Curse

Bio-Flame · Feb 07, 2006, 11:49 PM // 23:49

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Precisely. If you kill anything in Nebo or Scoundrel's, then you trigger the overfarming code.

Don't you mean that IF you don't kill anyting in Nebo you will trigger the code?
If you don't kill nothing other than Ettins inside the Settlement, won't it trigger the code?

It's like farming Griffins on Augury, after a while it will trigger.

SilentAssassin · Feb 08, 2006, 12:16 AM // 00:16

nuee, sry mate but I do think your lying

if every run of you gives 5-150k,... hmm so you got then 15 FoW armours??

oh well... if your not lying well then maybe the ettins just love you

nuee · Feb 08, 2006, 01:31 AM // 01:31

If you have only gotten 10 golds total off of the ettins, then you have only done two or three runs total; hardly a statistical sampling of the drop possibilities. In an hour I usually get 5-7 golds (4 cycles), and I have done many, many, many hours of farming them.

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Originally Posted by Eclair

I dunno, out of the 10+ gold's I've gotten from Ettins, all were major except for 1 superior beastmastery, not to mention everything they drop sells for very little, so I just got annoyed. Might as well go for a consistant source of income rather than bet it on luck.

nuee · Feb 08, 2006, 01:32 AM // 01:32

No, I meant exactly what I said. It's a bugged area.

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Originally Posted by Bio-Flame

Don't you mean that IF you don't kill anyting in Nebo you will trigger the code?
If you don't kill nothing other than Ettins inside the Settlement, won't it trigger the code?

It's like farming Griffins on Augury, after a while it will trigger.

nuee · Feb 08, 2006, 01:36 AM // 01:36

I'm not a liar, and perhaps the ettins do love me, but I also farm them a lot, all of the time. I have 8 characters on 2 accounts, all very well-equipped, well-fed and wealthy thanks primarily to ettin and oro farming.

Most of the people who say they have gotten poor drops from the Kryta ettins either are not zoning correctly, or have given up after a few unlucky cycles. It's a game of skill and persistence.

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Originally Posted by SilentAssassin

nuee, sry mate but I do think your lying

if every run of you gives 5-150k,... hmm so you got then 15 FoW armours??

oh well... if your not lying well then maybe the ettins just love you

Nameless · Feb 08, 2006, 02:15 AM // 02:15

Wait, so nuee, you start from Beetletun, not killing any Ettins at Nebo, and go to Ascalon Settlement and kill the ettins, then go back to nebo, and go back to Ascalon Settlement, and etc..?

twicky_kid · Feb 08, 2006, 03:10 AM // 03:10

Ettins are not the best source of income. The more people farm that area the more anet will nerf the drops in that area. Doesn't matter how many times you have done it yourself.

Since this place has been lowered and less are doing riverside I bet you can probly go back and get some decent drops. Best farming places are areas most people do not do.

Some of the best drops I've ever got came from lvl 12-14 mergoyles because no one ever farms them.

nuee · Feb 08, 2006, 04:19 AM // 04:19

Almost. You cycle in and out of North Kryta from Nebo on the west and Scoundrel's Rise on the east, killing nothing in either Nebo or Scoundrel's Rise. In other words, kill east thru NK, zone to SR and back, then kill west thru NK, zone to N and back, and repeat the NK kills ad infinitum until your bags are full. Kill ettins and oak trees only, avoid 'goyles, scales and tengu using Sprint.

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Originally Posted by Nameless

Wait, so nuee, you start from Beetletun, not killing any Ettins at Nebo, and go to Ascalon Settlement and kill the ettins, then go back to nebo, and go back to Ascalon Settlement, and etc..?

Eclair · Feb 08, 2006, 06:13 AM // 06:13

Hmmm, I'll try that this weekend. How many golds do you usually get before you get a superior?

capblueberry · Feb 08, 2006, 05:00 PM // 17:00

i managed to get about 6k in 30-40 min last nite troll farming with my 55 monk

icemonkey · Feb 08, 2006, 05:13 PM // 17:13

i have a 55 necro and i do trolls at droks and griffins/minotours

the way i see it and something most people havn't mentioned is that most of the time the guys drop their collectors items (griffon wings, minitour horns, troll tusks) now troll tusks are worth 8 gold and wings/horns are worth 25

so if you are unlucky you will prolly make more cash from selling at merchant by griffons

but griffons dont drop good items like the trolls CAN. I have gotten some good weapon mods to salvage from griffons and i dropped a couple black dyes. but griffons only drop axes swords shields and bows while trolls can drop staffs

I salvage most of those crappy weapons and i get a lot of wood steel and iron its pretty close, there is no real clear winner except that trolls can be a little faster but for my 55 necro i cant kill the troll bosses but i can kill the griffons so i do that and i feel my drops are overall better

Keyote · Feb 08, 2006, 05:35 PM // 17:35

I tried doing ettins the way it's posted here.

