How to improve Chance Encounter Farm?

after ~5k+ items farmed on WoC i can say that for me this is the best bar to run. (it requires alcohol and a "make haste" on one of your henchman)

for me its best to not rely on enchantments there because the enemies got a monster skill that very heavily removes enches in a non predictable randomness.

this bar has a lot of regen(non ench) from 7th and 6th skill. u can remove all 4 secs one or more conditions. u can heal urself with 8th skill. u got a lot of Max Hp because of second and 7th skill.

u don't need to atack to get adrenaline. just use the Second skill two times and the 4th skill is active. Also Ranger has a nice armor set and u can skill the shield. ( i recommend a 10vs pierc or 10vs flames with a 60hp hex mod and same with a 30hp as second set)

edit. For heros i would get at least one ineptitude mesmer in because the melee enemies at start are super strong. so i include 1 anti melee focused mesmer on my team comb.

Knowing that you can rupt easily the elite ranger's trap who desenchant you just by attacking him

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Spring_of_Purity

And no, you can start to attack them no problem, they're stuck on you anyway.

As for regular traps, if you see too many rangers (especially with a derv) you can do 2 spikes, kill the first few groups and kill the last ones after, it slow down the run, but best having a longer run than die

I tend to run this on monk with generic bar, but swap out one of the adren skills like yalla. I tend to run healing breeze and mending (mending has a use finally!) Bit I tend never get a failed run as I can cover my enchs!

Hey there !

A warrior version, thanks to Blind Was My Fury for this build. Was playing with another, this build is more comfortable and have a good amount of damages.

A great bar with good use and effectiveness!

Only The " for great justice" - shout is really a "luxury"( if not to say not needed at all ^^) skill for WoC farm. To Ball up the enemies it takes at least 30 seconds ( 2x 15 second recast from ur third skil-Shout wich gains u adrenaline for your whirlwind)

Also the adraneline shout gives bonus HP. It's allways good to have it active.

I would replace "for great justice" - shout for an Tank skill personally ( heal, Regen or similar effect. I will survive maybe when u get heavy spiked as tool to out Regen the burning)

Or if u are not using an IMS from your hench ( fallback or MH) then you could insert an IMS instead.

Or basicly anything your think will improve ur runs/ what u crave the most. Double adraneline shouldn't be it, but if it is then great justice is ur pick

Sometimes you don't have the time to cast 2 times your cry.

Because I don't know why, some rangers gonna trap and trap again after 10s or something.

If you can't spine this first group, it's game over.

So, for great justice is really good here when you are waiting on the first ball.

My other build have the signet in strength which give you HP without attacking. I'm not on my pc atm to put my other build, i' ll do later but imo, this version above is way better foe this farm.

Maybe it can be better, but I'm not farming anymore these days to try out some other stuff.

Exactly thats the point

normaly there should not be a first ball and a second ball. Just 1 big ball.

Maybe warrior in generell is not capable of sustaining so long and 2 Balls/spikes are needed.

but note that when sustain is the problem maybe adding more sustain can be the solution and For great justice doesnt provice any sustain. only adraneline wich u can get for free by attacking or with ur second shout and from taking dmg.

u could go lower on swordman ship to a 10 total ( 9+1 with runes) and get the tactics higher( as high as possbile) so you gain even more adrenaline from the shout then 3 strikes. u gain more HP from it and u heal more with the heal signet AND u can get one more skill in that is dedicated for healing/sustaining. Maybe with all that + right armor + right gear u can sustain to get to 1 big ball and 1 big spike.

i sadly can't try because i only got my sin and ranger WoC-Farm rdy

it is allways good to tinker around a little

I'm gonna see.

Playing with my War who's my main char, sentinel armor and a shield +10vs fire.

I'm not taking so much damages but if they spamm traps, when dolyak is out you take so much damages after.

More sustain, maybe, maybe not, I know the war is not the ultimate char for this farm.

I'm trying to clear the quest with my Derv, and after the Derv it's gonna be my ranger I think.

I'm gonna try some new stuff with my war and ofc your tips are welcome, I had too many things to try but when a template is working, I don't want to improve more haha

Interesting variations. Since there has already been a lot of discussions on builds, I use a variation as well, but my question is for curiosity, possibly debatable, but where do YOU stand on the stairs?

I personally landed on Bottom in the Middle. This allows the stragglers that pass but stand on the ground for a few seconds to catch the end of my blade.

I have had this discussion with other farmers and got a variety of answers so curious, share your location and reason if you don't mind.

If u stand high or low on the stairs I think is not nearly as important as standing more to left or right.

Me personally I stand slightly ( half a character model to be exactly) to the left - left when u look upwards the stairs. You can also check my latest vod of stream where I did a 3 hour WoC farm

" Yalla_Braaa " on Twitch

Edit:the reason why is :

Most mobs come from the left part of the stairs so I focus more on not letting these slip ( where the" half char model"- step to the left comes to full use)

When u stand exact middle u will slip mobs on both left and right side. By choosing one side u will slip no or at least significantly less on the side where u are a little more on.

So right side as mobs and left side has more mobs.

That's why I focus on the left part to have more mobs to spike at the end.

But overall to have no mobs slipped at all is really really rare ( more rare then a q9 bladed to drop xD)

But I end up quite often with only maybe 4 mobs beeing slipped

Sometimes a picture says more then 1000 words. So here a picture of what i mean by standing slightly left and that the MOBs really walk more left sided then right sided. also note that on the the Left side more Mobs are coming in total also.

So to sum all that up - standing slightly left will imrpove ur balls. ( not ur testicals but who knows )

BIGGER BALLS = MORE DROPS = MORE CHANCE OF Q9 BLADED = MORE MOTIVATION = MORE FUN = MORE MONEY = MORE PROBLEMS

Quote from Mr. Clean(-Value)

BIGGER BALLS = MORE DROPS = MORE CHANCE OF Q9 BLADED = MORE MOTIVATION = MORE FUN = MORE MONEY = MORE PROBLEMS

Bigger balls = triggers the anti farm code :p