A/R Solo Plant Fiber Farm with video (720 foes/hour)

From The Blackness

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2011

25 May 2011 at 20:34 - 1

This is a simple, fast, and effective A/R solo for getting plant fiber, spiritwood planks, and ele tomes. Make sure you salvage your dragon roots for plant fiber.

The run itself takes 45 seconds. Allowing 15 seconds for zoning time, that is 1 minute per run. 12 kills per run yields a kill rate of 720 foes per hour.

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Demonstration:

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R/A is more effective at this.

Yes, slightly. With a ranger, you can use whirling without bothering with winnowing. Also, it will do 11 damage instead of 9. The spike takes 9 seconds to complete, so it will save you about 1.7 seconds on that front, plus the casting time on Winnowing. This will sum to a savings of about 7.5 seconds per run, which is an increase in efficiency of about 14%. You can expect to kill 820 foes per hour using a ranger.

I would argue that this is a slight enough difference that the margin of error in execution from a non-exemplary farmer would negate most of the difference.

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You should have stated that you need to have the quest " A new escort " active or those Dragon Moss will not spawn. I did. It's in the video from 0:09 to 0:17. Please fully understand my posts before criticizing it. Thank you.

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There is already a thread about this farm with comments/suggestions/variations/alternative locations, if you have something to add you might as well do it there!

That thread is for an R/A, not an A/R. The bar he is using is outdated because of the BUH update, and my video shows how to do it 29% more efficiently. That version would only net 558 kills per hour, even if he didn't waste time taking the bounty.

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Use storm chaser over natural stride, it's a nice speed boost, and it's a good way to recover energy when running back to the dragon moss to kill them

Natural Stride, as an IMS, provides a 33% boost. Storm Chaser yields only 25%. I run for 24 seconds in the video, so that would lose out on 1.5 seconds per run. I feel no need to sacrifice this time because there is no issue with energy management in this build.

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I did this A/Me once, taking Arcane Echo and Wastrel's Demise and tab your way through, it'll be faster Nope. Wastrel's Demise will do 8+16+24+26+26=100 damage with 11 or 12 in Domination and 16 in Shadow Arts, if the target fails to activate a skill. The foes we face have 600 health. Something will interrupt one of these, so you will need a minimum of 7 casts to kill the ball. Arcane Echoing Wastrel's Demise 7 times would take 2.75+3.25+3.25+3.25+.25=12.75 seconds to activate, with 5 seconds after that to finish the spike. So, you're looking at probably 18 seconds to spike, or 17 if you're optimistic. My spike, as seen in the video, takes 9 seconds. Add the 6 seconds from the casting of the spirit and the deaths charge in, and I've still got you beat by a second or two.

MisterB

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Planet Earth, Sol system, Milky Way galaxy

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25 May 2011 at 20:48 - 2

R/A is more effective at this.

Bad Company Sin

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2010

Texas

Embrace Annihilation [?????????]

A/

25 May 2011 at 20:58 - 3

This is a good farm for getting canthan skinned items aswell, echovauld, gothics, Dual Gothic Axes. I did this on a ranger so I wonder if ranger or assassin would be better? with a ranger you have +AR VS Ele damage. just take a staff for energy if energy is a problem.

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Stimm

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2006

25 May 2011 at 21:23 - 4

Ive been doing this farm for about 3 months now , you should have stated that you need to have the quest " A new escort " active or those Dragon Moss will not spawn.

The build I use is a variant of the A/Me Vaettir but with mantra of lightning over channeling

S N E B Z O R

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2011

R/

25 May 2011 at 21:57 - 5

Sounds interesting, I will be giving this a try on my ranger. Thank you for sharing!

Dot Rotten

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2009

UK

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25 May 2011 at 22:11 - 6

Awww i've been doing this for a while, you shoulda kept it on the low down! :P it's a pretty awesome farm

+ use storm chaser over natural stride, it's a nice speed boost, and it's a good way to recover energy when running back to the dragon moss to kill them

Anti Welfare

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2009

For Goods Sake

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25 May 2011 at 22:11 - 7

this is a old and very well known farm. like vaettirs, farmable with every class in the game.

ori

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

LA

25 May 2011 at 22:23 - 8

Well unlike other people I was unaware of this farm. It looks great man thanks for posting, also great song in the vid.

Gondrakif

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2009

GMT +2

25 May 2011 at 22:25 - 9

There is already a thread about this farm with comments/suggestions/variations/alternative locations, if you have something to add you might as well do it there!

Originally Posted by ori View Post

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also great song in the vid.

I like it too, it's All Star by Smash Mouth if anyone wants to know.

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Originally Posted by From The Blackness

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That thread is for an R/A, not an A/R. The bar he is using is outdated because of the BUH update, and my video shows how to do it 29% more efficiently. That version would only net 558 kills per hour, even if he didn't waste time taking the bounty. R/A or A/R it's essentially the same thing, survive with deadly paradox shadow form and shroud of distress ball them together and kill them with whirling defense, the rest are just optional. So this is a variation of that farm and if there was a new thread for each variation this place would be swarming with them. In order to keep the forum clean and easy to read if someone finds a better/faster/etc variation of a farm they post it in the original thread. This has the additional bonus that the several pages of talk and suggestions discussed during the creation of the thread get "bumped" along with the new variation for everyone who wants to read them.

RedDog91

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2007

Farming for Nick gifts

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25 May 2011 at 23:27 - 10

Is there any in the game that doesn't already know about this?

You only need 4 skills. None of them require any real thought.

gw_poster

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

so cal

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26 May 2011 at 00:38 - 11

Ty for the post anyway this is a decent farm for rare echo-forest shields but the farm last about 10 runs straight until you start getting shite for drops (meaning 1-2 of anything). I come back every couple of weeks on my ranger to do this farm and the same thing happens. I will admit however that during events the drops tend to stabilize and sometimes feel like they even increase. To add, it seems that when I go R/E with a bow they die in 2-3 clumps, granted the run is 1:40s or so but I don't get the horrible drop rate that I get when running 45s W/D build. Just my thoughts. Gl with your farm

Bright Star Shine

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2009

Belgium

Club of a Thousand Pandas [LOD???]

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26 May 2011 at 00:43 - 12

I did this A/Me once, taking Arcane Echo and Wastrel's Demise and tab your way through, it'll be faster

Olle

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2008

Ign: Miniature Julia

Teh Academy[PhD]

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26 May 2011 at 04:34 - 13

Nice build, will try this

superraptors

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Dec 2008

W/

09 Oct 2011 at 22:37 - 14

this farm is awesome

CE Devilman

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

hell

Do U Trust Anet

N/Mo

09 Oct 2011 at 23:50 - 15

no dmg..105hp..better elite..+5e 20% longer enc bow (or swap from staff)

or U can go 105hp monk and 100 blade em..bring a running skill