Location of Trolls:
Draknor's Forge (west exit Talus Chute)
head North West
Look out for a ice cave, be careful of other things on the way, sprint on contact to lose them
Skills to equip
Zealot's Fire
Balthazar's Spirit
Essence Bond
Divine Boon
Balthazar's Aura
Sprint
Shield Stance
Protective Spirit
equipment needed:
protective icon +27 energy
On reaching the entrance of the ice cave
1. cast essence bond and balthazar's spirit and zealot's fire
2. go in and lure all trolls so that they surround you.
3. cast protective spirit + balthazar's aura
4. spam divine boon all the way
5. if your smiting lvl is high enough, you should be able to kill them before you protective spirit wanes
6. if not, the idea is to switch your protective icon to a shield and use shield stance then spam your stuff again
for drops
you get lotsa raven staves, which you can salvage for wood and mountain troll tusk, which you can exchange for some neat collector's items.
it also drop gold dragon swords, fellblades, falchion and flamberge.
Let's Farm!
Good luck!
Free Tutorial for Trolls Farming for W/Mo or Monks
alant998
Odd Sock
What exactly is Divine Boon for ? And do you have any swords, axes, hammer attributes ? If not I dont understand why you can't just go all out monk and carry appropriate runes.
Greyscale
Umm that seems awfully energy dependant for a wa/mo to upkeep?
Navaros
i spent a lot of time in Talus Chute and Snake Dance to capture skills
i killed millions of trolls
i got no worthwhile drops from that whatsoever
you sure they are a good thing to farm?
i killed millions of trolls
i got no worthwhile drops from that whatsoever
you sure they are a good thing to farm?
Tactical-Dillusions
Oh yes, i can see the devs writing out some more nerfs right now. Thanks for giving them the heads-up! 
Seriously, they do seem to be on a spoil-sport mission at the mioment. Maybe they like destroying the fun things which they create?
It's like inviting everyone to a party but telling them they can't eat or drink the stuff on the table, don't you think?
/endsarcasm
Divine boon gives you X amount of healing on top of every spell you cast on an ally.
With high divine favor,divine boon and orison of healing, you can heal for around 180 points.
All it costs is the 5 energy for orison, the 2 for the costs of casting while enchanted with divine boon and the -1 energy regen for maintaining divine boon.
It's good for short and intense battles and gets the health bars up quickly.
Seriously, they do seem to be on a spoil-sport mission at the mioment. Maybe they like destroying the fun things which they create?
It's like inviting everyone to a party but telling them they can't eat or drink the stuff on the table, don't you think?
/endsarcasm
Divine boon gives you X amount of healing on top of every spell you cast on an ally.
With high divine favor,divine boon and orison of healing, you can heal for around 180 points.
All it costs is the 5 energy for orison, the 2 for the costs of casting while enchanted with divine boon and the -1 energy regen for maintaining divine boon.
It's good for short and intense battles and gets the health bars up quickly.
CAT
they kill me in seconds, protective spirit doesnt help much
Paladin_Adoni
I reckon that Anet come to these forums and have got to the point where they've decided "you know what, they say we deliberately nerf areas, so lets nerf any area that someone says we are going to nerf. heck, they believe were out to spoil the fun to totally, why not make them be right"
I have had dealings with anet via email regarding loot and farming areas. and they have not been nerfed. they know where they are, what I kill, and what I am trying to get from them. it hasnt changed. although if I do it for long enough they do run low on loot. but that happens anywhere.
stop being so bloody paranoid about anet screwing with the loot. sure they change it a little here and there. but it they decrease the likelyhood of a particular type of loot from dropping by a small amount. in the end equation as to what is dropped of course it will have the possibility to not drop for a long time. the idea is not that you should go out and find that one mosnter that 100% drops gold armor. theres a loot system in place for a reason.
anyway. I quite like your setup. ill have to try that out. never really played with devine boon before
I have had dealings with anet via email regarding loot and farming areas. and they have not been nerfed. they know where they are, what I kill, and what I am trying to get from them. it hasnt changed. although if I do it for long enough they do run low on loot. but that happens anywhere.
