[outdated] Caustic Arrow Solo Map MFer (20/300+)

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Serleth wrote:

Is there another thing that drops keys other than Curious Lockboxes, Argus, and Izaro? Because I've only ever seen one curious lockbox up at any given time.

That's all that I'm aware of. Of course some of the boxes in the Treasure Room at the end may also randomly drop keys - but that's total luck of the draw and can't be counted on.

Oh right, I'm a derp.

If you let Izaro get fully buffed in the first two fights, he drops extra keys.

So there's always a minimum four keys available.

a) First Izaro
b) Second Izaro
c) Last Izaro (three keys if you left him fully buffed in the initial fights)
d) Argus

Plus any lockboxes.

hey ppl sick build from what i read. whats best way to do this for hc? could a guy go es? or armor is best? i mean whats everyone doin thats worked for hc?

Answered this ^ in pm.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not..

but I'm finding more Uber Lab Trials than maps from bosses at the moment.

You running alc'd maps?

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Serleth wrote:

You running alc'd maps?

Transmuted only. Semi-skipping stuff and killing the boss(es). Relying mainly on the 20% flat additional chance of a boss to drop a map.

I've taken to shooting arrows at most mobs and if it dies before I run past or if the loot filter dings I"ll stop and loot, otherwise I'll just run past, intentionally not picking up a lot of rares which might drop one I've run past a pack.

I should probably fiddle with Neversink's loot filter to ding when rare amulets drop (bottleneck for me for the chaos recipe).

I'm still farming Offerings (I'll likely run Uber even after 40 runs) though so zipping past stuff makes sense for me. Even though I'm just transmutting I often take back 4+ portals of stuff.

I could get more maps by alching, but meh... I need the Offering anyways. And the fastest way to get those - other than buying them (which I might end up doing since Offerings are only 5c each) - is to just zip through linear or easy outdoor maps.

Might as well alc, though. Increases map drops, currency drops, likelihood of removing your recipe bottleneck, and will get 39/40 faster with the boss drops.

Or if your second-last challenge is end-game grind, just Atziri it down and get 13+ Mortal Hopes like I did ;)

As an aside, I ran about 20 Terraces today. No Lucky Deck cards. Boooo.

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Serleth wrote:

Might as well alc, though.

It would be faster for maps, yes, but since I need the Offerings, I'm going to be skip-running maps.

Since I don't pick up a lot of the drops I think that the alch expense per map wouldn't pay off.

All I want is enough maps to sustain my very low level map pool (T1-T5 mostly), an occasional map from a boss for the map drops challenge and as many Offerings/hr as I can farm (which is why I'm not picking up loot).

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I've got bunch of Sacrifice fragments just sitting idle - don't know if I want to run them or sell them at this point.
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If I just wanted 40/40 I could knock that out fairly easily - but I'm trying to farm currency for a stupidly expensive build I have in mind. I've got an idea in mind about how to raise a bunch of exalts - but we'll have to see how viable it is. If my idea works out I'll probably just buy Offerings and run labs since that will be the biggest income earner per unit time.

What build?