Curse

slick447 · Jun 12, 2006, 06:16 PM // 18:16

Hey. I'm sort of new to Guild Wars and I'm really new to Warriors. I want my W/Mo that I'm making to be a really good runner for my guild and just to make some extra cash. Can anyone give me some pointers, example builds, point distribution, etc.. However, what I am really looking for is a sort of Runner Mentor. Like someone on the game to help me become a runner (show me good runner armor, help me get necessary skills, share their running strategy...) And, uh... thts about it. Reply back here or you can pm me on the game at Slick Chosen or Warrior Chosen.

Pick Me · Jun 12, 2006, 08:07 PM // 20:07

I wish I can teach you all you need to know about running, but I can't. I can only help you run in theory Elona's Reach and from Bergin Hotsprings to Temple Of Ages.

I can't help you with a Run to Drokner's Forge (that's where the money is).

Pure Running Build:

Elona's Reach & ToA:
Attribute:
Strength: Max
Healing: upto Max
Tactics: Rest

Skills:
Sprint (Strength)
Charge (e) (Tactics; once you cap at Perdition Rock - near the end of the game)
Rush (Strength)
Balthazar's Spirit (Smiting)
Healing Breeze (Healing Prayer)
Mend Ailment (Protection Prayer)
Disaplined Stance (Tactics)
Healing Signet (Tactics)

Sprint, Charge and Rush are your running skills. Balthazar's Spirit will allow you to gain energy and Adrenaline (used for Rush) each time you get hit (and you will get hit).

You can substitute Healing Breeze for Mending, but its upto you.

Disaplined Stance is for cover when you use Healing Signet (used when you are running out of energy).

Mend Ailment is to remove conditions that you will suffer while in Elona's Reach (bleeding and crippling. Crippling is the most hurtful)

Hope this helps you.

sumasage · Jun 12, 2006, 11:00 PM // 23:00

You can try also to max strength for sprint and max tatic for charge. With those two skills you pretty much have unlimited speed boost. The other six slots should have some sort of self healing (Signet or breeze), hex and condition removal (Smite hex, remove hex, mend ailment, etc.). Also getting the Lieutenent helm also help because it reduce hex duration by 20%. If you run in area that is hex heavy then consider using Holy Veil which increase cast time on hex. Even better if you are a Mo/W get spell breaker and you are immute to any spell. Good luck.

Zui · Jun 13, 2006, 02:13 AM // 02:13

Endure Pain
Sprint
Charge [Elite]
Balanced Stance
Healing Signet
Purge Conditions
Mending
Holy Veil

8 Healing Prayers
12 Strength(i think)
12 Tactics(i think)

Will get you through any runnable area. You can mod it alittle for certain runs like Iron mines-grotto, Deflect Arrows is a nice one for that run if I remember correctly.

Running strategy = Use your brain. Learn spawns.

Just FYI, there's no money in it anymore. You misewell go farm...

Niosisw · Jun 13, 2006, 06:18 AM // 06:18

Charge {E}
Balanced Stance
Endure Pain
Healing Signet
Sprint
Purge Conditions
Smite Hex
Holy Veil

13 Strength
13 Tactics

Please dear god, don't use mending, there are better skills and strategies.

The build I posted can run to Droknar's, as well as anywhere else really.

There is money in running, but really only to droks, or running ascension mishes.

As far as tips go: Read guides on the forum, watch the pros do it, learn from them.

Practice Makes Perfect.

xl3g0lasx · Jun 13, 2006, 07:35 AM // 07:35

i can teach u for free :P pm me ig:Xx Aragorn Xx

the skills i use are

charge[e]
sprint
endure (can be changed)
balanced stance (can be changed e.g. shields up)
holy veil
heal area
heal siggy
smite hex

12 tactics 12 str and 10 heal

Undead Preacher · Jun 13, 2006, 07:52 AM // 07:52

I can teach you how to run from Ascolon to Beacons Perch... From beacons to Sanctum Cay... How to run the Sanctum cay Mission...which leads you to the desert.. then how to do the whole desert run.... I can also teach you the droks run from beacons to droks... and when you get more experienced I can teach you the entire shiverpeaks tour... Not huge money in running anymore.. people used to pay 50k+ per person for a full shiverpeaks tour.. oh those were the days..

Zui · Jun 13, 2006, 08:30 AM // 08:30

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Originally Posted by Noisisw

Please dear god, don't use mending, there are better skills and strategies.

Mending can be descent. It's actualy fairly useful running to Droks, as it pretty much cancels out all the damage from wurms, it's extremeley useful after the second cave in lornars(usualy applied after the Grawl before the cave entrance). It can also be quite useful for the dreadnaughts/snake dance portion with the giants/shadows, as it means you don't have to stop and healsig. The attributes lost from strength/tactics for the ones into mending are meaningless, look at their effect on your skills...

For other runs, obviously there are other skills that will give you more milage. Smite Hex is very useful on many southern shiverpeak runs where you have alot of ice imps or heretics for example. For any other run in the game, such as desert runs or any runs in kryta/magumma/ascalon/northern shiverpeaks, you're really not going to need a full skillbar(or use your full skillbar) ever...

Alot of people hate mending. I hate it 99% of the time too, since people don't use it properly. When you're going to be taking consistent damage and don't need the extra energy, or are going to be suffering from consistent degen, it's a very effecient skill. Especialy since if it's not stripped, the return keeps going up the longer it's in use. Mending is not a bad skill, it's the players who use it using it poorly. You'd say the same thing about Infuse Health if you had Mo/Ws using it all the time on people with 95% health and taking no damage from anything.

There's also money(or was money) in many, many other runs than just Beacons-Droks and desert runs. Iron mines-grotto, citadel-copperhammer, war camp-citadel(this one was kind of fickle) are all very good examples. Beetletun-Cay was very lucrative too. There's really no consistent money in running anymore, that goes for anywhere...

couto_607 · Jun 13, 2006, 08:43 PM // 20:43

this is my basic build for running ascalon > sanctum(very wanted run)

mending
holy veil
sprint
charge
shields up
endure pain
balanced stance/mend alignment
healing sig

Attributes
put it all in tactics and strength, put rest in healing

Weapons:

Millius pillar(mainly for energy)

pm me ingame if u need more info

Jestah · Jun 14, 2006, 06:32 PM // 18:32

Zui why use it when it's perfectly doable without? There's no run where mending makes the difference between life and death, ever. 6hp a second is laughably bad. For places when there's lots of hex snares and you'll be extending the amount of time your taking damage veil and smite is vasty superior. Maintaining veil means you'll get much further (sometimes even out of aggro) before snares finish casting.

It's not the waste of attribs that makes it bad it's the waste of a skill slot and the waste of energy regen.

Gotta say though runners won't see much profit in Cantha and it seems that's where most of the interest in PvE is right now. The only way to progress is through missions and quests.

Zui · Jun 14, 2006, 09:54 PM // 21:54

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