Curse

Chribela · Jan 13, 2006, 02:57 AM // 02:57

So i need help making a decent farming build/strat for a warrior/ranger.

I want to use wilderness survival for my ranger skills,here is what i was thinking for my skill bar:

Executioner's Strike
Cyclone Axe
Power Attack
Endure Pain
Gladiator's Defense[or healing sig]
Apply Poison
Troll Unguent
Dryder's Defenses

[i kinda wanna toss sprint in there too..Please correct my skills if you see something that fits better]

for attributes,im not too sure yet...need help with that for sure

as for armor,i was thinking full plate with knight gloves,good idea or no?im pretty sure i dont want to use glads.

Rico Carridan · Jan 13, 2006, 04:38 AM // 04:38

Well, what are you farming, exactly? That will have a huge difference on your build. For instance, if you're farming hydras, grawl, etc. you're going to need to have Dolyak signet so you don't have to spend half the fight on your back. [Edit] Looking at your build, you seem to want to be packing a lot of offensive capacity. Is this an ettin farming build? Most farming builds are heavy defense, with little offense. Under your build, you'll spend less than half of your time in stance, which will get you killed against a mob of more than 3 or 4 enemies. If you want to farm ettins specifically, you can usually run a more offensive one, similar to this, but you need something to interrupt healing signet.[End edit]

I've done a bit of farming with W/R, and this is the build I like to use for the most straightforward (Augury Griffons and Minotaurs mainly). It's not spectacular, but it gets the job done:

Cyclone Axe
Bonetti's Defense
Shield Stance
Discipline Stance
Gladiator's Defense
Troll Urgent
Healing Signet
Apply Poison

Bring a zealous axe. Ideally, your skills should be ~12 axe, ~7 wilderness, ~12 tactics, rest strength. Basic strategy: gather a group of monsters (ideally about 10). If there are rockshots attacking you, pull them away from the traps then run over and attack them right away, just use your stances and cyclone, and heal while you're in stance. If there are no rockshots, throw up shield stance right away, then apply poison, cyclone, troll, cyclone. Once shield wears off, use glads, and keep using cyclone and troll when you get the opportunity. Once glad's wears off, use bonetti's until glad's charges again. Only use discipline stance if you need emergency heals.

If you want to modify this for grawls, for instance, swap out apply poison for executioner's strike, and discipline stance (or healing signet) for dolyak signet.

Rico

Knido · Jan 13, 2006, 05:32 AM // 05:32

^ is great with ViM too, and can go either way.

also, depending on the damage and level of the monsters your fighting, i used dolyak signet and storm chaser against elemental monsters and gained some insane energy, but its very situation specific

also, once again depending on the power of the monsters your fighting, you can use dolyak signet and serpents quickness for some healing signet, cyclone or whatever other skills spamming.

just a thought though