New World

Windsward Outer Amrine Temple Farm

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Good Morning Friends! Yesterday we had a patch to the game that introduced the Turkulon event and it might have impacted drop rates on these bosses. My friend Vern was trying to farm Putris and having no luck, but I joined him out there and started getting drops within no time. So I am not sure if Vern is just unlucky or if the 590 items are a bit rarer than they were previously. I just wanted to give you a heads-up as you venture forth to farm gear, that it might take longer than expected or that drop chances might go up if you are in a group. Today’s farm is pretty simple and involves the level 24 elite named Kar-El the Gate Keeper that guards the giant blue door at the outdoor portion of the Amrine Temple complex. There are only two drops available on the loot table, but they seemed to drop quicker than some of the camps but your mileage may vary.

The easiest port to get to this encounter is to go straight north from the Amrine Temple Expedition teleport and then loop along the top of the Amrine Complex and enter from the north. This will allow you to ascend to the top of the temple area where this boss spawns. I tried to come in from the Windsward side which is also doable, but it involved running around a lot until I could find a place to ascend. While you are set up there you might end up needing to clear a half dozen random ancient spawns that also appear on this top tier of the temple. The boss itself has the standard five to six-minute respawn timer, with the occasional random instant respawn behavior that most encounters seem to have.

I came out here to add a Fire Staff to my repertoire of 590 weapons for every possible type. However, there is also a pretty decent focus necklace that might be a solid pickup for healers. The necklace for me at least seemed to be more common than the Fire Staff as I got five of them to drop before getting my first staff. Again your mileage may vary because the game seems to “stick” on a single drop when farming these 590 items. You might have the opposite scenario of getting nothing but Fire Staves. Unfortunately, there seems to be nothing much else of note on the drop table other than these two items.

This farm was pretty straightforward and seemed to have better drop chances than Scratchy for example. It took me a little less than two hours to farm up both items and then move on to the next farm. I will admit though Vern gave me a bit of a heart attack yesterday making me think that after all of this work, they had done something to remove the 590 drops. While I have not verified all of the camps since the patch, I can verify that Putris and Red Claw are both still dropping so it is highly likely that everything is as well.

I still have several more of these, so I might break my own rule and post on Saturday just to churn through them and get them out the door. Again I have collected all of these into a category on the blog where you can find all of my Loot Farm guides for New World. As always if you know any great spots that I have not visited that drop level 590 gear, please drop me a line below.

Reekwater Mosswater Bourg Farm

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Good Morning Friends! I still have a large stack of these camps to go through and this morning we are going to introduce a pretty enjoyable one. If you are Syndicate faction and have done all of your promotion quests, you will recognize this location because this is where Lost Alchemist Krockes spawns. However, he is not really who we are focused on because all of the good stuff actually drops from his pet alligator named Putris. Krockes also has a good drop on his table, but the vast majority of what we care about is sitting on the gator… but we will be killing both each time. The only real interruptions out here will be from other folks farming for drops or for syndicate players trying to complete the quest. Please let them do so and if you find them wandering around aimlessly… maybe send them a tell to let them know it is about to spawn again.

This is located due west of Reekwater town, and is on the border of Windsward… but entering in from that direction will just mean you have to clear away more encounters as the density of mobs is thickest along that edge. If you were being very careful you could honestly probably avoid fighting anything on your way to Krockes and Putris. There are a good number of spawns along the road however and if you stray off the path there is at least one of those silver-colored alpha wolves. Both encounters drop a piece of tradeskill gear, so it is actually fairly likely that you might encounter someone else farming with you. As always this is a good opportunity to group up and make a new friend as you while away the hours of farming for that drop you need. Krockes drops Obsidian Gypsum so he is a pretty easy way to farm your daily three.

All told it is a really great general camp especially for Dexterity-focused builds given you can pick up a Greatsword, Rapier, and Spear that are all drift compatible with that lifestyle. For those of you on Team Strength, then there isn’t much at all that is going to interest you. I do really like the Void Gauntlet overall since I tend to go down the tree that it is buffing. However, one thing I have noticed is it is like AGS over-compensated and puts twice as many Void Gauntlets, Greatswords, and Blunderbusses out in the world than they did other weapon types. Let’s dive into a rundown of the notable drops:

Another interesting side effect of this camp is you are very likely to walk away with a bag full of various legendary crafting materials. I think I farmed this for around four hours to get all of the drops. I saw 1 rapier, 1 greatsword, 3 void gauntlets, 5 spears, and around a dozen different legendary materials. You will also walk away with stacks of the highest-tier potions, which is admittedly one of the positives of the farmer lifestyle. I really need to track down a Strength-Based spear, but so far I have yet to find one… at least not from a farmable camp like this.

I believe I have six more of these waiting in the wings now, pending I don’t find any new ones to run off into the world and document. As always I have collected these in a Loot Farms category here on the blog, and I think my plan once completed is to add something to the Game Tools page that breaks the information out by weapon type. As always if you know any great spots that I have not visited that drop level 590 gear, please drop me a line below.

Windsward Scratchrock Burrow Farm

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Yesterday I spent some time preparing the media assets for all of the farms I had documented so far and including the one I am posting today I have seven and am working on an eighth currently. I am not sure when I will reach my stopping point, but for now, I am chugging along. Today’s far is the very first of the ones that I have posted that I would highly suggest you NOT go farm. This location is Scratchrock Burrow aka the cave that Scratchy the Elite Bear lives in, and it is heavily involved in a low-level quest chain. That means you are going to have a ton of low-level players traipsing in and out of the cave and since we don’t want to obstruct progress… there are going to be times that you have to wait for a player to tag scratchy upon spawning slowing down the progress. Because this is a level 16 bear… the drop rates are also completely awful meaning you will be standing here for many hours. I legitimately lost track of how long I farmed this before getting the two drops.

