Me/E UW Solo: Testament of Mesmers

[Witte Was]

Hi there,

I was inspired by Racthoh's UW solo build for a W/N so I decided to create my own. Here is what I did:

Me/E

Attribute Points:

Inspiration Magic: 9
Domination Magic: 14
Earth Magic: 10
Fast Casting : 4

*Note: You'll see Physical Resistance on the screenshots, make sure you take Mantra of Resolve!*

Skills:

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/228/meeuwsoloskillbarby1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Ether Feast (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Ether_Feast)
Empathy (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Empathy)
Spirit of Failure (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Failure)
Sliver Armor (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Sliver_Armor)
Armor of Earth (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Armor_Of_Earth)
Ward Against Melee (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Ward_Against_Melee)
Mantra of Resolve (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Mantra_of_Resolve)
Signet of Midnight (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Signet_of_Midnight)

Step 1: When you enter the UW you can take the right way or the left way. I took the right way first. Lure the Aatxe's while casting Spirit of Failure and walk back to the stairs so only 1 Aatxe is attack you. Use Signet of Midnight whenever its possible.
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/6320/step1wz2.th.jpg (http://img106.imageshack.us/my.php?image=step1wz2.jpg)
When a Nightmare appears, don't worry. Try to cast Empethy on him and he's dead within a few seconds.
Step 2: If you've cleared the right stairs, go to the left and continue with the same tactics I gave you above. Make sure Spirit of Failure, Signet of Midnight, Armor of Earth, Ward Against Melee and Empathy are always on.
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/5881/step2ee3.th.jpg (http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?image=step2ee3.jpg)
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/9045/step21vr2.th.jpg (http://img130.imageshack.us/my.php?image=step21vr2.jpg)
Step 3: Now, go to the middle group and lure them to a spot so only one Aatxe is able to attack you.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1566/step3ky6.th.jpg (http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=step3ky6.jpg)
Step 4: Now, after you've finished all the other Aatxe's, go to the Lost Soul and accept his quest.
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/4371/step4ku9.th.jpg (http://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=step4ku9.jpg)
I don't have any more screenshots of me fighting the squids etc. but I'll add them very soon:) Make sure Mantra of Resolve is on when you're fighting the squids! Use the same tactics which u used against the Aatxe's

Good Luck!

~ Dave Tawings

[ReNdo]

cant wait to try this

[Yanman.be]

There's an E/Me version too!

[Turbo Wombat]

Very nice, but is Sliver Armor enough to take down the smites?

[Shadow-Hunter]

Can this kill the smiters?? =o Looks nice other than that... Just gotta get some skill points e.e

~Shadow

[monty123]

Which way is faster, me/mo with IW or me/e with ele skills?

[Witte Was]

Which way is faster, me/mo with IW or me/e with ele skills? I'm not sure..I can keep Empathy constanly up and maybe I can change a skill with another dmg skill. But its really fun to solo the UW without 55hp or 600hp spirit bond.

[Xaero Gouki Kriegor]

Can this kill the smiters?? =o Looks nice other than that... Just gotta get some skill points e.e

~Shadow

i been wonderin the same, hope to see some smite action soon

[Witte Was]

i been wonderin the same, hope to see some smite action soon Very soon ;) I will post screenshots of it after I'm back from school

[KiddieCake]

is there any way to do it without signet midnight? THK hates me and i was wondering if there could be a replacement or something?

[Arkantos]

is there any way to do it without signet midnight? THK hates me and i was wondering if there could be a replacement or something?

Doubt it. Signet of Midnight keeps them perma blind, which is pretty much needed.

[Avarre]

I'm not sure..I can keep Empathy constanly up and maybe I can change a skill with another dmg skill. But its really fun to solo the UW without 55hp or 600hp spirit bond.

But but but IW is the King of all gimmick farming skills!

Good job so far, looking forward to further testing.

[Cador]

Looks like avarre has a contender for Mesmer Master title :P


VG build man, i look foward to trying it out

[Xaero Gouki Kriegor]

if this cant get to the smites, i think Me/N with price of failure, reckless haste would speed up the actual killing,

i ran a aatxe solo farmer similar to this month ago

N/Me

Signet of Midnight {E}
Price of Failure
Spirit of Failure
Reckless Haste
Empathy
Distortion
Enfeeble
Ether Feast

can't remember the exact attribute points but it went decently as well

[sumasage]

any chance you can post a video of the run?

