Looking to solo farm Smite Crawlers for Ecto - what's a decent build

I know I can search pvxwiki and find a ton of builds, but I want your opinion. I was thinking maybe a Dervish build, not having to worry about dying nightmares, rending aura, and not being squishy to aatxes sounds good to me.

But I've been on hiatus for a few years, so I don't know what's the most recent. Which solo build is the fastest? Safest?

I can tear through smites in roughly 20-30 minutes with the spirit spammer. Then you can mozey on over to the planes and clear that mess out too. Very safe build if thats what your aiming for.


Cronk

Quote: Originally Posted by CronkTheImpaler

I can tear through smites in roughly 20-30 minutes with the spirit spammer. Then you can mozey on over to the planes and clear that mess out too. Very safe build if thats what your aiming for.


Cronk Hey,

I did some solo in the UW with my spirit spammer as well but I was farming Aatxes, skeleton of dhuums and some more but not smites. I can't take them down with my current build, would you mind sharing your build with us?

Build doesn't particularly matter for smites, it's more about the technique. From some another thread:

Quote: Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade

I find my spirits dying from Shield Of Judgement unless I take disenchantment. Which is why in terms of time to clear smites versus taking disenchantment, I generally dont bother. Its faster to clear the other areas and then reload a character designed specifically for smites and clear that if you absolutely wanted to do them too.

Otherwise, if you got 2 accounts and 2 computers, go into UW with both, use the spirit spammer to clear chamber, run the other guy to smites, clear that, quit him out of UW, and then do the rest of UW on the spirit spammer.

Oh, for me the fastest is the W/Me smite farmer on pvx. Can kill all the smites in UW in 3 pulls if done correctly, 4 if you stuff up the pull in the middle which I do most of the time. Takes about 5 minutes to actually clear the wastes when you know how.

A couple people touched on the theme for smites. my build is SoS spammer.
SoS
pain
vampirism
bloodsong
shadowsong
armor of unfeeling
painfulbond
summon spirits

like marty said, approach and technique rule the day. You need to drag the smites backwards, constantly pulling your spirits with you using summon.
Smites do a rediculous amount of dmg considering they only use like 3 skills. Try and avoid pulling 2 mobs at all costs. your spirits just are not build for that kind of abuse.


Cronk

I use almost the same build as Cronk but split my atts a bit different as I bring Spiritleech Aura instead of Summon Spirits. Don't know if it makes much difference either way. Cronk's might be just a tad faster overall but I find if I do go kill smites it helps keep them alive longer through SoJ. And don't use Painful Bond against them. I usually skip smites though since it takes too long to kill them. Usually just all the Aataxe and Skeles I can find...

i use a w/d build that can be found at pvxwiki which includes reding aura and hb+whirlwind+lions comfort to spam some AoE on the smites and squid in the beginning. The build focuses more on killing only smites and squid and not aatxes or any other enemy. The jist is to pretty much clear the chamber of squid then sprint ur way over to the smites where you aoe them while avoiding the drakes (or w/e they are forgot since it's been awhile). I'm not sure if you can do the same with a D/W but you can try =)

i haven't farmed ice wastes in a very long time but when I did, it was w/rt vwk + vengeful weapon with a very nice build that was also fairly popular. Is this still viable?

It should be. I don't recall any changes to any of the skills. You might have trouble with skeletons though, but I doubt it. You can always try and find out.

I just tried it. The build works perfectly fine, every bit as good as before, but the skeletons really mess it up. It's possible to easily break aggro with sprint, but they have such a big wandering around range that they can force you to run into coldfires ore more skeletons. It's possible but very tedious, whereas before it used to be super easy and brainless. Not worth my time any more.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jk Arrow

...And don't use Painful Bond against them... Or Shadowsong, it will trigger the smites to use Mend Condition.

I quite like this chamber/wastes/plains, http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Pv...ame=&Go=Submit

Also, no asking for builds, close thread?