Last night I decided to try the main quest in Naphui Quarter again. I had failed this numerous times before. Each time it seemed that no matter what I do, there will be a party wipe. Sometimes we die at the 2nd Celestial… sometimes right after the third.
However, last night I seem to have “figured it out”. I found a clear path from the Phoenix, to the Dragon, to the Turtle. I was doing great, and had no party wipes even after killing the Turtle celestial. It’s true that the essences of the killed Celestials keep popping up and generally making everything a pain in the ass for us though.
So the trick, I found, was to engage them at range. Let the “Star Blades”and other mobs come to us, out of range of the Celestials. Seeing as I was running through this mission with only Henchmen, it was kinda hard to do on my assassin character since that is a melee char. My necro character however had no problem attacking at range. Debuffs and Vampiric Horrors helped alot too. It was on the Necro that I found the “correct path”. Attacking at range, the henchmen do not run towards the mass of red dots and die horribly. Only the tank and assassin henchies ran forward, which was good, since the healers (yeah I brought 2 healer henchmen along) can each heal one. The rest are ranged attackers. Elementalists, Illusionists (for debuffs), Ritualists (for buffs). My only complaint with henchmen is that the necro henchman does not seem to know what she is doing. She does not conjure up minions. I only visibly saw that she puts up those Wells of Weariness group debuffs.
With this newfound knowledge, I might have to look into re-allocating points on my Assassin to turn him into a Ranger, and spend money and skill points to buy Ranger skills, so that he can attack at range. Also, I need a good bow to do that, which means more money need to be spent. That is the good thing about Guild Wars – you can “respec” any time. Just as long as you’re in a town or outpost, you can redo your whole char all over. I just hope I didn’t sell off those good bows I picked up along the way. If I did I’d be kicking myself.
Or I could run through this mission on the necro and hope the mobs drop some good bows for me to pass on to the Assassin via the bank.
Technorati: Ritualist, Guild Wars, Necromancer, Ranger, Assassin, Weh No Su
