Solo the underwolrld

stargate · 08/26/2005, 17:27

put away prot. bond and use prot. spirit.. - and use your mind.. its not that hard - is it?

Krouspix · 08/26/2005, 20:17

GUIDE :

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Replace Prot Bond with Prot Spirit.
Well, notice that now with Prot Spirit, it is not essential that you have Balthazar's Spirit anymore to maintain the Bond.

So now you have 1 free skillslot and notice you are only maintaining 2 enchantments. Well, with that, you no longer need to take Blessed Signet, as it will not give you much E for only 2 enchantments. So now you have 2 free skillslots to work with!

What to do with them? Well, first thing we should note is that with Prot Spirit, we will be taking 5 HP per hit (10% of 55) instead of 2HP. So with the 6 pips of regen that comes from Miteethor's V3.0 build, you can now only constantly regen 3 mobs attacking you instead of the 6 you could regen before (based on the fact that they don't hit you exactly every second). And when you are bleeding you only have 3 pips of regen, so you could only tank 1-2 mobs without fear instead of the 3 you could tank before.

So I would suggest Healing Breeze for one of the slots so you can keep your regen at 10 pips even when bleeding. This should be enough to safely tank 4-5 mobs without fear--more when you consider the attack disruption being caused by SoJ and Bonetti's.

For the last skill I actually don't know what to take. I thought of Symbol of Wrath, but given the slow casting speed, I don't know. You definately don't want something that costs alot of E--as this build will require more careful energy management than the last one, because if you don't have 10E to recast Prot Spirit in time, you will die. Someone give me a good skill to use here.

On another note: this should actually be EASIER to get past the Behemoths! Since Nature's Renewal does not strip enchantments now, you only have to worry about the increased upkeep costs on your stuff. Well, now you are only running 2 enchantments so the upkeep cost will not put you into negative E regeneration. I have never fought them, but I suspect they attack with a ranged attack. This has the unfortunate side effect of not giving you E when using Bonetti's. So maybe you *do* bring Blessed Signet for your last slot even though it only gives 6E? 6E > 0E afterall!

knut · 08/29/2005, 10:05

Hi all,

Is it just me or did they change the drops in the UW? I've been there with two monks yesterday. They could still tank the montsers down there after the skill updates but all we got was piles of freaking glittering dust and **** like that. I think they decided to stop the farming in the UW by changing the drops rather than changing the entire game by lowering the monk skills. Now you seem to get nicer drops around Kryta. Got several gold and purple items there.

kalvam · 08/29/2005, 12:18

I've been down there at the smite crawlers several times and they did drop ****. However while they obviously nerfed the crawlers they buffed the Monsters behind the chaosplane. While we were fighting there with a full group of 8 persons we did manage to get a total of 9 ectos.
However, i'm quite sure you can't solo that place because you have to get past just too many different mobs (especially passing the Chaos Plane with a 105/55 will be insanelly hard.

~~haRRoN~~ · 09/01/2005, 04:53

possibly still available on e/mo with this elite skill armor of mist or sth

knut · 09/07/2005, 09:21

I see a lot of Monk/Mesmers down there too. Does anybody know what skills a Monk/Mesmer needs for farming in the UW?

kalvam · 09/08/2005, 11:43

The Underworld got yet another nerf, right at the beginning, shortly after you engage combat you have invisible mobs strip your enchantments.

~~haRRoN~~ · 09/08/2005, 12:29

yep =d
but it still can be done easily

kalvam · 09/10/2005, 11:31

I've not tried it yet, due to the lack of favor in europe but... would a single Spellbreaker not prevent the removal of enchantments down there?
Could anyone go and try that one? (or i will post the results when europe has favor again).

stargate · 09/10/2005, 21:43

my suggestion - a combo with spellbreaker and hex-breaker.. - just think about it - its not hard ;p

koji · 09/11/2005, 00:23

instead of saying "think about it" why dont you just post the way you farm ? i mean you might get some + karmas >_<

~~haRRoN~~ · 09/22/2005, 14:53

i figured out a new build of farming but at the moment it needs 3 player for a Sorrows run
if i get it down to 2 or even 1 i will post it else its beans

xSaDeR187 · 09/23/2005, 11:41

lol im all day laughing about arenanet.
They patched monks skills without brain.......roflmao.
So UW is still possible.
My skillbar:
Mending +4
Breeze 8 or 9 dont really know
Balth.Aura
Spellbreaker for the new mobs at start
Essence Bond
Prot Spirit
Balth. Spirit
last slot take another damage spell
It should work if you use ur brain now

tompilk · 12/25/2005, 22:03

Im sorry but i can never deal damage and i die real quick. Could yo uplease explain in more depth about how to pvp with this build. How do i keep my health up? Please can you tell me who to cast the spells on and in what order... thanks and sorry for being a n00b. You guys are 1337. Can you also explain how the enchantment combo works... thanks,
Tom