Talk:Shards of Orr

is it just me or is the end part of this dungeon extreamly hard? Axel
 * well if you survived the first levels it shouldn't be a problem. On a side note, try a signet of judgement spike, so fun seeing them all explode in one wave. Jaimes Laig Romarto 15:34, 1 September 2007 (CDT)
 * I cannot figure out how to kill the boss? Anyone done this yet? I never found the crew either. Edit: Finally got it, how annoying, having to kill the boss like 12 times. Got another damn Onyx, what the hell?!Gandorf

i need help getting pass this place, any tips besides spending hours finding a smiting monk? J1j2j3 23:29, 1 September 2007 (CDT)

I've killed the first form like 50 times, but he just transforms before I can kill the second. Anyone know what to do? 72.143.165.87 00:44, 2 September 2007 (CDT)
 * Basically you kill his first form, then his second then his first non-stop until his second form dies. I got him stuck against a wall and just attacked him forever as he kept changing forms. Probably went through about 10 switches before his second form died. If you let off at all his second form heals fast. Gandorf

Christ, but this place is "the fucking bullshit". (Wait till Hard Mode--I think they have really gone just too far, at least make the wizards actually pullable in less than 5 to 10 minutes and only one healer per group.) I guess all those complaints about Smiting Prayers being useless got answered.. sort of. =p Specced Dunk for it just so I could get to the damn Gadd quest. --Nunix 12:15, 2 September 2007 (CDT)

Yeah, glad I spend 2h on that dungeon..for the Key boss on level 3 not to spawn....:S BTW it's not that difficult and I didn't use smite or any holy damage.--disarm 23:34, 3 September 2007 (CDT)
 * Well, I went to the beginning of level 3 to go back to level 2 and then come back up (to see if this time the boss would spawn).
 * As I'm approaching the level 2 portal theres a message 'a door has opened' (or something). I went back and the boss was there!!--disarm 23:43, 3 September 2007 (CDT)

Yes i HATE IT, that didnt work and i just spent 2 hours, with 60 dp crawling! However, if you dont have holy dmg, taking Razah, with spirits and bodyblocking helps, especially in AI parties

Dunno if this adds anything but got a req9 Elemental Sword from the end chest (dunno of people knew it already but it appears to drop from end chests). Also didn't have any trouble with this dungeon except for some stupidities like flagging the heroes and the other player with her heroes on the place where the *key boss* would spawn. Really holy damage is the answer and it appeared that our build was also very strong versus other creatures (stronger than my usual build of 2W, 1MM, 2Mo, 3E) so I say my prayers of improving smiting prayers have been heared...now finish all those dungeons before they nerf it again >,< Shai Meliamne 05:30, 7 September 2007 (CDT)
 * I used the team of two OwAS4YIPckqvjx6T9xrPk7B smiters, LoD monk with hex removal, Lina, Mhenlo, Cynn, Herta and me (run of the mill fire ele) and finished the dungeon within an hour and a half. Possible improvements: if you have another human, bring a tank, a set of healer/prot hero monks and an ele with Wards (vs ele, melee, harm, stability.. the whole shebam, Herta doesn't use them very well).  I also found that taking out the Skeleton Priests first made the rest of the mob extremely easy to kill.  Two Signet of Judgement + Castigation Signet spike did an okay job when timed properly (the knockdown prevented Skele Priest from using any spells).--Mootboot 12:58, 8 September 2007 (CDT)

very tough
It's definitely the hardest dungeon of the 13 I've solved so far, and I've had to chuck several Grails of Might and Armors of Salvation just to make it through. on the upside, the Skeleton Wizards are extremely aggressive, probably because of Shock, which they want to use almost regardless of distance, which makes them easy prey as soon as the monks turn back. A Splinter Weapon/barrage combo might work quite well, at least until you get to the final boss. Maybe take one Channeling Rit with Splinter Weapon and two Barrage/Interrupt Rangers to deliever a good opening strike, the rest of the team being standard to be able to finish the boss as well. I think I'll try that later. --Roland of Gilead (talk) 05:36, 4 September 2007 (CDT)

This is 'wtg' Take a smiter tank (Triple chop, cyclone axe, some more skills, Judge's insight at 6 prayers) Let him tank them, by bodyblocking them while the group stands in a slightly arced line between foes and tank. Snare the foes, deal dmg and heal, always works, as the tank is well known to deal over 200 dmg per skill, per brute, no way the clerics are up with that, the casters will come too, the tank retreats, and your other dmg dealers finish it, be sure to bring RC

skelatons resist pircing damage possibly having a smite monk carry judges insight if barraging or go judges barrager Dstroyer 666 12:25, 14 September 2007 (CDT)

