Something Different to Grind at...

You leave from Saint Anjeka's Shrine with the quest a new escort. This quest use to be farmed a ton well after the change to SF it has now actually become a pretty decent farm for event items.

I average 35 seconds a run and worst case scenario should be about 45 if you get a terrible spawn.

(ORIGINAL BAR)
Shadow Arts: 12
Expertise: 16
way of perfection,shroud of distress, deadly paradox,shadowform, whirling defense, by ural's hammer, feel no pain!, and drunken master

(Alternate)(Slightly Faster if you have good timing of the run skills)
Shadow Arts: 12
Expertise: 16
way of perfection,shroud of distress, deadly paradox,shadowform, whirling defense, by ural's hammer, dodge, and zojun's haste
(Thanks to "CE DevilMan" for a variation and slight optimization on the run skills.)

(VIDEO OF A VERY BASIC RUN)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6otKaJxK9HM
A lot of little movement things could be done faster such as the run skills in the video but it gives the general concept of how to do the run and a big thanks to "Being" for the video.

I use drunken master to get the blessing then run to the creatures activate way of perfection, shround of distress, feel no pain, then deadly paradox + shadowform. Then you aggro all of them then run back into the corner to line them up. Then come back to by ural's hammer + whirling defense for a super boom.

I am finding this to be pretty darn profitable with the event weekend and its a nice change from raptors. The golds that drop actually are valuable as well if they are perfect. I have gotten a few perfect gothic swords and hoping for some echovald shields as well. You can get around 14k kurzick faction an hour doing this which turns into 28k towards the title when you turn it in.

Note: The priest blessing is optional but I take it because I want kurzick faction it would shave off a few seconds if you don't take it.

Looks good. Thanks for posting. How many mobs on average do you kill per run? Have you tried this with any other professions? Or is WD essential?

Quote: Originally Posted by damkel

Looks good. Thanks for posting. How many mobs on average do you kill per run? Have you tried this with any other professions? Or is WD essential? WD????? looks like a R/A to me.. this looks like a good farm if your going for some rarer factions skins but imo Vaettier farming still is more efficient for farming festival items

WD = whirling defense not Warrior/Dervish...

And it's probably doable with other professions but this seemsvery effective, thanks for posting

-_- I literally was thinking of builds to do this with, last night lol.. Way to be one step ahead of me, but I can always find some other characters to run it with haha.

An alternative, albeit slower, build for primary assassins is to use A/Me, and degen them down.

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16 Shadow Arts
12 Inspiration

Deadly Paradox
Shadow Form
Shroud of Distress
Way of Perfection
Way of the Master
Channeling
Ether Nightmare
Cry of Pain

Usage is fairly straightforward, grab aggro of dragon moss, pull away from warden aggro and kill with ether nightmare and CoP. I average 2 minutes runs with this bar, and I think with times like mine, vaettir may be a better alternative if you're simply going for event items.

I would also assume that it is possible to replace cry of pain with radiation field.

Looks interesting. I'll make a build to do it with an Ele later and post it here.

you agroing just the dragon mosses? or also the wardens?

build just works like a charm... i don't have "feel no pain on my ranger" but i just replaced it with shadow refuge and it works pretty good aswell

Looks pretty neat. I would assume that Drunken Master is there really because there's no other skill that's worth bringing?

I considered Dwarven Stability to keep up Whirling, but since you're going to be recasting Deadly Paradox to keep up SF, I guess that would be pointless. Air of Superiority was also a consideration, but if you're killing everything in the mob immediately, then there's no real need to be recasting Whirling.

Whirling hits for 11 damage at 14 Expertise, but lasts two seconds less. Are those last two seconds necessary for the kill?

I did a quick video of the farm. I could have gone much faster but it was my first run using the build. Even then it was still pretty fast. =]

Ignore the second person who isn't there in my party window - I don't have this quest any more on my Ranger and had to bring someone who had it.

Link to video

Hey, that is pretty neat. And it does look like you won't need those extra two seconds on Whirling Defense, so 14 Expertise is probably okay. It also looks like you'd have the energy to run EBSoH instead of BuH! if you use a staff.

preety nice... now we jsut gotta find a build for an ele and were all good .

i just dug it up caus i used this for farming when i was new to farming.
dont nkow if its is still working but i guess so

link

(this is like 2 years old so dragon moss are nothing new ^^ but i will try them for event items)

This if 55'able also in case anyone wants to know or didnt know.

The r/a is faster, 55 is fast enough if you dont have the r/a available.

Edit: and by faster I mean not by much. The mosses are able to be killled in one cast of roj. Not always though.

i'm using
Shroud of Distress
Way of Perfection
Deadly Paradox
Shadow Form
Ether Nightmare
Cry of Pain
Radiation Field
Channeling

gah...I don't have the quest anymore. Any way of being able to get it again? :P

speed it up...

dont need blessing...

skill 8 - 3 and 4 - 1 and 2 before U hit the moss - skill 7 (hit the right wall to "X") wait 3-4 sec (so the last moss stack)
skill 1 and 2 run back and 6ém (dont need skill 5..6 will work on a good stack)

dont forget the 20% longer enc.

I get the blessing because I want the kurzick faction but yea it is optional. The skill setup can vary although I think by ural's hammer is good because it does up the damage of whirling defense by 3 which = faster kill. I suppose replace feel no pain with another run skill to up the movement between the pull thats all I would change. I am just happy I found a viable farm for this. I had a thread in the ranger forum experimenting wiht it in uw with not a lot of success.

Thanks for the tip, works like a charm.
Vaettir was getting on my nerves.

I didn't have all the skills so I set up like this:
Shadow Arts: 12
Expertise: 14
deadly paradox
shadowform
way of the master instead of way of perfection since I allready had it
shroud of distress
Dwarven Stability should add ~10 sec to whirling defence
by ural's hammer to up the damage
whirling defense at 14 last 19 sec
Dodge to run and get blessing and up to agro

After the pull and the recast of SF I use Dwarven Stability, by ural's hammer, whirling defense.
At that point I have no need for SF to recharge fast, so I don't use deadly paradox before renewing SF, thus getting 29 sec whirling.