Rare trophy farm ?

[Chance Sarsis]

How do you farm rare trophy, the specific mobs that drop them is extremely inconsistent, most of them drop uncommon.

I am at a point where i have 999 uncommon, and 500 unique, but only 8 rare.

Chase 1 to 3 give mostly uncommon with some very tiny rare drop, and chase 4 mostly give unique.

Getting rare seem a pain in the butt.
Goons, Bolters, and Banshees are so extremely uncommon, that you have to rely on Vials, Howlers and Spitters, but the chance of them dropping a rare is like, 1 out of 100 or so.

It seem like a stupidly boring farming to just level up your stuff. you have the time to finish the story about 7 times in a row before you even upgrade most of the useful things you want to use, forget about upgrading all.

[Louisiana Shibe]

They are fairly easy to find, once you know where to look. I prefer to get them off Volatiles. Find the GRE facilities (the ones with 4 Inhibitors spread throughout, not the Anomalies). They often have 1-2 Volatiles on the lowest levels. If you show up during daytime it might even be more. Slaughter them and get those shiny trophies.

Chases level 3-4 also spawn Volatiles, so have fun!

[Chance Sarsis]

Originally posted by Louisiana Shibe:

They are fairly easy to find, once you know where to look. I prefer to get them off Volatiles. Find the GRE facilities (the ones with 4 Inhibitors spread throughout, not the Anomalies). They often have 1-2 Volatiles on the lowest levels. If you show up during daytime it might even be more. Slaughter them and get those shiny trophies.

Chases level 3-4 also spawn Volatiles, so have fun!

Volatile drop Unique trophy though, not Rare

[Louisiana Shibe]

Ah, crap. My bad - I'm effin' blind and can't read..

I dunno what to recommend in this case. Somehow I have way more Rare trophies (in the lower hundreds), and only actually farm Unique ones. I do a lot of exploration during the night and Rare ones seem to just organically pile up over time.

[ShockedHearts]

Originally posted by Louisiana Shibe:

Ah, crap. My bad - I'm effin' blind and can't read..

I dunno what to recommend in this case. Somehow I have way more Rare trophies (in the lower hundreds), and only actually farm Unique ones. I do a lot of exploration during the night and Rare ones seem to just organically pile up over time.

I personally have like 80 uniques but only 3 rares. it feels like rares are rarer than uniques. I also have a ton of uncommons

[WheresMyPants]

This right here is one of the many things I learned during my first playthrough. And that's to regularly head out for night runs on DAY ONE passively looking for random encounters with that blue & blistered infected icon on my map. Once I find them, I pray it's a bolter and not a goon as I'm nowhere near ready to take one out on day one unless there are a sh#t ton on spears laying around lol. The fastest way to earn rare trophies is to just regularly stay on top of it by taking out bolters, banshees, & goons (I find myself skipping on goons a lot waitng for the next random blue icon encounter EARLY in game though) during every night run while doing random quests. By doing it this way, I find it less of chore than having to focus all my attention on this trophy hunt alone

[Zaris]

Originally posted by WheresMyPants:

not a goon as I'm nowhere near ready to take one out on day one

You don't need high upgrades early. I suggest to give PK 4 areas to get the auto crossbow which scales with your level and then just shoot them (most likely 5-10 bolts = 3 sec killtime, add a 70-80% ranged dmg equipment and they should fall instantly).

[WheresMyPants]

Originally posted by Zaris:

Originally posted by WheresMyPants:

not a goon as I'm nowhere near ready to take one out on day one

You don't need high upgrades early. I suggest to give PK 4 areas to get the auto crossbow which scales with your level and then just shoot them (most likely 5-10 bolts = 3 sec killtime, add a 70-80% ranged dmg equipment and they should fall instantly).

That PK crossbow comes much later down the line. I'm talking about accomplishing the above tactics while your player rank is 1 right out of the gates on day 1. Once anyone earns that PK crossbow they won't have ANY INFECTED ISSUES WHATSOEVER. That thing is so OP I decided to do this current playthrough WITHOUT IT. I enjoyed it but skill was no longer required once attaining it. NOTHING is a threat once a player gets their hands on that crossbow.

[Diesel]

I think virals have a chance to drop a rare token. Start a chase and farm virals or go after bolters and goons

[MrWitz]

Make sure to do all your framing BEFORE finishing your epilogue. This includes farming your combat score. Once the epilogue is complete, the enemies will scale to your level, and you can kiss efficiency goodbye.

