Best Place To Farm Dead Swords, Sephis Axes, And Other Rares

ok first of all to anyone who ever got a dead sword in the save the king quest.... grats, now to show all of you up.

build
monk/derv
16 smite
8 earth
10 divine favor
11 protection

this is a 55 set build.

skills

shield of judgment
symbol of wrath
shield of absorption
protective spirit
mystic regeneration
blessed aura
balthazar's aura
essence bond

location
Jokanur digging's

HARD MODE IS A MUST

enter Fahranur, the first city
cast blessed aura, and either essence bond or balthazar's aura
travel west <northwestern route> , across bridge, hang a right(north)
follow the narrow path killing any and all skale along the way
you will see a large mob of skale, you can either kill them<moderately difficult> or pass them by. If you choose to fight them, aggro them all with essence bond balth's aura and blessed aura, also cast port spirit and shield of absorb. as soon as you have aggro cast shield of judgement and symbol of wrath, they should break away, you should no longer need shield of absorb.after killing all the skale, enter the city<west> watch out for the falling stone, it is a instant killer, much like the drill things in sorrow's furnace.
aggro all of the undead at this point, maintain prot spirit and shield of absorb.
cast shield of judgement and symbol of wrath 1 after another, this will kill most of the melee undead, there should only be 2-3 of the 8 melee left. they will die due to shield of absorb. if you got lucky grats, you can always see the weapon in the npc's hand, you will spot a dead sword before it drops.

continue farther into the city, if you no longer see undead, turn around and pick a new route, there are a total of 30-40 undead in the area <there is undead bounty located past the first group> 1 warrior boss <TOMES!> and 1 dervish djiin boss that can all be solo'd with this build

i foudn that if you take another person, your chance of any kind of rare increases < 1 solo run i got nothing, next run i duo'd and we got 2 dead swords, 4 other golds <ancient shields> and uncounted purples
HAVE FUN its well worth it

final note: most drops here are max req 9-13 and inscribable..... best drop i have gotten was a max req 8 sephis axe..... i obtained nearly 200k for that beauty

screenies of a run i did just for you farmers out there.... no dice on the golds but 8 purples is ok i guess

interesting. will try.

EDIT: Not profitable. you take way too long killing random skales along the way, and if you don't, they cripple you and refuse to break aggro.

Just did it... got 2 gold shields . Took 45 minutes so I question whether this is worth it. I'll give it another try to see if I can get a sephis. Thanks for posting this!

on a solo run i got these..... from the same mob......... its worth it if you are patient

Pretty nice. Actually I don't have a clue how I got 45 minutes... This run was 34 minutes and I was afk half the time. Also, you only need to kill 2 groups of skales on the way, so I don't think that's a problem.

Very nice farm. I don't have any rares yet, but easy to do. Here is the template code:

Owok4wPGEuiT9g9aQuH3V5h+AgA

works like a charm, 30 minutes (fought some xtra scales) 1 deadsword 1 golden wand. Passage scroll and bad green..

I have NEVER seen a req 8 inscribable thing drop in nightfall though :S

I did this run yesterday and I had a req 10 max dmg Dead Sword, also I had a max dmg req9 Gold Scythe from the water djins

hummm nice run Thanks shadowdeath .... there is another choise besides MONK 55 ?

I don't even know where that place is....

But I don't see how this can be better than farming the king quest.... Afterall, the spirits in question are right near the entrance... so you can just port out and in each time to reset... Surely that is far more efficient than going through all this every time...

Soti Coto, don't forget that there are people that haven't been there on their monk and there are people that have already done that quest.

I've been doing this since the HM update. NEVER gotten a gold sephis here. Lots of Dead Swords and other crap golds. Interestingly, though, I found that killing that huge group of scales will get you icy and firey bladed axes.

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You can complete the campaign on another character

I went here the day that hard mode was released hoping that maybe ghostly swords had been released. :P It's a fun farm run, I really like the copperleaf shield skin that drops so often with these guys.

The king's quest is certainly faster, but this is fun and has more variety.

I usually farm this area just for taking a break from other tedious farms. It may not be fast, but its different (in some way at least :P). Plus there are chances for all the skins and items I want, Sephis, blade axes and elite warrior tomes (how cool would a lvl 10 warrior be with all elites :P). At least she'll have something to brag about to her big brother.

Just gave the round a test run and died at the end by accident (Didn't watch the screen), while taking a shot of the loot (Skipped many white weapons)
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/7784/gw006jc7.jpg

Not a bad spot, if you only at the beginning of the game and completed the chapter with a diffrent character.

I did this run some days ago, but only once. You can kill the skree groups as well, if there is a griffin in the groups walk to the falling stones and position the skree griffin under it; wait and laugh. Then you can kill the other skree for their loot.

In any case, I might just take my Monk to the Desolation before I even try this.... Depends how I feel about trying it. I'm definitely taking my Ritualist to the Desolation... so I might just work things that way: Monk in early stages, Ritualist in later.

3rd run



Suhweet. Thanks for posting . Btw, the shield was req 12

this is a general thanks to everyone who tried this, please take note that this is my first guide...... and to soti coto..... i didnt post this to get endless flames.... either try it untill you get a drop and then decide if its good or not... dont instantly flame it without seeing the result for yourself.

again thanks to everyone, if you ever want a duo's partner <about 5X more golds> my ign is

i sell stuff



if i am on my warrior <i am poor>, or my ele <eww ectoplasm> please do not bother me as i am probably farming underworld

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3 golds on first run 1 was a req 9 dead sword max dmg

Well ive been doing this since just after HM but i never seen this happen before and thought you guys might like it. all thats on the ground is from just 1 run.

can i say WOW. going to try this with geotank ele, standard E/Mes with glyph of resto for degen i guess, see if that works. great find, really want that icy and fiery blade axe! no luck from plains of jarin =/ and that4 dead sword run is amazing, never had more than 3 golds drop in any farm run in my life heh.

lol i know what u mean , 2 of them dropped from the same mob. i was like OMG.

what quest are u farming?

Just as a note when you say Balthazar's aura - you actually mean Balthazar's spirit (as made obvious by the screenshots) -other than that - looks awesome - i'll give it a try now
Thx

-1st gold is a r9 deadsword (thx)
also lots of lockpicks dropping...(maybe just random)

Im trying with a Dervish Monk ... beacuse i don have my monk there yet ... but im not getting good results :| .... seems like just 55 monk dervish works good here ..

if someone is farming this this another char .. could help me

Cheers

siljo there is no quest, u simply enter the first city from the diggings outpost and move into the city......
also for anyone who only wants to do skale for icy/fiery blade axes

monk/necro

12 curse
12 protection
12 divine favor

watchful spirit
mending
balthazar's spirit <thanks for the correction>
and blessed aura
protective spirit
shielding hands
shield of absorption
spiteful spirit

first pic = build
2nd pic= action
third pic= where u stand

if you stand in that location they WILL NOT SCATTER!!! 2 SS's on 2 different skale will kill them all attack the first skale you cast ss on untill you can apply a second to a different skale

I tried it with terra tank : echo sliver armour / stone daggers and killed all the skeles and the skales too. I didnt get any golds this first tun but got lots of purples and 3 warrior and one dervish tomes. Overall, I LOVE it!
Thx for mentioning the place.

Anyone know what E/Mes build will work for this? I have been farming the plains with one build posted here earlier.

Good post. i was experimenting in this area for something else...but didnt reach that far into the city.

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Iwas using this on the plains:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10150938

Gonna try mine and then yours.


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