Saturday, October 17, 2009

The Early Kat Years 22: Dragon Moss Farming

Ahh... good old normal mode farming. Back before Hard Mode was around... and loot scaling was introduced, all the drops were yours to keep. Louden Swain from Pantheon of Shadows [dei] told me about this farm which he nicknamed "the ATM machine".

The Dragon Moss farm was one of the best places to farm then, as many Dragon Mosses group together and can be farmed rather quickly, like today's famous Raptor farm. It was possible to make 2K every minute with this farm, but it was limited as you would hit the farming cap VERY QUICK.

At first I used my monk Joyful Jasmine with a Searing Flames build and EoE build. Below are the two videos which I used to learn from Louden. In these videos you can also witness the overpowered Shield of Absorption; when it could be permanently maintained.

Searing Flames Build

EoE BUILD

Later on, I experimented with my elementalist Alexa The Amazing after being inspired by a video on YouTube by SalamandraTheNinja.

SalamandraTheNinja's Dragon Moss Farm with Searing Flames

I recreated a video of Alexa's early builds that I modified for more damage (Stone Striker caused Searing Flames to deal Earth damage, therefore not triggering Mark of Rodgort). Unfortunately, the amazingness of the drops cannot be witnessed as this was made today :(.

1 comment:

  1. EoE is an amazing skill, well... It was better, but it's still got potential!
    These builds are still fun to do though, despite the lack of drops now. I'm not entirely sure if ToT bags are affected by loot scaling, so I'm going to try some of these kinds of farms out when the holiday update is in place.
    ... Look at all that loot =P

    (ps, you've posted the SF video as the same URL as the EoE vid!)

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