I’ve decided to go public with my farming sources.  So if this helps you out and you have a toon or connection on Cannith, please send all donations and tokens of appreciation to Larrio.*

*I could still use a weapon with a sentinel jewel in it.  Mostly I’m looking for augments – I didn’t have an unbound bag back in the day and missed out on hording.  Rubies of ghostbane or Golem Hearts would be great, but really I just need basics like deathblock, feather falling, underwater action, and fear and blindness immunity.  I wouldn’t say no to an otto’s box though

And yes, there is a version of this on the motherboards which has very useful information.  Some might argue too much information.  It lists damn near half the quests in the game that you can farm and what you might be able to find there.

My list is much shorter and concentrates specifically on which quests you need to run for which collectables.  It’s more concise and easier to cut through all the crap to actually know where to farm the higher end collectables without reading through 10 pages of additional comments.

Breaking the Ranks
Farm for – Hairy Trumpets
You’ll also find – a bunch of crap
Time farming – about 20 seconds for 5 nodes
Best setting – Epic something

Easiest of the bunch and the quickest source of Hairy Trumpets (insert penis joke of your choosing here).  Like most of these quests, you’ll need a high jump skill.   There are 4 collectable nodes inside the fenced area to the left and one just past that area.  Jump in, farm, run out, reset.  I can’t remember which setting is the sweet spot, just alternate between casual to elite until they start dropping and run that setting. 


Desecrated Temple of Vol
Farm for – Ornate Charms, Ancient Texts, Bone Fragments
You’ll also find – Adventuring Oratorios, Archaic Logbooks
Time farming – about 25 seconds.  You’ll have to wait a few seconds to use DD.
Best setting – EHard (results may vary)

Drop down, turn the lever, run to the right through  the traps (need an agile toon, though casting cocoon before running through helps).  Harvest the 3 nodes at the end, DD out.

Ornate Charms are a pain to farm.  If you get one every 5 runs consider yourself lucky.  Sadly this is the quickest, easiest source I’ve found so far.  I think Charms have a higher drop rate in both Trial By Fire and Fleshmaker’s, but both of those quests are mob heavy, even with invisibility. 


Schemes of the Enemy
Farm for – Blister Beetles, Warehouse Ledgers
You’ll also find – Bone Fragments, Fractured Femurs, Mortar and Pestle, and a chance at Ornate Charms and Stone Fetishes
Time farming – 3 minutes with practice
Only setting - EE

Most would recommend Last Stand for Blister Beetles.  I hate last stand.  It takes a solid minute of jumping around to farm 3 nodes and you’re mostly going to pull crap.  Schemes has 4 natural nodes with chances to drop Blister Beetles, plus the back pack gives you a chance at an Ornate Charm.  If you don’t have many of the new packs or you’re not running many epic quests and need all the upper tier collectables, I highly recommend taking the time to learn how to farm Schemes.  It takes a little longer but it gives the widest selection of collectables from the 9 nodes.

Skip the gathering of people at the start, go down to the room that lets you into the air ducts (two nodes in that room).  You'll find 3 nodes once you get up and on your way through the ducts.  Drop down to the big room and you'll have 3 more nodes to farm.  Do NOT bother fighting.  Grab the key, unlock the door, run down the hall (one more node on the way), hit the turbines and recall while floating up (or DD), leaving the giant mob chasing you behind.


Epic Wheloon Wilderness Area
Farm for – Stone Fetishes
You’ll also find – mostly crap
Time farming – under 5 minutes.  Shorter with practice

Think there’s a map on the motherboards somewhere.  Basically just an invisibility run farming the nodes.  It’s pretty straight forward.  Hit Q to find the nodes, head south and collect the first 5 or so nodes, take the tunnel to the west and head north to either harvest 3 or 4 quick nodes or do the full run and harvest 10 plus nodes.  Easiest source of Stone Fetishes in the game.


Eyes of Stone
Farm for – Romantic Sonnets, Silver Flame Hymnals, House Sealed Letters
You’ll also find – Runic Parchments, Fragrant Drowshood, various soarwoods and beetles, Glass Phials
Time farming – maybe 1 minutes
Best setting – Heroic Elite

I’m not going to spend much time with the old collectables.  That information has been out there for a decade now.  But I will make mention of two quests that spawn what you really need with the new system.

Stone is quick and easy to farm and gives a wide selection of much needed collectables.  You need a high jump skill and invisibility makes it quicker.  You have to “talk” to two NPCs.  Just Q and E them, don’t bother stopping or selecting any of the options.  Once you get the dialog interface up, just keep moving – it’ll disappear.

Head straight to the library area and make the circle.  I think there’s 6 quick nodes of various types.  Hit the last one and DD out or recall (DD will take you out of Lordsmarch Plaza).  This quest is essential for making Charisma items though.


