Are Trolls worth anything anymore?!

I'm a little new to the farming buisness. I just recently finished my Mo/W farming build and I tried to farm the Mountain Trolls outside of Droks.

Well, i've gotten next to nothing except tusks when the job is done...What gives? I had heard about some farming locations being nerfed because of over-farming. I have seen pictures of some of my guildmates farming trolls and getting great drops (I.E. Superior Runes)

Do i just have extremely bad luck, or are there better places to farm?

no you just have very lucky guildies because u never get golds from troll farming!

i got a black dye troll farming yesterday :| i don't think they're nerfed, they've just been like every other farmable area, you have to get lucky

yea i had a gold raven staff and 3 purples all drop at once the other day whilst troll farming, there was also another 3 golds from previous runs that day including a gold fellblade (fell for the other person i was with).
But they usually arent very good..

You can't get runes from Trolls...

The occasional gold items you do get from trolls are crap most of the time. i have experienced that when they do drop a gold they will almost certainly drop some purples as well. This only happens like once in 30 runs or so. So if you want drops, go farm something else.

Only good reason to farm trolls is for xp i guess

Farming trolls I tend to get around 1 gold drop per day(I maybe only make 3 or 4 runs per day) and 2 or 3 shiverpeak keys, which I have had ok success with.

This is really the only place I farm, as I dont know any better farming locations in tyria, ive tried minataurs, griffons, hydras, but the best drops I get are from trolls.

I don't know. When I first started Troll Farming shortly before the Griffon nerf I recieved a Rare and two purples a run. Now? I get around 10 purples a week. I try to do 10 runs a day. I haven't seen a gold in three weeks.

Lay off the farming spot for a day or two and the drop quality improves. Trolls are uber-overfarmed though, so you probably won't ever get much there.

Clearing the troll cave isn't the only thing you can do on a troll run. How bout the avicara? They can drop some pretty nice swords. Also theres a group of Tundra Giants that I like to farm. Good drops every once in a while. Just bring Balanced Stance or it gets messy.

Depending on your build you may want to try Dolyak Signet as well.

well i ust did my first run of trolls for about 1-2 monts and i got a black dye

4 runes today
3 golds
sow it is wourth it

When i (breifly) farmed these for skill points with my warrior , i hardly ever got anything of worth. So after i killed the Trolls i would go kill the Tundra Giants and Azure Shadows (pretty much farm my way upto rankor).

Quote: Originally Posted by White_Chaos

In many troll-farming builds, you don't run past the avicara. Rather, you kill them.

Ergo, runes, or at least the possibility of runes.

Shiverpeaks chests also give a lot of runes.

In my case, it would be more accurate to say I farm trolls+avicara, actually.

it's weird though. Oh, and now they added this bug to farming, that when you spam damage. I.E. Zealot's fire & 3 spells in 2 seconds the monsters will all run around, not a problem, but a BIG PROBLEM when you are powerleveling people.

Quote: Originally Posted by germy

Well I started farming trolls with my ele recently and Im making some decent money off of it. Since they I could kill the cave entrance in about 1 min and a half it adds up fairly fast. I sell everything to merchants except the tusks, which I sell to people buying them in droks for a decent income.

Quote: Originally Posted by Zephyr Jackson