[NiRT DASTY]

There are two ways I've found personally, and neither are great, but there are collateral perks

1) Stalk around at night with a bow looting buses and take out all the spitters and howlers you see from a distance. If you're lucky, most of them will turn to diapers you can pick up quickly, and you can ignore the fodder zombies. When doing this, keep a weather eye for encounters as well. I get mostly uncommons this way, but a decent amount of rares, and it's a more fun and engaging process than below.

2) in the old town, go just west of the rooftop school in the south, there's a howler on the street to the west. Start a chase, climb back up to the corner, and Virals should start spawning on the roof across the gap to the south. I literally just stand on the ramp edge and kick them into the gap as they try to jump across, and let the diapers pile up in the street below.
You can have two options ofor follow through; A) when your chase hits lvl 3, run back to the school, end the chase and top up immunity, rinse and repeat. Again you'll get mostly uncommons, but more rares faster than playing Richard Ramirez like I mentioned above, but less money in valuables than below.
B) if you have a decent bow (I have an artifact Nails and gear combo that kills volatiles in two shots, sometimes one head shot) and a tuck fun of arrows, you can just let your chase max out and snipe Volatiles till sunrise, and you'll get tens of uniques with some rares and about 20k in valuables each night. Don't forget to hop down and pack the snatchages downstairs.

It might be worth mentioning I've only played on hard, and while I'm gonna be that guy and complain that imo it doesn't seem to make combat difficult, it definitely seems to jankify my item find. I maxed out my molotovs and regen inhalers, but alcohol and poppies are rarer than bee piss; and I perpetually have triple digit uncommon and unique trophies, but lose my nails clawing to maintain double digit rares. Can anybody on a different difficulty tell me whether it would be worth it or not to drop diff for farming purposes?

[WheresMyPants]

Originally posted by Dirt_Nasty:

There are two ways I've found personally, and neither are great, but there are collateral perks

1) Stalk around at night with a bow looting buses and take out all the spitters and howlers you see from a distance. If you're lucky, most of them will turn to diapers you can pick up quickly, and you can ignore the fodder zombies. When doing this, keep a weather eye for encounters as well. I get mostly uncommons this way, but a decent amount of rares, and it's a more fun and engaging process than below.

2) in the old town, go just west of the rooftop school in the south, there's a howler on the street to the west. Start a chase, climb back up to the corner, and Virals should start spawning on the roof across the gap to the south. I literally just stand on the ramp edge and kick them into the gap as they try to jump across, and let the diapers pile up in the street below.
You can have two options ofor follow through; A) when your chase hits lvl 3, run back to the school, end the chase and top up immunity, rinse and repeat. Again you'll get mostly uncommons, but more rares faster than playing Richard Ramirez like I mentioned above, but less money in valuables than below.
B) if you have a decent bow (I have an artifact Nails and gear combo that kills volatiles in two shots, sometimes one head shot) and a tuck fun of arrows, you can just let your chase max out and snipe Volatiles till sunrise, and you'll get tens of uniques with some rares and about 20k in valuables each night. Don't forget to hop down and pack the snatchages downstairs.

It might be worth mentioning I've only played on hard, and while I'm gonna be that guy and complain that imo it doesn't seem to make combat difficult, it definitely seems to jankify my item find. I maxed out my molotovs and regen inhalers, but alcohol and poppies are rarer than bee piss; and I perpetually have triple digit uncommon and unique trophies, but lose my nails clawing to maintain double digit rares. Can anybody on a different difficulty tell me whether it would be worth it or not to drop diff for farming purposes?

Reminds me of my old farming tactics when the game first released almost a month ago... lol


https://youtu.be/QyH4yx0E9c8

Here's a tip regarding alcohol and poppies. Easiest way to stay on top of alcohol is by always staying on the look out for them when interacting with vendors. Many times I would find them selling anywhere from 1-4 of them at a time... and that was on hard mode too. I had the same issue like you regarding poppies at first too. That was until I found the Babba plague witch. She regularly sells poppies and cordyleps( I think that's how you spell it) at her shop. There is a bed on the other side of the Chapel she is in that would enable you to sleep a whole day and farm poppies every time they come in stock. She can be found in the Saint Paul Island area of the map.