Build:E/Me Raptor Farm

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The PvXwiki community finds this to be an excellent build. Through the PvX vetting system, it has reached an overall rating in the range from 4.5 to 5.0 and thus qualifies for the highest category of working builds: Great. This build has been designed for the following use: PvE farming

This build is used to quickly farm raptors in hard mode.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Elementalist / Mesmer 12 + 1 + 3 Earth Magic 9 + 1 Energy Storage 9 Inspiration Magic Magnetic Aura Prophecies Elementalist. Earth Magic 16 Magnetic Aura Enchantment Spell For 21 seconds, Magnetic Aura has a 75% chance to block melee attacks. 60 ¼ 5 Stoneflesh Aura Nightfall Elementalist. Earth Magic 16 Stoneflesh Aura Enchantment Spell For 16 seconds, damage you receive is reduced by 33, and you are immune to critical attacks. 15 2 10 Armor of Earth Core Elementalist. Earth Magic 16 Armor of Earth Enchantment Spell For 30 seconds, you gain 62 armor, but move 12% slower. 15 ¾ 10 Ward Against Foes Core Elementalist. Earth Magic 16 Ward Against Foes Ward Spell You create a Ward Against Foes at your current location. For 21 seconds, non-Spirit foes in this area move 50% slower. 20 1 15 Sliver Armor Factions Elementalist. Earth Magic 16 Sliver Armor Enchantment Spell For 11 seconds, you have 52% chance to block attacks and whenever you are the target of a hostile Spell or attack one nearby foe is struck for 37 earth damage. 30 1 10 Ether Feast Core Mesmer. Inspiration Magic 9 Ether Feast Spell Target foe loses 3 Energy. You are healed 38 for each point of Energy lost. 8 1 5 Channeling Prophecies Mesmer. Inspiration Magic 9 Channeling Enchantment Spell For 37 seconds, whenever you cast a Spell, you gain 1 Energy for each foe in the area. 15 1 5 Mantra of Resolve Core Mesmer. Inspiration Magic 9 Mantra of Resolve Stance For 66 seconds, you cannot be interrupted, but each time you would have been interrupted, you lose 6 Energy or Mantra of Resolve ends. 20 10 Template code

[edit] Equipment

• Any max armor will work
• Max Earth staff with +20% enchanting

[edit] Usage

• Enter Riven Earth from Rata Sum and get the blessing
• Make your way quickly to the cave avoiding the regular raptors
• Cast Stoneflesh, Armor of Earth, Channeling and Mantra of Resolve, then aggro ALL the raptors, leaving the Broodmother group last.
• After all the other hatchlings are collected, aggro the Broodmothers group
• Immediately before the Rekoff, cast Magnetic Aura
• When all of the raptors are fighting you, cast sliver armor, then probably ether feast, as Rekoff spikes much of your health away (usually not necessary, but low health is scary).
• After Rekoff is dead recast sliver armor, to kill off the few remaining raptors
• Pick up the loot and rezone

[edit] Counters

• Not maintaining Stoneflesh and Armor of Earth
• Too many interrupts at one time so you lose mantra of resolve and therefore, are screwed
• Fighting regular raptors

[edit] Variants

• The ward is the skill you want to replace most often, as it is not extremely necessary, however it helps

• Grasping Earth. Faster casting and recharge, however, it only effects nearby foes.
• Shockwave. Kills everything faster - not suggested because it makes EVERYONE scatter
• Air of Superiority. Nice fun asura stuff, very useful due to the 10% chance (per kill) for a instant recharge of your skillbar.
• Glyph of Renewal to maintain Sliver Armor.
• Intensity (Sunspear Title)

• Mental Block (Asuran Title) is a great replacement for Magnetic aura, you're able to keep it up from the start, and even with the 25% block difference, Rekoff still won't hit you with enough damage to take you down. Using Mental Block will also greatly reduce the chance of running out of energy due to Mantra of Resolve, which relieves a bit of stress from the whole build.
• "By Ural's Hammer!" (Deldrimor Title) and Mindbender (Asuran Title) can replace Magnetic Aura and Ward of Foes to speed up the run. By Ural's Hammer provides higher damage output and health regeneration to offset the bleeding by Rekoff. Mindbender allows faster running to and gathering in the nest. An added benefit is it cuts casting time by 50%, which allows less energy loss from interrupts (especially during casting of stoneflesh aura).
• gw:Glyph of Swiftness to use Sliver Armor more often

[edit] See also

• http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10233592 - there are 2 videos of this here and also a better guide of use.

[edit] Videos

• Showing a variant which kills much quicker using the Elite skill Echo and Ebon Standard of Honor [Select Watch in High Quality]