Shiro'ken Farming

famine~

the rangers use it

when your energy drops to zero u take X dmg

thus the 2 visages

i'll have to watch the video ^_^

Oh my god this is amazing.

I can't go very far, though. I can kill all the Shiro'ken up to the shrine, but anything beyond there kills me. No matter, I've already got two Golden Mauls and a crapload of white drops, netting me plenty of money.

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Sounds really cool now i gotta get my mes there. But is it a 55 build or normal health ?

... could u reupload the vid cause it doesnt seem to be working

"Please wait while the download server is contacted..."

Filefronts been saying that for the last 10 minutes. Rapidshare please

No need for a video. It's really straightforward.

Standard Spirit Bonding build: lowest armor you can find, lots of health (I'm at 575), maintain Essence Bond and Balth Spirit, when you run into enemies spam Prot Spirit and Spirit Bond. Cycle Ancestor's Visage and Sympathetic Visage; the Shiro'ken Rangers' Famine spirits will make them kill themselves.

Look out for Shroud of Silence, but that's the only roadblock I can see, and if you time your PS/SB properly, it's no problem. If you're Monk primary, put in Mantra of Resolve to avoid those interrupts.

Omfg nice =D gonna test it rigt away

haha nice. using the spirits of the enemy against them. i would've never thought about this. awesome job.

the shiro'ken rangers use famine which makes you take damage whenever your energy reaches zero. sympathetic and ancestor's visage causes massive energy loss on the shiro'ken, so they take damage from their own spirit . . .

Would this work in Raisu explorable?

Livingston

hmm.. im not sure about raisu explorable. the mobs tend to have mesmers and necros in it. maybe SB might help? but that would need some points in divine favor to work.

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nice... i can see this working on a mo/me... ill have to try it out though

Fair enough. Too bad the only character I have that far into Factions is a Warrior primary...

Livingston

worked fine on my monk after testing it for an hour.

Mo/Me
12 Illusion
12 Protection
3 Inspiration

Totem Axe is a must atleast because assassins will own you if you use a staff or wand.

Protective Spirit
Spirit Bond
Sympthatic Visage
Ancestors Visage
Mantra of Resolve
Balthazar's Spirit
Essense Bond

Cast Essence Bond and Balthazar's Spirit at the beginning. Before heading into them make sure you have 20 energy, cast protective Spirit and Protective Bond on yourself. Run all the way into them up to the last mob. After aggroing the last mob (you should have past alteast 2 mobs) move back next to where the rangers are standing that were following you from previous mobs. The warriors will move in to attack. Do this while maintaining Prot Bond and Prot Spirit. When the warriors get on you use sympathic visage and mantra of resolve at the same time then use ancestors visage.

If you still havn't figured it out then here it is. They die from the Famine doing 37dmg when they hit 0 energy. By the way the orginal poster's pic is nothing compared to all aggros on you... with both sympathetic and ancestors visage on you, you'll probably see something more close to 100 -3 energy in purple text ^_^.

Its a quick and easy farm averaging around 30 to 45 seconds per run.

i was having problems downloading that video so ill try to upload a video on youtube soon. given my crappy upload here it might take a while

EDIT: Crap i fell asleep next to my laptop at 5:30AM work in 3 hours!! OH!! noooooessss.... anyways im at work now so you guys will have to wait on the vid.... o yea one thing i forgot to mention is that you need to only wear Shing Jea Boots and Pants for energy regen and no top and gloves or head tatoos.

youtube good idea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prCN-sRehQ4

The 2 e regen is nothing compared to the gain from essence bond and spirit, so no armor works too, then again 5 pieces of shing jea should work fine too. I tried to get the minimum in the movie so no armor and dont bother with 2 extra skills :P.

I still think mesmer>monk but I noticed lack of pve mesmers

fammin kills the mi posted it baove if you read you would of known

wondering where else this build could be implemented with a mo/me and a famine ranger.

I'd really want to test it out in a the urgoz warren to farm the initial areas.
Maybe FoW is farmable with this also? Since if enchant is remove it can very quickly be recast... energy is no problem... probably have the famine ranger/rit with famine and shelter...

EDIT: Just had to show what the real pics looked like....two pictures were taken 2seconds apart... that was a 15^50 Golden Phoenix Blade xD