Any good Living Jar Shard farms in the Shadow Realm?

[Enderspoons]

Tryna beat the DLC final boss with an absolute unit of a facetank build, but I seem to have grossly underestimated how many attempts I'd end up needing to win and am short on Living Jar Shards for the Iron Flesh perfume.

I do know of the farms in Volcano Manor and Caria Manor, but has anyone found a better one in the DLC?

[Phantom Limb]

I think all gaols in dlc have living jars. There is also a room full of them on the lower floor of Shadow keep if you take the evevator down to the left of Specimen storehouse first grace.

[Fineous🔥]

Im sorry but you cant "farm" them. The fragments come from the first time you defeat a big "full" jar, after the first kill they drop nothing.

Also the NANO MACHINES SON perfume will not save you from Radhan continual onslaught of heavy melee strikes of P1 and huge holy damage from P2 so invest time and resources farming the uplifting aromatic perfume (99% damage reduction bubble for you and your summons NPC) this negates a lot of single hits with huge damage like Radhan holy meteor and can actually be farmed. The only painful mat to obtain is the arteria leaf.....but you can get it by killing ice trolls near the Fire giant.

Good luck whatever you decide to do.

Check this old video ( nothing changed after i recorded it)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2884018475

If a Godskin Apostle can kill you will full mitigation (had to spam heal me) imagine Radhan.....

[Enderspoons]

Originally posted by Fineous🔥:

Im sorry but you cant "farm" them. The fragments come from the first time you defeat a big "full" jar, after the first kill they drop nothing.

So far, I have actually been able to get Living Jar Shard drops from both big and small jars!

The drop rates for both are rather decent (wiki tells me it's 20% for big jars and 5% for small jars) but their placement makes them quite the headache to farm —I can't seem to find any good (respawning) clusters that are close enough to a Grace that I can get multiple runs worth out of my discovery consumables.

Originally posted by Fineous🔥:

Also the NANO MACHINES SON perfume will not save you from Radhan continual onslaught of heavy melee strikes of P1 and huge holy damage from P2 so invest time and resources farming the uplifting aromatic perfume (99% damage reduction bubble for you and your summons NPC) this negates a lot of single hits with huge damage like Radhan holy meteor and can actually be farmed. The only painful mat to obtain is the arteria leaf.....but you can get it by killing ice trolls near the Fire giant.

I've been going absolutely all out for Radahn, pulling out absolutely every stop — Full Verdigris set + the Verdigris Talisman and Dragoncrest Greatshield talisman, +25 Fingerprint, Opaline Hardtear, Boiled Crab, the perfume, and a maxed out scadutree fragment level. All told, I can pull a physical damage negation of over 90%, which even Radahn's brutal onslaught barely scratches (though his magic attacks do hurt quite a lot all the same).

I haven't really bothered using the bubbletear or its perfume equivalent, because Radahn's attacks come so rapidly that it would basically just pop within less than 2 seconds of me putting it on.

[Sham!]

Originally posted by Fineous🔥:

Im sorry but you cant "farm" them.

think they got a 100% drop on first kill and 20ish% after that

new gaols are your best bet but i dont think they drop out of the new "jar" ladies

[Fineous🔥]

Originally posted by Enderspoons:

Originally posted by Fineous🔥:

Im sorry but you cant "farm" them. The fragments come from the first time you defeat a big "full" jar, after the first kill they drop nothing.

So far, I have actually been able to get Living Jar Shard drops from both big and small jars!

The drop rates for both are rather decent (wiki tells me it's 20% for big jars and 5% for small jars) but their placement makes them quite the headache to farm —I can't seem to find any good (respawning) clusters that are close enough to a Grace that I can get multiple runs worth out of my discovery consumables.

Originally posted by Fineous🔥:

Also the NANO MACHINES SON perfume will not save you from Radhan continual onslaught of heavy melee strikes of P1 and huge holy damage from P2 so invest time and resources farming the uplifting aromatic perfume (99% damage reduction bubble for you and your summons NPC) this negates a lot of single hits with huge damage like Radhan holy meteor and can actually be farmed. The only painful mat to obtain is the arteria leaf.....but you can get it by killing ice trolls near the Fire giant.

I've been going absolutely all out for Radahn, pulling out absolutely every stop — Full Verdigris set + the Verdigris Talisman, +25 Fingerprint, Opaline Hardtear, Boiled Crab, the perfume, and a maxed out scadutree fragment level. All told, I can pull a physical damage negation of over 90%, which even Radahn's brutal onslaught barely scratches (though his magic attacks do hurt quite a lot all the same).

