So is there an early game jewel farm?

[@%thesock10150alpha49]

Currently stonewalled at Brutal Quincy because, on top of not having great blood, I do not have any good augments for any of my spells. I can't put enough damage on him before he inevitably lands one hit on me and ends the fight.

I have maxed out everything else but I CANNOT for the life of me find any decent augments.

EDIT: Cleared him, but I'm still curious if anybody has found reliable farming spots for chest spawns, caravans, etc. Especially in Early/Mid

[Glyph]

They're found randomly until you have access to the jewelcrafter

[Suzaku]

There is not, and I'd say no jewel is going to be the deciding factor. You're going to need to improve your dodge skills, maybe make use of ward or counter abilities.

[@%thesock10150alpha49]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

There is not, and I'd say no jewel is going to be the deciding factor. You're going to need to improve your dodge skills, maybe make use of ward or counter abilities.

Yeah, I just beat him. In like, the worst, most unfun way. I had to just keep him at range and poke away at him. Nearly died as well, so I can't even call it skill, it was probably luck. I will never understand people that call this level of Micro fun, it's just irritating.

[@%thesock10150alpha49]

Originally posted by Glyph:

They're found randomly until you have access to the jewelcrafter

There are some spots mid-game where there are a lot of areas to roll chests quickly and get some. That's kind of what I meant.

[Duneman]

In the early game you could rob the carriages that travel roads marked with wheel tracks. Otherwise looting chests in major themed camps might turn up a jewel as well.

As you've already beaten Quincy, keep in mind that bosses in the future might require you to change up your strategy as well. For example, Brutal Vincent the Frostbringer becomes a lot easier if you have Ward of the Damned and good timing on your dodges when he begins to spam his shield charge.

[Gabe Ate My Zombies]

Gem veins all over the area just north of Monastery, where you fight the geomancer. Lower tier gems can be broken down from the regular ones you get from here in the Devourer. Also drop from golems but if you're early game you probably aren't helped much by this. More on the random side but break any pots or crates on top of looting chests in camps and such. You're much more likely to get a gem from one of these than a drop from a mob though it's still a rather low drop rate. Other than that just do a loop around the map breaking any gem veins you see.

[burner19]

Originally posted by @%thesock10150alpha49:

Originally posted by Glyph:

They're found randomly until you have access to the jewelcrafter

There are some spots mid-game where there are a lot of areas to roll chests quickly and get some. That's kind of what I meant.

Yes that big human city in silverlight hills close to silver mine has a house that spawns 2 chests often that have tier 3 and 4 gems. Farmed a crapload of coins , gems and other stuff there only by walking and checking chests and desks and stuff. It is very close to the northern entrance to the city. You need human form thou but its easily aquired because unded boss that has it crosses path with simon belmont. Just aggro him and he breaks masking and simon will kill him in few seconds.

[Moist Butt]

jewel isnt really important. GS matters more.

[burner19]

Originally posted by Moist Butt:

jewel isnt really important. GS matters more.

You are wrong. Skeleton summon spell can get additional skelleton from gem socketing. 2 skelletons, 3 if you killed your target and freecasts made a fukton of skeltons. With freecasts i was sometimes running with 12+ skelletons. They distract bosses so much and let you safely spam ranged attacks and spells. And GS is locked away behind bosses so if you dont kill bos you dont get gs but proper gem in spell can help you A LOT.

[Moist Butt]

Originally posted by burner19:

Originally posted by Moist Butt:

jewel isnt really important. GS matters more.

You are wrong. Skeleton summon spell can get additional skelleton from gem socketing. 2 skelletons, 3 if you killed your target and freecasts made a fukton of skeltons. With freecasts i was sometimes running with 12+ skelletons. They distract bosses so much and let you safely spam ranged attacks and spells.

I use summons myself. I know how they work. All I can say is for bosses I struggled with, switching a jewel socket didnt do any noticable difference. However getting +4 GS or something along those line were very noticable.

Also most bosses in the later portion of games have aoe and can clear your summons instantly. It doesnt matter how many u have because they all get one shot pretty much. Maybe its different on lower difficulty.

