If you have a 5 man PVE Group and enough gear you can farm some epics in Bastion of Twilight.
There was a video of 5 mages farming it so I made one with a 5 man PVE Group.
The upgrades are nice, plus you can earn some good money in the process.
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If you have a 5 man PVE Group and enough gear you can farm some epics in Bastion of Twilight.
There was a video of 5 mages farming it so I made one with a 5 man PVE Group.
The upgrades are nice, plus you can earn some good money in the process.
Ubersauces :)
Idk, I took my 4 Ret + DK team in with 5 Guildies, and just roll main spec, with everythign else open roll. The last 2 pulls are amazing since there are so many adds.
DK+ 4 Rets have all the CC under control, and basically as you get further, the trash gets better and better (easier to AOE)
So 10 people will get everyone more epics per hour.
I've been pondering if this would be possible with my 4 dk 1holy pally team :) think maybe it could be pulled off with round robin warstomps + hungering colds?
Interesting, never thought of exiting to reset the group.
if you choose a pack of twilight phase-twisters, then kill all but one, and then drop combat (I do 5x invisibility on my mages) so you can loot the dead ones, last mob runs back and they all reset :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Multibocks
I sure hope our farming videos didn't get this nerfed. I have been in there for 2hrs and not one epic. I still need the staff for my priest!
In the first weeks there were a shitload of epics dropping, heard up to 6 on one clear. Afterwards (like as of january, maybe earlier) we've had bugs where we had to reset the trash 3x before we could engage halfus, and had zero drops. This weeks lockout we had on 25m mode 3 drops from 2 packs, and the week before nada. Pure rng imo.
Oh and about the video, thanks for sharing. Just an advice for other less geared boxers: the purple goo on the floor is not meant to stand in :P
Why not clear up to halfus and get more $$
Because my group is not good enough to do that. I only have two reliable CC's so doing 5+ packs are not an option. If my team was a tank and 4 shaman I could do that. But I only have 1 hex and 1 sheep to work with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toned
Isn't your other toon a lock? Fear glyph + seduce?Quote:
Originally Posted by pinotnoir
Yeah but the fear and seduce are not as reliable as sheep or hex. They break earlier than my sheep or hex. I tried it :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Toned
Pfft you can do it ><
I 10-box this place and certainly have more than enough CC to do the whole area up to the first boss.
What I've found - not worth it. It is so unbelievably fast to kill 3 out of the first four, exit, and re-enter. Never wipe, never lose a toon, never wait for pathing groups that are too close to each other. I've done it both ways plenty of times and I have to side with Pinot.
Doesn't boredom set in faster just doing the first pack? I mean the process either way gets boring after a few runs, but doing the whole clear gives you some variation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercurio
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Originally Posted by Toned
It's totally boring. I have not had an epic drop in 3hrs of my last farming efforts. Thats why I think I have been nerfed on drops. I may try again one more time. If nothing drops out of there again I am done.
I'm starting to be very fast at this, each 50 mobs takes 30 minutes together. Made around half a mil gold so far in 2+ weeks :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercurio
5 cc is more than enough. I noticed if you're low on hit, the sheeps break early, but when you "cap" your hit rating for level 87 mobs, the sheeps last full duration, always.
I was wondering why my sheeps were breaking in here. I was off just a little from the cap. That is a great tip. I didn't know hit applied to sheep duration.Quote:
Originally Posted by runtu
Also, doing multiple groups seems more rewarding. If you are running enough CC characters keep going after the first group. No need to kill 3 and reset. The few times I did that I always felt " I bet the 4th one had the epic!"
Of course with a group of 5 it is much harder and the reset option is a great way to go.
I'm not sure about this, but I had sometimes purple diamond breaking early and I wondered why only that mark breaks, noticed that mage which sheeps them was tad low on hit, so could be :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Teslah
I've had two goes at this since the 1st of the month. Cleared the first 3 groups and reset around 4 times the first night and then 6 times the last. So that would be no drops out of 140 mobs. Prior to last week I'd estimate doing 12 resets and getting 4 epics. I'm not one for just going with a gut feel that it was changed, but like pinotnoir, I'm thinking that there has been a change. Wowhead certainly showed a higher drop rate from past data. runtu, have any drops this last week from the first 3 groups? Or just 3 of the first 4 if that is still what you are doing?
in past two days I've got tsanga's helm, crossfire carbine and heaving plates of protection off the "big mobs", and yesterday I got the staff off the phase-twisters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Speedbump
My third clearing going on now, last pack left and no epics today, that makes 140 mobs so far without shinies.
Have patience there, rng is rng :)
edit: fifth clear going, 230 mobs down, first epic today dropped, boring crossfire carbine. (off from phase-twister)
as of 4.0.6, standing in dark pools hurt like hell :(
Does that mean it is no longer possible to farm here? I always miss the good shit, haven't had time off to farm and now I got a good chunk starting Friday...
No, it's still easy to farm here. I still have no problems with my 5 mages. Just don't stand in the black stuff for too long...
Just an FYI - I went in there today. 2nd guy I killed dropped an epic, then then 5th guy I killed dropped an epic, then about 15 minutes later another epic dropped. So it really is just random. I farmed about 20 more minutes and had to go - so 3 epics in about 45 minutes.
I hope I don't die in the circle things on the ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kicksome
lol we had 5 drops in total in first room last night..
I went there today and got owned. I need better gear I guess. Didn't help that hex was getting resisted or lasting all of 10 secs.
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Originally Posted by Multibocks
did they nerf hex?
I went back and got one epic finally. What I had to do is move forward and back to avoid the ground aoe.
I've been farming this like mad as well. It is possible to be run with DK+4 Ret paladin solo, but I still tend to bring extra people to make it more smooth.
Typical drop rated for me have been 2-3 epics per 3 full clears.
The aoe pulls are SUPER easy with 4 Ret paladins because divine storm spam heals incredibly well, especially with the 50% buff to damage 4.0.6 gave it.
I may not farm as much as other people, but I've gotten my guild about 15 pieces from there, and made about 150k gold from the other peices that have dropped in the past week or so.
As of now, I've seen everythign drop about 4-5 times, except that throwing axe. (which has never dropped)
You lucky cuz that axe aint worth shit.
Nah I think i needed more hit rating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lyonheart
Anyone else noticed a sharp decrease in drop rate for these as of the 15th? On Feb 14th, i had 4 drop, but since then I've run 6-7 runs and not seen ANY.
I got 3 drops in like 2 hours last night, and the night before. It's been fine - no drop rate nerf. I have more epics than I can move. Random is really random. You might get lucky and get a bunch, or unlucky and get nothing for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrothelMeister
I just went in there, killed 3 things and got an epic drop.
damnit. The drop rate was cause for drama in my guild because jealous ppl were upset I wasn't giving them the loots. :/ Was hoping it had been hotfixed.
Why would you give them the loot? Where you solo farming?Quote:
Originally Posted by BrothelMeister
The crossfire is breaking sheep more often than not with me. Does polymorph depend on any particular stat for a mage or is it just my luck ?
And no... I am not DPSing the sheep by mistake :P
And yes I am hit capped for 87 mobs :D
ain't sheep suffering from DR's?