Best place for Envenomed Blade pieces?

[Luxgolg]

"You could run Spinner, of course" -- cdr1

In case you might not know, that quest is soooo much easier when players keep their shards in their pockets until they are all gathered, and then light the torches all at once.

Just found this out this week while soloing it Hard for BB and flagging. Gather the 1st shard, drag to hotbar to get count and just kill until you have all that you need. SOOO much faster.

[brian14]

Just found this out this week while soloing it Hard for BB and flagging. Gather the 1st shard, drag to hotbar to get count and just kill until you have all that you need. SOOO much faster.

Why exactly is it faster? Spinner does not come back?

[Luxgolg]

Why exactly is it faster? Spinner does not come back?

Kill spiders, collect shards. Attack Spinner, fend off attack, keep killing spiders. Light ALL the pillars in one shot, end fight. Solo Heroic Normal/Hard 16-18 Arty with dog and FvS hire was 15-20 mins. I'm also wondering where the saga guy went from beside the WW for that chain set

[brian14]

Kill spiders, collect shards. Attack Spinner, fend off attack, keep killing spiders. Light ALL the pillars in one shot, end fight. Solo Heroic Normal/Hard 16-18 Arty with dog and FvS hire was 15-20 mins. I'm also wondering where the saga guy went from beside the WW for that chain set

That really does not answer my question -- why is it any faster than lighting up pillars as you go along?

[slarden]

Why exactly is it faster? Spinner does not come back?

Supposedly on EE it makes more demons spawn if you start lighting the pillars before you are ready to finish. I saw the demons keep spawning even with the "light them all at the end" strategy so I am not entirely convinced.

On EH I don't think the demons spawn - if so at a much slower rate.

[Bargol]

I ran spinner on epic hard solo on my bard last week. I tried the lighting everything at the end, but demons still kept respawning when I killed them so not sure if this tactic really works for EH.

[Luxgolg]

That really does not answer my question -- why is it any faster than lighting up pillars as you go along?

Less trash spawns.

[LazarusPossum]

I ran spinner on epic hard solo on my bard last week. I tried the lighting everything at the end, but demons still kept respawning when I killed them so not sure if this tactic really works for EH.

They do respawn, but it's really much less irritating than if you light torches one at a time. When you light all at the same time, there's only a small amount of trash to deal with.

[Gremmlynn]

They do respawn, but it's really much less irritating than if you light torches one at a time. When you light all at the same time, there's only a small amount of trash to deal with.

I generally kill the first 7, beat spinner till she spawns 9 more, kill those beat spinner till she goes away, kill hezzies till she comes back, beat spinner till she spawns 9 more , kill them, beat spinner till she goes away, light 6 torches, defend flame, kill last 11 flame eaters, light last 3 torches.

I've never seen the amount of trash being different until after defending the flame and the flame eaters are in constant respawn at that point so no need to do more than try to avoid the spinner until you get the last few crystals at that point.

[LazarusPossum]

I've never seen the amount of trash being different until after defending the flame and the flame eaters are in constant respawn at that point so no need to do more than try to avoid the spinner until you get the last few crystals at that point.

Sorry, I should clarify. I consider Flame Eaters as a necessary objective, while I generally define "unnecessary" kills (due to spawns that somebody triggered), like hezzies and reavers, etc., as trash, because nobody likes taking out the trash.

[NaturalHazard]

That really does not answer my question -- why is it any faster than lighting up pillars as you go along?

less spawns, its how we normally do it on elite.

[LightBear]

Personally, I would give up on getting any specific Web chain item anytime soon - epic Web items are by far the most frustrating non-raid epic items to acquire. Your rogue will hit 25 long before you farm up an epic Envenomed.

Not just those shards/seals are frustrating to acquire.
I've given up all hopes to getting any specific item at all (and kinda freak out when I do see that shard of SoS drop ).
It's from an outdated system where the max level cap was the endgame and people needed to be kept busy.
Nowadays TR-ing is the endgame and the defs are doing a good job with reinventing the tr-system.
This does have the side effect that you can now go through lives without getting the items you've set your hopes on acquiring.
(And thus feeling a bit gimped out.)
On a more brighter side of things, eventually you'll wind up with a sack full of shards and seals and you'll learn that not all that you hope for to get is really all that necessary.