Mandragor Roots

someone3426

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2007

Florida

Scorpian Syndicate [SS]

W/Mo

Where is a good place to farm them? I don't feel like paying the insane price for cakes, so I'll get them myself. I'm always running into Mandragors until I want to, so where are some places where I can easily find large groups?

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

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Arkjok Ward, around the spot where Nicholas is camping

Taurean

Taurean

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2009

South of Norway - The land of Vikings

I have no guild - Yet

R/

Just outside longeye's ledge, grothmar wardowns.
But they are hard and you need a full team to beat them, so it takes a long while.

zelgadissan

zelgadissan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2008

The Warrior Priests [WP]

Me/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by Taurean View Post
Just outside longeye's ledge, grothmar wardowns.
These drop Fibrous Mandragor Roots, which neither Nicholas nor Yajide will not collect. Arduinna's on the right track, that's where I got mine.

Elephantaliste

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2008

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yeah, but not they drop fiber mandragor roots you can't use.

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

Arjok for sure - took me ~10 runs to get my 30.

Silverhand

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2007

Virtual Benchwarmers [VB]

i did arjok
600/smite w/ rip enchant on 600

lewis91

lewis91

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2008

Wales

Order of the Azurelight[OA]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snograt View Post
Arjok for sure - took me ~10 runs to get my 30.
...I done 6 runs with just discord heroes and got 4 and then got annoyed lol.

wetwillyhip

wetwillyhip

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

USA, Southern California, Orange County

Tyrian Elements [TyE]

R/Mo

arjok is where i'll go later this week! sounds good, thanks snograt and arduinne. sucks my 3rd account doesn't have NF so i can only get 30 max for myself

Pistachio

Pistachio

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/R

I can vouch for Arkjok Ward. Mandragors are all over the place, but I must admit they've been slow to drop roots for me.

Killerminds

Killerminds

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

For 5...21 seconds I CAN take damage

Union Of Light Form Users

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Got 15 roots in ~25 minutes, I went as Hundred Blades warrior with the classic 3 sabway heroes. As long as you dont agro 3+ groups your fine.
In arjok ward of course

dasmitchies

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2007

Sacred Forge Knights

W/P

Discordway with a primer build will rip through them quite easily if you don't over agro. Maybe I'll find the max blue insc. steel daggers I have always wanted.

Ceyarrecks

Ceyarrecks

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2009

Harrisburg, PA, US

Bought of Holy Blood

R/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by Snograt View Post
Arjok for sure - took me ~10 runs to get my 30.
10 runs?!!?

I have been attempting to clear all the Mandragor, both in NM and HM, and was under the impression the ratio was like >50 Mandragor's to one Root!!!

spent a few hours going up left hand wall towards Traveller, and only have 2 roots thus far


any ideas why they seem so scarce for me?

Thanks
Cey

CronkTheImpaler

CronkTheImpaler

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

midwest

AE

W/Me

Arkjok ward. 38 standing plus 22 pops. NM SH nuker + sabway = 16 minutes.


62 farmed so far. maybe 9-10 runs? roughly around there.



Cronk

ShadowsRequiem

ShadowsRequiem

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Inde is Smoking [Hawt] *ToA*

W/E

did about 5 runs with H/H in NM to get my 15, ran with 4 ele heroes/henchies and myself as an RoJ monk. Everything died pretty fast.

KemikalRx

KemikalRx

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2007

Passionate Kiss Of The Tiger [KISS]

Mo/

Arkjok Ward HM
- 600/Smite (smite was second account) 36 roots in 2 full runs ~45 min\
as well as 7 golds and 4 lockpicks ^^

Hero's are the richest players in the game ! in my opinion
dont take them if you want to get the most out of a farm!!

willie nelson

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2007

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by KemikalRx View Post
Hero's are the richest players in the game ! in my opinion
dont take them if you want to get the most out of a farm!!
Except Mandragor Roots aren't exempt from loot scaling, so you should get roughly the same number of them solo or with a full H/H team.

I just run two MM heroes, two ele nukers(me + hero), and 4 henchies of your choice, go from Sunspear Sanctuary into Arkjok Ward hug the right wall till you get to the first group of mandragors. In that area there are nine groups of 3-5 of them, and you don't have to fight anything else. Take on the first two groups one by one, and after that you have enough minions to just steamroll over the rest.
The entire run takes 4-5 minutes and drops 0-4 roots(2 on average).
Rinse, repeat -> profit.

deadmonkey4u

deadmonkey4u

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

Hoser Down[HD]

Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowsRequiem View Post
did about 5 runs with H/H in NM to get my 15, ran with 4 ele heroes/henchies and myself as an RoJ monk. Everything died pretty fast.
ohai

i did it with 3 heroes (smite, mm, n/rt healer) and I ran a scythe warrior. Took 4 runs to get 15. Didn't take forever but it was rather annoyign.

greyhawk

greyhawk

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

IGN : Greyhawks Destroyer

guildless

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i went RT AP with 3 discords this morning and 4 runs got me 16 (9-11 mins a run).

left from haven killed on the way to the traveller. was doing it in NM,

might give HM a shot tomorrow see if adding hench mess up the drops, if they are the same and time is about the same HM would be worth it.

imnotyourmother

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2008

in a house

The Knitters Guild

W/R

I was ranger and did 3 or 4 runs with H/H in NM and got 1 root. One stinking root.

What a HUGE waist of time - other than the gold. 99% of the foe's I killed dropped 88 - 113 gold! I was like gold gold gold gold gold gold nothing gold gold gold nothing gold...

It was crazy. Had I gone solo I would have make 7K a RUN!!! in GOLD.

So tonight..its time to dust off my 600/55 monk and Vanquish in hard mode!!!

This is better gold than Raptors!!!

KemikalRx

KemikalRx

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2007

Passionate Kiss Of The Tiger [KISS]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by willie nelson View Post
Except Mandragor Roots aren't exempt from loot scaling, so you should get roughly the same number of them solo or with a full H/H team.
i would have thought the same thing, however my wife sitting beside me using Hero/hench only got 6 Roots doing the same area twice. The exact mechanics behind loot scaling isn't exact !!

So Happily for me, the Bank errored in my Favor,

(Using a second account as my smite also helped with my numbers !! I highly recommend it over using a hero!)

happy Farming