Sometimes my brain latches onto something and just won’t let it go… until I have obsessed my way through completing it. For this particular obsession, I am going to blame my friend PlayerVsHobbies. When she joined New World not too long ago… she sorta made a beeline straight for the fishing system and as a result, ended up in some areas of the game that her level range was not quite prepared for. I know Vernie at one point helped her I think with a run through some dangerous areas and the other day I happened to be on when she was attempting to sneak to a fishing hole in Shattered Mountain. For those unfamiliar with this game, Shattered Mountain is a deeply scary place with monsters well above the maximum level cap of players… so if you are not well geared and max level, you are probably going to struggle out there. So I played guard duty as we made our way to the fishing hole and then farmed Dryad Wolves for Wyrdwood while she managed to get the fish that was required for that step in the chain.
This all planted in my head that I too have been on this quest chain for a while, and never actually completed it on my original server Valhalla. I’ve admittedly never spent that much time fishing in New World, though of my limited experience of MMO fishing systems it seemed to be about the best. So for whatever reason, this flipped some bits in my brain and made it so that this became my all-consuming mission in life… to complete the fishing chain and walk away with a shiny legendary fishing pole. So other than farming my daily Gypsum, this has been the task I set forth in front of myself… and I have to say it was relaxing as hell. There is something extremely chill about fishing in these beautiful locations for the amount of time needed to complete the quest. I’ve never been most of a fisherman in other games, but I can absolutely see the appeal here.
Another huge benefit of this quest chain is that you pretty much walk away with a full set of Tier 4 and Tier 5 fishing gear, which only serves to help you out as the requests get a bit rare. The only time that I had to rely on bait was when trying to catch fish over 30 lbs, but thankfully what I needed was cheap enough to stock up before heading out into the field. I had always just chucked bait into the bank and in truth, I had quite a good stockpile of various sorts which I now am carrying around on me at all times. I guess I have been bit by the bug because I have found myself flipping over to my fishing set, hitting F3, and doing this while waiting on things to spawn.
I completed the quest chain and you get a random box that includes a level 600 Legendary Fishing Pole. I think PvH got one that was Angry-Earth-themed, and the one I pulled was Ancient-themed. It appears that the stats are largely randomized, which means that in truth… I think the one I crafted and happened to pull 4 tier 3 stats on is maybe a bit better as a daily driver. I know I will be spending a lot more time crafting fishing poles as that seems to be my best option for leveling Engineering, so I might even pull an even better quad/three in my next flurry of crafting. I think if I manage to get geared up enough to start crafting for item level 600 fishing poles, there is the rare chance that I could make my own version of a 5-stat.
What I found somewhat weird though… is that the quest chain only required me to get to level 100 in Fishing, and not 200 which is the maximum before you start getting into aptitude levels. So I also now have the title “Fishing Legend” which I don’t feel like is really something I should equip until I ultimately cap out that skill. It is a fun and relaxing way to pass the time, especially while watching a YouTube video or something like that. So I guess I am thankful to my good friend PvH for getting me started down this path. I wonder what other enjoyable grinds are out there that I have been avoiding.
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Good Morning Friends! I hope you had a very excellent Thanksgiving weekend for those in the United States. For those elsewhere, I hope it was just an amazing weekend. Last week I wrapped up a series of gear guides, and over the weekend I spent some time formatting that information and adding it to the New World Tools page so that you can find items for specific gear slots. When I started the project the entire intent was for me to be able to find a 590-named weapon for every weapon type so that I could use those for leveling purposes. It morphed however along the way into me documenting every camp I knew about and making sure the weapons shown on the loot tables were actually dropping. I had no clue it would take anywhere near as long as it did, but at least now I have a good series of guides as a result.
The problem with a series spanning three weeks is that there were a lot of other things that took place while that was going on. For example, I accomplished one of the goals that I set out for myself before re-rolling and that was to max out my armorsmithing and craft a full set of item level 600 Void Bent armor. While this isn’t the best set of armor by any means, it is sort of universally good enough for almost any mod of play in the game. The fact that I crafted it myself means that I get to take advantage of the entire item level without experiencing any drain due to my lower expertise. The benefit of the armor has been very noticeable and I can survive the higher-level areas of the game significantly better than I could before.
