The Bee Shield. Whats the best farming way to get the Bee Shield?

[Lecter]

Anybody got tips on fastest way to farm a bee shield?
im currently killing treant's in tiny tina's exp.
In need of a new bee shield, since mine is only 63.

[dontu_worry]

Hexerin has no grasp of how to correctly use the bee. As a matter of fact, many elite players scorn its use as too OP, even at endgame.

Since this ancient thread has found new life, I have recently set about farming a set if elemental bees for my OP8 Zero. Reputed to be extremely rare, they are worth the effort IMO. Fighting Terra with his ludicrous health bar? Fireproof bee. Digistruct surveyors downing you? Grounded bee. Farming Vermi in Caustic? Alkaline bee will help you survive those inevitable wades in the acid. Spread over about a week, maybe 40 - 50 kills of just the first 4 treeants only, and I had my set of 3 elementally resistant bees. I got lucky on the stats, with the longest recharge delay being 6.3 seconds, which I can live with. So if you use the bee a lot, spend the time to farm treeants until you have some of the best shields in the game.

[HiTmAn]

treants are best way tiny tina dlc

[lowl1fe]

Bee is the best shield in the game when knowing how to use it correctly. Especially with an immunity on it.

[Terminal]

Farming Treants is really effective but if you do farm Hunter Hellquist, use a singularity to get himm out at first and kill that one. Then if you ride the elevator up, there will be another.

[DAYNJA]

Originalmente postado por dontu_worry:

Hexerin has no grasp of how to correctly use the bee. As a matter of fact, many elite players scorn its use as too OP, even at endgame.

Since this ancient thread has found new life, I have recently set about farming a set if elemental bees for my OP8 Zero. Reputed to be extremely rare, they are worth the effort IMO. Fighting Terra with his ludicrous health bar? Fireproof bee. Digistruct surveyors downing you? Grounded bee. Farming Vermi in Caustic? Alkaline bee will help you survive those inevitable wades in the acid. Spread over about a week, maybe 40 - 50 kills of just the first 4 treeants only, and I had my set of 3 elementally resistant bees. I got lucky on the stats, with the longest recharge delay being 6.3 seconds, which I can live with. So if you use the bee a lot, spend the time to farm treeants until you have some of the best shields in the game.

There's 5 you can get to quickly. I killed about 200 of them and got about 20 bee shields. Only one of them had elemental resistance. Too much work. I got one with a 5 second delay, which is pretty good with zero.

[WickedRequiem]

The thing about getting Bee from Hellquist.

While he does drop Bee relatively often (yay, OP2 Bee), I've noticed that his Bee doesn't have prefixes (or maybe I'm just unlucky). If that's the case, then hunting Treants may end up being the better choice for the chance to get a Bee with a prefix (dot immunity for one of the elements with better amp damage as a bonus effect).

[dontu_worry]

If you do the entire treeant run, there are 9 treeants total, 7 of whom I have gotten a bee from. And my sample is hundreds of runs. The enemies are easy, the distances between spawn points short. It is the best way to farm for a bee. Last week, I got all 3 elements, and didn't even bother to count the nonelemental ones (I already had a good one).

[BMS]

Originalmente postado por dontu_worry:

If you do the entire treeant run, there are 9 treeants total, 7 of whom I have gotten a bee from. And my sample is hundreds of runs. The enemies are easy, the distances between spawn points short. It is the best way to farm for a bee. Last week, I got all 3 elements, and didn't even bother to count the nonelemental ones (I already had a good one).

Only thing I really dislike about the treants is the shock orbs that follow you after you kill them. Even if you're careful, they can sometimes kill you (least in my experience).

[DAYNJA]

Originalmente postado por moonshark:

Originalmente postado por dontu_worry:

If you do the entire treeant run, there are 9 treeants total, 7 of whom I have gotten a bee from. And my sample is hundreds of runs. The enemies are easy, the distances between spawn points short. It is the best way to farm for a bee. Last week, I got all 3 elements, and didn't even bother to count the nonelemental ones (I already had a good one).

Only thing I really dislike about the treants is the shock orbs that follow you after you kill them. Even if you're careful, they can sometimes kill you (least in my experience).

Yeah, especially since they cheat and follow you even when you are in deception.

I didn't keep any stats, but just estimating the time spent on hellquist vs treants and number of bee shields, it's not even close. Treant option gets you more bee shields imo. Unless anyone has any evidence of hellquist or blood tree camp treants dropping better bee shields, I think the best route is to just kill the first five treants and start over.

[BMS]

Originalmente postado por DAYNJA:

Originalmente postado por moonshark:

Only thing I really dislike about the treants is the shock orbs that follow you after you kill them. Even if you're careful, they can sometimes kill you (least in my experience).

Yeah, especially since they cheat and follow you even when you are in deception.

I didn't keep any stats, but just estimating the time spent on hellquist vs treants and number of bee shields, it's not even close. Treant option gets you more bee shields imo. Unless anyone has any evidence of hellquist or blood tree camp treants dropping better bee shields, I think the best route is to just kill the first five treants and start over.

Yeah, I really dislike the blood tree camp treants due to the fact that the orcs follow you and it just is annoying in my opinion. So I don't believe it's worth it to go to the last 2 treants.

[dontu_worry]

Wait in the center of the camp killing orcs until the two treeants spawn. They can drop the bee, and the accompanying stumpies will draw the orcs so you can go to the bloodpool unmolested.

[Waste_of_skin]

Originalmente postado por moonshark:

Yeah, I really dislike the blood tree camp treants due to the fact that the orcs follow you and it just is annoying in my opinion. So I don't believe it's worth it to go to the last 2 treants.

I got this tip from someone in this forum:
If you accept the mission from Aubrey, but don't take the sapling from her, there will only be a few orcs in the camp, and new ones don't spawn. That makes getting to the blood pool much simpler. But it may also mean that you don't get the two treants in the camp (I'm not sure), so there may be a tradeoff there.

Apparently some people just run by the orcs in the camp, but that never really worked for me. It seemed like one or more always followed me.

[BMS]

Originalmente postado por Waste_of_skin:

Originalmente postado por moonshark:

Yeah, I really dislike the blood tree camp treants due to the fact that the orcs follow you and it just is annoying in my opinion. So I don't believe it's worth it to go to the last 2 treants.

I got this tip from someone in this forum:
If you accept the mission from Aubrey, but don't take the sapling from her, there will only be a few orcs in the camp, and new ones don't spawn. That makes getting to the blood pool much simpler. But it may also mean that you don't get the two treants in the camp (I'm not sure), so there may be a tradeoff there.

Apparently some people just run by the orcs in the camp, but that never really worked for me. It seemed like one or more always followed me.

Alright, thanks for the tip.

[SoundCollapse]

+1 for treants... i hadn't had a legendary drop in 4 levels (none in hammerloc's dlc at all) and then had a skeleton on the unassuming docks drop an avenger (while grabbing crumpets) then two of the first two treants in the forest dropped bee shields.. maybe i should play the lotto tonight