Curse

Arkantos · May 15, 2006, 12:47 PM // 12:47

Nice build, works nicely

Of course I havent made it to the assassin boss yet....damn overlapping patrols

Ville · May 15, 2006, 07:23 PM // 19:23

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Originally Posted by Bloody Death

Nice build, works nicely

Of course I havent made it to the assassin boss yet....damn overlapping patrols

Use a bow to pull them to a safe location where you can finish them off without accidentally aggroing those patrols ;o

lordgambit · May 16, 2006, 11:20 PM // 23:20

is there a way to replace healing hands with another elite (for cantha warriors), I still dont have perdition rock and havent seen one smiliar in cantha?

Am not in front of a computer I can test and i liked the build, cant wait to try an alternative (really dont feel like getting to perdition rock)....

Winstar · May 17, 2006, 12:23 AM // 00:23

Someone posted earlier that they were using w/r and troll ungent, but i haven't tried that yet. If you are going w/m, you might try breeze, or vig spirit, or mending, etc. Not sure how well that would work. If the healing worked out you could go with an elite for extra damage or the new elite stance to charge up adren and soak up damage. Sorry I don't recall the names...

I-Lord-Osiris-I · May 17, 2006, 01:03 PM // 13:03

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Originally Posted by leonidasthe

You can make a shield in Kaineng Center. It requires iron and steel. The mods are +30 health -5 damage received (20% chance). You can get either a strength or tactics shield.

Strength Shield correct?
1) If this is an assassin boss and he blinds like the others do, I would use...
Tanzit Defender, which is 16 Armor, 9 Str Req. and reduces blind by 20%
2) If he dosnt blind I'd go with the Bronze Shield 9 str req. -5 (20% Chance) at Keieng Center trader.
3) If your using stance moves, Use a Victo Bulwark, it has been proven that bulwark with -2 (stance) is better than -5 (20% Chance).

ReFragged · May 17, 2006, 06:21 PM // 18:21

cool build

God's Will · May 18, 2006, 01:42 AM // 01:42

What dye combination are you using on your armor? and is that 1.5 or 15k. I think 15k dyes better.

Stee Janz · May 18, 2006, 04:40 AM // 04:40

Healing prayers 10
Stength 14
swordsmanship 12

sever artery
silverwing slash
galrath slash
rush
dolyak
i will survive
Healing hands
live vicarously

I find that groups of 5 or less i can handle...as long as there are not 2 mesmers. Its a fun farm. I have no trouble what so ever. I got the daggers after 5 runs. Much better then the farm outside Senji's corner for the Green talon daggers. These daggers are better then those as well.

P.S. I hate to completely copy someone's build

Update: I got them on the 6th farm as well....Holy crap ...anyone wanna buy some daggers

Winstar · May 18, 2006, 01:51 PM // 13:51

2 Pincers! I've gotten one pair in n runs where n is large...but i did finally get the brightclaw as well. Picture soon.

The armour in my avatar is actually undyed 15k Tyrian. The armour in the pics is 15k Kurzick...also undyed at the time though I have recently changed that.

Maldibion · May 20, 2006, 10:48 PM // 22:48

I tried the posted build but has some troubles with it, especially the dream weavers.

I would be doing fine against the dw and a hunter and then pop, be spiked to death. This was because of Fragility. A solution I found was to bring dun dun dun, one of the crappiest skills ever! Shield Bash. Through that up and the assasins are screwed, the can't do anything but normal attack. If you catch their lead attack with it you are golden, they are smart enough not to use another attack.

I also replaced galrath (or silverwing) with final thrust , it finishes enemies off really quickly.

I've been farming yesterday and today and so far I've got 6 greens, ~8 golds (mostly crap except a PERFECT!!!! Sundering Gothic axe of Fortitude

) and I've collected about 80k gold by selling the crap and only selling one set of the green daggers for 30k.

It is a GREAT run and VERY challenging and best of all, the loot is definatly worth it.

PS: Anet plz don't nerf it!!!!! I heart Mantises!

