Guide To Vermin Farming As A Wa/Mo

This is my first guide so don’t flame me for it not bieng perfect or even good. I haven’t seen any decent builds on how to farm vermin and ppl ask me in game wat skills I use so im making this guide. I dont care if u like it or not. This is pretty much ment for ppl looking for the easiest way to make money in Factions. Plz tell me how i did....dont tell me u hate it and it suks...just say wat parts need improvement..Im still deciding to make a guide on other farming places that i like

Items That Drop-
1) Celestial things
2) Dyes
3) Crenelated swords
4) Koi scepters
5) Vermin Hides
6) Shreaders Talons
7) Canthan Keys

Personally I have just started farming vermin. I did it on and off for a few weeks but in the last 4 days I have spent prolly 4-5 hours out of my play time doing it. In those 4 days I have made about 11k an hour average and 3 out of the 4 days I have got a black dye. I have got a few gold max dmg celestial stuff.

There are 2 different builds im going to cover. Both r for a wamo

1st Build- The Stance Build

Skills-
1) Cyclone Axe
2) Bonetti’s Defense
3) Gladiators Defense
4) Dolyak Signet
5) I Will Survive or Healing Breeze
6) Vigorous Spirit
7) Live Vicariously
8) Mending

Attribute Points-
1) Healing- 8
2) Tactics- 11(minor rune)
3) Axe Mastery- 10(minor rune)
4) Strength- 10(minor rune)

Armor-
I use a full set of 15k kurzick glads armor with a major vig and a minor tactics minor axe and minor str and a sup absorb on the chest

Weapon and Shield-
I use a Totem Axe and Victos Bulwark or a Malinon's Shield.

2nd Build- The Triple Chop Build

Skills-
1) Cyclone Axe
2) Triple Chop
3) Bonetti’s Defense
4) Dolyak Signet
5) I Will Survive or Healing Breeze
6) Vigorous Spirit
7) Live Vicariously
8) Mending

Attribute Points-
1) Healing- 8
2) Tactics- 3(minor rune)
3) Axe Mastery- 13(minor rune)
4) Strength- 11(minor rune)

Armor-
I use a full set of 15k kurzick glads armor with a major vig and a minor tactics minor axe and minor str and a sup absorb on the chest

Weapon and Shield-
I use a Totem Axe and Victos Bulwark or a Malinon's Shield.

Route-
Go out of Senji's Corner into Xaquang Skyway. Head northwest untill u see Junior Master Jejiang. By him you will see a flight of stairs go up them and u will see the first grp of vermin. Aggro them and run west untill u see another flight of stairs that u will need to go down. A grp of vermin will b there. Kill the grp chasing u and the one near the Stairs. After there dead ur going to go north and run into 2 more grps of vermin. Kill them. After thats done u will see a bridge run across it(u will b running in the direction west) untill u aggro sum more vermin. There will b like 6-7 grps that will patrol right into u. One will b a grp with the boss who drops Shreaders Talons. After u kill all these turn and run north across a bridge to the last 3 grps. Aggro them all together and kill them. After that u will see a zone into wajjun Bazaar. Then turn and rezone back into Xaquang Skyway. And head backwards through the run.

Average stuff-
On average u will make 3.5k a run. I average anywhere form 10-15k an hour now

Nice Items-
In the last 4 days ive got 3 black dyes-they drop quite a bit
Ive got a 15^50 celestial bow
A Celestial sword that i merched on accident(dont remember mods)
A 20/20 Sunder sword hilt


~Im Perfect U Aint~

thanks for taking the time to write this up, but this is already a very well known spot and i think there already are posts about how to run it.

I tried your build and I think your is a little faster. well done

intersting guide. you should add a map showing your route

i tried adding a pick but i couldnt get it small enough to upload....im not very good at cropping photos down

You got youself a great build,im using the first one and its very easy.Something else you might wanna add to the drops list is Canthan Keys,i just got one right now.

