Buying Chunks of Oblivion ore [Request]

[Waldmeister]

So i started my NG+9 run a few days ago and I really wish there would be a way to buy the Chunks of Oblivion ore...

I reached level 300 during NG+6 and now I maxed out all of my gear except for my armors.
Even though I killed all red-eyed demons in every NG+ cycle, I only reached +13 on 2 armors +11 on a third one. All the other armor sets are sitting at +9, which means I would have to farm for 261 Chunks of Oblivion ore to get them to +13 ...
This seams a little bit too much of a commitment to do. I wouldn't mind, if a Chunk costed 50k souls, just having the possibility to buy them at all would be really nice.

So, is there anyone sharing this oppinion? Or did I maybe miss out on a secret farming technique for the Chunks?

[InconspicuousBlackVan]

Hmmm, I am have just the Scar + DLC left in NG+8. Everything maxed and have 2 armors at +13 and one armor at +11. All the rest is 9.

Is there any particular reason why you want to max them all? Or just completionist feeling?

If you go only after the relevant armors, there is about 3 of them to max. Abyssal, Chaos Bringer and Panoply. Raiment or Reaper would have a use for levelling but as you will be at the level cap by NG+7, there is no need to upgrade them. All the others you will never equip (or shouldn't).

[Waldmeister]

Hmmm, I am have just the Scar + DLC left in NG+8. Everything maxed and have 2 armors at +13 and one armor at +11. All the rest is 9.

Maybe you got a bit more lucky when it comes to receiving Chunks over Pieces

Is there any particular reason why you want to max them all? Or just completionist feeling?

If you go only after the relevant armors, there is about 3 of them to max. Abyssal, Chaos Bringer and Panoply. Raiment or Reaper would have a use for levelling but as you will be at the level cap by NG+7, there is no need to upgrade them. All the others you will never equip (or shouldn't).

And yeah, it's basically just to satisfy my completionism :D

[JorgeJunior]

Originally posted by Waldmeister:

Maybe you got a bit more lucky when it comes to receiving Chunks over Pieces

What do you mean by lucky?

[Waldmeister]

When you kill a red-eyed demon, there seems to be a little bit of RNG in what kind of Oblivion Ore you get from it.
I noticed this in the void at the place where 2 of the red-eyed stone creatures appear at the same time. In my NG+7 run one gave me a Piece of Ore and the other a Chunk. In my NG+8 run however they both dropped a Piece of Ore.

[InconspicuousBlackVan]

Indeed. It seems based on chance and the higher NG+ you are, the higher the chance for a higher tier ore. In NG+8, it feels like it's 50/50 with the exception being Bonelands, where everything drops Chunks no matter what.

I expect to get mostly Chunks in NG+9 with a very occasional Piece here and there.

Regarding being able to buy them:
Well, Vulgrim starts selling Pieces at NG+9. I mean, he could sell Chunks, but they would have to be extremely expensive, like 75-100k. Lurchers are useless anyway when you are at the cap so this would at least allow you to spend them somehow.

OR

add them to the Crucible at NG+9 for like 20-ish tokens for one so we have an incentive to do it after buying everything from it.

EDIT:
As per my expectations, pretty much only Chunks drop on NG+9. I am at the beginning of Bonelands and I've got exactly one Piece of Oblivion Ore so far. Everything else has been Chunks.
3 armors are currently at +13, 1 is at +11 and 1 is at +10.

[Waldmeister]

As per my expectations, pretty much only Chunks drop on NG+9. I am at the beginning of Bonelands and I've got exactly one Piece of Oblivion Ore so far. Everything else has been Chunks.
3 armors are currently at +13, 1 is at +11 and 1 is at +10.

Yes, I just finished NG+9 and almost all were Chunks for me, too. I spent half an hour on farming 30 more at the Atrium of Greed and now I have all at +13 except for the 2 base armors and the 4 elemental ones which are all at +10.
This means I'd still need 162 Chunks to max out the rest. If I sold all my items and broke all lurcher crystals in my inventory now, I'd be sitting on a little bit over 8 million souls; which would exactly be enough to buy the remaining Chunks if they were priced at 50k.

But I guess I'll just have to spent another 2-3 hours farming...

