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

That's what the patch notes said when they changed it.

My question, as someone who has never successfully farmed it, is does Uber Hillock's name change to Uber Hillock or is the only visual change the sword?

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ExcretusMaximus wrote:

That's what the patch notes said when they changed it.

My question, as someone who has never successfully farmed it, is does Uber Hillock's name change to Uber Hillock or is the only visual change the sword?

Visual change only, uber Hillock is engulfed in ghostly green glowing flames after he pulls out the sword. See my next post for pics.

The Twilight Strand Beach can be a lonely place:



Oh Hillock, uber Hillock... please come out and play with me. Nothing... Sigh!

Hey UH, where have you been hiding?


63 minutes, 51 seconds into level 8 to find uber Hillock.

Flame on:


Ring of fire:

Hey you big brute, watch it where you swing that shiny sword!
Straight up in his face tanking UH again.


UH is dead. At last, another Charan's Sword.


Oh drat (damn the lousy rng)... another bad crit roll! SIGH!!!


That's it for OG farming in Synthesis League. Took me until level 8.30 to get the first sword so I'm through pounding sand. RNG was against me again. Thankfully, at least not another TSB Level 9 Club member (way too many).

Not sure if I will sneak a few Shadow beach runs in to eventually see how fast he can kill UH (no more Level 9 club members... arrggghhhh!!!!!). The witch did it in < 2 mins. easy and with just the 1 UH leap slam at 10% health so his minions weren't a problem. I didn't run out of flasks.

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MeleeFish wrote:

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Leveling in TS is just waste of time. The point of running TS is about finding OG.

I have more than 13 hours of play (Scion lvl 8) and absolutly nothing Oni Goroshi :(
it's really stupid...Uber Hillock not appear...bleah :(

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AldarisGrave wrote:

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DoubleU wrote:

The gist of it is this:

Grind until Uber Hillock spawns, most of the time it will be 7+.

Hours? Okay, running with 3 characters atm for the farm, shadow, scion and hunter.

Level 7, not 7 hours.

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AldarisGrave wrote:

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DoubleU wrote:

The gist of it is this:

Grind until Uber Hillock spawns, most of the time it will be 7+.

Hours? Okay, running with 3 characters atm for the farm, shadow, scion and hunter.

Any time from about 1.5 hours of exile time which works out to be more like 3 times that since we are playing at least a 3 exile rotation and after the first few levels can run up the beach and kill Hillock in just under a minute, to well over 10 hours or even over 15 hours if RNGesus is against you and your exile is into level 8. The worst case scenario is an exile that becomes a member of the TSB Level 9 Club.

attempted this for the first time on 3 characters like 17 hours between all 3.. level 7 and half, I got baited hard when I saw a tabula rasa cuz I didnt know how the elder hillock looks like before.. I kinda put the farm to a halt for now might return tomorrow perhaps depending..

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Xystre wrote:

attempted this for the first time on 3 characters like 17 hours between all 3.. level 7 and half, I got baited hard when I saw a tabula rasa cuz I didnt know how the elder hillock looks like before.. I kinda put the farm to a halt for now might return tomorrow perhaps depending..

Hmm... shouldn't be that many hours to get to level 7.5 with a balance of killing zombies and sand spitters that are near you as you straight run more or less up to Hillock. My earliest Uber Hillock was level 6.8 something (too lazy to find my old post here) and that was under 1.5 time played hours so easily under 5 hours total real time played. But Uber Hillock is the very, very shy twin brother of Hillock and is very finicky about coming out to the TSB and play the dance of death with an exile (maybe he remembers his last outing just like in Groundhog Day). Now that we have experience in face tanking him so he can't leapslam (only once at 10% health left) and resurrect his Awakened minion horde he is even more leery of coming out to play and die.

