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Remstin · Jun 11, 2007, 07:40 PM // 19:40

Hiho all. I need a build to farm elite tomes. What prof? I dont know, any.

I need something for monk, derv, warrior, ranger, paragon or necro.
I prefer bosses near city exit (Suneh near kamadan will be ok) or this one paragon boss near Sunspear Great Hall. If you know any good build please tell me.

PS. Sorry for my english, im from poland.

Picuso · Jun 11, 2007, 08:10 PM // 20:10

A/E Solo Green Farmer and it's variants:
http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:A/E_Solo_Green_Farmer

I'm using that build and I have some Elite Tomes

Francis Crawford · Jun 11, 2007, 08:10 PM // 20:10

If you're looking for boss-killing builds with those professions, I suggest you look around for W/N Grenths Balance builds, and for 55 HP necro Spoil Victor or SS builds.

Bosses from whom you can't cap elites don't drop tomes, so that Softskin guy on the Plains of Jarin is NOT a good target.

Jihail Darksong in Resplendent Makuun has given me at least 9 elite Paragon tomes and close to that many copies of his green.

Some of the easiest warrior bosses to get to are in Factions. I'm not sure of builds, however. As an elementalist, I found Strongroot the easiest to reach. But he gave me about 4 copies of his shield and no tomes. There also a a couple of often-farmed bosses in Boreas Seabed explorable.

Guildwiki should be your source on all details except builds. For builds this is the place.

lennymon · Jun 11, 2007, 08:19 PM // 20:19

Ranger: [wiki]Zelnehlun Fastfoot[/wiki] easy farm with N/A; for build check out the thread here in farming on Rilohn Refuge Spider Farm (it doesnt say hard mode, but its in there, I use a variation not in the thread, 16 blood, 10 shadow arts, 8+1 or +3 soul reaping: spoil victor, signet of sorrows, awaken the blood, vampiric swarm, dash, dark escape, shadow of haste, and shadow refuge. Theres a video for how to do the run in the thread.) For the run use high health armor, then swap to 55 gear when you pull (or after, but it's safe). funny thing is best bow is his green for pulling.
Warrior: Personally I like the Hulking Stone Elemental boss: [wiki]Cobble Poundstone[/wiki] but he doesn't spawn every time. Alternately I go for the minotaurs outside of Ice Tooth Cave, there's a level 27 boss there, sometimes. (any 55 damage build for these guys, or pick another warrior that always spawns)
Paragon: Newby Island, Nightfall any 55 build, Plains of Jarin, can't remember his name, he's got a few popup friends though. Alternatively [wiki]Jishol Darksong[/wiki] doesn't much like [wiki]Spoil Victor[/wiki]. (Mo/N or N/Mo 55 with spoil victor) but bring lots of regen as you'll be on fire a lot! I tend to run with both healing breeze and blood renewal.
Necro: My opinion is the easiest target is [wiki]Craw Stonereap[/wiki] go 55 with spoil victor, change to high health armor after clearing the way to him, and SV him around the corner

Dervish: probably easiest to just kill Bubahl Icehands or deatheater by clearing with heroes and henches and sending away for boss. (Mo/N or N/Mo 55 build with your high health armor - I tend to run vamp gaze or blood of the aggressor in addition for self heal/extra damage)

Edit: put in build details.

Stormlord Alex · Jun 11, 2007, 08:33 PM // 20:33

/agree with Lennymon on Craw... coincidentally, Zarna Stonewrath, an ele boss, is right behind him. You can easily try for 2 elite tomes in one run. I know you don't need the ele tome... but they sell fairly well

Metalmaster · Jun 11, 2007, 09:03 PM // 21:03

A/E E/A solo green farmer and Woe Spreader. That's ur target for necro tomes.

drakun01 · Jun 11, 2007, 09:54 PM // 21:54

If you hit the Yeti bosses outside of the Luxon entrance to Aspenwood with the quest Return of the Yeti, you can get Warrior, Ranger, Monk, and also Rit tomes.

lennymon · Jun 11, 2007, 10:13 PM // 22:13

Oh, one note: I've gotten elite tomes from bosses which do *not* have a cappable eite, so perhaps they drop less from those bosses, but they DO drop.

attackofthecold · Jun 11, 2007, 11:09 PM // 23:09

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Originally Posted by Picuso

A/E Solo Green Farmer and it's variants:
http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:A/E_Solo_Green_Farmer

Which bosses do you farm with A/E Green Farmer build ? I've tryed ~7 different bosses and shadow form always ends when there around 10% health

lennymon · Jun 12, 2007, 12:39 AM // 00:39

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Originally Posted by attackofthecold

Which bosses do you farm with A/E Green Farmer build ? I've tryed ~7 different bosses and shadow form always ends when there around 10% health

the trick with the build and any build which uses sliver armor, is aggroing enough guys... Like in case of Jishol Darksong you want to pull at least one extra mob of behemoths over for faster damage.

attackofthecold · Jun 12, 2007, 04:24 AM // 04:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by lennymon

the trick with the build and any build which uses sliver armor, is aggroing enough guys... Like in case of Jishol Darksong you want to pull at least one extra mob of behemoths over for faster damage.

