Solo Shadowform Sin - Chaos Plains NM Farm

ive almost finished preparing my new sin now, but my question is if its worth using a sup vigor rune for this farm, to get past the traps etc.? I'm not using any type of Vigor runes, just Radiant and Attunement, and my runs are fine.

I am using MoR/Lava... are there any good wall blocking techniques for the mindblades? you dont need to bodyblock or anything. just keep your HP under 100 and they will attack you all the time.

so... after my power went out for 2 days, i just did a run and got 10 ecto

yay loot scale? rare mat drops, are NOT connected with loot scaling

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and people that are having energy issues. DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT use the glyph of swiftness and Deadly Paradox UNTIL SF is recharge.
i never run out of energy with a constant SF up all the time. if you do find yourself low. just DONT cast any other spells. wait for SF to recharge then Glyph, DP, and SF. also make sure to have a fire off hand that doesnt take away a energy recharge. people who are using one need to stop and think

ps. i have a totem axe some fire offhand i found for the +12 energy and all energy armor(radiant, attunement) also the sup shadow of course

i must be doing something wrong, max i get 2 ectos but usually its 0 or 1.
wtf just bad luck? The max I have gotten from a run so far is 5.. and I just did a run and didn't get a single ecto... the run before that I got 1

I've used both the sliver armor and the fire nuke builds and here are the differences:

Ecto - No difference (no matter if its fast or slow killing)
Other drops - at least twice as much with sliver than nuke
Time - Nuke twice as fast as sliver

Conclusion - if you are after ecto then use the nuke build - its faster. If you want other drops to salvage, etc then use the sliver build.

When I use the nuke build my backpacks are only half full when i'm done. If I use the sliver build, I take a salvage kit and have to use it on all the white drops half way through the run just to have enough space to pick everything up.

But bottom line is that both ways produce the same amount of ecto per run (but you can do twice as many nuke runs in the same time as a single sliver run - so you do the math)!! That's funny because I've exclusively used the MoR+Font build and I always find myself salvaging whites to make more room for drops.

How many ectos I've seen drop varies just as often as ppl QQ on these forums if that's any indication but the norm seems to be at least 3 a run, most from a single run was 8 I think.

To those having issues getting to the plains, watch the videos posted here in the farming forum and note the path. Make sure you're using cupcakes and [dash] or [flame Djinn's haste].

To those having energy issues, don't be afraid to wand if you must.

Anyways, anyone who doesn't already have a sin or isn't making one is really missing out on some great farming runs. Now if I can just find a good supplier of cupcakes. Speaking of which, whats the going rate atm? I think it was 100g per cupcake but that was before this became popular, lol.

So I did 2 full runs, and got 2 ecto. 0 on the first, 2 on the second. Then I got 3 spawns in a row where I couldn't even get PAST the Behemoths, let alone past their traps, because they had completely bodyblocked the path. Needless to say I am f*cking mad. I just had that happen 4 times in a row, suffice to say i had to quit gw and go do something else i was a tad pissed off.

Hi there,

Some ppl doesn't seem to understand (still) how to get to Chaos, well I've made (again) a video, and shows also how to farm, where and what.

~NOTE: I do NOT take credit for the build, however I do take credit for the Video

GL, for every 1 that needs it, for this farm run....

Video: http://files.filefront.com/Chaos+Run.../fileinfo.html First of all, good video. It definately shows to anyone the basics of the run. I have some point which could've been better. These are not meant to negatively criticize you, but as general info for everyone.

I prefer to use dash for the following reason. With dash you can easily and without much risk of body blocks, take on the whole chamber with 3 groups of squids. You can afterwards trap them against a wall (I usually don't because it barely matters in time spent). It's probably always a bad idea to kill the Aaxte, because you'd be better of using that time doing more runs and killing more Mindblades.

Also, it's not even useful to kill any squids after you've finished the quest. Just ignore them and run past the Behemoths when the Blacknessess have passed.

Your run was excellent. You timed it just right, and it's a great help for anyone who doesn't know how to do the run.

What you didn't do tough, was keep your health under 100, which is quite crucial. It speeds the run up quite a lot. You can efficiently get your health at less than 100 by making sure you recast Shadow Form in the run just after you walked up the last steep part, to the road where the Blacknessess pass if you're too slow. Then you can run to the Planes, wait for 3 seconds and reapply Shadow Form after is has ended. Then, aggro.

The Banished Dream Riders can be divided into roughly 3 groups. There's the first group you see when you enter, which consists of 4 Dream Riders. It's best to try and kill them and their spawns together. Sometimes it's possible to pull those 4 Dream Riders together, but it usually isnt.

The second group is at the altar thingy. It consists of 3 Dream Riders, with some extra additional spawns. You can always pull these 3 together. Be sure to use a longbow for pulling.

The thirth group is close to the Terrorwebs. There are just 2 Dream Rides. It's easiest to kill the Terrorwebs together with the last spawns.

I hope this info is helpful to anyone trying to speed up their runs.