E/Me Terra Tank

Name: Terra Tank

Attributes:
12+3+1 Earth magic
9+3 Energy storage
9 Inspiration

Skills:
-Mantra of Earth
-Stone Striker
-Stoneflesh Aura
-Aura of Restoration
-Sliver Armor
-Stone Daggers
-Sandstorm [E]
-Crystal Wave

Equipment:
-Geomancer's armor
-Galigord's stone staff

Usage:
I mainly use this on kirin but it works on most melee mobs. Start by gathering your aggro and once you finish, immediately cast stone striker, mantra of earth, stoneflesh and aura of rest. This reduces the damage kirins do to you to 0 and is your energy source. For offense, use sliver armor, stone daggers, sandstorm and crystal wave. For best use, cast sliver, wait for it to run out, then cast sandstorm and wave quickly in that order. Recast encants as needed and repeat offense in that order. Spam stone daggers if you need healing.

Problems:
-Enchant strips
-Degen
-Armor ignoring damage/life stealing





Have Fun!

:O !!!!, suppose i got to make a elementist now xD

Here's a picture showing the sliver armor part of the farming:

I never said it was limted to melee monster farming. here's what i did with some slight changes... (switched wave and sliver for glyph of con. and armor of earth)



*note* Dont even think about casting stoneflesh or sandstorm without the glyph or you're a corpse waiting to happen.

Works on trolls too. also, dont worry about the avicara, you can take them too.

wow this look nice i will have to try this out with my Ele!

Arrrr, stop making me want a ele :P, maby this could be done Me/E or mo/E (55) ill give it ago a post screenies if it works!

Very interesting, I'd suggest swapping stone daggers for grasping earth to counter scatter.

question-how well does this work with the AI scatter update? do you need to chase them or stone dagger them once they run? or do they run at all?

Yes, they scatter, but they come back before they're fully healed. Also, there's almost always 3 attacking you and the others attack if those scatter so they practically line up to die. I designed this buid for endurance to last long enough to kill them all. Spamming stone daggers is the only method of healing with this and it can counter degen up to -4. after that you're pretty much dead.

Nice. I'm bored with classical Ether Renewal earth tanking. I just hope they don't nerf the cool new Nightfall skills before I get around to acquiring them ...

have you tested this build on vermin? vermin is a bit more profitable than kirin.

Good build. Thanks.

Quote: Originally Posted by sumasage

Against trolls, AOR is rather unneccessary. If Stoneflesh is kept up, it'll take a small eternity and a lot of Mighty Blow crits to kill you. I often wound up regenerating most of my health because they couldn't deal any damage in such a long period of time. I tried running a variant of this with arcane echoed sliver armor and it rolls them big time.

Oh yeah, and if they run away to get health back, wand them and they'll come right back to you, immediately!

Mantra of Earth
Stone Striker
Stoneflesh Aura
Armor of Earth
Glyph of Concentration
Arcane Echo
Sliver Armor
Sandstorm

nice build =D

Quote: Originally Posted by Riotgear

thank you for a great build, I use the build to farm smite crawler at UW. Got 3 ectos on my first run.

just bring a prot hero monk to help clear the attaxe, then flag the hero away and kill all the smites by yourself.

i use:
Mantra of Earth
Stone Striker
Stoneflesh Aura
Armor of Earth
Searing flames
Glyph of lesser nrg
Aura of rest
Sliver Armor/Ward of stab/Glyph of Concentration

I used Searing flame cos haven't capped Sandstorm yet :P, but this works realy well....... and if they run they still burn ;D

Use ward of stab for Hydra's, and Snad ele things out side hero's audince and other knock down ppl

Quote: Originally Posted by kess

Ok, I tried UW again, but this time I add an SS and healing hero to the prot monk.

The prot monk primary skills are life barrier, life bond, watchful spirit
healing monk for mending, spell breaker
SS<-- typical setup.

With these, you can clear the first part pretty fast, and then flag them away and go for smites yourself.

I wish I can solo the attaxe, but they deal too much dmg without kinetic armor/stone dagger added to my skillset. Armor of earth is not enough.