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Neriandal Freit · Feb 11, 2006, 08:33 PM // 20:33

What builds do you guys use as a Elementalist to farm Hydras/Drakes/Others? I'm getting rather bored of Mino's and Griffons and I'm looking for a new build that I can use against new things, to get new weapons (ugh so bored of Shields and Swords!) in the inventory, and new collectors items (only so many times you can see "griffon wings") to gather and the like.

sr3yas · Feb 16, 2006, 01:37 AM // 01:37

For farming I suggest the elementalist earth/monk build that makes use of kinetic armor and armor of earth, its somewhere on the front page of the elementalist topic too lazy to get it *meh* but thats a great choice

pegasux · Feb 16, 2006, 02:11 PM // 14:11

as sr3as says, a geomancer is the way to go for quick farming. you can always tweak that build for even quicker killing just less survivability.

Glints Bane · Feb 16, 2006, 02:17 PM // 14:17

Hey I'm not a ele or anything but is there a solo build for one. Cause I know 55necros and 55 monks farm these guys with no problem.

Caged Fury · Feb 16, 2006, 02:36 PM // 14:36

You could try a typical 55Hp build if you're a E/Mo. Get 5 ele superior runes and the -50Hp off-hand item.

Protection & Healing Skills:
Healing Breeze
Protective Spirit
Mending

Energy Management Skills:
Essense Bond
Balthazars Spirit

Damage Skills:
Crystal Wave
Aftershock

(You could try Earthquake, but that has a high energy cost).

Healing Prayer = 9
Earth = as high as you can.
Protection = the remaining.

(Make the adjustments to suit your play style, e.g. you might want Protection high so PS last longer, etc, etc.)

And one opened skill slot for anything else.

wat my name is · Feb 16, 2006, 05:53 PM // 17:53

if your more into fire you can use flame burst and inferno. Also i like to use obsidian flesh when i do geomancer farming. It helps hydras from casting metoer and inferno and gives u 20 armor.

pegasux · Feb 16, 2006, 09:27 PM // 21:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glints Bane

Hey I'm not a ele or anything but is there a solo build for one. Cause I know 55necros and 55 monks farm these guys with no problem.

Yeah you can do the 55hp thing but it's to slow though. IMO the fastest farmer for an ele is a geomancer by far.

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Essence Bond
Kinetic Armor
Armor of Earth
Aura of Restoration
Ether Renewal
Crystal Wave
Aftershock
Whirlwind

Courtesy of Ensign

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You of course can tweek this build for faster farming but as noted earlier the survivability is less. Ex. Pull out Whirlwind and replace with Flame Burst - also reduce Earth from 16 to 14 and add that plus the other from air to fire then you get around 90 dmg with flame burst every 5 seconds. The -2 in earth is a big deal when taking on very large mobs though so be warned the group of 12 Mountain Trolls NW of Droks will kill you if your not really really careful.

S_Serpent · Feb 22, 2006, 01:07 PM // 13:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glints Bane

Hey I'm not a ele or anything but is there a solo build for one. Cause I know 55necros and 55 monks farm these guys with no problem.

Off course there is, its mentioned a several times here its an earth magic build posted by buddha or so, just search

I tackle easily 10 hydra's at once, and best earth skill IMO Obsidian Flesh - I love to tacle the forest titans with it when you have the quest to Defend North Kryta (one of the 4 titan quests)