Hello people,
Since getting my bard to legendary music disco and prov i've been running around looking for fun and profitable things to do with him.
Most recently I decided to take him to the swamp area of the twisted weald to see how he would fayre.
For the journey I equiped my high resist (all above 65), high lmc/mr, fully LRC suit. This suit doesn't have much in the way of luck, but I felt that for my first attempt i would stick with the suit that would keep me safest.
Began by embracing honour and making my way directly to lady sabrix/lisleth. Spent some time with those guys and found it very easy to provo them onto each other and when only one was available, killed with evs and disco very fast.
Interestingly, Irk eventually showed up and I managed to kill her by provoking the spiders onto her and using discordance. This told me that collecting all dread horn keys as a solo bard is not only possible, but extremely effective! An unexpected but pleasant surprise.
Then I had an interesting idea. The other two named spiders of the weald, malefic and virulent are normally an unplesant surprise for those who wander over the pond nearest the entrance to the weald. These two spiders are uber tough, much more so than lisleth and sabrix. I wondered, would provoking them onto each other be possible? I gave this a try and found out it was! Be aware though, it is much tougher to provoke these guys than it is to do sabrix and lisleth. That being said, the loot is much better.
You get around 4k gold on each of these spiders and due to their higher difficulty, I believe the item intensities are better also. Another benefit of farming these spiders is that you trigger the spawn yourself. Once you have dealt with and looted your kills, cast evs and run over the pond with an invis ready and start again. Rinse and repeat.
I haven't tried this with high luck..YET. But i think this could be a very useful little area to farm items. Its just a case of setting the weald up and keeping the nasties out of the way while you work your magic.
Anyone else feel like sharing their tips on high end PvM for characters of the Bardic persausion?
Since getting my bard to legendary music disco and prov i've been running around looking for fun and profitable things to do with him.
Most recently I decided to take him to the swamp area of the twisted weald to see how he would fayre.
For the journey I equiped my high resist (all above 65), high lmc/mr, fully LRC suit. This suit doesn't have much in the way of luck, but I felt that for my first attempt i would stick with the suit that would keep me safest.
Began by embracing honour and making my way directly to lady sabrix/lisleth. Spent some time with those guys and found it very easy to provo them onto each other and when only one was available, killed with evs and disco very fast.
Interestingly, Irk eventually showed up and I managed to kill her by provoking the spiders onto her and using discordance. This told me that collecting all dread horn keys as a solo bard is not only possible, but extremely effective! An unexpected but pleasant surprise.
Then I had an interesting idea. The other two named spiders of the weald, malefic and virulent are normally an unplesant surprise for those who wander over the pond nearest the entrance to the weald. These two spiders are uber tough, much more so than lisleth and sabrix. I wondered, would provoking them onto each other be possible? I gave this a try and found out it was! Be aware though, it is much tougher to provoke these guys than it is to do sabrix and lisleth. That being said, the loot is much better.
You get around 4k gold on each of these spiders and due to their higher difficulty, I believe the item intensities are better also. Another benefit of farming these spiders is that you trigger the spawn yourself. Once you have dealt with and looted your kills, cast evs and run over the pond with an invis ready and start again. Rinse and repeat.
I haven't tried this with high luck..YET. But i think this could be a very useful little area to farm items. Its just a case of setting the weald up and keeping the nasties out of the way while you work your magic.
Anyone else feel like sharing their tips on high end PvM for characters of the Bardic persausion?