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Shroud of Apocrea: the way i farmed it
By Z0k
Im not going to tell you: This the best guide around the world!.
What im going to tell you: i hope this guide help you to farm enough tokens what you need for the stuff you want to get with them, this the way how me and friends and guildies farmed shroud of apocrea.
What im going to tell you: i hope this guide help you to farm enough tokens what you need for the stuff you want to get with them, this the way how me and friends and guildies farmed shroud of apocrea.
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Guide Index
Overview
Objectives of the guide
Equipment Needed
How to: Farm (2-4 Players)
Final Notes
Comments
Objectives of the guide
My main objective it’s not to tell you this it’s the “definitive” way to farm. But it’s one of the few ways to farm this event in an easy, and 100% of tombs destroyed way. With this guide you will be able to farm without much trouble, less scarabs running around, and less souls getting away. Also the harvester will not annoy everyone so often so it’s a win win situation.
Equipment Needed
-Any equipment that boost damage on guns OR that boost undead damage
-Blitz : Believe it or not, this weapon it’s really handy in this mission and help a lot to kill scarabs and souls.
-Any sword or that have a long reach or help you stay near of your target such as:
*Barbarous thorn blade (or any other flourish line)
*Warmaster Seerus rocket hammer,
*Dread Venom Striker
-Optional:
*Glacius
*Voltedge
*Combuster
*Shivermist (for souls),
*Voltaic Tempest,
*Vortex lines.
-Blitz : Believe it or not, this weapon it’s really handy in this mission and help a lot to kill scarabs and souls.
-Any sword or that have a long reach or help you stay near of your target such as:
*Barbarous thorn blade (or any other flourish line)
*Warmaster Seerus rocket hammer,
*Dread Venom Striker
-Optional:
*Glacius
*Voltedge
*Combuster
*Shivermist (for souls),
*Voltaic Tempest,
*Vortex lines.
How to: Farm (2-4 Players)
Assign players roles, it’s important to assign the roles of every player, you need a bait and the others will look for tombs.
The one that don’t have blitz in the team should be the one that must be the bait, the reason it’s that, since blitz it’s the needed weapon to break the tombs (later you will see how to aim with this) will make the farming kind of quick (took me 54 mins to clean the whole cemetery only with a friend baiting apocrea while I was taking down every tombs).
Here is the average time per run according to the number of blitz in the group:
2 players (1 blitz, 1 bait) 54 mins
3 players (2 blitz, 1 bait) 31 mins
4 players (3 blitz, 1 bait) 27 mins or less
NOTE: those times were taken with the Spread Alignment.
The Bait
If you sadly are the bait… prepare to stay from 54 mins (2 players) to 30 mins (3-4 players) taking care of the harvester it’s important that YOU DON’T LOSE HIM, otherwise will take time trying to get rid of him when the team its breaking tombs, also if the team finds souls or scarab the harvester only will make your team not killing them.
If you want to keep the harvester at bait, the first thing you must do its:
1) go to options , then go to video, and turn low your quality setting
2) then go to the advanced option button and check the mark for: Compatibility mode <<< (this one its important!!!)
Image 1.1
If you did that, you now can see the light that the “harvester” use to track you (Image 1.1) , with this light , you now can take your distance between the harvester and you but be warned: even if you can see his light, you must stay away from such light because even if you are like 1 block ahead of the light, the harverster can still see you.
The ligh have a fake reach so keep your distance at least 2 block from where you see his light. Now that you can see his light the distance between you and the harvester should be at least 3 tombs (you on the first tomb and the light of the harvester about to reach the third tomb) See image 1.2 to understand how much distance you need to keep:
(image 1.2)
If his light touch the tomb, just move 1 tomb and keep doing that until you reach the limit of the map. The best thing to keep harvester away from your team it’s just make him go with you to the very bottom (or upper part) of the cemetery and keep him there going side by side of the map until your team finish the part where they are breaking tombs.
Once your team breaks the tombs half of the map you must take him to part of the map where your team cleaned the tombs, so they can keep breaking the half of the tombs in the map.
In case you get caught by the light of the harvester, don’t panic, just run (horizontal or vertical if he catch up in the limit of the map) 5 tombs and use dash.
