Curse

GodsPatriarch · Dec 05, 2007, 04:39 PM // 16:39

I just started farming with my 55 monk.I have been farming outside hot springs for the last few days and on my first day i made about 10k in about 3 hours.. (woot) but the thing i have been noticing is that i have been getting the same exact drops..same bow gold drop..nothing else..well along with bones and orr emblems..but the only god drop i get is the same bow over and over again...whats up with that? i idented it once to see what it was..junk..so im forced to sell it unident for 1k a piece..now nothing aint dropping all day..am i doin somthin wrong?

SimonSez · Dec 05, 2007, 04:42 PM // 16:42

same thing happens to me while Im raptor farming. whit about 10 turtle shell longbow, 8 of them had the inscription with halves casting time of spells 10%

GodsPatriarch · Dec 05, 2007, 04:45 PM // 16:45

i have been gettin junk from the hydras as well..is there anyone that will drop anything worth while?

Lima · Dec 05, 2007, 04:50 PM // 16:50

Trick is to try and find somewhere to farm that nobody else farms, your own little unique spot. The drop rates will always be better compared to those of heavily farmed areas. If you can't farm an area, alter your build so you can farm it... or change your proffession and try an entirely new build or a variation of one you might have already used

Valeria · Dec 05, 2007, 05:22 PM // 17:22

just reminds me on the thread about getting same drops when you enter the area at exactly the same time. But this is really strange at least it never happened to me in the past.

Hole Sale Traps · Dec 05, 2007, 05:32 PM // 17:32

i make good money farming hot springs sure the drops suck but most smart people merch everything they pick up and not care since the skins there are all unwanted now. but yea after farming it for at least 3 or 4 hours strait the drops are the same which i don't mind i get at least 8 golds a run out of the 70+monsters there.

spirit of defeat · Dec 05, 2007, 07:22 PM // 19:22

Something I notice is that my drops get better when I switch my farm spots,
doing ice cave 3 times drops go down
but doing ice cave, first city and something else, give better drops.

but that's just my experience.

TSS · Dec 05, 2007, 10:00 PM // 22:00

I farm there too, i noticed i get much better drops from the Cursed Lands* over nebo terrace. What i tend to do is when i farm, i farm a couple of time one spot, then another, switch chars, farm another spot or two, change chars again, do same thing, repeat until i have cycled through all i am gonna cycle through.

*As a 55 monk you can solo this area

Take these skills:

[skill]Protective Spirit[/skill][skill]Mystic Regeneration[/skill][skill]Shield of Judgment[/skill][skill]Blessed Signet[/skill][skill]Symbol of Wrath[/skill][skill]Blessed Aura[/skill][skill]Balthazar's Spirit[/skill][skill]Mending[/skill]

Take a sword/axe/spear with a 20% enchant mod with the -50 cesta. Take another weapon that is a staff (prefferably smiting, but divine/prot would work too) i.e. kepkhet's refuge and when you have 1 enemy who is almost dead wand em, and do the the same for smoke phantoms. you will have to kill them last cause they do not take double damage from SoJ or SoW.

And Yes, i am well aware of the fact that i do not have SoA, but i do not need it. there is never that much damage/degen to require the use of it.

tha_jimbow · Dec 06, 2007, 02:11 PM // 14:11

you dont really need that build, a 55hp build can vanquish cursed lands with normal 55hp monk with an extra damage skill...

Abonai Laguna · Dec 06, 2007, 02:35 PM // 14:35

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Originally Posted by tha_jimbow

you dont really need that build, a 55hp build can vanquish cursed lands with normal 55hp monk with an extra damage skill...

true, i second that^^

philo · Dec 06, 2007, 03:58 PM // 15:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by GodsPatriarch

I just started farming with my 55 monk.I have been farming outside hot springs for the last few days and on my first day i made about 10k in about 3 hours.. (woot) but the thing i have been noticing is that i have been getting the same exact drops..same bow gold drop..nothing else..well along with bones and orr emblems..but the only god drop i get is the same bow over and over again...whats up with that?

It's exactly because of this bow (and sephis axes) that people started farming that area when HM came out long time ago. And it's exactly because of this mass farming that those bows and axes have gone down in value.
With the advent of GWEN HM, even inscribable dead bows and sephis axes are floodding the market, so none of these items is worth much any more. If you don't care about identifying yourself, selling the golds for 1k a piece is the best you could get from farming outside Bergen I guess.

So there is nothing up with that. You just hit the reality of farming a well known spot. But if you think that farming should be about finding the rare drop that will sell for 100k + xx ecto, then you should definitely consider changing locations. Keep in mind, though, that over-rare items are rare because they hardly ever drop

Sir Pandra Pierva · Dec 06, 2007, 07:53 PM // 19:53

Bergen was always a good bow mod place I have gotten so many vamps out of there. I wish that vamp mods still sold for a good bit.

Other than that it was runes/merch place