Guide:Nicholas the Traveler Farming/December 2010

Week of December 27 (1 Bottle of Vabbian Wine per gift)
You can farm 5 Sentient Spores to trade in for 1 bottle at the collector Ahoj in Vehtendi Valley.

You can farm Jarimiya the Unmerciful since it will always drop one bottle, assigned randomly to a party member.

You can trade in trade contracts for bottles at a Vabbi Trade Official.

Week of December 20 (3 Vermin Hide per gift)
A farm based on Shadow Form and Wastrel's Demise is illustrated here :

Another build here for assassins, also showing where Nicholas is.

For those of us that aren't assassins, Ritualist secondary can solo farm the Vermin in NM with a Spirit Farmer build. It may not be as glamorous or as fast as the assassin builds above, but it gets the job done. Be careful to break aggro once your spirits engage the vermin and bring Summon Spirits if you can.

Week of December 13 ( 2 Silver Bullion Coins per gift)
Run through Lahtenda Bog to kill corsairs who drop the coins. Head roughly Southeast. Avg about 5 per run. Start from Kodlonu Hamlet and make a counterclockwise circle through the  Mehtani Keys. The average drop from the multiple corsair groups is 5 coins, with the added benefit of a treasure chest and multiple groups of Irontooth Drakes which drop  Chunk of Drake Flesh. http://s2.noelshack.com/uploads/images/957203350092_farm_piece_dargent.jpg
 * Be aware of the numerous hidden groups that may spawn
 * Spirit spamming from blacktide den ~10 Silver bullion coin per run.

Week of December 2 (2 Tangled Seeds per gift)

 * Fastest place is Bloodstone Fen. Any anti-caster farming build or SoS works.