Dynamis-Xarc: Farming paths?

[WANG]

I'm looking for some alternative paths for farming within Dynamis-Xarcabard. I've looked online, but generally stumble upon the same strategy. While, I'm sure the path is farmed this way for a reason, I'd like to see if we can get some insight on farming NQ mobs rather than NMs. The reason being, our shell is still relatively new and everyone is adapting to eachother's playing styles so the coordination (and member attendance for that matter) is a little lacking at the moment. We realized that handling the NMs, is not currently in our best interest.

With that being said, could the BG community please share their findings on alternative path strategies within Xarc? It would be breatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

[cosworthrs]

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showt...hlight=dynamis

[WANG]

I think this is a good start, but I'd like to go through paths where we never really hit any of the NMs, unless I'm missing something from that discussion.

[Thorny]

Go behind Berith's tower. Clear the 3 eyes + pops there, hit time extension. Head back south past Berith tower and go east. Clear the 4 eye square in this order; SW -> SE -> NE -> NW. The summoner from SW pop looks like it'll link NW eye, but it won't aggro you or link unless you sleep the ninja at it's spawnpoint. Head east, sac the eye tower with one melee taking each eye that starts up(sac just aggros to spawn the rest and runs off). Kill both eyes, kill extension. Head east, have a RDM chainspell nuke the extension and die once you're past it(alternatively, blizzard3 -> bio3 -> poison2 can be done without chainspell if fast enough). Go past entrance down near club mob. Have one melee assigned to each of the 3 eyes, and leeroy them at the same time. All 6 demons will pop at once, have sleepga on center of the 3 eyes to hit all 6 demons. Kill off eyes, kill demons. Move north, there are 3 eyes to your west here. They will all link if you do this wrong, send a RDM to go behind them west. Have someone pull center eye, sleep demons on pop, RDM needs to bind it from behind while it's casting initial spell, then gravity, then kite it around back to the group WITHOUT LINKING. Kill demons, kill eye. This leaves the other 2 eyes clean. Kill them, move west. There are 2 sets of 3 eyes + 9(?) demons, pull and kill. Continue west, there's a group of 4 eyes + 8 demons(ALL blm or rng, so one competent BLM can control all demons, focus resources on taking out eyes). Continue west, go past south NM tower. There are 2 paths, each with 6 demons + 2 eyes. Clear them both, one at a time. Head west to eye wall, sac out claiming the middle 4 demons and 2 eyes. Kill them, then you have 2 pulls of 4 demons + 2 eyes left. Take those pulls, kill extension, head NE. Assign a melee to each of the 2 eyes, they pop 3 demons each, leeroy at the same time so one sleepga hits everything. Continue east, there are 3 eyes, each pops 2 demons. Assign a melee per eye, kill eyes, kill demons. Go northwest, there are 4 eyes wandering that each pop 3 demons. If you're careful, you should be able to get 2 eyes and 6 demons per pull, but it's possible to link it all. If you still have time left, go back behind berith's tower and up the ramp, sac the eye in the way to get far far NE. Work your way back, a few easy pulls left.

These pulls can all be handled with about 10 competent people, and it's a relatively efficient path. I wouldn't expect to kill it all in the same run with 10, but i don't know how many you have or how you're geared.. what I mean is that any single pull listed there can be handled with 10.

[Shamaya]

I haven't been able to check the other link, and I'm at work and can't post the picture I wanted, but I have a pretty good route I do. If I forget to post here again just PM me.

In brief though, what I prefer to do (with a low man group of 12-18 pickups/friends) is get the first 3 TE's. Then farm the big square with the four eyes (just SE of Rdm tower), starting with the NW eye, and proceeding counter-clockwise. If not farming all the NM's, we then sac pull a couple of them. Some decent farming can be done south of the Blm tower, but these pulls come with multiple monks so you'll need to be careful. From here forward, if you happen to be doing low man, your crowd control will become increasingly important. Then we sac-pull the eye wall TE. Then there is a big link-pull NE of that, (just SW of the west ramp leading to the upper level of Xarc). Then we go up the west ramp, and I sac to the west, while the rest of the group goes east to farm. There are plenty of great, easy farm pulls up here. I have to sac again to get back to them though. My 12-18 man strat involves a lot of thf-saccing ;/

Head west to eye wall, sac out claiming the middle 4 demons and 2 eyes. Kill them, then you have 2 pulls of 4 demons + 2 eyes left.

This is a pretty good idea, and I don't know why I haven't thought of this b4. I'd do this.

Usually when I go to Xarcs I go with a fair amount of pickups. Only thing that frustrates me about that is it seems like after the eye wall, mobs just take forever to kill for some reason. I'm not sure if it's that the pickups get lazy and just can't work well with each other, or SE's got some sort of voodoo going on.

[mcb]

use the normal paths just skip the actual NM towers.

[WANG]

Thank you for all the information, much is appreciated. I think I've devised a good farming path now..however, I need to learn photoshop skills to visually display it now >_>

[Mafai]

1.) Sac or RNG barrage the 1st extension (it can be one shotted)

2.) Sac the eye tower (killing the 2 eyes up pop the extension). THF flees the eyes back to the start. Everyone move behind the RDM tower before the eyes come back

3.) Behind RDM tower, pull the eyes from left to right, hug the wall from left to clean pull. Extension here.

4.) Farm eyes SW of tower

5.) Optional for you I guess, even tho I would always do the NMs even if you need to sac each one of them individually. Also an extension for killing all NMs

6.) Sac eye wall as Thorny said, grab middle 2 eyes and 4 demons so this is now split into 3 pulls. This also grants you another extension.

7.) After eye wall, kill the eyes behind you leading to 3 more eyes, and a ramp.

8.) Kill 3 eyes and mobs.

9.) At this point, I prefer going up the ramp, but you can also go clear the tunnels behind the BLM tower.

[Cairthenn]

9.) At this point, I prefer going up the ramp, but you can also go clear the tunnels behind the BLM tower.

Do note that the ramp is a lot of eyes and mobs to deal with at once..I wouldn't advise it if you have how numbers unless you have ~4 BLM to time nuke the eyes on the way up.

[Eldelphia]

1.) Sac or RNG barrage the 1st extension (it can be one shotted)

2.) Sac the eye tower (killing the 2 eyes up pop the extension). THF flees the eyes back to the start. Everyone move behind the RDM tower before the eyes come back

Don't sac em, one shot the first time with a RNG as mentioned and then time nuke the eyes down to pop the time stat and time nuke that. Most helpful tip someone gave me. Need decent BLMs though.