Curse

Anti-Theory · May 29, 2006, 02:55 PM // 14:55

I'm a little new to the farming buisness. I just recently finished my Mo/W farming build and I tried to farm the Mountain Trolls outside of Droks.

Well, i've gotten next to nothing except tusks when the job is done...What gives? I had heard about some farming locations being nerfed because of over-farming. I have seen pictures of some of my guildmates farming trolls and getting great drops (I.E. Superior Runes)

Do i just have extremely bad luck, or are there better places to farm?

benjef · May 29, 2006, 02:56 PM // 14:56

no you just have very lucky guildies because u never get golds from troll farming!

Ulivious The Reaper · May 29, 2006, 03:00 PM // 15:00

i got a black dye troll farming yesterday :| i don't think they're nerfed, they've just been like every other farmable area, you have to get lucky

mrcake · May 29, 2006, 04:26 PM // 16:26

yea i had a gold raven staff and 3 purples all drop at once the other day whilst troll farming, there was also another 3 golds from previous runs that day including a gold fellblade (fell for the other person i was with).
But they usually arent very good..

AC10 · May 29, 2006, 05:06 PM // 17:06

You can't get runes from Trolls...

Julen · May 29, 2006, 06:15 PM // 18:15

The occasional gold items you do get from trolls are crap most of the time. i have experienced that when they do drop a gold they will almost certainly drop some purples as well. This only happens like once in 30 runs or so. So if you want drops, go farm something else.

Only good reason to farm trolls is for xp i guess

Priceykins · May 29, 2006, 08:14 PM // 20:14

Farming trolls I tend to get around 1 gold drop per day(I maybe only make 3 or 4 runs per day) and 2 or 3 shiverpeak keys, which I have had ok success with.

This is really the only place I farm, as I dont know any better farming locations in tyria, ive tried minataurs, griffons, hydras, but the best drops I get are from trolls.

Teutonic Paladin · May 29, 2006, 09:23 PM // 21:23

I don't know. When I first started Troll Farming shortly before the Griffon nerf I recieved a Rare and two purples a run. Now? I get around 10 purples a week. I try to do 10 runs a day. I haven't seen a gold in three weeks.

pork soldier · May 30, 2006, 12:22 AM // 00:22

Lay off the farming spot for a day or two and the drop quality improves. Trolls are uber-overfarmed though, so you probably won't ever get much there.

Master Kimchee · May 30, 2006, 03:17 AM // 03:17

Clearing the troll cave isn't the only thing you can do on a troll run. How bout the avicara? They can drop some pretty nice swords. Also theres a group of Tundra Giants that I like to farm. Good drops every once in a while. Just bring Balanced Stance or it gets messy.

Teutonic Paladin · May 30, 2006, 11:48 AM // 11:48

Depending on your build you may want to try Dolyak Signet as well.

benjef · May 30, 2006, 12:37 PM // 12:37

well i ust did my first run of trolls for about 1-2 monts and i got a black dye

White_Chaos · May 30, 2006, 03:59 PM // 15:59

4 runes today
3 golds
sow it is wourth it

Dahnel · May 30, 2006, 04:24 PM // 16:24

When i (breifly) farmed these for skill points with my warrior , i hardly ever got anything of worth. So after i killed the Trolls i would go kill the Tundra Giants and Azure Shadows (pretty much farm my way upto rankor).

Zephyr Jackson · May 30, 2006, 08:45 PM // 20:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by White_Chaos

4 runes today
3 golds
sow it is wourth it

how in the hell do you get runes from trolls?

Francis Crawford · May 30, 2006, 08:54 PM // 20:54

In many troll-farming builds, you don't run past the avicara. Rather, you kill them.

Ergo, runes, or at least the possibility of runes.

Shiverpeaks chests also give a lot of runes.

In my case, it would be more accurate to say I farm trolls+avicara, actually.

germy · May 31, 2006, 12:12 AM // 00:12

it's weird though. Oh, and now they added this bug to farming, that when you spam damage. I.E. Zealot's fire & 3 spells in 2 seconds the monsters will all run around, not a problem, but a BIG PROBLEM when you are powerleveling people.

Francis Crawford · May 31, 2006, 12:29 AM // 00:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by germy

it's weird though. Oh, and now they added this bug to farming, that when you spam damage. I.E. Zealot's fire & 3 spells in 2 seconds the monsters will all run around, not a problem, but a BIG PROBLEM when you are powerleveling people.

You mean the "bug" they introduced in December?

What are the prices for power leveling anyway? How many troll runs do you need to do to get paid how much? And does the customer need to be alive to get the XP?

Lt.Loring · May 31, 2006, 12:33 AM // 00:33

Well I started farming trolls with my ele recently and Im making some decent money off of it. Since they I could kill the cave entrance in about 1 min and a half it adds up fairly fast. I sell everything to merchants except the tusks, which I sell to people buying them in droks for a decent income.

clark_wilson · May 31, 2006, 12:36 AM // 00:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zephyr Jackson

how in the hell do you get runes from trolls?

To clearify this for everyone. I think he is referring to "Troll Farming" as fighting mostly everything out there. I.e. Tundra Giants and Avicara, both of which drop armor that come in rare variety. This is where they get superior runes.