Curse

MelechRic · Sep 06, 2006, 05:21 PM // 17:21

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Originally Posted by AscalonWarrior

Just tried this, works great!

Still not GPB drop, but got forbidden key (nothing great but...)

Forbidden Key = gold or purple item if you run Raisu Palace.

Got 38 of the so far. When I have a stack of 250 I'll be "CR SI" over in Raisu.

ChrisCo · Sep 06, 2006, 05:56 PM // 17:56

After tryin for about 20 min i got the hang of it, Drops are good, killing them is fun .... BUT one problem is the bloody debilatating shot =(

MelechRic · Sep 06, 2006, 06:24 PM // 18:24

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Originally Posted by ChrisCo

After tryin for about 20 min i got the hang of it, Drops are good, killing them is fun .... BUT one problem is the bloody debilatating shot =(

Hold aggro a bit and let the Warriors and Assassins hit you a bunch. You'll charge right up to full energy. Then move forward a bit and refresh your PS/SB.

I do this all the time while rounding up the Rangers into a tight ball. Then once the Rangers are grouped I refresh PS/SB, run up to them, hit MoR and then AV. Then I wait a bit for them to lose all their energy and then go hit SV.

R.I.P. Shiro'ken.

Orinn · Sep 06, 2006, 07:24 PM // 19:24

Maybe I'm just not lucky today, but it seems as though they've gotten a lot better at interrupting SB/PS. In my last 10 runs, 8 of them, they managed to interrupt one or the other and kill me instantly. Anyone else noticing a difference?

ibex333 · Sep 06, 2006, 08:02 PM // 20:02

Here's an advice. To avoid getting interrupted, keep running with the 3 groups of shiroken that you collected from the start. Once you see the 4th group in the very end, stop shorty before you aggro them and quickly cast your mantra of choice followed by a Visage of your choice. Once that's activated, aggro the 4th group and once everyone is on you, cast your second visage. They cant interrupt it because at this time they dont have energy. (I still had that interrupted once or twice but 99.9% of all time it works flawlessly)
Also I suggest you to bring BOTH the mantra of resolve and concentration.

With this new strategy I dont get interrupted at all.... mabe once in every 20 time.

Too bad my drops suck. I dont get golds at all... EVER.
When I first started doing this the golds dropped well every 3 runs or so... The the anti farm code kicked in and I saw the blue message.
I waited about 8 hours..... No golds.... I Started a random mission and quit it right away. Came back to the shiroken... Still no golds....
I wonder what's wrong. Mabe I literally have to wait 24hours?? or do a WHOLE mission?

MelechRic · Sep 06, 2006, 08:25 PM // 20:25

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Originally Posted by ibex333

Here's an advice. To avoid getting interrupted, keep running with the 3 groups of shiroken that you collected from the start. Once you see the 4th group in the very end, stop shorty before you aggro them and quickly cast your mantra of choice followed by a Visage of your choice. Once that's activated, aggro the 4th group and once everyone is on you, cast your second visage. They cant interrupt it because at this time they dont have energy. (I still had that interrupted once or twice but 99.9% of all time it works flawlessly)
Also I suggest you to bring BOTH the mantra of resolve and concentration.

With this new strategy I dont get interrupted at all.... mabe once in every 20 time.

Too bad my drops suck. I dont get golds at all... EVER.
When I first started doing this the golds dropped well every 3 runs or so... The the anti farm code kicked in and I saw the blue message.
I waited about 8 hours..... No golds.... I Started a random mission and quit it right away. Came back to the shiroken... Still no golds....
I wonder what's wrong. Mabe I literally have to wait 24hours?? or do a WHOLE mission?

COMPLETE a mission at least once. (Twice is best.) Farming code will be gone.

Saucy · Sep 06, 2006, 08:26 PM // 20:26

I use distortion and barley get inturrupted. For my other free slot I use channeling, I never have energy problems. Drops are horrible though -_-

ChrisCo · Sep 06, 2006, 09:38 PM // 21:38

Interupts have gotten CRAZY... and drops have died
maybe cause there was bout 100 me/mo there 10 min ago

MercuriusTerMaxum · Sep 06, 2006, 10:54 PM // 22:54

I don't have issues with inturrupts, I'm still using mantra of resolve with 6 +1 insperation, I just had a GPB drop, not a stunning one however, and I still havent had anti-farming kick in. Timing and killing all 4 groups then /resign ing is still what I recomend.

