Changes: Portal:Speed Clears

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Welcome to the Speed Clear Portal!

Welcome to the Speed Clear Portal! The Speed Clear Portal serves as a main page for all of the numerous Speed Clear content located around the site.

Elite Areas

Dungeons

Bogroot Growths
- Manly Spike
- Sinway

_{Frog Scepter}

Catacombs of Kathandrax
- Manly Spike
- Spearway

_{Emerald Blade}

Raven's Point
- Naga-way

_{Eaglecrest Axe}

Rragnar's Menagerie
- Stormway
- Manly Spike

_{Dryad Bow}

Shards of Orr
- Snow-way

_{Bone Dragon Staff}

Faction Farms

Introduction to Speed Clears

In PvE, the concept of speed clears for dungeons, elite areas and to farm faction has become extremely popular. The idea of a speed clear is simple: get the end reward in the minimum time possible to maximize the chance of a rare drop or amount of Faction gained in a given time inteval. Speed clear builds are usually quite area specific and generally focus on spiking with AoE or skipping foes. Some of the most popular speed clear builds include: Mesmer Spike, where balled foes are spiked with armor-ignoring AoE damage; Manly Spike, which uses a combination of Hundred Blades and Whirlwind Attack to mass trigger Mark of Pain and Sinway, a build where every party member has Shadow Form.

