Astral Orbs are just wasting my time now...

[Dan_The_Noob]

all i need for upgrading is Astral orbs. which don't even drop from the watcher mages for some reason?

and dark slimes are tedious to spawn and dont guaranteed drop them either...

i'm like 20 expeditions into needing 1 astral orb and only have 4 fragments...

[Gravimite]

The Watchers run away after they're done buffing their allies, so you're probably not killing them before they flee. There's also a chance they don't drop a fragment either. Combine them with Spiders and hope RNG is on your side to kill them first.

A way to farm them is to set up a Bookery on a triple cross path so you walk by it 3 times in one loop. Once you burn the charges, it becomes an abandoned library that spawns books. Drop a Vampire's Castle to overlap the Bookery spots and any fights there will spawn Vampire mages that also drop fragments.

[Kitsune Dzelda]

What also helps I think is having a Jewelers Magnifying glass, they increase rare drop spawns by 10% additively, good for farming those particular drops.

[Dan_The_Noob]

Originally posted by Gravimite:

A way to farm them is to set up a Bookery on a triple cross path so you walk by it 3 times in one loop. Once you burn the charges, it becomes an abandoned library that spawns books. Drop a Vampire's Castle to overlap the Bookery spots and any fights there will spawn Vampire mages that also drop fragments.

oh, didn't know about vampire mages. i've been doing all the other stuff though... i'll probably try in a few days when the burnout wears off again (already stopped a few days because of this)

[!?!]

Just sythesize them

[zepedachemical]

Same thing here.
Three attempts now, great tile/card set up, half the time Mages and Books run away and when they are defeated they have yet to drop any Astral Orbs. Literally the last thing I need to unlock the alchemy.

[StratAll]

Originally posted by !?!:

Just sythesize them

OP is probably farming the initial set to unlock alchemy.

[Kitsune Dzelda]

I alos believe when you beat the boss you have a resource set that you can pick out of the traits. Thats how I got Astrals in my early runs.

[Trickyjims]

Ruins are a decent way to get the fragments. Passing through ruins give you a random set of one material.

[>//The_FALCON]

Originally posted by trickyjims:

Ruins are a decent way to get the fragments. Passing through ruins give you a random set of one material.

last time i checked they only dropped basic resources. tested it in chapter 3

[taggedjc]

Originally posted by Kitsune Dzelda:

What also helps I think is having a Jewelers Magnifying glass, they increase rare drop spawns by 10% additively, good for farming those particular drops.

Actually, this only affects item drops and gives a high chance of having them be of a higher rarity (grey -> blue -> yellow -> orange) and doesn't involve resources.

[audaxx]

are you playing chapter 2 and onwards? because honestly, one fairly decent run on chapter 3 or 4 gives you more resources than you'll ever need.

[G-Têk]

Same problem here. Progress has completely stalled. I can't build the Alchemist because I can't get the Aastra Orbs.

People keep saying 'use the alchemist', but it's a dead point, because I can't even build the alchemist.

I defeated at least 100 Aastra/Mage types, like Mage Watcher, Mage Vanpires and Dark Slimes (on chapter 3), but I only have 9 shards.

[Yggdrasil Burnes]

Do you guys not know that you can get rare orbs from Resource Packs? Just grind the Lich a couple expeditions, you'll get a good handful or so of completed Astral Orbs if your lucky.

[Killial]

I think the 2 easiest ways to get them:
- Farm bosses and pick them up from rewards where they can randomly appear.
- Synthesize it farming other resources.

Otherwise, I think it's better to farm them from books than from watch mages.

[G-Têk]

Originally posted by Killial:

Otherwise, I think it's better to farm them from books than from watch mages.

Just tried using books only (not watch mages and only 1 vampire).
I had about 20 tiles covered by the books.
This works better but is still very slow.

After 10 loops, I collected 9 shards.
This is a record high for me.