Solo Shadowform Sin - Chaos Plains NM Farm

Theres already been guides written for both the consta shadowform sin and for chaos plains, but I thought i'd put this one together for anyone who's just started. Any questions feel free to PM me 'Suprise From Behind'.

The Build

Ok, the basic build is as follows:

[build=OwZToY/85R6zj0ZIDcRw4WMBBA]

Equipment wise, youll want full radiants and full attunes, and a super shadow arts on a shadow arts mask.

You'll want to be using a +5energy/+20% enchant sword, spear or axe with a 20/20 fire off hand.
Id also advise taking a bow for luring, and another use ill describe later.
If you're just starting, a +20e staff is good for emergencies.

The Farm

The Run

The main focus of this farm is the Mindblade Spectres found in the Chaos Plains. To get there, however, you're gonna have to do some other stuff.

When you first spawn, youll want to immediately cast Deadly Paradox, Glyph of Swiftness and then Shadowform. Now head towards the Lost Soul, and take his quest. As soon as you take the quest, head back towards the start point. Youll notice the grasps have spawned. Head left up the steps, keeping to one side. Once you get within aggro, hit dash and reach the top of the stairs, preventing yourself from getting trapped in. Now head round the chamber, picking up the two other mobs of grasps and making sure not to get caught. Also, make sure you keep Shadowform up for the whole time.



After youve aggroed them all, bring them to point A. Now, you should proceed and kill them. It will take 3 uses of each of the 2 damage spells to kill them at 12 fire. However, after you have used your 5th spell, they wil often e-drain you with 'Fear Me'. To counter this, after you're 4th damage spell, wait for recharge. Recast Shadowform, then Glyph of lesser energy. Now switch to your bow, cast Phoenix and Inferno (5th and 6th spells). You can now switch back to your main weapon set and have around 25 energy.



Follow the map above to reach the entrance of twin serpent mountains. Here, you'll want to wait till the Charged Blacknesses come down the hill. When they start heading back up the hill, and get to point A on the minimap, youll want to start moving in and following the path upwards. You want to stay out of the traps, either by avoiding them totally or by using dash whilst running over them. During the whole run, remember to keep SF up and recharged. When you reach the point shown in the screenshot, take the marked path. Watch out for the Charged Blacknesses on your right. Head left at the end, down the path and stay left. You will now head up the hill. Notice there are some Charged Blacknesses just passing at the top, wait for them to leave your minimap, then continue and turn right. You're now free to run forwards, then left and into the Chaos Plains.





Chaos Plains

The map below shows the spawns of each Rider, as well as the Spectres that spawn afterwards. Ive marked on the map the order in which you should aggro the riders. These aggros can be quite difficult, sometimes requiring several reaggros of each mob. A longbow is recommended here. Remember during these aggroes to keep recasting Shadowform (and not cast it whilst your bow is equipped). Youll want to aggro the Riders so they are all bunched up together by moving to one of the sides, causing them to converge. After you have killed them, their corresponding Spectres will spawn, aggro them and kill them. Continue this for the 3 waves, then move to the next Rider group.



Some tips to use when aggroing. After SF has just been renewed, or is far from needing to be renewed, if you cast Glyph of Lesser Energy about 3-4 seconds after aggro, then fire attune, you will have just enough time to cast again after they have all surrounded you. This allows you to use Glyph of Lesser Energy quite often. Also, when possible, use Glyph of Lesser Energy on Phoenix instead of Inferno, for the greater energy efficiency. It is not recommended to kill the Terrowebs at the end of the run, due to the time it takes to kill them as well as their inability to bunch up properly.

Using this build and the aggroes above, you should be able to achieve a regular 26 min run. It is possible to reach a 23 min run if the aggros are lucky (they dont run too much).

Cheers
Seth

good job on build+guide ill try it when i get to level 20.

How many points into air magic?

0 is fine, as you need it only for one spell.

Btw, nice guide, but IMO you could only write about how to evade Charged Blacknesses... In other thread there was already a quite complex guide to A/Me, almost same as A/E.

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are you killing all the aataxe's on the way also? I noticed this is never noted in the guide but you must be running into them.

