Velour

It's not really proper etiquette to do 2 entries on a day, but Raisu Palace etc is a new theme than the rest of Echowald and deserves a new blog entry.

Raisu Palace
~21:45 = master reward

Me - replaced Backfire with Mistrust... I don't know, Backfire would've helped against those blasted monks. But Mistrust helped against those eles and necros and mesmers.
Norgu, MoW, Olias with the builds as earlier today.

Sister Tai, Karl, Aeson, Kai ...

ETERNAL GROVE
I had 9 attempts at this with Azure's suggestion : Eternal Grove.

Some modifications I've learned so far:
1. not arc echo, take Cry of Pain
2. Reverse Hex on the horse is stupid. Take Spiritbond and 8 points in Prot.
3. Olias' build isn't good in his suggestion. Take Myst Regen or even better: Dark Bond instead of Sig Lost Souls. If he's a N/Mo, take Res Chant.

For the strategy, also some things I've learned:
1. if ...

So, with the border outside of the Echowald, I had a go at Morostav Trail.

No issues, until:
1. the crazed necro warden and friends (1 rit, 2 eles, plus some more) caused a semi wipe. The minions of Olias were a problem here, they aggroed stuff all over the place. If I ever try this map again, I will do it without Olias. Not sure who should replace him, but he just stepped over the line and annoyed me too much.

2. yeaaah... after the crazed necro warden was ...

Plains of Jarin (one more time!)
Me (backfire, guilt, etc <- instead of backfire, something else would be fine on this map)
OQNEAqwD2CZDyBoB0AAFgC4CgGB +1 FC , +1 Insp, +1+2 Domi

Norgu (conj phantasm, rest as normal)
OQNFAZwyMZHzHYw9CyBZgeAKANC +1 FC, +1 Insp, +1+2 Illu

MoW (still with PS and BR)
OANFQllH3yjT9oqmHODjB7QnANC +1 SR, +1 Blood, +1+2 Curses

Tahlkora (SoA, Dismiss C, RoF, Guardian, ZB, Rem Hex, GolE, (Rebirth)) ...

Drazach Thicket
Same team, same skills...

Nastiest Echowald map, so far. Because of the wardens, of course. It's worst when there is 1 rit, 1 ele, some mesmers in their squads.

At one point, it worked nicely when I called the ele and took care of the rit myself - the ele got all the interrupts, and the rit killed himself through backfire.

But that only worked at one point. At another, the henchs refused to hurt the ele and rather did anything ...