Curse

Xitoahc · Sep 04, 2007, 11:49 PM // 23:49

Hi. Just thought I'd give a heads up to those who have been needing Cores for either the Gloves or Quest, Glint's Challange has proven to be invaluable in the process of getting this done.

You need a basic Splinter Barrage build, mines include some Norn skills but that's only because I have 7 ranks into it. You can do without it.

Code:

Basic Splinter Farm build:

8 BM
9 Expertise
7 WS(can be changed if you don't use SC or TU)
9 MARK
12 CHANNEL 

Barrage[E]
Splinter Barrage
Nightmare Weapon(Self Heal)
Storm Chaser or Other Kite Skill
Troll Ungent
Edge of Extinction
[Optional]
[Optional]

or

Barrage[E]
Splinter Barrage
"I Am The Strongest!"
Kite Skill
Nightmare Weapon or Feel No Pain
Edge of Extinction
[Optional]
[Optional]

Basically you start from the Central Transfer chamber add a hero/hench team as its much much harder when you have them coming from both sides, but if you think you can take them both then go for it. I flagged mines up near the north point where they start coming in so they're names will be grayed out.

Then I setup a EoE(Switch to BM Mask if you have one when using.) near the baby dragon and wait for the first grp to kill the dwarf and start coming down as a pack then basically just close enough to Splinter them and they go down pretty quick as they're only LvL 10-15 at first. Then LvL 20's come with a couple of LvL 15-10 ones, but still all the same easy to kill. If you have trouble just back up a little into the Dwarfs and let them "tank" for you, and just keep firing eventually you'll get through the first west wave and can pickup your loot(shown below).

This is just to fight the first wave only, after that LvL 28 mobs start coming so pickup loot and /resign after the first wave is done.

Hope this helps! :grin:

Jimmy Dean · Sep 05, 2007, 01:14 AM // 01:14

Looks good man. Thx for posting.

JD

Esan · Sep 05, 2007, 02:20 AM // 02:20

I had been using a nuking variant for a couple of days. I got cores only at the rate of one every 15 runs. After my soul was completely crushed from mindless unrewarding repetition, I decided to go farm Hero's Handbooks and wait for core drop rate to be fixed.

ShadowofWar · Sep 05, 2007, 02:57 AM // 02:57

nice from the looks, but find a way for other classes to do this and ill give you a pat on the back and words of encouragement :P thanks.

unknown1 · Sep 05, 2007, 03:04 AM // 03:04

i did it with war. =)

VonGimli · Sep 05, 2007, 03:05 AM // 03:05

Well ive been killing destroyers for forever... and I havent gotten a single core, so I dont know if I even want to try... I am a splinter barrager normally though so i may have to give this a shot.

Floski · Sep 05, 2007, 03:07 AM // 03:07

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Originally Posted by unknown1

i did it with war. =)

Thanks for explaining your method!

Jesse · Sep 05, 2007, 03:10 AM // 03:10

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Originally Posted by ShadowofWar

nice from the looks, but find a way for other classes to do this and ill give you a pat on the back and words of encouragement :P thanks.

mass aoe.....done

xcenic · Sep 05, 2007, 03:14 AM // 03:14

Anet holy God fix this drop, is annoying and is inhuman to us to get that thing!! im still havent get any core in 2 chars played trough Gw.

this is the max..you make the game totaly grinding!!

sorry for my english!

ShadowofWar · Sep 05, 2007, 03:17 AM // 03:17

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Originally Posted by Jesse

mass aoe.....done

no, not done, first off sure maybe you can easily do it with a ranger barraging using dwarves as tanks, but say you are a warrior you can't avoid alot of damage seeing as how you are up close and personal with say anywhere between 3 and 30 enemies, you need a skill set in which you can be healed and recieve alot less damage then you would etc etc. massive aoe is nice for offensive, but you have to think defensive too so you dont die after killing 3 things

duanehaas · Sep 05, 2007, 04:20 AM // 04:20

woot they fixed the drop rate

Xitoahc · Sep 05, 2007, 04:22 AM // 04:22

Quote:

Corrected an issue that caused Destroyer Cores to drop at a lower-than-expected rate.
The number of Destroyer Cores needed for High Priest Alkar’s quest “Destructive Research” has been reduced from 10 to 3.

Yup, this farm run should become a lot more profitable now(core-wise), with this update. :grin:

As for other professions, I'll leave that open to discussion. Once I get that far with the rest of my characters I'll try other variants and if any good post them in this same thread for others.

willypiggy · Sep 05, 2007, 02:49 PM // 14:49

holy moly, gonna get some power leveling for my ranger and then hit this up.

zwei2stein · Sep 05, 2007, 03:07 PM // 15:07

Cores are loot scaled ... it just makes no nense to solo it or send heroes away.

I just dont get why people are still in solo mentality for farming such stuff like collector items or reputation points.

Psychology · Sep 05, 2007, 03:11 PM // 15:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by unknown1

i did it with war. =)

Could you post your build for a warr plz,and is it possible to do this with a mo/d/e or a?

Hobbs · Sep 05, 2007, 03:17 PM // 15:17

Could it be 55ed? I haven't even tried it so I have no idea. Also a warrior build would be useful if someone can make one.

malko050987 · Sep 05, 2007, 03:21 PM // 15:21

Doesn't a 55 build make heavy use of enchants? And one of my guildies said Destroyers remove enchants.

SotiCoto · Sep 05, 2007, 03:43 PM // 15:43

Destroyer Mesmers can remove Enchants.

From what I can tell they only remove them one at a time, but if you're dealing with hoardes of the fetchers then that'd be a moot point. I can tell I'm NOT going to have a happy time against these guys with my Assassin (tripley enchanted for maximum effectiveness).

On the other hand... Shadow Form + Sliver Armor might totally decimate their efforts.... provided the downtime isn't too long.

Series · Sep 05, 2007, 04:20 PM // 16:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by zwei2stein

Cores are loot scaled ... it just makes no nense to solo it or send heroes away.

I just dont get why people are still in solo mentality for farming such stuff like collector items or reputation points.

Me neither...

CHunterX · Sep 05, 2007, 05:31 PM // 17:31

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Originally Posted by unknown1

i did it with war. =)

I call shenanigans.

Quote:

Originally Posted by zwei2stein

Cores are loot scaled ... it just makes no nense to solo it or send heroes away.

I just dont get why people are still in solo mentality for farming such stuff like collector items or reputation points.

Well lets see. I took a party of 6 Heroes/Henchmen to get my Skree wings for Baby Black Moa. After probably 2 hours, I had one. So I decided to make a solo build to take on some of the skree right outside of a town. Within half an hour I got 4 more. It may have been luck, or maybe everyone who soloed was right all along.