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Guide - Ethernere Tainted West Karana – COTF Rare Farming (100+)

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Here is a guide to afk camping in Ethernere Tainted West Karana (ETWK) with the goal of getting COTF rares.

Neriak 4th gate is camped 24/7 on the Rathe by 1-2 groups and Argin Hiz is almost always camped too so I wanted to find a safe and quiet spot where I could afk farm COTF rares. I've been here off and on for the past week and have so far managed to get 1 COTF rare from here. In that time I've also never seen another player anywhere close to this camp although there are often a few other players in the zone since ETWK is a hub. Make sure you have /anon on so you don't get asked to do DH HA by people passing through.

I was pretty hesitant to share this spot because every decent spot mentioned on here becomes permamently camped on my server but I'm going to take a break and play on TLP for a while so here it is. I did this camp with a SK, Enc, Cle, Wiz, J5 Wiz merc, J5 Wiz merc. You can see the exact settings used in my group setup here http://www.redguides.com/community/...-Wizard-Cleric-with-INIs-Holyshits-and-Macros, however any group composition that includes a strong tank and a CC should work fine.

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This camp is located at -3356 -5270 in the eastern part of the zone at the orange circle on the map. You want to setup on the small hill that gives you a good view of the surrounding area. This is a safe spot however there is a roamer that comes very close to the east so if you're camped too far east you'll aggro the roamer although it shouldn't be a big deal for your CC to handle if that happens.

There is a named called Grawrarawr that pops fairly frequently in multiple locations here http://cotf.eqresource.com/grawrarawr.php The named spawns a bunch of mezzable adds (and the adds drop loot so more chance of rares). Your puller will also sometimes pull an add with the named so you need CC to safely do this camp. You also need a tank that can handle tanking COTF tier 1 named. The named drops latent ether armor pieces so its a decent way of gearing up your FTP alts.

The mesh I downloaded for this zone was giving me trouble but the area is so open and flat that you don't actually need mq2navigation to pull. I disabled mq2navigation (/plugin mq2navigation unload) and was able to pull all the nearby mobs without it.

In the kissassist puller settings I set the pull radius to 800 which pulls everything nearby without crossing over the river.

Rich (BB code):
[Pull]
MaxRadius=800

In the kissassist_info file you need to ignore "a spider egg sac":
Rich (BB code):
[Ethernere Tainted West Karana]
MobsToPull=List up to 25 mobs. Can be partial names Macro example: rat,snake,bear or ALL for all mobs
MobsToIgnore=a spider egg sac
MobsToBurn=Grawrarawr
MezImmune=List up to 10 mobs. Use full names i.e. a green snake,a blue tiger,a wide eye ooze or NULL

I was making around 50-100k per day from vendor drops which I suppose is fairly typical of a cotf zone. There's also collectibles that drop frequently and although demand for them is limited, they usually sell individually for 1-10k each or 20-40k for a complete set.

There you have it. If Neriak 4th gate and Argin Hiz are as camped on your server as they are on mine then this is a safe and out of the way location where you can farm for COTF rares.
 
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Have been using this spot myself for a few weeks for just xp. Really is a good area.
 
Have been using this spot myself for a few weeks for just xp. Really is a good area.

I'm glad you said that. I forgot to mention that exp here is also quite decent. It's one of the better afk exp spots I've found outside of TDS.
 
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That's basically one of my old favorite spots. Can't say I'm particularly thrilled to see it publicized but it's also fairly obvious if you're looking for a good AFK camp, so I'm not surprised other people have come to the same conclusion on their own.
 
I have trouble when Gwararawr is pulled lol, any good way to get him down quick?
I am using SK, Wiz, and Enchanter with 2 heals mercs
 
I have trouble when Gwararawr is pulled lol, any good way to get him down quick?
I am using SK, Wiz, and Enchanter with 2 heals mercs

Go across from this to the corner and add grrawr and the spiders to an ignore list. Don't bother with them it isn't worth it.
 
My team died on Graw a few times before I figured out what was causing it. He has a rear arc massive melee/casting slow and snare. My SK was set to behindonce and was turning the mob towards my casters, who then couldn't do crap for DPS/heals. At the same time, my bard/Zerker were set to stay behind so they were getting owned as well.

To fix it I set the SK to "loose" so he just attacks as it comes into camp and doesn't flip the mob, and I set the bard/zerker to "pin" so they stay beside mobs at all times.

Thanks for recommending this spot, got my chars from 100-105 and ~1000 AAs, plus a new heroic zerk 85-105 here over the last week. Even got a chase item!
 
Any other locations in ETWK?

The reality is you can setup almost anywhere where you team can handle the mobs and where the camp can be broken and kept broken or is already mostly singles. There are other places in ETWK where this is possible. It's been a while for me, though, so I'd have to look at the map again.
 
Yeah best thing to do is just scout around the map and find yourself a nice open spot. Keep in mind where the wizard/druid port ins are and where the NPC merchant camp + portout stones are, because there will be some occasional foot traffic between them.

I will say that pure XP wise, DH can be much faster. I was killing about 75 mobs an hour at this camp, then moved to DH and XP tracker says I'm averaging 134mobs/hour over the last 12 hours.
 
A note about DH, though, is ANYONE running to Argin Hiz runs right through your camp (with the exception of one or two semi-hidden spots that seem to be perma-camped on my server). I've made the run and stopped and watched very obvious afk botting just to see if mq2posse would kick in. It didn't. Good times.

I highly recommend wherever you end up that you make sure your afk tools are working properly. A GM popped into HoT once when I was afk botting and I appreciated that all my toons /q'd out. I get they could have been invisible, but its better than nothing.
 
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A note about DH, though, is ANYONE running to Arx runs right through your camp (with the exception of one or two semi-hidden spots that seem to be perma-camped on my server). I've made the run and stopped and watched very obvious afk botting just to see if mq2posse would kick in. It didn't. Good times.

I highly recommend wherever you end up that you make sure your afk tools are working properly. A GM popped into HoT once when I was afk botting and I appreciated that all my toons /q'd out. I get they could have been invisible, but its better than nothing.

Yeah I made sure to setup and test GTFO before coming to the DH camp. It has only been triggered once so far in a couple of days. Would you mind sharing the spots you're talking about? Apparently this spot isn't popular on my server... no other groups XPing in zone other than mine.
 
Guide - Ethernere Tainted West Karana – COTF Rare Farming (100+)

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