Epic solo farm, Wizard or FVS?

[pHo3nix]

Wizard all the way for Colonoscope. Except when I make a mistake, or the Arcanist makes a fluke save, I can usually get 9 kills each Power Word Kill cooldown.

Walk in, talk to Nelle/Tremas, buff (the fight doesn't start for 48 seconds after you talk to Tremas, you know you've run this too often when you've timed that). Critical buffs are Displacement, Resist Cold and Protection from Elements. Put a Discoball down where the three archers spawn and stand behind the Shavarath Acolyte.

When Bazdor says the word 'Kill' in the DM voiceover, Power Word Kill the Acolyte (you've got about 1 second before he casts Mass Deathward). Then Circle of Death the three archers that are in your Discoball and run toward them. Once you get to your Discoball, Wail.

Next, find the Shavarath Arcanist (the one dangerous mob left) and Energy Drain it, then Finger it. If he saves (which I believe requires a 20 for even a moderate DC), you might have a problem - make sure to refresh Protection from Elements. Begin running in circles picking off survivors once your spells are off cooldown. Ignore Bazdor altogether (Web or Power Word Stun if needed to buy time), just heal through damage he does to you. The higher priority mobs to kill are the archers, as they appear to Hamstring you on a vorpal strike.

Once you've killed everything but Bazdor, Teleport away to Meridia, step outside and summon a Hireling (which resets your Colonoscope instance). If you still have over 1k SP, teleport to the Market and repeat, but don't talk to Tremas until PWK's cooldown is under 48 seconds. If you have under 1k SP, teleport to the Portable Hole instead, and drink a tavern drink.


Problems occur when the archers Cripple you early on, or when you don't successfully PWK the Acolyte in time.

Pretty much the same way i run it, except that i cast a couple of webs under acolyte and caster to hold them in place

[sirgog]

Pretty much the same way i run it, except that i cast a couple of webs under acolyte and caster to hold them in place

I web the Arcanist sometimes (with Insightful Reflexes, I only fail saves on really, really low rolls so he doesn't do much damage), but the Acolyte - let's just say I take no chances with him rolling a 20 any more. PWK at the timing I stated gets him every time, no save, no escape unless you make a mistake.

[LeLoric]

I go into chrono on my pale master clear the first room, then I run around killing off all the tieflings and kite the devils from the bank area over to the searing heights entrance and ddoor out.

Run around then and kill respawning tieflings while torcing up on archers when ya get low. Occasionally an abashai will see you. When it does energy drain, power word stun edrain again and necrotic ray and it's dead.


I can ifinitely do this over and over and get about 180-200 kills an hour.

For fens scrolls go farm Fathom the depths just run through and kill everything until you get to the boss and recall use a hireling to reset instance and hope back in. about 270-300 kills per hour.

For von scrolls go into evon5 with undeath to death loaded and kill zombies all the way up to the puzzle. Instakill wf at the puzzle until oom. 220-250 kills/hour.

Carnival kill tieflings in outer areas of big top for quick easy kills. 350/hour here.

I dont scroll farm in desert as I have multiples of all but raid scrolls and the drop rate for those is so bad it's easier to farm chrono stuff to trade.

Sentinels I don't really need and don't farm either but due to sr issues black loch would probably be the easiest.

[Zildoran]

What is your strategy for taking down Bazdor? I had been giving him some energy drain and then using Pale Master SLA's to finish him off. I also had a little trouble with the Bearded Devil near the entrance, as Pw:Kill and FOD don't seem to be working on him at all. I just noticed you had Necrotic Ray for dealing with Abishai...same strategy for the Devils?

The other trash is insignificant, but Bazdor takes a couple minutes for me to take down. I'm on a first life Drow Wiz so spell DC aren't super high, 40 Necro and 39 Enchant currently. Next life I should be able to increase both of those by 2 at least.

[LolWutRoflstomped]

Wizard all the way for Colonoscope. Except when I make a mistake, or the Arcanist makes a fluke save, I can usually get 9 kills each Power Word Kill cooldown.

Walk in, talk to Nelle/Tremas, buff (the fight doesn't start for 48 seconds after you talk to Tremas, you know you've run this too often when you've timed that). Critical buffs are Displacement, Resist Cold and Protection from Elements. Put a Discoball down where the three archers spawn and stand behind the Shavarath Acolyte.