Wait a bit to see if you outrun the hands, if you did, just wait for the harvester to come with his light, because if you don’t wait for him the most probably thing to happen it’s that he will going for one of your friend of your team.
Keep in your inventory some sleep vials, so when the harvester see you, and in case he caught you, be sure to have the harvester aligned with you, and when you run (in case you have vials) do it looking at him, in this way when he catch up you, throw the vial and he will sleep for a while until you get released by the hands (preferably throw the vials once he is almost 3 blocks with his light near to you).
The Tomb Busters
Now that you have your bait, it’s time to tell you how you and your team will break the tombs, the first thing to do it’s to wait the bait to caught the harvester attention and take him to the bottom or upper part of the map (your best bet it’s to start from the bottom because it’s easy to keep track of the tombs you break).
How to break the tombs:
Here is where the blitz comes handy. You must always aim your blitz as image 1.3 show you:
(Image 1.3)
ONLY BREAK tombs when you have the charge, whatever thing come from the tomb will be taken down with the blitz charge, most of the time will kill 95% of the scarabs that comes from it, leaving you with 2 or 3 scarabs easy to deal. In the Image 1.4 i killed a big group of scarab that come out from the grave with one single charge.
(Image 1.4)
If bombies spawn just dash to any side (BUT DON’T DASH TOWARDS THE BOMBIES)
Here comes the best part: if a soul spawn sometimes you will kill 2 with one charge and 1 will be weak enough to finish it with another weapon, there also a low chance to get the 3 souls in one charge, but I think it’s something to have in the way you aim your blitz, See Image 1.5
(image 1.5)
IMPORTANT: if you see souls coming towards you that a friend break please be gently and help them to kill them, the same thing with scarabs. The blitz charge its helpful here either in close and long range, the spread of the blitz can help you to hit many times a soul the same thing with the scarabs. And in close range will take care most of the things that come out of the tomb.
The pattern
You must follow this pattern breaking tombs as image A1 shows you:
(Image A1)
You may ask: Why? The reason is, following this path you can be pretty sure that you break every tomb in the map, which mean: more tokens.
Now that you know the path you must take. You can use any of the following alignment for your party:
Spread (see (image 1.6))
(image 1.6 of Spread Alignment)
With this alignment you can clean pretty quick the line of tombs, every member of your party (with blitz) must take 1 line with 2 row of tombs, and they should break every tomb on each row in their line (to understand how to align you see image A2)
(Image A2)
with this alignment you and your friends take about 2 rows of tombs per line (each player), so you are taking away about 6 rows of tomb with a full party!! and you know what is that? a quick apocrea farming!
The bad side of this alignment: you can lose pretty easy your line so in order to avoid this, count your lines you move (and try to move in horizontal or vertical between lines so it’s easy to keep track of them) how I count it? Well here is an example (Image A3):
(Image A3)
Image A3 show a player that its about to move 4 lines, his line its line 1 and he want to move to line 4 to help their friends, a line its the space between 2 rows of tombs.
United
(Image 1.7) (of United Alignment)
This alignment have 0 chances to miss tombs, but isn’t faster as the Spread alignment, with this alignment every tomb buster have a row of tombs which they can break, since this an alignment which take less space this will take a bit of more time rather the Spread alignment.
The one that don’t have blitz in the team should be the one that must be the bait, the reason it’s that, since blitz it’s the needed weapon to break the tombs (later you will see how to aim with this) will make the farming kind of quick (took me 54 mins to clean the whole cemetery only with a friend baiting apocrea while I was taking down every tombs).
Here is the average time per run according to the number of blitz in the group:
2 players (1 blitz, 1 bait) 54 mins
3 players (2 blitz, 1 bait) 31 mins
4 players (3 blitz, 1 bait) 27 mins or less
NOTE: those times were taken with the Spread Alignment.
The Bait
If you sadly are the bait… prepare to stay from 54 mins (2 players) to 30 mins (3-4 players) taking care of the harvester it’s important that YOU DON’T LOSE HIM, otherwise will take time trying to get rid of him when the team its breaking tombs, also if the team finds souls or scarab the harvester only will make your team not killing them.
