Friends, I am on this weird kick right now of trying to find interesting gear farms in New World. You are either going to get sick of these or benefit from the dumb things I am doing “for science”. The benefit of these 590 named items is that you can use them without having to worry about “level drain” where the effective item level is an average of the actual level of the item and your current expertise level. Named items are just the item level they are regardless of how low your expertise might be, which makes them amazing for starting out. This farm was found when I started searching for 590 Greatswords and stumbled across a real gem. This one is a bit of a quirk where sometimes bosses in New World drop items that are out of range for the level at which you can do them. Molderhusk and his little buddy Fungalstep are level 35 creatures, but they both have in their loot table level 590 items.
Another huge benefit of this farm, in particular, is it is really close to town. Basically, you head out the northern path from Weaver’s Fen and then turn east and follow the coastline until you arrive at the ruins of Lepus. You should be a little cautious as while Lepus itself is not actively Blighted, there are areas surrounding the ruins that are. While none of the maps actually have Molderhusk marked as a proper boss, I have taken the liberty of lifting the boss icon and placing it roughly where it and Fungalstep are located. What makes this farm so beneficial is the fact that both of these mobs spawn at the same time and share a loot table, so with each round of kills you are essentially getting two chances at the loot you might be interested in. In order to see the 590 drops however I believe you have to be level 60.
Because I am mad… I put in the time and managed to get all of the notable drops shown on the table. I did this in part because New World database websites have been notoriously wrong about a good many things. There are mobs out there that used to drop things that no longer do, and others that have new drop tables that have never quite been updated. Essentially take most information about this game with a massive barrel of salt. I can tell you as of November 9th that these items were dropping as I walked away with each of them giving me the nifty screenshot above. Not shown is a sequence of blue quality weapons that are item level 400, but level 30 equippable… so if you are lower level and want to “juice” your character while leveling this might still be worthy of farming. Let’s look at the notable loot tables that they both share:
As far as drop rates… it took me probably two hours before I saw the entire loot table. I saw three of the rings, a single spear, and the final drop I got before checking out was the sword. One of the things to remember is that all of this 590 gear can be upgraded all the way to 625 using Umbral Shards, so if there is an item that you particularly like you can keep using it indefinitely. I think the most interesting thing about this Greatsword is how probably good it would be for PVP, seeing as it gives an ability that doesn’t normally have a slow on it one that reduces movement by one-third. It does not come with a gem in it, which isn’t the end of the world given that most people end up swapping those out anyways.
I have a few more of these farm locations that I plan on documenting, so expect to see more in the coming days/weeks. Do you know any great spots that I should check out? Drop me a line below.
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Good morning friends! One of my guilty pleasures in MMORPGs is farming loot and killing bosses. More specifically I love it when you can find a nice tight loop that takes about as long to run as it does for the bosses to respawn. While outdoor named farming does not appear to be anywhere near as lucrative for expertise bumps, it still has other benefits. The loop I am going to talk about this morning is in the North Eastern corner of Ebonscale Reach, in an area filled with Lost called Skysong Crypt. I ran this the other night with my good friend Vernie and while we only walked away with a few expertise bumps, we each got several other interesting drops. More specifically a number of the encounters are capable of dropping very solid item level 590 weapons, that could be upgraded all the way to 625 if you choose via umbral shards.
There are a number of ways to get there, but my personal favorite is to port into the Traveler’s Precipice shrine in Northern Ebonscale and then run up along the Great Cleave boundary and drop down from above into the area surrounding the Skysong Cathedral. Doing this has a few benefits, the first being that there are a number of Iron and Starmetal nodes along this route. A secondary benefit is it allows you to skip a lot of corrupted mobs at Skysong Temple and a number of Lost mobs at a town along the way to the Crypt as well as the bulk of the trash mobs leading up to the Cathedral. You do however have to be comfortable with jumping off a mountain in New World and understanding how to catch yourself along the way to lower your falling damage.
Once we are set up in the Crypt area there is a loop of four named mobs that are worth killing. You start at the Cathedral itself by killing Ivan the Inevitable then looting the big chests up on the altar. The chests are helpful in serving as a loop timer because they will respawn every hour. Out of the door of the cathedral, you run west along the path and encounter Slayer Rosellen again looting the chests after she is dead. Still hugging the wall you want to jump across a couple of fences and outside a shack, you will find Mordici the Mortician. After killing him make sure you duck into the shack and loot the chest in there before running up the mountainside and hugging the wall to avoid as many geists as you can. The path leading to the top of the mountain will have your last boss in the sequence, Farley who hits like a freaking truck so be warned. If you have your logging up to at least 150, you can chop down a few Ironwood trees at the top of the mountain before dropping back down off the side into the Cathedral courtyard and starting the loop over again.
