Primal Shadow Heaven

[ebmims]

This is somewhat similar to the recent bug with fire elementals in Skald that came through with the last patch. Basically, the nodes that spawn the collapsing voidwalkers in Hellfire Penninsula have a really buggy respawn rate right now. Talking about the spawn points between roughly 75 65 down to 79 78

We're still trying to work out the kinks but it seems that the faster they are killed and the more people are on the different nodes, the faster they spawn at each node. At our peak before we breaked to repair we were having 5 spawn roughly every 10-15 seconds. Also, the drop rate for motes of shadow are either bugged or extremely high these mobs, as we (2 healers, 5 dps seperated over 3 spawn points) farmed 84 primal shadows, ~15 greens, and 2 boe blues in roughly 45 minutes

The only downside is that while these mobs have ~4k health, when they die they explode doing ~1500 shadow dmg to everyone so a healer is imperative (at lvl 70 you usually resist at least half of them) but it can build up fast.

edit: seems that the nodes are tied to each other, you need to kill mobs at one node to spawn them at the other node, vice versa to get them to respawn back... more people you have killing them faster, the faster the grind goes so the loot is sorta exponential

[Fwaky]

nice +rep

[Kartio]

Fwaky, you can't +rep.

[mrnice]

oh nice find

[pengo]

friend of mine was farming there yesterday & she did say the rate was quite high on mote drops...gonna exploit this a bit when i get home

[Pyro1070]

Very nice find

[susy]

Fwaky, you can't +rep.

Actually Fwaky can rep , like me noob leecher with 1 rep power , watch closer , blind noob

[blade101]

Plus rep, gotta hit this before all the people who don't go on mmowned find this out and it gets farmed pretty heavy like the fires before.

[Eltopee]

Confirmed, there are atleast walking 2 Collapsing Voidwalkers at each portal and they drop motes at a very good rate (30%)

Now , farm farm farm!

+rep

Edit: It seems that the motes drop more often if there are more people farming these, rare thought but I experience a higher drop rate while 5-7 people were farming this.

[Hotdwarf]

Nice one , if I could I would give +Rep

[daley]

40 kills 6 motes :\

[Durin12345]

Yeh i quested there with my mage and i think i got 1 primal for half an hours work its not so good

[fatboy2]

they're not dropping for me either

[ebmims]

Well, this may not be repeatable on all servers but we definitely figured out how it works. Its very similar to the way the fire elementals were spawning, where the second you kill one the other instantly spawns, except with the voids its the same thing multiplied multiple times over, it just requires multiple people. To get max effectiveness you need to be on the 3 different spawn locations along that ridge. We had 2 dps and a healer at each spot and as soon as you killed voids in one spot, they would spawn at the other 2. This multiplied over and we were having 5-6 spawn every 10 seconds or so constantly. We farmed over 200 primals in roughly 3 hours as well as a collective ~1500g from grays and greens.

The big downside is that this requires atleast 9 people, 3 healers and 6 dps to be done effectively, also, mana users can get easily screwed because your fighting 5-6 mobs every 10 seconds non-stop.

The drop rate isnt amazing on these mobs, I believe its listed at roughly 10% and thats taking in account that they can drop 2. The key is that your killing around 50-60 a minute, times 3 of your on all the nodes. So you getting 150-180 kills a minute. We had issues just looting the mobs and were still averaging nearly 100 primals an hour.

edit: and like I said, the downside is that this isn't something you can do solo, or even with a buddy, but actually requires a bit of coordination between a decent chunk of people.

[Sinryc]

Very nice, I will try this out.