griffon farming .. no good?

I farm griffons all the time and everytime. I can't farm anything else. I still maintain 100k+ on me and I have had over 5 sets of 15k armor and I have great weps. for my chars. I don't see what's wrong with em. I still do, and always will unless they.. nerf it completely. I noticed one night that I did about 5 runs and only got 1 purple, I came on the next day and got like a gold or more per run out of about 6 runs. I didn't wanna pwn the loot drops, lol. I guess it's just when GW wants you to have shit on one day, and when they don't on another day.

I'd say drops have been nerfed everywhere. Shortly after the update I bought about 30 shiverpeak keys, and kept entering and exiting until the chest spawning point closest to the entrance had a chest. I'd run down ther, grab the loot and just keep repeating until it was up. I'd say I got about 22/30 golds doing this, some were good but some sucked. I got a few good upgrades (+29 fortitude, 3:1 axe haft etc..). It worked for a while, and then the next day I bought 10 keys... i got... hmm... 1/10 golds. Drops are completely nerfed these days. The only gold drops I have ever had in gw apart from chests is once in the desert and once in FoW!

Um. Patience. And stop farming there over and over. Don't depend on one place. Be creative.

Actually, I've been noticing 2 rookshots popping out every 3/4 length of your radar (that circle thing that shows where you are in relation to the monsters on the map). Not to mention the ones that just randomly roam around. It does get annoying, but as long as I don't get near enough to set off traps, I just kill of everything aroudn me first, then lure them away from their precious traps. Easy kills, just a little time consumeing is all.

lol when i go grifon farming i run around gathering all enmeis in the area like 40 of them then i kill them all and always get gold drops (13 health) lol so i ain;t complaining

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i can tank about 40 griffens and 30 mino's all at the same time with just 8 health but takes a while to round them all up.
as for gold drops i still get tehm but not as often as they used to but wth

guess you're farming with a smiting monk?

Tried it again the other day for shits and giggles.

They must have seriously upped the spawn rate of Rockies
out there. I ran into upwards of 30 each run.

Best item I ever found was farming griffons. Sold it for 200k!

I haven't farmed much lately (though my monk did finish all the titan missions!) but from a small sample it looked to me that between the SF release and the last update the drops were very good. It was rare that I didn't get 1-2 golds every griffon run. Since the last update in about 4-5 runs I was lucky to see a purple in a run, and no golds at all. (and there were twice as many rockshots)

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I farm the same griffins and been getting the same ammount of loot. Yes, there seems to be a few more Devourer types out there but they arent that much worse.

~Konohamaru

assuming you're farming with a standard low-health/prot spirit monk, just bring shield of judgment

the devourers always kill themselves when i use that, while i'm focusing on killing the griffons and minotaurs beating on me

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i bet if you counted them all you could find more than 30 minotaurs, (in the entirety of the zone), but i also bet you couldn't get them all to follow you. :P

as Alone) said though.. unless your game is magical or possessed, you probably won't see more than 10 rockshots in one run (depending on where you're moving around).

savior: low health 'invinci-monkfarminguberness' build is so played out and talked about everywhere, don't you think it would've been completely and utterly nerfed by now?

it's all luck, damnit.

Main difference I've noticed is that it doesn't work to use sprint to separate the griffons (which never give up the chase) from the rockshots (which quickly do) anymore. That hardly counts as a nerf.

Rufio: many builds, e.g. mine, actually has an EASIER time the more enemies there are attacking them. The only time I can get in trouble is when there's only one or two enemies left, as cyclone axe then doesn't recharge bonettis in one blow.
I also have zero problems with rockshots, or with drops. I do have problems selling anything I find during griffon runs, though. The green items & chest drops have pretty much killed the desert farming business.

I just started doing this and by golly, this is one of the best things that ever happened to me in this game.

I get atleast 5 purples each time (not good, but some offer som upgrades), a couple of blues and alot of whites, plus some cash.

I have yet to find any gold items and I can't take on more than 7 enemies at once (my farmer wasn't built for this from the start), but the money I spent on monk skills for my warrior certainly pay off now.

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Hmmm, maybe go out the OTHER Augury exit and stroll to Destinty's Gorge, fighting Hydras and Centaurs. Or farm Sand Drakes between Elona and the Gorge. Or the giants and devourers before the cutscene in Thirsty River. I've spent most of the last 4 days doing those 2 runs, and I've done very well. A few keys, several golds (nothing worth auctioning, but hey 300-400 gold at the merchant works too), 3 bleached shells so far, and a couple golds worth keeping. All told, around 60 plat by the time I cashed in. Enough to buy a 3/1 vamp sword hilt and a 3/1 axe haft. And that doesn't include the dyes. Got 2 blacks yesterday from Hydras, and a bunch of other colors.

Equal rights for all! Kill the stupid devourers too! They generally drop carapaces which are worth 25 gold and stack, or about 80-100 gold, or items. Yeah they're not "fast kills," and take a littel time to wax, but you never know WHICH monster is going to be the one to drop that good item. The only enemies I leave alone are Jade Scarabs. I can barely kill ONE as a W/Mo, much less a pack of 5 or 6.

My thing is, I don't know what some people consider a "good" day's farming. If I can put in a few hours and profit 10k, after the ID kit and salvage kit overhead, I'm happy. Maybe my standards are low. I sometimes wonder if people realistically expect to make 50k a day every day and cry "nerf" when they can't / don't.

Nerf: most enemies either drop nothing at all (gold or otherwise), or totally worthless stuff. See Kryta drake runs. Kill a dozen and you're LUCKY if you even get one blue item. "Lightning Drake drops 2 scales."

Not nerfed: nearly every enemy drops something of value (value being a relative term) or gold.

Adjusted: every monster higher than level 20 doesn't automatically drop golds and purples and dyes just because it's over level 20. That might have been the case before (I remember those days myself), but it was getting abused.

An adjustment is NOT a nerf. If the griffons were nerfed, 70-80% of them would drop nothing at all, and the 20+% who did, would drop either wings or small piles of common crafting materials.

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Heh, when I do Kryta, I usually ONLY do the undead. 200 bones and 40 Emblems per run adds up, and it ain't bad for 20 minutes worth of work. I only go to the Drakes periodically (once every few weeks) to see if anything has changed. I've gotten a couple purples, neither worth mentioning, and no golds whatsoever, in the last several times. And I don't over-farm the drakes at all. If anything, I overfarm the undead, but they're just so much fun to smite. The part at the end where about 30 ghouls and hellhounds pop out of the ground all at once, just begging for Balthazaar's Aura... yeah, I love it.

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To use Cyclone Axe and Apply Poison you'd have to be W/R or R/W. Can you really solo farm without being either secondary or primary monk?