Who says farming is boring? Sure, it's boring to farm the same areas time after time, but it's a load of fun finding ways to farm different areas with the same character.

I thought I'd share a necro farming build, because it's a little different from the norm, and solo necro farming isn't that popular / common. I haven't tried farming too many areas, but he seems quite flexible. I'll be trying him in a couple of areas later to see how he performs, but he farms griffons with ease.

55HP Ne/Mo Curse Farmer
Equipment: Any 55HP gear; preferable with a +15/-1 wand. It's cheap, because armour is irrelevant, and you can use any old

The exact attribute point distribution isn't essential, but divided evenly between SR, curses and protection prayers works well.

Skills:
Protective Spirit
Parasitic Bond
Insidous Parasite
Spiteful Spirit
Reckless Haste
Signet of Lost Souls
Signet of Suffering
Optional is enfeeble or enfeebling blood.

The key to the build is keeping IP on a physical attacker, preferably one who won't die til it runs out, and obviously keeping PS up.

I suspect this build will be just as effective farming dune burrowers and scarabs in my usual haunts.

LoL should be wrapping up in the next 2 sessions, so I wanted to start discussion on ideas for a new team variant. I'm going to pick my favorite one for backing in this thread however. I'd like to propose a modified set of rules that will make it easier for more people to participate, since manpower was our major problem towards the end. So without further ado, here's the proposed ruleset, and I'll append discussion afterwards.

Nudists

Nudists shall be an open team variant. Anyone may bring any character to any session of nudists as long as they abide by the nudist rules while in that session. You may use skills (and equipment when applicable) acquired from anywhere in any way as long as you stay within the allowed limitations. The team as a whole will still progress from mission to mission along the primary quest path in nudist form, but skill caps/quests will be done on player's own time and may be done outside of nudist rules. The use of heroes and henchmen is forbidden, so nudists are encouraged to bring in as many guests as needed.

The permitted weapons/shields are limited to those avaliable for purchase from Chorben in Kamadan or Hiroyuki in Shing Jea Monestary. If someone on the team doesn't have access to these locales, another team-mate can buy items for him or her. Additionally, you must meet the items 1-attribute requirement in order to use it. Weapon upgrades like hilts or grips may not be used on these items, they must remain "clean".

No armor may be worn at all, with the exception of 0-AL holiday hats. These hats may be infused once the team has passed the Iron Mines of Moladune mission. Runes are not to be used in these hats. Contraversial possibility: also allow starter-level vanilla arm armor from Ascalon/Kamdan/Shing Jae for an additional infusion piece at minimal impact. A similar starter-level helm may be used if a teammate lacks any holiday hats. Runes are still banned.

Any one-use item such as candy canes, easter eggs, drake kebobs, and scrolls may not be used.

The team will start in Sanctum Cay where nudists last left off and proceed through the Prophecies missions and primary quests. Through Sanctum Cay and the three desert ones, skills will be limited to core + prophecies and elites may not be used. Once the team ascends at augury rock and begins the Dragon's Lair mission, the use of elites is permitted. Option: skills from any campaign may be used at this point.

Hey Guys! Here's the standard stuff, same as usual copied and pasted from ZoS forums here: http://www.zealotsofshiverpeak.com/forum....php?t=402



What: Dominate Urgoz
When: April 28, 2007 Noon Pacific
Where: Meet in ZoS guild hall with your character who has UNLOCKED Urgoz and we will form teams there.

Reward: The first key each ally uses is on us! (If we have a PuG or two, we're *not* providing for them :wink: )

Prepare for about a 30 minute set up, at least. Although Urgoz is pretty build specific, we're going to kinda wing it so as to bring as many people as possible. Rangers are guaranteed good, so are Monks. Beyond that, eles are a safe bet and so are necros. I'd imagine we'll try to bring the least amount of tanks as possible. So if you have a tank and a ranger... bring the ranger.

This event will eliminate those without Factions, which is regrettable, but a large portion of our allies are really looking forward to an Urgoz Event, and there is always next event!

Plan ahead! This is 2 and 1/2 weeks in the future, so as to give everyone enough time to plan ahead, but don't commit yourself until you're sure, please. If you're "planning" on attending but aren't sure, please RSVP an "I think so!" or something of that nature and say more firmly yes or no when you know.

Looking forward to owning Urgoz with you all! :D
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>>As a special side note to RB specifically, I know you guys have more experience in Urgoz than (probably?) any other allied guild (Maybe combined?). I know that the *one* time I went I pretty much just did what I was told when I was told by RB. That seemed to work pretty well. I know you're probably thinking "Wtf Uca. You're making an event but know like... nothing about it?" Well... Beyond the glutton for punishment, it was the #1 choice on the vote thing-y. (And I thought it was time for a PvE event considering the lack of them recently.) While we may be just winging it, (because people get pissy when it takes too long to make parties and Uca usually gets yelled at--Well... and "to bring as many people as possible." >.>) any expertise you guys can provide (or even *just* your presence) would be especially helpful.