[Mesmer in Need]

...i love you...
i am curently a me/e, and i have all but one skill...

[Im Perfect U Aint]

Doubt it. Signet of Midnight keeps them perma blind, which is pretty much needed.



um.....ineptitude?? but then again that goes to the me/w or w/me ineptitude solo build

[Avarre]

Ineptitude isn't a 100% blindness though, only 50%. (As in, coverage. SoM is 15s blind, 15s r, ineptitude is 10s blind 20s r).

Looks like avarre has a contender for Mesmer Master title :P

Scythe IW UW-solo build says you're wrong ;)

Among other things, to take my crown, you'd have to kill me.

[KiddieCake]

i capped Sig of midnight and got past thk , yay! :p i did a few attempts, everything goes well on the first aatxe , when it dies sig of midnight is recharging and they usually hit me pretty badly, any tips?

[Arkantos]

um.....ineptitude?? but then again that goes to the me/w or w/me ineptitude solo build

Ineptitude keeps them blind for 10 seconds with a 20 second recharge. SoM keeps them blind for 15 seconds with a 15 second recharge. Therefore, SoM keeps them blind permanitly, and Ineptitude keeps them blind 10 seconds with a 10 second downtime.

[Witte Was]

i capped Sig of midnight and got past thk , yay! :p i did a few attempts, everything goes well on the first aatxe , when it dies sig of midnight is recharging and they usually hit me pretty badly, any tips?In that case, make sure you've casted Spirit of Failure on the second Aatxe. Also cast Ward against Melee and Armor of Earth when Signet of Midnight is still recharging.

[Eldred]

One question why isin't epidemic is being used to spread blindness ?

[Bloodied Blade]

Just a thought, but I found that this worked in PvP when I tried it-

at 13+ illusion, cost for distortion "evade" is 1 energy. With enough inspiration, you gain 2-3 energy every time target foe misses under Spirit of Failure. If you use Spirit of Failure + Distortion, you'll gain 1-2 energy every time the aataxes miss. I doubt this would work in further parts of UW, but it would definitely work on bosses in PvE.

Combine it with Empathy and something else and you have damage with almost infinite energy (if you keep Spirit on 2 people, every time they attack you'll gain 2-4 energy, meaning that if they attack 2-3 times you will have paid for the cost of distortion and gained energy). I think this might be hard to do though, I could see it possible with AE'd spirit of failure or something.

The build looks great though, gj man.

[Mistical miss]

i capped Sig of midnight and got past thk , yay! :p i did a few attempts, everything goes well on the first aatxe , when it dies sig of midnight is recharging and they usually hit me pretty badly, any tips?

yeah, make sure ward vs melee and sliver armor are on when the first aatxe dies, so u still have 50% +50% evading chance when the second Aatxe attacks

[DRGN]

One question why isin't epidemic is being used to spread blindness ?

That was actually something I was wondering about myself. My guess would be that it's pretty hard to tamper with the skillbar to squeeze it in. All of the skills look like they have a specific place that they're needed. Empathy/SoF/Sliver/Sig of Midnight for the Aatxes , Resolve/AoE/Ward Against Melee/Midnight for the Darkness, and Ether Feast for a general self-heal. I guess you need AoE and the Ward because a Sig of Minight + Epidemic might not be able to blind all of the Darkness at once because of the way they spread when they attack. But I haven't tried this myself because I have no Mesmer, so this is pure speculation on my part.

But regardless, Wittie makes yet another interesting farming build. Great work.

[SPIRIT OF THE SEA]

matter wut armor it is?

[Mistical miss]

That was actually something I was wondering about myself. My guess would be that it's pretty hard to tamper with the skillbar to squeeze it in. All of the skills look like they have a specific place that they're needed. Empathy/SoF/Sliver/Sig of Midnight for the Aatxes , Resolve/AoE/Ward Against Melee/Midnight for the Darkness, and Ether Feast for a general self-heal. I guess you need AoE and the Ward because a Sig of Minight + Epidemic might not be able to blind all of the Darkness at once because of the way they spread when they attack. But I haven't tried this myself because I have no Mesmer, so this is pure speculation on my part.

But regardless, Wittie makes yet another interesting farming build. Great work.

problem with epidemic is that it removes the blind from one onto the others, that means one dude still isn't blinded... as for Aatxe: it's deadly..

