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jtchans

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29 Apr 2006 at 19:05 - 41

Crazy Cool

Evilsod

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29 Apr 2006 at 19:07 - 42

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Originally Posted by Lady Erighan

Speaks for itself...

I think your just lucky. Those ettins have given me 3 sup runes in the last 3hours spent farming them. I ran back and forth through NKP about 3 times and was only greeted with a single shitty Major rune. 1st hour i got 2 straight away, both Sup Illusion (yay

). A very tiresome hour later after another 13 purples i got a Sup Absorption, now i'm back to getting nothing.

The thing that i don't get is i haven't had a single blue armour in the last few hours of farming them, just a ton of purples and sod all golds!

Anyway, anyone have 2 Jade Mandibles, getting sick of not having an IDS drop (if they still do of course...)

Edit: Didn't you say you salvaged a perfect Deathbane bow grip yesterday? Somehow i don't think it compares slightly to the 6 wooden planks i just got from a 14% while hexed 20/19 sundering +7 vs physical flatbow.... salvaging is so shit.

lyric

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29 Apr 2006 at 20:05 - 43

i have been farming em for 2 hours now and have gotten a sup monk, absorp, vig, and axe mastery. not counting the millions of other majors.

Evilsod

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29 Apr 2006 at 20:10 - 44

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Originally Posted by lyric

i have been farming em for 2 hours now and have gotten a sup monk, absorp, vig, and axe mastery. not counting the millions of other majors.

Yeah i got another Sup Absorption too, give it another few days they're gonna be worth nothing. They've gone from once in a lifetime drops to every other Rare Ettin Pauldron.

Guitary Boy

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29 Apr 2006 at 20:17 - 45

God knows how you are all getting this, 5 runs through nebo and through nkp and back-2 purples, 1 superior fast casting.....your 5 runs = what, 4 sup absorbs!, if you think you are having bad luck....think of poor me

Lady Erighan

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29 Apr 2006 at 20:22 - 46

Guitary Boy, don't farm Nebo. The Ettins there are not worth the time and effort. Just farm the NKP area by zoning in and out of the Nebo and Scoundrels Rise portal.

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Originally Posted by Evilsod

Edit: Didn't you say you salvaged a perfect Deathbane bow grip yesterday? Somehow i don't think it compares slightly to the 6 wooden planks i just got from a 14% while hexed 20/19 sundering +7 vs physical flatbow.... salvaging is so shit.

Yeah, and I just got a +28 health bow grip from a purple bow. Don't worry though, I've had my share of perfect salvages that resulted in materials.

Guitary Boy

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29 Apr 2006 at 20:24 - 47

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Originally Posted by Lady Erighan

Guitary Boy, don't farm Nebo. The Ettins there are not worth the time and effort. Just farm the NKP area by zoning in and out of the Nebo and Scoundrels Rise portal.

Ok...but from what i can see, there are only about 8 ettins there and a whole buncha bog skales...btw im using my axe warrior....could this some how effect drops??-Thanks for info though.

Edit: not to mention about 60 caromi....killed about 29 of them, 1 gold. Guess.......

lyric

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W/Mo

29 Apr 2006 at 20:31 - 48

dont waste ur time on the bogs and caromi...

just kill the ettins and rezone over and over.

Lady Erighan

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29 Apr 2006 at 20:31 - 49

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Originally Posted by Guitary Boy

Ok...but from what i can see, there are only about 8 ettins there and a whole buncha bog skales...btw im using my axe warrior....could this some how effect drops??-Thanks for info though.

The NKP Ettins range from about 6-15 depending on the spawn. You can easily pull the Ettins from the Bog Scale because they are seperate groups. The Nebo Ettins will drops golds, but the drop rate is not worth the time it takes to run all the way over there.

And yes, warriors are very slow at killing Ettins. By the time you've killed one, I've killed 6. It's just the nature of the beast. Warriors are forced to kill them one at a time where other professions can kill the whole group at once.

Guitary Boy

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29 Apr 2006 at 20:42 - 50

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Originally Posted by Lady Erighan

And yes, warriors are very slow at killing Ettins. By the time you've killed one, I've killed 6. It's just the nature of the beast. Warriors are forced to kill them one at a time where other professions can kill the whole group at once.

Well, looking through all of nkp, i had 7 ettins this run, 5 of wich where tied in with bog scales, 5 of wich dropped nothing, 1 droped a purple :S, caromi=3 golds...all mesmer runes! i dont get it, oh and i still can kill etins pretty fast, about 5 takes me 2 mins...just disrupt healing, 1 by 1 they die in about 20 seconds- i might post a screen of about 10 nebo runs later
Edit-im on my 9th nebo run, taken me about 1 hour ...ss in about 10 mins

Guitary Boy

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29 Apr 2006 at 21:03 - 51

Product of 10 runs.....not counting the caromi..all from ettins, yeah and you can have my build

even though every man and his dog knows it

back to invinci monking....clearing talus chute map...even the grawl and arvacnia(what ever they called), thats not a build im gunna give away, and no im not using spell breaker

[FnG] Lazz

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29 Apr 2006 at 21:32 - 52

Just did 2 runs, got 1 purple. Normally in two runs I get about 2 blue's, maybe 3-4 purples and 1-2 golds

Evilsod

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29 Apr 2006 at 21:38 - 53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lady Erighan

And yes, warriors are very slow at killing Ettins. By the time you've killed one, I've killed 6. It's just the nature of the beast. Warriors are forced to kill them one at a time where other professions can kill the whole group at once.