stop being so bloody paranoid about anet screwing with the loot. sure they change it a little here and there. but it they decrease the likelyhood of a particular type of loot from dropping by a small amount. in the end equation as to what is dropped of course it will have the possibility to not drop for a long time. the idea is not that you should go out and find that one mosnter that 100% drops gold armor. theres a loot system in place for a reason.
anyway. I quite like your setup. ill have to try that out. never really played with devine boon before
alant998
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Originally Posted by Navaros
i spent a lot of time in Talus Chute and Snake Dance to capture skills
i killed millions of trolls i got no worthwhile drops from that whatsoever you sure they are a good thing to farm? |
alant998
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Originally Posted by Tactical-Dillusions
Oh yes, i can see the devs writing out some more nerfs right now. Thanks for giving them the heads-up!
Seriously, they do seem to be on a spoil-sport mission at the mioment. Maybe they like destroying the fun things which they create? It's like inviting everyone to a party but telling them they can't eat or drink the stuff on the table, don't you think? /endsarcasm Divine boon gives you X amount of healing on top of every spell you cast on an ally. With high divine favor,divine boon and orison of healing, you can heal for around 180 points. All it costs is the 5 energy for orison, the 2 for the costs of casting while enchanted with divine boon and the -1 energy regen for maintaining divine boon. It's good for short and intense battles and gets the health bars up quickly. |
they don't need to see this post to realise that lotsa ppl are farming trolls atm. just go to drognar's forge (any dist) and stand at Talus Chute exit. you can see many ppl stream past you continuously. i'm sure the server programming can detect intense activity in that cold cave in Talus chute.
about divine boon, i'm not worried about the energy consumption because i gain 10+ energy per hit( in a grp of 8 trolls). the energy degeneration is much less a problem. you should give it a try really.
you need to equip a +27 energy offhand and if better if you can have a cesta/cane/trucheon +15 energy -1 energy regen. i have also tried with a shield and +15 energy deadly cesta, which has no issues at all. 20 trolls can be brought down in less than 30sec.
alant998
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Originally Posted by Odd Sock
What exactly is Divine Boon for ? And do you have any swords, axes, hammer attributes ? If not I dont understand why you can't just go all out monk and carry appropriate runes.
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no weapon attribute.
well, you can be a monk like i said, this thread is for W/Mo or Monk because most ppl are playing w/mo-s.
but it needs more attention to keep your monk alive from the troll's power attacks.
divine boon(no recharge, no cast time) is spammed to utilise the ability of zealot's fire. check them out
KainShadow
mmmh it's not a good spot imho, no need to nerf
i haven't got any than raven staffs and tusks, no rares :| (yes i tried a lot)
i haven't got any than raven staffs and tusks, no rares :| (yes i tried a lot)
CAT
I changed this build around a little bit for E/mo. Now i have 4x more mana and 2 more regen pips. I replaced sprint with windbourne speed, shield stance with ward against melee. Anyway, i die really fast...
Dzan
You need Mark of Protection rather than Divine Boon.
LoneDust
Divine boon would not help the War/Mos. It's dependent on divine favor. This build is too energy dependent for warriors in general...
super dooper
booooo!!! That was my uber-secret-farming spot, now that it's out there though.. (booo!! 
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Mo/X
Healing: 9+1 (rune)
Smiting: 12+3 (rune)
Protection: 6+1 (rune)
Divine Favor: 7+2 (rune, scalp design)
Balthazar's Spirit
Zealot's Fire
Divine Boon
Healing Touch
Balthazar's Aura
Symbol of Wrath
Mark of Protection
Zealot's Fire before you engage them, Mark of Protection when they get around you or a few of them start whacking you, then Balthazar's Aura, then Symbol of Wrath, then spam Divine Boon, if they disrupt it (they use Disrupting Chop), Healing Touch to kill the last few, (or Balthazar's Aura may be recharged by then). I never die unless I forget to cast Zealot's Fire, haha..
I've been farming them for gold, but once in a blue moon I get a rare Shield, got an awesome rare Runic Hammer once, too...
booo!
