Curse

cellardweller · Jul 01, 2007, 12:21 PM // 12:21

Its a bit late for the weekend, but here is a vid of the run anyways.

red13xx · Jul 01, 2007, 05:57 PM // 17:57

that is cool but i take a 55 necro and solo 150 factions per min with SS Poison Heart and well of silence outside the Saint A. Shrine in the quest. You get to kill 15 creeps fast and it takes only 10-12 mins. per every 1500 factions. It is very easy for solo necro monk necro solo elementalist so everyone can do it. So it is great. Also many do the monk/me run where you at in an out. Also you get gold drops elementalist tomes so they are great for this too.Edit I just did run today again and for some reason it doesnt count as 15 slain only 12 so i guess it was nerfed or something.. it shows that you slay 15 though...

Antithesis · Jul 02, 2007, 12:46 AM // 00:46

Thanks for the vid cellardweller.

I've been farming this spot pretty solidly for a week using a slight variation of your build. The Ranger, Necro and Ele are fairly similar but the biggest difference is the Warrior build. I take this skillbar instead -

[skill]Enraging Charge[/skill][skill]Flail[/skill][skill]Splinter Weapon[/skill][skill]Hundred Blades[/skill][skill]Sun and Moon Slash[/skill][skill]Whirlwind Attack[/skill][skill]Warmonger's Weapon[/skill][skill]Wailing Weapon[/skill]
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Watch Yourself and Lion's Comfort are rarely used and not needed so can easily be dropped. Put points into Channeling instead and take a zealous sword and a 20/20 Channeling focus.
Don't take Professor Gai, he'll mess with your weapon spells. I take the Domination henchy instead.

Splinter Weapon goes off like a bomb when combined with Hundred Blades, Sun and Moon Slash or Whirlwind Attack on grouped enemies.
Flail + Hundred Blades / Sun and Moon Slash combines well with Broad Head Arrow for additional interrupts on your target.
Wailing and Warmonger's keep the Ritualists permanently on their arses and prevents them from using Splinter Weapon.
Warmonger's Weapon completely neutralises both the Necro and Ele bosses.
Wailing Weapon owns the Monk boss.

While it may seem like overkill, the Ele and Monk bosses will sneak through the occasional attack or heal without Warmonger's and Wailing.
Try it out, i reckon it'll make for an even quicker run.

Antithesis · Jul 02, 2007, 12:55 AM // 00:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by red13xx

that is cool but i take a 55 necro and solo 150 factions per min with SS Poison Heart and well of silence outside the Saint A. Shrine in the quest. You get to kill 15 creeps fast and it takes only 10-12 mins. per every 1500 factions.

You can do two runs here in that time for a little over 2000 faction.

KartMan · Jul 02, 2007, 09:21 AM // 09:21

hi there,

I've been doing this run with a guildie this week end (and also before), we tried to combine the faction farm with the actual farm as well, our times were around 7-8 mins per run, but it is because we duo the bosses (without henches) to get more drops, so it takes more time
the results are :

525k -> 935k faction donated
several elite El M N tomes (5 or 6)
plenty greens (ok useless ones

)
some gold drops and chest (I got a sup vigor but you could also get rare gothic skin stuff)

builds are quite classical :

Me/any or Any/Me
12 inspiration (for spirit of failure's +3 breakpoint)
12 domination
[skill]energy drain[/skill][skill]mind wrack[/skill][skill]ether feast[/skill][skill]ignorance[/skill][skill]backfire[/skill][skill]empathy[/skill][skill]spirit shackles[/skill][skill]spirit of failure[/skill]

N/any or Any/N
(I'm guessing here

) but you can use whatever you want in fact, it's really easy
12 blood
12 curse
[skill]spoil victor[/skill][skill]soul barbs[/skill][skill]price of failure[/skill] with maybe [skill]malaise[/skill]
rest is up to you, take danika, karl, cynn and erys hench and heroes of your choice (maybe an additionnal prot monk + SS necro or nuker)

oh nearly forgot, hint for the bosses : hide behind walls

Batou of Nine · Jul 30, 2007, 01:47 AM // 01:47

YAY!!!! For ressurecting old threads!

Just saw this thread linked in another thread, and it reminded me i meant to find this thread and add a few ideas...

Well the ideas have been put to practice ever since Faction Bounty was released. Basically we do the Arborstone run in split groups.

Left Side (consists of 3 bosses and a few mobs):
- SpiritBond/Prot Spirit monk (any 600hp tank variation)
- Smite Bonder (holy wrath, retribution, vital blessing, life attunement, etc)
- SV Necro
- {optional} SS Necro/Dom(backfire mesmer) (2x)

Right Side (consists 1 boss, and only a couple mobs):
- SpiritBond/Prot Spirit monk (any 600hp tank variation)
- Smite Bonder
- EoE Ranger
- {optional} SS/SV necro

Can do the run in under 5 min, something around 1500 faction per run (~18,000 faction/hr). Our guild often does this when people get bored, we can work on our titles, get the faction, get xp, and LOTS of green drops/rares. Anywhoo, its fun stuff, even doable with only 2 ppl, each take heros, tank themselves, have heros bond, sv/ss and eoe... HM of course!

GL!
cheers.