Farming Done Right: Minotaur Farming

First of all, you'r gunna be farming Minotaurs, which a bunch can be located iat Elona's Reach (mission).


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When you enter the mission you have to talk to the ghost that gives you the crystal, you dont need it, drop it. After that theres gunna be a spliter mine, 2 Minotaurs and a path on the right. Take the path on the right, then on ur upper left theres is a plain field with alot of minitour. Now thats what ur farming. Ready?

Category Minotaur
Level 20
Known Zones Elona Reach
Known Skills Mighty Blow
Description Warrior




Aftershock - Spell
Nearby foes are struck for 26-85 damage. Knocked down foes are struck for 10-56 additional damage.( Good 10 second dmg dealer, and health spike )

Armor of Earth - Enchantment Spell
For 30 seconds, you gain 24-53 armor, but move 50%-21% slower than normal.( +60 armor, enough said )

Kinetic Armor - Enchantment Spell
For 8 seconds, you gain +20-68 armor. Whenever you cast a Spell, Kinetic Armor is renewed for 8 seconds.( Plus 80 armor. Do i need to say anything more? )

Stone Daggers - Spell
You send out two Stone Daggers. If it hits, each stone dagger strikes for 3-20 earth damage.( This skill is important! you spam this to keep Kenetics Armor )

Ether Renewal {Elite} - Enchantment Spell
For 7 seconds, each time you cast a Spell, you gain 1-3 Energy and 5-17 Health for each Enchantment on you.( MAJOR health & energy spike! )

Physical Resistance - Stance
For 30-78 seconds, you gain +40 Armor against physical damage, but you lose 24-14 Armor against elemental damage.(Reduces the attacks even more)

Channeling - Enchantment Spell
For 8-46 seconds, whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 Energy from each foe in the area.( Combined with stone dagger and a huge aggro, energy.... )

Aura of Restoration - Enchantment Spell
For 60 seconds, you are healed for 152-350% of the Energy cost each time you cast a Spell.( The victums will do 3-5 dmg each, 5energy=13hp.... )

Attributes:
15 earth 10+1+3
12 energy storage 11+1


Before you aggro them, cast all the enchants you have besides kenetics armor. Then aggro a few and goto the left a bit.For some reason I run to the left of me, makes me feel more secure....Now use kenetics armor While fight just spam whatever flashes. When killing a few some more should show up, dont worry, keep spamming stone daggers ect.There isnt really alot to say because well, THIS RUN IS EXTREAMLY EASY! In 3 minutes i get around 500g total, Now thats farming!


Drops: Drops are based off of luck.... So if you farm the hell out iof this spot, expect worse and worse drops.

Typo in the above -- you said you had to spam to keep Armor of Earth alive, when you obviously meant Kinetic Armor.

By the way, recent discussion here of this build has focused on a -2 when enchanted shield plus an enchantment extension 1-handed weapon, if you can afford it, being even cooler than Galigord's staff. Or you can switch weapon sets.

Of course, faster recharge of Aftershock is also nice.

how about the -1 trunch from quest at surmia?
Edit, wootwoot, high council

Why not edit that build a bit, and go farm titans with that? ^^, more money, easy as hell, more xp, and less co-farmers

I just finally got around to doing Hell's Precipice.

Which Titans?

And are the Titans quests repeatable, or is it once-and-done?

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Could you help me get a feel for this build? I'm still pretty new, but I have a 20 elem as my main and I just tried this build. I it worked fine against 2-3 minotaurs, but anything more than 4 kill me because I run out of energy really fast trying to keep up all the armor. Ether renewal has too long of a cool down to rely on for energy management. As soon as armor of earth slips off, I start getting owned and find myself playing defense. Before I know it, I'm out of energy and dead shortly after that.

While I don't have as good of equipment as you, I shouldn't be having this hard of a time, should I? I'm using drok's armor, milius' pillar, and have 16 earth and 12 energy storage. This sounded like a good way for me to make money, but I keep dying. Any advice?

In a real Ether Renewal build, there shouldn't be a big problem with energy. You should have 5 enchantments up, so each spell while Ether Renewal is up returns you a gross of 15 energy. You should be able to get 5 spells per Ether Renewal pretty easily, if you stick to short casting time ones, twice per minute, or maybe four if you can't afford enchantment-extending mods. (I forget what Milus Pillar does.) With more practice you can get the number of spells higher.