If you want to keep the harvester at bait, the first thing you must do its:
1) go to options , then go to video, and turn low your quality setting
2) then go to the advanced option button and check the mark for: Compatibility mode <<< (this one its important!!!)
Image 1.1If you did that, you now can see the light that the “harvester” use to track you (Image 1.1) , with this light , you now can take your distance between the harvester and you but be warned: even if you can see his light, you must stay away from such light because even if you are like 1 block ahead of the light, the harverster can still see you.
The ligh have a fake reach so keep your distance at least 2 block from where you see his light. Now that you can see his light the distance between you and the harvester should be at least 3 tombs (you on the first tomb and the light of the harvester about to reach the third tomb) See image 1.2 to understand how much distance you need to keep:
(image 1.2)If his light touch the tomb, just move 1 tomb and keep doing that until you reach the limit of the map. The best thing to keep harvester away from your team it’s just make him go with you to the very bottom (or upper part) of the cemetery and keep him there going side by side of the map until your team finish the part where they are breaking tombs.
Once your team breaks the tombs half of the map you must take him to part of the map where your team cleaned the tombs, so they can keep breaking the half of the tombs in the map.
In case you get caught by the light of the harvester, don’t panic, just run (horizontal or vertical if he catch up in the limit of the map) 5 tombs and use dash.
Wait a bit to see if you outrun the hands, if you did, just wait for the harvester to come with his light, because if you don’t wait for him the most probably thing to happen it’s that he will going for one of your friend of your team.
Keep in your inventory some sleep vials, so when the harvester see you, and in case he caught you, be sure to have the harvester aligned with you, and when you run (in case you have vials) do it looking at him, in this way when he catch up you, throw the vial and he will sleep for a while until you get released by the hands (preferably throw the vials once he is almost 3 blocks with his light near to you).
The Tomb Busters
Now that you have your bait, it’s time to tell you how you and your team will break the tombs, the first thing to do it’s to wait the bait to caught the harvester attention and take him to the bottom or upper part of the map (your best bet it’s to start from the bottom because it’s easy to keep track of the tombs you break).
How to break the tombs:
Here is where the blitz comes handy. You must always aim your blitz as image 1.3 show you:
(Image 1.3)ONLY BREAK tombs when you have the charge, whatever thing come from the tomb will be taken down with the blitz charge, most of the time will kill 95% of the scarabs that comes from it, leaving you with 2 or 3 scarabs easy to deal. In the Image 1.4 i killed a big group of scarab that come out from the grave with one single charge.
(Image 1.4)If bombies spawn just dash to any side (BUT DON’T DASH TOWARDS THE BOMBIES)
Here comes the best part: if a soul spawn sometimes you will kill 2 with one charge and 1 will be weak enough to finish it with another weapon, there also a low chance to get the 3 souls in one charge, but I think it’s something to have in the way you aim your blitz, See Image 1.5
(image 1.5)IMPORTANT: if you see souls coming towards you that a friend break please be gently and help them to kill them, the same thing with scarabs. The blitz charge its helpful here either in close and long range, the spread of the blitz can help you to hit many times a soul the same thing with the scarabs. And in close range will take care most of the things that come out of the tomb.
The pattern
You must follow this pattern breaking tombs as image A1 shows you:
(Image A1)You may ask: Why? The reason is, following this path you can be pretty sure that you break every tomb in the map, which mean: more tokens.
Now that you know the path you must take. You can use any of the following alignment for your party:
Spread (see (image 1.6))
(image 1.6 of Spread Alignment)With this alignment you can clean pretty quick the line of tombs, every member of your party (with blitz) must take 1 line with 2 row of tombs, and they should break every tomb on each row in their line (to understand how to align you see image A2)
(Image A2)with this alignment you and your friends take about 2 rows of tombs per line (each player), so you are taking away about 6 rows of tomb with a full party!! and you know what is that? a quick apocrea farming!
The bad side of this alignment: you can lose pretty easy your line so in order to avoid this, count your lines you move (and try to move in horizontal or vertical between lines so it’s easy to keep track of them) how I count it? Well here is an example (Image A3):
(Image A3)Image A3 show a player that its about to move 4 lines, his line its line 1 and he want to move to line 4 to help their friends, a line its the space between 2 rows of tombs.