"vanquished" the level, dungeon boss spawned
at first it seemed the dungeon boss had no intention to spawn and give me his key... but then i wandered around killing all the remaining patrols, came back in his chamber and he was there waiting for me. might be the solution? i completely vanquished the level and he suddenfly spawned. Menzies 08:53, 4 September 2007 (CDT)
 * I had a similiar problem, but instead of killing the remaining patrols, I tried opening the lock without the key and the boss appeared.--Mysterial 09:22, 4 September 2007 (CDT)


 * What I found was that once I had liten all of the brazars it told me "a Passage Has Opened Up", I went back to the front door of level three to find a door open where there was some more mobs including a boss. Killed those and when I got back to the large room the boss has spawned.

Map
Removed the bug line that stated the map is wrong, because it was redundant (I explained how to get the dungeon key boss to spawn above). The map had been changed, I reverted that too. Finrod 17:37, 4 September 2007 (CDT)
 * I somehow had to light all corner braziers in addition to the first three in the dark tunnel leading to Nindi on level 3 to make the passage even open up. But once I did it, the keyholder spawned and the hidden away goon, too. -- Yu 16:42, 5 September 2007 (CDT)

My Team For the Win
I had Stonehealer, Tahlkora, and Dunkora all set up as Smiting monks with the following build OwAT0GHD5xkwPQJVfXC1/jETAA, typically Dunkoro is runed as a healer, Tahlkora as a protector, and Stonehealer as a smiter so their att points where all over the place but I focused on the smite att and divine favor.

I used the following build OgMV8CrcZsl3ZxcY6ttyizjR1ITA

Completing the team were the following henchmen: (you will notice no Warriors/Tanks)
 * Mehnlo [healer]
 * Lina [prot]
 * Herta [earth]
 * Lo Sha [illusion]

I did not have any problems once I established the proper pulling procedure. Something like the following was repeated for each mob:


 * Place entire group (excluding myself) about 1.5x the radius of the agro bubble
 * Slowly approach the mob targeting the closet baddy and then fire a normal bow shot using no skills
 * Run like hell away from mob allowing them to focuse on you but keep distance
 * Keep pressing c as ypou lock onto the nearest baddy (it will change as they run) you will either find yourself attacking the wizards or brutts alone without any healers around.
 * Do this procedure a couple of times until all that is lest if the group is the healers. Then Kill Them too
 * Rise and Repeat.

The final Boss battle itself is done in very much the same way. Get him in a corner (he likes to run) and when he dies move the team away from the spirts and focus fire on the soul. After about 5 times of doing this you should have the soul dead.

Shards of orr for Warriors
Simply use this build:
 * Triple Chop, Cyclone Axe, Penetrating Blow, Disrupting Chop, Executioner's Strike, Dolyak Signet, Judge's Insight, Flail.
 * 16 axe mastery
 * 10 strength
 * 8 smiting prayers


 * Hammer version: Earth Shaker, Whirlwind Attack, Crude Swing, Dolyak Signet, Enraging Charge, Judge's Insight, Yeti Smash, Pulverizing Smash
 * 16 Hammer mastery
 * etc etc


 * Take RC Tahlkora
 * Take Attuned Healer Razah with recovery
 * Take Gwen with PD
 * Eve
 * Cynn
 * Mhenlo
 * Lo Sha

Tank DoA style (arch between you and foes, stand around corners, or at a large range) and you will be able to take all. This is the safest and fastest way for warriors.


 * Eh...Heart of Holy Flame > JI if that's your only Smiting skill. Costs less energy, casts quicker, lasts longer, and requires no attribute investment whatsoever. You don't get the Armor Penetration, but that's not a huge deal. Also, dunno why you'd ever use Penetrating Blow. Take Body Blow instead. Or Whirlwind Attack. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 02:55, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

hehe spammable attack ftw

Broken Door?
I tried to do this dungeon, but upon obtaining the key for the first level, I realize that the lock in which that key is supposed to go is behind a locked door - namely, the locked door that key is supposed to unlock. So there I am, unable to go forward because some stupid dwarven engineer put the lock on the wrong side of the door. Any suggestions? I do indeed have Lost Souls in my quest log. Is there something else that needs to be done, such as killing all mobs on the level, singing Yankee Doodle, or doing a Polka?139.147.159.223 16:26, 10 September 2007 (CDT)
 * This happened to me too. You started from Gadd's Encampment didn't you? What you have to do is go all the way to the beginning of the level where Crewmember Shandra is. Once you get close enough she starts following you. Once she starts following you, the door opens. That key is for another door behind the first, so don't forget to take it with you. --Macros 16:34, 10 September 2007 (CDT)


 * This doesn't make any sense to me. I started from Gadd's Encampment but there is not possible way to get back to where Crewmember Shandra is. There is only a door that is shut.??

