I do not have a capped caster yet, but here are my experiences...

Desert, easy reset due to explorer area and nearby shrines
ADQ1 pit with arcane archer. Bonus of 3 free chests with possible seals
Wiz King gnolls and clay golems with arcane archer. Scrolling magic circle against evil and having epic robes of dissonance make it easy. 1 chest with possible seal.
OoB with cleric. Drop in, cast 1 blade barrier and circle kite. Usually able to start recalling before the barrier goes away.

Sentinels
Tide Turns opening room with anything with a ranged attack/damage. Several emplaced mobs that can't move. DoT, arrows, whatever. Is cake. Helpful to have an extra person for resets.

VoN
VoN5 with cleric. Slow moving, mindless zombies at beginning plus some relatively weak warforged further in. Undeath to Death, Halt Undead, Firewall, whatever for zombies. Rowbuts take some extra care, but instakill just fine.

Carnival
Partycrashers, tons of summoned mobs with no ranged attacks. Perch and burn. Nearby quest for hireling reset.

Chrono
Pull mobs from excavation site very carefully so you only have to deal with 1 or 2 at a time. Nearby quest for hireling reset.

Good advice in here.

I'm building a necro/conj am (almost 17) with a little emphasis in enchant.

Mostly for chronology and eclaw farming.

Might take him into oob and von5 once I get comfortable with the methods.

Any tips of farming with a wiz? Ie, dcs, hp/sp, gear.... Anything would be appreciated.

With an arcane, gather up mobs, web them up, crushing despair > circle of death > fod, finger/pwk survivors, if there are any after the finger/pwk, just move on, rinse/repeat. Von 1/4 are a peach for that, Chrono as well (just hold and dot/polar ray the orange name, be sure to pwk the acolyte as soon as it goes active). Works in fens as well.

It can be done in wizking as well, but it's much more of a pain there because activating the whole room brings up DA, and with all the casters active and spamming cometfall getting harried is a bad thing. Best thing there is juts to pull the mobs to the right shrine, jump up on the sarcophagi and ice storm/firewall, and pick off 1 by 1 with finger.

Von5 is kinda annoying without at least some spec in fire, webbing and icestorming the zombies is much slower kill/minute than other vons where you can instakill.

Von1 - only buff you need is displace and whichever one of exp retreat/haste, run to the minotaurs, crushing despair, circle, wail, run down to the 3 hobgoblins, cd/circle/wail, run all the way to the kobold, web the room, activate trolls, wait for the ogres, cd/circle/wail, rinse/repeat will probably be needed as ogres and trolls have decent saves. After that, run to the fork, round up mobs, cd/circle/wail. Run to the troll boss, cd/circle/wail. Ddoor and recall after that, ignore red names.

Von4 - displace, fom, cold/elec/fire resist, jump, invisi. Invisi, run to the lever, pull, run inside. If the earth ele is bothering you, pwk. Run in, jump on the speaking head, talk to it, round up the mobs (grab the two wf to the left, but don't go past the line where shadow meets the light), cd/circle/wail. Run to the right side, watch out for fall-out floors, when you see a group of warforged cd/circle/wail. Ignore the dogs for now. Keep running till you get to the last door, blow it open, gather up mobs, cd/circle/wail, web if there's survivors, rinse/repeat. If any dogs followed you, web/ice storm them. If you're not a PM, watch out for disco balls. Once everything is dead, invisi, hug the left wall, pull the lever, go inside and shrine, recall.

Chrono - fire cold elec resist, displace, dw. Run inside, start it up, dancing ball in the middle (just cast one so the mobs are rounded up better, best location comes with practice) to the left.  On the right side from where you enter, there are 3 mobs - melee, acolyte and caster (close to far side). Web the caster, stand next to the acolyte. As soon as it's active, pwk the acolyte, finger the webbed caster. Hop over to the danced mobs, cd/pwk/wail, rinse repeat. Ignore orange name till everything is dead, then energy drain, cd, hold, nuke. Through the portal, shrine, recall. You can cheese it by going up the ramp and picking off mobs from there before they're active, but its just slower and there's no real reason to do it.

