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Wellsy · Jun 13, 2007, 02:53 PM // 14:53

Hiya

I have checked both the Solo Farming thread and used the god awful search function but alas, i can not find it.

Im sure there is/was a Beetle solo farming build posted on here, but i just can't find it, could one of you kind people please point me in the right direction.

thanks

phool · Jun 13, 2007, 04:01 PM // 16:01

According to guild wiki only level 24 beetles have distracting shot, I'm not sure if that includes level 26 HM beetles, so the others should be really easy to farm with any 55/105 build. All they can do is direct damage and a little self healing, 55 SS or SV should be ideal.

royal mercenary · Jun 13, 2007, 04:05 PM // 16:05

and where can you find rock beetles the best ?

ahbuh · Jun 13, 2007, 04:25 PM // 16:25

best place imho is hold of cholkin [something like that] you run pass the plant monster and instead of goin toward the place where you do the quest, protect the learner or something like that but instead of goin there take a left turn in tunnel.

lennymon · Jun 13, 2007, 07:00 PM // 19:00

There are several groups *just* outside Mihanu Township on Mirror of Lyss side. No running required. Those guys do have distracting shot, but I was able to 'usually' take them with a 55/sv (edit: in Hard Mode that is). Hope that helps. There are also a few groups on the main quest path on the way to Chantry of secrets but you may need to take out a couple groups of harpies as well (without monks).

Dragasa · Jun 13, 2007, 09:39 PM // 21:39

I've farmed them In HM with a 55/SV as well. I just try to lure them to an area where I can hide behind a rock to avoid Distracting Shot.

lennymon · Jun 13, 2007, 09:43 PM // 21:43

yeah, it's really too bad we can't have 3 professions ;P
it'd be handy for glyph of concentration or mantras lol

I've tried the rock thing too, but in HM they seem to be not fooled by that as much and come around. Plus time spent pulling means more chances of death due to critical interrupt, so I typically just wade in as it were.

Edit: I should probably mention that some things which may be good to utilize are reckless haste, price of failure, guardian, good luck!

philo · Jun 13, 2007, 11:05 PM // 23:05

Lots and lots of them live in Garden of Seborhin, if you just take the right northern turn after entering.

I must admit, however, that I fail to see what it is about these critters that makes people want to farm them. Any "secret stuff" we might need to know?

lennymon · Jun 13, 2007, 11:24 PM // 23:24

heheh, my secrets out, I wasn't farming them per se, but the warrior cobalt bossorama on the other side of them

My Green Storage · Jun 14, 2007, 02:24 AM // 02:24

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Geode

**What it salvages into**
Piles of Glittering Dust
Ruby
Sapphire

Normal Mode E/A can, the only annoyance is using Shadow of Haste, running up to them and at the last second when you start MS, they run a few feet away.

Don't they know I need to time things a certain way without any trouble?

Wellsy · Jun 14, 2007, 08:27 AM // 08:27

i should have mentioned i would ideally like ideas for a Warrior or Ranger primary build

My Green Storage · Jun 15, 2007, 02:12 AM // 02:12

In that case, hide behind a wall and spirit shackles + famine + mind whack the hell outta them.

ArKaiN · Jun 15, 2007, 02:42 AM // 02:42

This salvage farming thing is not a good idea. I spent the longest time 130'ing in Hidden City after those Djinn's common drops, which theoretically salvage into gemstones, and after getting a stack of each, I decided to salvage all of them.
Result:
3 rubies
4 saphires
2 diamonds
....
.......
thats right, out of 750 essences. I'm never doing THAT again.
I did get some rubies out of Jeweled Daggers I got there and more scythe mods than I could count, but thats neither here or there. This was pre-HM btw.

VitisVinifera · Jun 15, 2007, 03:54 AM // 03:54

that's about the luck i've been getting, arkain. The VERY first one (geode, that is) I salvaged into a ruby, and every single one since (geodes and djinn essnces) then has been dust

probably around 100 total

the only ruby daggers I get are white, and I have a small pile of highly salvagable inscripts. I hear the have a much higher rate of yielding rubies.

edit: backfire totally destroys rock bettles -- try it on Hajok. Anything that spams stone daggers melts under backfire fast.