In short: I’m looking for the most efficient (fast) way to farm Tal Rasha’s Tombs on p8 Hell difficulty.
The full story:
Yesterday I joined the MF split party (A party of 3/5/7 players where each player is farming different location: Chaos/Cows/Pits/etc. Once everyone is done with their location, they go next game and repeat.)
I join the last one with my Blizzard Sorc and since all good spots were already taken I decided to try farming Tal Rasha’s Tombs.
I’m not sure if it was a luck, but for 1.5 hours of farming I got Gul + Mal + Tal Rasha armor (which I sold for Vex). As for me it is a pretty decent result.
In general, I find farming Tombs kinda an interesting idea. The monster density in the Tomb is pretty close to the Cow level monster density with the only difference that monsters have lower HP pool and much faster to kill comparing to Hell Bovines (cows).
The biggest problem for me were the cold immunes. If I enter the tomb and see that current tomb contains Gorebellies or Ghoul lords I’m instantly skipping it and go next tomb to see if it has a better monsters roll (scarabs/preserved deads/apparitions/burning dead). The Unraveller is also a cold immune but there’re not much of them and I can simply ignore them.
So as a result, I’d like to keep farming the tombs in a p8 games but to do it more efficiently (fast). I tried my almost full best in slot summoner necro with Enigma, but since the main damage comes from corpse explosion, it does not do enough damage (in p8 game monsters have X times more health and CE damage is done based on the monster base health).
So there is the question. Would Blizzard sorc be the best choice? Or there is any better build who can handle the tombs much faster?
depends on how fast your merc can kill the cold immunes. you could run meteorb and have a slightly slower kill speed on average but not be slowed down by cold immunes at all, or if your merc is decked out you can just roll through
FrozenOrb/Firewall Hybrid
Thats the only thing i can say.
It´s very good for playing solo but orb just lacks damage with more than 3 people
This is the thing. Looking for p8 build.
With necro I clean all the tombs within ~10min time more or less.
But only able to do it on p1.
There’s no reason to farm there, it isn’t a level 85 zone. Farm pit/ancient tunnels/cs/wsk. Pit has totally decent monster density with the fallen, especially level 2. Honestly idk why people do cows other than that its easy, you can just clear pit/wsk and get the same number of kills in level 85 zones and have a chance at high TC uniques also.
Wsk(1-3 and throne/baal) is actually probably the best place in the game to farm because it can have great density, simple maps, and its all level 85, plus you get baal at the end. The levels with flayers (little act3 dart shooting guys) are easy and amazing density and drops. If yoy’re playing softcore no reason not to farm wsk imo over other regions (i only play hardcore so its more dangerous due to the occasional convict gloams or extra fast deathlords).
Hm, nice point about Pit.
Regarding Wsk I can disagree tho. The problem with this area is that it has the biggest possible monster pull in the game making it hard to predict which resists you will get.
Pit is much much more predictable.
I don’t usually have much problem farming a tomb as a fireball sorc on the way to Duriel after doing Summoner. Pretty sure the only things that are immune to fire are the red skeletons but who cares about them
Yes this is true about wsk, you need a build that can handle many different immunities (hammer, poison/summon necro, jav/fa zon, infinity merc, etc), and also better gear so you can handle harder packs. But if you do its a superior farm location. Pit is the best general 85 area for most chars with weaker gear, then you gear up and go to CS or WSK. Cows are fine but the charms/runes arent in any way superior if you kill the same number of monsters in another better lvl 85 area.