)Mo/X
Healing: 9+1 (rune)
Smiting: 12+3 (rune)
Protection: 6+1 (rune)
Divine Favor: 7+2 (rune, scalp design)
Balthazar's Spirit
Zealot's Fire
Divine Boon
Healing Touch
Balthazar's Aura
Symbol of Wrath
Mark of Protection
Zealot's Fire before you engage them, Mark of Protection when they get around you or a few of them start whacking you, then Balthazar's Aura, then Symbol of Wrath, then spam Divine Boon, if they disrupt it (they use Disrupting Chop), Healing Touch to kill the last few, (or Balthazar's Aura may be recharged by then). I never die unless I forget to cast Zealot's Fire, haha..
I've been farming them for gold, but once in a blue moon I get a rare Shield, got an awesome rare Runic Hammer once, too...
booo!
Odd Sock
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Originally Posted by Tactical-Dillusions
Divine boon gives you X amount of healing on top of every spell you cast on an ally.
With high divine favor,divine boon and orison of healing, you can heal for around 180 points. All it costs is the 5 energy for orison, the 2 for the costs of casting while enchanted with divine boon and the -1 energy regen for maintaining divine boon. It's good for short and intense battles and gets the health bars up quickly. |
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Originally Posted by alant998
divine boon(no recharge, no cast time) is spammed to utilise the ability of zealot's fire. check them out
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P.S.: why isn't this thread in Gladiator's Arena Forum anyways ?
hydrak
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Originally Posted by alant998
Location of Trolls:
Draknor's Forge (west exit Talus Chute) head North West Look out for a ice cave, be careful of other things on the way, sprint on contact to lose them Skills to equip Zealot's Fire Balthazar's Spirit Essence Bond Divine Boon Balthazar's Aura Sprint Shield Stance Protective Spirit equipment needed: protective icon +27 energy On reaching the entrance of the ice cave 1. cast essence bond and balthazar's spirit and zealot's fire 2. go in and lure all trolls so that they surround you. 3. cast protective spirit + balthazar's aura 4. spam divine boon all the way 5. if your smiting lvl is high enough, you should be able to kill them before you protective spirit wanes 6. if not, the idea is to switch your protective icon to a shield and use shield stance then spam your stuff again for drops you get lotsa raven staves, which you can salvage for wood and mountain troll tusk, which you can exchange for some neat collector's items. it also drop gold dragon swords, fellblades, falchion and flamberge. Let's Farm! Good luck! |
Anyways this troll farming might be the best farming place before the patches, but not anymore. I just checked this spot after he posted. Every run is about 10 minutes. On average, each run gives about 500-600 golds. I make much more gold from selling items with a 6-ppl party/1-hour run in the underworld.
Red Locust
lol @ people thinking farming spots get nerfed when people mention them on forums. ArenaNet was able to single out and ban the people who used the augury rock mirror exploit over and over back when it was useable, do you really think they can't figure out popular farming spots by doing the same?...
Eclair
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Originally Posted by hydrak
Atlan998, are you trying to waste our times while you are farming in another, much sweeter spot? I think I know what is the other spot you are farming right now...
Anyways this troll farming might be the best farming place before the patches, but not anymore. I just checked this spot after he posted. Every run is about 10 minutes. On average, each run gives about 500-600 golds. I make much more gold from selling items with a 6-ppl party/1-hour run in the underworld. |
Every run takes me 3 minutes, 1 minute to run there and setup, 20 seconds to kill all the trolls, and the rest of the time opening up the 2 chests. On average about 1k per run not including the random goodies.
However they have already nerfed this place. It used to drop nothing but fellblades, now it drops nothing but raven staves =/
Lilanthe
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Originally Posted by Eclair
Riggght...
Every run takes me 3 minutes, 1 minute to run there and setup, 20 seconds to kill all the trolls, and the rest of the time opening up the 2 chests. On average about 1k per run not including the random goodies. However they have already nerfed this place. It used to drop nothing but fellblades, now it drops nothing but raven staves =/ |
This place is nerfed like you said. You only do 30k in 30 mins that's it ?
hydrak
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Originally Posted by Eclair
Every run takes me 3 minutes, 1 minute to run there and setup, 20 seconds to kill all the trolls |
Eclair
Err, all as in the big center group. I generally ignore the 4 or so trolls off to the 2 boss spawn points. There's still a good 15 ish trolls in the center group and and 4 or so trolls to the far sides isn't very effecient.
