Curse

zwei2stein · Jun 29, 2009, 05:40 PM // 17:40

Just team up:

600/smite to get N/E/Mo bosses, Perma to get warrior boss (and trigger spawns; 600 can do this, but warrior groups right outside are pita and have too strong healers if they get clumped.)

Fast, easy.

Ixillius · Jun 29, 2009, 05:45 PM // 17:45

I've only had the patience to get my dervish through factions, was working on getting my necro, paragon and rit through it once i had time.

ill tell you one thing, 130 isnt fast and isnt easy in here lol.

edit:And enchant remove makes it impossible.

Dont try to 55-130 this :P

lewis91 · Jun 29, 2009, 06:17 PM // 18:17

Lol Spirit Spam Rit lolled through this area, even huge groups of wardens fell aslong as i spammed the spirits.

Only problem was the warrior boss, i got to him, but couldn't kill him because the pop ups tore through my spirits too fast.

the_jos · Jun 29, 2009, 06:34 PM // 18:34

No need to kill W boss for the others to spawn

drunknzelda · Jun 29, 2009, 06:37 PM // 18:37

1 run, 2 Carvings, a Superior Vigor, 5 gold items and 2 Elite Tomes, Gg.

Ixillius · Jun 29, 2009, 06:44 PM // 18:44

nice~

1 mission run...

1 carving :/ *3 heroes*

WhiteAsIce · Jun 29, 2009, 07:11 PM // 19:11

ARRGH I just salvaged three of them yesterday after running for greens! Time to waste more time getting these now.

Coney · Jun 29, 2009, 07:47 PM // 19:47

Farming Craw and Zarnas solo in Arborstone, using Ra/N. Getting Kurzick blessing and bringing H/H to kill first 10 wardens on the way (for 700 total Kurzick Faction), then flagging them back to entrance. Each run takes 4 minutes.

10 runs, 40 minutes later (no chests appeared, even ran down towards Nick solo while mana recharged):
7k Kurzick faction!
5 stone carvings
1 elite ele tome
1 reg war tome
1 green staff stonereaper
2 gold scrolls Berzerker's
1 gold FoW scroll
1 gold UW scroll
80 dust
60 granite
40 iron
30 tanned hide
~1k misc assorted others (vendor trash - covers blessing cost)

Not too bad, drop-wise - but not stellar either (nice to get semi-decent Kurzick faction tho). Too bad this nick trophy wasn't last week, for the over-weekend green bonus...

EDIT:
2 hours later, tried again. Not so hot this time. 10 runs, 40 minutes later (no chests appeared AGAIN!!!, even ran down towards Nick solo while mana recharged):
7k Kurzick faction!
2 stone carvings
1 elite nec tome
2 gold weapons
1 gold scroll Hero's
1 gold FoW scroll
80 granite
30 iron
40 tanned hide
~1k misc assorted others (vendor trash - covers blessing cost)

Hmm, do collector trophy drops depend on how many are farming them?!... LOL, I bet no, but I heard this once before (in this thread?).

Ashantara · Jun 29, 2009, 07:56 PM // 19:56

You can get your carvings faster if you exit from Altruum Ruins and run right to where the Warrior Boss is located. The columns there do spawn Stone creatures.

mazza558 · Jun 29, 2009, 08:53 PM // 20:53

How to make 9k in 10-15 minutes with no assistance needed:

1. Create a Discordway H/H team with easily-spreadable hexes and conditions. Preferable if you have your own hexes/conditions too. Bring a couple of MM skills spread across the 3 heroes. The new Spirit Spamming in PvE makes this much quicker.

2. Leave from Altrium Ruins and kill the two Warden groups.

3. Head right so that you're going straight north up and past the building. Kill any groups along the way that get aggroed.

4. When you get to the courtyard bit with Dredge groups, stick to the hard right to avoid aggroing the middle group (waste of time having to kill this group). Keep going round the outer edge and West across the bridge for the first group of Stone Guardians just before the boss. Kill these and move up to the boss, and kill the second group.

5. After all foes are killed, turn around and head back the way you came until you get to near the start again. This time, go up the ramp to the left and follow the route through to reach the other 3 bosses. Two of the bosses will spawn a Guardian group when approached, but it is nearly impossible to aggro two bosses at once.