Just a couple ideas:

On your triple chop build, get axe mastery up to 16 with a superior rune. It will decrease your killing time considerably.

As for the rounding up and killing of the vermins, it is possible to round up the first 4 groups of vermin all at once, speeding up the killing even more.

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This build is nearly the same to the one i use, so I love it =P. However, I don't udnerstand the use of dolyak signet when you have bonetti's up and running nearly all the time?

Ill try to make a post later soloing this as a different class (not a big fan of a wammo). Ill have picts, possible movie as I have the time .

:edit: also it will be sword, either way it will be with a sword may end up wammo'ing it though.

Try this one:

It's faster than anything I've seen.

Armor makes no diference

Superior Absorb
Superior Vigor
Superior Strength
Minor Sword
Superior Tactics

Strength at 15
Tactics at 16


Glads Defense
Shield Stance
Healing Sig
Riposte
Deadly Riposte
Drunken Blow
Desperation Blow
Empty Slot

Start with Glads, when it ends, Shield Stance, when it ends, Glads again. Kepp Dolyak up at all times...at 15 Strength, it will last 20 seconds. Healing sing when needed. Zealous sword, any shield. Drunken and Desperation whenever available, but stagger them so that when one is half recharged, you hit the other one. You can tank an unlimited number of them.

They're real easy to farm, unfortunately the drops are purest crap. You may get gold drops, but then they're usually not max, and when you get Shredders Talons you'll find they're hard to sell even for 500 gold.
I did farm vermin quite a lot back when scales were expensive though (one vermin hide = 5 scales), but even that hardly pays now.

As an aside, I'm using a build cyclone/triple-chop build similar to the one in the first post, and FWIW it's good for farming Stone Kirin, Undergrowths, and Wardens too. And their drops are far better.

EDIT: Oh, and spiders in FoW. And four healing spells is a waste of at least two slots.

the drops may suk....but ive got 4 black dye's off them now and a perfect 20/20 sundering sword hilt...so thats pretty darn good....and 3.5 average from a 15 min run isnt great but its not the wordst u can do....this isnt ment to make u rich in 1 day..its ment for ppl who need sumthing easy to get a little quik cash..i dont suggest making this ur pure income...

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this is my personal build, so be vewy vewy quiet about it lol nah jk but here it is
W/E
14 Tactics
11 Strength
11 Earth Magic
Totem Axe FTW
1. Dolyak Signet
2. Sliver Armor
3. Whirlwind OR Teinai's Wind
4. "On Your Knees!"
5. Bonnetti's Defense
6. Gladiator's Defense
7. Healing Signet
8. "I Will Survive!"

this build is VERY fast if you aggro alot at the same time, and if Sliver Armor targets Shreader first, he dies in about 5 seconds ^^, so I find this better than W/Mo, but use whatever suits your style of gameplay more.

ecksor's build is the same one used to solo oni in rhea's crater or w/e that place is called where u can get ungues oni daggers

Nice build, the trip chop w/customed vamp weapon cuts them like butter. Only thing, is, after about 8-10 runs i didnt get one gold or celestial weapon. Are you sure they r still dropping them, didn't get one. :/ Other than that nice build.

i havent got one today either...idk they might have nerfed celestial drops but the damn dye drops r crazy for me..i got 2 black dyes on same run...(the run i just finished now im typing this reply)..so they can keep there celestial items if i can get black dyes like that..however a 15+50 celestial req 8 max dmg sword would b sick -_-

15^50****

I use almost the exact same build as you, except I have Sprint in for 5.) Healing Breeze/I will survive. It's really fast, probably the quickest way I know .. and the safest.

yea i was thinking bout taking sprint instead of i will survive or hb....cause i dont really use it now that i have got to the point where i know the timing of my skills and when doly wears so i know when ima get knocked and wat not

Just to let you know, Live Vicariously and Vigorous Spirit is the only healing you need on this run. Just add Balthazar's Spirit for energy, and you don't even need Bonetti's. These are the skills I take, and it works perfectly, every time:

Tiger Stance
Executioner's Strike
Dolyak Sig
Cyclone Axe
Triple Chop
Balth Spirit
Vigorous Spirit
Live Vicariously

Simple as that. Makes a 15 minute run into a 10 minute run, back and forth.

take balanced srance instead. its great for ruounding up huge numbers of them.
they cant knock you down

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yeah, i can aggro just by running around. i would go farm these, but im busy making a twink on WoW. Dunemaul my name is Ecksor on there if you play.

