MF Farming: Gravicious or Dominus?

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

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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PhysoniumI wrote:

Note, most of your currency gained will be from rates (selling to players or for alts -> jewel -> fuse). Pure currency drops and uniques are negligible. Care most about how many rates you get per run for the time you spent.

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Natharias wrote:

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PhysoniumI wrote:

Note, most of your currency gained will be from rates (selling to players or for alts -> jewel -> fuse). Pure currency drops and uniques are negligible. Care most about how many rates you get per run for the time you spent.

No, most of it won't be.

I can get about 1 alt per minute farming Gravicius the way I currently am. If I pick up and identify everything, I can make 2-4 alts per minute.

It takes ~220 to go to exalted directly, or ~16 to chaos and ~33 chaos to exalted. I don't know the other ratios well enough. So if I get 3 alts per run (3 per thirty seconds), I'd get about 6 alts a minute. I'd have to spend about two hours to get a single exalted orb.

A mjolner costs ~90 exalted for two combined, a six-link shav's ~200, astramentis ~12, two andvarius rings ~7 combined, vertex helmet ~4, saffell's frame ~7 for legacy, coming to 320 exalted. If I cut out the mjolner and decide to go CoC instead, I'd need to Bino's for ~25 for two max crit rolls.

So that comes out to about 640 hours. 320 days if I played for two hours each day, which is what I currently play. But I'm not picking everything up, I'm going rarity and thereby drop chance.

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Vaagur wrote:

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Natharias wrote:

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PhysoniumI wrote:

Note, most of your currency gained will be from rates (selling to players or for alts -> jewel -> fuse). Pure currency drops and uniques are negligible. Care most about how many rates you get per run for the time you spent.

No, most of it won't be.

I can get about 1 alt per minute farming Gravicius the way I currently am. If I pick up and identify everything, I can make 2-4 alts per minute.

It takes ~220 to go to exalted directly, or ~16 to chaos and ~33 chaos to exalted. I don't know the other ratios well enough. So if I get 3 alts per run (3 per thirty seconds), I'd get about 6 alts a minute. I'd have to spend about two hours to get a single exalted orb.

A mjolner costs ~90 exalted for two combined, a six-link shav's ~200, astramentis ~12, two andvarius rings ~7 combined, vertex helmet ~4, saffell's frame ~7 for legacy, coming to 320 exalted. If I cut out the mjolner and decide to go CoC instead, I'd need to Bino's for ~25 for two max crit rolls.

So that comes out to about 640 hours. 320 days if I played for two hours each day, which is what I currently play. But I'm not picking everything up, I'm going rarity and thereby drop chance.

You're trying to buy legacy items and really rare uniques while farming one of the easiest bosses in the game, in the softcore permanent league... It explains your issue.

Try trading, farming maps, chancing white items that you find and their unique counterparts are worth alot, etc...

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

i sold a mjolner for 16 exalts a month or two ago. Sounds crazy? Well, that was the going price in Torment at the time. In Bloodlines a shavs was going unlinked for 17 exalts at the same point. If its going to take a loooong time to farm up all this stuff you might want to take advantage of the new leagues as they come around.


In standard an exalt = 40 fusing, in torment an exalt = 72 fusing in the first month or so. Stuff sells so much faster in temp leagues, I was making 1500 fusing every week from just mfing lvl66 to 73 maps with a self found tornado shot char, 150 iir, 0 iiq. More common uniques sell for more exalts than they do on standard, and then your exalts are worth more fusing and regrets etc. Like regrets are 1:1 chaos at the start of a league, thats an easy trade as no one wants them early on. Find an item like say alpha howl, its probably valued in chaos on standard and very hard to sell, find one in torment first few weeks its worth 2ex, then you sell the exalts for 40+ chaos each, buy 40+ regrets with the 40+ chaos, regrets are worth 16:1 exalt in standard, you might get say 5 exalts worth of regrets at standard rates for an item that maybe ud be lucky to sell for 1 exalt if you found in actually in standard league itself.


The market is probably over now in torment, but just something to think about as new leagues keep coming around. another example, The Dark Seer sceptre from beyond league was selling for 1 or 2 chaos each in the first month of Beyond... price now on standard? Cheapest start at 4 exalts each... ya, seriously, thats a pretty big markup, how long would it take to get 10 chaos in a league? not long, could probably get to endgame and get 10c worth of currency in like 2 days, buy 10 of them, 4 months later that 10c is worth 40 exalts. Its hard to tell how prices will shift etc, but its seriously worth looking in to temp league farming for making standard league wealth, Ive given up making big money in standard, I make more money in temps and can buy the items I want cheaper there too if theyre available, even though my goal is to take it all to standard and enjoy it there.

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

2 days , get going