User:Xiay/Underworld Solo Farming Build

This build is designed to farm the Chaos Plains for Ectoplasm. This is currently the most valuable material in the game. This is a good way to make money as an Assassin as you will get ectos and lots of other drops that can be sold including passage scrolls, black dye, keys & lockpicks, gold weapons, ruby's & sapphires and lots of lower value items.

The downside to this method of farming is it costs 1K per run and some runs will fail regardless of user skill if there is a complete block of the passage by Obsidian Behemoths. Also due to regular attention in Game updates the run is now very slow even if your experienced thus lowering the income per hour of play dramatically.

Furthermore If you are not familiar with the Underworld you will likely fail a few times before a successful run (thus costing lots of gold). To get this build quickly its best to follow and advance player on a run to show u the ropes and if u die you can just watch how they do it. If you want me to show u a run message Xiay Kalim, in game.

Attributes and Skills
[build name=Chaos Plains Farmer prof=a/e shadow=12+1+3 fire=12 deadly=3 ][Glyph of Swiftness@0][Deadly Paradox][Shadow Form][Glyph of Lesser Energy][Fire Attunement][Burning speed][lava font][shadow refuge][/build]

Equipment
 * Any armor goes, however 70 AL would be the best, in case you would make the mistake of running too close to a Charged Blackness or running into the traps of Obsidian Behemoths.
 * Radiant Insignias and Runes of Attunement.
 * 3 weapon sets is best:

1. Your main set is a high energy set (but still giving 4 pips of energy regeneration) I use a sword with +5 energy and +20% longer enchantments (this is essential) this is with a fire offhand with +12 energy

2. A higher energy set with less regen - for this I use the same sword with a fire offhand that gives 12 energy +15 energy -1 energy regeneration - use this if you don't have the 30 energy needed to recast shadow form either because of human error or because of "Fear Me" shouted by Graspings.

3. A longbow - this is for pulling without loosing "argo" once on the Chaos Plains. It may be wise to have a +20% enchant mod on this in case you forget to change your weapon back to cast Shadow Form.


 * A Minimum of 54 energy is suggested. The more, the better.

Usage
 * As you spawn in Under World, take the quest from the Lost Soul.
 * Cast and maintain Shadow Form (reduced by Glyph of Swiftness and Deadly Paradox)
 * Aggro the Grasping Darknesses.
 * Cast GoLE followed by, Fire Attunement and then cast burning speed wait a few seconds after it has run out before recasting to have maximum burning to energy usage ratio.
 * Heal your own Burning with Shadow Refuge.
 * Cast Lava Font as necessary, however this may cause scatter so try and keep you health bellow 100 through burning. (Remember to kill the Grasping Darknesses quickly, or they will all eventually use "Fear Me!" all at once, and this will devastate your energy pool).
 * Once you make it into Chaos Plains, aggro the closest Banished Dream Rider and kill it. The recent update has made pulling lots of stuff together hard work but try to where possible this means running back and forth till the monsters following you are in a small huddle ready to be burnt.
 * Once dead, do the same for all the spawning Mindblade Spectres. (First 3 will spawn per dead Dream Rider, once those are dead 6, and once those are dead 9)
 * If you still haven't got enough from the run, go into Bone Pits and do the same for the Dead Threshers and Dead Collectors. Be sure to kill the Collector's minions before the actual Collectors (waiting for them to naturally die is a good option); if the Collector dies before their minions, those minions will become hostile to the Bones as well, and the Threshers will be able to target them with Suffering and Mark of Pain which will go through your SF if you stand next to their targeted minion.
 * If you want, you can also finish off the first few groups of Terrorweb Dryders, as long as there are no Charged Blacknesses in the group.
 * Rinse and Repeat.


 * NOTE:If you still don't get enough from one such run, you might as well kill the Aatxes in the beginning room and along the path to Twin Serpent Mountains, but make sure that your health is below 100 to prevent scatter, otherwise it'll take a while to finish em off.

Run to Chaos Planes:



Counters
 * Charged Blacknesses - these use the touch shock that causes Knock down. Use dash to run past.
 * Triggering the traps of the Obsidian Behemoths. Use dash to run past.
 * Obsidian Behemoths completely blocking off the entrance of Twin Serpent Mountains. no solution, kill the Aataxes and Graspings around and then leave and return.
 * Failure to maintain SF.
 * Lag when you need to recast SF.
 * "Fear me being called just before you cast SF. To counter switch to the high energy set.

Variants

Replacing Lava Font with an IMS like or  This will reduce the damage you deal a bit but does make out running the Charged Blackness's easier.

Adding in place of Lava font again reduces your damage output but gives better energy management, however with practice you can maintain constant burning on foes without running out of energy.

Notes
 * You can bring a Spiteful Spirit Necromancer Hero or friend with you if you want to kill some attaxes around the start super fast. you can also do a few quests duo. Price of failier is a nice touch because every attack against the Assassin in Shadow Form will miss.
 * You need at least 30 energy to recast SF.
 * Average amount of ecto's gained varies greatly.
 * This run is slow due to recent changes with the computer AI.
 * Do not use lave font on the Dream Riders unless your health is bellow 100 (or even 75) as it just slows the process when they scatter