The Enemy Within
Farm for – Glass Phials, various soarwoods
You’ll also find – Ceramic Bowls, Silver Flame Hymnals, various other
Time Farming – 3 to 5 minutes depending on farmer used
Best setting – Heroic elite

Probably the longest on the list but there’s 22 nodes up in this bitch.  Too long to explain but you’ll figure it out in a few runs.  You can do the short 11 node run but I recommend clearing it all since the second half is no longer than the first.  If you’ve burned through Glass Phials like I did, this is the best place to go to restock.


Mask of Deception
Farm for – Ancient Text, Archaic Logbook
You’ll also find – Mostly crap, Hairy Trumpets, slim chance at Ornate Charms
Time farming – 1 to 2 minutes
Best Setting – Epic Casual, worth running on various settings

I’m only listing this for people who don’t have the other packs, it’s a decent source for Text and Logbooks and better than the other recommended options (like Tavern Brawl).  Pretty sure most people go for the two node option, I suggest taking the time, opening the first door, talking to the commander and grabbing the first bookcase (it mostly drops crap, but rarely will spawn something decent).  Grab the rubble pile, hit the tavern, then go ahead and head to the barn for the mold node and a chance at a hairy trumpet while you’re there.


Terminal Delirium
Farm for – Ancient Text, Archaic Logbook
You’ll also find – Bone Fragments and various other crap.  Three chances at Hairy Trumpets.
Time Farming – little longer but under 5 minutes
Best setting – Probably casual, not sure where the sweet spot is

Personally I don’t think this one has enough variety to make it worth wild, but it is a good source for Texts, Logbooks and (in theory, been awhile since I bothered farming it) Ledgers, Communiques, and Oratorios.  I think there’s 11 fairly quick nodes but mostly just lore and nature.  If you’re looking specifically for Lore collectables, it probably is the best farm in the game.  If you don't have knock or can't pick locks, grab an epic rogue hire - you'll need it to pick up 3 to 4 additional nodes (depending if you want to bother with the natural node behind the locked door at the end).

Vendui wrote on Jan 7^th, 2018 at 5:05pm:


WB by the way, glad to see you weren't working on reading comprehension while you were gone   I mentioned that in the intro...in great detail 

Vendui wrote on Jan 7^th, 2018 at 5:05pm:


Fuck me, I'd completely forgotten about the epic version.  That one is just solidly established in my mind as a source for Fragrant Drowshoods that I never even considered checking it for epic drops (which means I should probably check out Partycrashers too since it wasn't bad for farming back in the day too).

Schemes is still a great source for Warehouse Ledgers and various others though, especially (as mentioned) if you spend more time in heroics than epics.  It keeps your piles of useful others well stocked.

Skoodge wrote on Jan 7^th, 2018 at 5:24pm:


what the fuck is reading? If its not in the title, its not important.. Right? ^-^

5 Foot Step wrote on Jan 10^th, 2018 at 10:21am:


3 load screens and you have to recall since there's no entrance to DD to.  There's really nothing in Precious Cargo that you can't farm far more efficiently in the other quests listed.  The only time I can think it would need to be an option is if someone doesn't have a toon that can handle the traps of Vol, then it might be a decent enough alternative.

Vendui wrote on Jan 7^th, 2018 at 5:05pm:


4th node is on the other side and would slightly more than double the run time for a single collectable.  Far quicker just to farm the 3 on the right side and reset.

A Small Problem was a great suggestion though, I'll add it when I have a little more time.

Skoodge wrote on Jan 11^th, 2018 at 7:07am:



Yeah, like 5 Foot said, screw your pitiful DD.. Monks will always beat a DD user to exit the dungeon, unless they are shit and dont know how to fast recall..

Only monks? -_-
Thank you for the effort skoodge.

Digimonk wrote on Jan 18^th, 2018 at 2:30pm:


I totally get what you're saying and agree that crafting was as much as miss as it was a hit (using the same low drop loot for 3 different parts of the game is serious BS - to say the least), I'm going to have to disagree with you over all as far as time and effort vs rewards goes.

Keep in mind, the following statements are based on the assumption that you put the minimum amount of effort into grabbing collectables as you're playing (which really only adds 0-1 second per collectable as you go) to keep up your stock of the lower two tiers of collectables.

I can farm (with my list at least - now that I've narrowed it down to the most profitable spots) the harder to find collectables needed to make a complete CC set for a character (and I'm talking full set for levels 5, 10 and 15) far quicker and easier than I can -

-make a single heroic GS item
-make a single epic GS item
-make a heroic slavers set (which isn't nearly as strong for a melee as a CC set)
-make a single, complete epic slavers item
-and CC is a cake walk vs either heroic or epic ToEE
-or really farm a single newer named item (unless you're just insanely lucky, it can take hours or days - even in a group - to get most of the better named items to drop).

Especially when it comes to heroic and lower level epic (minus the Ravenloft gear, don't have it yet so I'm not sure how many runs it takes to get the named items to drop), most of my sets only have two or three named items because CC gear is better than 90% of the crap in the game that the devs have designed.

KingLurker wrote on Jan 18^th, 2018 at 2:32am:


And tyvm for the return information.  Much appreciated

Digimonk wrote on Jan 18^th, 2018 at 8:56pm:

Winner winner chicken dinner.