I haven't really bothered using the bubbletear or its perfume equivalent, because Radahn's attacks come so rapidly that it would basically just pop within less than 2 seconds of me putting it on.

The bubble perfume is GOLD for the phase 2 meteor also in phase 2 he pretty much become a Dragon Ball character spamming nonensical amount of fast holy imbued attacks will cause you residual damage even blocking them (standard finger print has 80 holy resistance wich his fine) and eventually there is nothing you can do, he always will break your guard. With this said hidding behind your shield will work wonders only in P1 because he mainly attacks with non elemental damage and you can negate 100% of it as long your stamina allows it.

Dont commit the same mistake i did the second or third Shadow of the Erdtree day during my 4 hours of wipes on him....you cant go fully defensive there and of course he needs to take damage constantly so keep up rot all the fight (he will continue taking damage while flying and even if he "Hugs" you or your mimic/Ansbach/Thioller).

[Fineous🔥]

Originally posted by Sham!:

Originally posted by Fineous🔥:

Im sorry but you cant "farm" them.

think they got a 100% drop on first kill and 20ish% after that

new gaols are your best bet but i dont think they drop out of the new "jar" ladies

Hmm to early to confirm this but if they really have a good chance now remember the chamber full of jars outside the grace before Godrick in Stormveil castle. There are two big low level jars you can play oneshot and the grace to rinse and repeat is pretty close.

[Sham!]

Originally posted by Fineous🔥:

Originally posted by Sham!:

think they got a 100% drop on first kill and 20ish% after that

new gaols are your best bet but i dont think they drop out of the new "jar" ladies

Hmm to early to confirm this but if they really have a good chance now remember the chamber full of jars outside the grace before Godrick in Stormveil castle. There are two big low level jars you can play oneshot and the grace to rinse and repeat is pretty close.

yeah that would be the best spot imo, but op asked for a farm in the dlc areas

[Enderspoons]

Originally posted by Fineous🔥:

Hmm to early to confirm this but if they really have a good chance now remember the chamber full of jars outside the grace before Godrick in Stormveil castle. There are two big low level jars you can play oneshot and the grace to rinse and repeat is pretty close.

After giving this a go, I found I could only really manage 3 or so runs of the group here, which consists of 1 big jar and 7 little jars.

I think 3 runs at Stormveil is technically better than 1 run at Caria Manor, where you can get 3 big jars and 13-ish little jars (can't farm twice since you have to drop down cliffs, and it would take ages climbing all the way back up), but either way they definitely beat anything I've found in the Shadow Realm's gaols, which tend to be quite late into the dungeon and only have 2 big jars and a dozen or so little jars.

[Fineous🔥]

Oh sorry to answer late.

Yeah Stormveil is the best place to farm jars and also have low level so you can likely roflstomp all of the by just sneezing.

Anyways temper your expectations about the "NaNo MaChInEs SoN" perfume. I know it sounds awesome and used to be a way to freak out people in PVP ( i wish i could watch the face of dudes using meta bleed builds against me while throwing frenzy lazers non stop) but it is balanced to not let you trivialize PVE content. I even tested it against max NG soldier of God Rick and at certain point i nearly died.......

[Enderspoons]

Originally posted by Fineous🔥:

Oh sorry to answer late.

Yeah Stormveil is the best place to farm jars and also have low level so you can likely roflstomp all of the by just sneezing.

Anyways temper your expectations about the "NaNo MaChInEs SoN" perfume. I know it sounds awesome and used to be a way to freak out people in PVP ( i wish i could watch the face of dudes using meta bleed builds against me while throwing frenzy lazers non stop) but it is balanced to not let you trivialize PVE content. I even tested it against max NG soldier of God Rick and at certain point i nearly died.......

No worries!
The Ironjar Aromatic was precisely what my brainless ultratank needed to be able to poise through Radahn's silliness and spam Maliketh's Black Blade over and over, and now Radahn lies dead. All the Scadutree blessings (and other stuff) especially greatly enabled this strat by giving me such absurd defense that I could just stand there and take hits that by all rights should have been thoroughly 2-shotting me.

Also yeah, "PVE balance" and "Elden Ring" are two phrases that basically have no business whatsoever being in the same thought, heh — it is so, so comically easy to accidentally make a build that completely washes away any semblance of challenge in the base game! At least the DLC ramps things back up to the normal state of affairs where you have to actively try in order to break the game in half :)