Powerwar
10-15-2009, 11:55 AM
Hello all,
I am a bit lazy on farming for long time, so I have tested a couple of fast routes to farm emblems as fast as possible
I am running a protection paladin and 4 elemental shamans. On multiple trash pack pulls I tend to abuse the magma totems and chain heal.
1 ) Gundrak (skipping lots of trash). 5 emblems, about 15 - 20 minutes maximum, usually doable in 10 minutes.
1.1 ) Enter Snake boss entrance. Kill 3 packs of trash (single pull) and run with your full group to the boss. Drop fire elementals and blow heroism. Ignore the extra snakes, thunderstorm them if you want... they will die from elementals anyways. Loot 20 seconds later
1.2 ) Enter Moorabi entrance. Kill 3 packs of trash (2 pulls) and kill moorabi. Dont lose dps oninterrupting his transformation, just pew pew him to death.
1.3 ) Kill the Eck (all trash before eck is a single pull)
1.4 ) Go to moorabi place and jump into the water, swim to the "bridge".
1.5 ) Kill the Colossus. Fight on the stairs to avoid trash. You have chance to pull one extra elemental, just twoshot it.
1.6 ) Acivate the bridge lock and clear 3 packs of trash. The two rhinos right before the boss are a single pull.
1.7 ) Kill Galdarah. Burn heroism again if the cooldown from the first fight has expired.
2 ) DTK. 1 emblem. 4 packs of trash to first boss. You can make the first 3 packs in one single pull. The undead packs just before the boss are also doable in a single pull. Do this only if you clear gundrak first and your gear allows you to take the large pulls, since the instances are fairly near to each other.
Dalaran --> Caverns of time port
3 ) Culling of Strat. 5 emblems on timed run or 4 on non timed run. Go leeroy mode if your gear permits. Overgearing the instance and going full leeroy you can do the timed part in less than 25 minutes and the full instance in about 30.
4 ) UP. First 3 boses only. 3 emblems. If you cannot make point #5, better don't waste time here.
5 ) UK only if your gears allows you to go leeroy. 3 emblems.
6 ) Nexxus. 2 emblems from the orc miniboss in the frozen tunel before the mage boss and the mage boss itself. That's about 5 packs of trash you could kill in 3 or 4 pulls (orc miniboss included). I tend to bug the mage event and rarely do this run anyways. This instance is far away from anything else, so unless you really need these emblems you can just skip it.
7 ) HoL. 2 emblems.
7.1 ) Run to the right and kill all the trash you have collected while going to there.
7.2 ) Keep advancing and kill the boss when you see him. No matter if he is with lightning or not.
7.3 ) Pull all or half of the water and fire elementals near the second boss and kill them. Use magma totems for the water and chain lightning for the fire ones. Grounding totems and fire resist aura help alot here.
7.4 ) Kill the boss and go to point #8
8 ) HoS. 2 emblems.
8.1 ) Reach the Krystallus tunnel in a single pull. This can be a bit tricky, but it's doable once you get used to it.
8.2 ) Go to Krystallus pulling all the trash from tunel entrance to boss (dont aggro the boss). Abuse magma totems, thunderstorm and probably lay on hands. 4 thunderstorms usually kill on the run all the small "elementals" that you will collect while reaching the boss place.
8.3 ) Kill Krystallus but don't blow heroism.
8.4 ) Single pull to maiden of grief.
8.5 ) Burn heroism and kill maiden. Use shadow resist aura here. With good gear she will die in about 20-30 seconds.
This entire operation would lead to about 15 - 20 emblems per toon and should take you no more than 2 or 3 hours with relatively decent gear.
For the large pulls, remember that earthbind totem will root mobs for 5 seconds and it has 20 sec cooldown. Stagered earthbind for large groups of melee mobs will be needed to allow you run to the fight place without getting much damage. stoneclaw totem also helps in case of need. I have these two totems and magma totems on separate keybinds due to obvious reasons.
It takes some mastering to achieve the big pulls, but once you have spent 100 or 200 gold wiping on them and perfect the technique it pays by itself.
