What server? I am not really "good", but running alone is very boring.
Lets say, I finish them succesfully.
By the way, the challenges scale A LOT.

Meh, I am in Argo, the High Aristocracy Server.
I think I will have to lvl up some character in Khyber, you guys are all there...

I need a ton of mats aswell. I would join on my bard, Qruck. I am familiar (solo regularly) with Lava Caves and Extraplanar Palace. When do you want to start farming?

Infant

I'm pretty good at them, but I also want to hurt the person at turbine who came up with the idea. It was bad enough with the crystal cove events drawing everyone away from real quests, but at least there weren't any particularly good items in it so at least I didn't have to participate, but these...

Now I feel that I have to get the frozen tunic and spare hand, at least, so I have come up with some time-saving tips:

-Solo; screw groups, they will always fuck up just enough so that you fail, but not so much that you aren't willing to give them a 2nd chance.

-Fast, simple completions; there's nothing fun anywhere deeper into them, either, so don't bother.

-Don't screw around; in the mining ones, do a quick scout, just a quick glance around each corner while the kobolds grab the close crystals, then grab the torches and a teleporter, pick the best direction, and go. In picture portals, for example, grab all the crests in the first area, but after that, only the ones on the way, and head straight to a boss to complete.

Alternatively, I have seriously considered paying other people to go through them to gather the ingredients just so that I don't have to waste my time on those improved suggestions for tormenting the damned that satan ultimately rejected as being too cruel.

I'll be farming them shortly after I cap my bard, who is about to start litany farming tonight.

I'll be looking first at getting a few base items (tunic, belt, rings, chime, etc) for upgrades. Then, lvl 21 challenges for T3 upgrades to all of them.  If I don't burn out doing those, I'll be trying for a few Calomel weapons for eVoN :p

I'll have a list for it all soonish.

Made my list of items. Will see how many ingredients I'll need in total to get it all done.

Idk how to calculate run totals though.

Meat-Head wrote on Mar 21^st, 2012 at 7:20pm:


I do know 1 star in rushmore: picture portals = 150ish.

4 stars on extra planar was about 3-400

Meat-Head wrote on Mar 21^st, 2012 at 7:20pm:


From my own experience, for CR21+ challenges:

- Colossal Crystal: 300-500 in 15 min, depending on map.
- Time is Money: 100-200 in 5 min, though I tried it for the first time yesterday.
- Dragon's Hoard: It's been a while, but I think 400ish in 20 min, not sure.
- PP: As Blank said, about 150. Crappy challenge with a crappy rate.

Not too familiar with the Kobold Island ones. Soloed Short Cuts couple of times, should be much easier in a group.

The mining ones are easier solo, if you have perks like DDoor. If you are/have a bard, you can solo CR25 Time is Money without killing a thing. Similar with Colossal Crystal, but have to kill things there sometimes.

Infant

Quote:


Get 6 bards . Activate/Upgrade your extractors. Fascinate whenever something approaches an extractor. Done .

EDIT: Except the undead one, that sucks on a bard.

Infant wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 8:51am:


The meaning of CC in my static group consists only in : Crystal Cove. End of it. My brother plays a wiz and I had to tell him several times that Wall of Fire was quite a good spell. Next time I will try to convince him to use web + wall of fire. I have to take small steps.

Infant wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 9:53am:


Wait, so there are different levels of gimp? Some that, no matter what, you should not sink to?

Do the challenges scale so much that 2 boxing and using hirelings would make it more painful that it would be worth?