Ivan will have respawned allowing you to begin the loop again. All of these are capable of dropping the Obsidian Gypsum for your three daily boss kills, and all of them have some fixed drops that are available from their loot table. One thing of note is that “named” drops in New World have fixed stats and the 590 Item Level items will always drop at that level so long as you yourself are level 60. Additionally, all of these encounters have a higher-than-average chance of dropping the various crafting materials required to make the level 600 Legendary weapons. We farmed this loop the other night for less than an hour and I walked away with three legendary material drops, and Vernie got a legendary pattern. Let’s go over the bosses and their notable drops:
As you can see there are a good number of interesting things available from this loop. You will of course get your average rate of random drops, some of which can bump up your expertise in addition to a large quantity of max-rank potions of all sorts. However, if you are doing this you are most likely doing it for the specifically named drops on the cycle. Farley is obviously the least beneficial kill but mostly serves as a way of padding out the loop to ensure everything has respawned and serves as a handy way of closing the loop without backtracking. There is another named mob in the area called The Cursed One, but it does not appear to have anything notable on its drop table as the mob is used specifically for a quest.
This circuit would potentially be doable solo for a very highly geared player, or someone extremely good at avoiding damage. We ran it with two and it became pretty easy and did not require us to have a healer. Basically as a result it is a good thing to do when you are looking for something specific that can be done with a handful of folks that don’t necessarily have a strong enough group composition to do harder content. I do feel it is important to emphasize that they have really nerfed the drop rates of expertise bonuses from world spawns. At one point this would have been a reliable method for grinding up your gear level and currently, it really isn’t. They want players in dungeons and doing the grind that way, but I still find a lot of these open areas fun to explore with friends.
If you are down for mayhem and adventure, and the chance for some sweet drops… then this is probably going to be up your alley.
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Good Morning Friends! Sometimes I have an idea that gets stuck in the back of my head, and then I share that idea with a friend… and they convince me to make that idea happen. This is one of those times. I’ve talked about how the paranormal and macabre is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, and how I deeply enjoy watching various ghost hunting youtube videos. I’ve discovered through my posting about things… that there are a lot of others out there that also enjoy this sort of thing. It is at this point that I joined forces with my good friend Jaedia and then shortly thereafter Rini to bring this project to life.
I get that the very last thing we all need in our lives is “Yet Another Discord”, but I offer you humbly… yet another Discord to clog up your sidebar. Basically, this Discord has two focuses… discussion of the Spooky as an Entertainment medium, and the Spooky as the unknown and unknowable. We’ve divided up the categories in such a way as to separate the Fiction from Non-Fiction type discussions.
This list is of course subject to change, but right now it looks a little something like this:
Spooky Entertainment
Creepypasta and SCP
Films and Series
Books and Comics
Args and Tabletop
Video Games
Music and Stage
The Paranormal
Cryptids and Monsters
Ghosts and Investigations
Folklore and Legends
Other Unexplained
Harmless Conspiracies
Unexplained Visitors
Historical Mysteries
Other Dimensions
If this seems like your sort of thing, then I welcome you to join. First I guess let’s go over the rules. When you join our Discord you are presented with a Server Rules channel and in order to progress further you have to accept the terms. I feel like they are pretty straightforward but cover a lot of bases to protect our members.
Server Rules
Hey Friends! Welcome to the Spoopy Town Server
I love the spooky, paranormal, and unexplained, and am a pretty big aficionado of Horror as a genre. The goal behind this server is to create a comfortable and respectful place to explore those topics. Coming from a place of respect is the most important goal of this project because there are lots of different ideas about what goes bump in the night. We are not here to judge, but also not here to force our own belief systems upon others. If that sounds like an interesting adventure that you might want to embark upon then I suggest you keep reading.
In order to maintain the right vibe we have a few rules that we expect our members to follow. This community is universally supportive of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals. This community is also targeting adults as some of the themes we discuss might be scary, confusing, or harmful to those under the legal age of eighteen.
Here are some of the things that we will not tolerate:
Anything Illegal
Discussion of Current Politics or Religion
Racist, Sexist, Ableist, or Homophobic Remarks
Inappropriate uploads, profile images, names, or emojis including:
Sexually Explicit
Violence/Gore
Racist/Sexist/Ableist/Homophobic
Abusive Behavior; Bullying, Trolling, or Name-Calling
The promotion of Cryptocurrency or NFTs
Content Warnings
To ensure everyone’s safety and comfort within the borders of Spoopy Town, please utilize the content warnings and spoiler tags within the server. While this is not a way of skirting the above restrictions, it is a helpful tool for discussing certain things within the context of paranormal events. Here are some examples of topics that you should be mindful of, but for anything outside the bounds of this list, I suggest you use your best judgment.
Suicide
Self-harm
Alcohol and Drug Use
Sexual Assault
Violence/Abuse
Well Known Phobias
If that sounds like the sort of place you are interested in hanging out, we would be more than happy to have you. Like I said before when you first join, you will be presented with the rules above, clicking the Yes button will give you access to all of the channels. Clicking the No button will place you into The Void without access to anything… and I am afraid it is a somewhat permanent choice. If for some reason you accidentally clicked the wrong button, ping me and I can reset your account back to the default state.
