Build:Team - Margonite Gemstone Farm

The PvXwiki community finds this to be an excellent build. Through the PvX vetting system, it has reached an overall rating in the range from 4.75 to 5.0 and thus qualifies for the highest category of working builds: Great. This build has been designed for the following use: PvE farming PvE team

This build uses a Perma Assassin and a Life Barrier Bonder to tank and kill Margonites in City of Torqua on normal or hard mode through the use of visage spells and the Anur Tuk's Famine spirits.

Perma Tank

Assassin / Mesmer 12 + 1 + 3 Shadow Arts 12 Illusion Magic Deadly Paradox Nightfall Assassin. Deadly Arts Deadly Paradox Stance All of your attack Skills are disabled for 10 seconds. For 5..13..16 seconds, your Assassin Skills activate and recharge 33% faster. 10 15 Shadow Form Factions Assassin. Shadow Arts 16 Shadow Form Elite Enchantment Spell For 22 seconds, you cannot be the target of enemy Spells, and you gain 5 damage reduction for each Assassin enchantment on you. You cannot deal more than 26 damage with a single skill or attack. 30 1 5 Shroud of Distress Factions Assassin. Shadow Arts 16 Shroud of Distress Enchantment Spell For 62 seconds, if you are below 50% Health, you have 8 health regeneration and a 75% chance to block attacks. 45 1 10 Great Dwarf Armor EotN No Profession. Deldrimor rank Great Dwarf Armor Enchantment Spell For 22..40 seconds, target ally has +24 armor, +60 maximum Health, and an additional +24 armor against Destroyers. 10 1 5 "I Am Unstoppable!" EotN No Profession. Norn rank "I Am Unstoppable!" Shout For 16..20 seconds, you have +24 armor and cannot be knocked down or Crippled. 30 5 Ancestor's Visage Factions Mesmer. Illusion Magic 12 Ancestor's Visage Enchantment Spell For 9 seconds, whenever target ally is hit by a melee attack, all adjacent foes lose all adrenaline and 3 Energy. 20 1 10 Sympathetic Visage Prophecies Mesmer. Illusion Magic 12 Sympathetic Visage Enchantment Spell For 9 seconds, whenever target ally is hit by a melee attack, all adjacent foes lose all adrenaline and 3 Energy. 20 1 10 Death's Charge Factions Assassin. Shadow Arts 16 Death's Charge Spell Shadow Step to target foe. If that foe has more Health than you, you are healed for 209. 30 ¼ 5 Template code

• If you're comfortable with only one copy of Visage you can take degen or a PvE skill to help kill rangers.

Equipment

• Max Blessed Armor with a minimum of 45 energy
• Enchanting staff preferably illusion for wanding down survivors

Usage

• Maintain skills 2 through 5.
• Group casters and paragons in a tight ball.
• Drag melee to the ball and start maintaining your visages
• Pick up drops

Life Barrier Bonder

Monk / Ranger 11 + 1 + 3 Protection Prayers 5 + 3 Healing Prayers 7 + 3 Divine Favor 11 Beast Mastery Mending Core Monk. Healing Prayers 8 Mending Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains +3 Health regeneration. Target ally gets healed for 32 Health. 2 10 -1 Life Barrier Prophecies Monk. Protection Prayers 15 Life Barrier Elite Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, damage dealt to target other ally is reduced by 50%. If your Health is below 50% when that ally takes damage, Life Barrier ends. Target ally gets healed for 32 Health. 5 2 15 -1 Life Bond Core Monk. Protection Prayers 15 Life Bond Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, whenever target other ally takes damage from an attack, half the damage is redirected to you. The damage you receive this way is reduced by 30. Target ally gets healed for 32 Health. 2 10 -1 Balthazar's Spirit Prophecies Monk. Smiting Prayers Balthazar's Spirit Enchantment Spell While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains adrenaline and Energy after taking damage. (The amount of adrenaline gained increases depending on your rank in Smiting Prayers.) Target ally gets healed for 32 Health. 2 10 -1 Optional Core No Profession. Unlinked Optional Optional Optional. Blessed Signet Core Monk. Divine Favor 10 Blessed Signet Signet For each Enchantment you are maintaining, you gain 3 Energy. You cannot gain more than 17 energy in this way. 10 2 Edge of Extinction Prophecies Ranger. Beast Mastery 11 Edge of Extinction Nature Ritual Create a level 8 Spirit with 160 Health and 50 armor. If a non-Spirit creature within range dies, Edge of Extinction deals 40 damage to all creatures of the same type that are below 90% Health and within range of the Spirit. This Spirit dies after 118 seconds. 60 5 5 Rebirth Core Monk. Protection Prayers 15 Rebirth Spell Resurrect target party member. Target party member is returned to life with 25% Health and zero Energy, and is teleported to your current location. All of target's skills are disabled for 3 seconds. This Spell consumes all of your remaining Energy. 5 10 Template code

Optional should be:

• Vital Blessing
• Strength of Honor (For killing left-overs.)
• Heal Party
• Mindbender (For quicker placement of bonds.)

Equipment

• Max energy armor
• High energy staff

Usage

• Lay all of your bonds on the tank and then cast balthazar's spirit on yourself.
• When the tank pings come into spirit range of the mob and lay down EoE.
• Pick up loots.

Counters

• In Hard mode finding proper placement for the spirit is key due to melee scatter.

Video

• The first group :

• Full Torc'qua (Jadoth killed) :

http://www.twitch.tv/lenoska/b/318149025