You need to cast Kinetic Armor once per fight, Armor of Earth twice a minute, Ether Renewal twice a minute, Aura of Restoration once a minute (but you often cast it twice to use it as an "extra" spell during Ether Renewal), plus Earth Attunement or Channeling as needed, depending on which is in your build. (Physical Resistance in the build is a bad idea, because it's not an enchantment.)

That leaves you plenty of energy per offense, especially since with Channeling you may make a net energy PROFIT on every casting of Stone Daggers (if you have five or more minotaurs beating on you).

Health from beatdown can be a problem, but energy shouldn't be at all.

And to help with health, consider using a -2 while enchanted shield. Those can be had from collectors (not in the desert). Not 16 armor, but who cares, since you don't have a Tactics score anyway?

There are a bunch of threads on this.

And you can make it real easy and fast if you take out Stone Daggers and Ether Renewal and put instead of them Whirlwind and Ward Against Melee. It's easy to keep Kinetic Armor up all time because only not spell in your skill setup is Physical Resistance, simply play with timing and you will not have problems with Kinetic Armor. As for energy menagment Channeling i enough, with 3 in Inspiration Magic you can have Channeling all time.
I have -2 while enchanted shield from colector and Galigord's Rod.
You will take dmg only from Mighty Blow rest will be lot of 0 dmg

Skill setup:
Whirlwind
Aftershock
Channeling
Ward Against Melee
Armor of Earth
Physical Resistance
Kinetic Armor
Aura of Restoration

Att:
Inspiration Magic 3
Earth Magic 16
Energy Storage 13
(i have both 15 att quests)

If you rely on Channeling for energy management, you HAVE to have a lot of attackers.

What's the minimum number you need, in practice?

Don't know minimum but in Elona aggro as many as posible.
I usualy aggro them all and my life don't drop under 75%, and have energy all time 50%+ (until the end when there are 2 - 3 left)

I still am guessing Ether Renewal would be better than Physical Resistance in that build, especially if Inspiration is low, even if you don't have an enchantment extended modifier.

And by the way, 20% extra enchanting staffs are CHEAP. Just buy some mesmer green that has it. Galigord's staff can also be head for 5K easily, and below that with not much effort.

If you find that Ether Renewal is works better for you then by all means use it. I just give alternative approach
BTW i got Galigord's Rod for 1.5k and 15 min of farming Wind Riders for collectors shield.

Uh, hate to break it to you, but I bought Galigord's Rod for well under 1K. In fact, the rod and scroll together were under 1K.

That said, I don't use them. The collector's wand is better (20% earth recharge vs. 10% global recharge). Of course, I must confess to not using it either.

But before this turns into a bragfest ...

I bought Galigord's Staff long ago. Overpaid at 8K when 6K was easily doable. use it a lot.

I JUST got some collectors earth staffs from Mineral Springs. Made a +57 health one that I may use as a warder in PvP some day. Haven't actually used it yet. Considering whether to make one with great defense mods too.

I also just put a 19% enchant axe mod on a Fiery Flame Spitter. Haven't used that yet either. Just have a Thorgall's Shield somebody gave me; haven't gotten around to farming the Ancient Eyes.

Uh -- where is a good place to farm Ancient Eyes?

Thanks, and sorry for babbling.

Yes i know i their price but i am willing to pay extra if i get what i want real fast (under 2 min in droks 1).

I have Fiery Flame Spitter but ATM my 55hp monk uses it.

hm.. this is way off topic

As for Ancient Eyes go infront Druid's Overlook go litle SW, when you came to spiders run down into the river.

Magot, your build worked a lot better for me. The damage output AND damage reduction from adding in whirlwind was a lot. Knocking down 10 minotaurs drops their damage a lot, and the added aftershock damage allows for much more even damage on all the minotaurs. I am killing almost all the minotaurs at one time now.

This isn't to say the OP's build is not good. I think it just takes more experience all around, and this is my first attempt at any high level farming.

If you need any help, pm me ingame and ill help. But i allready provided the video...

this is a very old and very nerfed farming spot



try me/e

armor of mist
fire attunement
mist form
arcane echo
channelling
lava font
flame burst
inferno

I don't remember the stat spread any more, but it's pretty straight foward - bring up chanelling & fire attunement - use armor of mist to move freely and gather up all the mino, pop arcane echo, mist form, spam lava font + flame burst + inferno until mist form is about to run out, use your arcane echo'd copy - continue spamming, cast chanelling as necessary - use armor of mist to get some range so you can recast arcane echo + mist form, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.