First time I got a sup prot prayers and a bunch of crappy majors. Once I zoned out and back in they started dropping nothing or minors and a few majors for over an hour. I dont know what you mean about it being bugged and farming code not kicking in, it seems to kick in almost straight away for me.

From my experience it's worth a try once in a while for a chance at a good sup, but as a regular farming spot it's unreliable.

Pevil Lihatuh · Feb 08, 2006, 06:03 PM // 18:03

I do the ettin run killing the ones in Nebo too. I typically get about 10 purples, 2 sups and 6 minors (rough guess) but the trouble is, most sups are worth no more than 300 gold, majors are rubbish and most minors are, well... bleh. So unless you find tons of Sup Vigs/Monk runes/Fire Magics/Major Vigs(major are pretty common) then I'd say most of the times a run (once each way I'm counting here, so from Beetleton tohrough NKP and back) I probably make about 10 - 15k.

Maxiemonster · Feb 08, 2006, 06:12 PM // 18:12

People, getting 5-150K a run isn't strange at all.. I get about 2-1500K in an UW run. That 1500K is when I find a gold Crystaline Sword, the 2K, if I don't find anything at all. And yes, I don't find gold Crystaline Swords that often, though, if I say 2-1500K, I'm not saying how much chance I have to get that 1500K, since in this case, it's pretty damn small.

Keyote · Feb 08, 2006, 06:22 PM // 18:22

We're talking about ettins, not UW.

nuee · Feb 08, 2006, 06:48 PM // 18:48

Um, no, the OP was on whether there was anything more profitable beyond farming griffons and trolls. So, farming UW is a perfectly legitimate response.

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Originally Posted by Keyote

We're talking about ettins, not UW.

nuee · Feb 08, 2006, 06:59 PM // 18:59

A "run" to me is longer, 4 round trips through North Kryta, as my bags are full after that. Takes about an hour with a very fast ettin-killing build.

Note that the Merchants in LA and Droks will pay more for some minor and major unsalvaged runes than the Rune trader will for salvaged ones. Example: 400g vs 25 g for minor tactics.

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Originally Posted by Pevil Lihatuh

I do the ettin run killing the ones in Nebo too. I typically get about 10 purples, 2 sups and 6 minors (rough guess) but the trouble is, most sups are worth no more than 300 gold, majors are rubbish and most minors are, well... bleh. So unless you find tons of Sup Vigs/Monk runes/Fire Magics/Major Vigs(major are pretty common) then I'd say most of the times a run (once each way I'm counting here, so from Beetleton tohrough NKP and back) I probably make about 10 - 15k.

Keyote · Feb 08, 2006, 07:09 PM // 19:09

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Originally Posted by nuee

Um, no, the OP was on whether there was anything more profitable beyond farming griffons and trolls. So, farming UW is a perfectly legitimate response.

Um, no. I said that in reply to "People, getting 5-150K a run isn't strange at all.".

People didn't believe your 5 - 150k ettin runs, nobody said it was strange to make that much in UW.

General Wise Guy · Feb 08, 2006, 08:11 PM // 20:11

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Originally Posted by capblueberry

Ok i have a 55-hp monk and a solo warrior and i was wondering

Would it b more profitable to solo trolls outside of droks with my monk or kill griffons outside augury with my warrior or vice versa?

Or is there something else that i could do with one of these characters that makes even more money than either of these?

take ur 55 down to the UW... get a N/Me SS/SV partner and ur set. u need, obviously, the corrects skills.
and doing this is 500x more profitable. also minotaurs in elona are easier than the trolls. i can make about 10k an hour at elona. u also can make a large profit poer leveling people there.

Bio-Flame · Feb 08, 2006, 08:25 PM // 20:25

I keep hearing people talking about farming Ettins with Invinci-Monk builds ( 55hps monks).

I have both Invinci-Monk builds and a Warrior farming build. I am fairly good with either of them - I am not the best but I am not the worst neither.

I have to say that Ettin farming goes a lot faster with the Warrior build than the Invinci-Monk. THe 55hp monk build isn't suited to Ettin farming. Takes too long.

Also, I don't understand why the hell the farmer shouldn't kill both the Ettins on Nebo Terrace AND the Ettins on North Kryta Settlement.
It doesn't make sense, it's just a "waste" of Ettins really.
The farming code will trigger sooner or later whether you do or do not kill the Ettins on Nebo.

At least, that's my experience and I farm that place a lot.

Also, 5-150k per run is just plain wrong. Sure, you can get a Sup Absortion Rune and cash close to the 150k.... but that's like to say you can go to the UW, get the Crystaline sword and cash in 1.5 mill (or stuff like that).

It CAN happen..... sure it can. But it's very very very rare.
Rare is rare, common is common. 150k Is rare on Ettin runs. Very rare.