How to get Mutator and Corrupt Shards

[nastyCat]

i wanna get new mutator kill switch but i cant found that where is it???
and How can I get Corrupt Shards?
Please help me !!!!

[DoremianCleff]

When elite enemy spawns, there is a chance that it will spawn an Abberant. They glow red and have different affixes. When killed they will drop one of the mutators and corrupted shard. Higher difficulties has higher chance of spawning them.

You can try farming then by aggroing enemies and waiting untill one of them spawns, but it's unreliable, so i suggest just playing normally and you'll meet them eventually.

[Empukris]

You can farm aberrations on certain location that they guaranteed to spawn but other than that you will need ro kill a certain amount of enemy for elite to spawn and then that elite have small chance to be abberation.

[polymorphor]

Originally posted by Empukris:

You can farm aberrations on certain location that they guaranteed to spawn but other than that you will need ro kill a certain amount of enemy for elite to spawn and then that elite have small chance to be abberation.

Any particular locations? I have been camping the Shattered Gallery for the last 2 hours and have spawned like 20 elites and nada. I am playing on survivor, so the chances are like 10%? but still... I am about to give up and just wait until next October for events again because the spawn rate is none existence.

[DoremianCleff]

I farmed my abberants on Cotton's Kiln map. There is one tile with a bonfire that spawns at the end that has several spots you can stand and enemies will just run into a wall. But it's still unreliable, since sometimes you get abberants in 10 minutes and other times you get a dozen elites and nothing else.

But it's still a good map, because it's spawns a lot of elites in general, which provide a lot of scrap and lumenite shards. My still advice stands - it's better to just play the game. Farming takes a long time and it's not very fun.

[Empukris]

Originally posted by polymorphor:

Originally posted by Empukris:

You can farm aberrations on certain location that they guaranteed to spawn but other than that you will need ro kill a certain amount of enemy for elite to spawn and then that elite have small chance to be abberation.

Any particular locations? I have been camping the Shattered Gallery for the last 2 hours and have spawned like 20 elites and nada. I am playing on survivor, so the chances are like 10%? but still... I am about to give up and just wait until next October for events again because the spawn rate is none existence.

I tried gilded chamber when farming that crimson token for red king armor, around 20 loops i saw probably 3 abberation drop 2 shards, but around that much i only saw that cursed crimson token never only drop twice. Greed sensor is real in this game. I never get what I want but when I never farm those specific items somehow it always dropped.

Guaranteed location is like those rooted earth memory thing where you get invader archetype. Or that chainsaw guy from nightweaver storyline. Those drop shard too.

[polymorphor]

Originally posted by Empukris:

Originally posted by polymorphor:

Any particular locations? I have been camping the Shattered Gallery for the last 2 hours and have spawned like 20 elites and nada. I am playing on survivor, so the chances are like 10%? but still... I am about to give up and just wait until next October for events again because the spawn rate is none existence.

I tried gilded chamber when farming that crimson token for red king armor, around 20 loops i saw probably 3 abberation drop 2 shards, but around that much i only saw that cursed crimson token never only drop twice. Greed sensor is real in this game. I never get what I want but when I never farm those specific items somehow it always dropped.

Guaranteed location is like those rooted earth memory thing where you get invader archetype. Or that chainsaw guy from nightweaver storyline. Those drop shard too.

Thank you!!!

[polymorphor]

Originally posted by DoremianCleff:

I farmed my abberants on Cotton's Kiln map. There is one tile with a bonfire that spawns at the end that has several spots you can stand and enemies will just run into a wall. But it's still unreliable, since sometimes you get abberants in 10 minutes and other times you get a dozen elites and nothing else.

But it's still a good map, because it's spawns a lot of elites in general, which provide a lot of scrap and lumenite shards. My still advice stands - it's better to just play the game. Farming takes a long time and it's not very fun.

Thank you, I'll give that a shot.

[Random Zero Gravity]

I find the perfect map for this to spawn is to grind at N'Rud map, my fav is seeker rest. Since there so many mobs can be spawn just running around the whole map, only the first map section. Then respawn them again with the red stone and continue.

This is for a random abberation for the random mutators, not a fix abberation.

[Mithril]

My personal strat is first to find one naturally spawn. Kill it, get the shard, and then die (liquid death). From there you can go back to that location from the checkpoint and stick around there keeping 1 enemy alive (and aggro'd). Typically the first ambush elite will be an aberration. Kill it and repeat until you have 10 shards or whatever mutator you want. Importantly, traveling to different areas via the crystal or saving and quitting seems to break it so you will need to find another each time. Its slow but it works more consistently than anything else I have seen thus far. It seems to work on any difficulty adventure or campaign. I personally have been using a regen tank to just absorb damage while I wait but that only works on the lower difficulties.

[RENEG4DE 4NGEL]

Is it assumed that y'all are all playing on Apocalypse? Because after 100 hours in game mostly on Survivor I only have 8 shards and have not encountered Kill Switch. Obviously with 8 shards SOME Aberrations are spawning, but 95% of the time they only drop lumecite, not shards. I even farmed the two Aberrations at Derelict Lighthouse for several dozen runs. Am I missing something?

[Butcher]

Originally posted by RENEG4DE 4NGEL:

Is it assumed that y'all are all playing on Apocalypse? Because after 100 hours in game mostly on Survivor I only have 8 shards and have not encountered Kill Switch. Obviously with 8 shards SOME Aberrations are spawning, but 95% of the time they only drop lumecite, not shards. I even farmed the two Aberrations at Derelict Lighthouse for several dozen runs. Am I missing something?

You are missing not playing nightmare difficulty. I started on nightmare and never played anything lower. Despite having 2 times less hours than you (50), I already have 30+ red shards.

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by RENEG4DE 4NGEL:

Is it assumed that y'all are all playing on Apocalypse? Because after 100 hours in game mostly on Survivor I only have 8 shards and have not encountered Kill Switch. Obviously with 8 shards SOME Aberrations are spawning, but 95% of the time they only drop lumecite, not shards. I even farmed the two Aberrations at Derelict Lighthouse for several dozen runs. Am I missing something?

difficulty makes it a lot more likely as it seems. i only play hardcore apocalypse (the hardcore doesnt really matter here, but it means that i restart sometimes and so need to get shards again) and i can usually corrupt a gun after 15-20 hours playtime on a new character

to also add, im pretty sure only the randomly spawning ones drop them. not the fixed ones (that you could find in the same place again if youd reroll the area)