User:The Gates Assassin/5MinUrgoz

The Idea

Urgoz is a high level dungeon in the Factions campaign on the Kurzick side. When this dungeon first came out, runs would take about 1 hour for experienced groups.

Well, my goal is for us to do it in just under five.

Yeah. Five.

Thank [ZRaw] for the video: [1]

How?

Urgoz Warden is very well defended, but it has one giant Achilles' Heel: The only thing required to open all but one of the gates is to kill the Guardian Serpent in front of it. In short, here is how most of the run goes on a very general level:

1. Run past all enemies before they can kill you.
2. Kill each Guardian Serpent with the skill "You Move Like a Dwarf"

And that's it. Of course, it's not THAT easy. Here's a list of some of the complications:

1. The Shard Wolves like to pop up right in the way, especially on the fire bridge.
2. There is a swarm of Hopping Vampires right at the start and in various other part of the level.
3. There is one part just before Urgoz where you DO have to kill a few mobs.
4. There is one room with two switches that are on opposite sides of the room.

And here's how to deal with each:

The Shard Wolves

Dash allows the person using it to be so fast that they out run the shard wolves spawn, allowing them to get past them 100% of the time. All other players use Ebon Escape to get by them. For parts with multiple spawns, Echo will be used.

Hopping Vampires

The first spawn is incredibly easy to beat. They have a little opening on the right side, allowing everyone to speed right past them with no chance of them catching up, even on hard mode. Later, the happens again, but the leader runner can get by while everyone else teleports to them.

The mobs

This is where everyone needs to be able to actually kill things. Mesmer seems to be the best, but with the elementalist update, this might not necessarily be true. Simply put, monks keep people up and everyone else kills only the mobs that matter.

The Switches

EASY. Two people take death's charge, hit the switches and then ebon escape back down.

tl;dr

• Complete Urgoz in 5 minutes
• Use You Move Like a Dwarf to kill the only things that matter: Guardian Serpents.
• Use Dash to get one guy past the mobs and ebon escape to shadow step to said guy.
• Blow up Urgoz and only one mob with stuff we bring.
• Monks heal and run with us.