How to do it... comfortably.
Yes, you can run in a million times with 60DP and beat the boss at the end, but here's a good way to do it without having to do so.

What you need:

3 Smiters.

3 LOD monks.

A BR / Degen blood necro (life transfer is good)

An obsidian flesh tank or a melandrus resiliance ranger.



Smiters can have any good smite build: 2 of mine had Sig of Judgement for elite, the last had Ray of Judgement. Smite, bane signet are musts, any other holy damage spells help. Smite hex is good for 1 or 2 of them, and an extra condition removal cant hurt. Heroes work good here.

Menlho is default LOD. If henching, use Lina and Herta, though you will get killed a couple times. 3 LOD/Heal Party monks with good hex removal is great.

The ranger or tank basically needs to be set to survive, any fighting skills will only be used on the last boss. Ranger: Dryders defenses, Melandrus resilience and whatever else to add armor and blocking against stuff. Troll unguent and healing springs are good, as is dust trap. Interrupts are good for the boss. All party members should have rebirth. Tank: Obsidian flesh build works wonders. Knockdowns are good for the boss.

Necro is self explanatory: Keep energy on the smiters and healers, and degen the crap out of the boss and the monk skeles.



HOW IT WORKS: Flag heroes/hench so you can *just* see the agro on ur radar. (or otherwise as far away as u can). Hiding them behind a corner or obstruction is nice. Use the tank/ranger to run out and agro the baddies, have him or her put on the defenses and absorb blows for like, 10-15 sec while slowly bringing them back toward your team, this will use up the wizards and other casters tough AOES. Once u have them back, have the smiters kill the closest thing, they should be able to kill whatever is closest regardless of any enemy monks, as you should be far enough back that only 1 or 2 enemies lock on and chase while the rest fall away. Repeat process till all are dead, find new agro and continue.

On the boss, kill all the skeles once, then dont worry about them since the dont spawn weapons. Just focus on the boss, try to avoid fire traps and KEEP KNOCKING HIM DOWN. DONT LET HIM USE SPELLS ON YOU! INTERRUPT! Easy money. When the soul appears, flag party far away from them. The soul will chase you and you can face him alone. Keep repeating til its done. Good luck (a consumable to remove DP helps at the very end.)

How to win with just heroes and henchies
I ran three smiting monk heroes, spec'd OwUTMU3C15BYSwroErvLh6LTAA. For henchies I brought Mehnlo, Linna, Cyn and Talon. (Talon's feathered ass was a waste, by the way - bring someone else.) The smiters had ZERO mana issues and generally rampaged through enemy ranks like a pantheon of angry gods hopped up on PCP. Between the smiters spamming Signet of Judgment and Cynn's Meteor Showers the enemy was lucky to stay upright long enough to get a spell off. I myself, a warrior, was spec'd OQASEZKTqiXFkPTNLOkiYcwF. I'd run out ahead of the group and take all the hexes and conditions, throwing "I will survive!" as charged into the biggest concentration of mobs. The monks would then throw Smite Hex and Smite Condition on me, and in so doing, would turn everything in my vicinity to ash. If anything was left standing, I'd finish it off with Light of Deldrimor. I had absolutely NO difficulty taking on two or three undead groups at a time and most fights - even large fights - were over in less than 10 seconds. The last fight saw a few casualties, but I managed to kill the boss in seven incarnation. Easy peasy lemmon squeezie. :-) --Malagra 23:10, 12 September 2007 (CDT)
 * Malagra, I just used your Mo/Me build and rolled through this dungeon. I was on my Rit and found that I needed to go with a restoration build to help the hench monks out. My build ( OACiEykMlORtNOJNN5gBSKexAA ) was built around Spirit Light Weapon and some power heals for when wizards get too close to the party. I found that it worked well all the way to Fendi. We had 3 wipes fighting him, but that was not too much a problem since we had a good morale boost going in. Henchmen were: Mhenlo, Lina, Herta (for her wards and AoE), and Devona. Yep, Devona is entirely worthless for damage down there, but she makes a nice target for all the hexes and conditions as she runs into a mob. Just watch out for her chasing one monster into another mob. It happened twice to me and one of those times resulted in a partial wipe. Lastly, I've tried Gwen out as a Me/Mo signet Mesmer with a full artificer's set. She seems to work out nicely and the added armor is good. Her build is: OQNDAzwOPPAfgJBlUPt+uEZC . Thanks again for such a nice build. --67.101.108.97 16:53, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

