Curse

Renesss xXx · May 10, 2008, 03:58 PM // 15:58

Hello, lately I've been trying to do an Icy Dragon Sword farm with my 55hp monk. I've been running the following skills:

1. Prot Spirit
2. Heal Breeze
3. Holy Veil
4. Shield of Judgement
5. Mending
6. Balthazar's spirit
7. Sprint
8. Rush

I can easily run to mineral springs and getting past the first avicara's is no problem. Though when I get to the avicara guiles they seem to use strip enchant, which steals bout 50 health, and easily kill me. Even when I cover up PS well with Heal Breeze and Holy Veil.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or how I can get past the guiles properly?

kev read · May 10, 2008, 04:49 PM // 16:49

That skill steals health, so the only thing I can think of doing would be to take another (max) armor set with full health...

kalebmordannon · May 11, 2008, 03:23 PM // 15:23

I think the 600/smite build would probably work well for this run, just change up the builds a bit. Do as the poster above suggests and bring a second armor set. Leave a hero smiter at the portal and you run to the cave using Spell Breaker to cover when running through the casters. I haven't tried it, but it seems to me it would work. Below are the builds I use sometimes. They will need tweaked for your application.

OwAS8YIP1Dt4dNiIP0HAkUC (600 Monk)

OwQUQqW6YIG4Lf6Ln3pkpUmA (Smiter)

Covah · May 11, 2008, 07:10 PM // 19:10

Go with heroes and hench and normal armor, clear your way there. Flag your hench off radar when you reach the cave and start farming.

Amazing Stroopwafel · May 12, 2008, 09:06 PM // 21:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Renesss xXx

Though when I get to the avicara guiles they seem to use strip enchant, which steals bout 50 health, and easily kill me. Even when I cover up PS well with Heal Breeze and Holy Veil.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or how I can get past the guiles properly?

covering up against health stealing doesn't work since it is not dammage so PS won't reduce it to 10% of your maximum health.
just do the run with hero/henches and a full health set
however, I don't think the IDS farm is worth the effort atm

BuRdTuRd · May 15, 2008, 01:14 AM // 01:14

Basically I would say once then life steal, keep casting enchantments due to the fact that they heal some HP. It may not help but you can try it, I used to do this run a long time ago but it took forever to even get to the cave lol. I was actually going to try it again sometimes but I forgot the build, can you post the attribute points you use also?

Fire The Nutter · May 15, 2008, 08:04 AM // 08:04

Take a Terra Tank Ele, much easier

Abedeus · May 15, 2008, 10:52 AM // 10:52

Agree. Monk is vulnerable to life-stealing from Avicaras, less safe vs imps... And imo slower.