*edit

I'm still running 6 +3 Fast Casting too.

manitoba1073 · Sep 07, 2006, 03:54 AM // 03:54

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Originally Posted by ibex333

manitoba, when you get a chance, please post a video of you geting from the shiroken to kunvie and merki

gonna be a few more days till i can upload the video srry. but as R Langdon has said is how u can also get the oucast near merki. once u get past teh carps its easy to get to kunvie.

cellardweller · Sep 07, 2006, 05:15 AM // 05:15

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Originally Posted by Saucy

I use distortion and barley get inturrupted. For my other free slot I use channeling, I never have energy problems. Drops are horrible though -_-
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I ran distortion for a while but I found that every 2-3 runs they would miss the wild strike and I'd end up getting ED'd and killed just as fast at the shiroken thanks to famine lol.

Mistical miss · Sep 07, 2006, 05:21 AM // 05:21

To avoid interrupts, just make sure u stand away from the archers, pretty far away if possible, then their savage shot won't hit your skills, as the arrow flight time is just a bit too high. Disrupting stab is annoying, but will be fixed when ur first symp visage comes around..

manitoba1073 · Sep 07, 2006, 06:39 AM // 06:39

as u guys know i also use this build in raisu palace explorable

not dropped yet but heres more u can do with this build look at the text as see who dropped an exp scroll for me. u can always do this like i do when drops start sucking. hehe

Abnaxus · Sep 07, 2006, 08:59 AM // 08:59

I also got visages interrupted on the first runs, but the technique is to cast one of the visages as you aggro the first group, then run to aggro the other groups keeping always one visage on. This way when you arrive at the final aggro most foes are already out of mana.

Did more or less 20 runs yesterday, collected 15k, 4 keys, some gold gilded daggers and ... an oni blade from which I salvaged a +30hp ^^ immediately put on the very nice zodiac sword of my warrior.

Mistical miss · Sep 08, 2006, 06:09 AM // 06:09

I managed to kill all the rangers yesterday, its just careful luring and 16 fast casting that do the job there. Usually one or two warriors stay alive after, which you cant kill because there is no one left to cast famine.

They dropped forbidden keys and platinum wands for me... seems like its worth luring carefully.

Gj on killing kai, what do u do with the mesmers ?

manitoba1073 · Sep 08, 2006, 09:13 AM // 09:13

avoid them at all costs

seriuosly just use a bow and pull just him out. use the one group of wars and rangers and he dies really fast lol

Neriandal Freit · Sep 08, 2006, 11:55 AM // 11:55

What is that skill next to Illusionary? I can't seem to reconize it :/

But, for some reason, I changed to having pants on yesterday rather then boots. I kept dieing. So, I put back onmy boots and it's all good :/

But would you guys show a little map of what else we can farm outside Harvest? I'd like to spread it about a bit

ibex333 · Sep 08, 2006, 02:16 PM // 14:16

MercuriusTerMaxum, I did a mission and my anti-farm code was gone. I got 3 golds in a row including a req8 GPB when suddenly my drops decreased to almost nothing again. I resign after every run like you said, but it dont help in my case.
Do you kill every single shiroken assasin and ranger? or you leave some every time?
In my case, there's usually 2-3 rangers and 1 assasin left over.

Mistical miss · Sep 08, 2006, 06:46 PM // 18:46

just switch your way of working every now and then (dont kill all, kill all, dont kill all, go to the next groups kill them, kill all, resign/die/teleport while living)
and perhaps switch farming areas every now and then as well.

MercuriusTerMaxum · Sep 08, 2006, 06:50 PM // 18:50

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Originally Posted by ibex333

MercuriusTerMaxum, I did a mission and my anti-farm code was gone. I got 3 golds in a row including a req8 GPB when suddenly my drops decreased to almost nothing again. I resign after every run like you said, but it dont help in my case.
Do you kill every single shiroken assasin and ranger? or you leave some every time?
In my case, there's usually 2-3 rangers and 1 assasin left over.

Usually there are a few left, sometimes I am able to get them all. I cast IoW BA MoR and EB then step on the first stair and wait for the first group to come up, cast SB and PS and wait for the ranger to cast famine and clump with the other ranger then run next to the two and cast visage, after the first group is dead I go to the bottom of the stairs cast visage ps sb(in that order) and agro the next 2 groups, after they are dead(usually 1 or 2 rangers left) I cast visage ps sb and agro the final group, once they are dead I /resign. I realize I could agro the 3 final groups but I think the 3 seperate agroes might be what prevents the anti-farm. It might be faster in the long run to go a little slower each run to avoid having to do missions.

edit:Mistal miss has a point, sometimes there is a group stuck at the bottom, sometimes the final group is stuck/running around crazy, I skip the group thats stuck at the bottom, and I just /resign if the fourth group is stuck/running. Sometimes I die then /resign, sometimes I judt die at the end, sometimes I just /resign, sometimes I run to the res shrine and die at the carp.