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Bulletproof Maniac · Feb 27, 2011, 05:10 AM // 05:10

thanks very solid guide

Plutoman · Mar 11, 2011, 04:25 PM // 16:25

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Originally Posted by Xiao Erh

Reading OP's post, I gather he/she is basically using a ritualist to farm everything for the consets. Doable but slow and using the VwK build is faster in NM imo as an SS build is slow in NM, hence in HM. Ele or Mo farming North Kryta in HM yields lots of bones and dust. Ele farming in HM at Jaga Moraine will net lots of iron. 55 HP Mo or Ele can also get lots of iron in Skyward Reach. For dust go further from ToA to Talmark Wilderness where there are more Fog Nightmares. UW is much better for Rit Solo for ectos and dust rather than FoW. 6-9 ectos per run is not uncommon.

Where in the UW do you go to get 6-9 ectos per run, what the hell?

I've done in significantly and I rarely get more than 2, it's typically 1-2 ectos per run, and that's with practice and speed. The runs aren't exactly 'fast', either. A vengeful doesn't work there anymore for rit solo's.

On a side note, it is a good guide. There *are* better spots for certain builds and professions to farm for certain materials, but he was trying to make an open guide - where someone can come in with little to no money and turn it into a lot, without the class restrictions.

Xiao Erh · Mar 12, 2011, 07:12 PM // 19:12

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Originally Posted by Plutoman

Where in the UW do you go to get 6-9 ectos per run, what the hell?

I've done in significantly and I rarely get more than 2, it's typically 1-2 ectos per run, and that's with practice and speed. The runs aren't exactly 'fast', either. A vengeful doesn't work there anymore for rit solo's.

On a side note, it is a good guide. There *are* better spots for certain builds and professions to farm for certain materials, but he was trying to make an open guide - where someone can come in with little to no money and turn it into a lot, without the class restrictions.

I don't know how you farm in UW but I do with rit solo and I get more on average and getting 1 or 2 ectos is rare. I never said VwK is to be use in UW as SS is definitely a better option.

It is an open guide and meant for someone and that someone can either have a one build wonder to farm everything or have a few toons of different professions suitable for farming different spots. A someone does not mean a single char only with only one toon. OP never did mentioned any single class at all for farming consets.

fb2000 · Mar 13, 2011, 07:37 PM // 19:37

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Originally Posted by Plutoman

Where in the UW do you go to get 6-9 ectos per run, what the hell?

Maybe he is doing most of UW? I know Ive gotten up to 11 ectos from a single run doing labyrinth, ice waste, chaos planes and bone pits

. Of course that does take a while, probably about 90 mins or something

I wouldnt count it as a normal "run" but meh

PS. Or maybe it was 14 ectos, dunno really...

Xerelin · Mar 16, 2011, 08:40 PM // 20:40

6-9..... I must have crap luck, my rit UW farmer gets ~1-4 per run for Lab, Plains, and Pits.

Nightingale 001 · Mar 17, 2011, 09:18 PM // 21:18

hello again

obvioulsy the uw vs fow is causing some concern. Remember that this is for dust...not for ectos or shards!! What you are after is a maximum of dust in a limited time, the rest are just useful bi products. If you want ectos go to the appropriate post.

As stated in previous replies the choices for dust are rather large, i suggested ouside temple or fow , talmark has been suggetsed, as has other areas. UW is not a really good area for dust (or dust salvaging items). You get just as many dark remains in an fow run as you would in an uw run...except that dark remains salvage into 3 times as more dust...so it would mean doing 3 times as many uw runs to get the same amount of dust

Just a rough calculation...in the time it takes to do one run going through plains, lab and wastes, roughly 1 hr, you will accumulate about the same about of dust/dust salvaging drops as you would with 1 run around the starting point in fow, which takes 15-20 mins to clear. In other words you can get 3 times as much dust in the same amount of time doing fow.

Time wise, and for dust, it aint worth doing uw. Even if you do manage 8 ectos per run you would finish with 24 after 3 hours....nice maybe but in fow you would have 18 shards (average 2 per run) and allready enough dust for 30 consets... using uw would be about 10....consets sell for more than 1 ecto each....work it out yourselves you have more money in less time doing fow.

As for the claims of numbers of ectos per run....i stated before...information from only a few runs on drops is absolutly useless. Please take the time to catalogue your runs + average time taken before stating that you get 9 ectos per run...it may have happened once...but what was the average over 50 runs?

The averages given in the orignal post have been worked out over at least 100 runs (i continue to keep updates for myself and nothing has changed since so i consider them stable and so have not updated the figures in the post).

Yet again, this post was designed so that the basic player, with a minimal build, could make consets easily, and use them for whatever. I know that there are probably faster/better ways for each part for the more experienced players. Once you have understood how easy this is...then go play the game and make it faster and easier for yourself with your own type of game play.

Please no more "high in the sky" numbers on drop rates....i took the time to be serious about this before posting....do the same....

Aly Lightningstorm · Mar 18, 2011, 10:36 AM // 10:36

Yeah, FoW is a lot better than UW for dust. And better for farming in general, since ecto drops so rarely and shards so commonly...

NM Jaya Bluffs with an ele gets more feathers though. If you're just after feathers, and not salvaging all the other junk they drop, NM + pbaoe nuke spells is the best way. I average about 100 feathers per 11 minute run with this:

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Just run in between the darkfeathers, cast glyph of restoration, target a nearby enemy and cast spirit rift + double dragon, wait a half a second and cast inferno. Spirit rift will trigger, and then inferno will, a split second later. They'll mostly be dead after that, because those three skills = 500+ damage spike over a few seconds. Clean up the rest with ancestors rage and flame djinns haste. Run to the next group. Rinse and repeat... easy money.

Spiritz · Mar 24, 2011, 06:36 PM // 18:36

Less about fow/uw - like the op said this is for basic farming and new players trying to farm dust may get put off uw/fow because of the builds needed and difficulty/price.
Bk to topic - we need more build variations , been trying spirit spammer with either snowstorm or rad field - both not too brilliant but im after slightly slower kills for more feathers ( yes im mad lol ).
Nuking i find tends to makes runs fast but also thru time less effective and you need to make more breaks - also a lot of almost dry runs were becomming annoying.
I keep seeing the odd mention on feather posts about necros doing it several ways - but builds never said ( get interested then it blows over ).
Btw out of a few moments of madness i attempted a beast master build - pets are real bad at feather farming - you move out of aggro and the idiotic pet decides to heel lol.