Corrupted Area Farming

So it is stated in the patch notes that most large chests will be replaced with corrupted zones. As long as they keep the spawn rate the same the fastest way to farm large chests now will be the fastest way to farm corrupted zones after the patch.

If this is the case which area do you think will yield the highest amount of corrupted zones per hour?

My bet is on Catacombs. It has always been fast and easy to find the room with the chance to spawn a chest. If the rates of finding them are the same it is possible to get into around 4 corrupted zones per hour. That combined with Catacombs' high level and scroll racks may put farming Catacombs on the level of farming Piety or Dominus.

"Golden Chests have been removed from most areas due to Corrupted Secret Areas taking over some of their role. They still exist in the Vaults of Atziri for the achievement."

That isn't the same thing as putting a corrupted zone in the place of each chest. It could be, but that wording makes me doubt it.

As for the best zones... boss-farming zones might not be on the list since they're already rewarding/have a purpose. Zones that are easy to move around in, maybe zones with a high area level (maybe not! - what if corrupted zones spawn based on character level?).

- If boss-farmin areas are not on some sort of nerf, Upper Sceptre of God or Lunaris 3 (so you can combine with Piety/Dom runs)
- If too low-level is not on some sort of nerf, Merciless Ledge would go fastest.
- If there are too-low level nerfs, and you need to be > 60 (like with xp): Merciless Docks.

My new MF-Wander hopes that Upper Sceptre will work.

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KG31459 написал:

"Golden Chests have been removed from most areas due to Corrupted Secret Areas taking over some of their role. They still exist in the Vaults of Atziri for the achievement."

That isn't the same thing as putting a corrupted zone in the place of each chest. It could be, but that wording makes me doubt it.

As for the best zones... boss-farming zones might not be on the list since they're already rewarding/have a purpose. Zones that are easy to move around in, maybe zones with a high area level (maybe not! - what if corrupted zones spawn based on character level?).

i understood what they were getting at but the big chests called "large chests" despite being gold and the only "golden chests" are in the solaris and/or lunaris temples. so either it was an honest mistake or some kind of conspiracy (hah).

city of sarn is the fastest area to traverse, i think

or maybe one of the sidezones

Has anyone done some testing with each normal area and corrupted areas? Like does every area have a possibility of having one, or is it only for certain areas? Cause reinstancing city of sarn or other small areas would be very efficient for this.

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Tyrfalger написал:

Has anyone done some testing with each normal area and corrupted areas? Like does every area have a possibility of having one, or is it only for certain areas? Cause reinstancing city of sarn or other small areas would be very efficient for this.

First zone I entered = City of Sarn
First thing I saw = Corrupted area
First thing I noticed = Flying octopus!
First thing after seeing the boss = Perma freeze and death. On a lvl 93 character.

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linkstatic написал:

First zone I entered = City of Sarn
First thing I saw = Corrupted area
First thing I noticed = Flying octopus!
First thing after seeing the boss = Perma freeze and death. On a lvl 93 character.

Rima the Temptress right? Unlimited freeze pulse mines, imba ice rain, and constant ice nova spam.. I don't think she's meant to be taken on alone. Not enough skills alone to keep her busy. No idea how melee characters are going to take her on alone. There was just a wall between my summoner and her, and she spams ice nova constantly, like once every half a second it seems.. Half an hour later, only managed to get her down by 10%. I'm level 63 only though.. and my minions die like flies.

I was farming this corrupted zone for 1 hr 45 minutes last night.

105 minutes farming w/ ~1 minute every 15 to sell yellow/drop currency
in that time 5 different spawns of corrupted area, always same location, mid map
drop results 4 corrupted gems, 1 fragment

on average I'd move through the zone in about 2-4 minutes b/c i was clearing everything to check for alternate spawns

sooo [105 - (105/15)]/(3 minutes per run)/(5 areas found) = ~6 runs/ corrupted area

for reference i'm a lvl 83 marauder (had to rework tree significantly last night)
i run a FB spec, 5k hp, ~17k armor, 79 all res, 29k dps on infernal blow

had trouble on one corrupted area w/ ele weakness, got a couple freezes on boss, but really i just took it in the teeth and won.

i did notice the vaal chest is present prior to boss death, not sure if you can click it w/o fight, i'll see if i can find out.

cheers mates

*edit* - I did some more farming today, you CANNOT open chests prior to boss dying, they're locked like strongboxes in ambush until mobs are dead