ICY Dragon Sword (IDS) Solo Farming Video Tutorial

nice going to watch it now.

I soloed now 8 times with my W/Me but still have no drops

Nice movie, you lucky ***** i never find a IDS.

I have almost the same skills, but im taking Balanced Stance instead of charge and have 2 axe attacks.

You had a nice spawn btw its harder when there are trolls.

this site doesn't allow me to dl this.

can you put it on filefront.com

that site accepts all browsers.

Downloading, thank God for broadband. Nice of you to make a video and show how its done properly

Watched the video, very nice and informative even with commentary! Anyone who doesnt know how to solo farm must watch this. GJ Shawn

I'm having problems downloading this as well - that site is giving me a headache with those ads and popups. Also, I'm convinced that the site has installed some spyware on my computer. Please host this on FileFront.

holy holy crap, that is the biggest freaking file i ever seen. i got a pretty good comp and it said it would take 50 mins to download it.
that is nutz.

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Aww it toook me like 4hr's last night and today it's 1hr hmm internet must work faster in the day can't wait to see it!

Kapper, thanks man beacuse of you i was able to get my own IDS on my second run. i died a few times.....Candy canes to the rescue thou... anyway i just wanted to say thank you.
I killed kenny

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What music did you use in this? It's pretty addictive :P

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this works quite well in killing the imps Thanks for such an impressive guide.
BUT 19 runs no IDS

Gildor~

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god dam this is a big file!

i dont get it..so were do the icy swords spawn?..:P

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impossible...
ANd I RLY WANT 1!!! but i am ranger/warrior and i am not full warrior :"(

dont they spawn in beetletun somwhere too?

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ummm...well, cna you take pick of your map and edit it, for the way to go u can send thriugh pm if u dont want others to see :P
I RLY WANT THIS SWORD

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what denravi hex helm? never heard of it?

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hey so... it's 142.2 mb..
this better be worth it.
and I have a crazy feeling that it will be.


edit// does anyone know if this weapon is here to stay, OR if it's going away long with the winter decorations (quite pretty, by the way...)

Well I got my copy of IDS last night. Second succesfull run and there it was. I've had a few unsuccesfull runs before though because of the monster spawns.
The worst one was when Avicara and Imps together spawned right in front of the cave and no way I could've avoided them.

I do have a couple of pointers though for what hopefully I believe is a faster run.

First I want to thank you Kapper, for the build and the video, without you I would've been able to get the sword.

1. In the video, you take the path that leads right once you enter Mineral Springs (which also activates a resurection shrine close to the Giants. I would recomend going left and here is why.
- Once you go left main thing is you won't activate the shrine *(and that is goodd I'll explain why)
- I believe going left is easier and faster. At one point you will encounter like 3 Ice Imps and a Ice Golem on the way and I always take my time and kill them just so they won't mess with my running speed since there's always Avicara spawned right after them. Once you kill them its easier to get to the cave in my opinion (Shorter Distance plus there's no Giants to knock you down).

Here is a reason I take this way. My first run last night was succesfull but it didn't give me IDS. So what I did was aggro the avicara next to the cave and died. I spawned at the shrine at the begining of Mineral Springs. What I did then was took to Portal to Tasca's Demise to respawn to Imps and took it back to Mineal Springs and did my second run, and this one paid of.

So basically this just eliminats the uneccessary run from Citadel to Springs and if you take left path you don't have to face Giants' knockdowns (if they bother you, like they bother me) and I believe it also does save some time in the process.

pretty sure its gonna stay like other oliday items.


anyway

i'm tired of my luck. i've run this 6 times now and not once have i gotten to kill any imps.
thde main annoyance is the ele avicara boss and his iron mist. it hurts.
and then theres the avicara spawn right next to the imps.
and somtimes the tundra giants simply block that narrow valley you have to go through

the build works great for running. allthough i'm not using a zelous hilt. if you have 2 energy regen, you can keep sprint+charge up indefinitely

i will keep running this though. i want that sword. but i can't afford to buy one

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If you alternate between Sprint and Charge, most of the time you encounter the Elementalist Avicara Boss he won't get to use Iron Myst and you'll just fly by him. I think 9 out of 10 time I encountered him he didn't use it, only time he did get to use it was when other Avicara blocked me for a second so I had to go around them and that's when he had time to use the skill.

Also it's really pain in the butt when Avicara blocks the cave enterance along with the Imps. First time I encountered them I died and had to rezone, but last time they were there I just pulled them out of the Imp's crowd and killed them one by one. Make sure you don't fight them all at once. I think some will follow you while others try to stay close to the Imps, that way you can kill 'em one by one without dying. If Ardent is trying to stay with the Imps, let him and finish the other Avicara, but if he follows try to kill him first. It might take some time but it worked for me.....Even though I didn't get the IDS that time I did Infuse my Armor one more time ... On the other side of the cave there's Azure Shadows and the Ice Beast (Eoldon) who drops essence which you can take o the Seer close by . It took me like 20 minutes to kill hte beast but Kapper's build works fine against it and also works great against Azure Shadows. ::::

think this would work with Me/W?
(i got all the skills you listed, Kapper)

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