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Flame Djins Haste> Dash for Moar DMG, and therefor faster run. And you can do this a bit faster if you pull more, ( 16 mins)

anyway nice job on the guide

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can you pass traps with Flame djiins haste ??

Dash -> Flame Djinns and you have what I've been running. 27 minutes for 3-10 ecto is ftw xD

Awesome stuff. Farmed 50e in a day with this. GG.

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Can someone, please, post a zoomed in minimap that shows exact route to chaos plains? I always manage to take some wrong turn and got killed

Hey cool your in my alliance. Anyway Nice maps make it alot easier for the newer people to this area.

tried this out, extremly happy with it.
great guide and build. thanx a lot for this

Screens need more of my rage tbh. Farm ownzzz though.

can some1 go to UW with me and show me how to complete it in 26min???

I use flame djin's instead of dash so it should be more quick....


anyways my best is 35 mins, so I am realy interested

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I use roughly the same build ([Lava font] + [Mark of Rodgort] for damage). works good for me. did a 30 min run today (full chaos planes clear)

I'm not that limited with energy, and yes you can pass traps with flame djins but ocasionally i get hit by 1 or 2 traps.


i aggrod blacknesses here which costed me time and i messed up the balling of dreamriders at the statue. Tomorrow ill do another run and try to get it faster.

AMAZING amazing , assassins are kinda overpowered nowdays (in pve) and farming with them is so amazing too, like in uw u grab all those overpowered monsters on ur back gj with the guide gonna test it right now and c if i could rly farm all those ectos

first tyvm for the guide ... but i have some problems rushing to the chaos plains. Nearly every run i the obsidian behemoth are located very bad so i cant rush trough them with dash. i really dont get it. any counters?

How are you guys getting 3-10 ectos :S . im getting 2 ectos per run :/

Ecto drops even out over time, I've had anywhere between 1 and 9 ectos per run.

from time to time obsidian behemoths block youre path, you can try to find another way but sometimes all you can do is /resign.

works fine now ... just had bad luck the first runs ... but i dont get how to do this run in 25min or less ... i need ~35min and i have no idea where i loose 10min ... i always pull 3 dream riders groups if possible ^^

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i don't know how you spam your nukes, but i can't really do it @ 56 energy. Starting with full energy its [Shadow Form] up, [fire attunement] [GoLE] [Phoenix] [inferno] x 2 then wait for [GoLE] to recharge so i can continue with the above chain. Anything else just gives me energy problems in the long run. Takes me 30 mins.

Just Wondering can someone please take a screenie of their mini map after they reach the chaos plains? because i always take a wrong turn and get WTFPWND.

Edit: nevermind i found my way like a lost dog, to proceed to get 5 ectos and a white dye.

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omg omg omg
i just had the best UW run ive ever had !
i got 7 ectos from 1 run!!!!!!!
this build is fast and reliable. only been caught by a trap 1 or 2 times

Ive started to use [Flame Djinn's Haste] instead of [Dash], you can get over traps almost as often as with dash, and the damage/speed boost is rather nice. Had plenty of 20 min runs with poor aggros and stuff.
And just to say, my best run ecto wise was 9 ectos in one run

An alliance member just smashed my record, and hit 12 ecto and 2 passage scrolls last night.

Bastard <.<

rofl @ MrSlayer. If i were you i wouldn't let him get away with it

Edit: looks like practice makes perfect. 25 min runs. time to try [Flame Djinns Haste] instead of [dash]

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it happens teo.....lol weve jus farmed that crap out of ectos that well nvr get good drops like that ever again

EDIT:lol forgot to give my input....very nice build....works wonders in NM

It varies. I went solo one run and got 7 ectos just from killing roaming Aatxes and Dryders and doing Unwelcome Guests and Escort the Souls. Then a guildie and I went in another time and went straight to the Chaos Plains and cleared that and the Bone Pits, and not one ecto dropped for either of us. Your mileage definitely varies...

SF has got to be a broken skill now. Sure looks/sounds more effective than the ele build for plains clearing. I wonder if a bunch of these sins running around in UW can actually clear it.

cleared bone pits with this build too, but it's totally not time/ectos efficient

you can easily bunch the first driders perfectly using the left corner of the gate to pools, one minute for 8 more chances to drop ectos, sounds fair to me

PS : got 11 ectos clearing plains + driders + pits