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Malagra, have you even tested your build suggestion? Not quite "easy peasy lemmon squeezie" considering that SoJ and the other signets are just too slow even with MoI 48% faster recharge. Kind of long time to just "absorb" damage from lvl 24-28 mobs while you're waiting for the signets to charge back up again. I tried your build suggestion and it could barely handle 1 full sized group. Did not even have a chance with the undead groups containing both a cleric and a priest tossing around SoD like candy.
 * Yes, in fact the dungeon is on "farm status" for me - I've completed it half a dozen times now without issue, and using a close variant of the build I posted above. I'm a bit annoyed that you'd imply that I didn't do any testing, as I spoke of my results right there in the original post. It's like you're calling me a liar. I'm truly sorry the build didn't work for you, and you are, of course, well within your rights to give my advice a "thumbs down," but please lose the attitude.You'll note that my approach was heavily dependent on me, a human player, directing the focus of combat as a warrior. You wouldn't get anywhere near the same results playing as any other class. My apologies if I didn't make that clear.--Malagra 09:47, 20 September 2007 (CDT)
 * Well, I'm sure its not in hard mode that you have tested this build for the monks, they use very badly the SoJ, you could improve by blocking some of their skills but they are unable to run this build correctly. I have tested it with 3 smithing monk they are not able to kill something in the main first attack so not even worht to mention the following with the LONG recharge time.90.14.163.145 18:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * You're not understanding the build's concept. The damage doesn't come from the SoJ and Bane Sig, it's coming from the smite condition and smite hex, the undead wizard's heavy blinding and poison from the necromaster gives a huge amount of damage. Light of the Deldrimor is also VERY useful. Also for some reason I was noticing the monks didn't like to use the Mantra, but I wasn't paying full attention, so it may just have been me. If you are tanking properly and group the enemies around you, it is very easy, but no, it probably is not set up for HM, as it is heavy AoE. And as for using a different class Malagra, that doesn't really matter either. Any type of invinci-build will work as a replacement, I ran an N/D with Aura of The Lich, Mystic Regen, and a couple of other of derv enchants, aura of thorns or something. I did have a hard time with Fendi though. Good stuff! Mcsneaksneak 23:52, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

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I found Avatar of Melandru (with Eternal Aura) and the smite monks extremely useful... Mel Derv: OgCjkurI7SBYXgiX9gsXyXlXYcA Judge's Smiter: OwAT443A5Bva9p+mkFS13lgGBA SoJ Smiter: OwAT443A5Bva9p+GE1Y13lgGBA SoH Smiter: OwAT443A5Bva95Hmk5R13lgGBA Plus Mhenlo, Lina, the interupt henchie, and Cynn. --Dragonaxe 02:54, 17 September 2007 (CDT)
 * Eternal Aura! Great idea! If only I could cram on to a hero. :-)--Malagra 09:50, 20 September 2007 (CDT)

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If you are still having problems with this dungeon skip the smite nonsense and run this instead. Avatar of Balthazar Dervish w/ Fleeting Stability, RC Prot monk to soak up conditions, LoD to soak up damage, SS w/ BR to deal damage and support, finally the most important piece of the puzzle...Deep Freeze/Maelstrom water ele using Mindbender targetting the priest or cleric in the group with a called target followed up by a SH/MS fire ele nuking the frozen and terminally interrupted targets. The other 2 slots you can take whatever you want but this works all the time every time. If the eles drop their spells perfectly they'll never lay a finger on your back line and no smite crap involved.

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Most groups are killable with just E or /E and three Mo or /Mo heroes. Take Glyph of Sacrifice and Earthquake (Dragon's Stomp too to avoid waiting for Earthquake to recharge) and 12 Earth Magic, the three monk heroes should have Ray of Judgement and 12 in Smiting. Target something in the middle of a group and, while just out of their aggro range, click on the three hero's RoJ's. Then use Glyph of Sacrifice and - while holding down Left-Control to call - Earthquake. This will wipe any close-together undead group (as most of them are). That leaves five slots for you, seven slots on your heroes, and four henchmen to deal with everything else. Like anything you miss with the RoJ nuke, things with a lot of health, and things that aren't undead (like Enchanted weapons). So I added some stuff for everything else, lots of interrupts, hex management, condition management. Got all the way to the end and just kept getting repeatedly party wiped after a fairly good start. It became pointless at about 40% DP. I had the Soul to about half-health when I /resign'ed.--Octavia 15:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Hidden Items
There's a Dwarven ghost near the end of level one and and a hidden treasure at the entrance to the boss chamber [Next to the flame traps] Talos935 08:00, 18 September 2007 (CDT)

