Sword and Board Warrior types endgame strategy

Jonales
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Sword and Board Warrior types endgame strategy Jun 19, 2019 2:36:39 GMT chreelister likes this

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Post by Jonales on Jun 19, 2019 2:36:39 GMT

Okay noone ask me what a warrior is please

. Mostly non crit immune melees, such as a drow build. Wanted to have a post about these types of builds playing endgame.

These are the strategies I've developed with most of these builds.

Rule Number 1: Get hit the least amount of times in areas where getting hit will hurt you.

As a warrior or melee focus, your greatest asset is your damage. This will help you mostly in a 1 vs 1 fight, because then its your damage vs the enemies damage - and mostly you can win sometimes.

A simple picture with o's and dashes might help. Imagine you are the dash and the enemies are the o's.

ooo

o-o

ooo

is the worst situation you can be in as a warrior in many endgame areas, because when the enemies surround you then 7 of those 8 enemies will be able to potshot you without you being able to do anything in return. This is because you are a single enemy striker - you can only hit one at a time. It's even worse when some of those enemies are casters with mind stun arrows or arrows of death vs your fort save, and you can't do anything vs them.

o- is a much better situation.

And oh yeah - A DRAGON KNIGHT summon can help with its fear and melee attacks, also tanking sometimes.
Use your drone!

This means 3 things.

1. Find areas you can play endgame in where things hurt you but you can still manage to play. Harder areas with good cr you can manage to play.

2. Find areas where things don't hurt you and you can still manage to play. Easier areas you can manage to make money with.

3. Team up and try to be smart - let allies tank or lure things as a group etc. Good luck with your groups.

Areas for #1 Endgame:

Grub pits

Guard room and Mano gate

Sendauntra entrance?

Golems and smaller lost dungeon areas possibly

Starting areas of darkmoor.

Grub Pits : You have to wait in the entrance to lost dungeon for the area transfers to let you where you want to go. Once there, as a melee focus you don't have the area spells that casters do, so you have to do it differently.

With true seeing and ranging or sight luring from a corner, you can effectively one on one the grubs and clerics in grub pits. This allows you to fight the numerous Very Difficult rejuvenators or larvaes, as well as Overpowering CR noisies, master larvaes, and the clerics. Beware, the master larvaes have good attack.

With that CR you can find t11 items. I recently found a +12 attack Heavy Xbow with a partner in grub pits. The casters also can farm here too, so it works out.

And oh yeah, some clerics or larvaes do a massive amount of negative energy damage instead of physical damage. There is apparently no reason why. Use negative energy protection or shadow shield.

Guard room and Mano Gate : the entire idea here is to get the CR, and the mano elite guards and elite archers have the CR. Guard room is the classic, with terrain where you can lure almost every 1 on 1, and then lure some elites or the archer in the next forgies area behind it.

The mano gate also has an elite guard, but underneath is another elite guard with an elite archer. Go in the door across the map from kobold docks going to golems, and you run into an OP elite archer, which can also give good items. I once got an empyric double axe from it.

Sendauntra Entrance?:

The Question mark is because I haven't really done it myself, but I've been around old sendauntra before on my paladin solo and it did fine in areas where the sendauntra were few in number.

Because of the changes Chree did, the entrance is now one of those areas, and it has Overpowering and Very Difficult CR as well. I would be wary though, as the casters in sendauntra have some of the highest dcs on the server, and I would also have true seeing and be ready to drone, run, or use darkness bombs with vision. If one is careful in the sendauntra entrance, I think it's likely a warrior build can farm here.

Golems and smaller lost dungeon areas:

These areas, you have to be very careful and one on one. The Golems in golems quest have some of the highest attack bonuses on the server, and this goes for many of the creatures in lost dungeon. But with luring and careful play, one can possibly kill monsters here and get some drops eventually. The rooms you want to be in for lost dungeon are the smaller ones - halls or ruins. Not many of the other maps are good for warrior builds, as it will probably be more than 1 v 1 and you won't be able to lure.

Golems is a classic map where you can lure, but as always be careful here, as they have the capability to greatly harm you. A nice sanctuary at the ready might be handy for a quick escape.

Starting Areas of Darkmoor:

So...Warriors can farm some of the higher areas in darkmoor, it's just extremely arduous to do so with darkness bombs and struggling with buffing and resting and true seeing and dispels.

However, the CR is moderate to possibly challenging or very difficult in some of the first few maps in darkmoor, and eventually you can not only get drops but also horn tips or avian feathers, which you can use for a random or item gem reward.

I think it would be somewhat careful play, because there are many archers, but I put it here because I'm sure it's possible and you can eventually get a random or item gem reward from the tokens that drop.

Since your drones don't work Animal Empathy is probably advised.

