User:Gelei/Tyria Necro Farm (EotN)

The Far Shiverpeaks
the first spot i'd like to visit is Ice Cliff Chasms. throw on either your 55/ss, Sv/IP, or 55 SV build and go nuts. Ice Cliff Chasms has Snow Wurms, which are so easy to kill it's stupid, as well as mountain Pinesouls and mountain Aloes. these guys drop just like Oakhearts and Spined Aloes of old. you can play around with other groups, but i really only farm the pinesouls + aloes, as everything else is pretty tricky. you can kill select groups of eles with no problem, but that's about it. i've found this to be a fun little area with some alright drops, while also being crazily simple to farm.

this next area is a bit tougher to farm, but it's really fun if you like screensful of pretty numbers. we'll be farming the Spectral Vaettir in Jaga Moraine. Load up the solo HM Glacial stone farmer, and leave from Longeye's Ledge into Bjora Marches. run through that entire zone without aggroing anything, and zone into Jaga Moraine. from there, cast your maintained enchants, and start aggroing Vaettir. keep up EITHER SoA or Shielding, Prot Spirit, and Healing Breeze AT ALL TIMES. if you don't, you die. once you've aggroed a healthy amount of Vaettir, group them up with a wall on their left, and your right. hit SS, and autoattack to trigger Clumsiness while keeping up enchants. SS will overpower Ether Feast, and they'll die. great run for mez tomes, golds, and obviously Glacial Stones.

Charr Homelands
courtesy of CE Devilman, here's another great spot for EotN farmers: Dalada uplands. load up the SV build for Charr mentioned at the top, and follow his well written instructions in this thread. a big shoutout to him for his profitable find!

if you think soloing just the charr rangers isn't enough for you, we can solo quite a bit more down there. load up a Spoil Victor build, but i need you to add a very strange skill... take out necrosis for Supportive Spirit. you can kill foes under 55 health by wanding them to death, but supportive spirit is required if you want to kill Tumbled Elementals, which are a somewhat big part of the run. follow my mapped path through Dalada Uplands, killing any charr rangers by hiding behind rocks and SVing them to death, as shown in CE Devilman's thread. you'll also run into Molotov Rocktail - kill off the rangers that spawn with him, then nuke him (the rangers have D-Shot and traps, look out.) there are two more groups of Charr rangers before you zone into Sacnoth... you can hide behind yet another rock to kill these guys, too. finally, you can zone into sacnoth Valley to begin the real run. follow my mapped path and kill the one Charr Bladestorm hanging around. avoid any grawl groups with priests - they're tough. if you followed the route correctly, you'll run into a large group of tumbled elementals. maintain PS, HB, and Supportive Spirit here. kill them off with SV, and be sure to autoattack so they don't scatter. once they're dead, kill the few grawl groups and a couple more tumbled elementals. afterwards, you're on to the BURNING FOREST OF DOOM! (rawr.) this place is actually very easy. the only condition you have to contend with is burning, which Spirit Bond can easily outheal. the only thing you need to be careful about are magma blisters - they're not a threat, but be very careful not to cast while they have Mark of Subversion on you - that'll kill you in one cast. just tank those out by precasting enchantments before aggroing. besides Mark of Subversion, they're pushovers. kill 'em with SV. kill any flowstone elementals and ardent spirits you can find with SV as well. finally, you'll get to Borguus Blisterbark's group. these guys are pushovers too. kill them all with SV. after he's dead, you can finish clearing out the forest if you like, for more money. this run is pretty easy, and medium in length.

finally, i'd like to touch on a very popular farm spot for Necro primaries: Cathedral of Flames. everyone knows that 600/smite can run Cathedral, np. but how well does a necro fare? well, let's find out! load up your 600 nec build, and set up Ogden with the smiter build, and get ready for more reading! (as if you haven't done enough already!)

you'll need 600 armor for this run, meaning 15 Armor Level armor, but with NO SUPERIOR RUNES this time. we want to keep our health as high as possible. A Soul Reaping hat + minor rune is nice, but not required. same goes for a vigor rune. as far as weaponry goes, a Totem axe + prot offhand will work perfectly. Ogden needs two superior monk runes - sup divine on his hat, sup smiting somewhere else. now, equipmentwise, you're set to go!

you guys have read enough already, and i've written enough already, so i don't want to rewrite what others have already written time and time again. i highly suggest searching around for the details of the run. the way your build works is simple: Spell Breaker comes from Ogden - you tank things and kill them with Reaper's Mark and Necrosis spam. also, having Soul Reaping REALLY reduces downtime between groups. i'd be happy to add more detail to this section if it becomes popular, otherwise i'll leave the details to people that undoubtedly have more experience with Cathedral than I.

Asuran Territory
Asuran Lands offer a few rather interesting spots for a necro primary to obliterate. The first one i'll talk about is undoubtedly the most overfarmed - Raptors!

load up the Raptor farming template and zone into Riven Earth. grab the blessing, then run to Raptor cave. precast Armor of Mist, Mental Block, and Glyph of Concentration, in that order. run around, getting hit often enough to keep up Mental Block, and aggro as many raptors as possible, including the boss group. hit Mist Form while under Glyph, then hit Magnetic Aura followed by Glyph and Sliver. hit AoS after Sliver, THEN hit the standard, and things will start dying. recast enchantments and standards as they recharge - use Glyph on Sliver and Mist Form to make sure they get up. runs are between 2 and 3 minutes, and it's amazingly easy after a bit of practice.

If you liked 600/Smiting Cathedral, you'll love Verdant Cascades. load up the 600/Smite templates for Cathedral on yourself and Ogden, and go nuts. you can clear the whole zone in about an hour and a half - the Quetzal drop loads of collectables, which salvage into loads more feathers. the bosses and enemy density make for a lot of golds, as well as loads of asuran rep.

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