Carja Trader Adept and Rockbreaker Heart Problem

[tigerpoetry]

Two problems, really.

1. I want the outfit
2. I'm struggling to get Rockbreaker hearts to buy it.

I killed the quest Rockbreaker that I know of. (the quarry quest). I admit I just killed it ASAP and hit it in the sac without mercy (sounds painful and apparently is). I'd read elsewhere that detonating bits of machines lowers the chance of looting a heart. My mistake, perhaps.

I killed both Rockbreakers at the one known site. With one, I didn't mean to blow up its sac, but did so accidentally (it needed hospital treatment, but has since recovered. I've seen it alive and kicking). The other I eventually got with hardpoint arrows and ripping off its claws.

The result?

Final score: Aloy Nora Braves 3, Rockbreaker United 0

Hearts recovered... 0.

I swear blind that there was another place I saw rockbreakers (apart from the quest to escort the little sun king lad or the one in the FW quest). They were easier to take down. For the life of me, I can't remember where.* I can't have got a singleRockbreaker heart in my vanilla play, because I've never used one.

The specialist merchant in Meridian hasn't had one in 6 visits.

It seems a bit mad for the adept version to need 1 or 2 of these for one outfit.*2

Does anyone know how to reliably get these, or do I have to keep painfully grinding (ooh, err)?

* maybe I dreamed it.
*2 Depending on difficulty setting.

[dj8472]

Apart from the mission ones there is only 1 rock breaker site(east of sunfall) that one has 2 rock breakers in it
there is a corrupted zone with 2 of them directly south of pitchcliff across the river

i have never heard about the destroy parts reducing heart drop chance thing and i don't believe it, i destroy all the parts all the time and don't have problems farming hearts

you just have to keep farming those 2 till one drops, something i like to do when farming them is to sit up on a rock where they can't get you from below and hit one with corruption arrows and watch them kill each other

[tigerpoetry]

Originally posted by dj8472:

Apart from the mission ones there is only 1 rock breaker site(east of sunfall) that one has 2 rock breakers in it
there is a corrupted zone with 2 of them directly south of pitchcliff across the river

i have never heard about the destroy parts reducing heart drop chance thing and i don't believe it, i destroy all the parts all the time and don't have problems farming hearts

you just have to keep farming those 2 till one drops, something i like to do when farming them is to sit up on a rock where they can't get you from below and hit one with corruption arrows and watch them kill each other

Thanks for that.

Apart from anything else, you've jogged my memory. The mention of a 'corrupted zone' struck a chord! In my NG+ play, I've been doing side quests, main quests, cauldrons, bandits ('cause I love them), but not really paid much attention to corrupted zones other than the 2 for a main quest.

As for the bit about killing them by blowing up critical areas reducing the chance of a heart, I was unsure about it myself.

I'll head to that area and if it takes the score to be...

Final score: Aloy Nora Braves 10, Rockbreaker United 0...

Hearts recovered: 1*

I suppose, I'll have to take that.

Thanks again for the reply.

* I'm playing 'Hard', not 'Ultra-hard', so I only need one.

[tigerpoetry]

OK.

dj8472, here's the final, final score...

Final, ultimate, definitely the last final score: Aloy Nora Braves 5, Rockbreakers United 0

Hearts recovered: 1.

Outfit equipped: 1.

I'd say that was a good result.

I went to that corrupted zone that you suggested to bring this about. It was definitely what I was thinking about. I recognised it from the stepped sandstone approach. All I can say is...

... thanks, mate!

For ultra-hard, it may be closer to needing a 10:0 scoreline, but that's why ultra-hard is ultra-hard, I suppose.

You sorted my problem, bro/sis, so all credit to you (:

I gave you an award... thought you deserved it. If I met you, I'd have bought you a drink, so I guess that's the Steam equivalent!