Curse

M1h4iL · Nov 19, 2006, 02:13 PM // 14:13

So many of you are having a really hard time doing this mission. You have attempted this mission many times, spent countless days on it and have tried many groups and builds in an attempt to hopefully kill Shiro at the end. No matter how much you try and how well your team is doing through the whole mission, once you get to Shiro your team gets wiped. If any of these apply to you, then this guide is for you, and you will be able to kill Shiro with your party with ease, in fact, it will be so easy that you will solo Shiro all by your self. Wait did you read that correctly? Yes you have, you will be able to SOLO Shiro and kill him ON YOUR OWN and be done with this horrible mission.

After reading the wikipedia on this mission I found that my team is very poorly equipped for killing Shiro but following the tips I kill the Lich first. I then capture all the shrines while Shiro is following me, pretty easy I think to my self, an easy bonus and mission. Soon after I start fighting Shiro I quickly find how wrong I was. As soon as Shiro is below 30% health he uses impossible odds my teams get wiped. Its only me, a monk and Cynn. I immediately start running in hopes to lose Shiro, comeback and rez my team. I go up to the Abbadons shrine and Shiro gets stuck on the rock with writing on it when you click it, so I decide to go and rez my team. I then try to approach Shiro with Olias along side, and flagged the rest of my team behind me. I was hoping to kill seeing as he was stuck and he couldn’t attack me. Unfortunately he gets unstuck and once again wipes my party when he uses impossible odds. For the third time I run around, re-capture the shrines and rez my team. Having learnt my lesson, knowing I can’t kill Shiro 8 on 1 and having a lot of DP by this stage I decided to try something desperate, but different. I decided to lure Shiro towards the area where you kill the 5 rifts and beyond, and was thinking that I could go up a hill or bridge and have Shiro, somehow, stuck on the bottom while I kill him. Didn’t work, but it is here where I found the “exploit”.

Ok so I try to lure Shiro towards the area with 5 rifts. As he is following me I am also attacking him, in other words kiting. It is here I notice that Shiro only goes after my heroes/hench. As I go up the steps towards the area where there 5 rifts that I destroyed before, Shiro stops following me. I try to lure him again and find him bashing away at my casters once again but as soon as we try to move any further he goes back to the middle of the place he spawned. I try again and notice that when my team gets close to Shiro, even 3 aggro bubbles away, Shiro will start running to attack, even though we are so far away from him, which is a bug. So I decide to flag my team well behind me and try to pull him my self, and I want him to follow ME, not my team. As I get close, Shiro is not attracted to me and just stands there. I pull out my long bow, the longest range weapon I have and use apply poison to lure him. As I shoot away I am well outside his agro bubble and Shiro still stands there taunting me. I use apply poison again and use burning arrow to do some extra damage. Shiro does not move, since I am not in his agro bubble. I continue to do damage and remember HA, where in the first map against the Zaishen you can use a longbow from the top platform without causing any agro and the Zaishen will just stand there doing nothing while you kill them.

So that’s how I kill Shiro, I am outside his agro bubble, using a longbow and use burning arrow and apply poison. It took me at least 5 full minutes to kill him, by the time I kill him all the shrines are neutral HOWEVER I still got the bonus. It was pretty easy killing him, he couldn’t heal, nor do any damage, he just stood there taunting me.

I used 4 monks, 2 prot, 2 healers in this mission, and it was pretty easy killing mobs. Bring a long bow or a flat bow to do long range damage. Make sure your arrows have conditions like bleeding or poison and some damage, like power shot, this will way you will kill Shiro faster. In the screen shots I provided you can see my skills, where my team is flagged and notice how I don’t have any shrines captured. I did this mission on the first go, with bonus, using this agro bubble bug. This will save thousands of people thousands of hours (combined). I hope you understand the guide, if you have any questions, feedback or suggestions please post.

Knightsaber Sith · Nov 19, 2006, 02:15 PM // 14:15

argh; paragraphs are your friend matey

Cyan The Archer · Nov 19, 2006, 02:31 PM // 14:31

Noticed that a long time ago.. Even posted it in the other guide to Gate of Madness, with a screenshot of killing The Lich, but not Shiro. Why did he not use that teleport skill against you? He did that to me all the time, which made it impossible for me to solo him.

-.- · Nov 19, 2006, 06:46 PM // 18:46

I noticed that the first time I was fighting Shiro.

