So now that loot runs are relevant again.. Whats the best high lvl lootrun?

[Shade]

At least for leveling crafting without burning too many millions of plat.. High lvl random junk loot seems worth getting again (to subsequently destroy.. Even if you dont like to craft, other that do will buy it on AH, or buy the essences you may get)..

I was mainly selling red scales for a mil plat and doing it that way.. But it seems our economy has shifted and I can't get a mil for a red scale anymore. So as profitable as dragon runs are, maybe its worth doing a lootrun..

I guess some people might say epic, but other then for guild renown.. Epic loot is actaully ****. Generally lower lvl then regular high lvl loot. (Usually youll see ml12-14 items, very rarely 16.. While lvl18+ quests youll find lvl14-16 commonly, rarely 18, and possibly even 20 for lvl23 + loottables (mainly just tod atm, tho DD elite may qualify with a lootgem)

Then epic quests tend to take a bit longer then normal-elite ones too.. So epics mainly out of the question...

Tho for a easy solo lootrun, DQ1 epic remains pretty good. (3 chests in 3-5min if you have another account to do resets)

Raid wise, Shrouds the obvious winner at 12 lvl17 chests, with groups generally being fast to fill/complete.

Non epic/raid.. I'm thinking IQ/DD.. They were always the easies/fastest high lvl quests, far faster then amrath ones, and some have lots of chests. What do you guys think?

[Trillea]

Shroud as you said is a lot of chests for an easy quest. IQ has some really easy lootable chests as well - especially I Dream of Jeets, and the chest behind the stairs in the Mindsunder.

Reavers Refuge has easy-to-loot explorer chests.

People forget about From Beyond the Grave, but it is still some really quick chests, which if you are just looking for essences is all you need.

[Shade]

People forget about From Beyond the Grave, but it is still some really quick chests, which if you are just looking for essences is all you need.

Not really, thats a lvl11 quest. With 2 chests in X minutes?

Deconstructing higher lvl loot does usually get you significantly more essences.. Since you have a better chance at getting a lvl5 essence item.. (which can give more then 5 times the essence of a lvl1 item)

Plus an item ML has some random effect on how many you get as of 9.1

[redspecter23]

Raiding the Giants Vault is absolutely amazing. Up to 6 chests in under 5 minutes and an end reward. Faster players could probably get it done in 2 minutes or less. You can spend more time looting than running there

[Shade]

Raiding the Giants Vault is absolutely amazing. Up to 6 chests in under 5 minutes and an end reward. Faster players could probably get it done in 2 minutes or less. You can spend more time looting than running there

sounds pretty good tho I hate soloing. And solo difficulty has some penalty to the loot tables, not sure how much in that quest.

I think a group could probably come close to matching that in shipwrecked spy. (5 chests, takes about 6min counting the time to loot/clear optional) and there lvl18 chests, or 20 on elite.

If lower lvls have a similar amount of essneces I was thinking mired in kobolds elite may be nice in a strong grp. 9 lvl15 (maybe higher for the end ones actually) chests... doable in under 10min... given tons of dps for the end dragons. Might be a good one for +2 loot wekends anyways, as that would bring it up high enough to be dropping mostly lvl5 essence type junk.

[redspecter23]

sounds pretty good tho I hate soloing. And solo difficulty has some penalty to the loot tables, not sure how much in that quest.

I think a group could probably come close to matching that in shipwrecked spy. (5 chests, takes about 6min counting the time to loot/clear optional) and there lvl18 chests, or 20 on elite.

If lower lvls have a similar amount of essneces I was thinking mired in kobolds elite may be nice in a strong grp. 9 lvl15 (maybe higher for the end ones actually) chests... doable in under 10min... given tons of dps for the end dragons. Might be a good one for +2 loot wekends anyways, as that would bring it up high enough to be dropping mostly lvl5 essence type junk.

I remember some time ago the loot in there was just garbage. Perhaps I'm remembering it wrong. But the runs I've been doing lately have been returning a majority of tier 4 and 5 deconstructs so maybe they raised the loot table level in there? Give it a try and see how it works for you.

[Shade]

I remember some time ago the loot in there was just garbage. Perhaps I'm remembering it wrong. But the runs I've been doing lately have been returning a majority of tier 4 and 5 deconstructs so maybe they raised the loot table level in there? Give it a try and see how it works for you.

nah even if it is really good, id rather group and get less loot. Solo is too boring.

[Quikster]

Yeah that list seems decent. IQ is good for non epic, von 2 and edq 6 man are good for epic, and shroud prolly still remains the quickest raid for lots of decent chests. And yeah chrono is good for renown. So I guess I coulda just quoted you....

[Junts]

I don't specifically run for decons but these are the ones I've done for other reasons I'd do for decons alone:

Ming for ancient secrets 2m runs (chet+end rwd for 2:30 time)

Sins 12m runs: 5chest+ end reward. These times vary depending where the chests are, early locatios are faster

Gensis point 12-14. Runs: need at least one other for good time. 7chests+end rwd

Shroud h/e: 10 chests+end

Eadq chest runs:40m ransack per toon, 24 chests

The only one of those I'd solo is the eadq run because its so much easier to reset it with a hireling if you are alone. Otherwise, its a lot faster to bring others. I'd shoot for a chest/2 min situation because at high levels its hard to do better than that in chests/time in a sustainable way.

End rewards for capped characters never seem to involve greater essence stacks (which sucks a ton), but end rewards still beat chests because you can always pick a deconstruct option instead of getting a random one, letting you focus on a school or particular essence type that you need more of or that are annoying to get (like taking things that decon to divine and evil essences over good essences, because its so hard to get lots of divine and evils from loot).