6. You should have 2 or 3 Stone Carvings. Sell them in Atrium Ruins for 3k each and enjoy the free money.

7. Rinse and repeat for any additional funds. A fast discordway + spirit spamming run can be done in 10-12 minutes.

(I posted an adapted version of this on PvX here)

disarm76 · Jun 29, 2009, 09:05 PM // 21:05

Went left on arborstone explorable. killed the 3 bosses continued to warrior boss (4-5 groups in-between). back the same way and killed the spawns (easy now the bosses are dead). Made over 70k now. (with me(moebius), 2 monks, ele and ss)

Black Metal · Jun 29, 2009, 09:06 PM // 21:06

I'm running 600/smite. Anyone else having trouble killing the Monk boss? He self-heals (duh)

Tender Wolf · Jun 29, 2009, 09:09 PM // 21:09

I've been using the 3 necro method for the first time. Working okay so far except the monk boss likes to use Smite Hex on Pain Inverter so he takes a while to die. That's in HM though. Only got three, a friend got two from one boss. I just bought the last two.

Will try for some more later. Got the Stonereaper and and Stonereaper.

From Nicholas:
30 aged hunter's ales
10 champagne poppers
10 bottle rockets

Worst gifts EVER! I don't use any of that stuff.

Snograt · Jun 29, 2009, 09:27 PM // 21:27

Spirit spamming - fun too ^_^

Usual crap from Nick, though - 1 keg, 3 balls, the rest not worth mentioning.

Covah · Jun 29, 2009, 09:38 PM // 21:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black Metal

I'm running 600/smite. Anyone else having trouble killing the Monk boss? He self-heals (duh)

He kills himself eventually. i use SV on my bar and use it on him + warriors at the start so it kills him faster.

Kerwyn Nasilan · Jun 29, 2009, 11:00 PM // 23:00

There was a quest that remove the groups of warden from where you enter in Altrum and on teh way to warrior boss, what quest is this?

EDIT: Song and Stone makes them disappear.

Coney · Jun 30, 2009, 04:31 AM // 04:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by mazza558

How to make 9k in 10-15 minutes with no assistance needed: ...

Hmm, I'm not too sure about this.

I tried this first time in NM, as I knew I could blow through them fast and not worry about fighting the boss and the guardians at the same time. I went far right to the warrior boss first, and about 8 minutes later, very few drops (not even 1k worth) and 0 carvings.

I did it again two more times in HM, using my boss solo farm technique for Craw and Zarna, then bringing the H/H along to warrior boss, then back for guardian spawns. It only took an extra 10 minutes (14 total), and gave an extra 1500 Kurzick rep. But only 2 carvings the first run, and 0 the second...

EDIT: tried HM a third time, 2 carvings in 15 minutes - think I'm back to 4 minute boss farms... I did notice this run and 1 prior that spawning the guardians apparently causes more chests to pop (3 chests last run)...

Voodoo Rage · Jun 30, 2009, 04:47 AM // 04:47

I found a Spirit Spammer (I was a using a ranger) and Mindbender/IamUnstoppable to run by the first warden group was effective at solo'ing the 3 bosses toward the west.

Coney · Jun 30, 2009, 05:11 AM // 05:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Voodoo Rage

I found a Spirit Spammer (I was a using a ranger) and Mindbender/IamUnstoppable to run by the first warden group was effective at solo'ing the 3 bosses toward the west.

I found back in the day (~6 months ago) that killing some MOBs prior to soloing Craw/Zarnas in HM guaranteed that the bosses would drop 1-3+ items each, virtually EVERY time. In fact, every single boss I've killed this way today (kill 10 MOBs on way to Craw/Zarnas - over 50 'solo' boss kills) has dropped something.

When I was running past those MOBs to solo kill only the bosses, I found that almost 2 out of 3 boss kills resulted in ZERO drops. In fact, I found that over 2-3 hours of running it each way (kill 10 MOB then 2 boss for ~3hr, kill only 2 boss for ~3hr) that the drop rate for elite tomes and greens also showed this 3:1 correspondence (3 times as many boss drops when killing the 10 MOBs first) - so strikingly strong that I suspected it to be statistically significant, but never ran an analysis.

Killing these 10 MOBs only makes the run take about 1 minute longer (3m vs 4m), and has the added advantage of letting the boss give nice Kurzick rep (200 for the 10 MOBs, and 220/240 for each boss).

There was a neat thread on this board at one time, with a couple nice HM farm builds, that discussed this in detail. However, the guy who started the thread was apparently an @-Hole, and was perma-banned (and all his threads/posts were deleted). Oh well...

Attached image contains my last 4 boss runs in a row - fairly typical really (8 more solo boss farms that each had drops):

Aussie Boy · Jun 30, 2009, 07:38 AM // 07:38

Well that was easy on my very first run just took my War and 3 necro hero build an a healer and headed straight ahead killed a few
groups then headed left to the 3 bosses 1st boss dropped 2 stone carvings 2nd fire boss dropped 3 and the monk boss? dropped 2.
Presents still sucked merch stones myst tonics 3 balls and aged ales.