MF Farming: Gravicious or Dominus?

It takes four different levels to get to Dominus. I can do a single Dominus run in about 15 minutes, depending on deaths (Only running just over 2k ES and doing low-life, so chaos damage gets me often) but I use Cast on Death + Portal to compensate for lost time.

But I can do a single Gravicius in about thirty seconds.

Can Gravicius still drop things like Mjolner, Shavronne's Wrappings, and other useful uniques?

Since Ebony Barracks is a level 64 zone, you can get any unique under required level 66 from Gravicius.

As for the efficiency of Gravicius vs Dominus, you'd have to figure it out yourself unforunately. I personally find that the rewards for Dominus are higher.

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Noperative wrote:

Since Ebony Barracks is a level 64 zone, you can get any unique under required level 66 from Gravicius.

As for the efficiency of Gravicius vs Dominus, you'd have to figure it out yourself unforunately. I personally find that the rewards for Dominus are higher.

Well I got two uniques from Gravicius (Redbeak and Karui Ward) within the first five runs but got no other uniques in about another thirty runs.

But I was getting about two alterations per minute. So I'll definitely be farming him before Dominus. It simply takes too long to do Dominus.

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Natharias wrote:

But I was getting about two alterations per minute. So I'll definitely be farming him before Dominus. It simply takes too long to do Dominus.

for solo farming i would definitely do gravicious starting from the gardens entry.

dominus runs are more suitable for groups of players sharing their portals.

most mf players can do a domi run in 4 minutes and you get 6 unique mobs and 1 boss mobs worth of items,

if you have enough mf they will drop about 30 - 40 rares combined.

A 4 minute run is really fast. I could prolly do a run in 3-4 minutes but that's on a char that does over 100k DPS. With a lot of MF gear, without a rediculous spec that costs a fortune, it'd be hard.

If dom is a 15 min run you should avoid it. Speed is a big part of mfing. Something to keep in mind, especially late in leagues or perm leagues, is that most of the wealth is from vendors rather than trade. For a quick comparison, you would make more doing 4-5 min dock runs than 15 min dom runs. As far as T1 uniques go, I have played for more than 2 years and made many mf chars and never found a shavs. I do not consider T1 uniques when deciding the best place to farm. Once you have better gear and a faster char, by all means farm where more items/stats can drop. But, don't gimp yourself by farming an inefficient location just because xyz unique can drop there.

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

most mf players can do a domi run in 4 minutes and you get 6 unique mobs and 1 boss mobs worth of items,

if you have enough mf they will drop about 30 - 40 rares combined.

As previously noted, that's with god-like gear and you shouldn't be MFing if you can do that.

Gravicius seems the only cheap boss to farm.

personally i only look between piety and dom, and usually pick piety. Dom is the best drops ur gonna get, but the trash on the way there are absolutely rubbish. A piety run yields an awful lot of currency and uniques from killing the trash in lunaris 3. however if you are not killing any trash... I guess grav might be worth? honestly I feel like the trash in lunaris ends up being worth as much as the bosses unless you are multiboxed/massive party zerging with multiple instances etc. Ive had a total 1 actual exalt drop from piety and dom having done 1000s of runs, ive had 10s of exalts from trash in lunaris.

when I mf farm merciless, more often its docks, as odd as that sounds. Loads of chests etc which are an awesome source of straight up orbs, I run it for corrupt zones and mf everything that gets in my way, you get a unique boss at the end of the corrupt zone, it has a quantity buff from the zone mods and you get sacrifice pieces which are worth something by themselves. vaal gems can be vendored up into vaal orbs, I just find it really worth while. after some time you have a ton of the 'bad' 3 sac pieces, so then you just run them from the map device, extremely quick runs, mega amounts of unique boss kills per hour, lots of midnights etc.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

Ive had a total 1 actual exalt drop from piety and dom having done 1000s of runs, ive had 10s of exalts from trash in lunaris.

So much for "risk vs reward", hehe...