[Witte Was]

problem with epidemic is that it removes the blind from one onto the others, that means one dude still isn't blinded... as for Aatxe: it's deadly.. Epidemic (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Epidemic): Transfer all negative Conditions and their remaining durations from target foe to all foes adjacent to your target.

The condition transfer keeps the condition on the target, and simply duplicates itself on other victims.

[Mistical miss]

Ah ok, I thought transfer meant it would be placed over, removing it from the target... must be my bad english...

[Mera Regila]

Among other things, to take my crown, you'd have to kill me.
Defensiveness ftw.

Good build Wittie, I was assuming that Racthoh wrote it after I saw the "Testiment" part. Seems like it would work, but where is the coverage from Dying Nightmares? One good hit from an Aatxe, which is possible if you're unlucky, without Armor of Earth could almost kill you in itsself, especially a sever artery. Sad to say I'm not going to be trying it, I've spent 20k at least trying to solo UW and FoW with the payload of a bunch of Demonic Remains, a few spider legs, gloom seeds, and 1 shard. Seems like it would work though, but a video might help.

[Avarre]

Defensiveness ftw.



Thread res ftw.

In any case, wand nightmares, or if that's not possible, run away :D

[Black Destroyer]

post a move plz
i don't get it very well ^^

[beltran13579]

what do you do if one is about to die and sig of midnight isnt recharged?

[Witte Was]

Spirit of Failure, Ward against Melee and Sliver Armor should be good enough

[SniperWolf]

Post a movie please.

The build is very nice, unfortunetly i dont hav my mes further than droks :D

[Koning]

I wonder if this is still working, because you can only fight 1 aatxe at the time so aatxe's need to bodyblock each other.
But there has been an update to prevent em from bodyblockin cause (i go warrior), when i stand at the places where they normally bodyblock, they start attackin both:(

[Bez L]

something i'd really like to know...why have you got a shield equipped?

i'm also wondering if this will work after update, maybe will be testing it l8r on today :)

[Sergio Leone]

Nice build, good job with it!

[squan]

hmmm so a ele can do this 2. looks nice btw

[Francis Crawford]

Ah ok, I thought transfer meant it would be placed over, removing it from the target... must be my bad english...

It's not YOUR bad English that caused the comprehension problem. Not at all.

[whatnow?]

lol anet need some english lessons..
neway here's thread res no.2 :P
ty for the build, was gonna try the stone striker solo build but then realised i don't have nightfall lol - this is a nice alternative.
was just wondering if the 50% of ward vs melee plus the 50% silver armour would = 100% block, or could an attack slip through first one then the other?

EDIT: how do you split off and fight just one aataxe at a time pls??
--- sorry i just realised how long this thread had been innactive ---

[MrSlayer]

As you noticed, this thread is very old. Updates to the AI make it no longer possible to easily split Aatxe up and kill them seperately.

[whatnow?]

so is this build still workable?

[Bloodied Blade]

For the love of god...let it die.

[Neriandal Freit]

For the love of god...let it die.

I've said that about the "Farming Dead Swords" thread, the "Crystalline, Dwarven Axe" thread and a few others in general.

They die for a bit...then someone decides to go "WOW!", this is one of those cases.

[whatnow?]

i'm not going "WOW!" i'm just looking for another way to farm the UW apart from 55 IW and trying to ask some basic questions but i think i'll give up now...

[Neriandal Freit]

i'm not going "WOW!" i'm just looking for another way to farm the UW apart from 55 IW and trying to ask some basic questions but i think i'll give up now...

No no, it's fine to be asking questions. This thread is fair because this thread is only three pages long and was created several months ago.

But, in most cases (and this still being one of them) people simply go "Wow!" and then nothing else is said in the thread by them.

[Witte Was]

so is this build still workable? I think it's still possible:) just harder..

[The.D0pefish]

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/7228/gw319ru6.jpg
it is definitly doable....
i've changed it a bit and tried to kill the dryders but failed :(
I think you were a bit paranoid witte ^^
You don't need this much defense....
BTW: tanking 2 aatxes is safer than 3 :P

[Witte Was]

Great job:D Nice to see people trying it. Ah well..I love getting almost no damage by Aatxes

[Panga]

I'm not the kind of person that is rich, so before i pay 1k i want to know if i can test this build somwhere else, also in that picture that The.DOpefish posted, its a different build, which would you think is better?
P.S i also know that this is a later post aswell, but i like the consept of this build

Panga

[lord_kelvin]

Sorry but I don't understand how I can lure only one Aataxe... could you explain better :)

Great job! ;)