[InconspicuousBlackVan]

Originally posted by Waldmeister:

As per my expectations, pretty much only Chunks drop on NG+9. I am at the beginning of Bonelands and I've got exactly one Piece of Oblivion Ore so far. Everything else has been Chunks.
3 armors are currently at +13, 1 is at +11 and 1 is at +10.

Yes, I just finished NG+9 and almost all were Chunks for me, too. I spent half an hour on farming 30 more at the Atrium of Greed and now I have all at +13 except for the 2 base armors and the 4 elemental ones which are all at +10.
This means I'd still need 162 Chunks to max out the rest. If I sold all my items and broke all lurcher crystals in my inventory now, I'd be sitting on a little bit over 8 million souls; which would exactly be enough to buy the remaining Chunks if they were priced at 50k.

But I guess I'll just have to spent another 2-3 hours farming...

Wait, how are you farming it? Have you discovered some method to respawn the black enemies who drop it?

[Waldmeister]

If you travel to the serpent hole at the Atrium of Greed and go back the hallway there is a red-eyed demon that will respawn if you die. I think there are a few more of them that respawn, but this one is probably the closest to a serpent hole (Takes ~1 minute for 1 Ore)

EDIT: I farmed the rest and have everything on +13 now.
Implementing the Chunks for sale would still be nice for other players though.

[InconspicuousBlackVan]

Originally posted by Waldmeister:

If you travel to the serpent hole at the Atrium of Greed and go back the hallway there is a red-eyed demon that will respawn if you die. I think there are a few more of them that respawn, but this one is probably the closest to a serpent hole (Takes ~1 minute for 1 Ore)

EDIT: I farmed the rest and have everything on +13 now.
Implementing the Chunks for sale would still be nice for other players though.

I know which one you mean. I KNEW that in one of my early playthroughs I had already killed him, yet he was there when I returned to the area when I was picking up what I missed. But I wrote it off as "I must have not killed him?". And now I find out he actually respawns :O.

Well, I know what I will be doing this afternoon while listening to music. This is obviously not intended so I better do it before they patch it out :P

PS.
I assume you have to kill yourself/force respawn to make the guy respawn?

[BoobNinja99]

Having Vulgrim sell it would be best to Help everyone despite what NG+ level you are currently on. I found my first Chunk on NG+2 now I'm on NG+5 and not a single chunk has dropped and I'm at the End again. Feels like continuing to play is POINTLESS now with nothing new to do.

[InconspicuousBlackVan]

Farmed some Ore today. I only need 120 more (the 4 Elemental Armors are left). I don't have the pre-order Armor so 30 less Ore to farm :P

EDIT:
Stopped when I needed 60 Chunks to max it all. I still haven't finished NG+9 so I will first collect all the Ore there is by normally playing and then farm the rest from the guy in the Atrium. As this is my final playthrough of DS3 for several years at least, I'm going to do everything one last time. So finish the Scar, Keepers of the Void, collect everything, do a final Crucible run and then finally finish NG+9.

Then it is bye-bye time to DS3. No regrets that I played through it 10 times within a month and a half :O. Had a blast (most of the time :P) doing it. Hopefully Genesis will be decent and 4 will introduce some great shooting mechanics.

[BoobNinja99]

Vulgrim should still sell and the Devs need to patch it in.

[phoenix92471]

the programmers worked extra hard at preventing from using cheat engine (etc...) to just cheat & max out stats. thereby completing the game without excessive redundancy !!!!

[Slava Ukraini]

Originally posted by Waldmeister:

So i started my NG+9 run a few days ago and I really wish there would be a way to buy the Chunks of Oblivion ore...

I reached level 300 during NG+6 and now I maxed out all of my gear except for my armors.
Even though I killed all red-eyed demons in every NG+ cycle, I only reached +13 on 2 armors +11 on a third one. All the other armor sets are sitting at +9, which means I would have to farm for 261 Chunks of Oblivion ore to get them to +13 ...
This seams a little bit too much of a commitment to do. I wouldn't mind, if a Chunk costed 50k souls, just having the possibility to buy them at all would be really nice.

So, is there anyone sharing this oppinion? Or did I maybe miss out on a secret farming technique for the Chunks?

Give me your savegame? Plz...