Best Sen and Idol Farm?

[Indigo]

Friends stuck at guardian ape out of money and idols and wants to know a decent place to farm, currently hes just wiping out the monks in senpau temple but just wondering if theres a better way.

Note: im aware of better farms however they are past guardian ape which he cannot get to.

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try mibu village. lots of spawn and easy kill

[stevo]

Probably the gun fort. Back stab the canon guy around the corner, rinse repeat.

[AzgarthX]

Pro Tip to beat Guardian Ape easy.
Bring Oil and have Flame Vent equipped.
Oil the bastard and use Flame Vent on him to instantly cause him to stagger and roll in pain while burned. Use this time to swing at him as many times as you can. If you have Living Force unlocked you can imbue your blade in fire and cause him to burn through repeated hit if you dont have Oil handy to instantly burn him. Rinse and repeat to get through stage 1

During stage 2 make sure you have Pacifying Agent and Ungo's Sugar to help tank both his Terro and physical hits. If you still have a few uses of Flame Vent left then use them here as well but be careful since he will no longer stagger in pain when burned.

[Indigo]

Originally posted by AzgarthX:

Pro Tip to beat Guardian Ape easy.
Bring Oil and have Flame Vent equipped.
Oil the bastard and use Flame Vent on him to instantly cause him to stagger and roll in pain while burned. Use this time to swing at him as many times as you can. If you have Living Force unlocked you can imbue your blade in fire and cause him to burn through repeated hit if you dont have Oil handy to instantly burn him. Rinse and repeat to get through stage 1

During stage 2 make sure you have Pacifying Agent and Ungo's Sugar to help tank both his Terro and physical hits. If you still have a few uses of Flame Vent left then use them here as well but be careful since he will no longer stagger in pain when burned.

Problem is he has no money or idols so flame vent is no help. Also how do you get living force? I havent heard of that or seen it yet and im past ape, am I just blind?

[Dongerino]

Originally posted by Zoe:

Problem is he has no money or idols so flame vent is no help. Also how do you get living force? I havent heard of that or seen it yet and im past ape, am I just blind?

I think living force is the last skill in prosthetic skill path

[Greb]

There's one of those purple longsword guys in Mibu village, right near the idol. If you use a green (stealth) candy, you can sneak up on him and execute him for about 800 skill points. Run back to the idol and rest, and he'll respawn. You can get two stealth kills on him per candy easily enough - three if your reflexes are top shelf. Pretty sure the candy is for sale in infinite quantites elsewhere, not sure how much for though - two kills on the guy will also get you 168 gold as well.

Instead of candy, you can use the item you get from killing the Hidden Forest Headless enemy, which acts like an infinite use stealth candy, except it only lasts about half as long (enough for one kill, then you need to recast after resting)

If you use the demon bell burden while doing this, you can get a good amount of mid-tier materials too - large quantities of fat wax lumps, at least.

As for Sen, well investing skill points into the Monk Senpou skill tree to unlock the latent skills that give a bonus to Sen, and also using Wealth Mibu balloons is a good idea, and then farming the Mibu Village with all its easy to kill inhabitants is a good way of gaining some sen and skillpoints in equal measure. I haven't found any blockbuster methods of farming sen that isn't super tedious yet, though.

Most of my sen has come from indirectly farming for skill points and Divine Confetti - in the Ashina Antechamber in the castle area, with all the blue samurai, you can kill them with the Demon Bell active to get Divine Confetti fairly commonly, the side effect to this is they drop an okay amount of Sen too, so it can add up if you grind a lot, I guess.

I haven't even killed that guy on the roof of the castle yet - there's probably / definitely better methods to farm skill points and sen later on in the game, for sure.

[Faptor]

Originally posted by ReportALL:

try mibu village. lots of spawn and easy kill

Yeah! I love that place. Pop a gold ball and watch the gold come rollin in!

[Xilva]

go back to ashina ante chamber, sneak kill all the samurais, head back to shrine to rest, rince and repeat.

there's also one cannon dude at gun fortress shrine you can sneak kill, run back to shrine and immediately rest.

if you have the 2nd sword, you can sneak kill the undeads at the main hall of senpou temple. sneak beside them, wait for them to activate, double deathblow = profit. rest and repeat.