Oni-Goroshi in Current League - are You gonna farm it or drop it?

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Shenafu wrote:

he's easy to tank melee. he's slow--like 1 attack every 5 seconds. dual wield grants 15% chance to block. enough time for energy shield recharge between hits. 3 medium life flasks and 2 mana flask. he doesn't leap slam until he's at 10% life, so you don't have to worry about adds. just stand your ground--don't run away or kite.

scion only moves about 6%-9% faster. in the grand scheme, it's not a big difference. 30 seconds scion vs 31.8 seconds others. = 1.8 second difference.

Multiple that by like 50 runs and Youll get the difference.

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de99ial wrote:

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Shenafu wrote:

he's easy to tank melee. he's slow--like 1 attack every 5 seconds. dual wield grants 15% chance to block. enough time for energy shield recharge between hits. 3 medium life flasks and 2 mana flask. he doesn't leap slam until he's at 10% life, so you don't have to worry about adds. just stand your ground--don't run away or kite.

scion only moves about 6%-9% faster. in the grand scheme, it's not a big difference. 30 seconds scion vs 31.8 seconds others. = 1.8 second difference.

Multiple that by like 50 runs and Youll get the difference.

a difference of 90 seconds? and if you fight the normal hillocks each run, the difference will be more than made up by the classes with higher DPS.

Still thinking Scion is better farmer. Because its not 50. Its more. Much more but i dont count. It was an example.

I'm trying to farm this but man.
10 hours in not a single unique.

Maybe they nerfed the Hillock run again?

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pra-lima87 wrote:

I'm trying to farm this but man.
10 hours in not a single unique.

Maybe they nerfed the Hillock run again?

Just keep going. How many runners do you have? Are they at level 8+ ?

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ChanBalam wrote:

Just keep going. How many runners do you have? Are they at level 8+ ?

3x scion lv 7.5

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pra-lima87 wrote:

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ChanBalam wrote:

Just keep going. How many runners do you have? Are they at level 8+ ?

3x scion lv 7.5

Uber Hillock is unlikely to show until a runner reaches level 8.

Once you reach level 8, stop killing zombies and go straight to Hillock.

Once a runner gets the sword, if you want more, then start a new runner to keep the rotation smooth.

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ChanBalam wrote:

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pra-lima87 wrote:

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ChanBalam wrote:

Just keep going. How many runners do you have? Are they at level 8+ ?

3x scion lv 7.5

Uber Hillock is unlikely to show until a runner reaches level 8.

Once you reach level 8, stop killing zombies and go straight to Hillock.

Once a runner gets the sword, if you want more, then start a new runner to keep the rotation smooth.

As soon as anyone reach lvl 7 run only for Hillock. There is no point waiting for lvl 8. I got lucky this league both OGs dropped before 7.5 but in previousl leagues on some chars i hit almost 9 but thats very rare to reach lvl 9.

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Farming Oni-Goroshi is meaningless if u do it for some kind of self-challenge or u play SSF.

If it takes like 7 hours to farm this? lul crazy

It boils down to personal opinion, I think. I find beach running can be kind of fun and relaxing. Sort of a mindless Zen thing or a listen to music and drink alcohol thing. On the other hand unless one is playing SSF, it is probably going to be more efficient to farm the end game for the currency to buy an Oni-Goroshi than to farm the Twilight Strand.

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de99ial wrote:

As soon as anyone reach lvl 7 run only for Hillock. There is no point waiting for lvl 8. I got lucky this league both OGs dropped before 7.5 but in previous leagues on some chars i hit almost 9 but that's very rare to reach lvl 9.

Out of all my UH kills to date (I have farmed 21 swords over 2 years of leagues) I have had to go the full grind distance (level 9) 4 times so about 19% of the time.

Sad Note: The OG sword grind will end come PoE 2. Even if GGG keeps UH in and gives us a 6L skill gem as the reward with so many skills I can see GGG foobar'ing it completely by RNG dropping a 6L skill gem and heavily weighting it to drop rarely used skills that suck to play. Grinding for a 6L skill gem just doesn't have the same impact as grinding for Charan's Sword. That's probably why Charan quit PoE so abruptly and dramatically had his main account wiped.