fastest way to farm a bee shield

[[8i6_b0s5]]

for everyone who really wants the bee shield! don't let anyone tell you otherwise: this is the fastest and most effective way to farm the bee shield! and not a forest run and not even farming the first 2 treeants who drop it!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3P34-p-8Y

[Zen_Disaster]

Your opinion is always appreciated but not when you state it as a fact it's just obnoxious. The Bee can be farmed just as quickly and efficiently from the Treants as from Hellquist.

[Starbug]

No, it's not. Unless you can kill Hunter save, then quit three times in the minute or so it takes to kill three treants. It's three who can drop it too, not two.

Don't take my word for it. I've only farmed extensively.

[trukr]

I have always found the tree ants to be faster, several tries per run vs one try per run.

[[8i6_b0s5]]

well. i posted my 8h testresults in another thread half a year ago. with 3 different 3 chars i farmed hellquest 100 times and the first 2 treeants who drop the bee 100 times! ( the first does NOT drop the bee shield!!!) the results were clear!: hellquest is always faster than the treeants!! and thats a fact!!!

[trukr]

Fact huh? Do you know what the drop rate is for both?

[[8i6_b0s5]]

Yes! 10% both hunter hellquest and a treeant. So what?

[Starbug]

If you'd have killed the other treant too, you'd have more bees to show for your eight hours.

Fact!

[trukr]

Originally posted by 8i6_b0s5:

Yes! 10% both hunter hellquest and a treeant. So what?

On one hand, you have one cartridge for your gun that has a 10% chance to hit the target, on the other you have 2 - 7 rounds that each have a 10% chance to hit the target, what would your load-out be, one round?

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by 8i6_b0s5:

well. i posted my 8h testresults in another thread half a year ago. with 3 different 3 chars i farmed hellquest 100 times and the first 2 treeants who drop the bee 100 times! ( the first does NOT drop the bee shield!!!) the results were clear!: hellquest is always faster than the treeants!! and thats a fact!!!

LMFAO it takes all kinds.

IC you're sharing more of your opinions.

There are no facts here folks so if those are what you're looking for you can move on. The OP needs to do a lot more homework on the game's construction because he's making silly and confused comments about important things like the mechanics of the Unreal Engine #3, statistical sampling sizes and weapons drop rates.

[[8i6_b0s5]]

i kew it would come to this, so here are the results of my testruns again!:

Originally posted by 8i6_b0s5:

So i did some testing for myself!
100 hellquest kills and 100 treeants kills. op8 with Maya, Leg. cat mod/Bee/sandhawk:
100 times hellquest: 1h 10 min, 8 bees, 6 of them op8
100 treeants ( only the first two who drop the bee): 1h 29 min, 9 bees, 7 of them op8

since maya has a huge advantage against hellquest, but not against the treeants, i will do the same test with other chars!

Originally posted by 8i6_b0s5:

Update:
This time with krieg, leg. torch, FotF, grogg, harold

100 times hellquest: 1h 21min, 8 bees, 5 of them op8
100 treeants: 1h 30 min, 7 bees, 4 of them op8, 1 of them elemental res

Originally posted by 8i6_b0s5:

last class for now:
Zero, leg. sniper, Antagonist, slag/fire pimp, shock/fire lyuda

100 times Hellquest: 1h 17min, 10 bees, 4 of them op8
100 times treeants: 1h 36min, 11 bees, 5 of them op8, 1 of them elemental res

result of this little 8h experiment:
if you want to farm for a better bee and you have the main story completed, go for hellquest, since its the faster and more effective farm.
if you just started uvhm and want a new bee every vew lv, go to the forest and farm treeants every 4-5 lv. nice sideeffect: you get lots of eridium and other good stuff (sometimes at least ;-))
also if you play coop, go with the treeants, since quitting and rejoining every 3/4 min is just pointless!

i hope i could clarify this topic once and for all!

have a nice play!

[Gonzo_o0]

Seriously? That's your sample? And results? That's quite the sensationalist claim for a difference of what? 3 Shields and +/- 1hr?

How conclusive do you think this data is exactly? You understand that your results are RNG-based, right? That you could have had 0 Bee Shields during all those tests? That it's luck?

I've had 2 Bee Shields drop by 2 treants in a row on my first attempt the other days. From this data, i can claim that:

Hunter Helquist: killed it during mission, 0 Be shield, 1 min, 0%
2 Treants : 2 Beeshields, 5 min, 200%

So Treants are more efficient, and that's a FACT.

[[8i6_b0s5]]

Originally posted by Starbug:

If you'd have killed the other treant too, you'd have more bees to show for your eight hours.

Fact!

a full run through the forest to kill all 7 treeants who drop the bee, you need around 5 minutes, witch would be around 43 sec per treeant! still slower than killing hellquest!

[[8i6_b0s5]]

Originally posted by Deriveur:

Seriously? That's your sample? And results? That's quite the sensationalist claim for a difference of what? 3 Shields and +/- 1hr?

How conclusive do you think this data is exactly? You understand that your results are RNG-based, right? That you could have had 0 Bee Shields during all those tests? That it's luck?

I've had 2 Bee Shields drop by 2 treants in a row on my first attempt the other days. From this data, i can claim that:

Hunter Helquist: killed it during mission, 0 Be shield, 1 min, 0%
2 Treants : 2 Beeshields, 5 min, 200%

So Treants are more efficient, and that's a FACT.

LOL, you compare my 300 kills hellquest/treeants with your 1 hellquest, 2 Treeants!!??
I hope you understand how RNG works, couse i do!!

Thats why i did 100 kills per run and not 1, couse so you can get a clear result of droprates!

[Gonzo_o0]

Whoosh!

[dontu_worry]

The larger the sample, the more accurate the results.