Curse

Wasabi Odp · Apr 11, 2006, 02:04 AM // 02:04

Maybe Troll farming out of droks might be getting better drops

i was pl-ing somon when i found TWO (2) black dyes in a single run
I guess I was very lukcky!

Murder In China · Apr 11, 2006, 02:13 AM // 02:13

Trolls sucks downright. They had suffered a nerf in the past.

You were just lucky with those drops, nothing more.

Francis Crawford · Apr 11, 2006, 06:09 AM // 06:09

That could have happened farming hulking stone elementals too.

But congratulations on your good fortune!

Arkantos · Apr 11, 2006, 06:11 AM // 06:11

I found 2 whole black dyes during ruins of samia. Am I lucky now?

Opeth11 · Apr 11, 2006, 06:18 AM // 06:18

No, Bloody Death, Ruins or Surmia is clearly the most elite farming place there is for black dyes. You are amazing to accomplish such a feat.

Trolls. I didn't go outside of Droknar's for 2 months, come back to power level a friend. Bam, 2 gold items. Sure, one of them came off Avicara, but it's all pretty magical to me.

RARE RAVEN STAVES!! YEAH!!

Matsumi · Apr 11, 2006, 06:44 AM // 06:44

I think it probably had something to do with having another person in your party, but pretty lucky however. I usually just get garbage from trolls, sometimes a silver dye or a shiverpeak key if I'm lucky.

Twiggy · Apr 11, 2006, 07:00 AM // 07:00

I was thinking about it, since most of the bots have already been taken care of, why not improve the drops outside of droks?
I've read somewhere that personal farmers are not a problem for Anet, so why not?

Omnidragon42 · Apr 11, 2006, 08:41 AM // 08:41

Speaking of black dye...

Lv 7 char ftw

Poison Ivy · Apr 11, 2006, 08:44 AM // 08:44

I got 1 Shiverpeak Key in 12 runs. My best drop.

Screw troll farming...

Omnidragon42 · Apr 11, 2006, 08:50 AM // 08:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Poison Ivy

I got 1 Shiverpeak Key in 12 runs. My best drop.

Screw troll farming...

I got like 3 in two runs. On my war, who hasn't been there in a while.

Naxohs Seralna · Apr 11, 2006, 09:34 AM // 09:34

I got a black dye there on the first run with my mist form ele.

swiftygem · Apr 11, 2006, 10:26 AM // 10:26

And speaking of luck.....

With Expert salvage kit.....

Sagaris · Apr 11, 2006, 10:47 AM // 10:47

I got my first black dye yesterday in a troll farm run. Woohoo! And in about 10 runs I got about 6 keys. Too bad the chests didn't spawn. Damnit.

Big_Iron · Apr 11, 2006, 10:48 AM // 10:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by swiftygem

And speaking of luck.....

With Expert salvage kit.....

Happened to me too recently on a piece of armor with Sup Vigor. I was freaking pissed.

Claytonius · Apr 11, 2006, 12:13 PM // 12:13

The only black dye I've ever had came in pre-searing on the back side of the mountain. I've gotten gold drops and superior runes, but only one black dye. I'm always amazed at folks who get multiples.

Griff Mon · Apr 11, 2006, 01:43 PM // 13:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by WoodyDotNet

Happened to me too recently on a piece of armor with Sup Vigor. I was freaking pissed.

I thought that wasn't supposed to happen anymore.

tuna-fish_sushi · Apr 11, 2006, 01:48 PM // 13:48

IDS farming ftw on black dye 2 in one run of course. To bad 10 runs still no IDS.

eternal pho · Apr 11, 2006, 01:56 PM // 13:56

i often solo farm trolls with my w/mo using the griffon build (btw it still works if u know how to use it)
i usually get a shiverpeak key every run and a gold every 4 runs.
each troll run consumes no more than 3 mins of my time.

Slaadlord · Apr 11, 2006, 02:05 PM // 14:05

recently my friend and I power leveled my monk in this area(best area to level up imo). my buddy would get the usual array of crap, as where I would keys! lots and lots of keys! recieved 9 keys in one night. 5 in one run alone. 2 of those keys gave me very good gold items from a chest( 1 in 10billion chance). so I agree with Matsumi, I think its because of the other player being in the area with you.

Avarre · Apr 11, 2006, 02:25 PM // 14:25

I like farming trolls, so to sum it up:

Moderate chance of rares from trolls, usually shields/staves. However due to the quantity farmed antifarming code is hit really fast, so this goes unnoticed usually.

They drop a lot of black (and other) dyes. I've gotten something like 10 from them, out of 13 throughout GW. Plenty of keys too.

Chest drops are primarily purple, gotten some nice 15^50 stuff but better to sell the keys.

Avicara on the way also drop rare armors fairly often, and aren't bad to farm.