Build:E/Mo Caster Mob Farmer

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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

For farming caster/some melee mobs in NM and HM.

[edit] Attributes and Skills

Elementalist / Monk 12 + 1 + 3 Earth Magic 11 + 3 Fire Magic 6 + 3 Energy Storage 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 Obsidian Flesh Core Elementalist. Earth Magic 16 Obsidian Flesh Elite Enchantment Spell For 21 seconds, you gain +20 armor and cannot be the target of enemy Spells, but move 50% slower. 30 1 10 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 Meteor Shower Prophecies Elementalist. Fire Magic 14 Meteor Shower Spell Create a Meteor Shower at target foe's location. For 9 seconds, foes adjacent to that location are struck for 105 fire damage and knocked down every 3 seconds. This Spell causes Exhaustion. 60 5 25 Flame Burst Prophecies Elementalist. Fire Magic 14 Flame Burst Spell All nearby foes are struck for 113 fire damage. 5 ¾ 15 Balthazar's Spirit Prophecies Monk. Smiting Prayers Balthazar's Spirit Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains adrenaline and Energy after taking damage. (The amount of adrenaline gained increases depending on your rank in Smiting Prayers.) 2 10 -1 Glyph of Elemental Power Core Elementalist. Unlinked Glyph of Elemental Power Glyph For 25 seconds, your elemental attributes are boosted by 2 for your next 10 Spells. 5 1 5 Template code

[edit] Equipment

• Radiant armor.
• Anything with +20% enchantment length, Galigord's Stone Staff works well.
• A secondary 20/20 20/20 Fire Wand and Offhand are recommended.

[edit] Usage

• Maintain Obsidian Flesh with Glyph of Swiftness.
• Maintain Stoneflesh Aura, Balthazar's Spirit,and Armor of Earth.
• Ball up the mob [switch weapon sets], and use Meteor Shower
• Spam Flame Burst as energy allows for damage.

[edit] Counters

• Interrupts.
• Signets, touch skills and point blank area of effect skill capable of removing enchantments (Signet of Disenchantment or Expunge Enchantments)

[edit] Variants

Glyph of Elemental Power for...

• Various Fire Magic damage spells.
• PvE only skills that may work well.
• Skills that give regeneration, such as Healing Breeze.
• Aura of Restoration for a heal(not in this build
• When farming ice imps outside ice caves replace skil 8 with sliver armor it allows faster killing.
• When you are having trouble farming an area have a monk hero maintain Esssence bond, balthazar's spirit,mending and Watchful spirit.

[edit] Farmable Areas/Foes

• Fissure of Woe Beach. (add a running skill)
• Fire Imps/Bog Skales in North Kryta Province in HM.
• Minotaurs.(recomend a regen spell)
• Mountain Trolls.(They knock you down; they are hard to farm)
• Wind Riders outside Rata Sum
• Dragon Moss in Drazach Thicket (during the A New Escort quest)
• Ice Imps and Ice Siege Golems outside Ice Caves of Sorrow (both NM and HM)
• Ice Imps outside Eye of the North outpost (both NM and HM)
• Hydras(Difficult to kill recomend big aggro and a regen spell such as healing breeze)

More to come... (suggest the person who lissted this show the downfalls of farming some things)