helps at killing Darkness's
- triggers traps
- helps at killing single Banished Dream Rider's
- and is a great distraction when something is chasing you or at the entrance to Chaos Planes where Charged Blackness stand if you didnt outrun them

I am Unstoppable could also work well instead of Assasin Support but I just like it too much :P

Heroes I use for now: (still testing a few options to deal with aataxes)

Livia [build=OAhiYwh8gtHmRzx5kTaWVvYA]

Master of Whispers [build=OANEQjlH/5YHyDCtqa9QL2J2JA]

Kahmu [build=OgWjMMp8KPgbCszF6CASCxNBAA]

with a bit of luck they can kill groups of 2 Aatxe's if needed (but not with Grasping's around)

Im still kinda testing this so your opinions would be nice :

should killing Mindblades one by one give a better chance of ecto drop than using AoE?

My Lipgloss is Cool · May 04, 2008, 12:11 PM // 12:11

Jesus Christ...The Fabled Septupel post...I feel light-headed

EDIT; Awww...The mods got rid of it...Now how will I show my kids?

Scarn · May 04, 2008, 12:12 PM // 12:12

That's pretty funny okashii. I'm sure one of the mods wouldn't mind cleaning those multiposts up. I've also been experimenting with a build that uses heros to make the graspings easier, and I've found that you can increase the speed of the actual solo farm by somewhere around 15-20%. I'll post the builds on the main page once I decide which skills work best.

okashii · May 04, 2008, 12:22 PM // 12:22

mods ? :P I just finished cleaning this mess all by myself

Kyuuzo · May 04, 2008, 01:31 PM // 13:31

hmmm, funny, from the vid i saw you didn't get nightmare popups on your way to chaos planes (which i always do) and you got only 2?!?!?!?!?! behemots at the entrance to twin serpent mountains !!! on all my trips to UW, i ALWAYS had 4 bunched up nicely together................. Busted 30k+.... still haven't set foot in chaos planes with my solo E/Mo

okashii · May 04, 2008, 01:52 PM // 13:52

with stoneflesh aura you should be able to limp your way past them with no damage taken<make sure you have a caster sword so they dont attack you that much, keep going forward near that cliff and regen <its a safe spot>
but using this method you probably wont outrun the Charged Ones that will stay at the entrance to the chaos planes <if you are using the original build, nuke them with Meteor and try to run past>

hope that helps a bit

Kyuuzo · May 04, 2008, 02:46 PM // 14:46

Thanks, managed to get to the chaos planes once (got 2 ectos :/ ) still, my worse problem is nightmare popups. Best way i've found to deal with them is taking heroes and putting on mindbender instead of GoC, so i can have an alternative speed boost

But i'm too pissed off right now to play anymore and test it

. Maybe i'll be luckier tomorrow

Carboplatin · May 04, 2008, 02:49 PM // 14:49

heres what i've been using for the darknesses. 1 min clear.

and quick run with cupcakes!

okashii · May 04, 2008, 03:27 PM // 15:27

but My Ele wants to stay in shape and cant eat cupcakes ;(

very nice timing btw

Scarn · May 04, 2008, 03:35 PM // 15:35

Ok what I have found to work well and quick.

[build=OgNFgTyqyWXj0Xb8VVdgkhBPUeA]
Same rune and insignia setup as original build, but also use a minor air magic. I take 2 derv heros and 1 n/rt healer to kill the graspings, then I run to the Planes with a cupcake. Get to Planes in 3 minutes and Planes are cleared in 35-40 minutes, less if you get good pulls. Bone Pits is easy and fast. Spawning Pools take longer because of having to target Charged Blacknesses first, but still pretty easy. Always use Glyph with Ward of Stability and use sliver to kill the Blacknesses. In Planes and Pits get massive aggros, it makes things alot quicker. Have fun.

okashii · May 04, 2008, 10:43 PM // 22:43

just tested R Langdon's Fire Ele hero setup, works really well and very fast

kudos

Trader of Secrets · May 05, 2008, 01:11 AM // 01:11

Seems like this font build works. Im trying to get used to this before I go a little further in the run. What build would you recommend if I used heroes to clear chamber and farmed smites and mindblades only?

I was thinking GoS, OF, SA, Font, Phoenix, FDH, BS, (Healing Breeze/Restor Aura/Assassin/Condition Removal)

Any feedback would b helpful

Carboplatin · May 05, 2008, 02:45 AM // 02:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trader of Secrets

Seems like this font build works. Im trying to get used to this before I go a little further in the run. What build would you recommend if I used heroes to clear chamber and farmed smites and mindblades only?

I was thinking GoS, OF, SA, Font, Phoenix, FDH, BS, (Healing Breeze/Restor Aura/Assassin/Condition Removal)

Any feedback would b helpful

i might be wrong, but i am not sure if that can kill the smites. they'll probably RoF their way back.

i've reduced my damage skills to

[lava font][mark of rodgort]

still deciding what else to bring. i also switch between a fire staff and earth staff.

makes killing a single BDR easy or you can stand next to a BDR lava font-ing, hex another BDR farther away and just burn him with a fire damage staff.

best time so far is 38min to clear the choas plains of everything.

Yobs · May 05, 2008, 03:26 AM // 03:26

Wow all these builds to try now o.O

It looks like folks using font skip the smites. Does font and sliver kill the smites or just scatter them like crazy?

As for skills it depends what is hurting you the most and where your having trouble and what sort of run skill or number of cupcakes you have I guess.

Mending touch makes the run to plains a little more reliable as you can mend off cripple although even with mend you normally snap back to the behemoths via lag if you got close enough to set off a trap. Also it might be enough to slow you for the blackness to catch you.

A quick question is the self heal essential for the blackness or the skellies? Blackness do hurt you even with SF and ObF up, although doing the math it says 3 should take quite a while to kill you but they seem to do more damage than they should through SFAura via whirlwind and shock.

I kind of like the smite run, I average prolly 0.5-1 ecto per run or so (best is 3) and its safe and easy. Luckily I farmed 300 or so cupcakes over the weekend

so can try all these fun new combinations in the plains. Cupcake make gathering aggro with the smites annoying.

Yobs