In edq1 just seal farm, and kill the mobs in the pit when getting scorpion chest (they actually have saves there, so you might need to ice storm them).

You get the idea - round up, dc/circle/wail. If there's a mob that casts deathward, instakill asap before it fires it off. With a divine, it's just a lot of running around in circles while BBing, while keeping divine punishment stacked on the orange names and imploding/destructing mobs that refuse to be bb kited.

Do NOT use any spells/gear that can blind mobs or invisi you, you want the mobs aggroed on you and following you as close as possible, on an arcane or divine. Biggest problem is generally getting stunned or danced (hello lich form).

Btw if you have a pimped up divine, just BB farm amrath quests for large mats instead, it's much less braindamaging and about as profitable, if not more (or maybe I'm just unlucky with scrolls  ).

Asheras wrote on Jun 30^th, 2011 at 11:16am:


Sins is the fastest one, 5 chests in 10-15 minutes if you hit up all the optionals (be sure to take the badge, if you choose any other boss the chest in the first room to the left will be locked), with a chance of keepsake (last chest) and all the larges afaik (side room chests and the one of the two chests in the last room I believe). Check side rooms with Q for chests, go only in ones that have chests, after you've hit 3 chests, go straight for the end, talk to the prisoners and don't pull the lever.

If you have the setup to dual box and an hour or two to waste, farming ADQ1 is your best bang for the buck kill wise. 

When just farming scrolls on one of my 4 capped Arcanes, I average about 250-300 kills per hour running up the ramp to the scorpion pit.  2-3 Ice Storms will kill all the chasing baddies in about a minute and then I recall.  If I am ransacked on the chests, I typically say Fuck the scorps as they are usually scattered all over the room and can take an extra couple minutes to roast. 

Kill the 15 chasers, recall and reform with your 2nd account that is parked in the marketplace.  Low on mana, there is a shrine right up the path that leads to the DQ lair and you can refill!

2-3 scrolls per hour is the norm and I have gotten as many as 3 on a single pass.  Only downside is the high number of shit scrolls present in the desert compared to Chrono.  I've netted about 100 scrolls in the last month but sadly none of the really good raid scrolls 

Glenalth wrote on Jun 30^th, 2011 at 12:40pm:

Shhhhhh


Two accounts = twice the renown for OMGBIZZY. More renown = more mailboxes.

stainer wrote on Jun 30^th, 2011 at 12:42pm:


THIS!

Jaxx wrote on Jun 30^th, 2011 at 12:27pm:

Don't need a second box:
Just copy the whole Turbine folder to another directory and make a shortcut to that DNDLauncher.exe.  Start up both launchers (I run 6 at a time since all that memory leak crashing started happening), then you can login to 2 different accounts from one machine.  Use your F2P account to break/join groups  to reset instances (alt-tab back and forth since full screen gets the most from your graphics accelerator).

When I was messing around with farming (trying to find select scrolls and seals damn Turbine!), I did DQ1, WizKing, VON1,2,4. Chrono entrance was easy. Also, if you are good, you can farm the DQ2 entrance (you can also do that for quick blue coins if you are into that crap).

Stanley Nicholas wrote on Jul 6^th, 2011 at 12:17pm:


Start implosion just as the acolyte is about to get active, and try to destruct asap. If it doesn't work, just run outside and BB kite the melee mobs while keeping up DP on casters (or just pick them off with destruction if they're not dw-ed). You can kinda block casters in the entryway, so that they try to hit you through the wall while you BB other mobs in peace.

Or, you could try to climb up to the gallery (however the hell you'd call it, the second floor lol), and try to energy drain/destruct the acolyte after it's spawned but before it's aggroed on you and casting DW all over the place, then proceed to BB the crap out of everything.