DH only (possibly ranged) Wimsyshire Pony Pathing exploit

[Kryptickle]

For anyone who has farmed this since Sunday or earlier; do you feel like the drop rates have changed at all? Either on Clouds/Ponies/Pots/Pinatas? Myself and some buddies have ran this a few times today and it feels like the number of drops we have gotten (primarily rares) has been significantly lower than they were, say, a week ago.

Just curious if anyone else has been noticing something like this or if it's just bad luck on our parts.

Thanks!

[BrockPainhammer]

I believe they nerfed the loot tables. It was initially stated that they didn't want Whimsyshire to turn into an end-game farming location like the Cow Level in D2, but due to the relative ease of Whimsyshire compared to Act 3/4 Inferno, it's becoming just that. They're probably toning down the rewards, and from what I've experienced they seem to have toned it down hugely to where I hardly ever get blues from clouds, rares from Pinatas, or even Rares from the elites. This is not to say it doesn't still happen, just that odds feel severely reduced from other locations in the game.

[darkjoy]

I believe they nerfed the loot tables. It was initially stated that they didn't want Whimsyshire to turn into an end-game farming location like the Cow Level in D2, but due to the relative ease of Whimsyshire compared to Act 3/4 Inferno, it's becoming just that. They're probably toning down the rewards, and from what I've experienced they seem to have toned it down hugely to where I hardly ever get blues from clouds, rares from Pinatas, or even Rares from the elites. This is not to say it doesn't still happen, just that odds feel severely reduced from other locations in the game.

We have any blue posts stating that they have changed the loot tables, or is this just pure speculation at this point?

[delyus]

no pinata after 5 runs until yet and two yellows overall after clearing everything except bear/flower rarespawns with reflect/port (2 in total until yet), dunno, feels huge downpatched, maybe just exaggerating

[BipolarBearr]

Did a couple full clears today. Me and 2 other friends would enter game, scout out the map, make sure we can find the choke. Then we make sure there aren't crazy psycho bears or flowers nearby to rape us. We go grab some unicorns, get them stuck, then we head off to festering woods or leoric manor or something to stack up to 5. We down the champ, and all of us switch the 200+% mf gear right before boss dies. They would get at least 2 rares each time. I only ever get blues, which is retarded, cause I have the most mf... But it shouldn't matter cause mf is averaged anyway. Just bad luck on my part I guess. Then we go on to clear the rest of the map completely with the same process. At the very end, we equip all our mf gear and run through popping every cloud and pot one by one. We always just leave the champ bears and flowers alone and just go around them. I found some pretty awesome gear. A 1k blue bow, no ias though. And a handful of nice rares for my barb with lots of vit and resist all. A good amount of the good drops came from clouds, so it's important you don't pop them until everyone has mf on.

I've never farmed this until after this recent patch so don't know how it used to be. I'm pretty satisfied with this though.

[Iless]

after patch i found 3 nice weps, a 1.1k dps bow, a 1k 1hand mace and a 900dps 1hand axe.

Found a few rares but nothing to bring home to mom. I also had found a set piece the day before. My strat is simple, stack MF gear, run in kite open everything restart after 5 deaths

[Faetan]

It only stops the unicorns from running through, the flowers, and teddies cant be stopped.

[BipolarBearr]

after patch i found 3 nice weps, a 1.1k dps bow, a 1k 1hand mace and a 900dps 1hand axe.

Found a few rares but nothing to bring home to mom. I also had found a set piece the day before. My strat is simple, stack MF gear, run in kite open everything restart after 5 deaths

How do you survive a full run through? Especially in MF gear. All of my characters get 1 shot. Except my WD who can take two cause of spirit vessel. He can also make it a bit further with spirit walk too, but cd is too long. Oh and my barb can survive 2-3 hits, but that's in full gear.

[jamesholt]

Solid find. Can guarantee at least 3 pony elite/champ packs per wilmshire run.

But the loot definitely doesn't seem as good as Spire or Garden drops at this point.

[CuT]

Solid find. Can guarantee at least 3 pony elite/champ packs per wilmshire run.

But the loot definitely doesn't seem as good as Spire or Garden drops at this point.

They have def. patched it to make it drop less loot than act IV. I'd say its equivalent to act III loot now with the occasional IV quality loot.

[Soj]

How do you survive a full run through? Especially in MF gear. All of my characters get 1 shot. Except my WD who can take two cause of spirit vessel. He can also make it a bit further with spirit walk too, but cd is too long. Oh and my barb can survive 2-3 hits, but that's in full gear.

You survive without getting hit once Kiting FTW

Take a companion (refered to earlier in the thread) to avoid the health resetting should you die.

[kingdomofsteel]

I would like to add that this is not ranged only btw. With barbarian I can kill the stuck ponies, holding shift and attacking. I can only hit the first one but when it dies, another takes it's place and so on. Could be quite annoying if the mobs are say mortar, but that is risk for everyone. Get something cool like shielding/horde/avenger/molten/chains/nightmarish/waller, basically anything that will let you hit the closes ponny from time to time if not all the time and u can do it with a melee. Barb can with shift, probably a monk can as well. Is it worth it ? Casters are whining about loot being nerfed but casters are able to farm better places anyway so a melee might just like this.