Arutima · May 21, 2006, 01:31 AM // 01:31

mantis claws salvage into shells..... so ..if you get a lot of them .. you better off salvaging them ..

dmikoda · May 21, 2006, 05:11 PM // 17:11

.... can one of u show me???
whisper me
Ko R E A N

Winstar · May 21, 2006, 06:41 PM // 18:41

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Originally Posted by Maldibion

I tried the posted build but has some troubles with it, especially the dream weavers.

I would be doing fine against the dw and a hunter and then pop, be spiked to death. This was because of Fragility. A solution I found was to bring dun dun dun, one of the crappiest skills ever! Shield Bash. Through that up and the assasins are screwed, the can't do anything but normal attack. If you catch their lead attack with it you are golden, they are smart enough not to use another attack.

I also replaced galrath (or silverwing) with final thrust , it finishes enemies off really quickly.

I've been farming yesterday and today and so far I've got 6 greens, ~8 golds (mostly crap except a PERFECT!!!! Sundering Gothic axe of Fortitude

) and I've collected about 80k gold by selling the crap and only selling one set of the green daggers for 30k.

It is a GREAT run and VERY challenging and best of all, the loot is definatly worth it.

PS: Anet plz don't nerf it!!!!! I heart Mantises!

Final Thrust is a good move, though the double Galrath has always worked fine for me as well. The Dreamweavers are a rough when you have deep wound, bleeding, and -11 from hex conditions on you, but even then I find that I rarely die. I always dip into the 100 health range, but I find that I can survive when healing hands is down with flurry+live vicariously until hands comes back online. This might be a good reason to use something other than a 15^50 sword here as your health is frequently below that. +15 enchanted is the best since, well, you are always enchanted.

I've made 100k from these runs off the greens alone. Not to mention all the mantis pincers, occasional gold drops, money drops, and other random good things like black dye and rare materials. Also, always bring some keys along for the chests you run into.

Melendru's is a big place, and I find you can also take this build across the river and beat up on the dredge. You can take groups of 4 or 5 easily. Kill the gardeners first if the are any and after that it doesn't really matter though killing the archers might be useful to end the poison.

Thanks for the input!

Spook_Cell · May 22, 2006, 04:49 AM // 04:49

Do you have to see the -3 vamp effect for him to drop it or does it not show up when he hits you?

Maldibion · May 22, 2006, 11:22 PM // 23:22

The thing is, when you have shield bash, you don't get bleeding on you, and only deepwound from that mesmer skill.

So far I'm up to 150k. I've sold 2 sets of green daggers, 3 brightclawws and 2 Byzzr's Benedictions. I've also got a PERFECT Runic axe now

its so cool looking and have given a perfect vamp longbow and a pair of the green daggers to guildies. Although the drops basically stopped for me so I need to take a break, now I just need 70 more amber to get my 15k Kurz.

I've started to try to work on the dredge too, but they are a pain. I've tried the other guys too, but the dragon moss uses blurred vision wich roally screws over your live vicariously.

ibex333 · May 23, 2006, 02:04 AM // 02:04

Can all this be done with a 55 monk??

Spook_Cell · May 23, 2006, 02:14 AM // 02:14

No, massive degen from hexes.

Maldibion · May 23, 2006, 03:50 PM // 15:50

It is impossible with a 55 (thank the gods). The mesmers put up -10+ degen on you for long periods of time with multiply hexes and then deep wound you.

chessyang · May 24, 2006, 12:23 PM // 12:23

Winstar,

could you put an E in front of Healing hands? sorry to be a butt.

I was looking around for it and didn't know it was an elite skill on wiki.

Besides that i love the build after the first 5 so deaths i got the hang of it and almost cleared the area. THank you for sharing this build.

I"ll post some pictures later.

Mournblade · May 24, 2006, 04:31 PM // 16:31

Someone wish me luck or something. I've killed the the two mantis bosses at least 10 times (over the course of a week to keep it fresh) and don't even get a gold drop, let alone a green. *sulks*