Scratchrock Burrow is located due south of Windsward, making it an extremely easy to get to farming spot. Scratchy himself is on a 5-minute respawn timer and will aggro you as soon as he spawns in if you are anywhere in the vicinity. There is some silver and saltpeter in the mine and some iron outside the mine, but apart from that, the only meaningful resource are the game animals outside that you could farm for leather while waiting on the timer to tick down. Since players are still starting fresh on servers given the uptick in the game, you are going to get multiple visits per farming run of folks who need the quest. Be nice and invite them to your party just to make sure that they get kill credit. This however means that you need to pay a bit more attention than the usual alt-tab until you hear the boss spawn and then tab back in to kill it immediately.

What makes this camp so frustrating is the rarity of the good drops. I’ve heard tale of folks rolling up on this camp and getting either the hatchet or ring within minutes. In my experience I got the earring that is useless over and over… and the only reason I included it in my drops image is to make you aware that it is a thing. I have this feeling that when you kill a monster there is a chance of getting a drop on the rare loot table, and that on this particular encounter that secondary table is heavily weighted toward giving you the earring. You might have also noticed that this is the same loot that Gren in Brightwood drops… which is absolutely true. Gren even at level 60 is an annoying boss to solo, so I opted towards farming Scratchy instead. Another weird thing that you will notice when you get one, is that the ring is bugged and has no image associated with it… meaning it just looks like whatever you moused over before mousing over it.

You may also notice that the hatchet is misspelled, which leads me to believe that this entire camp might be ephemeral. There was a situation like this out in Ebonscale Reach where a level 45ish pirate dropped the loot table of an encounter in the outdoor dungeon Siren’s Grotto. There might be a time in the future when Gren and Scratchy are decoupled and you can no longer farm a level 16 encounter and get level 60 gear. Even with that in mind… it is a rough farm. I am glad I did it just so that I could walk away with the ring, but I can’t say I would suggest anyone else follow in my footsteps. I did the work however so I am documenting it on my blog.

Like I said at the start I have six more of these with a seventh in the work, so you will likely see more in the coming days. I’ve collected all of my New World loot guides in a single “Loot Farms” category. As always if you know any great spots that I have not visited that drop level 590 gear, please drop me a line below.

Ebonscale Reach Red Claw Farm

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Good Morning Friends! While I took the weekend off from making blog posts, I did not take the weekend off from documenting New World loot farms and as a result, I have several more days of these ready to go. This morning we are going to talk about a loot farm involving an Angry Earth stone bear named Red Claw in Ebonscale Reach. While this farm is absolutely soloable, it is very likely you will roll up on the location and have multiple others trying to farm the boss as well. I highly suggest that you build impromptu groups because the random chatter can sustain you through the hours of farming. There are also a lot of various Angry Earth dryad-type creatures scattered around the area and at any given time you are going to likely have to deal with both the bear spawning and a number of other things as well. It is possible to “break” the camp and get the spawns timed out so that you only have to deal with one thing at a time, but this takes some significant work to actually pull off.

Unfortunately the camp is not really located near a teleport, so it is going to be a significant run from anywhere. I suggest starting at the main town in Ebonscale Reach and then running south along the roads. About the midpoint in this journey, there is a named boar called Mighty Tusk that you might encounter but unfortunately, it has no significant drops. The location we are shooting for is called Euphorcea and is your standard dryad ruins-type location. One interesting thing about this camp, in particular, is that Rafflebones spawns as a level 66 mob in the courtyard and with a coordinated effort you can farm that as well every few hours adding a number of completely random 590 item level drops. I spent about six hours at this spawn and during that time I saw Rafflebones twice and it dropped a 590 Musket and a 590 Ice Gauntlet.

If I thought the last farm I wrote about was rough… this one would have likely broken me were it not for making a number of friends along the way. New World seems to have this habit of getting “stuck” on a particular drop. For me, it was the Bloodsucker’s Sword and during the course of my six-hour farm, I saw six of them in total. I specifically came out here to get a Great Axe, and the person that was there with me probably saw around the same number of those while waiting on a single Greatsword to drop. All told I saw 6 of the Greatsword, 4 of the dexterity ring, a wide array of the sub 590 trash drops, and my final drop was the Guillotine that I came there seeking. I also picked up a wide array of legendary weapon crafting materials in the process but lost count of those. Another thing of note is that you can use this boss to farm your daily Obsidian Gypsum drops.

Potentially the most interesting thing about this camp in particular is it changed my outlook on how to approach these. I made so many friends while farming this one item in particular, and since that point, I have held conversations with a wide number of them… one even regularly inviting me to activities. It also made me start to rethink my roleplaying-server indoctrination of considering those with dumb names to be not someone worth spending time on. I would have never struck up a conversation with someone named EbolaIsBae but after spending a few hours with them, realized they are a pretty solid person. Again all of these weapons can be upgraded all the way to 590 once you have capped your expertise at 600 and gathered some Umbral Shards.

Like I said at the head of this article, I’ve already documented several more of these loot farms and will be rolling them out in the coming days. At some point, I am going to have to collect these on a permanent page or something, but for the time being I am collecting them all in a single sub-category called “Loot Farms”. If you know any great spots for 590 gear that I should check out, feel free to drop me a line below.