But just as with all things in PoE, GGG is always looking at the PoE statistics. Too many players are running around with an Oni-Goroshi, GGG says "we can't allow this" so they pull out the nerf hammer and whack the RNG chance of getting UH to come out. Got your first Charan sword but want to keep running your other beach farmers in between other endgame builds (take a break from the level up rat race), GGG doesn't like that so nerf hammer the RNG again to really make you pound sand for a 2nd UH sighting. I know, I ground out 4 OG swords in Incursion League last year with the 4th exile going the full distance (another Level 9 Beach Club member). 2 swords in Delve League and 2 in Betrayal. But the overall pattern I'm finding is my first UH comes in the 7.2 to 7.5 level range and the 2nd one is very RNG nerfed (2nd UH in Betrayal league was another level 9 exile). That may be just my bad luck with PoE rng but here I am today with my 1st Charon Sword coming at level 8.30 (see my post on page 113) and just over 3.5 hours "time played" of pounding sand. I occasionally do a beach run but the desire to pound sand is not there like it was last summer. Charan posted that the Shadow is the best exile to facetank UH but at level 8.6 and no UH yet I fear another level 9 exile is in the works if I want to find out if Charan is right. I've learned the timing and so the level 8.3 witch facetanked UH in only 1 min. 38 seconds so if I have to go the distance again maybe < 1 minute to kill UH with a Shadow.

GGG has really nerfed my desire to do much more OG farming every league. But GGG doesn't care except to nerf whatever is too popular with a few buffs on garbage skills that get no usage. I don't hold out any hope of seeing much good for melee skills come 3.7.0. Melee is not the racers choice of skill for the smash-n-dash race to 100.

It seems that there is something calming about the Twilight Strand Beach. It must be the sound of the waves gently lapping up on the sand. Even the moans of the zombies are not alarming anymore and are a comfort knowing that I'm on very familiar sand.

Either that or I'm a glutton for punishment and an insane aspi sand runner masochist.

Probably the latter.  :)

But the incessant calling for uber Hillock to come out to play the dance of death is both peaceful and frustratingly tiresome. This is my 2nd Synthesis sand pounding Oni farmer so I know the grind for another Charan Sword will be grueling. Yet somehow I'm not put off by this where the grind from 90 to 100 is killing any interest in continuing any build. Must be the fact that there is never any "WTF just happened!" surprise one-shot deaths and 10% xp loss (the loss of xp is a major grind killing penalty at the top end). Either way here I am again doing Oni farming runs in between playing other endgame builds.

Uber Hillock... uber Hillock... please come out and play with me. Nope, only his lesser twin brother with just a shit crap rusty sword. SIGH!... it's looking like another member of the TSB Level 9 Beach Club again. DOUBLE SIGH!

But wait... is that!... is that UH?! No it can't be? I'm not to level 9 yet. Sure as shit it is uber Hillock:


As a veteran of UH battles (17 OG's and counting) the best and quickest way is a straight up in his face attack. With the Shadow exile just constantly Viper Striking him. Before he pulls the Oni out if you have any mana regen you should be backing off and letting mana regen and not waste your mana flasks which are important for face-tanking the Oni wielding UH. Takes a little longer but having full mana flasks is important for face-tanking.

And so the battle with UH begins:


After many witch fire-ball face tank UH battles is does seem that the Shadow is getting hit less often. Careful flask management is always important but was less of an issue with the Shadow than the Witch class. Either way face-tanking is best with just the 1 UH leap slam so only a few Awakened need to be dispatched. If I had known this from the beginning (Dec. 2017 was my 1st UH battle) I could have saved my exile from the nightmare of Awakened hordes.



UH is dead again. Rest in peace UH until another Groundhog Day replay. Now for the prize:


Yes, a very good % crit roll. SWEET!

1 minute 41 seconds to kill UH. Easier to face-tank UH with the Shadow over a Witch but similar time to kill him (neither is faster IMO). I did a little moving before UH pulled out the sword which probably added 5 to 8 seconds to my time. Either class works well for face tanking UH.

That's all for Synthesis league. But I'll be back with another UH battle post come patch 3.7.0. To all other TSB farmers never throw in the towel and quit. Having a 6L to run the low acts with is much, much easier. I have Tectonic Slam and Molten Strike builds that work well with "Her Embrace" so it's a very easy way to farm a nice fire damage weapon.