[GotSomeQuestions]

End rewards for capped characters never seem to involve greater essence stacks (which sucks a ton)

I've noticed that as well, with one exception: whenever there's a Mystical (object) in the end reward, there are several essence stacks as well. That basically limits you to Vale/Orchard quests; Running and Temple are both reasonably fast although not ideal.

[Shade]

I've noticed that as well, with one exception: whenever there's a Mystical (object) in the end reward, there are several essence stacks as well. That basically limits you to Vale/Orchard quests; Running and Temple are both reasonably fast although not ideal.

Red fens has those thingies, and is much faster since the quest givers are closer to the quests.. But never seen any essences from the end rewards.

[Palantyr]

I‘ve been running all kinds of quests interspersed with running the daily epic/raids, some quests using two accounts to make an acceptable chest per minute ratio. Some of the ones that stick out. IQ: Mining, Shipwreck, dream conspiracy w/ puzzle, and I really wish I could convince some folks to run demon’s den but that quest seems to have a stigma. Amrath: sins & entrance explorer area (2 orthons & clay golem chests drop 2 items per person), also new invasion if I’ve managed to dry up other quests (kind of need to know layouts for this to be quick tho). Vale explorer area is easily 1 chest per 2 min with a caster, also reaver’s refuge explorers can be fast. I tried orchard but found it a bit too long and the deconstruction not so hot for time it took. Lordsmarch quests on elite are pretty quick with decent deconing loot the first 4-5 times, with the exception of the mine laying one. Delirium can be done quickly, I wouldn’t bother with drinking game just kill the beholders.

Also, actually looting chests while I was leveling up a TR was a significant amount of loot. Finding the time to deconstruct however, had to sneak that in.

[slimkj]

I've had a fair number of greater essences whilst farming the U9 chain for end rewards, in the reward list of the individual quests. On a capped char.

[sweez]

Sins 12m runs: 5chest+ end reward. These times vary depending where the chests are, early locatios are faster

Yeah Sins make a great loot run, what with the chance of getting larges and keepsakes as well as vendor trash. Best time I ever got with all optional chests on a FvS was 10 minutes, I'm at around 15 minutes on my wiz life but there's much room for improvement, since I'm a wizard newbie.

[Shade]

Yeah Sins make a great loot run, what with the chance of getting larges and keepsakes as well as vendor trash. Best time I ever got with all optional chests on a FvS was 10 minutes, I'm at around 15 minutes on my wiz life but there's much room for improvement, since I'm a wizard newbie.

eh as fast as sins is, for this purpose it doesn't seem ideal.

Sure maybe some very lucky runs are in the 10-15min range completion time wise.

But the quest itself, is rather far away from the deconstruction altar. Several minutes of running at least.. and I can generally only free up 2 pack slots for loots, so just a few runs before im full. Leads to a lot of extra lost time. Guess if I was also into the extra ingredients i might lootrun it.. but not really, i kinda prefer a daily epic DA for those.

My fav way to run sins.. is on elite with as many very squishy puggers as i can find. I love to see how many times I can get them killed before they give up lol. Just sprint boost in and all the devils teleport away to the party.. hahaha.
Also gota love the final optional hallway to the right.. I have a named for it:
"The hallway of many deaths"
Never made it thru there without getting at least a couple ppl sliced up in the axe traps =)

[Chai]

Solo - Giants Vault - its the solo quest on the Dreaming Dark island. Fair amount of chests for the time you spend inside the quest.

I usually combine this with getting the TR Xp train going.

With level 17+ TRs, Amrath, Dreaming Dark and IQ ransack - depending where you are in the XP curve. Alot of that loot will have at least one effect that puts down level 5 essences when crushed. Mindsunder has some nice items anyhow, and the XP is relevant and fast enough for high level non 20 TRs.

[ciopo]

blockade buster is 4chests in 3-6 minutes if splitting up and killing the least necessary,+2 minutes to then go fetch the chests on the other sides.
delirium is 6 chests in about 11-16 minutes , don't like that one personally because I can't stand quest-related forced slowdown time.

Monastery of the scorpion is good too with splitting, averagely 10 minutes for 3-6 chests with a good puzzler (that would be me!)

[Bodic]

loot run I like is IQ island solo 5 chests I avg 4-5 min runs. best I have seen has been lvl18 loot.

[Crazyfruit]

All of the free to play quests they added back in u3 or so are good. You need strong groups to pull some off fast enough though & splitting up.

Acid Wit - 4 chests, sometimes more. 5 mins but needs lots of people splitting up to do fast.
Delirium - 6 chests iirc. 6 mins.
Demons' Den elite - 4-7 chests, 5 mins. Needs 3 people to do fast. Less chests below elite. But it's also harder than epics are now.
Mired in Kobolds, but ya know that already.

Blockade Buster & Siegebreaker are good for chests. Genesis Point & New Invasion with a good group. Wizard King's pretty nice too if you're not sick of the place.

[Matuse]

You're all overthinking it. You don't need high level loot. You need high level prefixes/suffixes.

Deathblock is a super common level 5 decon that starts appearing on level 8 items.

Greater X resistance items give level 5 elemental decons, those are easily available on armors/accessories showing up around level 8.

Caster sticks with spell increasing enhancements easily go to level 4 or 5 and show up around ML 6.

Holy, X Burst, Fearsome, Metalline, Smiting, all level 4 and 5 effects, all around level 8-10.

You want a loot run? Do Dhakan on Hard or Elite. Like 9 chests, and all able to drop max tier decon items.

Diplomatic Impunity on Elite is also good. 2 chests from the wildmen, possibly 3 more from jungle rares, and 4 from the end fight. Even better if you get a wand of blasting (very common from the 3 non-minion end chests on elite). It retails to NPCs (with mediocre haggle) at 3500 platinum. Can do the whole quest in under 10 minutes.