Gear farming?

[Sa†o]

Playing a level 34 defender atm, managed to reach act 4 without much of an issue but have now hit an incredible wall.

My gear is pretty much wet cardboard ductaped to me, found 2 blues I could use (both being level 9) and mostly using either terrible greens or even worse yellows just to have something in that gearslot. Dont have a single gearpiece above item level 15.

So I decided to brush up my gear by proceeding to farm every single "miniboss/boss" that is within a 30 sec distance of a portal/city:
Centaur at spartan camp
Cyclopse at Megara
Scorpion King at Fayun
Giant Yeti before the great wall
And the list goes on and on

Takes me about 15 minutes to kill 10 bosses and grab at the very least 20+ chests

Now here is my issue, I aint finding anything in terms of gear even close to my level, let alone them being green/blue. What the hell am I doing wrong?

No I am not whining that purples aren't raining (I know they don't drop in normal) but holy hell I can't even find yellows that are item level 20+? Regardless of what act I farm in...

[Aainiikkusu]

If you farm in Act 1, no matter how long you farm, it will always be Act 1-quality. Same thing for all acts.

Thus, the best gear you "should" find is in Act-4. Farm there, or look out for what merchants sell.

It would be useful to check what your character wears, and know what is the issue. Is he too weak? Is his damage output too low? Are you underleveled?

[Sa†o]

Originally posted by W. N. G.:

If you farm in Act 1, no matter how long you farm, it will always be Act 1-quality. Same thing for all acts.

Thus, the best gear you "should" find is in Act-4. Farm there, or look out for what merchants sell.

It would be useful to check what your character wears, and know what is the issue. Is he too weak? Is his damage output too low? Are you underleveled?

Main issue is resistances atm, damage is fine.

I farm through all acts 1-4 but im not really seeing any change in item quality.

Managed to finally get 2 more blues: Obsidian set level 9 from act 3, low level but heck of alot better than what I was wearing...

Where would you farm if you were me? Act 4 first boss? Is that any good? Doesn't drop anything for me thats why I switched to fast runs instead.

[Pannathrax]

actually the shop randomly carry some good green item, although it is not frequent, it is still good to shop around.

personally i think farming telkine is a good source, the gorgons after the 3 medusa bosses is good too, the stonebinder cuff is a good item

farm the demon blood, and other charm or essence to boost pierce bleeding and vitality resistance is very important.

the frogs just outside the babylon outskirt can drop some good green too. and also the fog area in act 4.

[Sa†o]

Originally posted by Pannathrax:

actually the shop randomly carry some good green item, although it is not frequent, it is still good to shop around.

personally i think farming telkine is a good source, the gorgons after the 3 medusa bosses is good too, the stonebinder cuff is a good item

farm the demon blood, and other charm or essence to boost pierce bleeding and vitality resistance is very important.

Just bought 2 new green rings from the stores thanks to you, had no effing clue stores sold greens. And yes essences are just about the only reason I managed to get to act 4 with this oragami tank of mine xD

[Aainiikkusu]

Compare a Centaur Cuirass from a Suit of act 3. The armor difference is big.

Also, you haven't precised where you were in the act 4. When you have reached Hades, enemies will start to use Vitality attacks, so increasing your Vitality resistance will be a winning move.

To my knowledge there are no spots that give better stuff or have more chances to drop Blues. You will have to sacrifice a bit of damage for more resistances, maybe?

But without pictures of your gear's stats, I cannot point the problem accurately.

[Sa†o]

Originally posted by W. N. G.:

Compare a Centaur Cuirass from a Suit of act 3. The armor difference is big.

Also, you haven't precised where you were in the act 4. When you have reached Hades, enemies will start to use Vitality attacks, so increasing your Vitality resistance will be a winning move.

To my knowledge there are no spots that give better stuff or have more chances to drop Blues. You will have to sacrifice a bit of damage for more resistances, maybe?

But without pictures of your gear's stats, I cannot point the problem accurately.

Don't know how to upload a picture here but most of my resistances are around 0-25%, my highest resist is piercing with 63% and thats because I put some essences into my otherwise subpar gear.

My main issue is the low item level on gear and the low stats on them. Thanks to the tip above I have atleast switched out my level 13 yellow jewelry to level 25 greens since I found them in a store after reloading a few times.

I am past the first town in Act 4, killed a giant crab and moved on to the second portal.

[Aainiikkusu]

You can press F12 to take a screenshot. If you do that for all your gear, you may upload them on a image hosting service online, such as Imgur. After that you can send the links here for us to see.

[MrJohnnyTwoShoes]

I have plenty of extra gear I can give you. Hit me up.

[claudius]

I would recommend farming Ichthians entering temple of Marduk (beginning act 3) if you need a club for your defender. Ichthian Whomper is what you would be looking for.

