Curse

Jugalo Dano · Jan 13, 2010, 05:18 AM // 05:18

I just used the generic spirit spam build with my ranger and soloed the line of djinn's up to nick, avoiding the double saph mob's. got em all in less than 2 hours. My last run got 2 in one run. maybe I was lucky?

mrvrod · Jan 13, 2010, 05:58 AM // 05:58

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Originally Posted by DBMan

A wall of text quoting another wall of text.

Ok, so they were verbose, but topical. You were terse but irrelevant.

They really need to stop with the rare drops for 10 sparklers. Either that or go all the way, how about 5 ecto for 1 gift?

This week so far isn't turning out too bad. A guildie and I got 5 in 10 trips, so after tonight hopefully we'll have the other 5. I just don't think Nicholas was intended to be a full time job, especially considering the "gifts" you get.

SharonC · Jan 13, 2010, 06:26 AM // 06:26

My guildies and I were lucky in that we had enough of the ruby djinn essences in storage to get Nick's gifts this week. Got lots of fireworks, some merchant summoning stones....and a mini brown rabbit.

All three of us really want a mini Yakkington, and instead we have gotten a mini Gwen Chan and a mini rabbit. And about 4 Traveller's staves, and 3 of the Bo Staves, 3 vampiric dragon swords, and one icy dragon sword.

This is across 5 accounts, and we have only missed getting gifts twice since Nicholas started handing them out. I know some people have said they haven't really gotten any of the rares from Nick. Looking at the list of what we have gotten, it seems we have been a bit blessed even if we don't get the one thing we really want.

Oh well, there is always next week.

Teknikaali · Jan 13, 2010, 07:21 AM // 07:21

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Originally Posted by Fril Estelin

long runs in Dahja Vestibule (up to the room full of gold)

This is what I did with my friend last night. Rt600/SB-Smite, it's pretty easy path with 2 bosses. Took us around 4 to 6 runs through that path and ~1h until we had enough essences for both of us ^^

capashen · Jan 13, 2010, 07:31 AM // 07:31

i did 10 long run and i have dropped 0 essence

Popeye1906 · Jan 13, 2010, 10:14 AM // 10:14

Look at it this way, they gave us something else to talk about then our accounts security problems.

Voodoo Rage · Jan 13, 2010, 03:42 PM // 15:42

What worked for me last night (got 5 in less than an hour) was to just kill the 1-2 Djinn right at the Bone Palace entrance using the worm and then resigning. Maybe it's just anecdotal but it seemed that if I did it too fast nothing would drop, but if I waited like 20 seconds after zoning at least SOMETHING would drop. In HM was was also getting a few golds and ele tomes too (and a minor soul reaping rune!).

Fay Vert · Jan 13, 2010, 04:26 PM // 16:26

It's the way the loot nerf was implemented. Speed of kill reduces your drops and when you first zone you start off as if you have just max killed.

June Bug · Jan 13, 2010, 06:44 PM // 18:44

Got my 5 in about 40 minutes taking down the djinn in Alkali Pan. Silly thing is I got 3 essences in the second run, then lots and lots of runs without any drops, and then 2 more in the last few ones. Only got 15 summoning+5 merch stones and 5 myst. tonics from nick today tho.

Pandora's box · Jan 13, 2010, 08:38 PM // 20:38

Nope, nothing, nada. Spent about 90 minutes on several locations, including the solo locations mentioned. But for the 3th time in 4 weeks I gave up. Next time I'll stick to the 30 minutes rule; if 1/5 of the requested items or more are dropped in 30 minutes its worth to continue. Else its a waste of time

aspi · Jan 13, 2010, 10:17 PM // 22:17

So I am kinda new compared to most if not all people here. Is it really unique what he is looking for every week? Or were there earlier times he needed ruby djinn essences?

This week I got me some sparklers, 10 summoning stones, 5 tonics and 5 red candies.

June Bug · Jan 13, 2010, 10:42 PM // 22:42

He's never asked for the same thing twice, no.

Wheel of time · Jan 13, 2010, 10:45 PM // 22:45

As far as i know there hasnt been a repetition. Yet...
Due to the big amount of collectible stuff it will probably take some time to run through them all ( as i guess they'll want to keep it unique as long as possible [ giving "GW is dead" criers less to complain about]) but they must come back sometime although it might be longer than a year.

PS: i wrote it on my iphone + english isnt my first language therefore excuse spelling or grammar mistakes

Gli · Jan 13, 2010, 11:12 PM // 23:12

Unbelievable.

I didn't get a single roaring ether heart last week, in a few hours of farming. This week, I only need a single ruby essence to go with the ones I saved and what do I get for an hour's farming the hidden city?

Yes, you guessed it: three bloody roaring ether hearts and no ruby essences whatsoever. Also, I'm up to 64 roaring ether claws.

Coney · Jan 13, 2010, 11:20 PM // 23:20

There might be a way to farm the ruby key boss in the Dasha mission. I had an ASSN that hadn't done the mission yet, and I wanted to get that quest to pop more djinn, so I completed the mission in NM. With 8 H/H, it died and dropped the ruby key and an essence.

I tried farming it in NM/HM by going 8 H/H to it, then flag them away and solo it (and kill the ~3 ruby djinn on the way). About 5 tries NM, nada (runs took ~3 minutes). About 2 tries HM, nada (~5 minute runs).

It seems no matter what I do, I get about 1 ruby essence drop every 20-30 minutes farming. Oh well, 2 so far, not gunna worry too hard about this week...

lilDeath · Jan 13, 2010, 11:25 PM // 23:25

Well now... tonight is a much better night... I managed to get 15 Ruby Essences in just over 2 hours of farming... with a total of 130 Djinns killed (which were mostly Ruby's). 6x 20min runs.
I ignored the Sapphires if they were alone or the last left in a group.
I still got another 7 Sapphires too, about 10 golds and 300 dust.

Tonight's success is absolutely mind-boggling, since I got ONE on Monday, in just under 2 hours and ZERO Tuesday night, in also close to 2 hours of farming.

Try and figure THAT drop-rate / % / ratio crap out!

June Bug · Jan 13, 2010, 11:30 PM // 23:30

Fwiw, I had some luck outside Bone Palace, I put in couple of more hours and got another 11 to sell off. Ppl might go try there.

Mustache Mayhem · Jan 14, 2010, 12:01 AM // 00:01

vestibule too solo (not mission).. had 3 in first run then other 2 in next two runs

SpiritBond · Jan 14, 2010, 02:01 PM // 14:01

I'm 600/Smiting outta Dasha Vestibule, up to boss, get at least 1 Essence per run. Got my gifts, probably just farming 2 more to get a set of 5 and sell.

- Luka

aspi · Jan 18, 2010, 02:29 PM // 14:29

So any guesses where he will be tonight? Realm of torment maybe collecting armbraces?

Maybe it will be an easy one this time, but please no more elementals...

Btw isn't there anyone who kept track of past searches and compared this to the total amount of available collectable items? Ok while typing this it seems like a lot of work