Hi. Just thought I'd give a heads up to those who have been needing Cores for either the Gloves or Quest, Glint's Challange has proven to be invaluable in the process of getting this done.
You need a basic Splinter Barrage build, mines include some Norn skills but that's only because I have 7 ranks into it. You can do without it.
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Basic Splinter Farm build:
8 BM
9 Expertise
7 WS(can be changed if you don't use SC or TU)
9 MARK
12 CHANNEL
Barrage[E]
Splinter Barrage
Nightmare Weapon(Self Heal)
Storm Chaser or Other Kite Skill
Troll Ungent
Edge of Extinction
[Optional]
[Optional]
or
Barrage[E]
Splinter Barrage
"I Am The Strongest!"
Kite Skill
Nightmare Weapon or Feel No Pain
Edge of Extinction
[Optional]
[Optional]
Basically you start from the Central Transfer chamber add a hero/hench team as its much much harder when you have them coming from both sides, but if you think you can take them both then go for it. I flagged mines up near the north point where they start coming in so they're names will be grayed out. ~Destroyer Core Farming~
Xitoahc
Then I setup a EoE(Switch to BM Mask if you have one when using.) near the baby dragon and wait for the first grp to kill the dwarf and start coming down as a pack then basically just close enough to Splinter them and they go down pretty quick as they're only LvL 10-15 at first. Then LvL 20's come with a couple of LvL 15-10 ones, but still all the same easy to kill. If you have trouble just back up a little into the Dwarfs and let them "tank" for you, and just keep firing eventually you'll get through the first west wave and can pickup your loot(shown below).
This is just to fight the first wave only, after that LvL 28 mobs start coming so pickup loot and /resign after the first wave is done.
Hope this helps! :grin:
Jimmy Dean
Looks good man. Thx for posting.
JD
JD
Esan
I had been using a nuking variant for a couple of days. I got cores only at the rate of one every 15 runs. After my soul was completely crushed from mindless unrewarding repetition, I decided to go farm Hero's Handbooks and wait for core drop rate to be fixed.
ShadowofWar
nice from the looks, but find a way for other classes to do this and ill give you a pat on the back and words of encouragement :P thanks.
unknown1
i did it with war. =)
VonGimli
Well ive been killing destroyers for forever... and I havent gotten a single core, so I dont know if I even want to try... I am a splinter barrager normally though so i may have to give this a shot.
Floski
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Originally Posted by unknown1
i did it with war. =)
Thanks for explaining your method!
Jesse
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Originally Posted by ShadowofWar
nice from the looks, but find a way for other classes to do this and ill give you a pat on the back and words of encouragement :P thanks.
mass aoe.....done
xcenic
Anet holy God fix this drop, is annoying and is inhuman to us to get that thing!! im still havent get any core in 2 chars played trough Gw.
this is the max..you make the game totaly grinding!!
sorry for my english!
this is the max..you make the game totaly grinding!!
sorry for my english!
ShadowofWar
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Originally Posted by Jesse
mass aoe.....done
no, not done, first off sure maybe you can easily do it with a ranger barraging using dwarves as tanks, but say you are a warrior you can't avoid alot of damage seeing as how you are up close and personal with say anywhere between 3 and 30 enemies, you need a skill set in which you can be healed and recieve alot less damage then you would etc etc. massive aoe is nice for offensive, but you have to think defensive too so you dont die after killing 3 things
duanehaas
woot they fixed the drop rate
Xitoahc
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Corrected an issue that caused Destroyer Cores to drop at a lower-than-expected rate.
The number of Destroyer Cores needed for High Priest Alkar’s quest “Destructive Research” has been reduced from 10 to 3.
Yup, this farm run should become a lot more profitable now(core-wise), with this update. :grin:As for other professions, I'll leave that open to discussion. Once I get that far with the rest of my characters I'll try other variants and if any good post them in this same thread for others.
willypiggy
holy moly, gonna get some power leveling for my ranger and then hit this up.
zwei2stein
Cores are loot scaled ... it just makes no nense to solo it or send heroes away.
I just dont get why people are still in solo mentality for farming such stuff like collector items or reputation points.
I just dont get why people are still in solo mentality for farming such stuff like collector items or reputation points.
Psychology
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Originally Posted by unknown1
i did it with war. =)
Could you post your build for a warr plz,and is it possible to do this with a mo/d/e or a?
Hobbs
Could it be 55ed? I haven't even tried it so I have no idea. Also a warrior build would be useful if someone can make one. 
malko050987
Doesn't a 55 build make heavy use of enchants? And one of my guildies said Destroyers remove enchants.
