Curse

dnvr fan1 · Jan 14, 2006, 10:24 PM // 22:24

heres me and my guilde friends just havn a good time in uw

Ajantis · Jan 15, 2006, 12:00 AM // 00:00

That's 39 smite crawlers..???

xxreaper008 · Jan 15, 2006, 01:24 AM // 01:24

Haha, soloing UW is pretty easy, just use ur head a little. For ex, when you see a night mare and aatxes are following you, dont fight then, cast all the enchantments you have, when u have more then 4 enchantments, the night mares die so basicly u cast the enchants, he nightmare appears, make sure u have pleanty of enchants on you, run awayfrom teh aatxes, I usually hide behind the ghosts (which is Sarah ect.) and quickly cast protective spirit. Sometimes the nightmares follow you if u failed to kill themselves and they attack from distence, quicly go on the side of the stairs or somewhere where the targets view is bad so the attack will miss. Cast protective spitit quickly.

the begging is basicly the hardest part for me, after that, its basicly a win. Protective spirit usually lasts around 30 seconds or so, SoJ usuall lasts around 35 seconds. Hope that helps, and hope you can read my spelling, im in a rush atm

sno · Jan 15, 2006, 04:21 AM // 04:21

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Originally Posted by xxreaper008

Haha, soloing UW is pretty easy, just use ur head a little. For ex, when you see a night mare and aatxes are following you, dont fight then, cast all the enchantments you have, when u have more then 4 enchantments, the night mares die so basicly u cast the enchants, he nightmare appears, make sure u have pleanty of enchants on you, run awayfrom teh aatxes, I usually hide behind the ghosts (which is Sarah ect.) and quickly cast protective spirit. Sometimes the nightmares follow you if u failed to kill themselves and they attack from distence, quicly go on the side of the stairs or somewhere where the targets view is bad so the attack will miss. Cast protective spitit quickly.

the begging is basicly the hardest part for me, after that, its basicly a win. Protective spirit usually lasts around 30 seconds or so, SoJ usuall lasts around 35 seconds. Hope that helps, and hope you can read my spelling, im in a rush atm

You're certainly not talking about ALL of Underworld, but only smite runs. Smite runs ARE easy, it's doing them very quickly and efficiently thats more difficult. We're talking about killing EVERYTHING in UW, most of which I doubt you've ever seen (except in my screenshots perhaps.)

sno · Jan 15, 2006, 04:57 AM // 04:57

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Originally Posted by Ajantis

That's 39 smite crawlers..???

No that was my foolish guildie posting a photoshopped picture. None of my screenshots are altered in any way. (except some blackouts for the purpose of secrecy)

(edit: I had him remove the picture

)

Daneish · Jan 15, 2006, 05:07 AM // 05:07

That's my boys, getting the job done.

Do you has what it takes? The Homestarmy does.

{IceFire} · Jan 15, 2006, 06:53 AM // 06:53

i need to try this with my necro bud =P

btw sno, ure awesome!

xxreaper008 · Jan 15, 2006, 02:24 PM // 14:24

I don't prefer spending time clearing the rest of the Uw bc it mostly a waste of time. You can probally get a better profit farming griffons or trolls as in the time you clear the UW.

Catalin Dracul · Jan 15, 2006, 02:45 PM // 14:45

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Originally Posted by xxreaper008

I don't prefer spending time clearing the rest of the Uw bc it mostly a waste of time. You can probally get a better profit farming griffons or trolls as in the time you clear the UW.

ever heard of a thing called "fun"...?

jtchans · Jan 15, 2006, 03:00 PM // 15:00

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Originally Posted by xxreaper008

I don't prefer spending time clearing the rest of the Uw bc it mostly a waste of time. You can probally get a better profit farming griffons or trolls as in the time you clear the UW.

I dissagree if you think makin 20k+ in 15 min is bad......

Jiao Yang · Jan 15, 2006, 06:32 PM // 18:32

It just dawned on me...
everyone (including me) is very eager to learn Jerrypants's build but doesnt Gwen have a equally important role in the 3 man UW clearance? I still think one of the previous screen shots of Gwen's skillbar was photoshopped. If she wasnt that much use and Jerrypants's amazing secret was the only reason no one else could 3-man UW then they probably wouldnt take her...
i REALLY badly want to know both and am willing to offer payment in the form of this here smiley>>>>>>>

Ray · Jan 15, 2006, 07:28 PM // 19:28

triple post AHHH PANIC x_x

Maxiemonster · Jan 15, 2006, 07:36 PM // 19:36

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Originally Posted by Homsar

finally, i get some notice around here. All this Hype for Jerrypants thinking hes the secret, in reality, its the combo of all 3 that makes this build possible, its pretty much impossible to clear UW without all 3 components. Although i will say this, nobody wears necro pants like the Jerrypants. Nobody. As of this point, my skillbar will remain a secret. Besides, you really think even if we did give you our skillbars, that your could do what we did? Probably not

-Gwen

You're pretty arrogant. You guys aren't all that great, you're doing something pretty hard, I'm not saying that, but if you can do it, most of us can. At least 80% of playing a build is knowing the build and having experience. "Skill" is very limited in Guild Wars PVE.