Out of all of the Greatswords that I saw dropped, I decided that Bloodsucker’s Sword best fit what I want out of a tanking weapon with lifestealing and leeching crosscut on it. Similarly, I happened to luck into a nice sword drop from Rafflebones called Jupiter’s Favor that has Mortal Lifesteal which will give me back a little life each time a mob that I have damaged has been killed. At some point, I would like to replace it with Deeproot, but that would require some more coordinated group farming to get. The shield I crafted from a pattern that came from the Halloween event. I honestly wish I had started farming those items sooner so that I could have collected an entire set of the item level 600 crafting patterns. Other than that I spent time upgrading my bags and crafting a full set of tier 5 tools. Last night while bulk crafting to level engineering I even lucked into a quad tier 3 fishing pole.
My immediate goal has been to continue pushing up my trade skills. At the moment I have been alternating between working on getting Engineering and Cooking up to level 200. I find Cooking way less enjoyable as it just requires large quantities of materials, but if I ignore it for a while I end up gathering up so many materials in the process of just playing the game. Engineering I can focus grind a bit better because right now I need so much Wyrdwood and Ironwood, but the lower level materials are essentially free. I’ve set up a base for this phase in Everfall and I can get enough low-level leather and cloth in order to keep the fishing pole farm sustainable pending I acquire the rarer Ironwood planks. At some point, I will probably end up focusing on other professions. I got furnishing high enough to make a set of trophies but it seems generally awful to level still.
I finally pushed the Everfall faction up to level 30, which unlocked access to a Tier 4 house. I purchased the one in the main town square across from the Inn and Trading Post. I contemplated where exactly I wanted my first home to be, and since I have had my inn bound at Everfall almost this entire time… I decided that was as good of an option as any. Right now my plan is to build back up my gold and then focus on getting a house in Mourningdale and a house in Cutlass Keys since I also spend a lot of my time in those two zones. At some point, I need to actually make my way over to Brimstone Sands, because for all I know I might fall in love with that zone. I am still chipping away at quests in Shattered Mountain because I am weird and obsess over doing things sequentially… I have yet to start on any of the new content.
In another time and another mindset… I would be preparing for the launch of Dragonflight today. I am not however and there isn’t any big reason why. I played quite a bit of the Alpha and Beta and thought the game was pretty solid, but I am just not drawn to the World of Warcraft style of gameplay anywhere near as much as I used to be. However, for all of my friends who are amped to be playing it, I hope you all have an amazing launch that goes smoothly and that the game reignites those fires of joy inside of you. For now, I am still finding myself enjoying my time in Aeternum. I still have hopes that we end up with a group of people at max level and can roam around and do some of the fun open-world stuff. However for the time being I might have to wade out into the broader community and start making some groups happen on my own.
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Good Morning Friends! We are closing in on the end now. I have this farm and one for tomorrow… and then we are done. I committed to this process not realizing how many there would be and I have to admit I have gotten a bit tired of this “bit” as I am sure you all have been as well. The end is nigh however so we are going to push through. This is another good farm not too terribly far from the Taedas farm we’ve already talked about, this time focused around another shaman-type Dryad named Cael. This one also has a Void Gauntlet and a Life Staff and I think the jury is out on which are the best set for which purposes. I largely came here because it was a relatively easy bow to farm, and also had another trade skill set item.
To get to this farm we are best off using the spirit shrine that sits smack in the middle of the zone, but it is also a fairly reasonable run from Valor Hold. I would however suggest making a detour and picking up that mid-shrine if you don’t have it. This is a much higher-level farm than most of the others we have been doing, and everything surrounding Seniab is level 60, so adjust accordingly. I would suggest plopping down a tent just outside the area because it is a fairly long run from the shrine if you are trying to recover. If you happen to be there will a full group, at the top of the tower, is a true boss named Baines that is way too hard to be duo’d. If you had four of five people you likely could take him down on the same respawn timer as Cael. Cael however is easily solo’d and if you sneak up the tower you can loot both of the chests behind Baines without aggroing him pending you sneak and watch your approach angles.
