Build:A/D Death Blossom Farmer

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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 4.75 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 makes use of the incredible DPS of death blossom to farm various mobs. It can also be used for general PvE.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Assassin / Dervish 11 + 1 Dagger Mastery 10 + 1 + 2 Critical Strikes 8 Earth Prayers 6 + 1 Shadow Arts Golden Phoenix Strike Factions Assassin. Dagger Mastery 12 Golden Phoenix Strike Off-Hand Attack If you are not under the effects of an Enchantment, this skill misses. If it hits, Golden Phoenix Strike deals +26 damage. 8 5 Critical Strike Factions Assassin. Critical Strikes 13 Critical Strike Dual Attack Must follow an off-hand attack. If it hits, this attack strikes for +27 damage, results in a critical hit, and you gain 3 Energy. 6 5 Moebius Strike Factions Assassin. Dagger Mastery 12 Moebius Strike Elite Off-Hand Attack Must follow a Dual Attack. If it hits, Moebius Strike strikes for +30 damage. If you strike a foe whose Health is below 50%, all your other attack skills are recharged. 2 5 Death Blossom Factions Assassin. Dagger Mastery 12 Death Blossom Dual Attack Must follow an off-hand attack. If it hits, Death Blossom strikes target foe for +40 damage and all adjacent foes take 40 damage. 2 5 Critical Defenses Factions Assassin. Critical Strikes 13 Critical Defenses Enchantment Spell For 9 seconds, you have a 75% chance to block. Critical Defenses refreshes every time you land a critical hit. 30 1 10 Critical Agility Nightfall Assassin. Sunspear rank Critical Agility Enchantment Spell For 4 seconds and 1 second for each rank of Critical Strikes you attack 33% faster and gain 10..25 armor. This Skill reapplies itself every time you land a critical hit. 30 1 5 Mystic Regeneration Nightfall Dervish. Earth Prayers 8 Mystic Regeneration Enchantment Spell For 13 seconds, you have +3 Health regeneration for each enchantment (maximum of 3) on you. 12 ¼ 10 Way of Perfection Factions Assassin. Shadow Arts 7 Way of Perfection Enchantment Spell For 60 seconds, whenever you successfully land a critical hit, you gain 24 Health. 30 ¼ 5 Template code

[edit] Equipment

• Radiant armor is preferred. (Radiant Insignias and Runes of Attunement on all available pieces.)
• 15% while enchanted zealous daggers of enchanting or fortitude are preferred.
  • Pywatt's Talons are ideal.
  • Ceremonial Daggers will work as well.
  • Chimor's Daggers make a good switch-out weapon when zealous isn't desired.

[edit] Usage

• Maintain Critical Agility, Mystic Regeneration, Critical Defenses and Way of Perfection.
• Use Golden Phoenix Strike -> Critical Strike -> Moebius Strike -> Death Blossom then chain Moebius Strike and Death Blossom, using Critical Strike to maintain your energy and enchantments as necessary.

[edit] Counters

• General Anti-Melee
• Enchantment Removal

[edit] Notes

[edit] Farmable Areas

[edit] Normal Mode

• Minotaurs outside of Ice Tooth Cave. (Good learning spot for new people.)
• Minotaurs inside of Elona Reach.
• Desert Griffons outside of Destiny's Gorge.
• Mountain Trolls outside of Droknar's Forge.
• Jade Brotherhood.
• Fissure of Woe beach.
• Can beat almost every boss in the Norn Fighting Tournament, as most of them are physical damage dealers. The only difficulties are Empathy and Spiteful Spirit casters, yet replacing Moebius Strike with Ursan Blessing (Norn skill) you can get past the difficulties of blind, Empathy, and Spiteful Spirit. But doing this will mean you are less effective against some others, such as Argo and Mhenlo
• Vermin at Xaquang Skyway.
• Tengu at Nahpui Quarter mission; watch out for Sentinels as they are soloable but they use Lightning Reflexes.
• Jungle Trolls in Tangle Root

[edit] Hard Mode

• Mountain Trolls outside of Droknar's Forge (Make sure not to aggro the Avicara in HM).
• Desert Griffons outside of Destiny's Gorge.
• Elementals outside of Sardelac Sanitarium.
• Shiro in Imperial Sanctum.
• Can be used to solo the 5 Corsair Cutthroats in the beginning of Moddok Crevice Mission with only a little bit of difficulty to try for their drops of Colossal Scimitars. (Need Dunkoro for mission)
• Mantids outside Shing Jea.
• Insects outside Sunspear Great Hall.
• The animals in Minister Cho's Estate explorable area.
• Vermin at Xaquang Skyway

