Rain & Rock Beetles

Wellsy

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

[milf]

W/

13 Jun 2007 at 14:53 - 1
Hiya

I have checked both the Solo Farming thread and used the god awful search function but alas, i can not find it.

Im sure there is/was a Beetle solo farming build posted on here, but i just can't find it, could one of you kind people please point me in the right direction.

thanks

phool

phool

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

13 Jun 2007 at 16:01 - 2
According to guild wiki only level 24 beetles have distracting shot, I'm not sure if that includes level 26 HM beetles, so the others should be really easy to farm with any 55/105 build. All they can do is direct damage and a little self healing, 55 SS or SV should be ideal.

royal mercenary

royal mercenary

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

Glob Of Ectospasm [GoE]

Me/Rt

13 Jun 2007 at 16:05 - 3
and where can you find rock beetles the best ?

ahbuh

ahbuh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2006

Vamp

W/

13 Jun 2007 at 16:25 - 4
best place imho is hold of cholkin [something like that] you run pass the plant monster and instead of goin toward the place where you do the quest, protect the learner or something like that but instead of goin there take a left turn in tunnel.

lennymon

lennymon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Seattle

Odin's Hammer [OH] - Servant's of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

13 Jun 2007 at 19:00 - 5
There are several groups *just* outside Mihanu Township on Mirror of Lyss side. No running required. Those guys do have distracting shot, but I was able to 'usually' take them with a 55/sv (edit: in Hard Mode that is). Hope that helps. There are also a few groups on the main quest path on the way to Chantry of secrets but you may need to take out a couple groups of harpies as well (without monks).

Dragasa

Dragasa

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

where you least expect

13 Jun 2007 at 21:39 - 6
I've farmed them In HM with a 55/SV as well. I just try to lure them to an area where I can hide behind a rock to avoid Distracting Shot.

lennymon

lennymon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Seattle

Odin's Hammer [OH] - Servant's of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

13 Jun 2007 at 21:43 - 7
yeah, it's really too bad we can't have 3 professions ;P
it'd be handy for glyph of concentration or mantras lol

I've tried the rock thing too, but in HM they seem to be not fooled by that as much and come around. Plus time spent pulling means more chances of death due to critical interrupt, so I typically just wade in as it were.

Edit: I should probably mention that some things which may be good to utilize are reckless haste, price of failure, guardian, good luck!

philo

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

13 Jun 2007 at 23:05 - 8
Lots and lots of them live in Garden of Seborhin, if you just take the right northern turn after entering.

I must admit, however, that I fail to see what it is about these critters that makes people want to farm them. Any "secret stuff" we might need to know?

lennymon

lennymon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Seattle

Odin's Hammer [OH] - Servant's of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

13 Jun 2007 at 23:24 - 9
heheh, my secrets out, I wasn't farming them per se, but the warrior cobalt bossorama on the other side of them

My Green Storage

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2006

Arizona

My Blue Storage

N/

14 Jun 2007 at 02:24 - 10
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Geode

**What it salvages into**
Piles of Glittering Dust
Ruby
Sapphire


Normal Mode E/A can, the only annoyance is using Shadow of Haste, running up to them and at the last second when you start MS, they run a few feet away.

Don't they know I need to time things a certain way without any trouble?

Wellsy

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

[milf]

W/

14 Jun 2007 at 08:27 - 11
i should have mentioned i would ideally like ideas for a Warrior or Ranger primary build

My Green Storage

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2006

Arizona

My Blue Storage

N/

15 Jun 2007 at 02:12 - 12
In that case, hide behind a wall and spirit shackles + famine + mind whack the hell outta them.

ArKaiN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

Lotus Branca[Lbr]

Mo/Me

15 Jun 2007 at 02:42 - 13
This salvage farming thing is not a good idea. I spent the longest time 130'ing in Hidden City after those Djinn's common drops, which theoretically salvage into gemstones, and after getting a stack of each, I decided to salvage all of them.
Result:
3 rubies
4 saphires
2 diamonds
....
.......
thats right, out of 750 essences. I'm never doing THAT again.
I did get some rubies out of Jeweled Daggers I got there and more scythe mods than I could count, but thats neither here or there. This was pre-HM btw.

VitisVinifera

VitisVinifera

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

Northern California

HoTR

N/Me

15 Jun 2007 at 03:54 - 14
that's about the luck i've been getting, arkain. The VERY first one (geode, that is) I salvaged into a ruby, and every single one since (geodes and djinn essnces) then has been dust

probably around 100 total

the only ruby daggers I get are white, and I have a small pile of highly salvagable inscripts. I hear the have a much higher rate of yielding rubies.

edit: backfire totally destroys rock bettles -- try it on Hajok. Anything that spams stone daggers melts under backfire fast.