Build:A/Me Perma Form Cryer

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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 is part of the current PvE meta. Remove this tag if it is no longer used in the current PvE meta.

This build is used to farm anywhere that doesn't have touch skills or signets that cause damage. It makes use of the Assassin's Elite Skill Shadow Form and the Mesmer's skill Arcane Echo in order to keep up Shadow Form indefinitely to stay invulnerable.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Assassin / Mesmer 12 + 1 + 3 Shadow Arts 12 Inspiration Magic 3 Deadly Arts Deadly Paradox Nightfall Assassin. Deadly Arts 3 Deadly Paradox Stance All of your attack Skills are disabled for 10 seconds. For 7 seconds, your Assassin Skills activate and recharge 33% faster. 10 15 Arcane Echo Core Mesmer. Unlinked Arcane Echo Enchantment Spell If you cast a Spell in the next 20 seconds, Arcane Echo is replaced with that Spell for 20 seconds. Arcane Echo ends prematurely if you use a non-Spell skill. 20 2 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 Spirit of Failure Prophecies Mesmer. Inspiration Magic 12 Spirit of Failure Hex Spell For 30 seconds, target foe has a 25% chance to miss with attacks. You gain 3 Energy whenever that foe fails to hit in combat. 20 3 15 Channeling Prophecies Mesmer. Inspiration Magic 12 Channeling Enchantment Spell For 46 seconds, whenever you cast a Spell, you gain 1 Energy for each foe in the area. 15 1 5 Ether Nightmare (Kurzick) Factions Mesmer. Kurzick rank Ether Nightmare (Kurzick) Hex Spell Target foe loses 5...7...8 Energy. For each point of Energy lost in this way, that foe and all foes in the area suffer -1 Health degeneration for 10 seconds. 15 3 10 Cry of Pain Nightfall Mesmer. Sunspear rank Cry of Pain Spell Interrupt target foe's skill. If that foe was suffering from a Mesmer Hex, that foe and all foes in the area take 25...50 damage and -3..5 Health degeneration for 10 seconds. 12 ¼ 10 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 Template code

Assassin / Mesmer 12 + 1 + 3 Shadow Arts 12 Inspiration Magic 3 Deadly Arts Deadly Paradox Nightfall Assassin. Deadly Arts 3 Deadly Paradox Stance All of your attack Skills are disabled for 10 seconds. For 7 seconds, your Assassin Skills activate and recharge 33% faster. 10 15 Arcane Echo Core Mesmer. Unlinked Arcane Echo Enchantment Spell If you cast a Spell in the next 20 seconds, Arcane Echo is replaced with that Spell for 20 seconds. Arcane Echo ends prematurely if you use a non-Spell skill. 20 2 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 Spirit of Failure Prophecies Mesmer. Inspiration Magic 12 Spirit of Failure Hex Spell For 30 seconds, target foe has a 25% chance to miss with attacks. You gain 3 Energy whenever that foe fails to hit in combat. 20 3 15 Channeling Prophecies Mesmer. Inspiration Magic 12 Channeling Enchantment Spell For 46 seconds, whenever you cast a Spell, you gain 1 Energy for each foe in the area. 15 1 5 Ether Nightmare (Luxon) Factions Mesmer. Luxon rank Ether Nightmare (Luxon) Hex Spell Target foe loses 5..8 Energy. For each point of Energy lost in this way, that foe and all foes in the area suffer -1 Health degeneration for 10 seconds. 15 3 10 Cry of Pain Nightfall Mesmer. Sunspear rank Cry of Pain Spell Interrupt target foe's skill. If that foe was suffering from a Mesmer Hex, that foe and all foes in the area take 25...50 damage and -3..5 Health degeneration for 10 seconds. 12 ¼ 10 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 Template code

[edit] Equipment

• All Radiant Insignias
• Superior Shadow Arts Rune
• Four Runes of Attunement
• A 20% enchant weapon (Totem Axe)
• An Inspiration Magic Offhand (Stats which Halves skill recharge of spell screw's SF and Echo so Do not use those)

[edit] Usage

• Use skills 1, 2, and 3 in the order they are above.
• When shadow form recharge is at the lower LEFT hand corner, cast the echoed shadow form.
• Shadow Form will fully recharge before Arcane Echo.
• When Arcane Echo is fully recharged, use 1, 2, and 3 again.
• Need to have 37 energy minimum when recasting the 1, 2, 3 chain.
• Aggro as many monsters as you want in the place. You can aggro all of them if you want.
• Use Spirit of Failure then Ether Nightmare followed by Cry of pain and Radiation Field.
• Use the wall trick to keep melee mobs from attempting to kite.
  • This is done by pulling a mob along into and along a wall to bunch them up into a tight group. Once you have a good looking ball, tap left strafe or right strafe (Q or E by default) to take a small step off the wall. This will cause the rest of the mob to be bodyblocked by the three enemies still attacking you.

[edit] Farming Spots

• The FoW beach.
• The Underworld: clear the chamber of everything, then clear everything on the way to the mountains (where the obsidian behemoths are), kill everything on the way to the smite crawlers, and then do the Unwanted Guests quest. (This is alot more difficult to do with the update that added Skeletons of Dhuum.)
• Ice Imps in Mineral Springs for the occasional Icy Dragon Sword drop.
• Anywhere in Prophecies, Factions, and Eye of the North that doesn't have hex removal,signets, touch skills, or weird enchant removal.
• Feather farming outside of Lions Arch. (About 60-90 feathers a run and the runs take around 5-10 mins, depending on if they stay balled up)
• ToPK (First room and all of the second room except wurms - run to the platform in the middle).
• Spectral Vaettir in Jaga Moraine.

[edit] Counters

• Not maintaining Shadow Form
• Not having enough energy to cast Deadly Paradox, Arcane Echo, and Shadow Form.
• Touch skills.
• Hex removal.
• enchant removal.
• signets
• Untargeted AoE (Inferno, Crystal Wave, Chilling Victory etc.)

[edit] Variants

• Channeling or Cry of Pain can be replaced by Viper's Defense or Death's Charge in order to escape body blocks (and, in the case of Viper's Defense, provide additional degen).
• When doing UW, bring a self heal (shadow refuge) over channeling.
• Auspicious Incantation-use on arcane echo for e-management

[edit] Notes

• Timing Shadow Form takes practice. Just keep practicing, you'll get the hang of it.
• Do not use a staff with this build, as its inherent 20% chance to halve the recharge of Shadow Form will mess up your timing.

[edit] See Also

• Here's 2 videoes of the first 2 levels in Tombs Tombs Level 1 & Tombs Level 2
• Here's a video (pre-nerf). http://youtube.com/watch?v=m091kivP5pk
• A Video of feather farming outside Lions Arch in Hard Mode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3EQfcall3s
• farming tomb fast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTLNCtF9_zw&feature=player_profilepage
• Video farming Spectral Vaettir http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR6-Ts9C7h0