United
(Image 1.7) (of United Alignment)This alignment have 0 chances to miss tombs, but isn’t faster as the Spread alignment, with this alignment every tomb buster have a row of tombs which they can break, since this an alignment which take less space this will take a bit of more time rather the Spread alignment.
Final Notes
-That was the way we farmed the shroud of apocrea event, and at least me, managed to get 3 auras (that mean 30,000 tokens) and my friends at least 1 aura, this method requires patience (get a good guy with enough patience to be your bait)
-Bring at least in your “blitz squad” someone with seraphynx, you may wonder Why?. As you know you can’t use seraphynx against the scarabs that spawn either from the traps or from the gravestones but actually you can get hearts if you use seraphynx spell against bombies that spawn from graves and devilites from the devilite obelisk. (see Image 1.8 and image 1.9)
Image 1.8 Cursed bombies that will drop heart.
Image 1.9 a big heart dropped by bombies.
-Save the puzzles for the end when your team it’s done with the tombs. The reason it’s in this way you can located easy the key, water, fire and anything you need to solve the puzzle, also this help the bait and your blitz squad to check out the puzzle so they can take a look if they get an apocrean material.
-You can solo the event actually and it’s not that hard as people make it believe, you only need blitz and some boost damage for guns, and break tombs in the way I told in this guide. But before to break the tombs, make sure that the harvester its following you, once you see his light that mean he is following you, Use Dash once and don’t run too much just enough to keep out of the range of the light, once you make the dash, the harvester will follow you for like 2-3 segs and he will gone for 5 – 6 segs. That’s enough time to break 1 or 2 tombs in the way that I told in this guide, repeat this method until you are done with all the tombs in the map (but this can take you from 54 mins to 1 hour or more!).
-Save pills, dont use them if you still have the Emergency Revive, reason its if you die when you have Emergency Revive, you still will get your "red bar" life filled (if you have silver bars, Emergency Revive dont fill that) so if you get hurt once you lose your Emergency Revive you can heal yourself to stay more time in the map, so dont use them if you still have the Emergency Revive, Otherwise you will lose some health that could come handy later.
Any suggestion, comment or doubts or even things to changes, you can write it in a comment, please remember, this is just one of the way to farm apocrea event, not going to say this the best method, but one I hope helps people to get enough tokens for what their little hearts desires.
-Bring at least in your “blitz squad” someone with seraphynx, you may wonder Why?. As you know you can’t use seraphynx against the scarabs that spawn either from the traps or from the gravestones but actually you can get hearts if you use seraphynx spell against bombies that spawn from graves and devilites from the devilite obelisk. (see Image 1.8 and image 1.9)
Image 1.8 Cursed bombies that will drop heart.Image 1.9 a big heart dropped by bombies.-Save the puzzles for the end when your team it’s done with the tombs. The reason it’s in this way you can located easy the key, water, fire and anything you need to solve the puzzle, also this help the bait and your blitz squad to check out the puzzle so they can take a look if they get an apocrean material.
-You can solo the event actually and it’s not that hard as people make it believe, you only need blitz and some boost damage for guns, and break tombs in the way I told in this guide. But before to break the tombs, make sure that the harvester its following you, once you see his light that mean he is following you, Use Dash once and don’t run too much just enough to keep out of the range of the light, once you make the dash, the harvester will follow you for like 2-3 segs and he will gone for 5 – 6 segs. That’s enough time to break 1 or 2 tombs in the way that I told in this guide, repeat this method until you are done with all the tombs in the map (but this can take you from 54 mins to 1 hour or more!).
-Save pills, dont use them if you still have the Emergency Revive, reason its if you die when you have Emergency Revive, you still will get your "red bar" life filled (if you have silver bars, Emergency Revive dont fill that) so if you get hurt once you lose your Emergency Revive you can heal yourself to stay more time in the map, so dont use them if you still have the Emergency Revive, Otherwise you will lose some health that could come handy later.
Any suggestion, comment or doubts or even things to changes, you can write it in a comment, please remember, this is just one of the way to farm apocrea event, not going to say this the best method, but one I hope helps people to get enough tokens for what their little hearts desires.
You welcome! hope those tips help you!