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Suddenly this seems like I'm saying "I'm gonna put on this event... RB... take care of it! *waves hands*" It's not, really. I just know you guys know wtf you're talking about here more than anyone else I know. So by all means, if you feel skippy (and it's totally cool if you don't) ... go ahead and bark orders. I shall obey.

You knew I had to post about it again, right?

We had fewer participants this year; it snowed all weekend, and there are some wusses amongst my cottage neighbours who decided they would rather avoid that. Well, that and the fact that there is one of those 'participation obligatory' events next weekend up there, so some folks decided to wait on that for their 'open up the place' trip. We lost one of our patriarchs this winter, and his memorial service is scheduled for next weekend. Hubby thinks his widow has scheduled it for then to separate the wheat from the chaff on who will show up to pay their respects.

However, I still want to share the few that were created. They can be found here. (A few participants got away before I managed to get the camera out.)

As promised, here is the Extreme Adventure, only it's actually Epic Ten. Enjoy!

Fox, Moo, Koshi and myself faced a team today of 4 Dervish / Monk characters. They utilized Avatar of Dwayna, and a slew of other skills to maintain a constant healing rate, and eventually killed us off.

Fox, Moo, Koshi - do any of you remember what skills they used? I will list the ones I remember here.

Now, for my other question: what skills use the same casting graphic as Heal Area and Healing Ring? It appears as a big golden ring on the ground. Moo and I are having trouble believing they would use a skill that would simultaneously heal themselves AND their enemies, but those are the only skills I know of that have that graphic. It sure wasn't a Dervish healing skill.

4x D/Mo
Avatar of Dwayna (Elite)
Victorious Sweep
Chilling Victory
Wearying Strike
Mending Touch
Heal Area / Healing Ring

Odd build, no? Worked, though...

Oh, and Fox / Moo / Koshi, do you remember the build(s) of that Ranger spike that slaughtered us? I'm interested in trying that thing out, or at least investigating it.

Wand Frenzy Spike!

No, the poster isn't a complete noob, as he says he just likes fooling around while waiting on GvG. There's even a rule or two they have to follow.

Alliance Battles is a fairly casual PvP mode that I've found hard to lose when you have an organized capping team together on Vent. We could up the challenge and fun of such situations by trying out some crazy things there. Partly for the novelty, partly for the extra coordination we need to develop to succeed, and partly for absoutely astounding your teammates and opponents. (Much like NMs did in D1 pubbies)

Nudist capping team forming?

We didn't even have 4 show up initially, but we managed to get a motley crew together after-hours (11ish) from somewhat improvised skills, with an emphasis on splitting. The composition was

Mel Derv
MoR Mez with remove hex/res chant
Air Ele
2 Monk

Crippling Slash W/N with plague touch
Burning Arrow
Resto rit - weapon of Remedy flagger (similar to PaL)

(Will post detailed specs later if we want to run something similar in the future)

With a 5/3 split. Me, Kafziel, Vort, and Icicle Shaman were playing, along with 3 guests Derezer, Mental Elf, and Justin from The Basin, and an experienced GvGer Koshi from HRK.

The only major weakness I felt the build had was aegis, which the GoLE nerf has done very little to reign in. The rest of our difficulties was basically leadership. I'm a noob who doesn't understand the dynamics of pushing, retreats etc at all (though I was just linked a good article)

Our first game was on wurms against a much lower team, which we won with a good split when we couldn't dent their flagstand defense but pulled off NPC superiority at VoD.

Our second game was against an evenly-ranked guild on our map who outclassed us. They were well coordinated, had awesome monks that pulled deep wound the moment it landed, and employed superior split and collapse.

The third loss was just bad. It was on warriors isle against a lower team, who were running mind blast fire eles including Souske with tenais heat and such for AoE, A dervish/warrior, and some healers. We tended to have superiority in combat through the match when managing to stay out of the AoEs, but got killed on catapults a few times because I didn't know their radius or when our team was supposed to move out of the base, and we were very confused about whether me or Kafziel was leading when, as well as not collapsing a split very well. We racked up many kills against them but let them get far too many morale boosts back. Even when we had half their team down at the end, we took a risky approach from behind at VoD when the GL started moving, failed to follow through by hitting on them from back instead of hitting their GL, and they ganked our GL while we were far out of range.


Bottom line is we need Wyrm back leading. I'd rather have Kafziel lead in the meantime, though I don't know his schedule.

One thing that was mentioned is that our guild hall greatly encourages an early NPC gank, so its worth discussing if we need to stick to builds that are capable of an early split.

I seem to be out of the loop. I hear all sorts of rumours flying about skill and dynamic changes and whatnot, but I can't find it in writing in the news haunts I frequent.

For example, I hear soul reaping is to be nerfed drastically, and I keep seeing "Bye bye GoLE", but no explanation or evidence anyway or where.

I at least managed to track down The Scribe that Moo is in (Trust me, when I read "Moo is in the scribe," I was confused. Had he been eaten?), and the source of the expanded storage statements, but I'm still a little in the dark about the rest of the rumours.

Can anyone direct me to this mysterious place where everyone seems to here what's going to happen before it does?