Good Morning Friends! While I took the weekend off from making blog posts, I did not take the weekend off from documenting New World loot farms and as a result, I have several more days of these ready to go. This morning we are going to talk about a loot farm involving an Angry Earth stone bear named Red Claw in Ebonscale Reach. While this farm is absolutely soloable, it is very likely you will roll up on the location and have multiple others trying to farm the boss as well. I highly suggest that you build impromptu groups because the random chatter can sustain you through the hours of farming. There are also a lot of various Angry Earth dryad-type creatures scattered around the area and at any given time you are going to likely have to deal with both the bear spawning and a number of other things as well. It is possible to “break” the camp and get the spawns timed out so that you only have to deal with one thing at a time, but this takes some significant work to actually pull off.
Unfortunately the camp is not really located near a teleport, so it is going to be a significant run from anywhere. I suggest starting at the main town in Ebonscale Reach and then running south along the roads. About the midpoint in this journey, there is a named boar called Mighty Tusk that you might encounter but unfortunately, it has no significant drops. The location we are shooting for is called Euphorcea and is your standard dryad ruins-type location. One interesting thing about this camp, in particular, is that Rafflebones spawns as a level 66 mob in the courtyard and with a coordinated effort you can farm that as well every few hours adding a number of completely random 590 item level drops. I spent about six hours at this spawn and during that time I saw Rafflebones twice and it dropped a 590 Musket and a 590 Ice Gauntlet.
If I thought the last farm I wrote about was rough… this one would have likely broken me were it not for making a number of friends along the way. New World seems to have this habit of getting “stuck” on a particular drop. For me, it was the Bloodsucker’s Sword and during the course of my six-hour farm, I saw six of them in total. I specifically came out here to get a Great Axe, and the person that was there with me probably saw around the same number of those while waiting on a single Greatsword to drop. All told I saw 6 of the Greatsword, 4 of the dexterity ring, a wide array of the sub 590 trash drops, and my final drop was the Guillotine that I came there seeking. I also picked up a wide array of legendary weapon crafting materials in the process but lost count of those. Another thing of note is that you can use this boss to farm your daily Obsidian Gypsum drops.
Potentially the most interesting thing about this camp in particular is it changed my outlook on how to approach these. I made so many friends while farming this one item in particular, and since that point, I have held conversations with a wide number of them… one even regularly inviting me to activities. It also made me start to rethink my roleplaying-server indoctrination of considering those with dumb names to be not someone worth spending time on. I would have never struck up a conversation with someone named EbolaIsBae but after spending a few hours with them, realized they are a pretty solid person. Again all of these weapons can be upgraded all the way to 590 once you have capped your expertise at 600 and gathered some Umbral Shards.
Like I said at the head of this article, I’ve already documented several more of these loot farms and will be rolling them out in the coming days. At some point, I am going to have to collect these on a permanent page or something, but for the time being I am collecting them all in a single sub-category called “Loot Farms”. If you know any great spots for 590 gear that I should check out, feel free to drop me a line below.
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Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, and Tamrielo
In this show, we start off as we have the last several weeks with a discussion about the Corporate Collapse Speedrun that is Muskrat and Twitter. We don’t want to talk about it… but each week brand new levels of stupid nonsense keep happening. Bel talks about his mission to document “camps” and gear drops in New World and how he is having to unlearn some of his “Roleplaying Server” biases. Tam talks a bit about Battletech, Mechwarrior, and the mods that are currently available for both. Kodra talks a bit about being “Sudoku Famous” and having a puzzle featured on Cracking the Cryptic. Ash talks about revisiting Tactics Ogre Reborn now that it is actually on a platform he currently can play on. Tam talks about the Star Citizen Intergalactic Aerospace Expo coming up this week and some of the progress made for open worlds and race tracks. Finally, Bel makes a plea that if you are not watching Andor… you should get on that because it might be the best Star Wars to date.
Good Morning Friends! Today we continue this mission to document gear farms in New World with one located near Valor Hold in Edengrove. Again this entire mission is to present some options for new to 60 players to go out and farm up some of the 590 named items that won’t degrade in level when you use them. This camp in particular is a little bit on the tougher side because it involves three spawns that are a challenge to split up. The one that drops what we need is Taedas an Angry Earth shaman-type creature, but spawning with it is a prowler melee type and an archer ranged type Angry Earth. Essentially breaking this spawn will always be a bit of a challenge, but in theory, if you can drag out your initial kill so that you leave yourself some breathing room between kills, it will make subsequent loops easier on you as they won’t ALL be spawning in at the same time. All three encounters should spawn in at level 57, which is doable for a reasonably geared level 60 solo.
This one is pretty close to the Valor Hold stronghold in Edengrove, which is the southernmost of the two outposts. You can get there by exiting the west side of town and hugging the eastern bank of the lake until you reach a set of ruins called Taedas Stronghold. The first part of your journey will have a lot of very aggro boars, but then will quickly transition into peaceful ones and the occasional random Angry Earth mob. If you hug the mountainside of the shoreline you can avoid most of these. Sadly there isn’t really anything interesting resource-wise to be gathered along the way other than boar hides. As you get closer to the ruins there will be an increased density of Angry Earth and breaking into the camp will involve clearing two sets of prowler/archer spawns. One interesting thing of note, there is an empty room that you can crawl into on the south side of the ruins if you need to take a break while farming.
It was really at this farm that I began to understand the extent of my madness. In order to verify these drops I wanted to make sure that I was able to get all of them. As I said in my last post, the New World Databases have been notoriously wrong about drops and still have things listed that have not dropped in a number of patches. This means that in many cases I have to spend an extreme amount of time doing the same kill over and over. I think on this camp it took me about four hours to see all of the drops in the rotation but during that time I got 4 of the Life Staff, 1 Void Gauntlet, and 1 Hammer which was the last thing I managed to pick up before dipping. Let’s take a look at the notable drops:
As I said above I spent about four hours at this camp and during that time I saw six drops off the 590 loot table. Four of those were the staff, and I got a single hammer and void gauntlet. This is not going to be a fast way to get gear unless you are exceedingly lucky, but it is predictable and can be farmed without a group. This again can be taken all of the ways to 625 with the use of Umbral Shards and the upgrade mechanic for gear level 590 or higher. Tadeas also has a chance of dropping legendary crafting materials, but during my four-hour stint, I did not see any drop. You will also get a lot of high-level potions and assorted crafting materials that drop from Angry Earth in general. It is a bit of a boring farm especially due to the low-lighting conditions within the temple itself, but if you need any of the items above it is worth your time.
I have at least two more of these documented so far, and plan on trying a few more spots over the weekend so expect to see this series continue at least into next week. Do you know any great spots that I should check out? Drop me a line below.
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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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