Good Morning Friends! It was a wild weekend between the Muskrat and Twitter and the fact that my Mastodon 4.0 instance that I love… is unsustainably popular. On Friday afternoon Stux the admin of Mstdn.social closed the doors when we crossed the 100,000-user threshold. He had been advised by his host that they could not reasonably scale up that instance any further. Unfortunately he did not also close down the ability for users to send out invites to their friends… and as I have talked about before when it comes to MMORPG servers… it is extremely important to be in the same place as your friends. The end result is that another 11,000 invites went out before finally shutting down that loophole.
So unfortunately things are sluggish as hell and the timeline on the server has been running roughly an hour behind real-time as an army of worker processes churn furiously through messages. Stux also manages Mastodon.Coffee which is his attempt at creating an English language only server, and due to the overloading of Mstdn spawned a brand new server called Masto.Ai. I’ve been sitting here this morning trying to decide if I do the right thing for the community to lessen the load and migrate over… or if I just deal with it until enough people get frustrated to drop the total number of active messages. I had hoped the next time I migrated would be to something I was running for myself. I recently picked up Aggro.Chat for such a potential project but don’t have any of the pieces in place yet. It feels like running your own instance is the Fediverse equivalent of Homeownership.
Apart from social media nonsense, I’ve been spending as much of my time as possible doing super chill things in New World. Saturday morning was a delightful time as I chilled out talking on the Fediverse while running my favorite Iron routes. I am not entirely certain why I go off on tangents but suddenly I decided to catch my Engineering up to Weaponsmithing and Armorsmithing. Essentially for leveling purposes, I am opting to only use a single high-tier material at a time. Most patterns have a required item… so for example, if you are making a Starmetal sword, you MUST include Starmetal into that pattern, but the other types of materials are variable and you can even use the lowest tier available. This means since I am leveling up Engineering on Wyrdwood at the moment, I am going to use nothing but the lowest-tier leather, cloth, and metal. That also means that I still need to run those lower-tier routes that I find so relaxing.
At this point, both Weaponsmithing and Armorsmithing are over 150, which means I can make high-end Orichalcum items but lack the skill to really reliably hit anything of significant item level. Engineering is rapidly catching up and one more push should take me up to 150. Logging is so tedious, but right now my jam tends to be throwing on a YouTube video and grinding away peacefully. I’m using a few specific banks as swap space for current projects, and everything else… is crammed wherever I have room. At some point, I need to set up a system as I have over on Valhalla where specific banks are for specific items. Maybe I should log in there and scribble down a list of what went where so I can copy the methodology to Themiscyra. I’ve legitimately not logged into Valhalla at all since the re-roll, nor have I really had the desire to do so.
I’ve also been out exploring a lot and with that have come some interesting drops. Firstly it appears that every single named mob still has a chance of dropping pretty much any legendary crafting item. So far I’ve gotten pieces for a bow, blunderbuss, and void gauntlet, and unfortunately none of the items that I really care about deeply. Thankfully for Sword, Greatsword, and Shield I picked up the Item Level 600 patterns from the Halloween event. One thing that I really enjoy is how noticeable it is now when you get a named item drop. They all have a bright outline on the item as shown above and have a glowing effect. Essentially when you see an item like this, they will always drop with the same stats and can in theory be farmed from that specific boss.
There are a bunch of really weird places in the world. We all know there is the giant Azoth tree in Brightwood that is guarded by the Angry Earth folks. There is a grove full of not-quite Azoth trees down in Edengrove, which are also guarded by Angry Earth. However in Mourningdale, there is this weird glowing tree that has been corrupted with a bunch of miners working around it, and I am wondering if it also used to be one of the giant Azoth trees like from Brightwood. It makes me wonder what that area of Mourningdale might have looked like before it was corrupted. Would it have also been something more akin to Edengrove?
Speaking of Edengrove, there are a few places where it is just breathtaking to view the various monuments that dot the valley. I’ve not gotten as into the lore of New World as I have other games, but my working theory is that Edengrove and more particularly the Garden of Genesis is the heart of what remains of the original civilization that claimed Aeternum it’s home. The Angry Earth is all that remains and now guards once-sacred areas against the intruders that have come to the shores over generations. New World has clear indications of areas that were settled by different civilizations, but Edengrove has always seemed like it is much older and features a glimpse at maybe what the entire island looked like once before the attempts at colonization.
I’m continuing to largely play in cycles of either going out into the world and gathering resources or sitting down and grinding through crafting levels. This seems to be a really good pattern for me, but soon now that Ace and Vern have hit level 60… it will be time to go out exploring some of the more dangerous areas. I’ve quested through most of Ebonscale Reach and am working on clearing out Edengrove… which would lead me to start on Reekwater next. The money fountain has dried up a bit, only because the quests themselves take much longer to complete and there are far fewer of them. I still have that strong desire however to make the yellow quest markers disappear from my world map.
I hope you had a most excellent weekend. What are you playing currently? Drop me a line below.
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