Late game essence farming?

[ALVIN418]

Im currently around Level 80,000 and I feel like i'm not getting enough essence.
I have a Thief Ransack every monster with essence. I then clear the level and repeat. I use cosmic shields, essence reavers, essence magnets and i'm still not getting enough. Any suggestions for how to get more?

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Ditch Essence farming altogether, then jack up your Gold Find Relic and go for Gold farming then convering to essence instead as that's what you're supposed to be doing at Endgame.

[Handoiron]

Actually keep your ransack build until you can work into fast claw level clears. It's not a guaranteed improvement to just switch to no ransack and work your gold find relic.

You'll want to get to the point where you can ransack then clear every level in 1 claw attack first. Then you can evaluate whether or not ransack is better than not ransacking by doing a few test runs.

Run once for a good amount of time with ransack on then run a second time from the same starting level with a pure speed kill group without ransacking. Try to run to the same ending level with both runs. The 2 runs should give you a good indication of how much total essence you gain per time with both methods.

For me, the transition where ransack was surpassed by a pure kill speed group was at around 80k levels in my gold find relic. It'll be different for various setups though so it's always best to test for your own setup.

[ALVIN418]

By claw you mean Phantasmal Claw? and what character should i use with a Phantasmal Claw or just in general? I have a good idea of what a soda script would like for this. Last thing, would Noxin from darkmage be good since it deals more damage to a group?

[Frackus]

The thread "What's your Efficient set up for consistent 2300 FPH? (No Warp)" has a lot of good information. At this writing it is 9 posts under this one

[Handoiron]

Yes I mean Phantasmal Claw. It's the fastest multi-hit attack animation so it is the fastest way to clear levels.

Noxin can work but only if it can 1 hit kill with phantasmal claw can not. Claw is much faster so it's much better for speed killing and because of that much better for maxing out your essence gain.

You can use it on just about any class because the class based differences will be fairly minor with high enough relic levels. Many speed builds use claw on the Dark Lord just because he can be scripted and beat janitor attacks to add a little more reliability and speed. You'd have to script him to defend if anyone needs a heal (same general health triggers you use on nurse to heal) and have a backup party member to kill with a claw after nurse heals.

As Frackus mentioned above, What's your Efficient set up for consistent 2300 FPH? (No Warp) has a lot of good info on efficient end game builds.