[Rogue] Chestfarming in Acratraz

[BloodhoofMage]

Good to hear that you get some nice loot guys!

I neve made this much gold in such a short time Im farming this like hell last days before Blix fixes it.

[Cream]

Are you able to do this with a druid?

[elekt]

Yes, A druid could easily do this as well, if you do the method where you drop off the top of the ramp. There is no sprint, vanish, or distract necessary. The mob bugs out that way and you are OOC that way you can re-enter stealth.

I've done ~20 runs where the chest was there so far, found 2x BoE blues (around 120g total), 15+ greens (de'd into around 80g worth in mats), 4 Blue gems, ~10 green gems, and over 120g in gold alone.

This is a great spot for me while I eat diner or before i go to bed to make some fast cash, but overall its not as good gold/hour as scryers farming on a high pop server.

[theleeches]

still working as of tuesday maintenance

[da_bizkit]

by the way... are there better drop from heroic mode chests (coz gold is the same ~7G) and is there any way to reset heroic instances ? =) does the normal reset instance works ?

[hottomale]

What lvl is this for? I'm currently sitting at 68... Do I need to wait until 70 or can I shoot for it now? Thanks in advance...

[Sebbe123]

What lvl is this for? I'm currently sitting at 68... Do I need to wait until 70 or can I shoot for it now? Thanks in advance...

You need a flying mount to get to Arcatraz, or flight form.

[hottomale]

What about a summon? Would that work? I need to know what LvL mobs these are, and if I'm lvl 69 and sub spec if I will be able to pull it off.... Is the chest locked? If so what lvl lock picking do you need to open it? Also where is the grave yard, incase I die... I don't want to need to have another summon for that.. I could really use this for my mount money, but if it's not going to work at 69 then I'm out of luck and pray bliz doesn't fix it anytime soon.... Please let me know... Thanks in Advance!

[Andy123]

Chest is never locked & at level 60 with 0 talents in Sub tree I can make it, just have to be careful, and can even do it without cooldowns.

You can't be summoned anywhere in Netherstorm except meeting stone(s) AFAIK.

When you die and release it auto-resses you (without res sickness) in the GY with full hp/mana.

[hottomale]

So in other words... It's not going to happen until I get a mount eh?

[Caffeinewreck]

Does the chestloot improve in heroic mode?

[Andy123]

What I hear, the loot in chests is better in Heroic mode but I haven't got the key for it to try.

[theleeches]

Yes it is much better in heroic mode. 80% of the time i get at least a blue gem. The only harder thing about heroic is the mage eye hits hard, might need to pop CoS and a bandaid, maybe a pot too.

[tylrdiablos]

Any brave Hunter's want to run through and tempt fate with a "Feign Death"?

Go on, it'll be fun.
(Shame about the 5 minute cool down though.)

[elekt]

From my experience, heroic is not any better than the normal mode although I have only had the chance to try 6 successful heroic chest runs. When I enter heroic Arcatraz, it shows me the timer on the instance (meaning you cannot reset it and do mass runs). Overall I do 1-2 heroic runs a day to try and nab the loot from a potentially better chest. To start my farming runs i do 4 non heroic runs, then change the difficulty to heroic which resets the instance anyway, do my heroic run then log out until I am able to enter the instance again.

Another thing that has helped me greatly in my runs is to run with all my gear that has any durability unequipted (leaving only rings, neck, trinkets), then running to the ramp near the chest and dying on purpose if it is not there. If it is there I grab the chest and then die on purpose. The point of dying on purpose is that it brings me outside of the instance and overall saves me ~5 min on out of a full 5 chest runs.

Being a prep rogue i also pop my sprint off the begining, then use prep, and sprint again right off the bat. That way i can get past the first 2 rooms without slowing down or ducking behind obstacles to avoid mobs. Having done this strat for about 1.5 weeks now daily about 25 runs a day i've found it to be ~80g/10min (that is figured without an blues or gems dropping) which is amazing, although not great overall for 1 full hour of farming.