[burner19]

Originally posted by Moist Butt:

Originally posted by burner19:

You are wrong. Skeleton summon spell can get additional skelleton from gem socketing. 2 skelletons, 3 if you killed your target and freecasts made a fukton of skeltons. With freecasts i was sometimes running with 12+ skelletons. They distract bosses so much and let you safely spam ranged attacks and spells.

I use summons myself. I know how they work. All I can say is for bosses I struggled with, switching a jewel socket didnt do any noticable difference. However getting +4 GS or something along those line were very noticable.

Also most bosses in the later portion of games have aoe and can clear your summons instantly. It doesnt matter how many u have because they all get one shot pretty much. Maybe its different on lower difficulty.

Play on brutal and i strugled with some bosses till i start socketing and using proper builds to kill bosses that lock your progress. That gs is bs because the point of rising your gs is to kil a boss if you strugle with a boss and you are max gs and cant rise it till you kill that boss. Farming proper jewel complementing your build can help immensely. You talk like rising gs is a matterr of go farm levels. No if you dont kill boss you dont get new stuff and dont rise your gs. Also if you build properly you can spam skeletons a lot and without gem that lets you summon up to 3 skellies, well gl. Also you know that you can spam skelletons and put shield on them and boss will NOT aoe 1 shot them. You need to know what you build and how to use it.

[Moist Butt]

Originally posted by burner19:

Originally posted by Moist Butt:

I use summons myself. I know how they work. All I can say is for bosses I struggled with, switching a jewel socket didnt do any noticable difference. However getting +4 GS or something along those line were very noticable.

Also most bosses in the later portion of games have aoe and can clear your summons instantly. It doesnt matter how many u have because they all get one shot pretty much. Maybe its different on lower difficulty.

Play on brutal and i strugled with some bosses till i start socketing and using proper builds to kill bosses that lock your progress. That gs is bs because the point of rising your gs is to kil a boss if you strugle with a boss and you are max gs and cant rise it till you kill that boss farming proper jewel complementing your build can help immensely. You talk like rising gs is a matterr of go farm levels. No if you dont kill boss you dont get new stuff and dont rise your gs. Also if you build properly you can spam skeletons a lot and without gem that lets you summon up to 3 skellies, well gl.

I play on brutal too.

I missed the part where OP was already maxed gear so ignore that part. I have fought bosses without max gear. My point still stands i.e. GS matters more assuming OP havent maxed the current tier. Again, he said he did so mb.

Edit: I like how u keep editing your comment and sliding additional comment implying that I dont know how to play the game. Just so you are clear, you arent giving me any new info I dont know. You act like jewels that summon additional skeleton is some 200 IQ moment or something. What are u going to say next? That higher tier blood gives more bonuses? Stop it, its just silly at this point. We both play on the same difficulty so you can drop your ego.

[Suzaku]

The both of you can be right. Gear score helps. Jewels help.

Or just simple skilled play will do.

[@%thesock10150alpha49]

Now I'm stuck fighting Leandra at a -3 because whoever made the progression list spilled cocaine all over his desk and was very mad about it.

I personally don't think it's right to have to puzzle solve the bosses. Not like, "oh, this isn't the way I like to play" kind of wrong. A morally, objectively, complete in it's own totality kind of wrong. And I hope whoever decided to ruin my game about being a cool vampire with it never finds shoes that fit quite right ever again.

[burner19]

Originally posted by @%thesock10150alpha49:

Now I'm stuck fighting Leandra at a -3 because whoever made the progression list spilled cocaine all over his desk and was very mad about it.

I personally don't think it's right to have to puzzle solve the bosses. Not like, "oh, this isn't the way I like to play" kind of wrong. A morally, objectively, complete in it's own totality kind of wrong. And I hope whoever decided to ruin my game about being a cool vampire with it never finds shoes that fit quite right ever again.

Leandra isnt hard you need to just switch weapons. When she makes everything go dark and spam summons you need to go to low left or right corner and stand there so the summons only go to you from the front. Its good to spam ranged spell and have constantly equiped sword because it has fast swings. Her shadows are ALWAYS 1shot so you need to only land 1 hit. You just stand in the corner and spam sword swings with the going dark phase.