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Author: Soqed Hozi
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This guide is on how to solo farm Stygians in the Domain of Anguish. This guide will not be nearly as in-depth as my last guide, although I will be thorough.
I have wanted to come up with an awesome solo necro build for a while now, and with nightfall that has now come to fruition. After some careful research into skills, other builds and tactics, I present to you, the very easy to master, Stygian Solo.
Skills
From left to right:
1. Suffering.
2. Feast of Corruption (elite)
3. Desecrate Enchantments
4. Lightbringer's Gaze
5. Deadly Paradox
6. Shadow of Haste
7. Dark Escape
8. Dash
Armour
For this run you will be needing two armour sets, one normal set (runes are: best vigor you can afford, minor soul reaping, attunement) and the other a 55 hp set. Both should be +energy (scars). The headpiece should be a superior curses headpiece of curses.
Attributes
Base attributes without armour are:
Curses: 12
Soul Reaping: 3
Shadow Arts: 12
Weapon
A staff with at least +15 energy, no health modifiers. 20% half recharge all spells and 20% half cast on curses is best. I use The Stonereaper.
Use
Head out of the Domain of Anguish into Stygian Veil. Head east, which is forwards when you load. Avoid aggroing any enemies. You can use Dark Escape or Dash here if you so desire. Run up to the two whisper NPCs and talk to the one not offering a quest. Take the hunt and then talk to the other, quest giving, NPC. Take the quest "Breaching the Stygian Veil".
Run North East, away from were you started and along the trench wall. Using Dark Escape or Dash if you desire. Three groups of six Stygian Hungers will spawn and run towards the two NPCs, grouping here.
Stygian Hungers
These resemble large Shambling Horrors, and being a necromancer you should be able to recognise them. Stygian Hungers are easy to kill, they are touch necromancers and use Dark Aura, so Desecrate Enchantments is useful for these. They use Grenth's Balance, so wear your 55hp armour set.
Target the nearest foe to you, using "c" will do this. Select to cast Suffering, you will now be run automatically to the edge of spell casting range and then cast the skill.
As soon as you finish casting RUN AWAY. You can use Dash or Dark Escape to do this. Turning the camera around while casting can make this easier. Keep running till aggro is broken (this will not take long) and then wait for the enemy to resettle. Then run in and cast Feast of Corruption. Then run away again. Run in again and use Desecrate Enchantments or Feast of Corruption if it is charged. Repeat this until the mob dies. You want to keep Suffering on the foes at all times so they do not regenerate health. Ideally, you want to finish them off with Feast of Corruption, because if the degen to death you may not receive the drops.
A far more reliable method of escaping (infallible, using this technique you cannot be killed easily) is to use Deadly Paradox and within 5 seconds after using activate Shadow of Haste. Now run in and cast your spell. When cast use Dash to cancel Shadow of Haste and shadow step back to safety. Dark Escape can then be used if something has gone horribly wrong, however this should never happen. The only way this can happen is if you started shadow form too close to the mob.
Don’t run in till you have the energy to cast, the energy needed to run away will regen before you have finished casting. Use Lightbringer's Gaze if energy is low. This should not be needed as you have enough time to wait for your energy to regenerate in most situations. The time to use Lightbringer's Gaze will be if you are in danger of letting an enemy degen to death. It is weak, and should only be used in these situations or when time is sparse.
After the mob is killed run away again. They will be replaced by another mob. The order of which these appear is shown in the table below. Once the entire sequence of mobs from the near side have been killed you can then repeat the process for the centre groups and then the group on the far side. After a far side mob is wiped out you have a few seconds that you can use to grab your most valuable drops.
Table to show order of mobs
Set |
Near Side |
Centre |
Far Side |
1 |
Stygian Hungers |
Stygian Hungers |
Stygian Hungers |
2 |
Stygian Brutes |
Stygian Horrors |
Stygian Hungers |
3 |
Stygian Golems |
Stygian Fiends |
Stygian Brutes |
4 |
Stygian Hungers |
Stygian Golems |
Stygian Fiends |
5 |
Stygian Hungers |
Stygian Hungers |
Stygian Hungers |
6 |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
All groups consist of 6 foes, all but the mixed groups consist of foes of all the same type. Mixed groups consist of:
2 Stygian Hungers
1 Stygian Horror
1 Stygian Golem
1 Stygian Fiend
1 Stygian Brute
Stygian Brutes
These are warriors who resemble Jagged Horrors. These are also easy to kill. Only use Desecrate Enchantments if you have plenty of energy. Only Suffering and Feast of Corruption are practical. Again, the escape techniques used for Hungers can be used.
Stygian Golems
These are dervishes that resemble large Flesh Golems, which are pretty big to start with so these are huge! These are near impossible to run away from as they use Harrier’s Haste to catch up with you. However, the Shadow of Haste trick still works against these perfectly. You can use Desecrate Enchantments of these if you wish as they use enchantments.
Stygian Fiends
These are rangers that resemble large Bone Fiends. They use Crippling Shot, four interrupt skills including one that causes dazed. These are caster killers, but using the Shadow of Haste trick you can avoid being snared by a crippling shot and slaughtered by a barrage of high damage attacks. Again, Desecrate Enchantments is a poor damage dealer against these.
Stygian Horrors
These are warriors that resemble large bone horrors. They use Bull’s Charge meaning they are another of the foes you must use the Shadow of Haste trick on. Once again, Desecrate Enchantments is weak against these.
Mixed Mobs
Treat these as any other mob. Use the Shadow of Haste trick with these. You can use Desecrate Enchantments if you wish, but it will have a weaker impact on half the mob. The Hungers are most likely going to survive longer than the others because they will use Grenth’s Balance to heal themselves if they get the chance while on low health. Once these are all that remain you can switch to your 55hp armour set and kill them as you would a mob of Hungers normally.
Conclusion
Using the Shadow of Haste trick you will find it hard to get killed, however, it will mean your most likely going to be low on energy when foes are near death. Don’t worry though, as you have plenty of time to wait for your energy to regenerate and then go in to cast. Don’t worry about leaving Shadow of Haste active on you while you wait to regenerate energy, it will not expire before you finish casting (i.e. the most important moment). Also, do not let yourself take hits, one Grenth’s Balance from a Hunger or a single shot from a Fiend may be survived, but don’t risk taking hits that are unnecessary.
Doing this run will take a little while, my first run took me just over an hour. Selling drops to the merchant will make you at least 2k, not much to be honest. However, there is a chance of getting a Stygian Gemstone (or other rare items) as a drop. I did when testing my build (before the Shadow of Haste trick), however I died before I could collect it.
Further to this point, it is advised you take with you as little as possible, for these foes do not drop gold coins and you will almost certainly stuff your jacket pockets full of max or near max items. You will most likely have to sift through the items taking gemstones, rare items, purples and blues first.
You will gain alot of experience and well over 100 lightbringer points from one run.
As a side note, the chests in this area have a very high value. It is advised to bring along a key if chest hunting is your thing.
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