SotiCoto
Destroyer Mesmers can remove Enchants.
From what I can tell they only remove them one at a time, but if you're dealing with hoardes of the fetchers then that'd be a moot point. I can tell I'm NOT going to have a happy time against these guys with my Assassin (tripley enchanted for maximum effectiveness).
On the other hand... Shadow Form + Sliver Armor might totally decimate their efforts.... provided the downtime isn't too long.
From what I can tell they only remove them one at a time, but if you're dealing with hoardes of the fetchers then that'd be a moot point. I can tell I'm NOT going to have a happy time against these guys with my Assassin (tripley enchanted for maximum effectiveness).
On the other hand... Shadow Form + Sliver Armor might totally decimate their efforts.... provided the downtime isn't too long.
Series
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Originally Posted by zwei2stein
Cores are loot scaled ... it just makes no nense to solo it or send heroes away.
I just dont get why people are still in solo mentality for farming such stuff like collector items or reputation points. Me neither...
I just dont get why people are still in solo mentality for farming such stuff like collector items or reputation points. Me neither...
CHunterX
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Originally Posted by unknown1
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Cores are loot scaled ... it just makes no nense to solo it or send heroes away.
I just dont get why people are still in solo mentality for farming such stuff like collector items or reputation points. Well lets see. I took a party of 6 Heroes/Henchmen to get my Skree wings for Baby Black Moa. After probably 2 hours, I had one. So I decided to make a solo build to take on some of the skree right outside of a town. Within half an hour I got 4 more. It may have been luck, or maybe everyone who soloed was right all along.
I just dont get why people are still in solo mentality for farming such stuff like collector items or reputation points. Well lets see. I took a party of 6 Heroes/Henchmen to get my Skree wings for Baby Black Moa. After probably 2 hours, I had one. So I decided to make a solo build to take on some of the skree right outside of a town. Within half an hour I got 4 more. It may have been luck, or maybe everyone who soloed was right all along.
AlienFromBeyond
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Originally Posted by CHunterX
It may have been luck
There's your answer. You have heard of a thing called loot scaling yes?
Chrono Re delle Ere
Today I started doing that mission with a friend of mine, splitting and all, we got something like 15 cores and splitted them. I't nonsens soloing this, the drop rate is the same.
Midnight08
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Originally Posted by SotiCoto
Destroyer Mesmers can remove Enchants.
From what I can tell they only remove them one at a time, but if you're dealing with hoardes of the fetchers then that'd be a moot point. I can tell I'm NOT going to have a happy time against these guys with my Assassin (tripley enchanted for maximum effectiveness).
On the other hand... Shadow Form + Sliver Armor might totally decimate their efforts.... provided the downtime isn't too long. Its worse than just remove, the mesmers use Shatter Enchantment which does about 120 damage to the target + ench loss... easy 55 kill. Shadow Form Might work, but i wouldnt be surprised if the necs have Chilblains.
From what I can tell they only remove them one at a time, but if you're dealing with hoardes of the fetchers then that'd be a moot point. I can tell I'm NOT going to have a happy time against these guys with my Assassin (tripley enchanted for maximum effectiveness).
On the other hand... Shadow Form + Sliver Armor might totally decimate their efforts.... provided the downtime isn't too long. Its worse than just remove, the mesmers use Shatter Enchantment which does about 120 damage to the target + ench loss... easy 55 kill. Shadow Form Might work, but i wouldnt be surprised if the necs have Chilblains.
The Arching Healer
Anyone got a build for ele to do this job?
The Arching Healer
Argh laggy double post, delete it plz
Hobbs
I had the same experience and CHunterX with Skree Wings, did it on my warrior and got 1 in an hour then 55ed it and got 9 in 90 mins, (first nesting material wouldn't go into storage -_-). If anyone does have a warrior build for this i'm still looking 
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Hobbs
I had the same experience and CHunterX with Skree Wings, did it on my warrior and got 1 in an hour then 55ed it and got 9 in 90 mins, (first nesting material wouldn't go into storage -_-). If anyone does have a warrior build for this i'm still looking .
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ShadowofWar
just try going in with a full party h/h or people and go through the whole thing (about 20 min ) usually get 2-8 (i got 10 last time + 2 gold drops o.o)
Antheus
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Originally Posted by zwei2stein
Cores are loot scaled ... it just makes no nense to solo it or send heroes away.