Clinically Proven · Nov 20, 2006, 12:26 AM // 00:26

What a great cape in those screenies

Shinigami God · Nov 20, 2006, 01:41 AM // 01:41

My party beat it, and 2 people left (1 was healer) O.o I dunno, maybe we just got lucky

Brega · Nov 20, 2006, 11:34 AM // 11:34

I beat the gates of maddness mission on my first try earning masters using heros and hench, for the whole mission I had 1 hench death. When I reached the end of the mission and discovered I would be fighting the Lich and Shiro at the same time I thought I'd be in for a very tough battle. Instead the Lich went down very quickly and Shiro followed me like a little puppy as I capped the shrines doing very little damage to me and was equally easy to kill.

However I've since found out that my experience with the mission was somewhat unique as others in my guild told me what a difficult time they had on the mission.

ashe5k · Nov 20, 2006, 11:58 AM // 11:58

This is going to be a little harder to pull off with a ranger sub-job methinks but still looks very do-able. I'll have to keep this in mind for when i get there. Thanks!

Xaero Gouki Kriegor · Nov 21, 2006, 03:22 AM // 03:22

does the shrines/bonus or whatever need to be activated and done for him to die this way from poison?

Ole Man Bourbon · Nov 21, 2006, 04:20 AM // 04:20

All you have to do is run away from him, kiting him, and he will get wanded/degenned to death like an idiot.

Xaero Gouki Kriegor · Nov 21, 2006, 04:23 AM // 04:23

will 4 pips of degen be enough to degen him, or does he have natural regen?
Cus i dunno about running Burning arrow unless its completely necassary on my ranger secondary

**edit**, i just got an idea. how about traps? lol

Juicey Shake · Nov 21, 2006, 10:59 AM // 10:59

I don't see how this exploit helps even...trying to position him would waste time, all I did was ran around killing the stuff at the 5 gods, then I turn around, him still following me, make him aggro on my stance tank koss with wild blow- flag my party a bit farther away, my necro hero spamming spoil victor on him and splat he goes?... took less than 2 minutes to kill him and the only thing he killed was my pet..

Mr.H.Mishima · Nov 22, 2006, 02:43 AM // 02:43

You don't have to conrol the shrines for the bonus, you just need to gain the blessing of each god. They revert so fast, you could NEVER hold them all while killing Shiro/Lich.

Enko · Nov 22, 2006, 11:45 AM // 11:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hells Last Survivor

You don't have to conrol the shrines for the bonus, you just need to gain the blessing of each god. They revert so fast, you could NEVER hold them all while killing Shiro/Lich.

i was able to beat shiro while still holding all 5 shrines . ..

Ele with an echoed Searing Flames build.

Heroes:
warrior with wild blow
curse necro with SS, Soul Barbs, Empathy, Insidious Parasite, plus some other hexes to
blood necro with Spoil Victor, plus other hexes

henchies
2 monks
1 mesmer
1 warrior

Once Shiro uses Impossible Odds with SS, Empathy, Insidious Parasite, and Spoil Victor on him, he pretty much kills himself.

Pojnx · Nov 22, 2006, 07:22 PM // 19:22

Ok, I got group of casters (hench hero) , flagged them far enough for shiro to NOT reach but close enough for casters to reach him.. take Lots of self heal,protection and defensive skills and tank him at the limit of wer he folows you to..(wen u kill lich move up the hill)

maybe i didnt read that someone done this coz i got bored reading that story lol.. but this also means u dont get the expert

daky · Nov 23, 2006, 09:15 AM // 09:15

thanks for the find! finally able to get protector of elona! been stuck at that mission for days flagged the heros/hench away and just sat their
degening shiro. Took a while but the end result was well worth the wait.

irene n jerome · Nov 23, 2006, 01:41 PM // 13:41

hey i made a solo and dual build on killing shiro if u guys interested pm me!in game name is irene n jerome TNX!

irene n jerome · Nov 23, 2006, 01:41 PM // 13:41

hey i made a solo and dual build on killing shiro if u guys interested pm me!in game name is irene n jerome TNX!

Itchy · Nov 23, 2006, 07:02 PM // 19:02

I did it with 1 elementalist hero with blinding surge and shock.
I am a dervish/warrior so I had wild blow.

Beated it on second try and master reward without exploiting.
With only heroes and henchman.

Beated Abbadon as well first try, master reward 13 min with just heroes and henchman.

That is why I dont group with real players, i hate theire (A)I :P

Jeff Highwind · Nov 24, 2006, 12:39 AM // 00:39

Rangers like me never have any luck. Tried the mission in 3 different groups today with no necros and we diddn't stand a chance. Nobody in PuG's know what IO does and they die like Turkeys to the slaughter.