I personally find this to be a much easier camp than Taedas, even though the actual level of the mobs inside of it is much higher. There is also more to do if you are willing to do it, in that each doorway to Seniab has a dryad in it, with two warrior-types and two prowler-types. You can get in a rhythm where you kill Cael and the one warrior-type that spawns with it, then go around the room killing the door guardians, and by the time you finish with all of that… Cael is likely to be spawning again soon. Additionally, there are I think four chests in the vicinity without climbing the tower, and even more, if you do choose to climb the tower up to where Baines is. So if you are at the farm for very long it is well worth taking a trip up the tower every hour to get the chests. Let’s dive into the drops:
As I said before this is a really easy camp if you are needing any of the weapons that are dropped and probably the only bow that is very easily solo’d. I’ve been out here several times with friends and the Life Staff seemed the most common, followed by the Void Gauntlet, and lastly, I have only seen a single bow drop. Again with the loot weirdness that happens in New World, it is entirely possible that you will have wildly different luck with what seems to be commonplace for you. Again all of these weapons can be taken up to 625 with Umbral Shards pending you cap out your expertise at 600 for that weapon type. I did not see this boss drop any Obsidium Gypsum, so I am not entirely certain what flags a mob for dropping that. If you need some the easiest way I have found is the Putris camp.
One more of these to go and I will be posting it tomorrow regardless of it being Thanksgiving. I will be EXTREMELY thankful to have this series behind me. Once I have wrapped everything up I will be adding a section to my New World Gametools page with these guides categorized by the weapons that they drop to make things a little easier going forward for someone coming along after this series has finished. I have collected them into a Loot Farms category on my blog. As always if you know any great spots that I have not visited that drop level 590 gear, please drop me a line below.
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Good Morning Friends! I hope today is getting started in a reasonable manner. We continue on with the series of New World gear farms that I have spent the last few weeks documenting. This one is a bit of an odd one because technically you will be located within the boundaries of Everfall, but more naturally you are actually on the edge of Ebonscale Reach. On this farm, you will be hanging out near a waterfall and taking down a giant white crocodile over and over. I specifically came out here seeking a good necklace and a strength-based Great Axe, but having a Tanner Shirt drop is also a nice added bonus.
The core problem with this farm is where it is located. You have a few options namely that you can either run through Ebonscale Reach and an area infested with very aggro Alligators, or you can drop down a waterfall coming from the Everfall side. My suggestion and the directions that I have drawn in are to drop down from the Everfall side. You will of course need to understand how to break up your fall into smaller segments to keep from dying in the process as you cannot survive just jumping in from above given that there are no actual swimming mechanics. You will need to slide down the mountain and hit ledges on the way down to break up the momentum of your fall. Once there you can safely hang out next to the waterfall where the Tazorjaw won’t actually aggro you when it spawns in.
The worst part about this camp is that the terrain around the waterfall is a little janky, and it is entirely possible for a loot bag to spawn in half embedded in the ground. If this happens hold still and look for sparkles on the ground, which will indicate where the bag is located. Then in theory you should be able to hover over that patch of ground and loot what just dropped. I tried to kill him backed into the corner of the waterfall as the terrain there seemed to lead to more reasonable drop locations. All in all, this was a pretty quick farm and I got all of the drops in less than two hours. You will of course also get a lot of leather from the gator each time you skin it. Let’s look at the drops.
The big bonus of this camp is the Tanner Shirt, which sells pretty well on the trading post if you get spares. I know in my short farm I think I picked up three of them in total. The most common drop for me was the necklace, and the hardest thing to get dropped was the Greatsword. However, as I have talked about before since the game tends to “get stuck” on a single item your mileage may vary significantly. I have a handful more of these guides that I will be posting over the coming days and have collected them into a Loot Farms category on my blog. As always if you know any great spots that I have not visited that drop level 590 gear, please drop me a line below.
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