Rune Farming - Ettin exploitation

Just curious. Is killing an ettin every 20 seconds considered fast? Slow? Normal?

It's about what I average.

P.S. I'm not using a warrior primary

Quote: Originally Posted by lyric

This is my build that i made out of yours a bit (hehe) and it works great, maybe i just like it because i got sup vigor and major in the same run but here it is

w/mo

Tactics:13(12+1)
Healing:8
Strength:9(7+1+1)
Swordsmanship:8(or ditch strength and put it to your sword req)

Skills:

Sprint
Glads Def
Bonettis
Riposte
Deadly Riposte
Dolyak signet
healing signet
Mending

(sorry if i copied anyone's build but i havnt read the whole thread)

dolyaks is only there to prevent you from being knocked down by Irresistible Blow, which is really anoying when they use it with your stances up. just keep swinging and keep the ripostes up as often as possible. When you get to 5 energy or lower put up bonettis and rest.

i have found a different way that works

MY BUILD :

Stats:
Healing = 8
Swordsmanship = 12 +runes
Tactics = 7 +runes

Skills:
1 :Sever Artery
2 :Gash
3 :Galrath Slash
4 :Final Thrust
5 :Bonettis Defense
6 :Healing Breeze
7 :Live Vicariously
8 :Mending


Use Live Vicariously and Mending at beginning, fight and kill mergoyles and tengus, used bonettis to heal mana before u start first group of ettins.
Lure 2-3 ettins at a time, any more and ur scrwed! Use skills in the order 1-2-3-4. If youre healther gets below 150, used healing breeze and run till it gets above 300. Then kill all ettins. The only downside to this build is, that whenever you use bonetti's Defense, you can be knocked down by the Ettins, even though its a little annoying, its not enough to kill you, so just keep on fighting.


SPOILS OF MY FIRST 2 RUNS!!!!!!!

3 golds
3 purple
6 blue
countless whites

pretty good for just starting huh?

and by killing all the mergoyles and tengu, iv gotten quite a few mods, which have made me around 4-5k per 3 runs

Ok - I must be missing something... I just did 5 runs ... and I got a 1 Purple and one blue rune. The ettins rarely drop ettins pauldrons, but mostly just drop junk.

Am I doing something wrong???

Quote: Originally Posted by Rhuobhe

^ What do you mean "first two runs" This is a never ending run,stay out/regate between Nebo and NK Providence.Salvage all the white armor into tanned hides,drop all crap runes to make room for good stuff.Read the thread from page 1, there is more than enough info where any1 doing this should become wealthy/better equipped if you put in the WORK! Or if ya get lucky after only a few groups.

does any1 know if the latest patch nerfed this? i ran this for the first time in over a week and i only got a couple purple ones, no gold etc.

i was gettin 7-10 gold per hour and now 2 so im thinkin its been nerfed also

Nurfed.

Nothing has been Nerfed, today 45mins of killing

Quote: Originally Posted by Young Hero

I'm not entirely sure whether or not ettin drops were officially nerfed, but recently, drops have been significantly bad for me. I don't farm there constantly, most of the time just about an hour's worth. And usually I visit my ettin friends every 3-4 days. So I'm not overfarming. Nevertheless, in a total run (1 hour's worth of farming), I MIGHT get 1 gold (usually major rune). I've pretty much stopped farming there.

Try FoW chest runs, with a decently-skilled group of wars, a quick run of about 8 minutes can yield a huge profit. In 1 run I got a gold, req 8 chaos axe, and a req 10 shadow blade. If you can sell these un-id, that's abut 70k in 8 minutes. Now this doesn't always happen, of course, and you may waste alot of gold in keys, but the chance to receive good stuff outweighs the risks. Plus these chest runs are pretty fun ^_^

Ive been farming there about once a day, getting good drops as well! After all these weeks of playing im finally making some money for once! Anyway what would be the best sword (mods etc) to use? At the moment im using

Cruel Long Sword
Slashing damage: 15-22
Damage +15% (while enchanted)
Lengthens deep wound duration on foes by 33%

This sword is killing them abit quicker than my last one, but it would be great if i could do it even quicker lol Might try an axe but i aint got any Elite skills for it :-(

Thanks in advance for any help

I did drop a sup vigor and a sup prot yesterday (only one run) so, don't think it has been nerfed
King Kong, I'm using Victo's blade and with undred blades it's really good...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tiela

As you are probally aware there are many builds for ettin farming
i thought that my build is quite good so here it is.

W/N

attributes:
death magic 10
strength 10 (minor rune and helmet)
swordmanship 10 (minor rune)
tactics 7 (minor rune)

skills:
sheild stance
doylak signet
virulance (E)
healing signet
distracting blow
sever artery
sprint
gash


Now the idea is that you first run past mergoyles and tengu and when u get to the etttins u first use sheild stance and doylak this way you take no damage and cant get knocked down, then when sever artery is ready use that then use virulance which starts bringing there health right down and also desieses any ettins around, now observe the ettins skills and when it starts to use healing signet use distracting blow this stops him healing,also keep using gash and sever atery on him and after about 20-40 secounds it should be dead then kill off other ettins in same way,also if health gets low then use healing signet.


Im not sure about spelling on this but i hope this is a good build that others can use.

This build has gained me sup absorb,vigor and many other expensive runes.


hope you have enjoyed and plz post any comments on the build.

There are countless builds for this, and most of them work. The issue is how fast you can kill them. Time = money which has been said countless times.

Most people deal in groups of 3 ettins at a time. Shouldn't take longer than a minute to kill all 3 as a warrior or you're doing something wrong in my opinion. A lot of peeps can do it much faster than that.

I do it with 5 attack skills - Cyc, Penet, Exec, Cleave, and the one that does dmg when you have more health, can't remember the name. Regardless, fill in as you wish.

Remaining 3 slots consist of Sprint, Healing sig, and Dolyak's.

Anything extra in healing or stances (dmg reduction) is a waste imo. You're cutting out attack skills by adding anything else in. Forget disrupts, waste of a slot imo. Use your attack skills to power through the healing.

The guys that do it really quick never give the ettin a chance to use it's heal sig. If he uses it then it will take longer to kill him. Spike him hard enough and he'll never get the chance to heal.


Anyway, nothing nobody else hasn't said before. I just see more and more builds posted that will work -- ettins aren't that hard to kill -- but the real question is how fast can you do a complete run?

ettins aren't that hard to kill -- but the real question is how fast can you do a complete run?[/QUOTE]

wow good point i know exactly what you are saying.