Fan farming [Barbed Grawl, Wind Riders, Jade Rits]

This thread is me asking advice for a solo build for each of these.

I can solo Jade Brotherhood with my HH wammo I used to kill Ghial back in the day, but I can only handle up to five Jade in a balanced group [meaning I can't solo five warriors]. It takes a while, but as a 55/SV my hexes get removed, so that's not an option. A better build than my wammo's is needed. EDIT: I took a group of AI and killed Jade, leaving the rits. I then flagged them away and soloed the Rits. On the second run I got a tattered fan. This section no longer interests me.

The Wind Riders in The Falls: I can solo the Behemoths with my bleeding poison ranger, but could never beat the riders. Advice on this is needed.

Barbed: Again on my warrior, I can solo the MIGHTY Grawl who drop the Ice Breaker, but not the Barbed.

If you know any build that can help me, please post them.

For Jades, I'm henching it and calling targets until the rits only live and sending them away. This is probably faster than any solo build. The other two are still a problem though. Advice? Please?

Bump? Hm... Just researched... no info on this.

there is a E/D build that does the wind riders also..i'll try to find it

Are Green drops influenced by Hard Mode at all?

I mean... if they're not, you might as well do it in Normal Mode. Should reduce the threat massively (assuming you're HMing already).

But for the Windriders.... this might be a stupid idea.... but if you can use a Water Elementalist and get them stuck with a Deep Freeze + Maelstrom (possibly Fire Elementalism area effects if you'd prefer that, but still with Deep Freeze) without them interrupting you first.... they should drop like flies. If you want to avoid being blasted by their interrupts... secondary Assassin and Shadow Form should do the job.

I mean... if you take along hero-hench to clear the way and flag them away when it comes to the Wind Riders.

Quote: Originally Posted by SotiCoto

i just remember using troll unguent double shot with kindle arrows (or ignite arrows? i can't remember the name) and running away after i killed one of them. worked back then when they added the new greens. Not really effective but i found my fan that way.

And the update of today

I tried the R/ Totem build from... PiVX or whatever. Yeah, it worked great. Except for the fact that I never saw a Root Behemoth. Oh, and why? Because on my way there, in the falls where there are a bunch of trolls. So I'm running... I wait for them to come to me, and then bam I slip around after hitting Zojun's Haste. I get about a radar away and notice I'm taking damage. So of course, I die. As I respawned I made a comment about how my ping was 94 and I had 70 frames per second, yet I ----ING GOT KILLED BY LAG. This happened not once, but TWICE.

The geometry is very sensitive, and you have to give yourself enough room to maneuver around both Trolls and corners, otherwise you get stuck. In those situations, using the /stuck command is helpful, but may not be adequate to save you. The R / E Totem Axe farmer build is very solid but doesn't kill Wind Riders very quickly. You can probably kill one a minute at best, which isn't very good. The other problem is that the Wind Riders don't drop the fan with any reasonable degree of frequency. I've farmed hundreds of Totem Axes and killed many of the Wind Riders, and I've never found the Forgotten Fan. I'd place the drop rate at somewhere above 1 / 100, and there are fewer than 100 wind riders every time you zone into the area.

Update, I tried the totem build again and on my 64th kill [ironically my lucky number] a Forgotten Fan dropped. EDIT: Whoops, miscounted my tallying. It was actually 69.

Now for the Frozen.

So... ignoring Grawl Crones, Avicara, and blah blah blah near Barbed... What can solo an enchantment stripping Plague Signet using monkey?

EDIT: Shadow Form, Obsidian Flesh, Mist Form. Those won't work. Barbed Grawl use Chill Blains.

probably a shadow form a/me

using deadly paradox + arcane echo to be able to run 3 shadow forms

Refer to post #10.

My VwK rit can beat Wind Riders in Mammoon Lagoon, haven't tried in the falls though (probably works)

barbed grawl: try a blood degen n/me, 16 blood

life transfer, life siphon, shadow strike, empathy, vamp gaze

without trying that vs barbed grawl I'm almost positive that would work, i've used this build to solo some pretty nasty bosses, which those arent

Just tested, I killed every wind rider with W/Rt vengeful was khanei, although getting the healing bugs away from the Root Behemoth was very hard.

Apply Poison + Screaming Shot + a running skill can solo almost anything without a self heal, but it's generally too slow to be worthwhile.

way back the first weekend these were put in, I was able to solo the wind riders, behemoths, AND healing aloes just being an axe wammo. Simple beat downs. Don't use enchants around the wind riders -- they shatter them. Heal sig, and sprint to break aggro.

Continued help on Wind Riders doesn't affect me, I already used PvX's R/ totem farm build to kill exactly 69 of them by myself. VV, I will try the build you suggested for the Barbed tomorrow. Thanks.

I saw a build using traps and poison arrow on a ranger for the ice breaker farm. Idk if it would work for the barbeds too.

I've done runs in Witman's Folly with my 55 necro. The key is to not go near them since I've never seen them run right up to me and chilblains.