Curse

undead living · Mar 16, 2012, 05:12 PM // 17:12

Has anyone found a decent area/route to get elite tomes? or have found a higher percentage of them dropping somewhere?

Bright Star Shine · Mar 16, 2012, 06:32 PM // 18:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by undead living

Has anyone found a decent area/route to get elite tomes? or have found a higher percentage of them dropping somewhere?

It's random and pretty much the same everywhere.

@Andrew I tried the Undercity (with the Plague up) and used the build that Glorg used for Hell's Precipice, although I would take A/E with Glyph and perma Dark Escape (Kappa hit hard) and it was a 1:30 run that would yield 0-2 chests, Plagueborn and Kappa. So if you want to farm it, it's not so hard.

AndrewSX · Mar 16, 2012, 08:27 PM // 20:27

Mmmhk, i'll give a shot to Kappas. Only concern...how is the chance of getting the Kappa shield (including worthless ones, i mean just get the skin drop), and which are the other things getting out those chest?

If is rare as an echo, and apart that skin there aren't any other drops of interest...i'll figure out why so few persons farm those.

system.fan · Mar 16, 2012, 09:52 PM // 21:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewSX

Mmmhk, i'll give a shot to Kappas. Only concern...how is the chance of getting the Kappa shield (including worthless ones, i mean just get the skin drop), and which are the other things getting out those chest?

If is rare as an echo, and apart that skin there aren't any other drops of interest...i'll figure out why so few persons farm those.

chance to get one = rly rly low
rarer than echovald = by far imo
other drops from chest near kappa = celestial items (many), grinning dragon axe, clouded maul + other canthan/tyrian skinned stuff...

Kiki Go Boom · Mar 16, 2012, 10:49 PM // 22:49

Best way to get Kappa Shields are to just farm them rather than opening Kappa chests, imo. The chests in undercity drop more of the stuff that vermin chests drop and hardly ever any Kappa Shields.

Farm them outside Gyala. 55 monk can kill them easy

Blackzilla · Mar 16, 2012, 10:49 PM // 22:49

finally got that diamond aegis drop from pongmei that i have been hunting for, still missing the iridescent. Still a lot of chests to go to max my lucky title so maybe ill get lucky...
Shame the shield was single mod

Kiki Go Boom · Mar 16, 2012, 10:55 PM // 22:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blackzilla

finally got that diamond aegis drop from pongmei that i have been hunting for, still missing the iridescent. Still a lot of chests to go to max my lucky title so maybe ill get lucky...
Shame the shield was single mod

Congratz man!! I've never had a diamond drop. Ever.

Bright Star Shine · Mar 17, 2012, 02:49 AM // 02:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blackzilla

finally got that diamond aegis drop from pongmei that i have been hunting for, still missing the iridescent. Still a lot of chests to go to max my lucky title so maybe ill get lucky...
Shame the shield was single mod

Never had a Diamond Aegis, and I'm closing at over 13k chests on my accounts combined... Still waiting. Had bunch of Outcasts/Echo's/GoTH's/Gothics/Amber/Ornate shields though... But also still waiting for a Diamond/Irridescent

spun ducky · Mar 17, 2012, 04:37 PM // 16:37

I had a diamond drop in pong mei yesterday single mod crap though.

superraptors · Mar 22, 2012, 02:57 AM // 02:57

canthan hierarchy from my view:

iridescent>diamond>bladed>outcast>guardian of the hunt>emblzaoned>gothic defender>echovald>amber>ornate>plagueborn shield>others

Bright Star Shine · Mar 22, 2012, 12:33 PM // 12:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by superraptors

canthan hierarchy from my view:

iridescent>diamond>bladed>outcast>guardian of the hunt>emblzaoned>gothic defender>echovald>amber>ornate>plagueborn shield>others

I'm guessing we're talking rarity over looks, at which my experience must disagree.

Iridescent>Diamond>Bladed>Outcast>Ornate>Amber>Got hic>Echo>Emblazoned>Embossed>Randoms

I get quite some Emblazoned's while running in Pongmei, while I almost never get any Ornates, I've effectively gotten more Ambers than Ornates in the past few weeks. I think I got 4 Ambers and 2 Ornates.

That's just my experience tbh, at about 14k chests across 2 accounts.

The Mountain · Mar 22, 2012, 02:38 PM // 14:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bright Star Shine

I'm guessing we're talking rarity over looks, at which my experience must disagree.

Iridescent>Diamond>Bladed>Outcast>Ornate>Amber>Got hic>Echo>Emblazoned>Embossed>Randoms

I get quite some Emblazoned's while running in Pongmei, while I almost never get any Ornates, I've effectively gotten more Ambers than Ornates in the past few weeks. I think I got 4 Ambers and 2 Ornates.

That's just my experience tbh, at about 14k chests across 2 accounts.

What my 21k chests have told me:

Iridescent>Diamond>Amber>Bladed>Gothic>Ornate>Echo >Outcast>Kappa>Emblazoned>>>>(HUGE DROP-OFF HERE)>>>>Embossed> Randoms (If by Randoms you mean Tyrian skins, then I'm not sure I agree...chest running for those skins in Cantha is harder than getting the Echo-related ones, methinks).

I'm actually not positive I agree with the Iridescent > Diamond, but it's just too close in my opinion. It all depends, of course, on luck any given day. I've had 3 ambers in less than an hour and then none for a few weeks.

