Oni-Goroshi in Current League - are You gonna farm it or drop it?

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Maxtrux wrote:

Finally...
5 played hours with each of my 3 toons, at level 8.5. Took me the whole damn weekend to find it. Best part? I don't even need it.

And yet... Journey before Destination.

I started the whole "get a Oni" because:
1- It's almost 5 years I am in there and I could get one at least in a Remove-Only tab
2- Could help having a levelling weapon, for once
3- Wanted to avoid most of the Heist's... um... manurestorm of Day1 and Day2
4- There is a slight chance I'll do a White Wind build, so I needed some exercise with the "five six seven eight I use this hand to [CENSORED]" mindset
5- A Strage Voice in my head told me "Why not break the mold of the usual rush to Endgame by doing something new and exciting?, and it persuaded me enough"

Since I felt the whole thing NEEDED a base of masochism, I also did not go with 3 Scions. Rather, I went Ranger (my main), Scion and Shadow (random mules for Essences and Exalted Sets). Casually, Ranger and Shadow were sub-par optimal choices for Hillock farming. Did not do that on purpose

The whole thing was resembling an IV Drop situations. Only you have to stay awake for the whole duration and the IV Sack may or may not be the size of a silos. It's tedious. It's inefficient. The time you take to get the sword is more than enough to get to Act7-10 depending on your speed. It's something only a botfarm could accept to do for profit.

And yet...

I had to take into account the drops. Yeah. I had to craft and gamble for a +x% incDamage Rusted Spike. I had to understand the 3% movSpd on a Corrugated Buckler is a trap since it just covers the malus it gives to MovSpd for wearing a shield. Most important I was happy to find a Rare item, and actually had to weight its modifiers. I had to identify my Rare drop because it could actually be an improvement for my current equipment.

Was it worth the hassle? In terms of gaming, not really. A pinpoint purchase would have been faster and better than the other 6 uniques I've found during the Hillock farming. But for 2 days I felt like I was playing an actual Action RPG. You know, the ones where you grind a specific content for so much time actually enjoying your time while waiting for the big drop to come. True, it's still tainted by Path of Exile's grinding, it numbs your heart and makes your soul sour - so much you are not even that much happy when getting the very reason you started the whole thing.

But it is the most close feeling of an ARPG you will ever get from this game. And for this, Charan, you have my thanks.


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... no, of course I will not farm another one. If it is on the way for my mules to get to Lioneye, that's fine. There are bot-farms for those kind of things

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ChanBalam wrote:

I have four scions in rotation at level 8. No sword yet.


It took me about 3 hours each to get all four to level 7 and not much less to get them all to level 8.

I figured the math on level 7 though. If you just run to Hillock you get 60 exp points and can do that about every minute in a rotation, including transitions. That needs some kind of speed boost. 10% or more.

If you full clear at level 7 you get 5 exp points per zombie and 60 for Hillock and can generate 200 points pretty easily in a minute and a half rotation. There are at least 30 zombies in each TS map. 150+60=210

In four full clears, including transitions, over 6 minutes you earn ~800 points total
In six "run straight to Hillock" over 6 minutes you earn 360 points

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EratheiL wrote:

I want to try to farm the sword from the fables but I need 2 bits of informations and first is hardcore league have a lower drop chance or spawn? and second can you tell me like how many hours i will need to farm in hours per char?

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EratheiL wrote:

I want to try to farm the sword from the fables but I need 2 bits of informations and first is hardcore league have a lower drop chance or spawn? and second can you tell me like how many hours i will need to farm in hours per char?

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EratheiL wrote:

I want to try to farm the sword from the fables but I need 2 bits of informations and first is hardcore league have a lower drop chance or spawn? and second can you tell me like how many hours i will need to farm in hours per char?