Ambersnout / Ashengate tips?

[Borena M]

Just wondering if anyone has tips for Ambersnout. We almost had him last night. I was trying to use Thorn Wilting on the tanks, but it wasn't protecting from the DS like it's supposed to (any ideas on when that will be fixed? - thought it was working in Demi).

Thanks

[Brohg]

Thorn Wilting doesn't protect players. Thorn Wilting negates any DS a player has cast ON them, so that they can get the benefits of the DS buff without damaging the monsters that attack them. The usefulness is *extremely* narrow. I've heard that the cleric reverse-DS debuff has been disabled somehow in the Ambersnout event since I was there, so the only thing left to reasonably kill those mobs is ranged melee (arrows, shuriken, axes etc) and offhand attacks from dual wielding characters with Slippery Strikes AA maxed out. They'll have to equip a non-melee primary to keep from dying to their own autoattack button.

[Taldrid]

My guild beat that event 4 times and that was it...and we regularly farm AG/FC at this point...its one of those that the RvR and time spent isn't worth the hassle...sorry no suggestions on strat tho...only was there for 1 and I think it was before they changed the cleric debuff