Urgoz Skipway

Urgoz Skipway is typically run in Normal Mode to farm the end chest for Gaki's in about 6 to 8 minutes. Hard mode is possible with the same builds but it is less forgiving of mistakes making wipes much more likely, requires good seed uptime in the drinker room, and the dasher needs a slashing armor + shield.

Builds

Tank (1x)

/ Dasher
Shadow: 12+1+3, Earth Magic: 12 OwZS85ET6MBM4OTQ0kfV3ldO

• Stay ahead of the team by maintaining "Dash" and jumping ahead with DC and Viper's

FH (1x)

/ FH
Domination: 12+1+3, FC: 12+3, Shadow Arts: 3 OQdTI4/AYy0BBiuMmkmcJoJIoC

• Activate the right lever, ping "Enchanter's Conundrum" on the drinkers

Porogon (1x)

/ Porogon
Command: 12+1+3, Leadership: 12+3, Spear: 3 OQejgyljJT7Y0l8YCM4OAh0k1b

• Activate the left lever, use "Find Their Weakness" either on yourself or the tank

Spiker (Fill with as many people as available)

/ Spiker
Domination: 12+1+3, FC: 12+3, Tactics: 3 OQFTAYBXHaJ4Ew0Z6hmsJwmkuE

• The 3 points in Tactics is useful if the Mesmer brings a low-req Tactics shield. This can be changed to Command instead.

Monk (1-2x)

/ Monk
Divine Favor: 12+1+3, Domination: 12 OwUSAZBTLBMEmO5g0kNBAE0l

• Preferably you want 2 of those, but if you don't have enough damage, you can swap out 1 for an additional spiker.

Me/Mo (1x)

/ Me/Mo
Domination: 12+1+3, FC: 11+3, Protection: 6 OQNDIMsvR0k0l2kmONBLBxDMEA

• Maintain "Life Bond" on the tank after the Recall trick until the end

Walkthrough

• Run through everything
• Kill serpents with Norn shouts
• Wield a martial weapon when in aggro of wolves
• If there is a closed gate in front of you, keep running in circles to break the wolves
• Spike down the 4 drinker groups
• AEcho CStorm Urgoz

Room 7 (energy degen)

Recall trick

• Just before stepping on the bridge leading to the serpent at the end of room 6, the tank should use Recall on a mesmer (call the target so they know to keep your range).
• The tank waits outside the room (not stepping on the bridge) while the FH uses HoS to jump down the second Bridge; the team then kills the Serpent.
• As soon as someone has left the room (half way across the bridge leading out), the tank can run in. Do not Recall out until the whole path is shown on the compass, or the shadow step will fail.
• Cast Life Bond on the tank and wait to run into the next room.

This tactic allows the team to continue running without stopping, neither popping the enemies in the room nor leaving someone behind. If someone died earlier in the run, the Recall trick is unnecessary, and if you don't have a full team, it's common to bring a hero for this purpose.

fast Recall tactic

Bring 2 Mesmers with this bar if you want to go even faster and use the other Recall strategy:

/ Recall
Domination: 12+1+3, FC: 12+3, Shadow: 3 OQdTAYB/HaJ4EY6pzhmsJwmkuE

• One mesmer Recalls the other and waits outside the room.
• After killing the serpent and leaving the room, the second mesmer Recalls the tank and waits.
• The first mesmer walks into the room and Recalls out as soon as the path is in range.
• The two mesmers run together - if the team is still in range, they can just EE to catch up.
• When the first mesmer's skills are off cooldown, cast Recall again on the second mesmer.
• The second mesmer Recalls out to the tank.
• The first mesmer Recalls out to the second mesmer.