Snowball Dominance...Wow

RyanB

RyanB

Legacy of Elijah Guild Leader
Heads up for those who didn't see this yet...

I dominated Snowball Dominance this morning. Can't believe how fast rewards are for this.

They updated the quest this year to have 10 wintersday gifts, 5 frosty tonics, 500g, and 500 ebon for reward. I just started doing it, and got 1 stack + 125 frosty tonics in my first hour.

Wintersday gift is ~2.45 points total per gift (factoring in getting shards from gifts). So, factoring that + rewards, I got today in ONE HOUR:
~250 Drunk
~361 Party
~222 Sweet

So, ~833 DPS points +
12.5 plat
12.5 ebon

For those who are looking to max titles, this looks like the time to do it. You could conceivably go from zero to maxed on all three titles during just this holiday.
 
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Yup, the change from shards to gifts makes it that much nicer than the last couple years. Granted, I was only short 1400 party points for my title going into wintersday, but I managed to max it last night while still saving some of the more "spammable" points for selling/trading later on.

The ebon vanguard points are nice too since it helps reduce book/shrine grinding in one of the slowest of the eotn reputation tracks.
 
I really hate farming...with a passion. I don't like doing it, and I don't like that GW has farming that is much more profitable than actually playing. /rant

Anyway, I wasn't about to be this close to "maxing" things and not actually max them...so I just can't pass up this opportunity because the only stuff I had left was buying things. If you need me between now and Jan 3, I'll be popping in and out of EotN outpost.

I also am going to try to get a Necro on an alt account to EotN as well, for dual instanced goodness. Oh yeahhhh.
 
Today I apparently did a lot of SD.

76 runs
760 Presents
370 tonics
38k

I know my first stack of presents took me a little under an hour. I think the last two took me just over 2. But I wasn't as efficient as I could have been.

Oh, and 38k towards Vanguard hit R6, half way to R7 now.
 
Bah, you cheerful competent people. This slow bear can't even complete it once in 20 tries.:( Even with Wiki help.:eek:
 
The fun part is going to be using all these tonics once the event is up. Ah well, at least it has synergy with drunk zoning. Still trying to find some rhyme or reason to that to get the most minutes and not lose booze. I'm too cheap lol.

Here's how I'm doing this Ursen...any suggestions from anyone else would be much appreciated -

I'm a ranger, which I think is the best prof for this by far. I'd highly recommend bringing your ranger if you are having trouble, much, much easier and the preceeding quests only take a few minutes. The "barrage"-like ability is awesome, and can be spammed nonstop. I bring a nec hero.

This is what I've had the best luck with getting a tight enemy mob. Getting a tight enemy mob is absolutely key to help get the most of your aoe degen, flurry, and teammate's flurry skills. This is what I have the best luck with:
1) Flag hero directly in front of the other team's captain in the middle.
2) As soon as the other team turns red/hostile, micro your #7 skill on the hero, ice fort
3) Wait until you see the enemy camp using their ice fort, then immediately hit skill #6, which is the necro's AoE degen
4) Try not to be the first one to run in...you'll lose way too much damage if you are getting dazed/etc. Just run a bit behind your team and then start firing away with your flurry skill (#6).

Other tips that might be useful:
* You can use a summoning stone. You can also use speed items like candy and a res scroll if you wish.
* If your allies start to dwindle, consider running over to eotn. You may have a few more allies there, you can pull a few enemies at a time, and you can run around to lose aggro if you need to.
* Fastest zoning method I've found is start quest, as soon as done map to eotn, take quest reward, change districts, repeat.

Hope these help. Even if you figure 50g per point (and honestly with as many points as are being dumped on the market each event now, that's very possible soon), you're looking @ 50k/hour.
 
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LittleDonnieJ said:
My main's a necro, do you think i could play the part of the hero and micro a ranger hero?
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Absolutely, it would just be a little tougher/likely slower.

Also forgot to add - if you get the yellow snow skill due to starting on Grenth's side (I think it's random), it's a great thing to prep before the match starts on your necro and fire it off before you die...disease spreads nicely.
 
I'm doing everything Ryan is doing. Highly effective, I'm using my ranger as well, if the enemies are balled up, it's a piece of cake.
 
Bah, you're all doing the easy side of it. More fun is the necro main + ranger hero version:

Since as the only player-character in the fight, your death triggers immediate defeat regardless of the outcome of the match. During the taunting phase, I flag my hero amongst my teammates, then run toward the back row of the enemy team. If you have time, load the rock glyph for later.

Dr. Mullinex gives his invocation for the fight to begin, and seconds later the opposing team turns to red dots on the minimap. At that moment, unflag the ranger hero, run straight for your teammates, stopping and hitting "ice fort" as soon as the first one enters your aggro bubble. Stand and take 0 dmg until the ice fort timer is nearing 0, at which point you run like the dickens toward the back of your line. You'll probably still be under the effect of the faster movement shout, so barring being crippled, you move pretty fast. Go to your right (away from Eye), find Carlisle or however it's spelled, target him, and take him out.