I see, i shall try that and i also sorta figured that just didn't know which bosses had enough mobs around them. I know the fastfoot person does, farmed him a few time. Didn't get a tome though

, infact he droped nothing in 20 runs... Do you know of any other ranger bosses that have enough mobs around em for sliver armor to work ?

Remstin · Jun 12, 2007, 05:08 AM // 05:08

Damn...i dont have assasin, is time to make?;/ Dont have anything for dervish or monk in hard mode?

On necro i dont end any campaign. Now i must end nf or factions. Ok, thanks for tips.

ArKaiN · Jun 12, 2007, 05:14 AM // 05:14

E/A is better than A/E for farming purposes.

Kaitoa · Jun 12, 2007, 05:41 AM // 05:41

Ive been farming as a worm at Shattered Ravine. Able to kill 1 Monk and 3 Ranger bosses. Very easy, safe and quick

RainwalkerC · Jun 12, 2007, 07:57 AM // 07:57

wuts the drop rate of elite tomes on these bosses? i heard its fairly low, much lower than they drop their greens

FrAnt1c² · Jun 12, 2007, 08:04 AM // 08:04

Also Byzzr Wingmender is an easy target with spoil victor in HM, just stand behind the rock thats between you and Byzzr ( that way the popups dont pop and you dont get hit by his 'arrows' ). So you only need 55hp and Spoil victor, combined with insidious parasite or an enchant removal for when he has healing breeze on him. Killed him about a 100 times the past 3 days but no tomes yet

( got some passage scrolls to Fow and UW and some nice golds though

)

Picuso · Jun 12, 2007, 08:28 AM // 08:28

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Originally Posted by attackofthecold

I see, i shall try that and i also sorta figured that just didn't know which bosses had enough mobs around them. I know the fastfoot person does, farmed him a few time. Didn't get a tome though

, infact he droped nothing in 20 runs... Do you know of any other ranger bosses that have enough mobs around em for sliver armor to work ?

Try Zelnehlun. You must hide (like necros), and use Shadow Of Haste behind the rock. If Shadow Form is about to expire and Zelnehlun doesn't die yet, use Dash. You will appear behind the rock. Wait to SF and SA, and try again ^^.

holababe · Jun 12, 2007, 09:01 AM // 09:01

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Originally Posted by RainwalkerC

wuts the drop rate of elite tomes on these bosses? i heard its fairly low, much lower than they drop their greens

Did Craw + Zarna about 10 times in HM and the best drop i got was 108 gold.

kielus · Jun 12, 2007, 10:00 AM // 10:00

lolz ;] i was just about to write a guide about elite tomes, that's my discoveries:

necro - cultist mirthuan (with his 3 outcasts in HM they drop very nice goldies actually) with warrior - glad's defence, riposte, deadly riposte, wary stance, dolyak, standing slash, healing sig, defensive stance. i advise to be opposite than the owner of auros mines (if it's kurzick, you need more luxon faction and so on). then just stay almost in priest's aggro range, he'll outheal anything. start with wary stance to stop assa's and keep smashing. you can't kill ritu's tho.
ranger - of course zehlun (stated by many above)
monk - byzzr (same ><")
ele - i personally like the Tarlok Evermind, mo/n with Spoil Victor, use henchies to clear dredges on the way (remember that 2 groups will chase you if you come a bit closer to Tarlok, just lure them away, works like Kaolin's)
warrior - you can always n/mo mo/n the gyala hatchery explorable bosses, takes few sec's to run to there but he's down in no time
para - darksong

guess more to come, was still gathering data ;] nice topic (+ few places i didnt think of like cobble)

attackofthecold · Jun 12, 2007, 01:00 PM // 13:00

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Originally Posted by Picuso

Try Zelnehlun. You must hide (like necros), and use Shadow Of Haste behind the rock. If Shadow Form is about to expire and Zelnehlun doesn't die yet, use Dash. You will appear behind the rock. Wait to SF and SA, and try again ^^.

I've been doing it normaly ~90% of the time i kill him, though nothing ever drops.. Not even gold

Probably killed him ~50 time and about 150spiders around him (usually kill 3 per run) and i'll i've gotten is a few drops of 100gold...