Build:A/E Degen Tomb Solo

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The PvXwiki community finds this to be a good build. Through the PvX vetting system, it has reached an overall Rating in the range from 3.75 to < 4.75 and thus qualifies for the medium category of working builds: Good. This build has been designed for the following use: PvE farming

The Build uses permanent Shadow Form and heavy degen to finish the entire Tomb of Primeval Kings alone, faster than other builds can do it, and collecting the many green items the Darknesses drop and the Ectos on the way.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Assassin / Elementalist 12 Earth Magic 3 Critical Strikes 12 + 1 + 3 Shadow Arts Glyph of Swiftness EotN Elementalist. Air Magic Glyph of Swiftness Glyph For 15 seconds, your next 1..3..3 Spells recharge 25% faster, and projectiles from those spells move 200% faster. 10 1 5 Deadly Paradox Nightfall Assassin. Deadly Arts Deadly Paradox Stance All of your attack Skills are disabled for 10 seconds. For 5..13..16 seconds, your Assassin Skills activate and recharge 33% faster. 10 15 Shadow Form Factions Assassin. Shadow Arts 16 Shadow Form Elite Enchantment Spell For 22 seconds, all hostile Spells that target you fail and all attacks against you miss, but you deal 33% less damage. When Shadow Form ends, lose all but 53 Health. 45 1 10 Viper's Defense Factions Assassin. Shadow Arts 16 Viper's Defense Spell All adjacent foes are Poisoned for 21 seconds, and you Shadow Step to a nearby location, directly away from your target. 10 ¼ 5 Glyph of Lesser Energy Core Elementalist. Energy Storage 0 Glyph of Lesser Energy Glyph For the next 15 seconds, your next 2 Spells cost 10 less Energy to cast. 30 1 5 Radiation Field EotN No Profession. Asura rank Radiation Field Ward Spell For 5 seconds, foes in the area have -4..6 Health degeneration. When the portal ends, foes in the area are Diseased for 12..20 seconds. 12 2 15 Sliver Armor Factions Elementalist. Earth Magic 12 Sliver Armor Enchantment Spell For 10 seconds, you have 45% chance to block attacks and whenever you are the target of a hostile Spell or attack one nearby foe is struck for 29 earth damage. 30 1 10 Ear Bite EotN No Profession. Deldrimor rank Ear Bite Skill Target touched foe takes 50..70 piercing damage and begins Bleeding for 15..25 seconds. ¾ 4 Template code

[edit] Equipment

• Full radiant armor, a superior shadow arts rune with matching mask, rest full of attunement
• Insightful staff of enchanting, inscription "have faith" - preferably max with earth requirement
• Any zealous daggers for energy management during skill recharge downtime - preferably with 20% enchantment mod
• Any high energy set in case the grasps get your energy too low
• A longbow in case you want to pull, not required, but nice to have sometimes
• A zealous scythe of enchanting can also help regain energy.

[edit] Usage

Always keep up Shadow Form with GoS->Deadly Paradox->Shadow Form, rest of descriptions in order of what to deal with first

• Grasp of Insanity - aggro as many as you can at once, use GoLE->Viper's Defense->Radiation Field, two rounds of that will take out any number of grasps
• Chaos Wurm - Melee - after they pop up and knock you down, use GoLE->Radiation Field->Sliver Armor and use Ear Bite as much as possible, switch to daggers to build adrenaline faster, no need to switch back while fighting if you put the 20% enchant on them - avoid using Viper's defense against them, as it will give them more opportunities to knockdown and disrupt Shadow Form
• Chaos Wurm - Siege - after dealing with grasps in the area, use Viper's Defense->GoLE->Radiation Field->Sliver Armor->Ear Bite they should go down very quickly
• Banished Dream Rider - just use GoLE->Sliver Armor and try to get it to target them, since they are the only enemies immune to all the degen, should still be enough things alive to make this quick
• Scythe of Chaos - Terrorweb Dryder - group the two type together seperately using any wall and corner, then double back and get the Dryders on top of the Scythes, then use GoLE->Radiation Field->Viper's Defense (wait for disease to kick in, in case Viper's Defense steps you far enough to move the Dryders) regroup them if needed
• The Darkness - use as much of the skill bar as you want, just make sure you have the two Siege Chaos Wurms dead, otherwise when the ghosts pop up when you kill the Darknesses, the siege wurms can get you with some heavy AoE damage

[edit] Counters

• Not keeping up shadow form - just get used to the build
• The Grasps getting your energy too low - use daggers and high energy set to stop this, but otherwise you can always cast shadow form without the GoS and Deadly Paradox and just try to run away to a safe place
• Using the skills too much and too fast, draining the energy pool - just get used to the build

[edit] Variants

In theory, you could replace Sliver Armor with any skill that could deal with the Banished Dream Riders and help with the Chaos Wurms and the Darknesses, just adjust your attributes and Staff accordingly, but I doubt there are any skills that could do this as quickly alone.

- Earbite will slowly kill the enemies immune to all degeneration.