Links

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All working SC builds

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+| style="background: #fff3d6; border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold;" | <div align="center">Welcome to the Speed Clear Portal!</div>
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+Welcome to the '''Speed Clear Portal'''! The Speed Clear Portal serves as a main page for all of the numerous Speed Clear content located around the site.
+|}
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+|-
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+*[[gww:Fissure of Woe|Fissure of Woe]]
+**[[Build:Team - FoW Manly Spike|Manly Spike]]<br>
+**[[Build:Team - FoW Mesmer Spike|Mesmer Spike]]
+*[[gww:The Underworld|The Underworld]]
+**[[Build:Team - UW Advanced Terraway|Terraway]]<br>
+*[[gww:Domain of Anguish|Domain of Anguish]]
+**[[Build:Team - DoA Trenchway|Trenchway]]<br>
+|}
+{| cellspacing="7" style="width: 100%; background: white; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;"
-==Introduction==
+| style="background: #fff3d6; border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold;" | <div align="center">[[PvXwiki:Dungeon Overview|Dungeons]]</div>
-In PvE, the concept of speed clears for dungeons, elite areas and to farm faction has become extremely popular. The idea of a speed clear is simple, to get the end reward in the minimum time possible to maximize the chance of a rare drop or amount of Faction gained in a given time inteval. Speed clear builds are usually quite area specific and generally focus on spiking with AoE or skipping foes. Some of the most popular speed clear builds include: Cryway/FoCway, where balled foes are spiked with armor-ignoring AoE damage; Manly Spike, which uses a combination of Hundred Blades and Whirlwind Attack to mass trigger Mark of Pain and Sinway, a build where every party member has Shadow Form.
+|-
+|
+* [[gww:Bogroot Growths|Bogroot Growths]]
+** [[Build:Team - Bogroots Manly Spike|Manly Spike]]<br>
+** [[Build:Team - Bogroots Sinway|Sinway]]<br>
+<sub>''[[gww:Frog Scepter|Frog Scepter]]''</sub>
+----
+* [[gww:Catacombs of Kathandrax|Catacombs of Kathandrax]]
+** [[Build:Team - Kathandrax Manly Spike|Manly Spike]]<br>
+** [[Build:Team - Kathandrax Spearway|Spearway]]<br>
+<sub>''[[gww:Emerald Blade|Emerald Blade]]''</sub>
+----
+* [[gww:Raven's Point|Raven's Point]]
+** [[Build:Team - RavenSC NagaWay|Naga-way]]<br>
+<sub>''[[gww:Eaglecrest Axe|Eaglecrest Axe]]''</sub>
+----
+*[[gww:Rragnar's Menagerie|Rragnar's Menagerie]]
+**[[Build:Team - Rragar's Stormway|Stormway]]<br>
+**[[Build:Team - Rragar's Manly Spike|Manly Spike]]<br>
+<sub>''[[gww:Dryad Bow|Dryad Bow]]''</sub>
+----
+*[[gww:Shards of Orr|Shards of Orr]]
+**[[Build:Team - SoO Snoway|Snow-way]]<br>
+<sub>''[[gww:Bone Dragon Staff|Bone Dragon Staff]]''</sub>
+|}
+{| cellspacing="7" style="width: 100%; background: white; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;"
-===Controversy===
+| style="background: #fff3d6; border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold;" | <div align="center">Faction Farms</div>
-A select group of players were initially driven to faster times by a series of competitive threads on [http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10212734 GWGuru], where it was first shown that speed clears halved the time of conventional builds. In response to the change in Ursan Blessing, speed clears became mainstream and the average time to complete elite areas significantly dropped. As a result, speed clear builds were, and still are, the focus of skill changes in PvE. Examples of this include the previous changes in [[gww:Cry of Pain|Cry of Pain]] and [[gww:Ray of Judgment|Ray of Judgment]] and the imminent change to [[gww:Shadow Form|Shadow Form]].
+|-
+|
+*[[gww:Luxon Faction|Luxon Faction]]
+**[[Build:Team - MQSC Luxon FFF|MQSC]]<br>
+*[[gww:Kurzick Faction|Kurzick Faction]]
+**[[Build:Team - MTSC Kurzick FFF|MTSC]]<br>
+|}
+</div>
-==Elite Areas==
-Speed clear builds are to get a team of 8 (or 12) through an elite area as fast as possible.
-===[[gww:Fissure of Woe|Fissure of Woe]]===
-*[[Build:Team - FoW Manly Spike|Manly Spike]],
-*[[Build:Team - FoW Cryway|Cryway]]
-*[[Build:Team_-_FoW_FoCway|FoCway]]
-*[[Build:Team_-_FoW_Splinter_Spike| Splinter Spike]]
+<div style="margin-right: 360px;">
-===[[gww:The Underworld|The Underwold]]===
+{| cellspacing="7" style="width: 100%; background: white; border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; margin-top: 10px;"
-*[[Build:Team_-_UW_Dayway|Dayway]]
+| style="background: #fff3d6; border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold;" | <div align="center">Introduction to Speed Clears</div>
+|-
+|
+In PvE, the concept of speed clears for dungeons, elite areas and to farm faction has become extremely popular. The idea of a speed clear is simple: get the end reward in the minimum time possible to maximize the chance of a rare drop or amount of Faction gained in a given time inteval. Speed clear builds are usually quite area specific and generally focus on spiking with AoE or skipping foes. Some of the most popular speed clear builds include: Mesmer Spike, where balled foes are spiked with armor-ignoring AoE damage; Manly Spike, which uses a combination of Hundred Blades and Whirlwind Attack to mass trigger Mark of Pain and Sinway, a build where every party member has Shadow Form.
+<div align="right" class="noprint"></div>
+|}
+{| cellspacing="7" style="width: 100%; background: #transparent; border: 0px solid #transparent; margin-top: 10px;"
-===[[gww:Urgoz's Warren|Urgoz's Warren]]===
+|-
-*[[Build:Team_-_Urgoz_Cryway|Cryway]]
+|}
-*[[Build:Team - Urgoz Manly Spike|Manly Spike]]
+{| cellspacing="7" style="width: 100%; background: white; border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; margin-top: 10px;"
+| style="background: #fff3d6; border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold;" | <div align="center">Links</div>
-===[[gww:The Deep|The Deep]]===
+|-
-*[[Build:Team_-_The_Deep_Cryway|Cryway]]
+|
+The idea of a portal is to help readers and/or editors navigate their way through PvXwiki topic areas through pages similar to the Main Page. In essence, portals are useful entry points to PvXwiki content. However, the raw list may be more useful.
-===[[gww:Domain of Anguish|Domain of Anguish]]===
-*[[Build:Team_-_DoA_Manly Spike|Manly Spike]]
-*[[Build:Team - DoA Caster Spike|Caster Spike]]
-===Estimated Time Taken===
-{| {{STDT}} style="font-size:90%; margin-left:2em; "
-|- style="font-weight:bold; background:silver; text-align:center;"
-| Elite Area || Experienced Guild Team || Regular Guild Team || Pick Up Groups
-|-
-| [[gww:Fissure of Woe|Fissure of Woe]] || align="center" | < 20 minutes || align="center" | < 30 minutes  || align="center" | < 45 minutes
-|-
-| [[gww:The Underworld|The Underworld]] || align="center" | < 30 minutes || align="center" | < 45 minutes  || align="center" | < 60 minutes
-|-
-| [[gww:Urgoz's Warren|Urgoz's Warren]] || align="center" | < 25 minutes|| align="center" | < 45 minutes || align="center" | < 70 minutes
-|-
-| [[gww:The Deep|The Deep]] || align="center" | < 25 minutes || align="center" | < 35 minutes || align="center" | < 60 minutes
-|-
-| [[gww:Domain of Anguish|Domain of Anguish]] || align="center" | < 60 minutes || align="center" | < 90 minutes || align="center" | < 120 minutes
+*[[:Category:All working SC builds|All working SC builds]]
+**[[:Category:Meta working SC builds|Metagame working SC builds]]
+**[[:Category:Great working SC builds|Great working SC builds]]
+**[[:Category:Good working SC builds|Good working SC builds]]
 |}
+{| cellspacing="7" style="width: 100%; background: #transparent; border: 0px solid #transparent; margin-top: 10px;"
+|-
-==Dungeons==
+|}
-Speed clears are generally done for dungeons with sought after drops. There are 5 of 18 dungeons this is commonly done in.
+</div>
-===[[gww:Catacombs of Kathandrax|Catacombs of Kathandrax]]===
-*[[Build:Team_-_Kathandrax_Manly_Spike|Manly Spike]]
-*[[Build:Team_-_Kathandrax_Sinway|Sinway]]
-Drop: [[gww:Emerald Blade|Emerald Blade]]
-===[[gww:Rragar's Menagerie|Rragar's Menagerie]]===
-*[[Build:Team_-_Rragars_Manly_Spike|Manly Spike]]
-*[[Build:Team_-_Rragar_Sinway|Sinway]]
-Drop: [[gww:Dryad Bow|Dryad Bow]]
-===[[gww:Bogroot Growths|Bogroot Growths]]===
-*[[Build:Team_-_Bogroots_Manly Spike|Manly Spike]]
-Drop: [[gww:Frog Scepter|Frog Scepter]]
-===[[gww:Shards of Orr|Shards of Orr]]===
-*[[Build:Team_-_SoO_Sinway|Sinway]]
-*[[Build:Team_-_600| 600/monk 4 Man]]
-Drop: [[gww:Bone Dragon Staff|Bone Dragon Staff]]
-==Fast Faction Farming==
-===Luxon Faction===
-*[[Build:Team_-_MQSC_Luxon_FFF|MQSC]]
-*[[Build:Team_-_MHSC_Luxon_FFF|MHSC]]
-===Kurzick Faction===
-*[[Build:Team - DTSC Kurzick FFF Frenchway|DTSC (Frenchyway)]]
-*[[Build:Team - DTSC Kurzick FFF Germanway|DTSC (Germanway)]]