[edit] Bosses In Normal Mode

• Lunto Sharpfoot
• Chkkr Locust Lord
• Xuekao, the Deceptive
• Achor the Bladed (cast Critical Defenses first otherwise he will remove it)
• Shreader Sharptongue (I advise to fight your way through all the vermin instead of running past them)
• Chkkr Brightclaw (leave from Jade Flats (Kurzick) and make your way to the boss, but don't run to him, because that will cause a group of mantis to spawn, instead you shoot at him with a longbow from the stairway, a group a foes, about 3, will most likely attack both you and Chkkr, take them down first, because the Dragon Moss uses Blurred Vision)
• Bubahl Icehands
• Lian, Dragon's Petal (beat Rits first, then Mes, leave Lian the last for a safer farm)
• Chidehkir, Light of the Blind
• Terob Roundback (This is annoying, but doable with a little patience.)
• Cultist Milthuran (This cannot be done with an outcast rit, as they use Displacement, also use Critical Defenses before using Critical Agility and Vigorous Spirit, as Chilblains removes 2 enchantments)
• Jishol Darksong
• Pehnsed the Loudmouth
• Salke Fur Friend (Kill the Rit warden first, as he might heal Salke; can't be done with a Warden of the Earth in his group))
• Bolten Largebelly (don't let Bolten's team mob with the team VERY close to his, instead lure the one close to him and kill those first)
• Zelnehlun Fastfoot
• Tundoss the Destroyer (Kill his team first.)
• Johon The Oxflinger
• Whuup Buumbuul (don't use attack skills while he has Escape on. Maintain skills, and keep attack normally until you land hits, then continue with chain)
• Reefclaw Ragebound
• Mahto Sharptooth
• Chor the Bladed
• Riktund the Vicious
• Wing, Three Blade
• Sskai, Dragon's Birth
• Krogg Shmush
• Arrahhsh Mountainclub

[edit] Bosses In Hard Mode

• Tahkayun Tsi (You also get a few tomes from his friends around him.)
• Yunlai Deathkeeper (You first must kill the 2 groups of mantids that spawn in order to get him to spawn.)
• Jishol Darksong (First kill his mob, as this will weaken his Leader's Comfort.)
• Chkkr Thousand Tail
• Krogg Shmush
• Hassin Softskin
• Chor the Bladed

[edit] Variants

Critical Eye

• When using Critical Eye variation, replace Critical Strike with Critical Eye. (With the 13x% extra critical strikes, Critical Strike becomes useless.)

Vital Boon

[edit] A/Mo version

Even if Mystic Regeneration is rebuffed, the A/Mo version shall not be forgotten.

Assassin / Monk 11 + 1 Dagger Mastery 10 + 1 + 2 Critical Strikes 10 Healing Prayers Golden Phoenix Strike Factions Assassin. Dagger Mastery 12 Golden Phoenix Strike Off-Hand Attack If you are not under the effects of an Enchantment, this skill misses. If it hits, Golden Phoenix Strike deals +26 damage. 8 5 Critical Strike Factions Assassin. Critical Strikes 13 Critical Strike Dual Attack Must follow an off-hand attack. If it hits, this attack strikes for +27 damage, results in a critical hit, and you gain 3 Energy. 6 5 Moebius Strike Factions Assassin. Dagger Mastery 12 Moebius Strike Elite Off-Hand Attack Must follow a Dual Attack. If it hits, Moebius Strike strikes for +30 damage. If you strike a foe whose Health is below 50%, all your other attack skills are recharged. 2 5 Death Blossom Factions Assassin. Dagger Mastery 12 Death Blossom Dual Attack Must follow an off-hand attack. If it hits, Death Blossom strikes target foe for +40 damage and all adjacent foes take 40 damage. 2 5 Critical Defenses Factions Assassin. Critical Strikes 13 Critical Defenses Enchantment Spell For 9 seconds, you have a 75% chance to block. Critical Defenses refreshes every time you land a critical hit. 30 1 10 Critical Agility Nightfall Assassin. Sunspear rank Critical Agility Enchantment Spell For 4 seconds and 1 second for each rank of Critical Strikes you attack 33% faster and gain 10..25 armor. This Skill reapplies itself every time you land a critical hit. 30 1 5 Vigorous Spirit Prophecies Monk. Healing Prayers 10 Vigorous Spirit Enchantment Spell For 30 seconds, each time target ally attacks or casts a Spell, that ally is healed for 15 Health. 4 ¼ 5 Live Vicariously Prophecies Monk. Healing Prayers 10 Live Vicariously Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, whenever target ally hits a foe, you gain 12 Health. 2 5 -1 Template code

[edit] See Also

• Build:A/any PvE Moebius Sin uses similar tactics for general usage.
• Farming Plains of Jarin on Hard Mode.
• (Note: These are for the old Mystic Regen Build)
  • Video.
  • Soloing Imperial Sanctum on Hard Mode.
  • Boss Farming.
  • Hard Mode Areas
  • Farming Nahpui Quarter Mission (NM) & HM
  • Hard Mode Mantids outside Shing Jea