In this farm, you send heroes away so that 7 of them hold one entrance, while you hold the other one solo.
Mobs come from two sides, and NPCs alone can't handle it.
Mobs come from two sides, and NPCs alone can't handle it.
SotiCoto
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Originally Posted by Midnight08
Its worse than just remove, the mesmers use Shatter Enchantment which does about 120 damage to the target + ench loss... easy 55 kill. Shadow Form Might work, but i wouldnt be surprised if the necs have Chilblains.
I'm pretty sure they don't.
That being simply because I have fought quite a lot of Destroyers by now.... and always been able to cover Critical Agility with Way of Perfection OR Critical Defenses.... It has always been in the middle (due to the way the Critical ones work)... and yet I've managed to maintain it just fine. No Chilblains on the Destroyers...
In any case... the Mesmers are always my first targets when I run in. Get rid of them and the rest are a laugh (possibly with the exception of the Rangers, since I don't have Wild Strike or Wild Blow to get rid of their annoying stance)...
I can't quite solo a large hoarde of them, but I can take down quite a few on my own, and if I'm lucky then Death Blossom on the Warriors will take down adjacent Rangers too (denying them the oppurtunity to block).
That being simply because I have fought quite a lot of Destroyers by now.... and always been able to cover Critical Agility with Way of Perfection OR Critical Defenses.... It has always been in the middle (due to the way the Critical ones work)... and yet I've managed to maintain it just fine. No Chilblains on the Destroyers...
In any case... the Mesmers are always my first targets when I run in. Get rid of them and the rest are a laugh (possibly with the exception of the Rangers, since I don't have Wild Strike or Wild Blow to get rid of their annoying stance)...
I can't quite solo a large hoarde of them, but I can take down quite a few on my own, and if I'm lucky then Death Blossom on the Warriors will take down adjacent Rangers too (denying them the oppurtunity to block).
Guildmaster Cain
Theres a new ele build with Stoneflesh, Stonestriker, Mantra of Earth, Obsidian Flesh and Glyph of Swiftness. The last can make sure u keep ur Obsidian up forever. That might be a nice build, combined with some Sliver Armor.
tyche7
Iv'e been farming these by doing Glint's Challenge. I'm almost HALF there to what I need. (250 total). (-:
SetsunaSamurai
Get friends, people.
My girlfriend and I have gotten piles upon piles of Destroyer Cores (sold 75 last night) just from doing Glint's Challenge a handful of times. (read: Handful. No more than 5)
Why solo something in 5 minutes when you can run the entire mission and greatly increase your destroyer core drops for an extra 10-15 minutes? It's very counter productive.
My girlfriend and I have gotten piles upon piles of Destroyer Cores (sold 75 last night) just from doing Glint's Challenge a handful of times. (read: Handful. No more than 5)
Why solo something in 5 minutes when you can run the entire mission and greatly increase your destroyer core drops for an extra 10-15 minutes? It's very counter productive.
SotiCoto
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Originally Posted by SetsunaSamurai
Get friends, people.
My girlfriend and I have gotten piles upon piles of Destroyer Cores (sold 75 last night) just from doing Glint's Challenge a handful of times. (read: Handful. No more than 5)
Why solo something in 5 minutes when you can run the entire mission and greatly increase your destroyer core drops for an extra 10-15 minutes? It's very counter productive. Because not everyone has somebody to help them with the farming process.
My girlfriend doesn't even have her own computer... let alone her own GW account.
My girlfriend and I have gotten piles upon piles of Destroyer Cores (sold 75 last night) just from doing Glint's Challenge a handful of times. (read: Handful. No more than 5)
Why solo something in 5 minutes when you can run the entire mission and greatly increase your destroyer core drops for an extra 10-15 minutes? It's very counter productive. Because not everyone has somebody to help them with the farming process.
My girlfriend doesn't even have her own computer... let alone her own GW account.
Engel the Fallen
And not everyone has friends QQ
ANET needs to serious balance friendship. It is way too overpowered for us who opt to go the friendless route.
ANET needs to serious balance friendship. It is way too overpowered for us who opt to go the friendless route.
zwei2stein
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Originally Posted by Engel the Fallen
And not everyone has friends QQ
ANET needs to serious balance friendship. It is way too overpowered for us who opt to go the friendless route. I think you missed bi-monthy threads asking for being able to use 7 heroes.
ANET needs to serious balance friendship. It is way too overpowered for us who opt to go the friendless route. I think you missed bi-monthy threads asking for being able to use 7 heroes.