And then if you got to act 4 farm things in act 4 that you can kill. Frogs on the beach? or whatever is the furthest progress to farm. They have some monster infrequent armor with pierce resist.

You could also farm Mount Olympus or Wusao/Telkine

[Terotrous]

The best way to farm in this game is to farm the "true" bosses, which are the ones that drop a mystical orb upon defeat. Generally, there's a rebirth fountain somewhat close to them, which you can use to kill them, exit to menu, reload, and do it again.

At your level, the best possible target would be Typhon, the Act 3 boss, assuming you can kill him fairly easily. If not, you could also try the third Telkine (who is way easier than Typhon, but is more annoying to get to) or Charon, if you can get that far into Act 4.

[Sa†o]

Originally posted by FuriousGeorge:

I have plenty of extra gear I can give you. Hit me up.

Thanks alot mate, you really made my day =)
Really got something to look forward to once I grind the last level away =P
(got full santa outfit)

Originally posted by claudius:

I would recommend farming Ichthians entering temple of Marduk (beginning act 3) if you need a club for your defender. Ichthian Whomper is what you would be looking for.

And then if you got to act 4 farm things in act 4 that you can kill. Frogs on the beach? or whatever is the furthest progress to farm. They have some monster infrequent armor with pierce resist.

You could also farm Mount Olympus or Wusao/Telkine

Thanks for the tip, actually found that one and used it still while crawling to 35 ^^

Originally posted by Terotrous:

The best way to farm in this game is to farm the "true" bosses, which are the ones that drop a mystical orb upon defeat. Generally, there's a rebirth fountain somewhat close to them, which you can use to kill them, exit to menu, reload, and do it again.

At your level, the best possible target would be Typhon, the Act 3 boss, assuming you can kill him fairly easily. If not, you could also try the third Telkine (who is way easier than Typhon, but is more annoying to get to) or Charon, if you can get that far into Act 4.

This was the answer I was looking for tbh.

So in other words, bosshunting the 4 big bosses is the true way to "farm"
All the other bosses/minibosses are a waste of time I take it then :(

[claudius]

Yes the orbs from Telkines or Typhon or Hades are the 'true way' I suppose. I never had a good drop from Charon even though he has orb but I don't know if that's just bad luck or RNG.

However the bosses without orbs but who wield items can also be good if they spawn with a legendary item that you are looking for. For example if you later want a legendary club that drops in Greece you could farm Polyphemus because he wields clubs. If you farm a sword or ring then the boss by the olive branch quest might drop those item. In short the orbs are great for all types of treasure but if you are looking for some item in particular sometimes a little boss wields that. Like the boss in Athens catacombs might have caster gear on.

And like second paragraph sometimes just farming huge amounts of trash mobs that carry weapons/armor you are looking for can get you the epics/legendary they are carrying. For example there are some huge battlefields in act 1 with lots of skeletons and other humanoids that could be carrying things a build is looking for.

And finally leveling up some monster infrequent can give resists or something. And then there might be some best in slot monster infrequent like stone binder cuffs or weapons from monster infrequents that are good even at higher levels.

[TheGreyDeath]

Originally posted by FuriousGeorge:

I have plenty of extra gear I can give you. Hit me up.

Got any spare Captains Signets? I had a few and some very nice gear before Steam Cloud Sinc borked me by bring in much earlier saves with lower lvls and worse gear,I even lost a Prosopon helmet due to that

[slayor3000]

Why Blues and Purples? Some great Green M.I's in Act 4

Act 4, you have Ismenes gear, farm the Lamians straight aftrer Medeas Grove. You have Batrachos cuirass, farm the Anourans.Below is how they come without any extra affixes or being socketed.

Ismene's Cuirass
80 Armor
40% Pierce Resistance
+20% Pierce Damage

Ismene's Helm
80 Armor
40% Poison Resistance
+20% Poison Damage

Ismene's Bracers
80 Armor
40% Bleeding Resistance
+20% Bleeding Damage

Batrachos Breastplate
95 Armor
50% Pierce Resistance
3% Chance to Avoid Projectiles

Whomper club is ok, later in Act 4 you have Folg, a lot of times I end up with a merchant bought one since they have some decent ones occasionally.

Best gear before that you can get from Tigermen Elite.In Act 3

Prowler's Cuirass
85 Armor
15% Fire Resistance
20% Elemental Resistance
+16 Dexterity

[ZarahNeander]

Originally posted by slayor3000:

Why Blues and Purples? Some great Green M.I's in Act 4.......

Best gear before that you can get from Tigermen Elite.In Act 3

This! You cant socket blues (nor purples but they dont drop in normal anyways) so you cant plug resistance holes. Really, boss farming in normal is an utter waste of time.