Curse

jelly samwich · Jul 15, 2005, 07:32 AM // 07:32

Hi,
I like to solo the UW with my character so I thought that you guys might also like to try this. By solo i mean 100% unaccompinaied (haha spelling) 1 hero is in the UW and that hero is my hero.. uh yeah. Also, this build is godly in pvp (interchange bonettis for mending) vs a team w/o enchantment removal. In tombs I can tank 1v9 indefinately while still dealing a large amount of damage. ANYWAYS_- Here's the detailed spec.

Jelly Samwich
(Monk/Warrior)
Lvl 20 + Attributes from teh 2 quests
Healing Prayers 5+4 [9]
Smiting Prayers 9+3 [12]
Protection Prayers 12+3 [15]
Divine Favor 8+3 [11]
Tactics 2 [2]

I wear a superior rune on every piece of my armor which brings my HP down to 105. If you don't understand this read the description for protective bond.

Weapon Set 1:
Protective Icon
Energy +8
Protection Prayers +1 (20% Chance while using skills)
Health +30
-Obtained from collector north of Lions Arch by the Caromi Tengu Boss/Imps

Weapon Set 2:
Smiting Rod
Light Dmg: 11-22
Improves Skill recharge using Smiting Prayers Skills (20%)
-Obtained from collector in Droknars Forge
Protective Icon
Energy +12

Skills
Healing Breeze
Blessed Signet
Balthazar's Aura
Zealot's Fire
Bonetti's Defense
Protective Bond
Essence Bond
Balthazars Spirit

Tutorial
Pay your gold and get into the UW!!
Ok, first off equip whatever armor gives you 16 prot prayers, then equip the protective icon and cast protective bond. It is essential that you get a lvl 17 cast out of it, you will know its lvl 17 by it saying, "you lose 1 energy or the spell ends" rather than 2 from lvl 16. The difference between the two levels is tremendous, with the lvl 17 cast and the other two bonds on, you gain 1 energy for each hit you take. Once you have that up, throw on essence bond, balthazar's spirit, and zealot's fire. You are now ready for battle!

Starting off i'd only take on 2-3 aataxes at a time. This is safer but I find I taking on more gets the job done quicker (I usually tank 5 which takes between 45 and 90 secs to kill depending on interrupts). With the enchants on the first spell I use is healing breeze. This spell is essential. It is the driving force that keeps me alive so it is my highest priority. Once the aataxes have started punching away at me, I alternate between using healing breeze, bonetti's defense to charge up energy, and balthazars aura. Balthazars aura does the bulk of the damage to them, the damage incurred from zealots fire primarily keeps them from regening hp.

It takes a little practice but it is well worth it. Last night alone I found over 10 ectos which I sold for 100k today (note: this was before new trader system, ectos seem to drop less now). Tomorrow I'll post how to take down the creeping darknesses and details on a smite run (and if i have time and you guys are lucky maybe a video).

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Racthoh · Jul 15, 2005, 07:52 AM // 07:52

Well I'll be... I don't know what to say. I was really hoping to find a build that could solo it first but... damn.

Great job, hope you make a video for it. I'd love to see a monk soloing the underworld, it would make my day.

Sniper · Jul 15, 2005, 08:19 AM // 08:19

Very Nice!

Conador · Jul 15, 2005, 08:49 AM // 08:49

Youjust inspired me to make a Mo/W!

EmperorTippy · Jul 15, 2005, 10:14 AM // 10:14

WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TELL? Now ANet will nerf it to oblivion. Why? Why?

BTW I could solo tank UW at lvl 8

As far as I know I was the first person to come up with this build and I posted it in related threads but were people had to do a little looking. Why did you give it to them on a silver platter?

BTW Rathoch if she doesn't put up a vid I will. I made 1 of me doing it yesterday I just need to compress it.

Racthoh · Jul 15, 2005, 10:27 AM // 10:27

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Originally Posted by EmperorTippy

WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TELL? Now ANet will nerf it to oblivion. Why? Why?

