Warden build for Infinite Archive

r34lian

I'm planning to farm some infinite archive and would be doing it in duo.

As per recommendations I need to pair heartland conqueror with ice furnace.

Now ice furnace is heavy armour set and heartland conqueror is craftable so wouldn't it be better to craft heartland conqueror as light armour and ice furnace on weapons? Would there be dps increase?

r34lian

I'd also be using oaken soul ring

Xuhora

sure thing there would be a dps increase. there would also be a dmg taken increase, which is the main point of the later stages in EA. mob DO hit hard in there

Balibe

Heartland Conqueror is viable if you pull a couple (or more) Attuned Enchantment (AE) visions. I typically run an Arcanist, if I pull a couple of AE visions, I will switch from Bulwark to Heartland with Weakening Glyphs on weapons. The AE vision is enhanced a lot with Heartland with a Weakening Glyphs on weapons ......

Kite42

Smells like a subforum post to me.

Treeshka

Pair Ice Furnace with Heartland Conqueror as you said in your post. But make sure to have at least five heavy armor pieces and to reach the resistance cap which is around 33000 for both resistances, while you have Minor and Major Resolve active of course.



Personally running this build for all my Archive runs, and of course here and there some skills, sets and enchantment changes happen based on the bosses. You can adjust this for Oakensoul Ring easily since my backbar is mostly for buff skills.

But having a backbar enchant for later Arcs is a game changer. Especially with Attuned Enchantments you can lower the damage of the bosses to almost zero.

CoronHR

i have a warden one bar with heavy armour and a damage mitigation ability slotted (the one from the assault line that reveals enemies). i can't remember the sets, and i can't look right now b/c of maintenance, but i can say that out of all the one-bar magicka classes i've made -- and i've made one of each -- the warden has got the farthest in the archive. almost to arc 4 tho'at, although i had to stop b/c i had to go (and incoming complaint -- you can't say your g**d*mn progress)

moo_2021

CoronHR wrote: »

a damage mitigation ability slotted (the one from the assault line that reveals enemies).

major protection buff is not 10% mitigation in reality, more like 2%...

tsaescishoeshiner

I use Ice Furnace on my Oakensoul warden duo Archive build--I can beat Gothmau as high as Arc 6-7 and overall get as far as arc 8--sustain gets tricky. I run 32k armor and 45k health--the damage is enough for a duo, but the enemy damage just ramps up endlessly.

I found that Leeching Plate didn't offer that much healing per second because of the small AoE and mobile nature of a lot of fights. I'm currently using Desert Rose as a way to restore Magicka while I'm blocking, which gets tricky in Arcs 7-8 against Marauders with a lot of adds up. I also tried Syvarra's Scales, which was nice for damage, but I felt later-Arc Gothmau fights made me want some more sustain.

If you want to use Heartland Conqueror--what trait are you trying to double, or which enchantment if you're using Infused?

r34lian

tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »

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If you want to use Heartland Conqueror--what trait are you trying to double, or which enchantment if you're using Infused?

Infused on big prices like chest, leg and head while divine on rest

For weapon would go with charge