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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 12:27:03 GMT -8
Hey Looney , This 1 is just for you... The reason that I start at Thunderhead, to farm the ice imps, is that I end up far out on the outskirts of Osh Kosh and no where near an outpost. Wiki's guide shows only the southeast area of the Ice Floe as farmable for imps. Perhaps it's to keep players out of too many mursaat battles. But, if you don't mind just a few battles, say 3 or 4, you can farm about 5 more groups of ice imps to the west and southwest of Marhan's! This is the route I run to farm those frozen hearted little buggers: (Maybe we can use this thread to share future maps! )
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Post by Looney on Jan 2, 2018 13:48:24 GMT -8
I've thought about trying out running my farmer with my alt accnt to the nw door into ff and just farming the huge groups by the frozen lake and using the runner to rezone.
Your route makes sense, never checked that back corner b4
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 15:24:00 GMT -8
I've thought about trying out running my farmer with my alt accnt to the nw door into ff and just farming the huge groups by the frozen lake and using the runner to rezone. Your route makes sense, never checked that back corner b4 I think the number of imps in the NW corner is about the same as the whole southern route, except there are more mursaat elementalists in that northwest corner too As for the Thunderhead route, I just run out and in once, then out again the 1st time out of the outpost. This neat little trick combined with resign brings you right back to the portal. It makes the runs a hell of a lot faster!
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Post by Looney on Jan 2, 2018 15:44:20 GMT -8
Believe me I know the portal /resign trick well, 30k+ chests would've taken a lot longer without it. I've taught the trick to many ppl.
Did you know some outposts it is useless? If you do it in Boreas Seabed you spawn farther from the door using it than the usual spot you spawn when you map travel.
I have my middle mouse button set to target items/objects, in boreas seabed with the trick the door is too far away for the button to work, without you usually are in range.
Its because when you walk into boreas thru the door it spawns you way in the middle of the town, not right by the door.
The trick works for almost every portal in game though, I think I found one other it was weird for but forgot where.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 20:51:37 GMT -8
Yeah, I remember that about Boreas...maybe because it's a major mission outpost? I just started using Maatu Keep as my base for farming Pongmei Valley, it puts you where you want to be inside, and you spawn down at the bottom of the ramp when you exit. I think that (I haven't retried it yet) the other is Amatz Basin. If I remember correctly I kept spawning at the bottom of the basin on a resign.. I can't remember for sure though, I'll have to test it again. But... just north of Marhan's, beyond your chest and 1 group of mursaat, are more imps. (That's the peak in my run screenshot) sometimes 1 group is there, sometimes another spawns just to the west of those. If you kill them fast you'll avoid more mursaat heading south straight at you. Another group appears in that lake sometimes. Run through the lake to avoid more mursaat...exit at the far end uphill. If you wait a minute in the corner, another mursaat group will pass and enter the lake. Stay on the lower path to avoid 1 more group of mursaat, Taking the path west and south over the bridge for 2 more groups. Good Luck...and stay offline to avoid Big Brother
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Post by Looney on Jan 2, 2018 21:06:06 GMT -8
Every other mission outpost I can remember doing the trick it does by the door. My personal thought is they missassigned the spawn points when the outpost was made. Like entering through the door should be where map travelling usually spawns you and map travelling should be where entering through the door spawns you. The other possibility is maybe it spawns you far enough to not auto-target the door as a means to confuse bots. I'm pretty sure there is a pogmei chest run bot (and also ice cliff chasms outside boreal station) Ofc this is all speculation based on info from someone i know who does that sort of thing, I won't even use texmod or a multiloader
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 21:15:26 GMT -8
Yeah, my comp never allowed Tex Mod...I had to bump and grind every painful inch of that title... It doesn't allow very much at all...my firewall has a double barrel shotgun at the door.
As far as Boreal is concerned, I respawn right inside, just across from the tutorial and weapons guys.
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Post by Looney on Jan 2, 2018 21:22:03 GMT -8
Yeah, boreal the door trick works. I was just mentioning it as one of the botted chestruns I've heard of.
Tbh you almost have me wanting to start testing every door to see which it works or doesn't on....
or is it works / works but puts you in a stupid spot not near anything
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 23:12:08 GMT -8
Yeah, my comp never allowed Tex Mod...I had to bump and grind every painful inch of that title... It doesn't allow very much at all...my firewall has a double barrel shotgun at the door. As far as Boreal is concerned, I respawn right inside, just across from the tutorial and weapons guys. Legendary Cartographer without Tex Mod? Now that's impressive
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 7:14:09 GMT -8
Yeah, my comp never allowed Tex Mod...I had to bump and grind every painful inch of that title... It doesn't allow very much at all...my firewall has a double barrel shotgun at the door. As far as Boreal is concerned, I respawn right inside, just across from the tutorial and weapons guys. Legendary Cartographer without Tex Mod? Now that's impressive Ya but it took forever & s*cked big time!!! Right at the end with something like .01% (Yes I was that freaking close and couldn't find it) I started re porting through every portal, and then running every inch of every outpost again. I stopped on a bridge in some Kurzick outpost, (it may have even been Amatz Basin) because another player asked me if I knew of any secret places. Turns out that he was mapping without TexMod too, and he needed like .05%. I told him about the Eredon Terrace Shadow Step into the outpost trick, and running the Shiverpeak slopes until you see lands~end. He thanked me and ported out to pursue them. As soon as he left, I continued my run across the bridge. Right where he had been standing I made Canthan & Legendary Cartographer! If I hadn't been nice and shared...Well...Ain't that a kick in the head!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 15:00:57 GMT -8
Legendary Cartographer without Tex Mod? Now that's impressive Ya but it took forever & s*cked big time!!! Right at the end with something like .01% (Yes I was that freaking close and couldn't find it) I started re porting through every portal, and then running every inch of every outpost again. I stopped on a bridge in some Kurzick outpost, (it may have even been Amatz Basin) because another player asked me if I knew of any secret places. Turns out that he was mapping without TexMod too, and he needed like .05%. I told him about the Eredon Terrace Shadow Step into the outpost trick, and running the Shiverpeak slopes until you see lands~end. He thanked me and ported out to pursue them. As soon as he left, I continued my run across the bridge. Right where he had been standing I made Canthan & Legendary Cartographer! If I hadn't been nice and shared...Well...Ain't that a kick in the head!! Wow! Yeah if it hadn't been for that you might still be looking for that spot! I wasn't as patient or noble as you I used TexMod to get mine
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 16:24:51 GMT -8
Trust me, it was far from patience or nobility, although I should lie and say it was because that sounds so good, LOL.
Seriously though, It really was my computer! My husband had some ultra version of McAfee and MSE (plus something else I can't remember) at the time that I did all of that work for GWAMM. The security was set to high on all of them as well, because his identity had been stolen a year earlier. With everything he had on the PC, I could not even download Texmod.
Like I said, a double barrel shotgun at the firewall door, LOL!
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