Limbus farming, solo?Follow

I am seeking tips and info on the easiest, most efficient, methods of farming Limbus solo for both coins and AF+1 items.

I have recently done a fwe "low man" runs, but it seems like the people I run with are quickly gravitating towards wanting to "win" in order to put together Omega chip sets. I have no interest in this at all and strictly want to focus on efficient famring runs with little concern for winning the acutal event (unless its strictly incidental to the farming run).

The types of initial questions I have are:

Which zones are best for getting Temenos/Appylon red mage items solo?

What types of combat method provides the most efficient kill rate on particular mobs (I can probably figure this out, but still would like pointers if you have any)?

When does it make sense to skip timer chests, or gear chests in favor of timer chests? I'm unclear on the drop rates (%) shown on the wiki. Is this calculated based on many reports, or just someone editing the page and sticking an "observed" drop rate?

I plan to start doing this every few days. Perhaps I will put together a short guide on my experience when I am done. I have seen posts on this in the past (mainly in the blm forums), but I don't see any guides or stickies specifically pertianing to this currently.

Any pointers to help get me going in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Edited, Jul 16th 2009 1:06pm by Mithsavvy

Thank you.

I generally always nuke since it's the fastest and easiest way to kill a mob, even though it's obviously not always fastest in the long run, due to resting. To be fair though, my melee gear sucks which lowers the usefullness of it. All i have is joyeuse/genbu (misercorde for /nin), turban, pcc, suppa/brutal, sh, dusk, blood/woodsman, amemet+1, swift, lolrelic legs, and dusk feet, with no changes for ws (not really worth the inventory to me since i never really use it outside of nyzul/salvage).

Also, puddings ≠ slimes.

You didn't have time to get the second floor item chest? o.o

Sometimes the mandies can take awhile to pull, but usually no more than a few mins. If you see a clean pull, take it, even if you're weakened, have no mp, etc. Blm would absolutely be faster, but speed doesn't (shouldn't) matter one bit, since you're only going for the F1+2 item chests, and you have 45 mins, or an hour if you get the time chest on f2 (you shouldn't need them, but you could use powder boots and run through and open the time chests, then die->rr, or if you don't have flee then get them individually), though i can't imagine needing any more than 20-30 mins max.

The problem with blm would be the rocs. They cast massacre elegy, horde lullaby, and finale. They move fast (can only cast tier4 while they're bound, and can't kite without grav), and are immune to sleep. And they also hit like trucks. If you get hit with elegy, there's no way to survive. if gravity wears without bind recast up, you're screwed. Even with the best enfeebling gear, blm will still occasionally get silence resisted. Additionally, without very good gear+merits, depending on race, you may have trouble finishing them off before running out of mp, unless you slow down the fights tremendously by relying on dots+drain, which can be deadly.

Rdm/nin on the other hand can throw up slow and tank just fine if grav/bind aren't up (not to mention significantly faster recast times with fc+haste), won't get hit by elegy/finale, and has refresh/vert to remove any risk of running out of mp.

A blm would make it pretty easy to clear the zone, but would be pretty severe overkill if you just want the rdm af+1 item.

Owow, wtf. Actually i lied, you can't kill shiva, since it's immune to bind+grav.

That leaves west for temenos. Just kill as many tigers as you can, and hope an item chest drops. If it gets more than 100 tp make sure you don't let it within 10' of you, so it can't use roar.

How feasible is it to get item chests on floor 1 as a RDM in Apollyon NW (I don't have /sch or /smn; see my sig for other jobs)?

What are the conditions to spawn the item chest there?

Great post!

Are the other monsters on the floor true-sneak? I've always thought monsters in limbus were. I guess if I'm patient I should be able to find my way around without aggro. I'll be sure to bring remedies for disease. It doesn't sound difficult at all assuming he has 11k HP (like the wiki says) and blizzards land well (500+).

It should be possible to kill it only w/ poison/bio for those w/ gimp nuking gear :).