Witte's HM Solo Farm

Hi there,

Since the introduction of Hardmode (will call it HM from now) there seem to be allot of problems around farming. The main questions are: where can I farm now? and which place is the most profitable?

Well, I've tried some things and came up with some ideas of which some already exist. I'll try to update this thread with each build and place I'll find.

"Loot now scales according to party size"

-GuildWars.com


"Farming will never be dead. We get less loot? We have to farm more efficient finding faster and better ways to make money. I take the challenge"

-Witte Was


The Fissure of Woe

*The original build is from KcP*

[skill]healing breeze[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]vigorous spirit[/skill] [skill]spiteful spirit[/skill] [skill]insidious parasite[/skill] [skill]mending[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Curses: 12
Healing Prayers: 13 (9+3+1)
Smiting Prayers: 3 (0+3)
Protection Prayers: 9 (6+3)
Divine Favor: 9 (6+3)

Cast your enchantments and take the left way. Stay next to the monk so the SS will also hit him when you cast it on the Shadow Warriors. He'll die soon enough. Finish the Warriors and Shadows with SS + IP.



Watch out for Shadow Mesmers! This is why you brought Vigorous Spirit. Use it as cover enchantment!



With this build you can easily take out the whole shadow army and more. I'll try to get more screenshots and maybe a video for this!
*Note: it might be difficult the first time you try*


Prophecies Campaign

Monk

Mo/N
Titan Farming:

[skill]healing breeze[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]blessed signet[/skill] [skill]spiteful spirit[/skill] [skill]insidious parasite[/skill] [skill]mending[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Curses: 12
Healing Prayers: 13 (9+3+1)
Smiting Prayers: 3 (0+3)
Protection Prayers: 9 (6+3)
Divine Favor: 9 (6+3)

Template Code: OwQUc4W+MoFgsepMP7Rk6TeA

Simple. Just cast your enchantments and kill them using SS. Watch out for Water Born Titans and their Maelstrom.



Loot: *Note This is only 50-60% of the total run*




Mergoyle Wavebreaker Farming:

[skill]healing breeze[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]blessed signet[/skill] [skill]spiteful spirit[/skill] [skill]insidious parasite[/skill] [skill]mending[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Curses: 12
Healing Prayers: 13 (9+3+1)
Smiting Prayers: 3 (0+3)
Protection Prayers: 9 (6+3)
Divine Favor: 9 (6+3)

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Walk outside The Gates of Kryta and you'll see several groups of Mergoyles. Easy to kill so easy money.






Anvil Rock

[skill]healing breeze[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]blessed signet[/skill] [skill]spiteful spirit[/skill] [skill]insidious parasite[/skill] [skill]mending[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Curses: 12
Healing Prayers: 13 (9+3+1)
Smiting Prayers: 3 (0+3)
Protection Prayers: 9 (6+3)
Divine Favor: 9 (6+3)

Template Code: OwQUc4W+MoFgsepMP7Rk6TeA

Those minotaurs are easy, so easy money and easy loot.




Skyward Reach

[skill]healing breeze[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]blessed signet[/skill] [skill]spiteful spirit[/skill] [skill]insidious parasite[/skill] [skill]mending[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Curses: 12
Healing Prayers: 13 (9+3+1)
Smiting Prayers: 3 (0+3)
Protection Prayers: 9 (6+3)
Divine Favor: 9 (6+3)

Template Code: OwQUc4W+MoFgsepMP7Rk6TeA

Watch out for the meteor knock-down!




Prophet's Path

[skill]shield of absorption[/skill] [skill]shielding hands[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]shield of judgment[/skill] [skill]fleeting stability[/skill] [skill]blessed aura[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Kill all those Earth Mages, they are easy but watch out for knock-down! make sure that Fleeting Stability is always on!




Witman's Folly

[skill]healing breeze[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]blessed signet[/skill] [skill]shield of judgment[/skill] [skill]fleeting stability[/skill] [skill]mending[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Healing Prayers: 8 (4+3+1)
Smiting Prayers: 15 (12+3)
Protection Prayers: 9 (6+3)
Divine Favor: 9 (6+3)
Earth Prayers: 8


Take the right way and go straight on. Lots of pop-ups will come.




