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

Decided to farm an oni this league. Ran 3 rangers (slower than scion I know). First dropped at 3h mark, shortly after reaching level 8 on first char. Second dropped at 3h 10m mark, again shortly after reaching level 8 on second char. 3 char is at 3h 25m mark, level 8.09. I'm probably just being greedy wanting the 3rd, especially in softcore... ah well.



Actually not a terrible experience tbh. It took me longer to farm cards for a tabula in SSFHC lol.

So after which level I should only kill hillock and not clearing the beach?

most people usually kill only Hillock as soon as they reach Level 7, but some did it from Level 6 on.

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YoRasta wrote:

So after which level I should only kill hillock and not clearing the beach?

You have a higher probability of getting Uber Hillock after hitting level 8. Many times the shows up soon after a runner gets to 8. I had him show at 8.1 and 8.3 this league with two more who are over 8.5 and haven't seen hide nor hair of him.

I full cleared up to 8.0 and then ran direct. We don't know how the probability of Uber Hillock showing changes at 8.0, so starting earlier may work well. The earliest I would start the direct runs is 7.75 or so.

I farmed two this league. Three Scion runners, the first dropped 3 bars into level 8 at 7.5hrs played (added up from all three runners) and second dropped 10 bars into level 8 at 11hrs total played.

Back with the update.

Decided to ignore the optimal setup for farming and just do something that would be fun (I know, right!? :p)

Ran 5 characters 1 ranger; 2 shadows; 2 witches.

Pattern was kill first zombie; open support gem chest for the extra chance for loot and kill only Hillock.

Sword took 1457 runs to drop.

ranger lvl 8 19% - 6 h 39 min 51 sec
shadow1 lvl 8 8% - 5 h 37 min 41 sec
shadow2 lvl 8 11% - 5 h 46 min 13 sec
witch1 lvl 8 13% - 5 h 48 min 6 sec (OG drop)
witch2 lvl 8 15% - 6 h 28 min 46 sec

Total time to drop a sword was 30 hours 20 minutes 40 seconds spread over 10 days.

Gear for the fight


Uniques dropped overall


Currency gained from drops

plus from vendor


Not included are glassblowers baubles 'cuz potato won't let me sell quality flasks without crashing.

The fact that there's 15 characters using Oni-Goroshi on the ladder is another reason to further nerf the drop rate of the sword.
https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?item=Oni-Goroshi

OG wielders are fucking dominating! Do something ggg! /s

124 swords for sale at the moment of posting this
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Heist/5K77VTa

Imagine that... 124 potential users besides those who have their accounts privated or are too low level and can't be seen if they are not on the ladder. /s

The OG drop nerf is in line with the "bazillion dps viper strike build" only a handful of people ever saw that got viper strike gutted.

Maybe it's time ggg actually reverted the drop rates to pre 3.2.0.

Running 5 characters and seeing a sword drop on a lvl 8+ when they claim it could spawn at lower levels just seems like a flat out lie.
Haven't read through the thread but I'm going to check if anyone actually dropped one below level 7 in the last two leagues.

For anyone willing to attempt the grind: do not pick music that winds you up.
The tediousness of the grind and amping music may lead to the death of your mouse or keyboard.

Good luck to all OG farmers!

May Kuduku withold his misfortune for some other exile brave enough to tempt the god!

I am actually impressed by the number of Oni-Goroshi users this league. I though I was doing something somewhat niche... what kind of meta build is rising with OG that I do not know about? :P

I dropped 2 Onis this league. Don't know how long first one took, but second took about 6.5 hours between 3 characters, all Scion. First one seemed pretty similar in time and both times it dropped for a lvl 7 character.

I did a thing.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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So, since White Wind is not dropping, I guess I am stuck with Oni-Goroshi until at least 90. And the fact my tree has been respecced to suit swords means the alternative is a 2H sword. While Oni-Goroshi does not fit really well the theme of Frost Blades, I think is however a nice dichotomy for the league.

There is a thing however I wish to ask, though I reckon it was already answered years ago during the creation of the sword:

I can understand the abusive nature of the sword by muting each and every line of the character, but I cannot understand why the sword makes a remark everytime you kill a Rogue Exile. The Goddess still makes some quip when killing rares as usual, but becomes quite vocal when going into any Anarchic map, or just rolling a Precinct.

Also, although they should be a fancy version of them, The Goddess does not seem to vocalize her triumph in a similiar fashion when slaying Warband members, or Warbands General. I don't remember, though, if Oni-Goroshi was born before Warband League

Were both of those behaviors intended?