Crafting TR gear to arbitrary levels like every 5 level is suboptimal.  Consider crafting items based on when the CC bonus changes, and when the extra slot becomes available.  For example, here are the head items I crafted for a warlock RTR train (because fuck Memoirs for never dropping a reaper circlet):

ML2: Persuasion, Spell Focus Mastery +1 (Augment: Master’s Gift)
ML5: Persuasion, Spell Focus Mastery +2 (Augment: Master’s Gift)
ML10: Persuasion, Spell Focus Mastery +2, INS Spellsight 6 (Augment: Master’s Gift)
ML13: Persuasion, Spell Focus Mastery +3, INS Spellsight 7 (Augment: Master’s Gift)

Those are the minimum levels to get the next Spell Focus Mastery increase, and use the extra slot.

Digimonk wrote on Jan 18^th, 2018 at 2:30pm:


PEDs are epic tokens.

Digimonk wrote on Jan 19^th, 2018 at 12:34pm:

I can say with 98.64% confidence it's a 5% chance for rare collectibles, 20% for uncommon, 75% for common.

Skoodge wrote on Jan 20^th, 2018 at 3:40pm:

Nope.  If you had the alt on a second account, not only could you have automated farming thousands of collectibles for crafting, you could have easily geared it with cannith crafted stuff that's better than the vast majority of the named stuff until epics.  You planned short-term instead of long-term. 

Skoodge wrote on Jan 20^th, 2018 at 3:40pm:

Incorrect again.   The rare collectibles are used for a lot of the shards that go in the extra slot.  I know because I've had to go back and fire up the scripts once or twice since the initial farming binge to restock on certain rares.

Digimonk wrote on Jan 20^th, 2018 at 10:01pm:


"The Only Way"

Uh.. beg to differ.. Manually running it, would be hella more reliable, and faster in the end to account for unknown variables. Not to mention, the only way anything you've said at all to actually work, pertaining to the use of a second account automating while you do stuff on the main, is to have a second+ rig to run the account + scripts on, since the script will typically run based on active window, and likely use a form of image/pixel search to function. Id rather use the old coord integration, hella smoother than image searching, and can be run in an in-active window. Hella better than most scripts ive seen floating around in the past for dis game (mostly ahk scripts from what i recall.. amatures.. ) While folks like me could easily run 6 of these alt rigs no problem, not everyone has that option. Saying someone is incorrect, simply because they don't have access to doing it your specific way is just silly of you Digi. I currently have 500+ of each rare collectable, all done by hand, in a weeks worth of laxidasical running of missions for the tier i was going for in question. Sure, a script can do that while i am otherwise sleeping.. but thats when every rig in my home goes into Mining mode.. so.. yeah ;p

~Edit~ Not to mention, running 6 clients at once, and ghost inputting commands to each client from the primary is fun, and really only doable manually (reliably at least). every node you pick up, i get 6.. ^-^

Vendui wrote on Jan 20^th, 2018 at 11:02pm:

Manually running it isn't any more reliable unless your scripts suck and it's noticeably slower.  No way you can manually click the instance reset sequence with 100% accuracy as fast as a script, unless your scripts suck.  My scripts would run for 10+ hours at a time.  They even took the random stuck loading screens into account and would kill the client, restart it, and log back in and resume the process.

The main reason I ran them on the secondary PC was to make sure I could respond and not get banned if a GM happened to do an AFK check by sending me a tell or something similar.  Otherwise, I could have let the scripts run 24/7 barring ISP outages or DDO downtime.

Sure, some people may not have a second PC to use, but then they could just run it on their main PC.  Sometimes, I ran the scripts on my main and second PCs when I wasn't playing DDO or otherwise using the main box. 

Obviously there are better options than AHK if you have real coding skills, but for some mook who thinks the best way to farm mats is manually cycling thousands of instances, that's like trying to explain rocket science to a caveman.

I didn't say he was incorrect because it wasn't my way.  He's incorrect because he said his way was a better time and effort vs reward option than scripting when simple math proves otherwise.

Simple math also proves your claim of 500+ rare mats via a week of just manually running missions is BS, too.  The math doesn't even come close to adding up.

If we generously assumed that the drop rate on rare mats is 5% rather than the 1-2% that my scripted farming of 20k+ nodes indicated, 500 rare mats means you hit had to hit 10000 collectible nodes.  Assume 5 collectible nodes per mission and 5 minute completion time per mission, that works out to 167 hours of in-game time running missions or 6.94 days. 

That leaves you 1.3 hours to sleep, pee, shit, eat, bathe (optional if you're desperate I guess) and move your toon between the various missions for the entire week.  Yeah... that sounds believable.      We could up the assumed rare drop rate to 10% and you would still have had to put in 12 hours per day for the week doing non-stop 5-minute mission completions.


Skoodge wrote on Jan 21^st, 2018 at 3:05pm:

Actually, he didn't.  See above. 

You are correct though about one thing though.  Until you can post some accurate numbers and math that prove otherwise, there's no point in claiming manual farming is more efficient than scripting it.