Factions Campaign

Naphui Quarter

[skill]healing breeze[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]blessed signet[/skill] [skill]spiteful spirit[/skill] [skill]insidious parasite[/skill] [skill]mending[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Curses: 12
Healing Prayers: 13 (9+3+1)
Smiting Prayers: 3 (0+3)
Protection Prayers: 9 (6+3)
Divine Favor: 9 (6+3)

Template Code: OwQUc4W+MoFgsepMP7Rk6TeA

Watch out for the Ritualists with Nightmare Weapon, make sure you've 105 hp while fighting them






Wajjun Bazaar

[skill]healing breeze[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]blessed signet[/skill] [skill]spiteful spirit[/skill] [skill]insidious parasite[/skill] [skill]mending[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Curses: 12
Healing Prayers: 13 (9+3+1)
Smiting Prayers: 3 (0+3)
Protection Prayers: 9 (6+3)
Divine Favor: 9 (6+3)

Template Code: OwQUc4W+MoFgsepMP7Rk6TeA




Pongmei Valley

[skill]healing breeze[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]blessed signet[/skill] [skill]spiteful spirit[/skill] [skill]insidious parasite[/skill] [skill]mending[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Curses: 12
Healing Prayers: 13 (9+3+1)
Smiting Prayers: 3 (0+3)
Protection Prayers: 9 (6+3)
Divine Favor: 9 (6+3)

Template Code: OwQUc4W+MoFgsepMP7Rk6TeA

Easy, just kill them using SS and Insidious Parasite



It's possible to kill the Assassin boss here and hope for his green.




Arborstone [Explorable]

[skill]healing breeze[/skill] [skill]protective spirit[/skill] [skill]blessed signet[/skill] [skill]shield of judgment[/skill] [skill]arcane echo[/skill] [skill]mending[/skill] [skill]essence bond[/skill] [skill]balthazar's spirit[/skill]

Healing Prayers: 13 (9+3+1)
Smiting Prayers: 15 (12+3)
Protection Prayers: 9 (6+3)
Divine Favor: 9 (6+3)

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Watch out for the knock-down from the Warriors!



You can leave the Warden of the Summer's alive, they are hard to kill




Warrior

Anvil Rock

W/Rt

[skill]sprint[/skill] [skill]bonetti's defense[/skill] [skill]Vengeful was Khanhei[/skill] [skill]soothing memories[/skill] [skill]Wary Stance[/skill] [skill]Vengeful Weapon[/skill] [skill]Dolyak Signet[/skill] [skill]healing Signet[/skill]

Restoration Magic 12
Tactics: 13 (10+3)
Strength: 9 (8+1)

The tactics are pretty easy. Just spam VwK and make sure you don't have more than 4 minatours at once.



It's also possible to kill the Dryders.




Nebo Terrace

W/Rt

[skill]sprint[/skill] [skill]bonetti's defense[/skill] [skill]Vengeful was Khanhei[/skill] [skill]Resilient Weapon[/skill] VAMPIRISM : SUNSPEAR SKILL [skill]Vengeful Weapon[/skill] [skill]Dolyak Signet[/skill] [skill]healing Signet[/skill]

Restoration Magic 12
Tactics: 13 (10+3)
Strength: 9 (8+1)

Same tactics as above. Good place for golden Dead Bows and Sephis Axes.





Take care!

Witte Was / Dave Tawings

I hadn't even thought about the mergoyles (A-net nerfed drop rates for those guys so long ago I would just notice them as I ran by smite hexing off their snares)

Shielding Hands + Shield of Absorption works much better than Mending + Healing breeze. (Especially agianst large groups)

If you want a few more Monk/Necro spots see this post.

Nice one Witte, what are the drops like from Mergoyle?

im pretty sure that mergolyle farming would be possible for a 55 Rt too im guessing? ill give it a go in 10 mins or so

I use pretty much the same build on a N/Mo (Blessed sig --> Awaken the blood), works fine as well. You have to refresh prot spirit and breeze more often, but you also kill things slightly faster.

Do you know if there are any easily-accessible bosses you can kill with SS? Elite tomes sell for good money :P

Quote: Originally Posted by Alleji

Nice one, going to try these when I've completed Abbadon's Mouth and Hell's Precipe, looking for more tomorrow

Where are those titans?




Horible

Quote: Originally Posted by Horible

Witty did it again keep the builds coming buddy!

Doesn't IAS cap at 33% from more than one effect? Because Hard Mode mobs already have +50% attack speed so Reckless Haste won't give them anymore...

I knew you were just taking your time on a build . Fiinaly a need to cap ss.

ya beat me to it lol, i actually posted this in my guilds forums about an hour ago.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruphfus

Can't wait for the Warrior builds.

Awesome stuff.

will i need to buy start armor to try this 55 build? i am not familiar with running 55 builds so any suggestions will be great.

Also where else can i get the -55 off-hand if i dont have access to pre-searing?

Thanks for the build

what are drops like from mergoyle run

Nice one man! Now I DEFINATELY have to beat prophicies... Nevermind that I have been playing since release...

I farm Gates of kryta this is what i got off about 50% of my normal run

P.S the dead bow was req 9 15%/-10

Quote: Originally Posted by Marverick