Farming Dead Swords.

Get 1 thing straight, this isnt no Witte Was solo guide, infact this is my 1st ever guide...infact, im not even going to call it a guide.



anyways, i was looking through wiki, and noticed a farming guide under Dead swords for the 55 monk, but my monk isnt in NF..only my warrior, so i thought it give it ago.

so what you do is, go from bone Palace, into The Shattered Ravines, Speak with Primeval King Jahnus and get the Quest "Destroy the Ungrateful Slaves"

Ok, for the build, i use a W/Rt

with
[skill]Vengeful Was Khanhei[/skill][skill]Resilient Weapon[/skill][skill]Vengeful Weapon[/skill][skill]Cyclone Axe[/skill][skill]Dolyak Signet[/skill][skill]Bonetti's Defense[/skill][skill]"Watch Yourself!"[/skill][skill]Healing Signet[/skill]

Restoration 12
Tacs 8+1+1 (10)
Axe 7+2 (9)
Str 8+3 (11)

now for the Farming bit.

wait for the slaves to come up and kill the king and his guards.
Then when they all bunch up, Cast VWK and run in next to the monks,
(this makes cyclone axe more effective for Adrenaline)
When VWK ends, put up dolyak, then Cyclone, bonnettis,Vengful Weapon, Cyclone bonettis, Then VWK again, rinse and repeat.

When there all Dead, walk Towards the Collector, as two groups of slaves will come, wait for them 2 settle, then walk towards Grp nearest to the res shrine, then do same as above, then when they are dead, move out the way again, as another group will come, then when they settle, attack them, when there dead attack the other group that came before, when there dead, 1 last group will come, kill them.

if a Slave is Weilding a Dead Sword he will always Drop a gold (according to wiki)
ive gotten 3 dead swords from this, its pretty easy, you ussualy get full invent and about 500g coins, along with other golds.

beaware not all the items dropped are max, inc the golds, although the enimies are lvl 20.

Good luck to you, if you got any questions feel free to post.


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Other peoples builds..just so you dont have to look through all them pages
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Quote: Originally Posted by BiNumber3 Well, might as well post my build, I prolly wont be farmin there much anyway
Essential skills:
Glyph of Concentration
Stoneflesh Aaura
Sliver Armor (main dmg dealer)
Mystic Regen (for heals, rareley needed and can be replaced with other heals)

The other skills can be extra armor i.e. Conviction/Armor of Earth
And extra dmg i.e. Shockwave and Aftershock

The most important thing to the build is to maintain stoneflesh, if u have no armor up and lose stoneflesh, u die, usually, SO keep using glyph of conc in conjunction with Aura and Sliver

This build can solo both grps of the second wave at the same time, as well as anymore that come, just cant misclick glyph n aura, else u res n retry, but on the plus side, when u get it down, u can finish a farm run with zero deaths, and in around 30min, so rezone n do it again till u get one ----

Quote: Originally Posted by Thom Bangalter
I used this:

16 Earth
13 e storage

kinetic armor
armor of earth
aura of restoration
stone daggers
sliver armor
crystal wave
earth attunement
ether renewal

Cast kinetic/armor of earth/attunement/restoration, run up and put sliver armor up, stone dagger spam to keep up health, and when low on energy put up renewal and spam stone daggers. ----

Quote: Originally Posted by Dementiak To Ownageking,

It's the same build as posted in the second or third page, i might have diff attributes though.... (i didnt change my standard soa monk attributes)

Here's a pic, to make things easier...



i have 105 health...


LOL i'm trying to get to Seafarer's Rest to get the smite offhand that might make smite hex faster... (i've never played the luxon side). Other than that i use the standard weapon set for a soa monk.

good luck. ----

Quote: Originally Posted by Dont Mess WithMe
This is what I used, it works very well, and it takes like 10m.

[card]Mantra Of Earth[/card] [card]Stone Striker[/card] [card]Stoneflesh Aura[/card] [card]Arcane Echo[/card] [card]Sliver Armor[/card] [card]Sandstorm[/card] [card]Glyph Of Concentration[/card] [card]Sympathetic Visage[/card]

Attributes:
Earth 16
Illussion 9
Inspiration 8
Energy Storage 6


The Slave Warriors have savage slash, so make sure you use Glyph of concentration before casting anything, and SV should drain them . Aside from that, just echo Sliver Armor or Sandstorm. Now, every now and then, when you fight the 2 groups, you might die, it gets kind of intense, and if you forget Glypgh of Concentration, chances are Stoneflesh Aura gets interrupted... no biggie, you rez right there, shake off the dirt, and go back and finish them off. Perfectly doable with 15 and even 30 dp. Don't waste candy canes.
If you have questions, you can hit me in the game:
Dont Mess Withme
Yule B Sari (second acc)
Good Luck ----

Quote: Originally Posted by False Healer

Nice work, I'll try it out asap, but can u post your used runes as well plz?

Been farming these guys for awhile now. They also drop dead bows and sephis axes, but I'm not sure if they drop max/gold. Heres a tip; Always use VwK with Bonetti's up, so the slaves don't savage slash it.

Now I have yet another reason to cap VwK with my warrior...if I can ever get past Vizunah Square >.<

Quote: Originally Posted by Arkantos

man I would love to try this spot out... I can't decide on which character to put through NF first, my necro, ele, warrior, or monk... Don't know which is best for farming...

Good post though, wish I could try it...

Yeah, skull shields drop here too. I gotta max purple one before.

nice post.

Ive been farming this spot for more than 2 weeks. in the first week I got 3 Dead Swords: 1 req9 and 2xreq11 and sold for almost 450K. but in the last weeks I got nothing, just bunch of max gold Motivation and Command Shields and other craps.

Here is the tip: Just rezone at the portal near there instead of go back to Bone Palance and start again.

Yeh, the Farming code tends to fire off pretty fast here, at the end of all my farms i /resign imo i makes a differnce and ur not zoning all the time, therefore not entering the same place over and over, ive also had 3 dead swords, 1req12 and 2 req10, but lately ive been getting crap.

Remember people, whining about how this will make dead sword prices drop will be deleted.

so...do the mobs have enchantment removal? because if not just about any solo build would probably work.

i'm not sure about this, but i'm PRETTY sure that this was nerfed last week or so. i wanted to see if the nerf actually happened, killed 5 with dead swords, and none dropped

the first time I went there with henchies I saw a spirit carrying a dead sword. One of the hench must have stolen it. hic. I find it 55 makes it very quickly with usually 1 SoJ or 1.5 . Usually took me 10min per run after I get through the portal.

Oh I don't know for sure but if I bring some heroes and henchmen with me (flaged them away of course) I will get more gold drops.

Yeh, 55 monk with SoJ is alot Faster, shame i dnt have my monk there

so i had 2 find an alternative way

Nice work, onerabbit! ^^

Thanks a lot!

as i said, i dont think they drop anymore. anet nerfed this, and i'm pretty sure about that

Alright boys and girls, you know we have to find a Elementalist build for this area now that they are able to solo Thirsty River and many other things these days...

Yeh, im thinking Earth tank
Something like..

Stoneflesh Arua
Armour of Earth
Sliver Armour
Tenais Crystals
the other version of tenai crystals
Earth Attunement
Aura of Restoration
Elemental Atunement

Think that would work? id love to try but dnt hhave my ele here either :/

What we would have to decide on that is if you can tackle the same amount, only one group, all of them, etc. Althought preety basic, it might work..

i've tried ele builds; obby flesh, sandstorm, attunement. none work well enough and time efficiently enough to make it worthwhile for the time it takes to kill each group. just get a monk or warrior