Curse

LoKi Foxfire · Apr 29, 2006, 07:00 AM // 07:00

This is just going to be a quick round up of his skills and quite possible the easiest way to ganking this monster of a boss. Anyways, here are the skills that Shiro uses:

Shiro uses Riposting Shadows at any point after you engage him. I've noticed that he can even hit me if he's nowhere near him. Blind will put a stop to this temporarily (unless he's low on health).

This skill makes Shiro last a lot longer than he should if you don't blind him. Even then, it only lasts for 7 seconds and isn't that big of a deal.

Honestly, if you can't stop MotR faster than 2-3 seconds you won't be able to finish him off before he starts using Impossible Odds on you. You can't avoid the damage so the only thing you can do is to deal as much damage as you can (the easy way I will explain after this). If you ignore him, Shiro will do around 600+ damage and instantly kill your entire party.

This skill is absolutely EVIL. He will only use it around 25%-30% but once he does he is able to keep blind off you and will decimate everyone in the vicinity. The counter to this is the ranger special skill.

Banishes one character to another area and replaces them with a hostile Construct. Killing the construct refreshes your special skills.

Alright, the easiest way I found to defeat Shiro is by using pure brute force and a little help from the dragon NPC. Before you run down the bridge to engage Shiro, make sure everyone gets their special skill loaded into their skill bar.

When you're making a party, try to get at least 3-4 warriors and 1 ranger. This method REQUIRES that you have a ranger there to use the Celestial Stance to stop Impossible Odds from destroying you when Shiro gets low on health. The warriors are there for their special skill that causes 25 damage a second to adjacent enemies. Elementalists work as well - I've heard they have some huge area AE skill.

Anyways, Shiro is surprisingly easy if you know what to do. Have your warriors charge up the stairs and engage him immediately. One character will be banished at this point. Everyone should use their special skills now and kill the Construct to recharge them. Immediately after that, have everyone focus all their DPS on Shiro. Warriors should use their special skill to cause massive damage to him while everyone crowds as close as possible. If possible, have your Ranger play a trapper and equip Throw Dirt. Blind Shiro at 50-75% and continue to trap but save Dust Trap for a bit later! When he gets near that Impossible Odds mark, activate Dust Trap AND Celestial Stance BEFORE Impossible Odds goes off. At this point you need to kill him in 15 seconds before Celestial Stance and Dust Trap disappear... otherwise Impossible Odds will most likely finish you off. Anyways, it's pretty simple as long as you have enough warriors and a ranger. Healing isn't too bad with him and you can even rely on henchmen. :]

Hockster · Apr 29, 2006, 07:26 AM // 07:26

SS And Empathy work quite well on him if you can get MoR ended quickly so the damage is minimized.
The Assassin skill for the dragon call 6 (I think) melee characters which really help with the damage ouput.

Indian · Apr 29, 2006, 08:11 AM // 08:11

thx Loki for sharing info! =)

n thx for tips! b4 we went in to kill him.

Reiden Argrock · Apr 29, 2006, 10:51 AM // 10:51

be sure to kill the first bounded spirit so your whole team is there to fight, other wise it could mess everything up

and excelent post Loki

LoKi Foxfire · Apr 30, 2006, 02:16 AM // 02:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reiden Argrock

be sure to kill the first bounded spirit so your whole team is there to fight, other wise it could mess everything up

and excelent post Loki

Yea, it's a good idea to kill the first bounded that way everyone can spam their skills and get a good start on killing Shiro - then the warriors can refresh their damage skill when they run out again. Ranger should save his Celestial Stance for when he's about to bust out Impossible Odds.

zeroxy · May 02, 2006, 05:08 PM // 17:08

Damit you just spoiled the ending for me just by the title!!!
I didn't play factions yet and I thought Shiro would turn out to be good!!
:'(

Dahl · May 02, 2006, 09:43 PM // 21:43

it sounds to me like skills such as wild blow would be nice to bring along? Skills that remove stances.

Ixliam · May 02, 2006, 11:14 PM // 23:14

You don't even need to worry about the bounds if you have warrior skills. I just spam Wild Blow, the new elite Shove, and when it recharges the dagger thing from the dragon. With henchies I can kill him in 2 mins, with another player my record is 1:10 (other player was an assassin). Henchies bring all the necros, mesmers, and warriors. They will just degrade him, and then you just beat him down.

Aki Soyokaze · May 16, 2006, 10:20 AM // 10:20

I found that Insidious Parasite worked well on him too.

