Hamlet Defense: All Crafter/Gatherer Achievment Discussion

[TheVedis]

So thought I would touch on this with the community and see who else has attempted this.

What my group has learned so far that has been hindering us.

1) Any damage taken by the archers CAN NOT be healed. This makes regen rather useless in fact until they start attacking the caches.

2) Keeping the attack and defense buff up at all times is a must, as well as the attack down Debuff, and hp down prefered.

3) Sleep does not seem to really work on anything.

4) Enmity drops are nice in theory, but by the time the caches are really under attack, none of the archers are really alive so it only buys you 5 seconds of confusion.


So far we have used a 5 crafter and 6 crafter setup. The 6 crafter setup kept up all 3 buffs better(before we knew better), and we were able to cycle hp down and attack down nicely.
5 crafter setup we sacrificed regen for 3 attack and 2 defense buffers, and kept the debuffs up all 3 at a time all the time, but somehow this did worse.


Any stories from others trying this achievment so perhaps we can solve it?

[Madruk]

Everytime you turn something in as a crafter or gatherer, you get aggro. Use it to your advantage to disperse the mobs so they aren't beating on one npc. Sleep only sleeps new waves as they enter, allowing you to break them up some. If they're already engaged it does nothing. You're going to have to time them as new waves come in (but I'd rather have poison up all the time).

Also I'd only use the hate reset if they're engaged on a cart npc that's close to the front line. Make them switch to something near the third line archers so they have to run through all of them to get to it. If too many are on one npc you have to do turn ins fast to get them off before it dies. With that many crafters you could have a couple standing by just for that purpose.

[Felis]

Don't we need hamlet level 5 for the achievement?

[Duuude007]

Don't we need hamlet level 5 for the achievement?

It must be a typo. These can be done even at level 1.

[Colino]

It must be a typo. These can be done even at level 1.

That's good to know... I'll have to give it a try again, I sort of gave up because I was expecting they'd have to be level 5.

[Felis]

What gear do you use in a crafter/gatherer only party? ^^

[Colino]

What gear do you use in a crafter/gatherer only party? ^^

I'm assuming anything goes, when I gave it a try we were mostly hasty handing the turn-ins to be as quick as possible.

[urhryu]

did it weeks ago.
2 DOL and 6 crafter.
Won it on first attempt, wasnt tat difficult as we expect.

Just assign e 2crafter each to do 1 type of buff.
piority is npc attack buff, assign ur experience crafter that can do fast buff for that.
Reason is if any1 get aggro, run back across bridge, ur buff'ed npc can get e aggro back easily with it.