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Leveling - Shard's Landing Guide - Banescale Serpent Camp

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Shard's Landing - This is a ROF T1 Zone. It is easily accessible by guild portal and wizzy/druid port. Vendors are close by and there are some nice repeatable kill quests from Master Hunter Jilhare. A nice aug drops here that works in your charm slot - Stone of the Landing.

This has been an amazing camp for leveling my alts and gather AA's. Rarely do I have any visitors and I have never ran out of mobs to pull even if I run a second group. Also the vendor loot adds up really fast and there is an overabundance of level 90-92 gear that drops here + fear touched gear and +25 purity augments that sell well in the bazaar. I usually make around 200k a day here if I /barter and /bazaar my loots.

There is one named in this camp, Banescale serpent. He is fairly easy and is described below.

Here is the camp.

Banescale.jpg

The exact LOC is 693,-1363,29 pic below. You need to set up on that spot. It's a low hill just above ground level with a bush on either side. If you aren't pretty close to that LOC you will find that the snakes will path strangely and can gather multiple adds (it gets worse the closer you get to the wall).

Campsite.jpg

Here is my Shard's Landing Info.ini

Rich (BB code):
[Shard's Landing]
MobsToPull=List up to 25 mobs. Can be partial names Example: rat,snake,bear or ALL for all mobs
MobsToIgnore=a venomshell pest,corrupted coral,Bodhessel the Caller, a lesser blightshell,a feeble devourer
MobsToBurn=Alpha Naeya, Banescale Serpent, Cragbeak,Elsrop the Crazed,Pincerpest,Plaguespine,Rockspine,Stonecoat,Cobalt,Iremaw,Pyrebeak,Vilefeaster
MezImmune=Alpha Naeya, Banescale Serpent, Cragbeak,Elsrop the Crazed,Pincerpest,Plaguespine,Rockspine,Stonecoat,Cobalt,Iremaw,Pyrebeak,Vilefeaster

This will ignore the bugs in the area, they aren't very good exp and there are plenty of better mobs in the area. If you want to do the Hunter quests you might want to remove A venomshell pest from the MobsToIgnore section.

I 4 box here with a 100 SK, 100 Enchanter, 100 Shaman, and 100 bard and a cleric and wizard mercenary. I've used quite a few combinations successfully though, my bard and enchanter are both able to mez here successfully, unless you set up far away from the above loc you shouldn't ever get more than 2 snakes at a time.

Here are my pull settings.

Rich (BB code):
[Pull]
PullWith=Demand for Power Rk. II
MaxRadius=800
MaxZRange=200
PullWait=0

**Named**

Banescale Serpent


banescaleserpent_image.jpg

Click link above for detailed information. Fairly easy named, can hit pretty hard if you don't have decent AC and augs. Drops decent gear (90-92) and dreadmotes for your Rk. II spells (up to level 99). Usually comes with 1 add.

I've camped here afk for weeks on end with no problems and limited deaths. Your mileage may vary. Good luck!
 
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Thanks for the guide. I'll eventually get my crew to that lvl range and will give it a shot.
 
Thanks kcrobk; good job.

Nice level of detail and also very straight forward :)
 
I ll try this out once am ready, am sure tho this will be perma-camped on my server, as all spots are which I saw revealed on this forum. Anyway redcented for the share.
 
Thanks guys, yeah when you post the spots you know they are going to get camped. Just gets me off my butt to go discover something new lol. I really need to find a good spot to farm glowing dreadmotes if anyone has any suggestions :)

Rob
 
My thought was to try camping Seedspitter in Evantil for glowing dreadmotes. Not sure how well that will work with the slope and the gaps. I plan to try it sometime!
 
Don't you need T4 nameds to drop glowing effectively?

Heartoffearc would be awesome if you get MQ2Navigation to work, there is a spot where 3 nameds spawn close to each other. I have never tried myself yet (having too much fun with 'Into The Hills' atm) but I am definately gonna try it out soon.

P.s. A Herald of Fear one of the nameds in the camp drops a very nice AC aug for your tank.
 
Hmm t4 for glowing. I'm guessing irs a much better drop rate. I've been in Grelleth camping the forgotten murderer (thanks to a nice guide here on red guides! ). I've only gotten one glowing to drop so far. I don't mind moving to a t4 zone to try my luck. I'll have to do some reconnaissance!
 
Hmm t4 for glowing. I'm guessing irs a much better drop rate. I've been in Grelleth camping the forgotten murderer (thanks to a nice guide here on red guides! ). I've only gotten one glowing to drop so far. I don't mind moving to a t4 zone to try my luck. I'll have to do some reconnaissance!

Camping an aug in Windsong then I am moving to the epicenter to try it out.

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On 2nd thought, looked at a few nameds in Grelleth's and on magelo they seem to drop glowing 17%, think I am going there too =)
 
Update: I'm at 4 glowing shards in 3 days of on/off camping at the forgotten murderer camp. There is a chance to kill a second named from there Grelleth`s War Machine, but I can't seem to get my guys to BURN against him for some reason so I only pull him if I'm not afk'ing (he seems to spawn on this hill and i keep my pull Z radius to 50 to keep from pulling him)
 
Hmm I am at the spot in Grelleth's too now, but I can't pull the PH on the hill, he is not in LoS to pull. You pulling with melee?
 
I'm actually not sure how he was pulled I was afk and came back to him in my camp bouncing everyone around. Maybe he came as an add. I pull with a spell I forget what and I'm on my phone lol. I'll do more testing tomorrow and let you know.

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Dutch I'm using Demand for Power and a ZRange of 80 to get the PH on top of that hill.
 
This Banescale camp has gone crazy for me. I'm getting adds just appearing from nowhere and swarms of beetle adds when I never used to pull beetles at all. I had 9 adds last night when I've never pulled more than 2 in months there. I'm wondering if our server just needs to be reset or something. It's such a great spot for PL I'd hate to find out that it's been nerfed some how. Any one else here lately?
 
I'd also recommend the arena in same zone I camp there for a couple weeks with no issues got all the way to 105 there
 
good place if you want to get some bags as well i’ve looted two of the 28 slot 100 wr bags from this camp too
 
Leveling - Shard's Landing Guide - Banescale Serpent Camp

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