You need true seeing scrolls or items or spells.

Last Edit: Oct 20, 2019 16:16:58 GMT by Jonales

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Sword and Board Warrior types endgame strategy Jun 19, 2019 2:46:10 GMT chreelister likes this

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Post by Jonales on Jun 19, 2019 2:46:10 GMT

Areas for #2 Endgame:

Forgies middle maps.

Isle of Ice
Dungeon of Doors
New Caen
Isle of Death

Zu Asabiat village

These minor areas have a different mindset. To make money from the items, not find high level items.

Forgies ( River of flames, Den of Fire): The middle maps of forgies are good for making money as a sword and board warrior and also are probably the best places to folo farm for essences. The maps beyond these soon become very anti sword and board warriors.

Isle of Ice: With the AC of around 80 or 79, you'd be able to fight up to the ice golems without getting hurt many times, although they have knockdown so you would need an equal discipline score as well. They have moderate CR at level 40, and the arial casters here on isle of ice can have challenging, as does the ice troll with the mana gem. All of these give experience and good cash loot at level 40 for warriors, although it is quite long to get there.

Be wary of the Clerics dispel and death attacks, and you should probably run through the area with the imass zombies with vorpal since you aren't critical hit immune. The Arials can probably group up on you so be careful if you go over there and try to lure. The one map with the air vents you probably want to be careful in.

I haven't done it with a warrior per say, but I'd think its possible with some of the higher AC warriors that you can possibly lure and farm troll lord one on one for an item gem. You'd have to have a tremendous amount of cold resistance for his aura, or use elemental shield potions/scrolls/items, but I'd think it's possible since I do it on my elemental.

Dungeon of Doors: Darkness works against these guys, as does an ac of Around 80 as well. Break out the expertise with some builds. The undead monsters here have easy to moderate CR I believe, and give experience and drop cash loot at level 40. Use the doors to lure. Careful of the archers, and remember many of the archers have seeker arrows. You also want true seeing.

New Caen: The cultists here are easy CR, and give experience and cash loot at level 40. Be careful of the clerics and archers, and the cultist swordsman have knockdown here as well so you want 75 AC 75 Discipline or around there. The enemies are set up in a way where luring can be a great asset. Dragon Knights fear is great here.

Now the pirates also have tokens if you want to fight them, and they can drop okay cash loot too, and are quite numerous at their island base. These guys require less AC and discipline, but you'd probably want to use invisibility or sanctuary to get to their base where they are numerous, and lure them in small groups at a time. The casters can be a problem sometimes, maybe a mord's scroll can help.

One thing that is unique about new caen cultists is that there are unique weapon drops with random add ons. It's possible that one of these can be great, and you'd want to forge it up and use it someday. Most are cash loot, but there is the possibility.

Zu Asabiat Village and the River gate on the way:

These guys have effortless CR. They probably won't drop any great equipment at level 40. The only reason I include this is because it can make you money as a level 40 warrior, and sometimes that's exactly what you want. Also, they can drop items with some spells that can help or something maybe. I've gotten two deathwatch shields which cast death ward on per day uses I still have on my blackguard.

You might want a rope and invisibility/sacntuary to get past the river gate. Use a rope on the areas where theres a brown spot ascending. It is a long run without it, but the groups there are nearly the same as in village anyway so have at you river gate.

The enemies are so numerous here, and as a level 40 warrior you will most likely have the Armor Class required to not get hit by every enemy weapon wielder. The Casters can cast spells, so have shadow shield and mind immunity and you should be good. Lots of enemies you can tank and kill = Lots of loot bags = lots of possibilities for drops.

Isle of Death: The attack is such that you can tank it. The casters here will most likely be a problem, but I can definitely see a warrior farming here on a random day when they feel like it.

The only reason I put this here is a very important money making strategy for warriors, and possibly for many other builds as well. It's actually a very good way to make money.

Are you ready?

Farm the sendauntra portal items.

That's right, the warriors at level 40 can all farm the sendauntra portal items and turn them in at the sendauntra npc for loads of money. Mana crystals from isle of ice, sendaunt medallions from dungeon of doors, and caen gems from isle of death, can all be farmed and turned in for big bucks.

Sometimes very big bucks.

Good luck!

Last Edit: Oct 20, 2019 16:18:03 GMT by Jonales

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Sword and Board Warrior types endgame strategy Jun 19, 2019 3:05:11 GMT

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Post by Jonales on Jun 19, 2019 3:05:11 GMT

If anyone else has any other strategies or comments for areas, or other ideas for these types feel free. I just wanted to have a post about playing with these types endgame. The above posts were just strategies I've developed and used playing as a warrior build.

Last Edit: Jun 19, 2019 3:11:49 GMT by Jonales