When Bazdor says the word 'Kill' in the DM voiceover, Power Word Kill the Acolyte (you've got about 1 second before he casts Mass Deathward). Then Circle of Death the three archers that are in your Discoball and run toward them. Once you get to your Discoball, Wail.

Next, find the Shavarath Arcanist (the one dangerous mob left) and Energy Drain it, then Finger it. If he saves (which I believe requires a 20 for even a moderate DC), you might have a problem - make sure to refresh Protection from Elements. Begin running in circles picking off survivors once your spells are off cooldown. Ignore Bazdor altogether (Web or Power Word Stun if needed to buy time), just heal through damage he does to you. The higher priority mobs to kill are the archers, as they appear to Hamstring you on a vorpal strike.

Once you've killed everything but Bazdor, Teleport away to Meridia, step outside and summon a Hireling (which resets your Colonoscope instance). If you still have over 1k SP, teleport to the Market and repeat, but don't talk to Tremas until PWK's cooldown is under 48 seconds. If you have under 1k SP, teleport to the Portable Hole instead, and drink a tavern drink.


Problems occur when the archers Cripple you early on, or when you don't successfully PWK the Acolyte in time.

Stack Webs on the Acolyte before she spawns and don't worry about the mass deathward and no need for PWK.

[sirgog]

What is your strategy for taking down Bazdor? I had been giving him some energy drain and then using Pale Master SLA's to finish him off. I also had a little trouble with the Bearded Devil near the entrance, as Pw:Kill and FOD don't seem to be working on him at all. I just noticed you had Necrotic Ray for dealing with Abishai...same strategy for the Devils?

The other trash is insignificant, but Bazdor takes a couple minutes for me to take down. I'm on a first life Drow Wiz so spell DC aren't super high, 40 Necro and 39 Enchant currently. Next life I should be able to increase both of those by 2 at least.

I used to kill him by first Energy Draining him (which drops his max HP significantly), then 3-stacking Niac's and Eladar's.

Now I don't bother. I find I get more kills per time period just ignoring him altogether and healing through any damage he might do to me (which isn't much, he neither swings fast nor hard, and doesn't have True Seeing).

If my latency was lower, I'd spend more time killing in the Marketplace, but that area is really unforgiving with a ping over about 150. Often you get crippled by an archer, then rubberband into danger, and have to burn a lot of SP to survive.

[bebeosita]

Fvs ofc they can farm solo raids and epics w/o problems and the ppl never cry to nerf them!
If u made a caster u need understand they can get a nerf in some days cause the ppl dont stop cry :/ so fvs for sure.

[DragonTroy]

Fvs ofc they can farm solo raids and epics w/o problems and the ppl never cry to nerf them!
If u made a caster u need understand they can get a nerf in some days cause the ppl dont stop cry :/ so fvs for sure.

choosing a class just because people dont want to nerf it right now is not a good reason to pick them. are fvs a great class for scroll farming? certainly. but, frankly, you can never predict when the next nerf bat is coming or who its going to hit. but they will never make anything un-playable. its simply about knowing how to adapt


also, a good bit of the time those fvs that are solo farming raids and such rather excellently geared. i think its possible, but unlikely that someone new to the class could have similar results

[DragonTroy]

as to scroll farming, i have just recently capped my new sorc and me and a guildie(WF evo/enchant archy with DCs so high it makes me cry) have been duo-ing the fight, and we were using the hidden stairs, PWK-ing the acolyte and arcanist, then him mass holding the trash and me nuking them and bazdor to smithereens. shrine, recall, reset.i think we were doing about 3 minute runs including the reset, and i think that it was quite nice

[Rawel_San]

Wizard all the way for Colonoscope. Except when I make a mistake, or the Arcanist makes a fluke save, I can usually get 9 kills each Power Word Kill cooldown.

Walk in, talk to Nelle/Tremas, buff (the fight doesn't start for 48 seconds after you talk to Tremas, you know you've run this too often when you've timed that). Critical buffs are Displacement, Resist Cold and Protection from Elements. Put a Discoball down where the three archers spawn and stand behind the Shavarath Acolyte.

When Bazdor says the word 'Kill' in the DM voiceover, Power Word Kill the Acolyte (you've got about 1 second before he casts Mass Deathward). Then Circle of Death the three archers that are in your Discoball and run toward them. Once you get to your Discoball, Wail.

