|
Originally Posted by MisterB
Vehjin Mines. Leave from Jennur's Horde and head to the Holdings of Chokhin portal; there are 50 of them in hard mode near that portal. Zone back and forth at portal to reset. Unsure how many are in normal.
|
|
Originally Posted by Tearmaker
Do these things drop more in HM or NM ??... because I have been through this like 12 or 13 times and I only have 1 hide to show for it.
I'm running in NM right now with me and 3 heroes. Seems like I should have more to show for it.  |
|
Originally Posted by Solas
Would an ele be able to solo this or any other prof?
|
|
Originally Posted by MisterB
I think the problem is the party size in your case. They have ~5% or more drop chance for me running duo(4 runs, 50 foes, and 10 drops, so 10 drops divided by 200 foes is 5%) and even more solo. It could be just random chance in my favor, though.
If anything, I think they would have a slightly higher chance to drop in normal because hard mode has more items available in the drop table and increased rare item chance. It seems to me that normal would be better for common drops like this, but proving it either way would require thousands of drops. The reason I was farming them in hard is because I used a 600/smite build with Ogden and a solo "55" build on my Necromancer with 105 hp. Both builds used Spirit Bond, and foes hit faster as well, resulting in greater energy gain. I don't play elementalist, sorry. But any profession can 600/smite these guys. There's an excellent guide for 600/smite with different professions here. It's for Cathedral of Flames, but it should apply here as well. Spirit spam apparently works: any profession except Paragon or Warrior could probably do that. A guide for spirit spam can be found here. Credit belongs to spun ducky and A Simple Farmer for those two builds. If anyone wants my solo necro build, I posted here. It's really overkill on healing, because I'm bad at "55" builds when fighting lots of foes combined with heavy degen. Build inspired by Fuzzy Taco. A monk primary could almost certainly use this build in reverse, too. According to ReZDoGG's guide, a 330 Rt/Mo should be able to kill these behemoths. I don't play Ritualist, either. Edit: Here is an Elementalist build and guide that will work here. Also, it has occurred to me that the build I used should be able to adapt to other primary classes with Monk secondary. Just include damage skills and max the associated attribute. Sliver Armor or blocking in general would seem to have anti-synnergy with the build, but I don't play ele nor have I used that skill. |
I guess GW was saveing them up till I did what it wanted me too.
|
Originally Posted by SharonC
In my opinion, the best way to have handled the problem with Nicholas would have been to leave him in place with a repaired text. That would have been the best thing for the players. It would have helped prevent people from having lost time, it would have kept people who didn't know about the change from losing money by buying items they thought he was collecting but no longer was.
|
|
Originally Posted by BrettM
I think ANet knew that, and it is unfair to assume they wouldn't see something so obvious. I also think it may not have been possible for them to do.
|
|
Originally Posted by Fay Vert
What is unfair is that many players have been grinding away for nothing.
|
|
Originally Posted by Fril Estelin
Not completely true: Linsey said this location and the Krait skins were for Nick's position in a year's time. So these players have them for next year. It's still bad for those that paid for them, but well, get over it.
|
