Build:A/E UW Chaos Planes 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 uses Shadow Form to stay alive, along with PBAoE fire damage skills and burning to kill monsters in the chaos plains. An average run yields 4 - 6 ectos in around 40 - 45 minutes for an experienced player.

Attributes and Skills

Assassin / Elementalist 12 Fire Magic 12 + 1 + 3 Shadow Arts 3 Critical Strikes Glyph of Swiftness EotN Elementalist. Air Magic 0 Glyph of Swiftness Glyph For 15 seconds, your next 1 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 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 Lava Font Prophecies Elementalist. Fire Magic 12 Lava Font Spell For 5 seconds, foes adjacent to the location where this Spell was cast are struck for 41 fire damage. 4 2 10 Bed of Coals Factions Elementalist. Fire Magic 12 Bed of Coals Spell Create a Bed of Coals at your location. For 10 seconds, foes standing still near this location are struck for 24 fire damage each second. Any foe knocked down on the Bed of Coals is set on fire for 6 seconds. 30 1 10 Whirlwind Prophecies Elementalist. Air Magic Whirlwind Spell All adjacent foes take 15..51..63 cold damage. Attacking foes struck by Whirlwind are knocked down. 8 ¾ 5 Fire Attunement Core Elementalist. Fire Magic 12 Fire Attunement Enchantment Spell For 55 seconds, you are attuned to Fire. You gain 1 Energy plus 30% of the base Energy cost of the Skill each time you use Fire Magic. 45 2 10 Template code

Equipment

• Any armor works, however 70 AL is recommended as protection from Charged Blackness or traps from Obsidian Behemoths.
• Full Radiant Insignias and Runes of Attunement.
• Insightful staff of enchanting with +7 energy under 50%hp inscription, or a single-handed weapon of Enchanting with +5 energy e.g. Totem Axe and a Fire Magic focus. The staff is generally better.
• Set of Zealous Daggers of Enchanting with +5 energy.
• A Zealous Scythe of enchanting with +5 energy.
• Any Vamparic weapon.

Usage

• As you spawn in UW, take the quest from the Lost Soul.
• Cast and maintain Shadow Form (reduced by Glyph of Swiftness and Deadly Paradox)
• Aggro all 3 groups of Grasping Darknesses.
• Cast Fire Attunement, and then cast 4 through 7 to inflict burning on all surrounding foes, and damaging with Lava Font. Make sure that the grasping are set on fire twice, or they will drain your energy before you kill them. NOTE: Whirlwind does not recharge in time to knock enemies down twice in one bed of coals use, however if using a staff you have a 20% chance to half spell recharge which will allow you 2 knockdowns and hence double burning time from one use of bed of coals (albeit only if you are lucky).
• Once you make it into Chaos Planes, drop SF then put it back up again, maintaining your hp at less than 1/5 of your maximum with a vamparic weapon. Aggro the closest Banished Dream Rider and Wailing Lords. then use your zealous scythe to maintain energy whilst killing.
• Repeat this for the other nearby Dream Riders.
• Once they are dead, do the same for all the spawning Mindblade Spectres. (First 3 will spawn, once those are dead 6, and once those are dead 9 for each Banished Dream Rider)
• Repeat with the Dream Riders next to the statue, and the ones near to the Spawning Pools
• In the group near pools, you can pull a few groups of Terrorweb Dryders for extra profit.

Counters

• Charged Blacknesses.
• Triggering the traps of the Obsidian Behemoths.
• Obsidian Behemoths completely blocking off the entrance of Twin Serpent Mountains.
• Failure to maintain SF.

Variants

• Obviously you can change Whirlwind for Teinai's Wind
• You can use Burning Speed instead of bed of coals for burning, however it is slower as you won't be able to use it for most of the run without burning yourself to death.

Notes

• You need at least 30 energy to recast SF.
• A good way to practice permanently keeping up SF is in an area where there are no monsters.
• An experienced player can complete the run in around 40 minutes.
• Allowing your health to drop below 20% (below 100 - 75 HP for most people) and equipping a Vampiric weapon between mobs helps to reduce scatter.
• Spamming Lava Font is a guaranteed way to kill yourself, because you will not have enough energy to maintain Shadow Form
• The more energy, the better. 44 with scythe/daggers and 59 with staff is recommended.
• When you get to the chaos plains, you can switch an armor piece to one with +3 to critical strikes. This way you will get more energy from your scythe, and there is no downside other than it taking up an inventory slot.

Aggro tips

Once you are able to clear the chaos plains confidently, you may want to know how to make the run faster so this section is for tips on controlling mindblade aggro so that you can group them up and kill them quickly.

• The most important thing is gathering up multiple groups of Mindblades. In the chaos plains, there are 9 Dream Riders which cause Mindblade spawns. Now you could kill one of them, then kill the mindblades which spawn from it and move on to the next, however this is very slow. If you kill several dream riders first then you can group up all of their mindblades and kill them in one go. Due to mindblades having a limited aggro range the most efficient way of "grouping" them is into 3 separate groups.
  • The first contains 4 Dream Riders, the one right in front of you as you enter the Chaos Plains, the one right in the middle (just deeper in from the first as you enter the plains), the one outside of the Bone Pits and the one over to your right as you enter the chaos plains. Although this one and the one next to pits are quite far apart, it is possible to pull all of the mindblades that spawn together. NOTE: it is very useful to have a ranged weapon to pull groups, your staff will do.
  • The second "group" contains 3 Dream Riders and is by the statue. The is one just up the hill from the statue, one right next to the statue and another a bit past the statue.
  • The third group contains the final 2 Dream Riders, as well as the few Terrorweb Dryders that spawn nearby.
• OK, once you have killed all of the dream riders in the current group, them mindblades will have spawned and you now have to pull them all into a neat little ball to kill them. To do these, you need to use the fissures in the map. The specifics of where to do this is difficult to explain, so just watch the video below :)
• When balling up mindblades, you need to drag them by walking backwards then stop and wait for any which were casting spells to move forward to wand range. Since you are moving, you may end up with the mindblades spread over a short distance instead of being all balled up on one spot. To rectify this talk a few baby steps backwards to bring those at the back further forwards into the others.
• Once you have them balled up, the mindblades will sometimes break away when you approach them. To avoid this, make sure you pause for a second once you are stopped (i.e. have done any baby steps, got them in a ball, then stop and pause for a second). Next, approach them walking straight towards them not strafing to the side, and finally stop BEFORE you reach them. A lot of the time they will break away if you touch them, so stop when you are adjacent to them so you can use your scythe, but without bashing into them.
• Once you start killing them, they should not break away provided you have low hp.
• Any questions, watch the video or ask on talk page.

Videos

Full run in 38mins

See Also

• Build:A/E_Planes_SC
• Build:A/E Perma Sliver Form