[WiK] Riverside Assassination as Ranger

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►War in Kryta
'War in Kryta' is the first beyond questline, taking place after the events of the base campaigns and the add-on Eye of the North. To begin playing this questline either Prophecies or Eye of the North must be completed. Talk to Murro in Lion's Arch to get a meta quest which leads you through the events of this questline.
You will face plenty of interesting foes: Peacekeepers have been introduced, the White Mantle and the few remaining Mursaat learned plenty of new skills from all campaigns. Every encounter is unique due to almost randomly composed enemy parties.


►General advice for this quest
You will face white mantle troops and few jade constructs, but you're in no hurry, so you can play this safely and lure one team at once. Your target is a mursaat mesmer boss which hides in his fort, protected by large forces and an ether seal. If you want to bypass the somewhat difficult encounter with a barrage splinter weapon boss or the ether seal, you could go far into the west and grab a key off other bosses to open a side entrance to the fort, allowing you to skip the most difficult foes. Due to the large distance between the fort and the optional keys, though, it will be faster to safely lure single teams out of the fort and taking the main way in than taking the side entrance. Especially due to three special features of the main entrance:
1) The barrage splinter weapon ranger boss can be attacked through a hill, so all his attacks will be blocked.
2) The ether seal can be skipped, as you can just run past it when all other foes around it are dealt with.
3) The additional white mantle mesmer boss inside the fort is placed far enough off that you can run past him aswell, going directly for your actual quest target.


►Builds used in this video
This build focuses on dealing large amounts of armor ignoring damage with backfire and empathy, finishing targets off with bow attacks, discord and direct damage domination magic skills. Sundering weapon is brought to ensure that there are conditions for the discord necromancer to use and for the ranger to be self-sufficient with his energy.
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