The problem is as you refuse to tell us your build or even seem to let on if you kill them 1 at a time or simply waste them all together, we have no way of knowing that

Some ettins can take me upto 20 seconds, some i can waste in 4 attacks.

Evilsod

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29 Apr 2006 at 22:16 - 54

Don't talk to me about purples...

Lol well what do you know, the first ettin i kill on the next run yields me a Black Dye. Anet works in mysterious ways

Viruzzz

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29 Apr 2006 at 22:41 - 55

where are you farming ettins?

i killed a few in north kryta province, and in Nebo terrace, but out of about 50 ettins i got 1 gold armor, 2 purple

Evilsod

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29 Apr 2006 at 22:47 - 56

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Originally Posted by Viruzzz

where are you farming ettins?

i killed a few in north kryta province, and in Nebo terrace, but out of about 50 ettins i got 1 gold armor, 2 purple

Just look at the OP and you'll see how you can get lucky

Its NKP alright too, just running back and forth alot...

Hmm just noticed a slight flaw with the shield i'm using

Malinons Shield, Req 9 Tactics
My tactics 0 + 1...

Heehee

Oh well i'm in a stance for most of it anyway, back to the Bulwark.

jules

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29 Apr 2006 at 22:53 - 57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lady Erighan

Guitary Boy, don't farm Nebo. The Ettins there are not worth the time and effort. Just farm the NKP area by zoning in and out of the Nebo and Scoundrels Rise portal.

I've gotten good drops from both sides of the portal. I tend to farm more in Nebo just because there are more Ettins there and I don't want to walk through the settlement just to kill 6 ettins.

Evilsod

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29 Apr 2006 at 23:34 - 58

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Originally Posted by jules

I've gotten good drops from both sides of the portal. I tend to farm more in Nebo just because there are more Ettins there and I don't want to walk through the settlement just to kill 6 ettins.

I beg to differ. Up until a few passes of Scoundrels and Nebo portal ago i was getting plenty of purples, then all of a sudden they started throwing every gold armour they had me, got another 6 in 10-15 minutes. I'd never got that many doing Nebo ever.

keldean rainmaker

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30 Apr 2006 at 01:08 - 59

i do think some accounts are luckier than other or some mysterious way or the other..the drops really differ from people to people..yea i farmed them too with my whammo just bc i only have two toons ranger/ele or whammo ..go figures why i chose my whammo..anyway the prooff of it drops is enough for me i guess,maybe lady luck is not on my side at all..

pork soldier

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30 Apr 2006 at 01:10 - 60

Dunno about nerfing, I got about 8 gold armors today in three runs.

Arista

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30 Apr 2006 at 01:48 - 61

Whenever i try to ettin farm i always get slowed down by the mergoyles, then the tengu strip my enchants and cast w/e it is that spell that makes your health bar pink and decreases by liek 8....then i get raped...do i kill al the mergoyles with 55 then run past tengu???

Lady Erighan

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30 Apr 2006 at 03:54 - 62

Sorry guys, this thread isn't about "how" to farm Ettins. It's more about how the new updates affected the run. If you're interested in learning about the different builds, there are hundreds of posts in the "profession" forums that will help you out.

BTW, I got another two Superior Absorptions this evening. Funny thing is, I still haven't got any Vigors and supposedly Anet increased the drop rate for both. For the first time in history, the Absorps are below Vigors in price at the Rune Trader.

Interesting times...

Knido

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30 Apr 2006 at 04:17 - 63

i got 2 purples and 1 superios prot rune in about 10 minutes of farming

im quite sure the ettins dont drop pauldrons as much, but the quality of the pauldrons is still intact

PtiteDiablesse

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R/Mo

30 Apr 2006 at 05:29 - 64

In an hour, I got an orange dye, a Superior Strength, Superior Protection, eight purple pauldrons not worth mentioning, and two blue pauldrons not worth mentioning. 12 Humps, 212 gold, and enough white pauldrons to give me two leather squares and 48 tanned hides. Net profit was only 6K or so. :/

Evilsod

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30 Apr 2006 at 10:26 - 65

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lady Erighan

Sorry guys, this thread isn't about "how" to farm Ettins. It's more about how the new updates affected the run. If you're interested in learning about the different builds, there are hundreds of posts in the "profession" forums that will help you out.

BTW, I got another two Superior Absorptions this evening. Funny thing is, I still haven't got any Vigors and supposedly Anet increased the drop rate for both. For the first time in history, the Absorps are below Vigors in price at the Rune Trader.

Interesting times...

Psh, at least let on whether you kill em all together or 1 at a time

Yeah i was wondering that, i haven't seen a single Sup Vigour drop yet either, just a ton of Absorptions sending the price down so fast, they're at 35k last i checked, down from 39k yesterday morning. It seems Ele runes are the most common though, i've had 2 sup ES, 1 Air, 2 Fire, 1 Earth and a shed load of major versions, same goes for Warrior, had a load of Sup Strength and Axe/Hammer, no swords as of yet.