By this point the herd should be thinned, so you can systematically clear the last few stragglers. On the odd match where you get 8 or so following your exit from the ice fort, just keep going, swing around to the entrance of the eye (behind your nornbear teammates) and slowly work your way back in, clearing one at a time. Also worked on my rit doing the same thing.
 
Reginator said:
Bah, you're all doing the easy side of it. More fun is the necro main + ranger hero version:

Since as the only player-character in the fight, your death triggers immediate defeat regardless of the outcome of the match....
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Thank you for the info Reg! If you are on tonight we could take turns being each other's necro hero... ;-)
 
Reginator said:
Bah, you're all doing the easy side of it. More fun is the necro main + ranger hero version:
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Bah, that sounds complicated...I'm incapable of doing anything more complicated than rolling my face across the keyboard...maybe that's why I like assassin so much.

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LittleDonnieJ said:
Thank you for the info Reg! If you are on tonight we could take turns being each other's necro hero... ;-)
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Man, way too many song references come to mind. :)
 
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RyanB said:
Bah, that sounds complicated...I'm incapable of doing anything more complicated than rolling my face across the keyboard...maybe that's why I like assassin so much.

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Man, way too many song references come to mind. :)
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It's actually very easy! Bait the enemy when they can't attack you, run away, use your two skills that keep you from dying, then run away some more. Only attack if the battle's tide has turned in your favor. 9/10, you don't have to throw a single snowball :p
 
I've been having fun with this quest as well. I created a brand new mule on my 2nd account a few days ago, Xunlai Kennel. She's a Canthan born ranger whose sole purpose in life was to hold all my minipets.

.....However she really wasn't content with that role. In order to do this efficiently, I need a necro on one account and a ranger on the other. I have no necros on my 2nd account and Xunlai is the only ranger.

She was quickly lvl'd up, acquiring her extra 30 attribute points along the way and reached Eye of the North at lvl 15. Let me just say that having Sparky the Fire Imp tossing aoe flame balls into the enemy team is sooooo unfair but makes for some fast games.

Unfortunately, Xunlai leveled up to 20 rather quickly and so I had to bid farewell to Sparky, but she is well on her way to becoming my first Legendary Survivor mule.
 
TheRaven said:
I've been having fun with this quest as well. I created a brand new mule on my 2nd account a few days ago, Xunlai Kennel. She's a Canthan born ranger whose sole purpose in life was to hold all my minipets.

.....However she really wasn't content with that role. In order to do this efficiently, I need a necro on one account and a ranger on the other. I have no necros on my 2nd account and Xunlai is the only ranger.

She was quickly lvl'd up, acquiring her extra 30 attribute points along the way and reached Eye of the North at lvl 15. Let me just say that having Sparky the Fire Imp tossing aoe flame balls into the enemy team is sooooo unfair but makes for some fast games.

Unfortunately, Xunlai leveled up to 20 rather quickly and so I had to bid farewell to Sparky, but she is well on her way to becoming my first Legendary Survivor mule.
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I chuckled reading this whole post, haha. Too bad for my alt he's a necro, and slated to die repeatedly like a necrotic crash test dummy without so much as an LDoA title. :D At least he'll be my first max ebon vanguard rank mule...haha.

The irony is...apart from missing out on lots of quest reward, it would probably be pretty snappy to roll a level 19 fire imp around all the time. As soon as he gets to Cantha to roll some quests from KC, it's on like donkey kong.
 
Ok a little bit of this advice, a little bit of that advice, a little bit of my own invention, took Zandra in and beat it 3 times in a row, then failed. Not easy, but not on my impossible list anymore. Thank you for the different bits of help.
 
Wow, Ryan. Thanks for the tips. I was following the wiki using the one at a time method and I was beating it, but it was taking forever. Now my Ranger is just plowing through it.
 
codyburk7 said:
Wow, Ryan. Thanks for the tips. I was following the wiki using the one at a time method and I was beating it, but it was taking forever. Now my Ranger is just plowing through it.
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They brought snowballs to a snow plow fight. :D Glad these tips could help...I had a bit of trouble at first until I got it down.

I also know that a lot of folks are hesitant to try new things that are only available for a short time and out of their comfort zone. I'm the same way right now with UWSC...want to try but game is too "meta" there and I feel like I need to learn before I go, but can't learn without going.

I would be more than happy to help out any folks that are weary of trying at all...the more the merrier.
 
I would love to try an UWSC run, however I have no hope of joining a pug. I've seen the utube videos and could probably do the SoS build, but i think it's one of those things that you have to do before you can learn it.

However with the current playerbase, you're expected to already be an expert before you're accepted. Most pugs have the "show stones" rule set.
 
What I've been thinking is it would be nice to simply put a few people together and do one team for practice (and maybe some ectos!). Then we can be super pro.

I can bring my sin with your SoS for the lab, so now we just need an e/mo and we should be able to learn that part well after a try or two.
 
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