I start from Kryta and head through Scoundrels Rise into North Kryta Province. I've found the drops better in my case, as from Beetletun i rarely got good drops. That means I have to kill a dozen level 12 Mergoyles first and 2 level 11 bog scalels though, but once through them I just run to the portal. I head to the beach, stay on the bluff, fight or avoid the mergoyles and bogs. I'll usually hit 8 or more ettins heading into Ascalon Settlement. Once they are gone, I'll head to Nebo Terrace, zone out and zone back in. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Originally Posted by Alexi Jotun
I've read everybody's posts and I'm puzzled - I thought (rather was told) that ettin farming was no more- they nerfed the drop rate.
Can anybody support either argument with actual results, I'm too lazy to go out and try farming ettin again.

Drops are up and down. I've had seveal runs with only white ettin pauldrones and then gotten 2 golds and 4 purples on the next run. But here is the rub - runes other than the superior vigor have dropped in price. You used to get 8K for monk runes, and a superior absorption was 70k. All can be bought for under 3k each now.
However, the price for tanned hide squares (which aren't really square now, are they) has gone up to close to 200g per 10 at the merchant so those white pauldrons can be worth 1k or more. On a pretry poor 4 pass run I got 1 sup sword, 4 major blah, 40 tanned hides, 3 leather squares, blue dye, a couple purple non-max weapons, an 20/18 sundering bow, and a bunch of other crap. Took me about an hour, so not great, but good fun.
If you go, I wish you good hunting.