Not too Bad with Two Humans and 4 Smiters
Use builds similar to above, except use Arcane Echo and Ray of Judgment, find a cleric/priest or wizard in the middle of the pack--usually almost entire group goes down at once (except the Brutes, but they are usually very low in health). Only the End 'Boss' and Brigands are pains, but end Boss can be pulled near and into the Fire Traps. You will have to control the Echo-Ray chain on heroes. We humans were a hammer warrior and ranger, and the other two heroes were a heal monk and (mostly) protection monk, one with Spotless Mind and the other with Spotless Soul.

Skill Captures
Of the 2 elites are impossible. You get a body not found type message after the first kill of Nin or any other kill and after you've killed the Spirit form you get the same message. So you can not capture the 2 skills here.
 * That's because he's not a boss. I won't generalize since I haven't finished every dungeon yet, but it seems none of the end boss creatures in a dungeon are actual "boss" characters.  The lack of an aura should be a giveaway though. -Gildan Bladeborn 10:08, 20 September 2007 (CDT)

beat this ^%#*(! dungeon once

 * and not going back. what a hole. screw the ^hat that made this zone.Palewook 18:56, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Anet
Next time, take time to check your....."stuff". yeaaa --Kendo Bo Master 17:35, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

something amusing
The guild I'm in, the Shards of Orr (SoO), is the very same name as this one.

Talk about conincidence. Luke Danger 02:01, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure "coincidence" is the word I'd use for that.

fire dmg
"The monsters in the dungeon are almost all undead; therefore holy damage as well as fire damage are very useful." That's not entirely true because all skeletons/zombie caster have 70 armor against all kinds of elemental dmg, they aren't weak aganst fire dmg. 3 November 2007

Second form not at full life?
Just did the dungeon with a guildie... In his "fleshy" form Fendi regenerates pretty fast, but his soul form appeared with exactly the same amount of life as last time. So we killed Fendi's corporal form about 5 times, after that his soul was depleted, too. Possibly tactics: Kill the fleshy form, concentrate on killing the crewmen then, retreat if neccessary... We ran 2 humans (A+N)+4 Smiter Heroes+Healer Hero+Protection monk hero. The Necro complained about the foes "dying too fast to place an SS on them!" :) Smiting Prayers ftw here! Some of the opponents are not undead though - e.g. Chained Clerics.--Jorx 00:31, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * He's not supposed to be at full life. To beat him you have to kill the ghost form. That would be kinda hard if he regenerated while you couldn't damage him. --Macros 01:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Map Dots
What happened to all the maps having red dots? I thought they helped show the shortest routes and such. Zeek Aran 14:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Beat the dungeon in HM. AND WE WERE ONLY 4 PPL
We used the 3 man DoA farming strategy and added a bip + BR necro for energy.

Up till Fendi it worked great: same tactics as DoA 3 man farming used. But Fendi was a whole different story.

We used a lot of sweets to buff us up before the fight and about 1-2h till we got to Fendi he was finally dead!!!! Go team!!!

How to sneak in Shard of orr as a sin and not die trying it
Well i have been trying this but my sin cant handle it T_T .i was thinking in use the caster sin build but it will be effective? or any sin here that have an idea to finish this.


 * Perhaps get a decent team, perhaps a preprot. Not shadowstepping in, but rather walking towards em, helps. If you shadowstep, your monks often go outside cast range, and you probably get spiked to death. Happy rushing! --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG]] -- (s)talkpage 17:36, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Beat the dungeon in HM
I, a mesmer, and 3 heroes were running smite at level 12 (nobody has a smite rune). The 4 henchmen were monks, the ele and a warrior. Therefore this dungeon can be beat with heroes and henchmen. You don't need to have 6 monks running smite to beat this dungeon. It took me about 2 hours (and 2 powerstones for the boss). Icyangel Strawberry 21:12, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

600/Smite
Used the same build for the Cathedral of Flames HM Runs. I tried it here..on HM...and it worked! Took about 2 and half hours..and I died twice on Fendi, but I still got 'em. I have a screeny if ya want proof. Rain of a Thousand Flames 12:50, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

There's Baloney and There's Bologna
This dungeon ain't all that, but when you go through one time and can't advance because not enough undead bones (coming from Arbor Bay), and then you come through another time from Gadd's and get the bones but the key is not where it shows on the map, that's real bologna. ANet this bites. Yes, I went all the way back to the beginning to look for Shandra Whatshername the NPC.

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