Nice guide.

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o nvrmind durr there on top rofl

i was jsut bored one day and figured i'd try it with my ele, and after a few tries i got a decent build, can kill a group in less then 20 secs roughly this is not faster going however u have to wait on EP and skills to recharge, and i havent tried it against that whole mob in the middle msot i taken on at one time was like 14 max, havent tried anything larger, like i said this was jsut out of boredom, any ways this is wut i used incase any one is intrested:
earth: 16 1+3
EP store:13 +2
skills: Aura of rest, Obsidian flame, shockwave (E), after shock, crystal wave, Teinai's crystals, silver armor, and magnetic aura
weps: totem axe only, was to lazy to get an offhand lol
cast aura of rest before u go in, magnetic to protect urself from them hitting u, and silver armor and then chain the rest, i only take obsidian cause some times there was a stragler, they will run if u hit them off back to back, i was bored and looking for amusement, also for humor i was using a earth head piece from SJM

mate if you want a tip,

By the way 11k one hour is bad, i make 11k in 20 minuts tops, and this is why

Your axe is too low

this is the build you should use

Triple chop (E)
Cyclone axe
Bonetis defense
Dolyak sig
Vigorous spirit
Live vigorously
Mending
Executioner strike


14 - 16 in axe ( not all people use sup runes or axe helm )
8 healing
the rest in strenght
and left overs in tactics , you only need a few seconds of bonetis defense


works much faster, much easier, and u wont die.

Dismember
Exe Strike
Triple Chop
Cyclone Axe
Dolyak Signet
Vigorous spirit
Live vigorously
Balth Spirit

Mending is a total waste of a slot.

16 Axe Mastery I use too but theres no way I make 11k in 20 minutes. I'm using two more damage skills than you too!

anyone know if farming vermins was nuked ??? cause i been farming them for a while now and i didn't get any Celestial things and others. the only things i got was gold not higher than 80 and other useless stuff.!!! anyone know ????

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Im trying to farm them but i keep getting knocked down way to much to use cyclone axe and my healing spells any pointers on that?

what you need is cyclone axe, executioners chop, vigorous spirit, balanced stance, gladiators defence, and bonnetis defence, with healing breeze and mending. In short i kept getting knocked down while i was trying to recast vigorours spirit and sometimes cyclone axe so if that happens when im fighting like 10 of them i just use balanced stance right after a bonnetis so i have full energy then i cast vigorous quickly cast a cyclone to gain some hp then if neccesary cast healing breeze or w/e other hp booster you have in this build cyclone and vigorous are your healing sorce gladiator defence is the killing device and balanced stance is the emergency brake while mending is to keep the bleeding and poison and disease from doing tooooo much damage in my opinion it works well but you can fight a max of about 12 at a time though if your fighting the boss assasin vermin try to reduce the fight with him to about 8 due to him being a good chunk stronger!

With what I use above I tank all of that groups near the boss no problems. Infact its easier to have more mobs around you since you get healed more and makes the run a shit load quicker. Mending sucks for farming vermin, other than countering some degen its crap. Two healing skills is all you need to be able to make that -9 degen very pointless.

Dolyak Signet is the key skill you need for farming vermin. No knockdowns and a big bonus of armour to go with it. All for 0 energy. 17 seconds of pure 32 armour and no knockdowns. 3 seconds after it expires you can recast it.

but isnt dolyak an elite? and were do you get it anyways i cant remember

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dolyak sig is not an elite.....both builds use elite and doly....yea but anyway i got it at ember light camp