BTW I could solo tank UW at lvl 8

As far as I know I was the first person to come up with this build and I posted it in related threads but were people had to do a little looking. Why did you give it to them on a silver platter?

BTW Rathoch if she doesn't put up a vid I will. I made 1 of me doing it yesterday I just need to compress it.

In my many trips to the UW, it seems like it was already beat to death with the nerf bat. Sigh...

And at level 8? Ah geez... you're making my warrior cry when he can't solo two ataxe at once...

Jczech · Jul 15, 2005, 10:32 AM // 10:32

I'd been wondering if 17 protection would take it down to 1. Good to know.

Anyway, very well done. I'll have to try it sometime

And yes, it will be nerfed. Every grasping darkness will become a mesmer with 200 damage shatters as well as keeping their usual speed as it is now.

EmperorTippy · Jul 15, 2005, 10:35 AM // 10:35

Its the same idea low health+protective spells+Healing breeze or mending and I ran and got spellbreaker to stop disenchants. Granted I use a Mo/Me and do arcane echo+spellbreaer for longer time. I am lvl 20 with him now (My first run I gained 10 levels). At lvl 20 its a piece of cake. I can even do the coldfirers if I try. I also use a few tricks to make my build more powerful (think refund points and multiple head picecs and weapons/focus)

capitalist · Jul 15, 2005, 03:57 PM // 15:57

I was dreaming this build up last night, but couldnt fine tune it. Thanks!

super dooper · Jul 15, 2005, 05:12 PM // 17:12

I've been using a similar build, heh.. we'll have to see about that 'nerf bat', I guess..

Age · Jul 15, 2005, 08:58 PM // 20:58

That is one fine Mo/W you made there very impressive.I really the armor that you have.Where did you get the armor that you are wearing not the body armor it looks very much like censors armor is dyed at all?My Mo/W is either healing or smiting Monk not protection I have in warrior skills balance stance,bonetti defence or axe/sword skill.This if I am useing a axe or a sword.When I am healing I use either mending or life viscosity.When I am smiting I use some of the same skills that you have and smite or banish anyway very impressive build you have there.There is one thing what do you use weapon slot no1 for just for protecting yourself or do you do any casting?

teny10 · Jul 15, 2005, 09:16 PM // 21:16

Way to go. Now that if we can figured out a way to counter shatter enchantment, this baby would be unstoppable. Hmm...

Shadow Aster · Jul 15, 2005, 09:21 PM // 21:21

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Originally Posted by jelly samwich

Healing Prayers 5+9 [14]

This part has me confused. The other adds I can see that you've used the Superior Runes of Whatever, but +9? I don't see any way to get +9, unless I didn't read carefully enough.

jelly samwich · Jul 16, 2005, 07:30 AM // 07:30

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Originally Posted by Shadow Aster

This part has me confused. The other adds I can see that you've used the Superior Runes of Whatever, but +9? I don't see any way to get +9, unless I didn't read carefully enough.

sorry that was me being retarded, it should read 5+4 for a total of 9

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Originally Posted by Age

Where did you get the armor that you are wearing not the body armor it looks very much like censors armor is dyed at all?There is one thing what do you use weapon slot no1 for just for protecting yourself or do you do any casting?

Its granite citadel judges set. I just use weapon set 1 for casting.. the icon has a +30 hp bonus which I don't want during combat.

