Need to farm rare from boss but takes 30 min each attempt?

[fmlannes]

So im still fairly new to LE and just got to monolith yesterday. I need to farm a rare unique from a boss, but apparently i need to do a bunch of echos for stability and keep resetting the entire monolith node to get a crack at him. Each attempt takes at least 30 minutes(to get enough stability) and with the item being rare, it could take dozens of attempts just to get it to drop.

Is this really how farming for boss drops really suppose to work or is there another way that im not aware of? I know about CoF and prophecies but those have nothing to do with the boss specific drops. From my understanding, its a numbers game and i need to kill this boss dozens of times if not hundreds to get the item to drop. And that is just ridiculous when each attempt takes at least 20 minutes. Is this really how farming in this game is done?

[pruitcake]

Pretty much. Its an ARPG at the end of the day so there's bound to be some chase items that are gonna take some grinding to get. If you're just starting monoliths though I'd prioritize getting to empowered monos and fleshing out the rest of your build first. I guarantee it'll take way less than 30 min to get stability once your character has more power.

[fmlannes]

Originally posted by pruitcake:

Pretty much.

Okay, thanks for clarifying, i just thought i was doing it wrong. I played D2 for years and in that game you can farm the boss a hundred times in an hour cause it literally can take hundreds of attempts for an item to drop. so i had that standard in mind. So going from hundreds to like 2-3 attempts an hour seemed really off to me. But i guess thats how they want it to be....i'm just hoping it doesnt take anywhere near that number for items to drop in this game...

[Prometheus]

The chance of the "rare" drop from mono bosses is a double digit %. Its also higher on the empowered versions.

[fmlannes]

Originally posted by Promethian:

The chance of the "rare" drop from mono bosses is a double digit %. Its also higher on the empowered versions.

thanks the % chance is actually what i really needed to know. i had no idea what "rare" meant i thought it was gonna be like 5% or something. but now that i know its alot higher i understand the grind a bit more now.

[construkt]

Originally posted by fmlannes:

Originally posted by pruitcake:

Pretty much.

Okay, thanks for clarifying, i just thought i was doing it wrong. I played D2 for years and in that game you can farm the boss a hundred times in an hour cause it literally can take hundreds of attempts for an item to drop. so i had that standard in mind. So going from hundreds to like 2-3 attempts an hour seemed really off to me. But i guess thats how they want it to be....i'm just hoping it doesnt take anywhere near that number for items to drop in this game...

D2 is more or less a single player game, for which they created an online space to simulate LAN multiplayer. It wasn't meant to have a functional economy or deal with a huge, interconnected population.

Newer ARPG's like Last Epoch and Path of Exile are designed that way, so the farmable bosses needed some sort of opportunity cost to slow things down. PoE uses fragments you combine to access bosses. LE has monoliths and stability.

[Wimbledofy]

as long as the boss isn't orobyss, your attempts at the boss will increase as your corruption goes up. At higher corruption it only takes a few monoliths to get enough stability to fight the boss again.

[Johnny Deep]

Originally posted by Wimbledofy:

as long as the boss isn't orobyss, your attempts at the boss will increase as your corruption goes up. At higher corruption it only takes a few monoliths to get enough stability to fight the boss again.

This ^ It will only take a few maps to just target farm the boss after a while. Bosses are not even the real grind. Wait until you try to farm exiled mages for the Mad Alchemist ladle. (205 killed mages and no ladle so far).

[Wimbledofy]

Originally posted by Johnny Deep:

Originally posted by Wimbledofy:

as long as the boss isn't orobyss, your attempts at the boss will increase as your corruption goes up. At higher corruption it only takes a few monoliths to get enough stability to fight the boss again.

This ^ It will only take a few maps to just target farm the boss after a while. Bosses are not even the real grind. Wait until you try to farm exiled mages for the Mad Alchemist ladle. (205 killed mages and no ladle so far).

oof that sounds rough, I'm at 500 corruption and have gotten 2 3lp ladles. Make sure to select the wand drop rate blessing from the blood frost and death timeline.