After seeing some comments and discussion of how to get the Exterminator challenges done, I made a guide to how I did it.
Transcript:
Hello and welcome to my guide to farming poison kills.
There are three challenges which can be obtained by getting kills using poison. Unfortunately this challenge is pretty difficult and long winded, as enemies need to actually be killed by the poison itself, not just be poisoned when they die.
The title, portrait and Banner for poison kills look like this. The title is for 500 kills, the Banner is for 1000 kills and the portrait is for 2500 kills. With this guide, you should average around 100 poison kills a match, meaning you can get the portrait in around 25 games.
First off, the build. Ill be using an Alchemist, specialized in poison skills. You will need to be at least level 10 to be able to do this, which is pretty low considering. for reference, you can get a character to level 10 by completing a single perilous run, or 3 threatening runs.
The skills you will be using are Stealth, Knockout Bomb, Poison weapons and poison cloud. Only Poison weapons and poison cloud need upgrading.
The passives you will want are Explosive Toxin to create additional poison clouds and Alchemy Mastery to increase poison duration. Its worth noting that only 1 explosive toxin cloud can be active at a time, killing additional poisoned enemies wont trigger another one to appear until the first one has expired.
Now, you will want to select the Orlesian Chateau for this on Routine difficulty. The Chateau has lots of doorways you can use to break the line of slight of aggroed enemies, which is vital for this strategy to work. You will want to use a heal on kill ring if possible aswell, though this isn't mandatory.
You will also want to be fighting the Venatori or Red Templars for this. If you roll demons, quit and reroll. The most common enemy in the demon faction is the Wraith, which happen to be immune to poison, so the potential number of kills is greatly reduced.
When starting a zone, just waltz all the way over to the last section, aggroing everything along the way, the double back on yourself, so everything meets around about the middle. try and make sure there is a doorway nearby when you do meet, so you can break line of sight of ranged units who would otherwise **** all over your poison party.
When enemies are clumped up enough, use stealth to make them stop whatever they were doing. then throw a knockout bomb to put them all to sleep and activate poison weapons. Neither of these skills will break stealth, so you have plenty of time to wriggle your way to the center of the group and drop the poison cloud on them.
Due to the poison cloud not actually dealing any immediate damage, the enemies wont wake up, meaning the cloud should kill them without them posing any threat to you whatsoever. Shadows, Behemoths, Stalkers and Mages cant be put to sleep, so if there is any of these enemies around, make sure you shank them in the face quickly before throwing rohypnol at everything else.
Repeat this until the whole zone is completed, then move onto the next one.
Once you have gotten all the way to zone 5, place the banner and go back to the font room. Hide around the doorway and wait till enemies come around the corner. Then just repeat the usual tactic until everything is dead. The Templar Commander can be put to sleep so remember to keep a close eye on him and throw a knockout bomb his way is he starts using any of his abilities. The Venatori commander isn't too much a problem, just make sure you avoid her wall of fire attack and energy barrage when she does them.
I hope this helps you grind out poison kills with as little of your soul being destroyed in the process as possible. Thanks for watching, goodbye.
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....switching to nice "Cold Banner"
