Farming Dead Swords.

Stygian Veil is part of DoA.

Farming those quests are still somewhat profitable on hard mode, usually get 2-3 golds a run, and a dye or 2. Ah..... DoA .... Nevermind then.
I even imagine sending Chae Soon in there... and the initials suddenly gain a new meaning: "Death of Assassin".

Is Dead Sword farming even profitable anymore? The golds dropped there seem like hard sales, and I was just browsing the sale forums and seen Req9's for 15k and req 11's for 5k (B/O prices).

Seems like these have officially been overfarmed into the crapper... I just sell the golds unid for 1k each, I usually get about 15-20 golds per hour.

I just sell the golds unid for 1k each, I usually get about 15-20 golds per hour. Well I guess it sounds like a good way to get wisdom title too if you're into that...

so now is Dead sword 15k?
... You say that like it is a bad thing.
I'd love to be able to sell any one item for as much as 15k.
Most of the gold stuff I have ever tried to sell to people I've either given up on entirely and merched / kept / salvaged ... or sold for like... 3k at the most.

OK, I have no real issues with doing the run with my 130hp dervish once I get to the slaves in HM. I generally suicide once per group if I'm trying to multi-task or have imbibed a bit of alcohol, though if I focus and pay attention I do not need too. Basically a standard 130hp Dervish, I use mirage cloak to mostly get around the savage slash interrupt (no recharge on that skill so can spam it until it casts even if it is interrupted). While it may not be the fastest - that particular character is after some titles and is the one I need to do the run with (though this doesn't affect my question as far as I know).

My main problem is getting there. In HM the stone shards do 450+ damage per attack, I die too fast to go to the later rez shrine and instead respawn at the bone palace (no problem with a death, I prefer to suicide once - takes me down to 58 health). In normal mode, no problem getting there with no deaths. In HM sprint doesn't break aggro and the groups never seem to spread out enough to reliably make it through. It takes me longer to get there than to complete the run due to having to map back and forth until the spawn happens to be something I can get past.

Even with merching everything it is the most profitable run I generally enjoy doing (even more so if I can finally make it there with little frustration). My basic question - in HM is the above normal? If not is there some trick I'm not seeing to making it past the groups of undead and stone shards? I can continue to hammer until I either find some trick or decide to just eat it and grind away - though I hope someone else out there has some advice. I'm not against the idea that I just simply suck at running past them - then I at least know I can work on it instead of just wasting my time (in fact, I tend to think that is the case). But if everyone else has the same issue then I will just accept it and go one. I may not do it the best way, but this is a reliable method i use to get there...

I zone in and hopp in a wurm. Then i head east till i see the first group of awakened. To avoid them i head north while hugging that western wall. While doing this you should come up on another group of awakened. If you pause for a moment they will start to head south (towards the first group of awakened). Once the second group of awakened are out of your way, proceed to head towards the zone (cutting over to the eastern wall). By now you should have aggroed a group stoneshards and shamblings....don't worry yet though. I continue to head towards the zone until i aggro the next group of awakened. As soon as i see a hex on me i trigger the wurms run boost and head for the rez shrine near the zone. I've never had aggro follow me, and only died a handfull of times (due to getting body blocked or losing connection)

Hope this works for ya.

My main problem is getting there. In HM the stone shards do 450+ damage per attack, I die too fast to go to the later rez shrine and instead respawn at the bone palace (no problem with a death, I prefer to suicide once - takes me down to 58 health). In normal mode, no problem getting there with no deaths. .
Lol, just take control of a wurm and use its "sprint". You should not have any problems .

Lol, just take control of a wurm and use its "sprint". You should not have any problems . In HM the worms sprint doesn't seem to break aggro. At least as far as I have seen so far 2 out of 3 spawns have enough stone shards to spike you to death nearly the instant your agro bubble gets the group - simply pressing "5" for the sprint ability isn't enough.

Puran Lighthart, thanks - not to terribly far off what I have been trying. Though I am activating the sprint ability before I aggro any of the groups, I'll see if that helps any.

Taking 2-4 tries to get to the zone is no big deal, just would speed things up quite a bit if it didn't.

In HM the worms sprint doesn't seem to break aggro. At least as far as I have seen so far 2 out of 3 spawns have enough stone shards to spike you to death nearly the instant your agro bubble gets the group - simply pressing "5" for the sprint ability isn't enough.

Puran Lighthart, thanks - not to terribly far off what I have been trying. Though I am activating the sprint ability before I aggro any of the groups, I'll see if that helps any.

Taking 2-4 tries to get to the zone is no big deal, just would speed things up quite a bit if it didn't. It works perfectly fine for me. Unfortunately, I haven't played Guildwars in almost a month now due to being kicked out of the house. But! I did do it the day Hard Mode came out and their "Sprint" worked perfectly fine as it does in Normal Mode.