Farming for Normal Tomes

Solo is the best way to go if you are farming something like this. I know during the Mandragor Root farm I farmed those Tusked Howler's solo and didnt do badly, I got 4-5 reg para tomes. Outside of the easy sin and mes tomes, warrior you could do kveldulf's. For warrior I get a ton off the elemental in Old Ascalon and the grasps in Tombs. Enough to have 4 characters have all warrior skills I have unlocked and I don't farm that much. Maybe I am just lucky for that drop.

i have about 120 normal ele tomes from doing uwsc mainly pools area in the past 2 months.

and i've got about 53 para tomes from doing arachni's.

and recently i've gotten a lot of monk, war, ele tomes farming noob island in cantha for q8's and rare canthans (bo staff, plagueborn etc). I do it solo with a SoS spirit spammer in HM of course. I'm sure a 55 monk/necro, 330ele, 330rit, could do most of it.

other than that i just pick them up in random spots. at least for the tomes you seek, monk + para. where on the Noob island do you farm? if I may ask

where on the Noob island do you farm? if I may ask I solo vanq'ed the entire noob island in cantha with a SoS spirit spammer.

But i commonly farm Minister Cho's Estate (Explorable) with a spirit spammer in HM. I actually just repeatedly vanq the explorable, since it's a lot of warrior and ranger foes, which only drop 1 default item (trinket box) and some don't drop any default items. So you have a very high chance at farming Gold Bo Staves. Which if you take a look in High End atm, are selling for insane amounts of ecto. They are very rare in gold rarity, and even more rare, with good mods. They only drop from ranger, warrior, and sin foes. And since the sickened guards, peasants etc, dont have default drops, or just the 1, you have great chances of getting one. So far i've gotten 3 gold bo staves, numerous numerous numerous Plagueborn Weaps (which also sell for decent amounts). and a gold q8 max sunqua blade.

As for the other areas, since i solo vanq'd everything, the only areas i go back to in HM are areas with naga's since they also have good chances of bo/dragon staves. But i commonly will do the entire noob island in NM, since i tend to have better luck getting q7,8's in normal mode.

And, I've actually held onto a couple quests that you can only get before you pick a secondary profession. for farming in HM. Mainly... Appearance of the Naga... you can only get this quest when you're low level but if you can manage to hang on to it, it's great for HM farming. It gives you about 24 naga right outside the portal of tsumei village, run's take about 3 mins with a SoS spirit spammer.

Don't expect this to be a quick farm, it took me a long time to get my first Gold Bo Staff with perfect mods. But since I've been having fun with this I dont even bother with the halycon job anymore.

I'm addicted to farming rare Canthan's atm. Need a few more to complete my personal collection.

I'm currently at work atm, but when i get home i can post some templates/screen shot's of some of the fun.

Like i said, I'm positive there are other builds that can accomplish the same thing, maybe better, maybe faster. But I've been having a lot of fun with my Rit since the buff, and it works quite nice. Basically I use the same build for the entire island and I swap out my optional depending on the Area.

Basically I use Boon of Creation, Pain, Shadowsong, Bloodsong, Vamp, SoS, Painful Bond, Armor of Unfeeling. I'll swap out AoU for SLA(spirit leech aura), Ice Imp, Tryptaphan signet, or a heal depending on the area I'm doing. Besides basic casting weapons, I always carry a high energy staff of enchanting. and a Shield set. The shield set I use for Cho's has +10 vs fire, which really really helps. and the Shield has a Valor handle +60hp while hexed. For the mesmer's and necro's. Also, if we have favor, don't forget to take the blessings from shrine. They are extremely useful in Cho's as a Rit. It's decently quick, takes about 20-25 mins to vanq cho's, and it's fun.

I'm addicted to farming rare Canthan's atm. Need a few more to complete my personal collection. Thanks so much for that farming information, seriously - I'm going to try all that as soon as I can. But regarding the quote above - are you going after shields as well, namely Echovald? Reason I ask is because I've done >90 runs vanq'ing Ferndale for faction and I've only seen 2 gold echo's drop - both single-modded , but numerous purple ones have dropped for me. Also, I've gotten a couple of nice amber aegis' from chests there, but as far as Echovalds - do you recommend a better place to farm for them (now that my kurz is maxed and thank god no more ferndale vanq'ing lol)