Relic farming

Titanas

Titanas

Dalayan Elder
Yes I know you have no plans to increase relic drops

but what about a raid zone with named that have no loot table other then a chance to drop relics and ancients. Some kind of Ancient Library could be tied in with PoKnowlage quests or what ever. This would cut down on the Higher Tier guilds farming lower instances for Relics F'n up lowbies progression. Bosses would be like any other Relic droping named but have no equip able loot so people would only go and kill them if they were trying to farm relics. Again not a higher chance of relics or ancients just the same chance to drop them as all mobs do that would.
 
If that was the case, mobs in there would get killed and then they would head to the convenient lower tier raid zone to continue. It would only speed up relic progression, which from what I understand the staff do not want.
 
For us euro ppl, who's not in the 2 big guilds. its never enought ppl to even get a relic without help from other big guilds.
What about adding a LONG hard quest groupable like the vah sidequest for the tmap quest item. the quest took about a 2 mounth for me to complete, witch is kinda long. and then get your relic randomly.

cus there is no way i cant get relic for my char if i dont join one of the 2 guilds who might not even want me.
 
VD tmaps are your friend

Never seems to be a shortage of people that will PuG for a VD tmap.

Thier are also a few VERY overlooked Relic/Ancient Droppers in the game, but they are in out the way places so you have to go look for them.
 
I'm not try'n to make relics easy mode to get I just feel bad blowing up a zone for rots on every boss mob just for a chance at a relic.
 
Honestly I think the Jayle Relic quest is far worse problem of High Tier destroying back tier then those trying to relic out new guild toons.

Relics at least can drop up into the low Tier 7 bracket. Those Jayle Relics start dropping off Tier 3 encounters and everyone can use that quest drop vs just Int/Wis/Bard on relics.
 
Kirin Folken said:
Honestly I think the Jayle Relic quest is far worse problem of High Tier destroying back tier then those trying to relic out new guild toons.

Relics at least can drop up into the low Tier 7 bracket. Those Jayle Relics start dropping off Tier 3 encounters and everyone can use that quest drop vs just Int/Wis/Bard on relics.
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Relics drop in Tower of Tarhyl and Inner sanctum and I think Grobb Undercity. Afaik the only zones they don't drop in are PoFrost and Thazeran's Tower. Relics drop forever basically, and it's not that much harder to 17 man a ToT or IP boss than it is to 12 man a lower tier boss for relics, so you might as well just scum alts in to higher tier stuff.
 
There's a pretty healthy pug community on SoD as well, keep your eyes peeled for pick-up raids, etc...I hate the attitude that "Because X low-tier mob drops Y item that higher tiered people want for Z reason, all the loot rots and it's not fair to low tier guilds/toons/etc" Low tier guilds should be scouting to further their progression, outcome is directly related to effort, and most of the time, when a mob's being sniped for a quest drop/relic, it's seen to it that there's a toon there to loot any desirable item that the mob might drop.

EDIT: Kedge Keep has a pretty hefty relic opportunity as well
 
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Late PoWater, PoEntropy and especially PoEarth have very high relic rates.


The zone you suggested isnt happening.
 
Thade said:
Relics drop in Tower of Tarhyl and Inner sanctum and I think Grobb Undercity. Afaik the only zones they don't drop in are PoFrost and Thazeran's Tower. Relics drop forever basically, and it's not that much harder to 17 man a ToT or IP boss than it is to 12 man a lower tier boss for relics, so you might as well just scum alts in to higher tier stuff.
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Since we filled up on relics, I dont even pay attention anymore to them dropping.
Thanks for the clarification though :)

Cmal even drops A/R... come to think of it... all the 6 man content has A/R droppers.
Havn't done enough emberflow to confirm or deny that zone
 
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Relics drop in inner sanctum too.

Really if you cant get relics I think you need to get out of thaz tower and do some other content chief.

Rust used to be relic fucking candy land but i dont know if it still is.

Really just leave thaz
 
He doesn't have his main chars in Amicii. He's mainly in Retribution now I think, so more trying to scrounge their ways up.
Titanas is just a remnant from the past that we gladly keep in the guild (he left without hard feelings because we couldn't give him what he expected).

So telling him to get out of Thaz won't be of much help.
And for us Relics aren't that much of a big deal either (I think we still need 2 to finish backgearing some chars that came back).
 
Kelval said:
So telling him to get out of Thaz won't be of much help.
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Wanna bet? Funny, everyone under-estimates us. We have a great force.

Anyways, we've since stopped back gearing in all the lower tier zones. I think the thing that's annoying for our casters is that we just NEVER see relics. It's just bad luck for us. That's all. We did Storm's Eye for like 4 months straight, only saw relics for 1/4 months.. Was silly, but that's the luck of the draw.

Right now, we're not so much focusing on relics, if we were going for them on their own, it would piss off alot of the lower tiered guilds, which I think is what Tit is saying.
 
I'm starting to catch a hint of guild drama in recent posts, be careful not to shit up S&R.
 
tubingchamp said:
Wanna bet? Funny, everyone under-estimates us. We have a great force.

Anyways, we've since stopped back gearing in all the lower tier zones. I think the thing that's annoying for our casters is that we just NEVER see relics. It's just bad luck for us. That's all. We did Storm's Eye for like 4 months straight, only saw relics for 1/4 months.. Was silly, but that's the luck of the draw.

Right now, we're not so much focusing on relics, if we were going for them on their own, it would piss off alot of the lower tiered guilds, which I think is what Tit is saying.
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Don't be so cocky, I'm not trying to belittle you.
Retribution seems more like a good tier 5-6 guild atm. Am I mistaken? If you manage to take out Thaz level with your crew's gear, you're either insanely good, either carried by a lot of ringers.

Anyways, this wasn't meant as an acid joke, but more as a statement. He will not help you any by telling you to get out of Thaz.
 
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I want a Relic QUEST, make it hard make it take time, but make it 1 groupable. why cant we without raid opportunities get a chance, VD MAPS oh well, seen 1 relic in maybe 50 maps ? and then there are 3 casters in group, dosent make the odds very good.
 
I remember being on your side of this argument long ago Keetar. The answer we got back then fell along the lines of Relics are a privilege, not a right. Kinda like a driver's license. The game is designed so that you will retain challenges however you play, but not so that you have the same results.

As far as you obtaining the Relics, you do have the chance with VD maps, and after time you will be able to one-group VD maps. What your asking for is already in the game.

As far as low odds, imagine being in a raid that gets relics maybe once a month. Lets suppose this raid has 3 clerics, 2 druids, a shaman for Wis casters, and 2 wizards, 2 mages, and 1 chanter. Granted this is a caster heavy raid, but that happens. What are the chances of actually winning the Relic there? Its still not easy for raiders to get their relics, and there is no reason with the balance of the game that the chances of a non-raiding group getting a relic from VD maps be the same as a raiding character getting one from a named.
 
This post is a train wreck, I just wanted to suggest a zone where you can kill raid tier mobs in a library or something for a few quest pieces and some relic drop chances.
 
I know of atleast one relic dropping named that is 1-groupable, meant to be 1-grouped and doable in bought gear if people know their job.

If you want, consider this your quest.
 
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