Curse

Yendi · Jun 04, 2005, 08:39 PM // 20:39

Did they buff the flesh golems? I tried the exact same set up as Raralith and just keep getting my ass kicked...

Cnegurozka · Jun 04, 2005, 08:48 PM // 20:48

Yep they made them much stronger, but still enough places out there.

Yendi · Jun 04, 2005, 09:34 PM // 21:34

Well I'm glad I wasn't just sucking at it. I literally tried about 15 times in a row, and even with small groups of 3 I was getting wailed on.

Now I just need to find a good replacement place to farm :P

J0naTrAn · Jun 05, 2005, 02:34 AM // 02:34

I am confused about whether to choose W/Mo and Mo/W. I am still fairly new to the game and would be very appreciative if someone could explain the pros and cons of choosing one over the other when it comes to farming.

femto · Jun 05, 2005, 04:26 AM // 04:26

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Originally Posted by J0naTrAn

I am confused about whether to choose W/Mo and Mo/W. I am still fairly new to the game and would be very appreciative if someone could explain the pros and cons of choosing one over the other when it comes to farming.

I'm thinking of starting a new farming char as well, and am also debating on which profession combo to choose. as far as I know,

W/mo
-generally have more health
-have better armor
-can take a lot more damage (for the above reasons) and can also dish out more melee damage

Mo/W
-do not have as much health or armor as strong as warriors
-but they have more powerful healing spells (divine favor lets their healing spells heal much more than a character without divine favor)

So it all really evens out in the end I guess. I would choose a monk just because it would be faster to accelerate through all the missions since everybody is always looking for a monk

Antilles · Jun 05, 2005, 08:34 AM // 08:34

I notice alot of the Warrios that are farming are using Balthazars Aura..How can you use this as it costs 25 energy, when the Warrior only has 20? Are you using gladiator's armor or an offhand item?

TheBuster · Jun 05, 2005, 02:38 PM // 14:38

I use a bone staff that gives +10 energy hehe -> you don'tuse a weapon anyway because you dont have strength nor weapon mastery

WNxInterceptor · Jun 05, 2005, 09:57 PM // 21:57

I use a Mo/W myself for farming, but It's not quite the same as the ones posted previously in this thread.

My attributes are:
12+2 Smiting (Will be +3 once I put my major rune in)
9+2 Protection
3 Divine Favour

Still need to do Attribute quests to get my protection to 12, but it works as is.

My skill setup is as follows:

1) Reversal of Fortune
2) Sheilding Hands
3) Symbol of Wrath
4) Mark of Protection {Elite}
5) Balthazar's Aura
6) Zealot's Fire
7) Retribution
8) Balthazar's Spirit

Mark of Protection pretty much assures that you WILL NOT be killed by almost any mob you are fighting due to the fact that you will kill pretty much any mob in under the 10 second duration of the spell. I find also that this spell is FAR better than Healing Hands simply because of the amount of healing you receive when using it. When I go farming in my spot, I can usually get about 3 Gold, 3 Blue, and 6 Purple (sometimes more) salvage items per run, which takes about 20 minutes.

Yrish · Jun 05, 2005, 10:03 PM // 22:03

Hey!
Im a level 20 necro/(doesnt matter i can change) and i was wondering if you guys knew any good farmbuild for a necro.

Oh.. and while we're at it.. where do you guys farm? and if its a sensitive issue give me a PM! please

thx!

Wyld Kard · Jun 06, 2005, 01:39 AM // 01:39

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Originally Posted by Yrish

Hey!
Im a level 20 necro/(doesnt matter i can change) and i was wondering if you guys knew any good farmbuild for a necro.

Oh.. and while we're at it.. where do you guys farm? and if its a sensitive issue give me a PM! please

thx!

I don't know much about necro's but myself from seeing necro's pve I would go with a Minion Master Build make sure to get death nova so that when ur minions die they go boom and inflict more pain. only problem I see is getting your minions started w/o sum1 helping u kill a few things to allow you to grab minions. And remember I am a noob when it comes to necros thus If I stated something that was wrong plz plz dont shoot me.

dmxy · Jun 06, 2005, 03:38 AM // 03:38

is warrior/necro good farmer?
w/ cyclone+bonetti's def and unholy feast+some other stuffs

also can elementalist/necro farm too?
maybe w/ some AOE spells and unholy feast?
pleas tell me some idea on how to farm w/ those :P

Pyrthas · Jun 06, 2005, 04:23 AM // 04:23

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Originally Posted by KrobJ

Zealot Channeler [Mo/Me]

I decided to give this a try this afternoon with my mesmer. No divine favor. Still works pretty well. I don't have anything to compare it to, but I take down 6-mantle groups pretty quickly. Seems faster than the videos, but I'm not sure. I have no downtime beyond running from one group to the next.

