Recommendations/tips for Shav solo for ingredient grinding?

[RS-Makk]

I am finding myself with 'time' while waiting for raid timers.. dont have a lot of alts (and dont feel like doing the XP grind right now - waiting a couple of months to get some +3 tomes from raiding and then will TR and do on my main).. and am thinking I want to do some of the Shav quests on solo to grind for ingredients.

Which do you recommend as good ones to solo (with a healer hireling perhaps) with an exploiter build, and any tips on how to best solo them effectively and as quickly as possible? (as well as on what levels).

Thanks

[stoopid_cowboy]

All of them.

[Hokonoso]

just farm em on casual, the ingredients drop plenty on casual, it's just the signet stone that gets the nasty 50% chance of not dropping, and that only matters if you are flagging, if you are solely ingredient farming casual is the way to go as you can do each quest 8 times in an afternoon on casual and get tons of each ingredient.

[vVAnjilaVv]

just farm em on casual, the ingredients drop plenty on casual, it's just the signet stone that gets the nasty 50% chance of not dropping, and that only matters if you are flagging, if you are solely ingredient farming casual is the way to go as you can do each quest 8 times in an afternoon on casual and get tons of each ingredient.

Shavarath quests Hoko...not Vale quests.

They are all pretty solo-able on casual........quite a bit more difficult on normal depending on your build. I spend a ton of time solo'ing these....don't expect a ton of ingredients tho...the drop rates are really not that great.

All that said, if I can solo these with a 32 point drow spellsinger bard with only 12 base CON, you should be able to easily solo them with capped toons. Well...solo'ing with a cleric hireling anyways. One tip, make sure you have Deathward for Sins...Cinderspawns spam neg levels......and bring something for golems in A New Invasions. Make sure you object draw is up really high for Genesis point or u won't be able to solo the maze.

The end fight in Bastion if pretty nasty, make sure you have ur balance up and try and get ur hireling some kind of acid resist...even a 3 clicky of acid resist 10 will help.

[Crazyfruit]

The only ones worth doing for ingredients are New Invasion & Sins. Hit all the sidechests, that's where most of the goodies are.

Bastion can be too, but only great players can solo there... one of those "If you have to ask, don't" things.

[vVAnjilaVv]

Personally my favorite one to solo is Genesis Point.....for some reason I love that quest....btw you wanna know something else really cool......

Sins has 6 different endings with 2 chests in each of the six boss rooms....they are all unique.......you ransack a total 54 chests just from the boss fight rooms alone in Sins.

GP has 4 different endings so you can ransack 28 chests there and GP has I think 6 maybe 7 chests before the end fight chests.

[Mercureal]

Wrath of the Flame is an easy solo, but not much in the way of chests. If you do it you can fight your way through, but even easier is to use stealth to get by most of the Silver Flame guys, until near the end when you expose the boss. Much quicker, and then the Silver Flame people will help you against the devils.

[Nyvn]

You might want to consider making Greensteel blanks and trading them for ingredients.

[Nyvn]

Double post

[ballsz]

The only ones worth doing for ingredients are New Invasion & Sins. Hit all the sidechests, that's where most of the goodies are.

Bastion can be too, but only great players can solo there... one of those "If you have to ask, don't" things.

/signed

Oh, and using a hireling... is not soloing.

[LazyTigerLily]

/signed

Oh, and using a hireling... is not soloing.

You like spending more plat on pots and scrolls than a hireling costs?

I generally use hirelings first since a level 20 hireling base cost is 1,000 PP VS a stack of 100 cure critical wounds pots at 7,500 PP or a single stack of heal scrolls at 16,500 PP. So you do the math, if you go through half of a stack of heal scrolls or a whole stack of pots it will cost you FAR more over time not to use a hireling.

Personally I would rather use a hireling and save the plat to buy other things.

If you are looking at the hireling as an automaton who adds extra damage, you might want to think again. A lot of people park hirelings elsewhere and call them when needed simply because they are stupid and die super quick.

On a completely different suggestion though OP you might want to look at running Devil Assault in the marketplace. It gives ingredients and drops materials and it is pretty quick.

[ballsz]

You like spending more plat on pots and scrolls than a hireling costs?

I don't use either when soloing, the only need I ever have for those are in raids when the group is not up to par.

[Acehole31]

Outside of the main quests in Amrath, there's the two sidequests (Weapons Shipment, Wrath of the Flame). Both are quite easy to solo and both give boot ingredients/Crafting ingredients.

[sirgog]

If your AC holds up there, Sins of Attrition normal is the only way to go.

If your AC doesn't hold up in Sins it will be a nightmare to solo, and A New Invasion (sans end boss) might be the way to go. Those chests don't scale up ingredient drop rates above normal, so stay normal.

[RS-Makk]

Thanks. Regarding sins:

how much ac would you say I need?
My build is an exploiter ranger - should I go with or without hireling?
Any good tips or good sins guides to take most advantage of it?

Thanks again

[Pallol_One-Eye]

Not that this will necessarily help you, but depending on your times of play, I'd be more than happy to duo this with you on my 20 cleric.

I know you are asking about solo, but I can always use more loot/boot ingredients. I'm generally on Tuesday and Friday nights after 8 pm EST. Sometimes Wed/Thurs after 10 pm.

Look me up if I'm on and I'll glady throw some CC/BB/heals and generally pike behind you

[Zombiekenny]

Thanks. Regarding sins:

how much ac would you say I need?
My build is an exploiter ranger - should I go with or without hireling?
Any good tips or good sins guides to take most advantage of it?

Thanks again

~60-70 should mitigate a fairly large percentage of the damage, enough so you should be able to kill each group before you die, and then heal up.

[Delt]

Wrath of the Flame is an easy solo, but not much in the way of chests. If you do it you can fight your way through, but even easier is to use stealth to get by most of the Silver Flame guys, until near the end when you expose the boss. Much quicker, and then the Silver Flame people will help you against the devils.

Last I checked, only the SF guys in the last hallway fight on your side after exposing her...the rest will remain aggro.

[mws2970]

Quick question (apologies to the OP for thread hijacking), does the Devotion VIII belt (Amara's?) drop in the side chests in New Invasion, or just out of the end chest?

[Crazyfruit]

Quick question (apologies to the OP for thread hijacking), does the Devotion VIII belt (Amara's?) drop in the side chests in New Invasion, or just out of the end chest?

Both, just not on the first floor.