Next, find the Shavarath Arcanist (the one dangerous mob left) and Energy Drain it, then Finger it. If he saves (which I believe requires a 20 for even a moderate DC), you might have a problem - make sure to refresh Protection from Elements. Begin running in circles picking off survivors once your spells are off cooldown. Ignore Bazdor altogether (Web or Power Word Stun if needed to buy time), just heal through damage he does to you. The higher priority mobs to kill are the archers, as they appear to Hamstring you on a vorpal strike.

Once you've killed everything but Bazdor, Teleport away to Meridia, step outside and summon a Hireling (which resets your Colonoscope instance). If you still have over 1k SP, teleport to the Market and repeat, but don't talk to Tremas until PWK's cooldown is under 48 seconds. If you have under 1k SP, teleport to the Portable Hole instead, and drink a tavern drink.


Problems occur when the archers Cripple you early on, or when you don't successfully PWK the Acolyte in time.

^^ exactly. One thing you can do to minimize the chance of Mass Deathward is just drop webs on the acolyte.
He saves 1/20 on mine.

[Erekose]

My personal preference is the WF wizzy necrochanter.

http://youtu.be/irPW_XdCdF4

http://youtu.be/3VN9-AIGohs

enjoy

[Zildoran]

The actual first fight is very fast for me now that I have it figured out (if skipping Bazdor and just teleporting). The slow part is regenning my sp after resetting the instance. That really hurts my # of kills/hour. If I could kill more in the marketplace and make use of the 2 shrines I think that might increase it a bit.

After taking out the acolyte and arcanist I've been killing the soldier from upstairs, dropping a disco ball and web on the archers and dropping down to circle/wail the rest and pick off survivors. That seems to be the most effective strategy for me with slightly low necro DC's.

[Exar_Jun]

So what is an average number of scrolls you get per hour? 1 - 2 or like .1. What is your general rate on return of work.

[HelvanderSeries6]

Wizard all the way for Colonoscope.

Just thought this was funny how you spelled Chrono. +1 rep for making my day

[Zildoran]

Last night was crappy as I was still working out how to do it and died some. If I can figure out a fast way to kill Bazdor that will speed it up immensely as I can just use the first shrine and go reset without having to regen at a bar. Can you still Flesh to Stone him?

[emptysands]

Last night was crappy as I was still working out how to do it and died some. If I can figure out a fast way to kill Bazdor that will speed it up immensely as I can just use the first shrine and go reset without having to regen at a bar. Can you still Flesh to Stone him?

The only way I've been able to reliably kill him is dance and then spam energy drain, nerco SLA and niac's dot. 10 or so energy drains and your dps should have an effect.

I'm guessing that Leloric kites the 2nd orange name devil into the searing heights entrance. I haven't tried that yet, but disco ball/web, circle/wail and then kite on the 2nd set of mobs is probably a good strategy.

[emptysands]

With a PM in eDQ1 I buff, don't bother with invis. Run towards the Scorpion pit. You'll probably hit yellow alert, but that shouldn't be a problem. Best run between two pillars and jump onto the ledge around the mark on the floor before the floor breaks, otherwise you might find a Scorpion follows you onto the ledge. Ice storm. Drag Monkey, ice storm. Drag the merphits, ice storm. You can also Disco, Mass Hold and circle/wail the merphits - depending on how SP you have left.

Ignoring the chests, generally can get 40-50 kills in 15min. Recall, shine, reset and repeat. If you have someone who can open you can even do this when on timer.

The other method is with a FvS: blade barrier kiting in the pit - more action, and can drag more mobs into the pit through alerts. BB placements is important.

Personally I find the Wiz method more re****l.

[Zildoran]

So what is an average number of scrolls you get per hour? 1 - 2 or like .1. What is your general rate on return of work.

No idea what the per hour rate is, but I got 4 scrolls today and 2 of them are probably 4-5 FRDS total and the others maybe 500k plat.

I'm still working on the fastest way for me to get it done...I don't think I'm getting much more than 100 kills an hour with this method.

[vVAnjilaVv]

Wow, I just tried this and it completely trivializes the fight. I had no idea those stairs were even there, much less that mobs won't see you if you climb them.

WOW awesome...new nerf for U11

[Zildoran]

Prepare for more DoOm incoming.