I've found that any two of Shielding Hands, Mark of Protection, and Life Attunement work fine for keeping me alive. Currently I'm using Shielding Hands and Mark of Protection because I hate losing pips (also, those two should be able to keep me alive against way more than 6 if I ever find a decent way to get more than 6 together at a time), but if I ever get around to grabbing Shield of Judgment, I might try replacing Aura with it and replacing Mark with Attunement.

At the moment, I'm running

Smiting 12
Protection 11 (12 if I weren't too lazy to do Hero's Challenge)
Inspiration 4 + 1 (a rune, +2 if I weren't too cheap to buy another mask)

Divine Boon
Mark of Protection
Balthazar's Aura
Shielding Hands
Channeling
Physical Resistance
Zealot's Fire
Balthazar's Spirit

It's been a fun change from my standard PvE domination/inspiration spec. I can only imagine what it would be like with some points in divine favor. I'm just way too lazy to level another character right now.

dmxy · Jun 06, 2005, 12:33 PM // 12:33

so a necro/monk would be a good farmer?
w/ necro's energy reg and spiteful spirit+zealot's fire(those can stack can they?)
and massive heal

i also have an elementalist /necro
is it possible for me to farm w/ this character? or i should change the necro to monk w/ elementalist as primary?
thanks

Pyrthas · Jun 06, 2005, 02:10 PM // 14:10

Well, Soul Reaping won't do much good, since they should all be dying at once. Balthazar's Spirit should be able to handle any end fixing you need.

Your main concern with the E/N will be survival. I'mm not sure that there are enough defensive skills available to stay alive long enough. There's probably a way to make it work with earth or something, but I'm not intimately familiar with that line and this computer is slow enough that I don't want to look up skills on it.

iDissapear · Jun 06, 2005, 03:28 PM // 15:28

I only see this working for a W/N or Mo/N. Truth is while soul reaping sounds cool, unless you are a minion master, no one should be a necromancer primary. While elementalists have some great DR skills, they are more apt at keeping themselves alive long enough for a monk to heal them rather than keeping themselves alive constantly.
Warrior will give you constant energy gain from your attack (zealous upgrade) and massive energy gain from bonetti's, as well as the ability to heal your self. The monk also can do the exact same using balthazars spirit plus any of their million and one heals.

dmxy · Jun 06, 2005, 03:30 PM // 15:30

so an elementalist w/ monk as secondary?

Creston · Jun 06, 2005, 05:57 PM // 17:57

Great stuff everyone. I can't wait to go home and get my E/Mo ascended so I can start doing some of this stuff, it looks like it will be fun for awhile, and hopefully I can finally get rid of my BLUE flame artifact :|

Creston

JAGeAkurei · Jun 07, 2005, 09:17 PM // 21:17

Wow this a first, yall rock.

In 6 years of pwnzoring MMOs, and about 3 years of making videos of my nutty adventures. This is the first time EVER my server has run out of bandwidth due to a video.

Well done on using 500gig of transfer in under a month !!!

If I had to guess, based on my tracking numbers. About 500-700+ people downloaded that video last month.

**Update - I've turned back on the site, and people should be able to download it once again.

Tru Rider · Jun 09, 2005, 11:07 AM // 11:07

i scrapped my w/mo and changed the secondary of my elementalist to monk, but im having serious problems, i went to farm some jade scarb in prophets path and when i went up to them i got totally owned, i have a smiting rod 11-22 damage. my attributes are set like this

smiting 10
healing 9
energy storage 10

my skills on the skill bar go as such-

balthazar's aura
symbol of wrath
zealots fire
healing seed
healing touch
orison of healing
reversal of fortune
ressurection signet (i always carry it)

in the battle i lured them in, when they got to me i immediately casted balthazar's aura which didnt seem to do nothing, then i casted symbol of wrath which hit them for 24 dmg each sec but wasnt nearly enough, then i had cast orison of healing on my self to keep me from getting killed which didnt work.

where did i go wrong?

termite · Jun 09, 2005, 01:54 PM // 13:54

You don't need res signet if you're soloing...

As for where you went wrong - you got 0 in protection points, and 10 into energy storage. Try dropping energy to 0, then raising protection to 9. After that max out smiting, and put the rest into energy storage. It works out nicely.