Here's what I do: Run in and lure the center group (sometimes they split, so mybe 10 seconds of running to get them together) cast Balthazar's Aura, Mark of Protection, Symbol of Wrath, Divine Boon, StormChaser, Divine Boon, Divine Boon, Divine Boon, etc. Usually they die as soon as the Mark of Protection ends (10 second cast time) sometimes it takes an aidditon 2 divine boons to kill the leftover ones.
I have 12+4 Smite so I do a lot more damage than a warrior primary.
Here's what I do: Run in and lure the center group (sometimes they split, so mybe 10 seconds of running to get them together) cast Balthazar's Aura, Mark of Protection, Symbol of Wrath, Divine Boon, StormChaser, Divine Boon, Divine Boon, Divine Boon, etc. Usually they die as soon as the Mark of Protection ends (10 second cast time) sometimes it takes an aidditon 2 divine boons to kill the leftover ones.
I have 12+4 Smite so I do a lot more damage than a warrior primary.
hydrak
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Originally Posted by Eclair
Err, all as in the big center group. I generally ignore the 4 or so trolls off to the 2 boss spawn points. There's still a good 15 ish trolls in the center group and and 4 or so trolls to the far sides isn't very effecient.
Here's what I do: Run in and lure the center group (sometimes they split, so mybe 10 seconds of running to get them together) cast Balthazar's Aura, Mark of Protection, Symbol of Wrath, Divine Boon, StormChaser, Divine Boon, Divine Boon, Divine Boon, etc. Usually they die as soon as the Mark of Protection ends (10 second cast time) sometimes it takes an aidditon 2 divine boons to kill the leftover ones. I have 12+4 Smite so I do a lot more damage than a warrior primary. |
theclam
In case it isn't clear, for a Zealot's Fire farmer, Divine Boon is an essential skill. It costs 5 mana, takes 1/4s to cast, and has no cooldown time. You can cast 2-3 a second for 200+ HPS and 60+ DPS.
Eclair
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Originally Posted by theclam
In case it isn't clear, for a Zealot's Fire farmer, Divine Boon is an essential skill. It costs 5 mana, takes 1/4s to cast, and has no cooldown time. You can cast 2-3 a second for 200+ HPS and 60+ DPS.
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Aug
1 gold item every 3-4 hours isn't worth the effort. Most golds are trash anyway, from my experience.
Volarian
Im just curious where you get +20 something energy icon/item from.....My ele/mo would love it!!!
theclam
Volarian, many of the collectors in the Crystal Desert have them.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0&postcount=76
I think all of the ones on the list are 20%/20% or +27 energy/-1 regen.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0&postcount=76
I think all of the ones on the list are 20%/20% or +27 energy/-1 regen.
Creston
How is any W primary able to use those +27 energy thingies? Don't they all have something like (requirement : 9 Fire Magic) or something to that effect? I once equipped a decent + energy item and got about +3 from it rather than the +12 it was supposed to give...
Creston
Creston
Volarian
Thanks Clam but none of those listed reflect 20+ to energy and the original poster indicated a +20 something icon.........but having a +12 item coupled with a +12 wand (1 handed weapon for Ele/Monk) would equal the +20 something....so that's cool as well.
Hysteria
Collectors items have attributes that arent seen until they are traded for. IE. the healing ankh also has 20/20 on skill recharge and casting.
Volarian
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Odd Sock
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Originally Posted by theclam
In case it isn't clear, for a Zealot's Fire farmer, Divine Boon is an essential skill. It costs 5 mana, takes 1/4s to cast, and has no cooldown time. You can cast 2-3 a second for 200+ HPS and 60+ DPS.
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Volarian
Also point out that Divine Boon may only be realistic for Mo primary - I've tried it with El primary and despite having the extra storage (70)
Balth's Aura
Balth's ??
Divine Boon
Zealots
Symbol of Wrath
Sheild of Judgement
Orison of Healing
Still can't make it work all that well.....end up not keeping myself healed enough to do any good......what possibly could I be doing wrong? You can PM me if you'd prefer - I'm in the Watchtower mission as it's been the easiest for melee mobs that aren't TOO high in health or dmg output...and I can't see to get very far.
