after having acquired 500+ of all the other types i am trying to find an efficient way to gather the culteral collectibles, i have found that the adventurers packs are too inefficient so i have a few questions.

1. my current assumption is that the only other way to pick up cultural collectibles is treasure bags as no nodes have been listed in the guide besides the bags. is this true or are there other ways to obtain them?

2. my current assumption is that treasure bags can drop from any mob, so the best farming places i can think of for T3-T6 are as follows
T3 possibly Coal chamber on Casuall for infinite bats?
T4 weapons shipment HC LV 18(faster spawn rates than DA)
T5 Weapons Shipment HE (if its 21 is it heroic elite O.o)
T6 Breaking the ranks or lines of supply EC (lv 26)
is there any reason these wouldn't work? has anyone had any better ideas?

and 3. i know that treasure bags are supposed to disappear after 10 min, does anyone know if this has changed?

bonus round, can anyone think of a good T6 natural node to farm? I'm not overly fond of the recommendations in hawk's MoBo thread

*EDIT* I don't particularly like my choices for T6 ether so if you have any suggestions there as well  i'm open.

spathic wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2016 at 4:25pm:

Mostly true. I got a medium eberron shard from a mobsack once, though. Helluva gallstone.

I get Smoldering Embers at a very high, and disturbingly reliable rate from tier 5 backpacks. Haven't tested enough to discover if it's just my bad luck. Because farming Smoldering Embers is just too meta for what's become of my game experience.

lostthenloved wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2016 at 9:08pm:


Have you tried emptying all the collectible bags on all your characters into the shared ingredient bank space?  You might have a bunch of things spread across your account without realizing it.

lostthenloved wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2016 at 8:55am:


The answer is to stop trying.  While in the past there was a decent amount of profit to be made from cultural collectables, in more recent years it has been illegal to buy, sell, or transport cultural collectables.

Compounding the new laws which make it far less attractive to collect cultural collectables is the fact that the major profits have simply gone out of the system.  While there may possibly be another pile of cultural collectables such as the tomb of Tutankhamen remaining, you are far more likely to spend a significant amount of time and money and only wind up with the cursed tiki idol from that Brady Bunch episode.

Epic Desecrated Temple of Vol.  West side hall with spinning traps has 2 Adventurer's Packs and 1 Altar.

1 min (CD of DDoor) round trip for 3, T6 collectibles.  It was usually 56-57 secs so I had to wait 3 or 4 sec for DDoor to be off timer.  That was just with 30% striding item.  If I had more run-speed or wings I still would have had to wait on DDoor CD. 

Precious Cargo seems a good idea too but I don't imagine it being faster than 1 min.

Mokune wrote on Sep 26^th, 2016 at 7:06am:

cargo is slower mainly due to loadscreen from cave to ship

thanks for vol tip

Alex DeLarge wrote on Sep 26^th, 2016 at 7:35am:


Indeed sir.

Satanscock wrote on Sep 26^th, 2016 at 2:44pm:


Not sure about cultural, but there are also a few collectibles right at the beginning of Precious Cargo.  With a monk and fast recall, you can be in, grab three collectibles and out in about 30 seconds.  And you can also get both the <25 and >25 depending on the difficulty you go on.

Party Crashers EE isn't bad for collectable hits.  I think it was dropping Mortar and Pestles iirc.  Just recall after the first shrine, not enough to be worth the time after that.

noamineo wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2016 at 1:20pm:


I've gotten most of mine from Slavers.  They seem to drop with decent regularity.

5fingerdeathpunch wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2016 at 3:08pm:


Desecrated Temple of Vol?

Diff matter?

I will try that! Sadly I have a sovereign XP pot running, so that run is gonna have to wait until I've run some things for XP. Here's hopping I don't hit 30 in the next 3 hours