Has anyone farmed for Whirlwind?

[Uska]

If you're farming up TR items, and 2H weapons, you should really get a Carnifex from Delera's tomb. It's fairly easy to get, and while low level, it's basically a two-handed khopesh with Keen, hard to beat for a two-handed melee weapon up to level 10 or 12, at least against anything that you can crit.

I have tried about 600 times across all my characters and haven't seen that once I think I am cursed

[stoerm]

I have tried about 600 times across all my characters and haven't seen that once I think I am cursed

Just to make sure: you've done the chain 600 times and checked the chain end reward list, the same list where Voice of the Master drops? And still haven't got a Carnifex? It's totally possible, like winning the lottery, but very unlucky.

I've pulled at least 3 Carnifexes with a few dozen chain completions max.

[Uska]

Well just got two in a row did a first round through the desert and got one then a pug was doing it so I joined and got a second probably within 20 minutes of the first got a firestorm grieves as well

[FAQ]

Funny you should mention it. Last week I was farming Sands for my RoSS and I decided to go to the gnoll area just for a change of scenery. I pulled a Whirlwind in about the 6th appropriate chest for it.

[Oxarhamar]

As someone posted - the drop rate is low. Your best bet is to have a +loot running, but - then you have the time it takes to get out there and rerun. When I first found out about that time - I ransacked 10 characters and nothing. I repeated my runs at least once a month and finally got one on the 2nd month and that was when there wasn't any +loot items in the game. I'll make some runs and see whats up.

Loot gems do not affect named item drop rates.

[Uska]

Just to make sure: you've done the chain 600 times and checked the chain end reward list, the same list where Voice of the Master drops? And still haven't got a Carnifex? It's totally possible, like winning the lottery, but very unlucky.

I've pulled at least 3 Carnifexes with a few dozen chain completions max.

3 more today and still no carni want one for my next couple lives

[EllisDee37]

3 more today and still no carni want one for my next couple lives

It sounds to me like you're doing something wrong. Carnifex, like all delera's named items, is guaranteed to drop in every 3rd list.

[Aelonwy]

It sounds to me like you're doing something wrong. Carnifex, like all delera's named items, is guaranteed to drop in every 3rd list.

This^. I hesitated to explain it myself when I saw the thread yesterday, after so many runs, to learn that on every third run of the entire chain by the same character (on that life) would cause me to head-desk till I knocked myself out.

[Wipey]

I see it pretty often for 200k plat or some 15 - 20 shards.
Think trading something you don't need for it is time better spent than farming chest hundred times anyway.

Farming one chest for something with abysmal drop rate is just horrendously boring ( I think that's why bta loot is ultimately failure concept and no trade in game is really boring )
Make Corleone's offer, and someone will trade with you

[Larha78]

Guildie pulled one in epic DQ2.

Yes I did. Seen it drop twice in my 140+ something DQ2s.

[EllisDee37]

I see it pretty often for 200k plat or some 15 - 20 shards.
Think trading something you don't need for it is time better spent than farming chest hundred times anyway.

Farming one chest for something with abysmal drop rate is just horrendously boring ( I think that's why bta loot is ultimately failure concept and no trade in game is really boring )
Make Corleone's offer, and someone will trade with you

I farmed two whirlwinds from the wilderness chest. My technique was to send 3 or 4 different characters to that chest once a day, every day, until I pulled it. Each individual character's one run would be repeated as many times as necessary until the rare spawned so that they'd get their one pull that day. Way too often it'd take upwards of 7 runs just to get the stupid Den Mother to appear.

My recollection for the two I farmed (at different times) is that it took roughly 10-14 days to pull one. Which works out to around 30-50 chest pulls per drop. I'd say there's around a 40% chance for the rare to spawn, so figure 100 trips out there to get a whirlwind. Obviously, these are extremely rough estimates.

[Sianys]

Funny thing: I'd sent my Pally out to the Sands to farm for Dynastic Falcata, Dusk Heart, and other useful goodies. It was during a bonus loot weekend, and she got Mummy Wrappings, Blood Stone, Sting, Xuum, Collapsible Shortbow, and a few other things... and Whirlwind. Wasn't specced for THF at the time, but once I tried using Whirlwind, I immediately made the switch. She's now around level 17 or 18, still using it.

[eachna_gislin]

I have tried about 600 times across all my characters and haven't seen that once I think I am cursed

Carnifex comes out of the Delera's chain end list, which is one of the reward lists that gives you roughly 1/3 of the items each run (give or take the RNG's mood).

If you don't have a Carnifex run the chain 3x on the same toon in the same life (a bit grindy but it goes pretty fast). It's guaranteed to be on the list in one of those 3 runs.