Balth's Aura
Balth's ??
Divine Boon
Zealots
Symbol of Wrath
Sheild of Judgement
Orison of Healing
Still can't make it work all that well.....end up not keeping myself healed enough to do any good......what possibly could I be doing wrong? You can PM me if you'd prefer - I'm in the Watchtower mission as it's been the easiest for melee mobs that aren't TOO high in health or dmg output...and I can't see to get very far.
ubernesss
divine boon is based on divine favor... that's why it's not healing for much...
Eclair
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Originally Posted by Volarian
Also point out that Divine Boon may only be realistic for Mo primary - I've tried it with El primary and despite having the extra storage (70)
Balth's Aura Balth's ?? Divine Boon Zealots Symbol of Wrath Sheild of Judgement Orison of Healing Still can't make it work all that well.....end up not keeping myself healed enough to do any good......what possibly could I be doing wrong? You can PM me if you'd prefer - I'm in the Watchtower mission as it's been the easiest for melee mobs that aren't TOO high in health or dmg output...and I can't see to get very far. |
Edit: wait, are you hunting Riverside Knights? It's very difficult now with the various casters interspersed with the melee. You might want to try something that only hits with physical attacks.
eA-Zaku
Volarian I believe the second Balthazar's skill you're looking for is Balthazar's Spirit?
Jimbodan
I tried the build posted and farmed the area for about 3-4 hours tonight to test it out. With that exact build and casting everything the same way I found it to be quite succesful.
The enemies dropped tons of raven staves and an insane amount of mountain troll tusks ( I think I ended up with around 184!! of them). I didn't get any golds but I did get 3 purples including a nice max dmg axe with +13% dmg when health is above 50% and plus 23 to health, which my warrior is now using. I also got 4 fellblades, 2 were max damage.
This is place seems pretty decent to go if you are looking for staves or staff upgrades or for fellblades. I also made a decent amount of gold too, nothing spectactular but a good amount.
The enemies dropped tons of raven staves and an insane amount of mountain troll tusks ( I think I ended up with around 184!! of them). I didn't get any golds but I did get 3 purples including a nice max dmg axe with +13% dmg when health is above 50% and plus 23 to health, which my warrior is now using. I also got 4 fellblades, 2 were max damage.
This is place seems pretty decent to go if you are looking for staves or staff upgrades or for fellblades. I also made a decent amount of gold too, nothing spectactular but a good amount.
StandardAI
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Originally Posted by Jimbodan
I tried the build posted and farmed the area for about 3-4 hours tonight to test it out. With that exact build and casting everything the same way I found it to be quite succesful.
The enemies dropped tons of raven staves and an insane amount of mountain troll tusks ( I think I ended up with around 184!! of them). I didn't get any golds but I did get 3 purples including a nice max dmg axe with +13% dmg when health is above 50% and plus 23 to health, which my warrior is now using. I also got 4 fellblades, 2 were max damage. This is place seems pretty decent to go if you are looking for staves or staff upgrades or for fellblades. I also made a decent amount of gold too, nothing spectactular but a good amount. |
Asplode
I personally find the farming is much easier if you're a fire elem w/ water secondary.
I go and clear all the minotaurs in the first segment of Elona Reach, run in, fire attunement, arcane echo, aggro all the minotaurs I can in about 17ish seconds, cast mistform, suddenly I'm invincible while I cast all my ae damage spells, when it starts to blink, cast the arcane echo version, when that starts to blink, the 1st one is recharged, and you cast that again. By the time the 2nd mistform is done, though, you'd have bottomed out your energy, and you have a neat circle of dead 'taurs, and about 500g of drops, each run takes like 2 minutes.
I go and clear all the minotaurs in the first segment of Elona Reach, run in, fire attunement, arcane echo, aggro all the minotaurs I can in about 17ish seconds, cast mistform, suddenly I'm invincible while I cast all my ae damage spells, when it starts to blink, cast the arcane echo version, when that starts to blink, the 1st one is recharged, and you cast that again. By the time the 2nd mistform is done, though, you'd have bottomed out your energy, and you have a neat circle of dead 'taurs, and about 500g of drops, each run takes like 2 minutes.