Curse

yacom1118 · May 24, 2008, 11:39 PM // 23:39

Hi all, this is my first farming post, so any criticisms are welcomed.

And hopefully this has not been posted before.

I have been using Glint's Challenge as a practice for my UW Terra build. At first I was doing NM with my heroes on one side and I took the other side. Then I realized I could actually do both sides as long as I stand in the middle and let my dwarven friends die... At last I found out with the addition of Armor of Earth I could actually go HM on this thing. A typical run for me would last about 9 minutes (as I only solo the first wave) and usually I would get 1-4 golds, 2-8 D cores, 0-1 lockpicks, dyes, tomes and of course, purples and blues and chalks -- from a total of 60+ lvl 24 destroyers.

I have not learned how to show the interactive skill bar yet, so allow me to express them in words

I have 16 earth, 9 fire, 5 energy, 4 air and 9 inspiration (edited) for my attributes
I use a Drok's earth staff which has +20% enchant and half skill recharge, etc. Caster modded swords and shields would work too but without con sets the 20% chance half skill recharge on a staff helps a lot.

My build is:

Glyph of Swiftness
Obsidian Flesh
Stoneflesh Aura
Sliver Armor
Armor of Earth (a must in HM)
Lava Font
Mantra of Earth
Stone Striker

(edited) To view this interactively please refer to this thread's first reply by Koricen

By the way, this build does not need any hero monks, or any hero for that matter.

The overall walkthrough is simple. You take the challenge from Oakencask, run and position yourself in between the two dwarfs in the center -- your back is facing the little cliff that separates you and the baby dragon. Then you wait. Wait till the destroyers kill the first 2 dwarf warriors (2 on each side) and just about to kill the first dwarf rangers (2 on each side too). Now you cast GoS, Obby Flesh, Stoneflesh, Armor of Earth, Mantra and Stone Striker in sequence. After you cast all of these the second dwarf ranger should be killed by now and destroyers would start wanding you and feed you with energy

Aggroing is a bit tricky here. You want to walk a little away from your original position -- away from the direction of baby dragon. If you stay too close to the cliff some destroyers on the left side would break off from the main left ball and start attacking the dragon, and the run would be over soon. Keep all your enchants on -- especially obby flesh, stoneflesh and armor of earth. In HM without cons timing is critical. You want to make sure you leave no downtime at all for all these 3 enchants. Focus on enchanting till about 3:30 minutes in time -- this is when all the destroyers arrive. Count them there would be over 30 on each side.

Now, walk towards right side and use sliver armor to kill. 15-28 dmg times 60 per second is a huge spike. You should be able to annihilate the entire right group within the second recast of sliver -- swiftness on sliver is a must if you want to be fast. Lava Font is optional in the right group because of the huge triggering of sliver.

Then, you walk towards the left group. By now the left group becomes a nice, compact ball. Trigger sliver again and begin the slaughter. Lava Font would be a nice addition. Within 3 minutes you should be able to cut their number down to 3-4. At that point in time, which is around 8:30-9:00 minutes I would call it and start another run -- as sliver becomes much less effective with this few foes.

Taking into account the time to merch, I can do about 5 runs in every hour and get about 20 D cores plus around 6-10 gold weapons and some lockpicks. It certainly is not the most profitable farming run in GW but it is decent, and definitely a nice way to farm D cores.

Hope you guys can all stand this dryness without intensive imaging

Good Luck and Good Game!

Koricen · May 25, 2008, 12:35 AM // 00:35

I'll have to give it a shot when my Elementalist gets that far.

And I'll do something nice:
[build prof=e/me name="yacom1118's destroyer farm" earthmagic=12+1+3 airmagic=4 firemagic=9 energystorage=5 inspirationmagic=7][glyph of swiftness][obsidian flesh][stoneflesh aura][sliver armor][armor of earth][lava font][mantra of earth][stone striker][/build]

Since you didn't specify anything for Inspiration Magic I just put it to 7, which is as high as I could get it if no runes were used for Air, Fire, or ES.

yacom1118 · May 25, 2008, 12:45 AM // 00:45

Ah, forgot about Inspiration. I will edit it right away to destroy the evidence

Yes, I would say anywhere around 7-9 works since the length of enchant for Mantra of Earth is comfortably long. On my armor I use superior earth, major fire, and minor energy. Blessed insignias all over except for the chest piece I use geomancer. With all the runes I can get my inspiration up to 9.

And thanks for doing that for me

XxSanctusxX · May 25, 2008, 08:31 AM // 08:31

I use allmost the same build, but change lava font for Aura of Restoration,arcane echo or ebsoh/intensity.

yacom1118 · May 25, 2008, 08:52 AM // 08:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by XxSanctusxX

I use allmost the same build, but change lava font for Aura of Restoration,arcane echo or ebsoh/intensity.

Although I have not tested it I agree with you in that Arcane Echo instead of Lava Font may make the killing even faster. On one hand, Lava Font gives almost continuous aoe damage; on the other echoing sliver armor looks extremely desirable as well. Being too lazy to do the math I will try to test it myself. Thanks for the addition, Sanctus.

joshuarodger · May 25, 2008, 01:23 PM // 13:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by yacom1118

Hi all, this is my first farming post, so any criticisms are welcomed.

And hopefully this has not been posted before.

sorry man but this has been around for a while. almost exact build with Arcane Echo or AAA instead of lava font. i will say thank you for trying to help everyone else out though. that's what this site is all about.

http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:E/...stroyer_Farmer

yacom1118 · May 25, 2008, 07:10 PM // 19:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by joshuarodger

sorry man but this has been around for a while. almost exact build with Arcane Echo or AAA instead of lava font. i will say thank you for trying to help everyone else out though. that's what this site is all about.

http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:E/...stroyer_Farmer

Thanks for pointing that out, Josh. I figured that someone else would probably have done that long before... anyway, as least I came up with the idea myself

yacom1118 · May 25, 2008, 07:22 PM // 19:22

I have one suggestion about the "Hard Mode Variant" on this pvx page though:
http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:E/...stroyer_Farmer

It seems that air in this build cannot go up to 4, correct me if I am wrong, with the inspiration set all the way up to 12. With my personal experience it would be very hard, if not impossible, to keep the critical enchants on with <4 air swiftness.

I would try to tweak this variant a little -- to reduce the inspiration and add the air. To me, 60s and 37% dmg reduction is good enough for MoE.

Asara · May 25, 2008, 09:32 PM // 21:32

I forget where someone posted a variant awhile back (I haven't even been playing GW for awhile) but there was one that used Balth Spirit instead of the Inspiration line for energy. I used that very successfully in HM, and used it again this weekend to farm the first wave w/o problem.

I can't log on right now, but basically was this (and sorry if the last link was a link to this variant, I couldn't open it for some reason):

16 Earth
Enough healing to make Breeze pick up any small dmg. that goes through
Enough Air to get 2 spells from GoS.

GoS, Ob Flesh, Stoneflesh, Armor of Earth, Sliver, Healing Breeze, Balth. Spirit.

For the optional slot I chose to use Ebon Standard of Honor to up Sliver's damage instead of Alkar's. Healing Breeze helped provide a buffer if you were slightly slow on recasting Stoneflesh or AoE, and also to heal up the eventual small dmg you take.

Having 2 spells from GoS allows you to use it in conjunction with ObFlesh/Stoneflesh, and then also for Sliver/Ebon Standard.

I've had no trouble at all using this build in HM and the only problems are if you don't recast Ob in time as that's instant death.

I also use a shield with -2 dmg while enchanted so that only a few hits get through.