Curse

iriyabran · Oct 13, 2007, 08:29 AM // 08:29

Hi, me and my friend have wanted plagueborn bows for a while so i was wondering if there's any chance they could be farmed. Most placed they do have rit and monks but on shing jea island there are groups with no healers (zen daijun) so i was wondering if they could be farmed. Any profession is ok.
Any suggestions? :/

royal mercenary · Oct 13, 2007, 09:33 AM // 09:33

330hp vwk
ofcourse

Fuzzy Taco · Oct 13, 2007, 12:56 PM // 12:56

afflicted necros have order of apostasy. me no thinks so.

Arabian_Night · Oct 15, 2007, 03:11 AM // 03:11

I had started a thread like this quite some time ago, maybe 6 months or so, and nobody could come up with any good way of farming them solo. The groups just have too much variation and counters to build a solo farm for them. The only thing that worked at all, if I remember correctly, was Shadow Form on an E/A or A/E, followed by mass nuking, but it is very ineffective because of heals and poor grouping of afflicted - its hard to hit spread out enemies with aoe. Something that might work now, that would not have then, is the Glyph of Swiftness farm that was posted for farming IDS and FoW, can't guarantee it though. Good luck, and be sure to post if you find something that works out.

Arkantos · Oct 15, 2007, 05:53 AM // 05:53

Afflicted are probably one of the hardest enemies to solo farm.

The warriors can do some damage with their hammers, but they have frenzy and no self heal which makes them an easy target.

The rangers have both dazed and blind, which makes them quite dangerous to both physical and caster.

The monks have anti physical, condition removal and RoF, which makes them a problem.

The necros are just horrible. They'll remove your enchantments, deal damage and degen you.

The mesmers will make your casting speed slow, snare you, degen you, capable of deep wound, will remove your enchantments, and they have a self heal.

The elementalists can be pretty powerful with their damage from lightning orb/lava arrows and the damage + burning from their mind burn.

The assassins cause bleeding, have a self heal and have shadow form, which is a major problem.

The ritualists have a hard res and some nice heals.

Don't forget about their afflicted soul explosion, too.

I really cannot think of 8 skills that can counter all of that between 2 professions.

spun ducky · Oct 15, 2007, 08:35 AM // 08:35

I've pulled off a decent bit of farming the afflicted solo as a 55 n/mo in hard mode on shing jea island in zen daijun i think is the name of it. I just had to carefully dodge around the mobs with a necro otherwise most of it can be solo'ed its not all that fast and its a bit challenging. If anyone is wondering the afflicted there dont have full skill bars.