Have fun
I am a bit lazy on farming for long time, so I have tested a couple of fast routes to farm emblems as fast as possible
I am running a protection paladin and 4 elemental shamans. On multiple trash pack pulls I tend to abuse the magma totems and chain heal.
1 ) Gundrak (skipping lots of trash). 5 emblems, about 15 - 20 minutes maximum, usually doable in 10 minutes.
1.1 ) Enter Snake boss entrance. Kill 3 packs of trash (single pull) and run with your full group to the boss. Drop fire elementals and blow heroism. Ignore the extra snakes, thunderstorm them if you want... they will die from elementals anyways. Loot 20 seconds later
1.2 ) Enter Moorabi entrance. Kill 3 packs of trash (2 pulls) and kill moorabi. Dont lose dps oninterrupting his transformation, just pew pew him to death.
1.3 ) Kill the Eck (all trash before eck is a single pull)
1.4 ) Go to moorabi place and jump into the water, swim to the "bridge".
1.5 ) Kill the Colossus. Fight on the stairs to avoid trash. You have chance to pull one extra elemental, just twoshot it.
1.6 ) Acivate the bridge lock and clear 3 packs of trash. The two rhinos right before the boss are a single pull.
1.7 ) Kill Galdarah. Burn heroism again if the cooldown from the first fight has expired.
2 ) DTK. 1 emblem. 4 packs of trash to first boss. You can make the first 3 packs in one single pull. The undead packs just before the boss are also doable in a single pull. Do this only if you clear gundrak first and your gear allows you to take the large pulls, since the instances are fairly near to each other.
Dalaran --> Caverns of time port
3 ) Culling of Strat. 5 emblems on timed run or 4 on non timed run. Go leeroy mode if your gear permits. Overgearing the instance and going full leeroy you can do the timed part in less than 25 minutes and the full instance in about 30.
4 ) UP. First 3 boses only. 3 emblems. If you cannot make point #5, better don't waste time here.
5 ) UK only if your gears allows you to go leeroy. 3 emblems.
6 ) Nexxus. 2 emblems from the orc miniboss in the frozen tunel before the mage boss and the mage boss itself. That's about 5 packs of trash you could kill in 3 or 4 pulls (orc miniboss included). I tend to bug the mage event and rarely do this run anyways. This instance is far away from anything else, so unless you really need these emblems you can just skip it.
7 ) HoL. 2 emblems.
7.1 ) Run to the right and kill all the trash you have collected while going to there.
7.2 ) Keep advancing and kill the boss when you see him. No matter if he is with lightning or not.
7.3 ) Pull all or half of the water and fire elementals near the second boss and kill them. Use magma totems for the water and chain lightning for the fire ones. Grounding totems and fire resist aura help alot here.
7.4 ) Kill the boss and go to point #8
8 ) HoS. 2 emblems.
8.1 ) Reach the Krystallus tunnel in a single pull. This can be a bit tricky, but it's doable once you get used to it.
8.2 ) Go to Krystallus pulling all the trash from tunel entrance to boss (dont aggro the boss). Abuse magma totems, thunderstorm and probably lay on hands. 4 thunderstorms usually kill on the run all the small "elementals" that you will collect while reaching the boss place.
8.3 ) Kill Krystallus but don't blow heroism.
8.4 ) Single pull to maiden of grief.
8.5 ) Burn heroism and kill maiden. Use shadow resist aura here. With good gear she will die in about 20-30 seconds.
This entire operation would lead to about 15 - 20 emblems per toon and should take you no more than 2 or 3 hours with relatively decent gear.
For the large pulls, remember that earthbind totem will root mobs for 5 seconds and it has 20 sec cooldown. Stagered earthbind for large groups of melee mobs will be needed to allow you run to the fight place without getting much damage. stoneclaw totem also helps in case of need. I have these two totems and magma totems on separate keybinds due to obvious reasons.
It takes some mastering to achieve the big pulls, but once you have spent 100 or 200 gold wiping on them and perfect the technique it pays by itself.
Have fun