Streamstone Farming

[Elias.Five]

Need some advice. I cant seem to find a good farm for streamstones. I always end up getting gleaming or shards but never seem to get the standard streamstone.

Anyone have a personal favourite way to farm them or know of a good way?

[Rinto]

pick your poison AT kirin, AT Vaal, or golden pickle

[Ubungtharion]

EDIT: This is for weapon streamstones.

There are 2 ways, one is from t3 (elder dragons) investigations. The other way is from arch tempered but they arnt around all the time.

[Angel]

you mean the normal purple streamstones not the ones to augment weapons? if you want the lowest tier shards you can fight tier 1 tempered monsters and they'll drop them for you

[L3pr4ch4un]

I got 4 streamstones, 2 hero, 2 warrior, on one run of AT vaal yesturday (run after i got none tho) if it helps.

[Tarkus]

out of all my at runs i havent gotten a single weapon stone, at least i got an attack deco once

[Gotsa]

i recommend tempered nergi, IMO hes the easiest, some prefer vaal but i cant stand the amount of times he just dashes forward and no1 can be around him in like a mile.

if you want raw grinding speed then you want to farm either tempered kirin to churn out the most tier 6 augments or tempered pickle with trap/status spam in a competent 4 man group for the highest % chance of dropping an augment at all.

[lexilogo]

All of these guys seem to be recommending ways to farm the weapon Streamstones- Not actually how to farm the normal Streamstones. I understand why, as weapon Streamstones are generally what most people want to farm, but that isn't what the OP is asking about here, so please disregard all these people telling you to farm Elder Dragons/Deviljho.

Shards come from Tier 1 Tempered monsters (creatures like Rathian, Pukei-Pukei, Jyuratodus, Barroth...). Standard streamstones come from T2 Tempered monsters (creatures like Legiana, Odogaron, Pink Rathian, Rathalos/Azure Rathalos, Diablos/Black Diablos...). Gleaming Streamstones come from T3 Tempered monsters (Elder Dragons and Deviljho).

So, if you need standard Streamstones, not the Shards/Gleaming ones, you want T2 Tempered monsters. You can always tell which are which by the description their Investigations are given, T2 investigations say that "your observations have yielded valuable insight!" or something like that at the beginning of their quest description.

Speaking from personal experience as to which you should go for, I find monsters like Pink Rathian and Legiana to be the easiest + quickest T2 monsters, as Pink Rathian is still a Rathian at the end of the day and Legiana's HP pool is low enough that I can generally pummel and capture it quite quickly. However, you should always go for whichever of your Investigations is highest quality with the most purple rewards, or whichever monsters you could use more parts from, those are just some recommendations if you just want to get those Streamstones fast.

As a sidenote, you should be doing a lot of T2 monsters in general, as they're also the best way to farm a lot of good Decorations. Tempered Elder Dragons/Tempered Deviljho/Arch-Tempereds are great and all, but typically speaking, Tempered T2 monster investigations have better odds of giving you Decorations, as well as giving you more rewards per investigation. (because T2 monsters can still be captured, and capture requirements will typically increase the amount of reward slots an Investigation gives you, they naturally produce better investigations)