Kappa and Outcast aren't THAT rare, in my opinion, if you're running in the right areas. I think they feel more rare because people don't run them as much. By the way, running for Kappa on noob island is much better, so you can avoid the celestial-related drops (of course, a nice cele wand is never a bad thing :-)) Although, I do agree that farming them off of Kappas is the way to go!

Icecream · Mar 22, 2012, 03:35 PM // 15:35

I'm at 35k chests and have never got 1 Iridescent so agreeing with The Mountain

Kiki Go Boom · Mar 23, 2012, 05:14 AM // 05:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Mountain

I'm actually not positive I agree with the Iridescent > Diamond, but it's just too close in my opinion. It all depends, of course, on luck any given day. I've had 3 ambers in less than an hour and then none for a few weeks.

I think it's more Iridescent=Diamond. In my 11k chests, I've never gotten a diamond but I've had an iridescent drop.

-----------------------------------------
For the kurzick shields, from my experience it's Ornate(in gold)>Gothic>Amber>Echovald>GotH

I once had a GotH drop in two consecutive runs and those aren't the only ones that have dropped for me. Imo, anything that is mob specific (like the goth, kappa, outcast) aren't very rare because if you want one, just run those specific chests and you'll have a decent number of them in a couple of days (depending how long you chest run each day

).

-----------------------------------------
One shield that most of you are forgetting about is Spiked Targe! Idk about your experiences but I've had less of them drop than Bladed/Amber/Echovald. They drop from Jade Brotherhood/Am Fah chests. What do you guys think of them??

superraptors · Mar 23, 2012, 07:15 AM // 07:15

same rarity as bladed actually

undead living · Mar 24, 2012, 04:43 AM // 04:43

I actually got a very decent Ornate a q9 tact +45^enchant and -2^stance. Also did some runs last night. 6 runs and I got 3 Echos (two in the same run (both q9s)) I have never seen a diamond drop or iridescent except for a screenie. I say iridescent/diamond>amber>Exalted aegis (only Elite chest for tyrian)>Gothic>Bladed>GoTH>Kappa>Outcast>Echo> ~INSERT MEDIOCRE SHIELDS~

system.fan · Mar 24, 2012, 11:00 AM // 11:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by undead living

I say iridescent/diamond>amber>Exalted aegis (only Elite chest for tyrian)>Gothic>Bladed>GoTH>Kappa>Outcast>Echo> ~INSERT MEDIOCRE SHIELDS~

sry dude but NO WAY that amber, gothic, GotH, and especially Exalted are rarer than Kappa oO

Bright Star Shine · Mar 24, 2012, 01:24 PM // 13:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by system.fan

sry dude but NO WAY that amber, gothic, GotH, and especially Exalted are rarer than Kappa oO

To be honest, Exalted's are not rarer than Kappa per se, but there isn't a good farm to chest run them. If you want to farm them, you'll need to actually participate in the Deep/Urgoz to get them. But once there, they're easier to acquire. The problem with farming them really is that when you want to do an Urgoz/Deep run, most guilds resort to SC'ing them and skipping almost every group, leaving very few to kill for drops.

I would also like to argue that Echo fits the same bill, they're not really that rare, most of them are just complete and utter shite.

AndrewSX · Mar 24, 2012, 05:30 PM // 17:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bright Star Shine

To be honest, Exalted's are not rarer than Kappa per se, but there isn't a good farm to chest run them. If you want to farm them, you'll need to actually participate in the Deep/Urgoz to get them. But once there, they're easier to acquire. The problem with farming them really is that when you want to do an Urgoz/Deep run, most guilds resort to SC'ing them and skipping almost every group, leaving very few to kill for drops.

You can just trade the speed of completion of area (skipways are under 10 mins, an records are 6-7 for deep/urgoz iirc) for killing stuff with a caster spike, slower but still efficent...

Did some of Deep/Urgoz that way with guild, killing most of the mobs on our way (and still getting times around a cons), and there were a quite good number of gold OS drops (zodiacs mostly, but seen Exalteds, Oni blades and dragoncrest also, just to mane a few), excluding chests on the way (that you can stop and open) and final one.

Then you obviosly have to be lucky with mods/req, but that's another story.

(and stop ppl who do not know the value of OS stuff from merching them. a guy gave to merch a +44/-2 stance Exalted, q9 tact. cause he said he can have the insc one which is better cuz u can mod it.)

Bright Star Shine · Mar 24, 2012, 07:02 PM // 19:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewSX

You can just trade the speed of completion of area (skipways are under 10 mins, an records are 6-7 for deep/urgoz iirc) for killing stuff with a caster spike, slower but still efficent...

Did some of Deep/Urgoz that way with guild, killing most of the mobs on our way (and still getting times around a cons), and there were a quite good number of gold OS drops (zodiacs mostly, but seen Exalteds, Oni blades and dragoncrest also, just to mane a few), excluding chests on the way (that you can stop and open) and final one.

Then you obviosly have to be lucky with mods/req, but that's another story.

(and stop ppl who do not know the value of OS stuff from merching them. a guy gave to merch a +44/-2 stance Exalted, q9 tact. cause he said he can have the insc one which is better cuz u can mod it.)

I know, but my guild and the guilds I know have no interest in partaking in such an activity unfortunately. Ironically, on a Deep skipway, I got a q9 tac Exalted -3/60 once.