Farming Ettins in Hard Mode

SolusX

SolusX

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2007

Mo/

Ettins in hardmode have gained one advantage, Earth shaker. I was wondering if anyone has yet to farm these guys in Hardmode as yet. I would assume your average Vwk Warrior would work. I'd like to know if they give any good drops, so if you have please tell me.

Pyro maniac

Pyro maniac

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

tried it with dervish
ettins itself aren't that hard
only the run from beetletun is, so I have to run up from Lions Arch

AscalonWarrior

AscalonWarrior

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

Kokkola, Finland

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Pyro maniac
tried it with dervish
ettins itself aren't that hard
only the run from beetletun is, so I have to run up from Lions Arch Fight the way to there with henchies, then flag them away

SolusX

SolusX

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2007

Mo/

What the drops like, decent golds?

SotiCoto

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

Why would you want to farm Ettins anyway?
Especially if you need to fight your way past other things to get to them?

ShadowsRequiem

ShadowsRequiem

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Inde is Smoking [Hawt] *ToA*

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by SotiCoto
Why would you want to farm Ettins anyway?
Especially if you need to fight your way past other things to get to them? because ettins used to drop sup vigors like crazy and a lot of tribal axes.

naginatools

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

Ettins farmign sucks man, specially when Sup absorption went down.

Thats the reason people did "rune farming" aka ettin farming.

SolusX

SolusX

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2007

Mo/

I did it for Sup Vigors

boxterduke

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

Ah the good old days.

judgedread33

judgedread33

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

Australia, Crikey!

PwnD, plesure wreckin noob donors

E/Me

ettins can be farmed in grps of 1-5 with a 55 SV necro they go down fast but as far as the drops are concerned i didnt see much differnce so i gave up and went back to soloing bosses

ichigo_panty

ichigo_panty

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

Exiled And Forsaken[EnF]

Ettins drops are nerfed so badly in the past that it isn't worth the effort to even farm them.

It was a sup vig paradise but now, it is an abandoned gold mine.

blue.rellik

blue.rellik

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2007

Melbourne, Australia

None

W/

I tried doing them today with my 55 necro. He had just pretty much cleared most of North Kryta Province of the titans (hm of course). Earthshaker is really annoying since they're basically in groups of 3 - 4 and just earthshake one after the other so I wasn't able to get my prot spirit up again and thus died

Anyway imho I think titans are better if you're after runes. One one run after killing around 20 titans, 5 gold titan armours dropped for me

Spectar

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

R/

I don't think he was looking for runes from the ettins, back in the rune farming days they used to drop tons of tribal axes so with the advent of HM, max tribal axes anyone?