And I'm just asking for Jerrypants' build so I can try this too with 2 of my guildmates. I've never had a high level Necromancer, and I'm not that experienced with much of the skills, so no, I can't tell every skill from that skill bar. I'm rather sure you can't come up with the best builds for every proffesion, since you're most likely not experienced with all, and I'm not either, that's why I asked.

Jiao Yang · Jan 15, 2006, 08:09 PM // 20:09

despite what i said earlier... i do kinda have to agree with maxie on this one.
This thread was made to show how far you can get in the underworld with your special build but u have done that now and all subsequent posts have just been about guessing or asking what skills and technique you use.
The 3 of you are really lapping this up and if you arent going to reveal this secret just say so and the thread can be closed.
Unless of course someone equally 'skilled' works it out and wants to post here

xxreaper008 · Jan 15, 2006, 08:46 PM // 20:46

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Originally Posted by jtchans

I dissagree if you think makin 20k+ in 15 min is bad......

wow i take that back if you make 20k+ in 15 min or so

jtchans · Jan 15, 2006, 08:55 PM // 20:55

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Originally Posted by xxreaper008

wow i take that back if you make 20k+ in 15 min or so

It varies

Most of the time you get between 1-5 ecto devide by 2 ~1.5-2 Ecto
Plus all the junk on the groud
Gold Storm/Rare Items
Chests

Taurus · Jan 15, 2006, 09:05 PM // 21:05

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Originally Posted by Homsar

Once Again, the Homestarmy proves its awsomeness to the World.

From http://www.guildwars.com ladder -> "733rd The Homestarmy" :
PvE doesnt prove ANY "awsomeness", if you want to prove yourselves good, get gvg's going, PvE consists only in exploiting the dumb AI in MMORPGs.

super dooper · Jan 15, 2006, 09:31 PM // 21:31

not too hard to see what's going on ;p second monk cycles spellbreaker and is a failsafe, may provide the SV, may have mantra of resolve for mindblades.. and if the n/me is using a SS build, there's no way he could 'heavily modify' it to kill faster. the only skill that speeds things up decently and only against certain types of monsters is putrid explosion.

sure he could have something like conjure phantasm (haha), or even some blood 'spike' skills or insidious parasite, but it wouldn't speed up the killing much. unless he heavily modified it to do less damage.

congrats though, four horsemen really sucks, nice job.

Two April Mornings · Jan 15, 2006, 09:50 PM // 21:50

nice job all, very impressive

MrJerrypants · Jan 15, 2006, 10:27 PM // 22:27

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Originally Posted by super dooper

unless he heavily modified it to do less damage

It's up for debate to say that what I changed does actually do less damage compared to a "traditional" ss/sv build, but damage wasn't my concern. When planning my skills I set out to survive. Survive the mindblades, the riders, the threshers, etc. As long as I was alive, the speed of my damage was fairly inconsequential, seeing that ss provides steady damage on any enemies.
In my set I ran much lower illusion than is commonly seen in ss necros. I'm very confident in my timing and I don't need an excessively long sv to kill smites, or anything else I'd be using sv for. Also knowing that Sno's a cabable monk, there was nothing to worry about from losing a few seconds on sv. I ran max curses of course, and moderately high soul reaping.
I tossed the remainder of the points into inspiration for mantra of resolve, and inspired hex. Mantra was at a high enough level of inspiration that the energy loss from would-be interupts was managable and the duration was long enough that I didn't need to reapply constantly. Inspired hex more than payed for itself, and I was able to toss back hexes from the mindblades, should 1 or 2 slip onto me. The inspired/illusion combo worked well because mindblades hex with illusion most often (Migraine, clumsiness, conjure phant) Tossing them back on the mindblades added an extra little punch to my damage.
For my last slot I ran hex breaker, at little or no domination, depending on how my points looked on the run (Yes, I do alter attributes often, testing which works better overall). Hex breaker was mainly for the bone pits, but it also came in handy for coldfires that lost aggro, or charged blackness, etc. I wouldn't try to hold hex breaker constantly (at little to no domination magic it's a waste of energy) but what I would do was catch hexes on myself. I'm able to recognize long-cast hexes from the threshers and collectors (life siphon, suffering) and occasionally fast hexes (parasitic bond, faintheartedness) and use hex breaker during the cast to prevent myself from getting hexed. If you aren't familiar with the threshers and collectors, they use Feast of Corruption which will severely ruin your day if you are hexed, and only mildly ruin it if you aren't. Inspired hex came into play here as well because I was able to rip parasitic bond and faintheartedness from myself or gwen and back onto the mobs with max curses, upping my killing power. I ran no res at all.

You can guess or figure out my exact stats/runes/weapons on your own, everyone's only been concerned with the skills.

Questions and comments are welcome, feel free to yell and tell me it's a terrible build. The bottom line is that it cleared Uw and completed all the quests in a single 3-man run.

Enjoy, <3 Pants.

ps. thank you for the smiley Jiao.