Fast and Easy Merveil Runs!

Also worth noting, you can do this without the portal and only add ~30 seconds to the run as long as you clear the path from the waypoint to the Cavern of Anger entrance the first time. Or you can add another minute and reset Cavern of Wrath as well and grab 2-4 more rares and some more scrolls/orbs as you one-shot everything on your way and grab a few chests.

With +80% IIR I was getting ~1-3 rares from each Daughter, and occasionally ~1-2 more from yellows, while Merveil herself was dropping ~3-5 rares. Basically a whole inventory full of rares some ~5 minute runs. After like 15 runs though I still didn't have any uniques drop. >.<

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Astasia wrote:

After like 15 runs though I still didn't have any uniques drop. >.<

Really? I have one drop just about every 10 runs or so. I expect that number might climb when I get into cruel.

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Quakespeare wrote:

Doing this right now. Works marvellously!

Don't you mean Merveillously? ;)

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boxgap wrote:

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Quakespeare wrote:

Doing this right now. Works marvellously!

Don't you mean Merveillously? ;)

I lol'd.

I did a couple more hours of runs without stopping, I lost track of how many. I picked up the pace though and usually still had 2 instances open when I got to the Anger door (so under 4 minute runs). Maybe 30 runs at that math, doesn't sound off. Add around 15 from before for ~45 total, I never got a single unique from Merveil. Ironically though, I did get 2 unique drops from the daughter in Caverns of Wrath shortly after I debated whether to stop resetting it or not and decided not to.

Honestly didn't expect to have much better luck than that, didn't get anything I wanted but did get 2 full stacks of Transmutes from selling unidentified rares.

Nice , thanks i am gonna try it :)

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Astasia wrote:

I did a couple more hours of runs without stopping, I lost track of how many. I picked up the pace though and usually still had 2 instances open when I got to the Anger door (so under 4 minute runs). Maybe 30 runs at that math, doesn't sound off. Add around 15 from before for ~45 total, I never got a single unique from Merveil. Ironically though, I did get 2 unique drops from the daughter in Caverns of Wrath shortly after I debated whether to stop resetting it or not and decided not to.

Honestly didn't expect to have much better luck than that, didn't get anything I wanted but did get 2 full stacks of Transmutes from selling unidentified rares.

Just out of curiosity, which difficulty are you running? Also how much IR and IQ do you have stacked?

This is on normal with a level 35 character with 300 DPS that can oneshot most monsters with a single Whirling Blades and can kill Merveil in her second form before she finishes her starting animation (so others can judge what kind of speed differences they might have). 78% IIR and 12% IIQ.

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boxgap wrote:

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Quakespeare wrote:

Doing this right now. Works marvellously!

Don't you mean Merveillously? ;)

Lmao.

I really think bosses have some sort of nerfed unique droprate compared to other mobs. Around the time of my last post I decided to up my IIR to 100% (at the loss of 100 DPS) and have been doing Merveil and later Brutus runs since. Not a single unique from either of them. I figured Brutus might be better since I wanted a level 8 unique anyway, the portal thing works for him too, use it before upper prison entrance. Since you enter that map "in the middle" you can often find the warden's quarters much quicker than you can get through Caverns of Anger, so the runs are even faster. Anyway he drops a similar amount of rares, and probably uniques, but I never got any from him. I did however get yet another unique from a sub-boss, Sawbones. So that's 3 uniques in one night while doing boss runs... none of them from said bosses. I only fought the sub-bosses like 1/3 of the time too, so that I got 3 uniques from them in much fewer kills really makes me think the big bosses have some sort of anti-unique thing, or just hate me.