As soon as the battle started I got banished; but when I came back I started to spam hexes on him and as soon as Insidious was put on him +21's lit up across my screen and he died in 2-3 seconds. Due to using Impossible Odds his attacks double striked all the golems, warriors, and assassins around him. gg

Opeth · May 16, 2006, 11:47 AM // 11:47

btw, i've noticed that shiro cant kill my 55 monk x'D

stoelen · May 16, 2006, 01:23 PM // 13:23

i did this with henchies and 1 assasin only by using this skill bar:
Eviscerate, Executioners, Swift Chop, <special skill>, Wild Blow, Res Sig(didnt use becouse no1 died)Penatring chop, Berserker Stance.

Use wild blow on him when he enters a stance. always.
let the assasin use his special skill and let the henchies aggro shiro. use the warrior special skill and he will be dead in no-time.

Kaane · May 16, 2006, 01:45 PM // 13:45

Has anyone tried using the Assassin skill "Mirrored Stance" on him?

If it worked...

sh4ft3d · May 16, 2006, 02:02 PM // 14:02

LOL. Mirrored stance would be amazing if it worked. I wouldn't even be able to imagine how fun that would be...

Dzan · May 16, 2006, 06:28 PM // 18:28

Mirrored stance does nothing, tested last night.

pegasux · May 16, 2006, 07:24 PM // 19:24

Nice job Loki =).

I took my henchies in and used a W/N. Used Life Siphon, Gash, tainted flesh =). Just degen the sucker.

MelechRic · May 16, 2006, 08:45 PM // 20:45

Just a tip for the Necro crowd:

Impossible Odds + Spoil Victor = Dead Shiro.

Especially if you have a henchie group that is able to mob Shiro. I've seen him do well over 600 damage to himself with this skill.

nebuchanezzar · May 16, 2006, 08:50 PM // 20:50

While the advice is good I still find it is easiest with 1 SS/Curse Necro and fill in the blank on the other 7. Seriously spam your warrior hate on this guy and the other 7 just need to kill the bounds and jump on Shiro in his Meditation Stance and dish out the damage fast or Wild Blow if its on the bar.
16 Curses. The other atts depend on if you wanna add Spirit of Failure, Empathy, or skills of any other line. Leftovers in Soul Reaping. Your minion from Kuunavang is a Celestial Minion that gives Energy and Health whenever he hits.
1.Spiteful Spirit. Spam it. Hes a boss so all durations are 1/2 which just happens to be about the recharge of this spell =].
2. Price of Failure. When this skill recharges it still has 5 seconds before it ends on Shiro. Not the priority spam that SS is but very beneficial. Its effects go up if you have a Blinder with you but any miss helps.
3. Reckless Haste. This one wears out long before its recastable so I try to stack it when possible immediately after Price of Failure to get the most possible misses in that window.
Those 3 alone can kill him if the other 7 take care of the side issues.
For just damage Defile Enchants and Desecrate Enchants.
Depending on other 2ndaries etc you can fill the other 3 slots as Rez Sig and The Celestial Minion should also be on your bar.

GL. For the unprepared Shiro is devastating. Once youve beat him once though its all about doing it under a minute with the least amount of people =].

Beat_Go_Stick · May 16, 2006, 09:05 PM // 21:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kaane

Has anyone tried using the Assassin skill "Mirrored Stance" on him?

If it worked...

Note how all his skills say his name?

Shiro Shadow Steps...
Shiro's attacks...
Shiro meditates...

Looks like they made sure nothing stolen would be usable by us

VGJustice · May 16, 2006, 11:07 PM // 23:07

Beat Shiro last night with my Melee Ranger. I had some help in the form of 2 Assassins and 2 Warriors, plus a fairly balanced group after that. The other ranger on our team INSISTED that we all bring interrupts, and spam cast them on Shiro. I would like to point out that this does nothing with the exception of Meditation (which I never even saw). Honestly, Warriors and Assassins are your best friends here due to their Celestial skills from the Dragon.

Also, unless you're a Monk or a Ritualist, don't even bother with self heals. Chances are, if you need to heal yourself, you're just gonna die anyway.

Kit Engel · May 17, 2006, 03:55 AM // 03:55

I found my ele can beat him up in less than two minutes with henchies simply by bringing arcane echo and echo.

Arcane echo, echo, celestial storm, AE'd echo, celestial storm, celestial storm, kill construct, three more celestial storms, kill next construct, repeat until desired result is achieved.