To take down darknesses::
1] cast zealots fire on yourself
2] get just outside of aggro, healing breeze yourself
3] attack one of them and keep attacking
4] once bonettis is charged, use it and then cast healing breeze (which should be uninterrupted.. you can wait if you need to to regain a bit of energy.. i'd rather err on the safe side vs these things tho)
5] usually after a cast of bonettis my energy is filled, so after i healing breeze ending bonettis, I cast a balthazars aura.. once bonettis fills again cast healing breeze and then balths aura again and repeat till they're dead.

some things that can go wrong--
-i've noticed when you use blessed sig vs them they tend to cast blindness which totally screws me up. so don't use blessed sig.
-if an aataxe gets mixed in with them it can really add to the interrupts you recieve which makes it very dangerous.. its possible to take a mob of darknesses +1-2 aataxes but its pretty risky.

ok on to smite run
once you clear the darknesses the doors open up and you can head out towards the smite area.. you will encounter 4 aataxes and (4?) creeping darknesses.. I try to avoid the darknesses and aggro the aataxes if I have to while I make my way to smites. once you clear the aataxe mob or get past without aggroing you'll encounter the smites.

the smites are cake with this build. the one thing they can do to mess with you is Sheild of Judgement which is a temporary knockdown, but if you're ontop of your healing breeze you're fine. Zealots fire does the full (37 in my case) damage to them, and they attack quickly enough that you should have enough energy to spam healing breeze/balthazars aura at your discretion.

there are 3 easy groups of smites you can get, the first group, another group when the path opens up, and another group to the left. avoid aggroing the coldfires at all costs.

if you happen to encounter some coldfires you're in for a tough fight. the only way i've managed to take them down (this sounds weird but it works) is to run around them in circles, hitting them with your balthazars aura while in the meantime avoiding their malestroms (you'll see the ice drop from the sky which is the malestrom spell i believe). They take a while to kill and they don't drop much so I usually just go for the smites.

Before the recent update they were dropping ecto for me pretty frequently, I got a couple max dmg storm bows, eternal bows, etc..

Yeah so anyways this build can be improved, I have speced my attributes very carefully (also you can respec after you get prot bond on) and my health is not optimal. Optimal health is as close as you can get under a multiple of twenty (I.e. 20x5 = 100, 99 hp will cause you to lose 5 hp per hit yet leave you with a bit more room to work with) There are dangers of lowering your hp in this particular build because an inability to cast healing breeze could mean death very easily.

What still needs to be done::
-Find some item/rune combination that gets hp to optimal.. 99 or 79 would be good imho (Altho aataxes do drop max hp w/ a condition).
-Figure out a way to take down the dryders
-Is it possible at all to take down behemoths? Very dangerous area with the spirit that strips enchantments.

Some quesitons I have--
Does mending heal 5 hp per sec at lvl 17? If so it might be an alternative to using healing breeze.
Assuming its possible to fully clear the chamber, do wraiths take 2x damage due to holy? Are there more undead creatures in the UW? (Balths aura)
Is it worth it anymore? My good drops have really decreased in the past day or so.

tyler · Jul 16, 2005, 08:11 AM // 08:11

What bonuses does the judges set have that's different from the others?

jelly samwich · Jul 16, 2005, 08:30 AM // 08:30

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Originally Posted by tyler

What bonuses does the judges set have that's different from the others?

its the same as the droknars 1.5k armor difference is purely cosmetic.

Rocco The Flipside · Jul 16, 2005, 06:40 PM // 18:40

So just curious, what armor do you cast with? ascetics or with judge's ? and which armor do you put your runes in?

Age · Jul 16, 2005, 08:02 PM // 20:02

You would put your runes in your ascetics armor and it depends on what you want to do as to the rune you choose.I wouldn't want to put any runes on set of Judges armor as it would be permanent.

Jelly. I awlys thought that Mo/W were smiting Monk more or less not Protection although I can see where they would be.How is your Mo/E turnig out?Thank

jelly samwich · Jul 16, 2005, 09:20 PM // 21:20

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Originally Posted by Age

Jelly. I awlys thought that Mo/W were smiting Monk more or less not Protection although I can see where they would be.How is your Mo/E turnig out?Thank

This char is switch between Mo/W and Mo/E. I like the elementalist glyph of lesser energy because it lets me cast aegis for 5 energy... haven't messed around with the elementalist side too much.

tyler · Jul 16, 2005, 09:59 PM // 21:59

how do you get 49 energy?