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Post by Edem on Apr 18, 2006 5:52:48 GMT
Helpful tips with Ascending. Spam your tips, tricks or builds here. Mines: - General tips:
- If you take enchantments, the doppelganger will cast them, buying you time. If you take enchantments with upkeep, the doppelganger will have less energy regen - though obviously it will cast them only once then.
- It will never use Healing Breeze as a healing spell, only to counter health degen effects - if you don't use any, you can safely bring Breeze...
- A Vigor rune can come handy, especially major or superior, but no other major or superior runes, if possible (except for Warrior Absorption runes) - you will need health.
- Mesmer: Empathy and Distortion. With Illusion 8 and Domination at least 8 it should not be a problem, though timing Empathy might be tricky. Don't attack! (Edna also equipped Life Attunement for the Doppelganger to use...) Video here - note the low level...
- Elementalist: Take all four of the Attunements (two might be enought though); Flare, Fire Storm and Meteor Shower. Only Meteor Shower can't be gained as a quest reward, but it's always a good spell to have. Max out Fire Magic, and put the rest into Energy Storage. Don't bother with casting the attunements, they are only for buying you time. Cast Fire Storm, wait until the Doppelganger starts to run out of it, then cast Meteor Storm, and spam it with Flare. If you do it right, you can kill it in about 10-12 seconds.
- Necromancer: Price of Failure, Enfeeblement, Insidious Parasite. Max out Curses - no need for Soul Reaping though. Don't attack, just keep all hexes on the Doppelganger, it will kill itself over time, while healing you with each attack.
- Warrior: everyone says that if you only use sword skills, he can't use them with his axe - it's not true, he can use them. However, swords are better here, because of the smaller damage scatter. An ascalon boots of major absorption will come handy, as well as a high Strength attribute. (The other armor pieces should not be Ascalon though...) Take Frenzy, but don't use it; use high damage attacks while he's using Frenzy. Don't equip any healing skills, nor Endure Pain.
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Post by Nate Alluran on Apr 18, 2006 17:58:54 GMT
- Ranger: The doppelganger will attempt to cast all ranger spirits in your skill bar (at least it did when I ascended Nate). Simply take along some useless spirits (4-5 will do) and some damaging skills (maybe a preparation to speed things up if you're hitting him with bow attacks) and you can easily kill him off while he's wasting time casting spirits which don't even help him
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Post by Sir Smeg on Apr 18, 2006 18:59:43 GMT
Monk/Elementalist
Huff... Reg found it tricky. Certainly healing spells are right out - the 'ganger can spam them faster than you can. In the end I only found one way to beat it, and I dunno if that's still useful having read Edem's post on the matter.
I only took two skills in with me: Firestorm and Reversal of fortune. Reversal of fortune allows you to survive attacks while you run away from firestorms. The 'ganger was a complete lemon and stood in the middle of the arena getting pummeled by my storms, only blocking one in five fireballs with RoF. This was not an ideal method, and took bloody ages, but that was how it happened.
Warrior/Mesmer
Ron had it easy. Once again, two skills: Frenzy and Empathy. Cast empathy on the doppel and then stand next to him. He'll use frenzy and whip himself up into a fierce dervish, taking twice as much damage as he gives out. The bugger went down in 9 seconds ^_^
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Post by Edem on Apr 19, 2006 10:30:50 GMT
- Mesmer: Empathy and Distortion. With Illusion 8 and Domination at least 8 it should not be a problem, though timing Empathy might be tricky. Don't attack! (Edna also equipped Life Attunement for the Doppelganger to use...) Video here - note the low level...
Note: if anyone have problems with downloading the file, I upload it on streamline, though I can't link it only send inside that service... just PM me your account if you have and I send the file... |
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Post by Hon on Apr 19, 2006 12:35:44 GMT
Well, When my warrior ascended, i'd use four skills: Final Thrust, Galrath Slash, Savage Slash and Seeking Blade. It works pretty good, if you only bring a sword  And with my Ranger: Favorable Winds, Quickening Zephyr, Winnowing, Savage Shot, Powershot and Hunters Shot. While he's using the Spirits, interrupt them with savage shot, and hunters shot right after, then you interrupt the next spirit, and so on. When the 3 spirits is interruptet, you attack him with powershot, savage shot and Hunters shot.  |
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Post by kevx3 on May 21, 2006 13:11:25 GMT
Kravan - Monk/Ranger I cheated by using a pet . Put your points in beast mastery, smithing prayers and healing. 1. Beistial Pounce 2. Brutal Strike 3. Call of haste 4. Zealots fire 5. Healing breeze 6. life attunement 7. Charm animal The doppelganger only goes for you and since he dont use healing breeze slap zealots fire on yourself and start spamming your pet skills and breeze whenever you need it. |
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Post by brassmonki on May 22, 2006 20:06:25 GMT
Brass's slow and simple method: Class: Elementalist/warrior Skills: Ward against melee Magnetic Aura Aura of restoration Bonetti's defense Attributes: Even spread between earth, tactics and energy storage Equipment: Wand... or staff What to do: Run up next to the doppleganger and cast ward of melee. Then cast aura of restoration. Start poking him with the wand. When the ward runs out, use the magnetic armour to cover the gap untill you can cast the ward again... then just use bonetti's defense. This should stop the guy hitting you with his axe, pretty much all the time Keep poking untill the guy dies. If you need to heal, just recast restoration. Slow, simple... but won't get you the bonus |
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