Loot scaling was a concept introduced to Guild Wars in as part of Game Update 20070419 (19/04/07).

The idea was to provide a way for people to still enjoy the challenge of completing areas in small groups or solo, whilst limiting the ability to ‘gold farm’.

Although the concept has been live for a few months now, there are still some misconceptions about loot scaling, what it does, and how it affects you. This spotlight aims to relieve some of these misconceptions, and hopefully turn loot scaling into something that works for you, rather than against you.

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The ‘Melandru’s Annoyance Ranger’ makes use of conditions and interrupts to apply pressure to enemy players. It is able to withstand multiple conditions and hexes through the inclusion of the elite Ranger skill, Melandru’s Resilience. Poison can be spread to a whole party to pressure enemy healers, and Screaming Shot can cause bleeding to inflict further health degeneration on an enemy player.

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Xuekao, the Deceptive is an Am Fah Assassin boss located in Pongmei Valley.

He carries the unique daggers, ‘Daggers of Xuekao‘.

Daggers of Xuekao:

• Piercing Damage 7-17 (requires 9 Dagger Mastery)
• Damage +15% (whilst enchanted)
• Armor penetration 20% (chance 20%)
• Enchantments last 20% longer

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The ‘330hp Resilient Vengeful Bonder’ makes use of the Ritualist elite skill Vengeful was Kahnhei along with the Ritualist skill Vengeful Weapon and the Monk skills Protective Spirit and Reversal of Damage to deal large amounts of damage whilst maintaining a high damage resistance. This build can be used to farm areas in Hard Mode and is considered to be one of the fastest farming builds in existence. The build has been made quite resilient to conditions through the inclusion of Resilient was Xiko.
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Welcome to thebuildblog.com. Here you’ll find builds for the massively multiplayer online game Guild Wars.

Other online build sites tend to be hard to navigate and sometimes don’t contain all the information you need to make the build usable. They usually don’t go into a lot of detail about build variations and area specific usages. We feel that the blog style of thebuildblog.com makes it easier to find what you want, when you want it!

At thebuildblog.com, we aim to make the builds not only easy to understand, but easy to use. We’ll rate each build, indicate difficulty and in the case of farming builds, maybe show you how to farm a boss or two! We’ll also include path maps and youtube videos where applicable, to make your life even easier!

If you find something you don’t quite understand, or think of a way we could improve this site, let us know!

- Kaar