A challenge, Farming trolls in HM

oemcxi Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:01 pm

Usually when I`m in need of a quick buck or two I go to Talus chute to farm trolls. Usually the drops and tusks end up adding for the cash I need, maybe to buy a rune for my heroes. With the recent reduced income from solo farming in normal mode, I have not been able to get the same kind of cash from my farms.

So I am thinking of ways to farm those buggers in HM, as they are essencially the very same guys, but now have healing signet.

I can only use my Ranger for that farm, and thus I got to go the trapper way, but Healing sig really kills of the slow health degen of traps, so I set myself the challenge to find a way to defeat them.

My usual build is as follows:

Ranger with a Poisonous longbow and druid`s armor

16 Wilderness Survival
15 Expertise

Dodge
Dust trap
Flame trap
Barbed trap
Oath shot*
Apply poison
Whirling defense
Troll unguent

Healing Signet basically kills off my slow degen kills. I have two means that maight kill them. Interrupting the Heal sig, or dealing enough damage before the sig goes off.

Interrupting it seem easier, but might not be. With the faster casting mosters have in HM it`s really tricky to interrupt them with a bow, and I need to interrupt them all, as they start activating Healing signet (HS) at nearly the same time. With this in mind I came up with the following build:

Ranger/Mesmer with a Poisonous longbow and druid`s armor

16 Wilderness Survival
15 Expertise

Cry of frustation
Dust trap
Flame trap
Barbed trap
Oath shot*
Apply poison
Whirling defense
Troll unguent

If I can get the Cry to trigger, I`d interrupt all healing sigs at once.

The second option is to deal enough damage before they use their HS. So I came up with this build:

Ranger with a Poisonous longbow and druid`s armor

14 Wilderness Survival 8+1+3
12 Expertise +3
11 Fire magic

Dust trap
Flame trap
Barbed trap
Oath shot*
Whirling defense
Flowing Gaze (38 damage, +7 energy gain)
Liquid Flame (84 damage)

What do you guys think? http://www.theamazonbasin.com/gw/forums/index.php?showtopic=8115